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Let's say you're an astronaut. You're on the Moon. You're hundreds of thousands of miles away from home, and the only thing between you and near-vacuum conditions is a cumbersome space-suit that affords about as much maneuverability as a body cast. What do you do? More »
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Without a doubt, the most underrated ghost movie on this planet is the delightful comedy/horror flick High Spirits. The film follows a group of misfit hotel employees (led by Peter O'Toole) who try to attempt to save their ancient castle hotel by advertising it as the most haunted castle on the emerald isle. More »
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We've seen some particularly inept ways to wrap up martial arts films, but the 1982 magical kung fu flick Ninja In The Dragon's Den takes bad movie endings to zeniths that have not been replicated in the last 30 years. More »
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In this short film, known winningly as "Geisha Cop: Fearsome Geisha Corps - Go to Hell!", you'll witness the kinds of spy gadgets that James Bond only dreams of. Geisha Cop has infiltrated an evil corporation where office ladies drink the blood of naughty salarymen for lunch (literally). Now she's ready to dish out justice, not just because of the blood-drinking, but mostly because the evil Geisha Corps tortured her salaryman brother. More »
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Check out an exclusive glimpse at The Dead, a zombie apocalypse film which is billing itself as the first horror movie filmed entirely in Africa. This scene gets major points for creepy claustrophobic use of a cornfield, in a manner very reminiscent of Stephen King, and the actual zombie attack is nicely disturbing. More »
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Dear Hollywood, please stop making movie trailers. Why? The art of the preview was perfected 29 years ago in The Philippines by the 1983 horror movie The Killing of Satan. Does The Killing of Satan also win the best title of all time contest? I wouldn't bet against it. More »
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Has crowd-sourcing ever created anything cooler than Star Wars: Uncut? If so, it's hard to imagine. The entirety of the original Star Wars has been recreated in 15-second segments, filmed or animated by fans. The result is actually intensely trippy, especially when Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi burst into song randomly. Or turn into puppets. Or whatever. You can watch the whole thing online for free, right here. [via CinemaBlend] More »
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In the Shaw Brother's 1983 Thai boxing film/wizardry flick/Technicolor brain colonic The Boxer's Omen, a black magic practitioner battles a meditating monk using his army of bats, crocodile skulls, and floating heads out of The Thing. It's but another beautifully baffling moment martial arts archivist Sardonicus has brought to our attention. Truth be told, I kind of wish I hadn't eaten lunch prior to watching this. More »
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In the gleefully gory 1986 Chow Yun-Fat horror flick The Seventh Curse (trailer), a heroic cursed police officer must battle an evil cult that makes juice out of babies for unholy blood rituals. More »
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Teenagers are terrible rotten things (or at least I was) and I shudder to think what I would do with telekinetic powers — which is exactly the plot of the new "found footage" film Chronicle. This surprising film's honesty and hidden darkness may just revitalize this genre yet. Now take a look at the first ever clip, in which a trio of newly power endowed teens take turns launching baseballs at each others' faces.

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Don't watch this video if you don't want the ending of Brother John spoiled. This 1970 movie features Sidney Poitier as a mystery man who comes to a small town full of xenophobic, vicious racist dickwads, all of whom believe that Poitier is something to do with local labor unrest or whatever. More »
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Last week, the BBC aired a special TV movie version of The Borrowers, which featured some lovely performances. Christopher Eccleston was brilliant as Arietty's father Pod, and Stephen Fry pulled out all the stops (and then some) as the unscrupulous Professor Mildeye. More »
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You're watching a brief but compelling excerpt from an interview with SF-giant Isaac Asimov. Originally aired in 1988, the conversation touches on such topics as the future of creativity in education, the necessity for scientific inquiry, and the vilification of intellectualism. It is absolutely incredible how many of the interview's topics, and Asimov's points, are as relevant today as they were 24 years ago. More »
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Given that Paramount is unlikely to turn their backs on the filthy lucre the Paranormal Activity franchise rakes in every Halloween, we'll be seeing a new one in 2012. What's it about? Your guess is as good as ours, but our gut tells us that this will be a webcam-centric, vlogging-style film with all new victims posting their doomed musings on a generically familiar social network site like Bookface or something. More »
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Who wants another kung-fu brain explosion fiesta? In this scene from the 1982 Hong Kong action flick The Miracle Fighters, two wizards attempt to conquer the delicate Paper Bridge using their respective mind-shriveling styles. It goes poorly for everyone, except the audience. This scene comes to us courtesy of martial arts madness archivist Sardonicus, of course. More »
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Winsor McKay didn't just create one of the most influential comics of all time, Little Nemo in Slumberland — he also was an animation pioneer, creating some of the first real animated films. So it's kind of sad that the animated movie version of Little Nemo, from 1992, was such a flop — at one point, I saw it listed as the most unsuccessful comic-book adaptation ever released in theaters. But at the moment, it's being beaten by Dylan Dog: Dead of Night and Return of the Swamp Thing. More »
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A woman is shrunk to the size of a doll to punish her for "unsanctioned fornication," in this fantastic clip from the movie Cinderella 2000. It's the year 2047 — yes, even though the movie has 2000 in the title — and sexual activity is strictly regulated by the government. Have sex with the wrong person, and you're turned into a tiny doll for six months. Warning: clip is NSFW! More »
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We've seen a lot of madness from YouTube martial arts archiver Sardonicus, and this latest clip might just be the best thing he's ever hit us with. In this clip from 1986's The Young Taoism Fighter (also known as Miracle Fighters 4), the hero demonstrates his "Separate Body Style" to defeat his nemesis. More »
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The leads of the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises have come to verbal blows as of late, and a certain mellifluous Enterprise helmsman has attempted to ameliorate the situation. What this public spat ignores is that there's a superior Star film out there, one that eschews flights of fancy and makes your appreciate the grim, icy mechanics of our lousy reality. I am, of course, talking about the 1986 extraterrestrial-flan masterwork Star Crystal. More »
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Remember when you first got hooked on the Battlestar Galactica reboot? That heady feeling of discovery, together with the addictive rush of plot twist after revelation after character-driven moment. No matter how you feel about BSG now, we can all remember the excitement of getting immersed in this revolutionary show. More »
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Now that lunatic dictator Kim Jong-il has passed on to the great rusty amusement park near the Earth's mantle, we've dug deep in the io9 vaults for a look back at his sole contribution to science fiction cinema, the 1985 kaiju flick Pulgasari.

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When it comes to my favorite things on the internet, Mr. Sardonicus' YouTube channel — which is chock full of the most synapse-melting scenes from martial arts cinema — is pretty far up there. Mr. Sardonicus recently picked out his two favorite battles from director Cheung-Yan Yuen's 1984 opus Gui ma tian shi, which also goes by English names of Taoism Drunkard and Drunken Wu-Tang. More »
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This Saturday, Syfy's Original Movies are breaking the monster-movie mold, with a totally insane apocalyptic TV movie. We've seen big chunks of Earth's Final Hours, the TV movie with the self-explanatory title, and it's totally nuts. We're excited to be able to share a couple of exclusive clips, featuring two super-creative methods of interstellar death: impalement via meteor, and instant incineration via super-lightning. More »
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In this scene from the movie Starbirds — which was a mish-mash of episodes of the 1980s Japanese cartoon Tōshō Daimos — the formation of a giant robot requires a zip line, aggressive sloganeering, an entire hidden bridge, near-death experiences, and some interpretative dance for good measure. In the future, a bizarre strain of amnesia has seemingly drained humans of the cognitive capacity to make keys. More »
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It's like an unholy alliance between furry culture, cryptozoology, and sex. The craze for Bigfoot porn started with Ape Canyon, and now this year has been joined by two new Bigfoot lover flicks. More »
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Here's the moment in The Muppets that broke my brain. Walter and his weirdly fleshy brother Gary face a perplexing identity crisis — trying to decide whether they want to describe themselves as humans or Muppets. The implications for identity politics are staggering. More »
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My Future Boyfriend is one of those TV movies that's so terrible, it's practically a masterpiece. The story of a man from the year 3127 who travels back to 2011 to meet the author of a romance book, Future Boyfriend is almost rhapsodic in its illogic and cheesiness. It's easily the best bad TV movie of the year. See for yourself! More »
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Did you know that the bands you hear on the radio station at the DMV are actually occult emissaries? It's true, they're exactly like Pokémon! More »
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In the 1976 Chinese kung fu flick Master of the Flying Guillotine (which incidentally had a krautrock soundtrack), the protagonist — the One-Armed Boxer — squares off against Yoga Tro La Seng, a yoga master with the power to stretch out his limbs ridiculously. Yoga Tro La Seng also throws a bird at our hero, but that's (rather shockingly) less interesting in the grand scheme of things. More »
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I spotted this on the CDTCrew's YouTube channel while watching some dog disco. It's definitely not from Badi ("The Turkish E.T.") or that absolutely ungodly German E.T.. porn. The soundtrack is almost certainly dubbed in. But where is it from? More »
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The 1960's were a much simpler time — a time when cowering beneath your school desk was still considered a good way to protect yourself in the event of a nuclear air strike, and a child palming a decidedly phallic object could just as easily pass for having a sixth finger. Wait, what? More »
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This video has been around since 2009, so maybe you've already seen it — but it's a pretty great, thought-provoking discussion nonetheless. Terry Gilliam, interviewed by TCM, explains the major difference between movies like Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the mega-successful but more comforting works by Steven Spielberg. Even if you don't agree with Gilliam, it's still pretty thought-provoking stuff. [via Javier Grillo-Marxuach on Twitter] More »
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For Utrecht's 48 Hour Film Project, filmmakers Jeroen Houben, Tim Arts, and Stefan van den Boogaard created Page 23, a bizarre little gem about the secret lives of those condemned to dwell in furniture catalogues. I don't want to over-explain this creepy four-minute short, so here's the synopsis: More »
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I honestly have no idea who Sardonicus1313 is, but his YouTube channel is an audiovisual museum of oh-so-many deranged martial arts gems (previously: 1, 2, 3). Today's brown-acid battle scene is from the 1983 Hong Kong action flick Demon of the Lute. What happens? A puppy chariot shows up, orange hair is grown in fast forward, a giant axe is swung, and then an eagle sapien swoops in for the kill. Just soak in it, like a jacuzzi filled with Krazy Glue. More »
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As if the 1996 time travel flick Dinosaur Valley Girls weren't weird enough, the "randomly topless chicks meet allosaurus" movie takes a break in the middle to share this bizarro dance sequence. Called "Jurassic Punk," the song is about the mighty allosaurus and all the biting and hunting that he does. Also, he chases a lot of topless cave women. And ALSO, the topless cave women like to dance in caves full of purple lights and dry ice. You know, just the way they used to do during the Cretaceous. More »
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There many, many contenders for "most camptastic vampire movie of all time," and many of them hail from the late 1960s and 1970s, when vampsploitation was huge. One of our particular favorites is Vampire Playmates, aka The Devil's Nightmare, aka Succubus. More »
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Now that the mad poetry of Arnold's Total Recall DVD commentary has captured the hearts of an entire planet, let's take a look back at his thrilling repartees with Conan The Barbarian director John Milius. Will these old DVD commentaries redeem him in the public eye for that whole love child imbroglio? Yes, until his Brazilian tour video resurges in popularity. Hat tip to LightningLouie! More »
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In this fantastically deranged sequence from the 1990s anime Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, the villainous Katejina attempts to hypnotize the heroic Üso with a totally unarmored cavalry. How unarmored are they? Well, let's just say it brings to mind a certain passage from Rendezvous With Rama. Thanks to Cesario for the heads up! More »
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This weekend, many of us will tromp out to go watch the latest vampire weirdfest, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1. But if you're too broke or too sane, there's another alternative — the sublimely awful, over-the-top, crazoid sexploitation romp, Nude Vampire. More »
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You know, sometimes Spider-Man likes to hang out with his superhero pals, crash kids' birthday parties, and get his eagle on for an astounded audience. Also, I can't tell if Iron Man's dancing or if Ultron's infected his armor with a computer virus. More »
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