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It took several decades before the Muppets became the jovial mop-puppet hybrids we know and love today. Before they hung out with Alice Cooper and hosted wrestling competitions, the Muppets lived in a sometimes unsettling world full of hungry dismembered heads, Cookie Monster selling IBM computers, and Kermit extolling the virtues of pig meat. More »
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We shall never tire of time-traveling assassins who hate Hitler, especially when you mix in spaceships and magic. Check out the insane trailer for The 25th Reich, and watch a giant robot spider profess its love for der Führer. More »
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Watch as our friendly helper robots revolt and paint the world with the blood of man in the trailer for Robotropolis. Plus check out this adorable short "Zombie's Day Out" that puts a new spin on an old monster. More »
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‪ A tiny taste of Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In will make your skin crawl, which is perfect as it's centered around mad scientist Antonio Banderas and his obsession with creating an indestructible epidermis, no matter what pain he inflicts on his test subject. More »
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Watch David Lynch and Interpol's new short animaed film, as shown on stage during Interpol's Coachella performance. It's one part gorgeous Lynch brain butter and one part an all-too-precious "art" metaphor. More »
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Brace yourself! Tonight man's best friend takes on man's favorite apocalyptic monster, zombies! More »
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How did we wind up with a post-apocalyptic world where the church is our only defence against vampires? Watch this amazing animation prequel by Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack) that explains the bloody vampire vs. human history of Priest. More »
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Corey Vidal has created a 6-minute short that brings us back to Dharma — shot entirely on the abandoned Hawaii sets for Lost. We have to go back to the island! More »
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We've been eagerly following the science fiction love story Upside Down (starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst). The film follows two star-crossed lovers trapped in alternate universes. New images and details are slowly starting to reveal the different dimensions! More »
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Legendary concept artist Syd Mead takes us into the future and talks about what sort of gadgets await us in the year 2019 in a new featurette. Plus get a closer look at some of his gorgeous futuristic concept art. More »
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How many times do you have to murder the android version of your ex before calling it quits? Hopefully, dark comedy Android Re-Enactment will have the answer. Plus, Mega Shark Vs. Steve Urkel, and a scene from Ice Quake. More »
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Check out the trailer for the Half-Life-inspired short film titled Beyond Black Mesa. The entire project was made for a mere $1,200, and it looks better than most big-budget Hollywood movies out there. More »
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A new short film, Vessel, is attempting to bring back real monsters, with an alien created out of practical effects. Support real monsters, and check out our exclusive gallery of Vessel's new alien including creepy prosthetic limbs and bits! More »
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When It Will Be Silent is the sophomore project for Israeli film student Dan Sachar. What are the odds Hollywood lets him stay through until graduation? More »
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The trailer for this retro-futurist short about a mechanical squid-shaped submarine has us wrapped in its mechanical tentacles. Brace yourself for the new squidpunk era, with The Anachronism. More »
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Can any short video live up to Ataque de Panico? We think this melodramatic zombie short from Matt Simpson is in the running. It's called Plague. More »
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In the future, your merit as a street thug will be based on the swift moves you bring to the back alley illegal Dance Dance Revolution fighting game. So does it work, or is it still just dance fighting? More »
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Derek Drymon, former writer for Rocko's Modern Life and Catdog, serves up his own bizarre cartoon short Danger Planet, about an arcade console and a forklift who must protect a human baby from the jaws of a clever shapeshifting alien. More »
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This cat town, where skinny kitties smoke cigarettes and appreciate fine music, will stay with you for days. With gorgeous animation, lovely poetry and silky narration by Nick Cave, "The Cat Piano" is a must-see. More »
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While a pair of doll-like creatures pick through an apocalyptic junkyard, a monstrous automaton stalks them, intent on capturing their souls. Next year, Shane Acker’s Oscar-winning animated short 9 gets the feature length treatment, backed by the voice work of Elijah Wood, Martin Landau, and Jennifer Connelly. The feature film promises to flesh out Acker’s world and show what becomes of humanity’s legacy after we are gone. Watch the original, haunting short below. More »
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For the first three minutes of Steven Kostanski’s short film Insanophenia, the most frightening thing the movie's pair of dim-witted exterminators face is their boss’s crude and clumsy sexual advances. But when they head down into the building’s basement, it’s clear that they’re not there to eliminate cockroaches. Watch the entire short after the jump. More »
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Forget that rusty trash compactor — the new robot rage in Pixar-land is BURN-E, the plucky welder whom you only glimpsed in the Wall-E movie. New pictures from the Disney short BURN-E give you a glimpse of the robot mayhem that appears as an extra on the WALL-E DVD. The three-disc special DVD comes out November 18. A gallery of robot goodness awaits you. More »
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There are tons of young adult novels about teens and tweens fending for themselves after the end of the world, but not nearly enough movies. That's why we're excited that the brilliant Australian post-apocalyptic short movie I Love Sarah Jane is up on YouTube in its entirety. Full movie, after the jump. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5030660&view=rss&microfeed=true A first clip from Disney's new CG short Glasgo's Guest is on Animated World Network. Glasgo's features a lone Russian soldier stationed at a frozen Siberian outpost. The soldier seems to live a pretty mundane existence, until one giant alien egg comes from the sky. The short is set to premiere before the Disney film Bolt, released on November 26, 2008.[AWNtv] More »
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