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Cult Movie Worship
Frenchy Mutants Are Much More Frightening Than These Intolerant Zombies
There's is nothing worse than fighting with your boyfriend because he's contracted some terrible Mutant virus that you've now got to get tested for, before you both turn into mutants. Zombie diseases are the worst. More »
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Watch Yourself Wipe Out Criminals, Via New Sleep Dealer Trailer
The new trailer for Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer is out, and showing off the futuristic kill-the-poor TV show Drones. More » -
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Plug Into The New Sleep Dealer Poster
Embrace your status as a slave to the machine with the new official Sleep Dealer poster. That slumping back full of cyber-nodes says it all. More »
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Comment by Gann: Those 'nodes' seem to be in weird places for neural connectivity. They're not along the spine or in the... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Cyberpunk South Of The Border: io9 Meets Sleep Dealer's Alex Rivera
The next step for cyberpunk movies is to include more of a global perspective, says Sleep Dealer director Alex Rivera. He's looking for the "cyberpunk of the South" or "cyberpunk of the developing world," and hopes his film will become the first branch of a whole new direction. Rivera came to San Francisco and showed clips from Sleep Dealer, plus some of his earlier short films, and we got a chance to ask him about his cyberpunk inspirations. Images, clips and trailer below.
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Comment by Bowl of Snakes: For me, the first thing that comes to mind when hearing about cyberpunk applied to unique cultures is George Alec... 1 Responses | Other threads
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dystopia fatigue
How Long Before The Dystopian Fad Wears Off?
The bleaker our reality gets, the more we'll need bright, sunny escapism in our entertainment. But even though things are already looking pretty darn hard-scrabble, and we're still looking at another few years of eco-disasters, zombie holocausts and blighted landscapes in pop culture. Just how long will we be seeing dark, miserable stories of people who descend into their own personal hells where morality is a forgotten luxury? A few more years, maybe. Blame the Hollywood development process.
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Sleep Dealer Serves Notice In New York Premiere
Last night at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn Sleep Dealer made its post-Sundance debut at the Imagine Science Film Festival, and you're now officially allowed to get excited for the film's 2009 wider release. Alex Rivera's first feature is a masterpiece — a modestly budgeted character piece that is the most exciting film in the genre released so far this year. More » -
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Slaves Of The Global Cyber-Village, In New Sleep Dealer Trailer
Outsourcing gets taken to its furthest extreme in a super-advanced America of the future in Sleep Dealer, with menial workers telecommuting from South of the Border. Using Matrix style plugs, the worker jacks into the machine they are best suited for and "sometimes they control the machine, and sometimes the machine controls them." Watch the trailer below. More »
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Comment by thewriteguy: Hey, io9 guys, why do you process all your FLV files at only 10 frames per second? It makes for... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Cyber-Zombies Haunt A Near-Future Dystopia
Do you wish the zombies in I Am Legend had been more interesting and believable? Then you should be excited for near-future dystopia Sleep Dealer, judging from this brief teaser trailer and some new stills. Sleep Dealer is a bleak fable about immigration and cyber-slavery, but it's also yet another horrible future where science turns ordinary people into the walking (almost) dead. Click through for stills and details. More »
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