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Instead of bullets and bodies, what if The Walking Dead was about the hijinks of a newly formed family just trying to remember to take the trash out without being consumed by members of the undead? More »
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In our trailer breakdown of Ridley Scott's Prometheus, we spied the head of that lovable space jockey whose carcass popped up in the original Alien. Now new images showing what appears to be a space jockey mask have surfaced. But wait, there's a twist!

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DeviantART user DrFaustusAU knocked our foxy socks off with his Seussian takes on The Call of Cthulhu. Now he's experimenting with Green Eggs and Batman, rendering the residents of Gotham as Dr. Seuss might have. More »
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We've already had zombie Stormtroopers, but a true blend of Star Wars and horror has been too long in arriving. Which is why it's great that one brave gallery is hosting a Death Star Art Show, a blend of Star Wars and horror themes just in time for Halloween. Behold Princess Leia, the Bride of Frankenstein. More »
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The Planet Express team dons the khaki and takes up ghost hunting in a series of Futurama/Ghostbusters mashups. And Bender takes his rightful place as giant, mystical destroyer of New New York. More »
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Another muppet parody has been released, showing Sam the Eagle in the rugged, leather Captain America gear. We kind of love these Disney Marvel mash-ups. Please please please do a Ms. Piggy/Asbestos Lady combination next! More »
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Epic fantasy and epic space opera collide in Benjamin Collison's digital Star Wars/Lord of the Rings mashup paintings. That Eye of Sauron Death Star is going to haunt my dreams. More »
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We love this mashup of Back to the Future's Doc Brown with an Ed Roth-style hot rod freakout drawing. The Delorean would have been perfect for the Rat Fink cartoonist, whose crazy style became synonymous with custom car culture of the 1960s and 70s. You can get this picture on a t-shirt today only at Tee Fury for $10. More »
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Cartoonist Jim Mahfood let his brush run wild in IGN's Beverly Hills office, painting a multiversal cantina where Cylons rub elbows with Thundercats and Ewoks and Smurfs bond over brews. More »
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Like the undead, these zombie novel mashups are hard to kill. Next up is The War of the Worlds Plus Blood Guts and Zombies, in which both alien invaders and humankind are forced to fight off the undead. More »
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Given that the entire planet's been in throes of Pottermania for over a decade, the internet's churned out tons of funny (and profoundly bizarre) video tributes to J.K. Rowling's boy wizard. Here are some of the best. More »
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The always awesome Super Punch recently ended its Calvin and Hobbes art contest, which attracted plenty of hilarious and heartwarming artwork. And the winners offer Calvinish takes on Batman, Spider-Man, and The Twilight Zone. More »
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Clearly you guys really liked the Toy Story Inception mash-up videos, because the hits keep coming. Feast your eyes on Dora The Explora, ET, Peter Pan, The Nanny / Inception mash-up trailers. Some videos we love, others we fear. More »
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This mashup of Ke$ha's ubiquitous, unrelenting hit song and classic Star Trek makes two things perfectly clear: 1) The Enterprise was a nonstop party vessel and 2) Kirk/Spock slash fiction will never die. [Topless Robot] More »
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By swiping the audio from Christopher Nolan's mindbender and the visuals from Toy Story 3, some mad genius* managed to make them both creepier and cooler. More »
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What if Lost was a cheesy syndicated lifeguard drama? This video mash-up reimagines being marooned on a creepy island as a chance for some fun in the sun. Also, look out for clips from Josh Holloway's cologne ad! More »
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This semi-funny parody of The Matrix picks up on something serious, which is that the Matrix flicks were heavily-inspired by 1930s iconography. I do love the 30s-style trailer, showing the dance sequence. Compare it with a real 30s trailer! More »
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Injecting submarines and man-eating jellyfish into Jane Austen may sound like a simple, gimmicky feat, but Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters author Ben H. Winters claims writing the book required a great deal of ingenuity, research, and Jules Verne. More »
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In Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, the literary mayhem doesn't end with the Jane Austen-meets-tentacles plotline. The novel's book group discussion guide asks us such timeless literary questions as: would you rather be devoured by sharks or giant jellyfish? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5351542&view=rss&microfeed=true Seth Grahame-Smith's mash-up of Jane Austin's novel of manners with a zombie plague is about to get a comics treatment. Del Rey has announced that writer Tony Lee and artist Cliff Richards will adapt Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as a graphic novel, so we'll finally get to see precisely how one practices the Deadly Arts in petticoats. [Publishers Weekly] More »
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So, you want to show off your love of Star Wars or Forbidden Planet, but your roommate finds movie posters tacky. The Retrofuturs series offers the perfect solution: a witty mash-up of retro images with quotes from science and scifi. More »
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If only time travel were possible, the third Ghostbusters movie could star 1950s comedy greats like Dean Martin, Bob Hope, and Jerry Lewis. Fortunately, one fan has cooked up a trailer for the 1954 Ghostbusters movie that never was. More »
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Artist Franco Brambilla combines combines vintage postcards with computer-generated images of aliens, flying saucers, and giant robots, to give your next alien invasion the same quaint, cozy feeling as your grandpa's Alpine vacation. More »
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In the most awesome Watchmen mashup ever, an enterprising fan has used footage from 2004 Hitler movie Downfall to show how fans are responding to news about Watchmen's changed ending. Spoilers! More »
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A new mashup of movie trailers proves that Star Wars, Narnia, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Golden Compass are basically all the same movie with different trappings. But more importantly, it proves that Star Wars is much closer to fantasy than science fiction. Just look how comfortably Yoda fits in with Gandalf and the other magicians. [The World According to Carl] More »
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Warner Bros. has been tossing enough promo photos, teaser trailers, viral ads, and movie posters onto the internet to cause a serious glut of Dark Knight materials. Which is where this refreshing slap in the face video comes from. Netizen and part-time editor ntbone has mashed up the sound from the recent trailer for The Dark Knight with clips he's cut together from the 1966 Batman movie, starring Adam West as the caped crusader. More »
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