We don’t even think much of it anymore. When a horror movie trailer plays, it’s pretty much a given that every girl in said coming attraction will die in really brutally awful ways. Until the last few minutes or so, when the last girl standing — preferably pasty, pale, and virginal — manages to avoid doing anything excessively stupid long enough to survive. Should you find yourself, however unlikely, in a similar situation –  Here’s 4 signs you won’t be the first to die:

“It’s always the same. Some blonde big breasted girl who can’t act that runs up the stairs when they should be running out the front door. It’s insulting.” (Scream)

5. You’re white. Anyone who’s not white has about as much chance of surviving a horror film as a hemophiliac working in a razor blade factory. Honestly I can’t remember the last time I saw a black girl in a horror movie, but as Freddy vs. Jason proves, when black girls have to share screen time with white girls, it’s kind of like The Bachelor – you dare not send her home packing first; better to not look quite so racist for at least a half hour of screen time. And look at The Descent, a relatively kick-ass horror film about cave-dwelling monsters: the one who screws it up for everyone is Asian. Thus, in addition to being white, it also helps if…

4. You’re Cuter Than Someone Else (Not Necessarily Smarter). Pretty girls aren’t allowed to fart. They’re not allowed to burp. The mere mention of bodily fluids of any kind by pretty girls are verboten. It stands to reason, therefore, that if you’re ugly, you go first. No exceptions. In Hellraiser, heroine Kirsty is often dumb as a rock (as the requisite tripping-over-stuff and passing-out-scenes prove)… and yet incredibly clever, like when she figures out the Lament Configuration. Being dopey never hurt a cute girl in a horror film, as all the Final Destinations have proven.

3. You’re a Paranoid Virgin. Especially in Friday the 13th, sex was pretty much an automatic death sentence. Jason died because two stupid teenagers were too busy having sex to take care of him. He got his revenge mainly by coming back to life and killing couples having sex — mainly through stabbing, spearing, impaling, just to drive the metaphor home. Even the girl who survived the first one was killed with an icepick in the brain in the first five minutes of Friday the 13th Part 2. Yes, Jason loves his mother, and hates sex. There’s a movie that doesn’t need a prequel.

Don’t even look at dirty pictures — remember the scene in Dracula when Winona Ryder is looking at dirty pictures? She ends up being seduced by the Prince of Darkness. Yes, best to just curl up with a copy of Ethan Frome while the rest of your horny sorority sisters are partying in the next room. You could even leave your door open.

2. You’ve Got Access to Some Otherworldly Dimension. In the movie Carrie, the main character had it pretty bad. Yet despite having the mother from hell and being endlessly tormented by her peers, Sissy Spacek was still cute. On top of all that, she also had telekinesis — and after getting doused in pig’s blood at her prom, used that power to burn everyone alive. Yeah, she died — but of her own accord, so it doesn’t really count.

1. You’re one of the guys.  Girls who can take apart stuff and beat up bad guys last longer than the more ‘feminine’ chicks — take Michelle Rodriguez, whom in Resident Evil, is tough enough to be the next to last girl surviving. Unfortunately Milla Jovavich is white and arguably not as masculine, and thus ‘cuter.’ Elaborating on that theory, in the original script for Alien, Ripley was a guy. It was that masculinity which James Cameron sort of took apart in the sequel, replacing them with the same motherly instincts he seems intent on putting in all his heroines (and look where it got her- she was basically killed off in the beginning of Alien 3). Maybe being too much of a chick just doesn’t pay.

Exactly

Photo of Scream courtesy of Dimension Films
Photo of The Strangers courtesy of Rogue Pictures
Photo of Halloween courtesy of Compass International
Photo of Cherry Falls Courtesy of Rogue Pictures/USA
Photo of Carrie courtesy of United Artists
Photo of Alien Resurrection Courtesy of 20th Century Fox and Brandywine
Photo of Rocky Horror Picture Show Courtesy of 20th Century Fox

Words by Jeff Nau

After trying to make it through Tower Heist on VOD, I found myself confronting two uncomfortable truths: 1)  that’s 20 minutes I’ll never get back. 2) Psychotic, angry Ben Stiller — or at the very least, the disturbed Ben Stiller — is the only way to forget all this. So here’s 5 roles, comedic and otherwise, that could be enough to make us forget Night at the Smithsonian and even Meet the Fockers and the one that came after that.

5. Happy Gilmore: As the old folks home attendant who forces seniors into a sweatshop so he can sell their quilts on the black market, Stiller’s genius here is equal parts handlebar mustache and sad truth.

4. The Royal Tenenbaums: As the grieving widower Chas Tenenbaum, (Stiller) is not quite as psychotic as his roles in Friends or Happy Gilmore, but his suffocating and protective hold on his kids is nothing short of disturbing. After being abandoned by his father, Royal (Gene Hackman) and losing his wife, though, it’s kind of easy to understand. With his red Adidas jumpsuit, Stiller forces his poor offspring into a perennial state of emergency. It’s frightening, poignant (*puking noise*), yet understandable with an aloof dad like his:

HOW ARE YOU NOT YET EXTINCT

3. Friends: A welcome respite from the show’s uber-WASPness, Ben Stiller tore through the lair of 3 Manhattan neo-yuppies and did what a lot of people secretly wanted to: terrorize and torment Ross (and his pet ducks). Unfortunately the tools at NBC won’t let us upload video so here’s a link.

‘Life is wasted on people’

 2. Greenberg: Less crazy and more bipolar, Stiller’s portrayal of Roger Greenberg is possibly his greatest and showed he had serious chops as an actor. It also nabbed him an ISA nomination for best actor. Impossible to be around, self-obsessed and painfully incompetent socially, Greenberg is also a once mega-talented musician and carpenter who almost drowns in his brother’s kiddie pool. It’s a metaphor for him trying to survive adulthood, and he seems to be drowning. Wow, that was deep.

Burn her face with your noxious acid

1. Everything on The Ben Stiller Show: Like Arrested Development and Freaks and Geeks, it stands to reason that every good show will come to an end after 2 or 3 seasons, while Everybody Loves Raymond and Corner Gas seem to last decades. There’s no accounting for taste, though his dead on psychotic take on self-help author Tony Robbins is pretty hard not to love. Let him hypnotize you with his teeth, and send him your money.

Words by Jeff Nau

Clips/Photos of Greenberg courtesy of Focus Features
Clips/Photos of The Ben Stiller Show courtesy of Fox
Clips of Friends courtesy of NBC Universal
Clips of Happy Gilmore courtesy of Universal
Clips/Pics of The Royal Tenenbaums courtesy of Touchstone Pictures

Get ready to get angry. Of course, who’s better at getting us angry than George Lucas? Lucasfilm executive producer Rick McCallum revealed this past week that the Star Wars TV series is tentatively being titled Star Wars: Underworld, with both he and Lucas adding that it’s just an idea, and not the real title, and other than that nothing’s really set for the show. Which isn’t coming out for “more than 4 or 5 more years.”

In other words, Lucas’ response was It’s Star Wars, and you’ll see it, bc I’m George-F*cking Lucas… And while it’s taken quite a while to finally get some new info on this thing unfortunately a ‘temporary title’ is all we have to go on as of now. McCallum insists Underworld will be set during the 19-year span between Episode III and IV, and focus on all the stuff fans want, like “smugglers, gangsters, bounty hunters, and a few Wall Street-type power brokers.” (We can definitely use more OWS references, because The Dark Knight Rises trailer didn’t have enough).

Seriously though — more than 4 or 5 more years? McCallum responded, “Even longer. Because I think we don’t have the technology yet to be able to do it for the level of money that it would have to be done.”
There you go. So as a sort of palette cleanser, watch Patton Oswalt detail his plot to travel back in time and kill Lucas himself.

It wasn’t my goal to focus on two arguably once-great directors this week, but in other big news Tim Burton’s confirmed that Beetlejuice 2 is officially a go. Or that the project’s underway, and that he’ll be involved. Only in that distant, sort of-involved Lucas-like way (read: executive producer) that Burton’s been big on being as of late. On the brighter side, he seems pretty bent on getting Michael Keaton involved again. The idea of a Beetlejuice sequel might not be as new as you think: they started floating the idea around way back in 1990 with “Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.” Unfortunately other stuff came up with the studio involved and the project thankfully folded.

“I love that character, and Michael is so great in it. I always think about how great and fun that character was, so I just said to Seth [Grahame-Smith], ‘If you have some idea about it, go for it, and then I’ll look at it freshly… In the past, I tried some things, but that was way back when. He seemed really excited about it.”

Fortunately there’s Christopher Nolan, who’s relatively young hopefully naive and most importantly finishing the Dark Knight franchise before he gets old and bitter. Speaking of which: about the Bane problem? “Shut up and take it.”

Not a direct quote. But in EW, Nolan addressed the issue: “I think when people see the film, things will come into focus,” he said. “”Bane is very complex and very interesting,” he said. “And when people see the finished film, people will be very entertained by him.” He also went on to add that the mask doesn’t matter, and that you don’t need to understand everything he’s saying, because it’ll be obvious in the movie.

I dunno. Could you imagine him having the same attitude about the Joker, or even Scarecrow? That makes it sound like one of 2 things: Bane is a 1 dimensional stock character bore or 2)I’ve got this under control, and you’ll watch it, cause I’m Chris -f*cking Nolan. Maybe we can get Patton Oswalt to go back in time and smack Nolan around til he wises up.  It’d be a shame to see this thing tank because Bane sounds more like the gimp in Pulp Fiction than muffled pseudo-British accent. Oh, who am I kidding. I’ll see it and like it, cause it’s Nolan…

Words by Jeff Nau.

Star Wars photo and Beetlejuice stuff via Coming Soon

Interview video via youtuber sncollura.

Bane photo courtesy of fansshare.com

Beetlejuice photo courtesy of Screenrant

Movie posters are pretty much all lies. And most of the time, they’re better than the actual film they’re promoting. But theshiznit, who have taken the gist of some of the latest and most popular films to come out, make a good point — given the level of hate aimed at Sarah Jessica Parker, one can’t help but wonder exactly how she keeps getting roles. And Drive, as awesome as it was, is a kind of just like an awesome video game.

Second in our trifecta of irreverent movie news: like a lot of rock n’ rollers, rumor has it Stephen King did his best work under the influence, before sobering up and writing stuff like Dreamcatcher. So when filmmaker/director Mark Pavia announced that he’s returning to the movies with 4 Stephen King short stories, hopes are high (get it?) that they’ll be one of his old ones. Pavia, who adopted King’s The Night Flier a while back, and what many consider to be one of King’s best big-screen adaptations, hasn’t announced the stories, but remember that The Green Mile and Shawshank were both short stories that made for pretty damn good movies. (via GeeksofDoom) So there’s a little hope there.

Finally: AKIRA IS DEAD. *sigh* All right, so that might not be entirely accurate. But with production offices being shut down in Vancouver (was Neo-Vancouver going to double for Neo Manhattan?) and Los Angeles, seems WB momentarily removed their collective heads from their collective colons to take a breath of air and listen to the people outside the mental hospital. Then they decided they’d had enough and returned back to Bellevue and continued to drool over themselves and blow spit bubbles, cutting the budget by another $30 million and talk about Green Lantern scribe Michael Green coming on board to shave more off the script. Cause nothing says anime adaption like white actors, miniscule budget and 6 different writers. (via Variety)

UPDATE: So now sources are reporting that the film is ‘down, not out,’ but we’re going to ignore that completely, try that whole Secret/law of attraction crap, continually deny its existence, and be as positive as possible. DIE WB DIE DIE DIE

Stephen King photo courtesy of Link Lane
Akira photo courtesy of Toho Ltd

Perhaps the best (or at least most tantalizing) theory behind The Dark Knight Rises comes courtesy of Cody Johnston, who I’m gonna paraphrase, dissect, and pimp the sh*t out of on this one. His concept is simple and sound: If Nolan is the Nolan he’s led us to believe he is, he’ll kill Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises. There’s a few good reasons why.

First there’s the obvious — how Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale and Gary Oldman all have stated repeatedly this will conclude their ever having anything to do with Batman ever again — which already denotes a certain sense of finality to it.

Secondly, Nolan is f*cking mean to Batman, as he should be. The Dark Knight was Empire Strikes Back for the trilogy, with The Joker mentally beating the crap out of Bruce, killing his childhood sweetheart, killing his successor and city savior in Harvey Dent, killing a couple of the city’s only good politicians, and essentially pinning the crimes on him and driving Batman into exile. Bane should deliver both the physical and mental pain. And as Johnston suggests, it’s Batman that matters, not Bruce Wayne.

 Nolan’s stayed truer to the comics than anyone before him, and in the comics, the Golden Rule always applies: If a hero dies, he/she must come back somehow. And if a character is dead, they’re not really dead.

Batman has arrived on the scene in Year One (and Batman Begins), grown old in The Dark Knight Returns, and finally had to give up his mantle (at least temporarily) to others like Dick Grayson, who should have gotten the Jason Todd treatment much earlier.

As WIll Brooker pointed out in Batman Unmasked, “the confirmation of Batman’s identity lies with the young audience…he doesn’t have to be Bruce Wayne; he just needs the suit and gadgets, the abilities, and most importantly the morality, the humanity. There’s just a sense about him: ‘they trust him… and they’re never wrong.” Bruce Wayne as a character is interesting, but since, as Bruce points out in Begins, what Gotham needs is a symbol that is incorruptible, someone else can be Batman.

Johnston points to John Blake, a new character created by Nolan, as the most likely successor. I guess the only question is how ghetto Batman will now be on a Gotham Police Department salary, unless increasingly decrepit Alfred is willing to take him in. Unless Bruce wants it. While Blake as of now seems a likely candidate, after Nolan leaves there’s 3 other guys (all of whom disappeared back in Batman Begins) that probably would like to give it their own shot and never got to.

That Homeless Dude - Played by Rade Serbedzija, he was the guy who got Bruce Wayne’s jacket and a few bills when the latter decided to give up all his possessions and go globe trotting. You’ve seen him in other stuff like Snatch, as the badass Russian guy who got shot about 10 times and still lived, and (if you made it through it) The Saint, as a badass Russian guy who drove around looking for Val Kilmer and listening to loud industrial music.

Flass - So I’m obsessed with Mark Boone Junior. It’s only because he’s one of those guys you could watch eat a falafel dog for hours. I don’t mean that how it sounds, which is kinda gay. What I’m trying to say is: Mark Boone Junior pays sketchy fat guy awesome. His alternate moniker should be sketchy fat guy junior. He’s just fun, and I’ve kinda always wanted to see a fat Batman in that cowl.

Rutger Hauer - He’s Roy F*cking Batty, fer Chrissakes.

*All of this means nothing. Warner Brothers owns and feeds of the soul of Batman, so of course they will continue the franchise, until people start longing for the days of Adam West and Caesar Romero. Or maybe Nolan will somehow grow senile and want to come back and end up doing 3 sh*tty other Batman films like Lucas. Who knows.

Words by Jeff Nau

Blue Tardis Christmas Ornament – Just because the holidays are here and stuff, and you need something to distract you from the usual Santa and reindeer crap. P.S. Has anyone else seen what’s been made of the obvious Bill and Ted/Doctor Who connection yet?

Gay Stormtrooper Action Figure: If there’s two things that were wrong with the Stormtroopers, it’s a) there was not enough glitter and b) the codpiece wasn’t long enough. These are problems easily remedied by amateur action figure maker Sucklord, who rightly guessed that during off hours under a repressive Empire, a few of the Stormtroopers  just needed to turn the Death Star into a West Hollywood club.

Cthulu Ski Mask :  It’s up to you whether you want to use your mask for good or for evil, but say it’s really cold outside that bank/liquor store/post office… also a plus for the beard-sporting thief. If that’s not your thing then try these.

Mad Men – The Illustrated World : Even if you’re not a fan of Don Draper and Betty Francis, you’ll still find time to appreciate this collection of retro illustrations celebrating all things Sterling Cooper. How-to dance instructions cover everything from The Madison to The Mashed Potato. Real question – do they show you how to make a Manhattan and a Greyhound?

Words by Jeff Nau

5. Varla – Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! Tura Satana does what every great villain (or hero) should: race fast vintage cars, pummel yuppie scum, and expose voluminous amounts of cleavage. Damn. She’ll slip your gf a roofie and rob your wheelchair-bound dad without a second thought.

4. Miriya – Robotech: Macross

Mirya is one of the Zentraedi, a Spartan-like race of 50 ft-tall aliens that are really pissed Earth stole their spaceship. Sent by her boss Khyron to kill every human involved, she leads the Zentraedi military in wiping out most of the Micronians (their term for ‘humans’) and maneuvers her alien robot-plane thing like an alien Danica Patrick. In one of the most famous scenes in anime history, she does battle with Max Sterling, and then they have sex and pop out a half alien/half human kid. Never mind the logistics, here’s a great dogfight. Special bonus: the groovy disco/smooth jazz soundtrack.

3. Mona Demarkov – Romeo is Bleeding
A guilty pleasure to watch, Romeo is Bleeding is a mixed bag. It’s sort of half poser film-noir and half frustrated Gary Oldman yelling in his exaggerated Long Island accent. Leno Olin plays Russian gangster Mona Demarkov, and this broad is scary. I think part of it is the shoulder padded suit and the weird accent that isn’t quite Russian. She’s diabolical enough to always have the upper hand on poor Oldman, who constantly thinks with the wrong head. Still one of Oldman’s best performances.

2. Christina Delassalle – Les Diaboliques
Christina is pretty much a tramp from the beginning of this film, involved in a tryst between her abusive boss, Michel, and Michel’s weak and weary wife, Nicole. Despite all this, Nicole and Christina form a bond with one another based on their mutual abuse and plot to kill Michel. Eventually they carry out their plan, get rid of the body, and everything’s going great until Nicole starts seeing Michel’s ghost everywhere. Finally Michel sneaks up on poor Nicole, killing her from fright. Turns out Christina and Michel were in it together to kill Nicole all along. It did for bathtubs what Jaws did for the ocean.

1. Asami – Audition
Recall your worst date, multiply it times infinity, and it still can’t compare to how bad this one is. Aoyama is a grieving widower who decides it’d be a great idea to ‘audition’ girls to be his new wife, and he picked the wrong one in Asami, overcome by jealousy and rage that Aoyama still has any love for his dead wife. Thus follows scenes of torture that could only come from Takashi Miike, the dude who blessed us with Oldboy a couple years later. Here’s a clip from Bravo’s special on The 100 Scariest Horror Moments of All Time, which pretty much sums it up.

Honorable Mention: Evelyn Draper – Play Misty For Me: Jessica Showalter received a Golden Globe for her performance as the psycho fan of DJ Clint Eastwood. You’ll forget entirely about her roles in Arrested Development and PCU after watching the trailer.

Words by Jeff Nau

An in-depth story behind the punk/ska/metal/funk/whateverthef*ck outfit that went on to inspire a legion of bands, Sunshine highlights the band’s highs, lows, and road to relative obscurity. Perhaps Primus bassist Les Claypool’s statement sums it up best: “They should’ve been the band that went way beyond any of us that were influenced by them.”  And as The LA Weekly put it, “Gwen Stefani should still be paying Fishbone royalty checks.” Some might wonder if that’s necessarily a compliment.

So what exactly happened? Talk to most fans and they’ll tell you Fishbone never really quite fit conveniently into a single genre. In the early days, neither the black nor the white kids really knew what to make of the group. Even their beginnings as a straight-ahead ska band gave way to funk, punk, and metal influences — earning as many looks of confusion as they did stage dives.

It also doesn’t help that they’ve reunited more times than Kiss, and had more rotating bandmates than Spinal Tap. The price of flakiness has been high: Cut from Columbia Records. A steady inconsistency in album releases, and impatient fans who just plain didn’t know what the hell was going on. A new label, and new problems: Bassist John Norwood Fisher ‘kidnapped’ former guitarist Kendall Jones when the latter left the band, all in an attempt to get them back together for a Lollapolooza gig. Jones pressed charges, and Fisher endured a long and costly trial (which saw a benefit concert with Tool, Porno For Pyros, and Alice in Chains come together) after which he was eventually acquitted. Most blamed the catastrophe on Jones’ recent fanatical religious conversion. Afterward, the band was dropped by Sony.

That’s a lot of crap. And yet despite years of ongoing craziness, assorted neuroticisms, and erratic behavior, the band recently managed to reunite long enough to put out their second album in ten years. Besides a metaphor for what keeps the band together, their latest, Crazy Glue, is a mish-mash of everything that’s made the band great: hyperkinetic ska, infectious bass grooves, metal riffage by former Suicidal Tendencies guitarist Rocky George, and the funk that made em famous.

After seeing them live at Amoeba, it’s also clear that there’s no frontman on Earth – or any other galaxy for that matter — quite like Angelo Moore. “Weed, Beer and Cigarettes” brings back feelings of what it was like to be a teen again, and “DUI Friday” proves there’s no bassist like Norwood Fisher, who could take on Victor Wooten and Flea with a single slap of his bass. Obviously I’m a devoted fan, but as much for their dysfunction and insanity as their music. Lord only knows if the glue keeps em together this time — but even if it all comes unraveled again, there’ll be some crazy sh*t behind it all.

Words by Jeff Nau. Photos by Dustin Downing (@MeTakeaPhoto).

5.

Best Scene: “See? A little rap on the beak get you some respect around here.”

4. Dr. Decker – Nightbreed: In Clive Barker’s 1990 film, David Cronenberg plays Philip Decker PhD as a calm and collected shrink. When night falls over rural Ontario, Dr. Decker puts on a mask made of skin,  button eyes and a zipper mouth — and slashes up entire families, so he can pin his sick deeds on a poor and over-medicated patient. Wow, what an a**hole. Then again, if you had to be a shrink in rural Canada…

Best Scene: This one. Not for the squeamish.

3. Don Logan – Sexy Beast. Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast is equal parts meathead, cigarette smoke and Brut, who invades the home of a former gangster trying to go straight and inflicts cruel psychological and physical torment on him to force him back into the fold. It’s that Cockney accent and short-sleeve button up that make him almost kinda funny.

Best Scene: That end scene. Donny doesn’t go so quietly.

 2. Frank Booth – Blue Velvet:  Dennis Hopper plays Booth as a sadistic drug-addled psychopath, who kidnaps the husband and child of Dorothy Vallens and makes her his own slave, threatening to kill them both if she’s remotely disobedient. Rape, S&M role-playing, and serious mother issues follow. He cuts off the husband’s ear, munches on blue velvet, and rapes Dorothy on a whim. In his downtime, he karaokes Roy Orbison, hangs out with Ben, deals drugs, and gets high on amal nitrate.

Best Scene: “Pretty, pretty, PRETTYYYY!”

1. Raymond Lemorne – The Vanishing: Overlook the 1995 American remake with Jeff Bridges and Keifer Sutherland in favor of Spoorloos, the French original. The film’s hero is Rex, a man whose girlfriend one day mysteriously disappears at a rest stop and never returns. It is Rex’s obsession and madness which drives him to spend the rest of his life — as well as his new wife’s — looking for her. Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu plays Raymond Lemorne,  a suave and intelligent professor, a caring if somewhat eccentric family man, and a relentless perfectionist. That same perfectionism creeps over into his sociopathic behavior, which he uses to take both Rex and his girlfriend into captivity. The best masterminds are patient, observant, and always have a Plan B.

Best Scene: The final one. Possibly where Tarantino got a key scene in Kill Bill 2 from…

See you in a week with the females.

Words by Jeff Nau (@jeffnau)

5. The Google Maps Orange Guy: These two guys loved the Google Orange Guy so much, they decided to put together a costume, from what looks like stuff you could get at your local Rite Aid. The costume itself isn’t that interesting, but the video detailing its conception is pretty cool.

4. Han Solo in Carbonite: I almost put ‘iPad torso wound guy’, here, but yeah we know it’s a great costume, and he’s everywhere. So here’s this guy: I don’t know what works better, the fact that he doesn’t look anything like Han Solo — unless Han Solo was really Mussolini and wore a beanie — or the fact that his carbonite is probably just electric tape and silver spray paint.

3. AT-AT Dog - So you’re not in the mood to dress up. What to do? Look at the dog. That lazy, mangy, take-a-dump-wherever-it-wants-to, incessantly nipping at your heels, needy- mutt. In many third world countries it’d be sautéed and have an apple in its mouth by now. So it’s time that it gave back, and while dumping on your neighbor’s lawn is fine, why not torture it more with this bizarre plastic contraption like a leftover torture device from SAW for dogs.

2. Human Game Boy – This isn’t the first guy who dressed as a Game Boy for All Hallow’s Eve, but you’ve probably never seen somebody go to such lengths to dress as one. Far from just some cheap-ass cardboard box , the guy drew himself a nifty logo, made himself a battery container, everything. Pretty amazing.

1. Human Leeloo — Just pretty self-explanatory, thus the repeat offense…even better that it was probably made out of duct tape and little else…

…Last but not least, just spotted a ton of Dark Crystal conceptual art from set artist/designer Brian Froud that was just too good to pass up. Froud’s also well-renowned helping design the movie Labyrinth.

(via io9)

Words by Jeff Nau (@JeffNau)