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galactic raiders

Stop-Motion Dinosaurs on Another Planet

You can never get enough dinosaurs in space, and that's why indie filmmaker Larry Arpin spent the last several years filming his dinotastic space opera Galactic Raiders in the deepest California desert. The whole flick is done old-school, from the Ray Harryhausen-style, stop-motion dinos, to the retro Mitchell camera he filmed with. And the plot is pure pulp. Rymir zooms to a distant planet (full of dinos, whom he fights in this clip) to rescue his girlfriend from the evil Acastus.
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1:05 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,435 views, 18 comments

Latest by n/a: What the hell kind of dinosaur is that? Stegowhazit? Anklyowhattheshit? Oh, wait. I get it...it's a spaaaace dinosaur. Man, if they wanted to make up they're own fictitious dinosaur they could have at least not made it look like such more »

found footage

Smiley Faces Destroy The World's Cutest Killer Robot

This sequence from 1995's Death Machine is awe-inspiring, because the killer robot is CGI but manages to look like stop-motion with its jerky movements. And it's super cute! It's like a robo-Barney. And it's damaged by an explosion that's perfectly timed to coincide with a nice smiley face, as the super-secret evil corporate vault door opens. I've seen Death Machine three times, and I still couldn't tell you the plot. There's an evil corporation in the far future of 2003, and Brad Dourif plays himself as a psycho robot maker. And there are cyber terrorists, and flashy lights. Mostly, though, it's about the cute robosaurus.

12:00 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,046 views, 21 comments

Latest by stjohn: I'm a little late to the party, but you need to realize this movie is a piss-take from one end to the other. The names of all the characters are taken from the lexicon of blue-lit neo-brutalist-designed films of more »

coraline

Neil Gaiman's Dimension-Hopping Freaky Tot

There's a sneak peek of the stop-motion animated movie of Neil Gaiman's cute-goth comic Coraline out today, and it's delightfully freaky. Title character Coraline explores her new home and finds a portal that leads into another dimension, with bizarro versions of her mom and dad inside. Of course, she has to battle the baddies in order to get things back to normal. More »

8:00 AM on Mon Dec 24 2007
By Kevin Kelly
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