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The Eleusinian Mysteries are a set of traditions that have been practiced for 2000 years. The popular pseudo-religion invited all, accepting slaves, women, and men, regardless of financial standing and background. More »
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Farscape creator Rockne S. O'Bannon is having a bit of a long-awaited resurgence. Syfy has picked up his post-apocalyptic frontier drama Defiance, starring Grant Bowler. And The CW has revived his 2005 pilot Cult, which was originally going to be a show on predecessor network The WB before it was killed in the WB/UPN merger. More »
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We've been following the work of Clark Baker's short film Vessel ever since we laid eyes on his monster on a plane creations. But now the film has wrapped, and we're got first ever footage of the mile-high alien. More »
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Cult director Yoshihiro Nishimura has been making eyeballs bleed for almost two decades, creating disgustingly funny effects for movies like Machine Girl, and directing cult classic Tokyo Gore Police. We talked to him about his latest projects and ongoing obsessions. More »
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For decades, Ed Wood's movie Plan 9 From Outer Space has reigned supreme as the most brilliantly awful movie ever made. Starring Vampira and an aged, drugged out Bela Lugosi, the 50s flick is about aliens who come to Earth and reanimate dead bodies as part of their world-domination scheme. The weird, elliptical script, bugged-out acting, and transcendently inadequate special effects helped make Plan 9 from Outer Space a movie that defined the "so bad it's good" genre. But now indie director John Johnson says he's remaking the film as a non-campy, "character-driven" move that will be "very scary." He's calling it Plan 9, or just P9. What the hell? More »
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In this terrific little moment from Ted V. Mikels' classic everythingsploitation movie Astro Zombies, we get so much annum 1968 greatness that it's hard to encompass it all. A mad scientist has created a remote-controlled, solar-powered "astro zombie" in strange and boring detail (yes, there is a five-minute scene of unscrewing the cover on a metal box), and a Mexican mobster (the luscious lady in this clip) wants to know more. She smokes languidly while listening to the professor extol his creature's virtues on a reel-to-reel. Then we randomly cut to a scene where we meet the astro zombie. And there is violence! Stabbing! Mexican-wrestler-looking dude! What the hell! Where am I! More »
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Chuck Palahniuk's book Fight Club was famously adapted into a total mindfuck of a film with heavy-handed satirical comments on America. His novel Survivor, which features a single passenger on a jet airplane dictating his life story into the plane's black box before slamming into the Australian Outback, was set to become the next Palaniuk novel to get the big screen treatment. That is until September 11th, 2001 happened. More »
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