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A Picture-Perfect Christmas Goes Darkly Awry in Horror Short Snow Globe
Snow Globe introduces us to a perfectly pink-clad woman flitting around a festively decorated room. But it soon becomes clear in this short film from Christopher Ryan Laughter — whose work io9 has shared before — that things are much more sinister than they appear. For one thing, the poem that narrator is reciting is…
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The Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Gizmodo Rewatched in 2022
io9 added “best rewatches” to our year-end coverage during the height of the pandemic — a time when new movies and TV felt mighty scarce. With Hollywood back in full swing, there’s now plenty of new content to consume, but that doesn’t mean we don’t find ourselves sneaking back into the past on occasion.
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In Retroverse, Hopping the Multiverse Is An Existential Crisis
What if you suddenly woke up in a universe where you’d been dead for years — and on the surface, it looked like a better one than the world you’d just been in a moment ago? That’s already a horrifying enough existential crisis, but Retroverse decides that’s not enough and throws in some alien nightmares…
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Darren Aronofsky on Going to Extremes With Chris Hemsworth for Limitless
We already know Chris Hemsworth can convincingly play a god on the big screen — but the Marvel star also has some superhuman qualities in real life, too. In Limitless With Chris Hemsworth, a new Disney+ series created by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan), we see Hemsworth engage in extreme challenges designed to help the human…