Movie-making is a chaotic sort of alchemy. You don't know what you're going to end up with until you're done, and maybe not even then. Still, it can be shocking to read about the making of your favorite movie, and discover that people on set had zero respect. Here are nine beloved films that people making them thought…

You possibly know the work of Laurent Durieux through his Mondo movie posters, but if that's all you know, you're missing out. The 42-year-old Belgian artist, an acolyte and fan of Jean "Moebius" Giraud, was named one of the world's 200 best illustrators by the prestigious Lürzer's Archive advertising magazine in 2011;…

Sometimes familiar Hollywood characters make the jump to Indian cinema — and occasionally they do so with a special effects budget that apparently consisted solely of old pistachio shells.

Audiences tend to laud iconic scoundrels for one or two particularly nefarious capers. For example, everybody relishes Darth Vader's misbehavior in The Empire Strikes Back, but nobody remembers when he tried to out-scheme Princess Leia out of obtaining a bank loan. Here's a half-dozen memorable times your favorite bad…

Back in the day, Eastern European posters for English-language science fiction films sometimes rearranged the movies' plots, jigsaw-style. For example, the Hungarian posters for the Star Wars trilogy transformed Darth Vader's helmet into an unusually nefarious bundt cake pan.

Piranha 3DD seems to have a monopoly on the "fish and tits" subgenre of horror movies for this year — but this indie Australian film, Bait, is making a serious challenge when it comes to the "fish" part. Watch a bunch of people get trapped in a warehouse with a giant shark, after a tidal wave floods their town.…

A pair of fisherman hauled in this Jaws-sized monster from Mexico's Sea of Cortez. This great white shark was only five feet short of Steven Spielberg's monster, but still big enough to devour any swimming plans we had this summer.

The 1980s gave audiences plenty of timeless bad guys like the Terminator, Boba Fett, and Vigo the Carpathian. The decade also dished out plenty of incompetent and ill-conceived villains. Let's explore the 1980s wing of the Annals of Mediocre Villainy.

Yesterday — after 22 years of filling tourists with literally dozens of scares — the venerable Jaws ride at Universal Studios Florida has shuttered its doors to vacationers for eternity. The park plans to open some other unnamed crap ride in its stead.

This has been a big year for Steven Spielberg — he's launched two TV shows, including last night's Terra Nova, and produced countless movies. The Spielberg tribute Super-8 was a surprise hit, and it's become fashionable for other film-makers to claim they're paying tribute to early Spielberg. Still ahead this year: the …