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The 5 Most Needlessly Evil Movie Villain Strategies

In a lot of cases, the bad guy is just an excuse for the hero to do stuff, and so the writers are forced to come up with some flimsy explanation for why this particular guy has chosen to do things that are bad ... even when there are much better and easier ways to accomplish what he wants.

Authors: By Rohan Ramakrishnan
Published: November 02, 2011
Comments: 1117

After Hours Halloween Episode: Live Chat!

Authors: By After Hours
Published: October 25, 2011
Comments: 34

6 Classic Kids Shows Secretly Set in Nightmarish Universes

Being a cartoon isn't an easy gig.

Authors: By Preston Xander
Published: October 17, 2011
Comments: 1299

6 Classic Kids Shows Slapped Together From Recycled Material

A lot of these shows weren't so much 'made' as 'shoddily slapped together from some older bullshit (usually from Japan).'

Authors: By Maxwell Yezpitelok
Published: October 14, 2011
Comments: 746

5 Classic Movies That Were Made Possible By Insane Schemes

For the aspiring filmmakers who don't happen to have wealthy friends or connections at a studio, securing funding is by far the biggest obstacle between them and the fulfillment of their vision. Sometimes that means getting creative. Horribly, horribly creative.

Authors: By Jim Ciscell
Published: October 08, 2011
Comments: 506

7 Classic Movies You Didn't Know Were Rip-Offs

How would you like it if we said we invented anorexia and scientifically impossible explosions, huh Hollywood?

Authors: By Jacopo della Quercia , Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
Published: October 03, 2011
Comments: 1776

Presenting The Most WTF Trailer Ever: 'John Dies at the End'

WARNING: The following contains numerous monsters and implied male nudity. Also may contain implied gore and implied flamethrower and implied interdimensional travel and the evil prison guard from The Shawshank Redemption and award-winning actor Paul Giamatti.

Authors: By Jason Pargin
Published: September 25, 2011
Comments: 555

The 6 Most Ridiculous Superhero Weaknesses

For whatever reason, comic book writers ran out of weaknesses that make any kind of sense at all right around the time that Green Lantern became weak against yellow.

Authors: By J.F. Sargent, Jesse Clark
Published: September 22, 2011
Comments: 1235

6 Movie Plot Holes You Never Noticed Thanks to Editing

The casual jump from A to B is often used as a writer's crutch to gloss over the stuff they didn't have the time to think through -- little things like 'continuity,' 'logic' and 'whether or not our protagonist just did some accidental murder.'

Authors: By David Christopher Bell
Published: September 13, 2011
Comments: 2061

5 Inexplicably Horrifying Episodes of Classic Comedies

These are the episodes that scarred an entire generation.

Authors: By Nick Nafpliotis
Published: September 09, 2011
Comments: 1197

6 Mind-Blowing Ways Zombies and Vampires Explain America

Horror movies play off of the social anxieties of the times. And who makes us anxious the most? The highest political leader in the land, of course.

Authors: By S Peter Davis
Published: September 06, 2011
Comments: 1341

6 Terrifying Sci-Fi Predictions (About the Year 1997)

According to a lot of science fiction movies, comics and TV shows, 1997 was the single most eventful year in the history mankind. Why did they all pick 1997? Who knows? They certainly didn't anticipate the Spice Girls.

Authors: By Jim Ciscell
Published: September 04, 2011
Comments: 570