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The Lady in the Latex Hood Does Not Fear Lasers
There is very little to love about the Swedish Matrix/Heroes ripoff movie Storm, but this scene almost makes everything worth it. This is near the beginning of the movie, when our hero Donny's superficial clubster life is invaded by a hot ninja babe in latex. Somehow, she's connected to a comic book he read as a kid. Unfortunately, after this awesome scene, the movie dribbles out into a boring Prince of Tides "getting over teen molestation" scenario. Except in Storm, unlike Tides, our hero is the teen rapist. Um, yeah. Focus on the latex lady. Pay no attention to the boring yet morally-reprehensible therapy plot. [Storm via IMDB]
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When Therapy Goes Bad
Years after seeing David Cronenberg's psychotic movie The Brood, I could not get this scene out of my head. Nola has been undergoing experimental "psychoplasmics" therapy with Dr. Raglan (Oliver Reed!), trying to deal with rage over her divorce from doughboy Frank. Using psychoplasmics, she winds up literally giving birth to her rage in the form humanoid creatures who kill people she doesn't like. In this scene, Frank has come to help their real daughter escape from mommy and her scary, fucked up rage babies. I love Samantha Eggar as Nola: She isn't just a horror show chomping on baby goo; she really gives you the sense that she's a messed up lady locked into a surreal custody battle with the bumbling but well-meaning Frank. More »
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Striptease for a Pure Crystallized Intelligence from Earth's Core [NSFW]
We've told you before that lady scientists are dangerous, and here's another reason why, from 1972 flick Fear Chamber. This mad lady scientist and her mouth-breathing Igor substitute must — for the sake of some ill-defined experiments — feed a "pure crystallized intelligence" (i.e., a smart rock) drawn from the center of the Earth. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) it only eats women in a state of terror. That's why they hire this hot lady to strip for the steaming, burbling, apparently-made-of-styrofoam creature, as you can see in this clip. More »
rant
What Chicks Don't Like About Science Fiction
I love when clueless humans tell me to my face that women don't like science fiction. Usually they tell me this at a science fiction convention, after we have talked about scifi for an hour and I have said that I edit a science fiction blog. These humans have an amazing ability to not believe their eyes, which is the only way I can explain what's happening when somebody says to my face that women like me don't exist. And unfortunately, the SciFi Channel seems to have the same problem: There's an article in the New York Times today about how the channel boosted its ratings among women by de-emphasizing spaceships in Battlestar Galactica ads and airing supernatural horror movies. I cannot believe the stupidity here. More »
alien
Watch Out for Aliens on the London Underground
No really — this fan likes to ride the tube in full alien costume. Check out this vid from the BBC — I love his matter-of-fact description of how he "can't go to toilet" in his costume. [BBC]
mad engineering
Could Penis-Controlled Computers Ever Catch On? [NSFW]
You know you've always wanted to see what would happen if you could control a first-person shooter with your penis — or, if you don't have one of your own, the penis of a friend. Maybe you want to literalize the term "cock block," or maybe you want to leave the mousing to your special down-there places while your hands roam freely across the keyboard. Either way, Kyle "Slashdong" Machulis has the ultimate futuristic, posthuman USB device for you. More »
jericho recap
The Most Shocking Gunfight Ever, From Last Night's Jericho
This scene from last night's episode of post-apocalyptic survival show Jericho really startled me. I had to rewind my DVR a bit, because I didn't believe what I was seeing at first. It was the first really surprising thing in this whole season of Jericho, which has been cool and subversive, but not really startling except in a twisty-turny suspense thriller way. But this clip — which you really shouldn't watch unless you're prepared for major spoilerage — changed all that. Click through for spoilers. More »
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Greatest "What the Hell is in Your Pants" Moment from an Alien Invasion Flick
Travis is a rather confused lad who isn't quite sure what he wants: his hot blond roommate, his semi-hot brunette best guy friend, or the hot older Christian lady who keeps trying to convert him. What the hero of Australian indie Demons in My Head is sure about is that the alien helmet he found in a meteorite is giving him special powers to conjure stuff up from another dimension. In this clip, Travis gazes longingly at a picture of the hot blond roommate, then uses his conjuring helmet to get . . . this (work safe) scene. More »
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Tom Paris is F*cking Sarah Silverman
With all this talk around the interwebz about Matt Damon fucking Sarah Silverman, and Sarah Silverman's boyfriend fucking some other dude, we were reminded of the first time somebody got to fuck Sarah Silverman on TV. Of course, it was Tom Paris from Star Trek: Voyager. What? You don't remember the freaking two-part episode where Voyager time-and-space travels to twentieth century Earth and Silverman plays an astronomer named Rain who teaches Paris to call Tuvok a "freakosaurus"? And then the two of them suck face? Well, then, allow us to refresh your memories. More »
screaming mad george
Scariest Special Effect Ever Created (NSFW)
Witness the genius of Screaming Mad George, one of the true special effects visionaries working today. He uses absolutely no CGI to create gloopy, strange, mind-boggling imagery for movies like Predator and The Abyss, as well as indie freakfests like Jack Frost and this flick, called Faust: Love of the Damned. One of Brian Yuzna's latter-day vids, Faust is basically your standard dude-sells-his-soul deal, except for this scene. I've seen a lot of fucked up shit, kids, but this is definitely one of the most deranged. The bad sorcerer guy punishes a chick for double-crossing him by changing her body in some . . . interesting ways. Also, I think he's giving her super-orgasms or something. Otherwise, how do you explain all that goo running down her legs? Needless to say, this is NSFW, and probably not safe for your mental health either.
flash gordon
Ming Means Moustachioed? The Fans Ponder.
What's wrong with this picture? If you ask the fans of Sci-Fi's Flash Gordon, they're likely to tell you that they're not too sure, but it just might be the hair. At least, that's one of the the possibilities as they wonder just what happened to the original character's Fu Manchu look. More »
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Repli-Kate Teaches You How Genetic Engineering Really Works
The 2001 movie Repli-Kate is so many things: a ripoff of Weird Science, a comedy of cloning, and the only movie I've ever seen where Eugene Levy yells "PENIS PENIS PENIS" really loudly, over and over, for reasons I can't even remember. Here's a great scene where one of the gene geeks uses his amazing high-throughput sequencer to create a clone of a hot chick from some blood drops on a CD-ROM. Even the genechip whiz kid Michael Eisen, whom I know for a fact has watched this movie, agrees that this is the most thrilling representation of genetic engineering ever captured on film.
flash gordon recap
A Tender Moment with a Deviate, Plus Mouth Acting
You knew it would happen after I defended Flash Gordon on Friday. Yes, I watched the new episode that night and now I've got one of the highlights here for you to watch, just so you don't have to endure the whole thing. I could have chosen the scene where a scientist dominatrix lady from Mongo used a brain implant to control the seratonin of an Earth dude and make him her slave. But that was actually too boring. So I picked this great scene, where Ming's daughter Princess Aura falls for the oppressed Deviate revolutionary who kidnapped her. Things to pay attention to: the AMAZING dialog ("Stand with me against this injustice!"), Aura's eyeshadow (OMG), and Flash's mouth acting. I swear they ripped this scene off from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Or maybe Star Wars?
the wtf files
Dancing in Zero Gravity to New Age Music Will Help Us Evolve
Today a 727 "Vomit Comet" lifted off from Las Vegas in order to film a scene of a woman dancing in zero gravity for an upcoming science fiction film called Stardance. Filmmaker Jeanne Robinson (choreographer and wife of scifi writer Spider Robinson) won the trip after showing this astonishingly bad preview video at the Heinlein Centennial earlier this year in Kansas City. It's a little bit John Tesh, and a little bit yoga. Here's the whoa: it's funded, and set to screen at an IMAX theater near you. More »
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Ravers Crushed By E.T.-Controlled Vampire Mammoth
A bunch of innocent teens are raving in the forest when . . . they're trampled by a giant woolly mammoth, re-animated after thousands of years in ice by an alien implant that tells it to KILL KILL. Summer Glau, whose powers of acting have been used more wisely in Firefly and upcoming Sarah Connor Chronicles, is the teen whose geek dad wants to save the mammoth because (you guessed it) IT COULD BE THE SCIENTIFIC PHENOMENON OF THE MILLENNIUM. More »
climate change
Toxic Emissions Theater in Bali
Over the weekend, the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali came to an action-packed conclusion. The United States got bitchslapped by a delegate from Papua New Guinea — who told the US to "get out of the way" if it wasn't going to be a leader in reducing toxic emissions — and the delegates stayed up all night to produce a document promising to produce more documents in 2009. So what's the real upshot? Will San Francisco be submerged in 2020? More »
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