In Roger Corman's GAS-S-S-S, Or It Became Necessary To Destroy The World In Order To Save It, the military releases a gas that kills everyone over the age of 25. The result? A bongo-bruising hippie dance party, and a movie you really need to be on hash to appreciate. What do you do when all the old farts are dead? Have a crazy rave party, with freaky shapes, at a drive-in theater... featuring Country Joe And The Fish!

Nooooo! Make it stop!

I love how in apocalyptic movies, the roads are always clogged with derelict cars. It never fails:

Ronald Chevalier is a mix of three different, amazing, real life people. First off, our favorite little Chevalier-ism has to his advice when creating a character. "Just add Anus and it becomes magical." Turns out the person behind this theory actually exists and he's making science-fiction films. According to Jared Hess at the NYC premiere for Broncos...

That's borrowed from a buddy of mine that I went to film school with, named Steve Groo. He's made like a hundred movies that are mostly science-fiction related. You can check out his Resident Evil trailer online. Anyway but in his films he has really great fantasy names and one day I said, "Steve how do you come up with such killer names for your characters in your films?" And he said, "Well that's easy, you just take a name like Nebakanezer and I change that to a name for a King Elf, Nebakaroneous. It's very easy." He had other theories like if you're going to name a barbarian use AXX at the end of each name. And I talked to him before to make sure he was cool with using it in the film. But I have to give him a shout out because that's not for me.

The Anus Method:

But not only that, if you've seen the film it's pretty clear that the shadow videos and super small budget trailer-making company is inspired by the film production company Steve Groo's contributes to Wolf Productions. Here's a taste below, it's just, well brilliant and awesome and if anything hopefully shows Jared Hess's roots and how Gentlemen Broncos is more of an homage to his friends and people he's met and less, Bully Porn.

The next bit of real life inspiration for Chevalier, according to Hess, was Michael York in Logan's Run. It's almost creepy how much Clement nailed that accent.

Michael York in Logan's Run And Ronald Chevalier:

And finally the amazing look of Chevalier: Native American garb, never-used blue tooth, turtlenecks and mom jeans — was inspired by an actual screen writer Hess worked with on the production, which I believe may be the production Handcart.

"His look was based on a screenwriter [on a film] that I was a camera assistant for a long time, and I was working on a really weird movie about pioneers that were heading west. And one day the screenwriter visited the set, I was a camera assistant, and he was dressed almost exactly like Chevalier is the first time we see him. With the Bluetooth that he never used, big hair, great jeans, a turtleneck."

So there you have it, the three real life inspirations to create perhaps one of the best characters of this year. Now if we could just get them all together and throw a party, I would die a happy fan.

Apparently Wheaton did a lot of voice work for the Romulan crew, and it's all thanks to fellow voiceover-artist Greg Grunberg's Twitter outreach to Wheaton. The clip and casting extra is from the Star Trek DVD, which will be released November 17, 2009.

Casting Spock:

Wil Wheaton's Cameo:

From Wil's Blog on the whole voice dubbing experience:

I met JJ at an ADR stage a few days later, where he told me the entire plot of the movie (and, for the record, hearing JJ Freakin' Abrams tell you the plot of his Star Trek is even more awesome than you'd expect) and showed me some of the scenes that I'd be dubbing. I ended up providing voices for all the Romulans on Nero's ship, including the guy who tells him that "it's time" at the very beginning of the movie. (Yeah, how cool is that?)

[via Trek Movie and Wil Wheaton]

You really do have to admire Sorbo's willingness to poke fun at himself, screaming into the phone about his lousy ratings and then turning on a dime to hit on the random chick who gets his autograph.

Meanwhile, Sorbo is also starring in B-movie auteur Albert Pyun's new movie, Tales Of An Ancient Empire, and he's doing some of his silliest, funniest work ever. Watch him hitting on his half sister while demanding money to help them find out the truth about their father and save the kingdom:

"Sweet girl." Heh. You can tell Sorbo enjoys his work.

First up, I'm glad they cleared up the nagging question of why Jake Sully is being used in this huge military operation anyway, since he's not super trustworthy and defects rather quickly to the alien side. His twin brother is 6 feet under, and they have the same DNA. So sure I guess that works. But what's really interesting are all the new creatures uncovered in this featurette, and we pulled pictures of a few for your enjoyment. To be honest, we like these guys more than anything we've seen before especially that monkey fella.

Avatar will be in theaters December 18th.

The Road leads you to post-apocalyptic Hell on Nov. 25. [Yahoo! Movies]

Dead Ringers isn't the most famous, or the most graphic, of David Cronenberg's films, but it shows you don't need buckets of gore to be absolutely terrifying and push people's buttons. Just one look at those weird torture implements is enough to send anyone screaming in the opposite direction. I also love the part where he lunges on top of the patient and starts huffing the anesthetic. Good times. [IMDB]

Spike TV has an official clip from the new trailer (which is available in much higher resolution over at Spike's site):

But it turns out there's less to the Klingons than meet the eye in some scenes. According to a snippet of making-of footage which turned up online recently, some of the Klingons were actually little kids in Klingon costumes, shot from angles to make them look like grown-ups, so the sets would look huge.

Star Trek will be out on DVD Nov. 17. [Borders]

Check out these clips and weigh in on whether you actually believe any of this alleged "documentary footage." Is this film too much, or is there always room for more aliens?

The Fourth Kind will be in theaters November 6th.

Here's the trailer, along with a few of our favorite submissions. Star Wars Uncut lists all of the completed segments in order. This is fandom put to the highest use.

Star Wars: Uncut Trailer from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.

Star Wars Uncut - Scene 066 from marc molenaar on Vimeo.

Star Wars Uncut - Scene 071 from Chris Hogan on Vimeo.

Star Wars Uncut - Scene 236 from alex may on Vimeo.

Star Wars Uncut - Scene 332 from Mojo Goods on Vimeo.

Star Wars Uncut - Scene 444 from Gio Quinn on Vimeo.

From the synopsis it sounds like the crew holds a "who will live and who will die" lottery for the remaining shuttle, which only holds a few people. Those who lose will be stuck on board forever. So how do you say goodbye, via Kino of course. What do you all think of the Kino's thus far anyways?

Actually, my absolute favorite of all time has to be this weird sequence from Futureworld, with the red ninjas, and the bondage, and the sexy, sexy gunslinger action:

If you can explain to me exactly what that dream about Yul Brynner symbolizes, I'll buy you your own lifesize Yul Brynner gunslinger robot.

Even though science fiction often strives to portray bizarre or other-worldly things happening in our "real" world, it often reaches for the most jagged tool in a film-maker's kit: the dream sequence, in which things are practically required to get loopy and unreal. Some creators — like, say, David Lynch and Joss Whedon — love the dream sequence more than others. But it pops up surprisingly often. With the melty faces, and the people falling in space, and the weird animal costumes, among other things...

Here are 40 or so dream sequences that we love, divided up by era...

1920s through 1970s (Or if you want to view it in a non-gallery format, click here.)

1980s. (Or if you prefer a non-gallery format, click here.)

1990s. (Or, for non-gallery format, click here.)

2000s. (And it's available as a non-gallery page, here.)

I wouldn't dream of claiming that we included every amazing SF dream sequence, ever. So what are your favorites? What did we miss?

Sources: UGO, Wikipedia, FinestFive and IMDB, among others.

Vampire's Assistant, based on the novel series Cirque Du Freak, has an astounding cast of actual actors. Salma Hayek, Ken Watanabe, Ray Stevenson and Patrick Fugit are all members of this freak show. And to top it off John C. Reilly plays an old and surprisingly hot vampire, with magic healing spit.

Well, all vampires in this series have magic healing spit and can flit, or glide really fast. I'm literally floored by Dr. Steve Brule getting his dark and stormy on. Then on the flip side, you have Willem Dafoe, as the ridiculous ying to Reilly's yang. Just watch:

Here's a little featurette that was released as well, in case you're confused with what this film is all about. Vampire's Assistant will be out this Friday, the 23rd. Go see it for the Dafoe mustache alone.

In case the above clip isn't self-explanatory, Greenwood is an evil scientist, who created the ultimate cyborg killing machine, which then developed an unfortunate conscience. And the flannel-shirted woman, Deputy Reardon, is Isaac the Cyborg's best friend — they share many heart-warming scenes where Isaac is sort of autistic. The woman to whose head Deputy Reardon is holding a gun is another evil scientist, who's been having second thoughts and Knows Too Much. Oh, and I love the clanging noise the fire extinguisher makes as it slams into Isaac's head. Someone had fun with that one.

Mostly, though, Cyborg Soldier is worth watching for Greenwood's incredibly brie-tastic performance as Simon, the movie's main villain. Greenwood relishes saying lines like, "I'm going to fry your brain until there's only enough to spoon into a testtube. Then I'm going to scrape up the DNA and the tissue samples, and I'm gonna build you again."

We've seen some pretty brutal robot games in our time, but these might just take the cake:

Here are a ton of gorgeous, super high-res stills, showcasing some hot robot-on-robot action:

And here are some TV spots you might have missed, including one focusing on Astro Boy's relationship with Cora (Kristen Bell):

You kind of have to love Def-Con 4, despite the silly title (Def-Con 4 is not when we launch nuclear missiles!) for moments like this one, where the grungy Paul Giamatti lookalike has very definite nipple preferences, even after the fall of civilization:

And this one. Check out the evil teen overlord's crazy corrugated metal vest!

What was the movie John Cusack was watching? Why, it's this...

Also here's some more information 2012 collected about the inevitable end of the world and the roots of the problem...

B Roll: The Cardboard Crazies Were Right:

Don't worry, Jason gets better... thanks to nanotechnology. In the last 20 minutes, he gets upgraded and becomes a cybernetic Uber-Jason, who looks vaguely generic and CG-heavy. But Jason X is mostly worth watching for the other characters, especially Kay-Em (played by Andromeda's Lisa Ryder), who tries on detachable nipples at one point because she wants to be more like other women. (This is before the above clip, where Kay-Em proves she has special talents of her own.)

The film also stars Andromeda herself, Lexa Doig, as Rowan, who gets cryogenically frozen with Jason.

Oh, and apparently Jason is sort of a zombie, because he died in the fourth movie. And I found this out from this great message board thread, which includes this fantastic story pitch:

I pitched New Line a new Friday 13th movie and it was AWESOME.

Basically, the remains of Jason Vorhees from the end of Jason X are drifting through space, and fall through a wormhole and end up back in the Cretaceous Era, so Jason starts killing dinosaurs and shit. BUT THEN another wormhole opens and the nanomachines pour out all over the dead dinosaurs, but because there's no metal they use bits of rock instead, so you've got like, half-rock, half-dinosaur things vs Jason, BUT THEN another wormhole opens and some pirates come through, and they get fucked up by the rockosaurs and Jason, but then an asteroid lands on them and everyone dies, BUT THEN the nanomachines reassemble everything so you've got a Pirate JasonDinosaur also with bits of asteroid stuck in him, that prolly has some alien shit or whatever, I dunno. BUT THEN another wormhole opens and out come some androids and some ninjas, and this is the moment when they told me my pitch was over and that I was being escorted from the building.

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This Is The Family

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