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Ready to catch the fourth installment in the Underworld saga, but not up to watching three blue movies in a row? Don't worry — we've packed all the hybrid cliff werewolf on vampire sex making into one simple video. Get caught up on the truly important parts of Underworld in one quick video recap. More »
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Death-dealing vampire Selene and her tight, tight pants are back, in what is surely the most violent addition to the Underworld franchise. With original series director Len Wiseman stepping out of the director's chair, will this supernatural "underworld" finally get a color pallette beyond the ubiquitous teal? Of course not. But at least this film gives us silver whips, and an Über Lycan. More »
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It's the franchise that just won't die, Underworld! Once again we journey to the land of sky-blue eyes, pleather pants, and unlimited ammunition supplies. Underworld: Awakening takes place in a future where Selene has been frozen because it looks cool. Then there's a little girl and a super werewolf! Hey, it's Underworld, we're all watching for the leather-panted vampire aerobics. You can see these scary calisthenics in theater January 20. More »
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Video games can sometimes feel like a Sisyphean task. How many times can you play Super Meat Boy before you feel like impaling your controller on some metal spikes? But Let's Play Ancient Greek Punishment takes frustration to a whole new level, playing out the divine torment of Greek mythological figures. More »
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This new trailer for Underworld Awakening exposes a lot more of the story line. Which may or may not be a good thing, depending on how you feel about adding small children to revive a dead franchise. But hey, Kate Beckinsale...in rubber! Let the Lycan whipping begin! More »
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Imprisoned in a cryo-tube for 12 years, vampire Selene has escaped her captors and awakens to a future a very different future (but still with the same blue filter). Now humans fight vampires and werewolves in the streets, with metal whips! Watch the Underworld Awakening trailer now. More »
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We got a brief glimpse at the fourth Underworld movie, in which Kate Beckinsale's vinyl-coated vampire joins forces with humans. And this time, the vampire war is in gun-shooting, throat-slashing 3D. More »
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At the Beijing Dongyue Temple, you can visit the various "departments" of the Daoist supernatural realm, where terrifying spirits and demonic government officials dwell. Let's meet some of the temple's stranger denizens. More »
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Captain America will feature a controversial sequence after all, and we've got set pics to prove it. The Avengers won't shoot in 3-D after all. Betty Draper is the X-Men's White Queen. Plus Fringe, Chuck, True Blood, Battleship and Smallville. More »
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Patrick Tatopoulos, director of last year's Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, is in talks to take the helm for The Colony, an "eco-horror" movie about a desperate band of survivors trying to save humanity during a new Ice Age. More »
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We love a good "vampires fighting werewolves with swords" epic as much as the next person, but one thing was seriously missing from the last Underword picture: Kate Beckinsale. Rumor has it she's back, and in space? More »
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If you're still mourning the loss of Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, BBC America hopes to ease your pain. Their new teens-fighting-the-underworld series, Demons, premieres this Saturday in the States. We got a sneak peak. More »
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We've been waiting eagerly for the big Captain Mal reveal on Castle, and our patience has finally paid off. Not only does Nathan Fillion put on the brown coat, he gives a nod to Buffy and Underworld too. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5388272&view=rss&microfeed=true Just when you thought you couldn't see yet another werewolf/vampire fight, Sony Screen Gems announces plans to make a fourth Underworld. But which brunette will prance about in a skin-tight pleather get-up this time? [Shock Till You Drop] More »
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It's the same old story. Boy vampire meets girl, girl and boy have tumultuous affair, boy goes away, girl falls for boy werewolf. The vampire-human-werewolf triangle has become almost cliché. When will these darn kids learn the term "threesome"? More »
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I thought we had all moved on from talking about crappy vampires. I was ready to leave our Twilight past in the past, and focus on better bloodsuckers. But you just won't let me will you Hollywood? Stills from the brand-new Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans have emerged and oh my god are they a desperate attempt to medieval up some vampires by giving them swords and pleather body armor. More »
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There may never be a more surreal moment of pop-cultural weirdness than this fanmade YouTube video that mixes 1990s dance classic "Born Slippy", comic classic Scott Pilgrim and... well, dancing Decepticons. Seeing is believing under the jump. More »
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Underworld director Len Wiseman is directing Shell Game, a future film noir he co-wrote. Back in 2005, he described it as a "cool character piece," set "about 50 years in the future, and it's about the illegal selling of immortality on the black market." Wiseman has wanted to make Shell Game for five years, but couldn't convince a studio to fund it as a big-budget feature until he'd directed the smash-hit Live Free Or Die Hard. [Variety] More »
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