As a reminder, here's the full trailer for Ethan Hawk and Willem Dafoe's futuristic vampire thriller, Daybreakers.

Here's the official synopsis:

Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.

I can not wait for more of the "blood jerk" vampire girl — it's amazing to think vampires could be edgy once again. Daybreakers will be in theaters January 8th, 2010.

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Russian website Zombie Kaput, has released this anti-bootleg PSA in which not only do undead Nazi's hang out in cars, but have sex in bathrooms as well, just like regular people!

Remember, Død Snø will have a limited release in the US on June 23rd, and I expect you all to one-up the Russians on the homemade zombie sex tapes. It's our patriotic duty.

Thanks for the tip Bjørn.

Hey, we've all seen our fair share of batty as hell scifi PSAs. Let's not forget the Star Wars Drunk Driving PSA, let alone all the things we learned about dangerous empty refrigerators from G.I. Joe (because knowing is half the battle). While we are all for actors using their press for a good cause, and raising awareness about child abuse, pairing PSAs and Starship Troopers is, well strange. Check out these ads the Johnny Rico did for Child Help.

Here is the even stranger Power Suits head in the clouds PSA.

But honestly if Rico wants me to start killing some abusers, I'll fall in line because I always have been and always will be a Roughneck... (A member of Rico's Roughnecks). So let's support him in his plight against bugs and child abusers, and go to Child Help. And tell him, if he really wants us to listen, throw in a drunk alien.

It's happened to all of us — a show goes over the allotted time-limit and you're stuck never actually knowing who's the murderer on Pushing Daisies. Or worse, if Heidi and Spencer really did get married for reals? Then comes the swearing and the screaming and the breaking of objects because your recorder cut off at the crucial last few minutes, leaving you without answers or closure.

So be warned ,BSG fans — this weeks' Friday premiere will run OVER 3 and a half minutes. Don't be a victim — set your recording devices correctly.

[Sci Fi Wire]

First, some basics.

A few signs of a bad movie

• Sunglasses in the poster. If human adults are wearing them, it's bad. If babies or animals are wearing them, it's worse. If adults are looking over the top of the sunglasses, it's horrendous. If a baby or animal is looking over the top, it's a sign of the apocalypse.
  
• If someone falls into a swimming pool.
  
• If there's a hot-air ballon. (Quoth Roger Ebert: "Good movies rarely contain a hot-air balloon.")
  
• If Hayden Christensen is involved.
  
• If it's too awful before the opening credits end.
  
• If it takes place in Venice Beach. Very few good movies were shot there.
  
• If the product placement's written in the script: for example, when the Transformers talk about Nokia phones.
  
• It has the following credits: "Directed by Richard Benjamin,"or "Jamie Kennedy is..." or "Based on the screenplay by Gore Vidal"

If your movie is beginning to look bad, there is only one thing you can do to stop the madness. You must loudly and insistently comment on it, sharing your feelings with your fellow oppressed audience members. Improvising is encouraged, but here are a few basic guidelines.

How to Make Fun of a Bad Movie

• A human or any other animal skull shown with its jaw open should always be singing opera.
  
• Bizarre camera angles should be mentioned and explained. For instance, a camera shot from the ground looking up may be the "Amy Winehouse cam."
  
• If a movie is playing on a teevee screen (it's often something like "Casablanca," or "It's a Wonderful Life" for xmas movies), remember to state the cardinal rule: "Never reference a good movie inside your bad one."
  
• Identify all actors who even remotely or insultingly look like the popular celebrities the film could never afford. Bonus points if it's a relative like Don Swayze or Joe Estevez.
  
• When a character spouts exposition, be sure to think them.
  
• The more recent a death, the funnier the joke. Heath Ledger jokes are currently hilarious. If someone makes a joke about, say, the Kennedy or Lincoln assassinations, chide them: "Too soon!" 9/11 jokes, however, will never go out of style.
  
• Always answer rhetorical questions. The characters wouldn't have asked if they didn't want you, the audience, to respond.
  
• When a scene is really insistently horrible, make a lucid comment about the color of the room or the billboard in the background.
  
• When the movie makes the entire audience squirm simultaneously in silence, it never hurts to announce, "This film hates me."
  
• Any shot of sand or a desert is worth at least one "The worm is the spice! The spice is the worm!" Except during Dune.
  
• Don't be afraid to make the obvious joke; most often it is the joke everyone wanted to make but were to drunk to form the words.
  
• Boobs instantly make any movie the "BEST MOVIE EVER!" Temporarily.
  
• The brother is always the Nth to die. The brother is always the Nth to do ANYTHING. ("Why is the brother always the third to get on the plane during pre-boarding? This movie is so racist!")
  
• When the picture lacks detail for whatever reason—and especially if it's intentional—holler at the tech to "Focus!"
  
• Inside jokes are encouraged. If you make a joke that only one other person gets, it's even better if that one other person isn't in the room.
  
• Also, explaining a joke at length makes it funner, especially if the audience didn't laugh in the first place.
  
• If preshow entertainment is required, your best bet is The ABC of Sex Education for Trainables. This is especially helpful for so called "erotic" movies like Cyberella.
  
• If a woman is running: "Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing Boing." Why? Sheena!
  
• Tears are not tears. They are face pee.
  
• If you refer to someone as the lost Baldwin brother, name him Gummo Baldwin.
  
• Whenever Shatner speaks Esperanto, everyone has to take a drink.

* Mike Spiegelman, Phil Darnowsky, Geekboy, Mikl-Em, Maura Spilia, Jim Fourniadis, Alexia Staniotes and Rhiannon Charisse

SPECIAL NOTE: io9 does not advise that you try this in a theater full of people who have not consented to hear you yell things. If you choose to try this technique with a non-consenting audience, we do not take responsibility for you getting punched or having pop dumped on your head.