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Germain’s copy of The Nightmare Before Christmas, to prove the point.Photo: io9If you have one, go grab your copy of The Nightmare Before Christmas. No, it’s okay, we’ll wait. *Whistles a tune.* Back? Okay, look at the cover and tell us who directed the film. More than likely it says Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, right? Surely, Burton—the man behind Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and more—crafted this stop-motion Disney masterpiece. Only, he didn’t. The Nightmare Before Christmas was directed by…

Image: DALL-EAI image generators have exploded in popularity in recent months leading to a dizzying array of head scratching, data-crunching artworks from astronauts riding horses in space and illustrated raccoons playing tennis to more terrifying Seinfeld-inspired art concoctions. With spooky season in full swing, we wanted to see DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s most advanced publicly viable tool to do its thing when givenall-time classic horror movie posters. The results are simultaneously fascinating and hilariously stupid, a…

OJ (Daniel Kaluuya), Angel (Brandon Perea), and Emerald (Keke Palmer) keep an eye on the sky.Image: Courtesy of Universal StudiosJordan Peele’s Nope is full of unexpected elements—including an alien that doesn’t look or act the way anyone thinks it will, and human characters who surprise us almost as much. One of the film’s biggest breakouts is Brandon Perea (The OA), who plays UFO enthusiast Angel Torres; ahead of Nope’s arrival on Blu-ray next week, io9 got a chance to ask him about his experience. Angel enters the…

Image: Courtesy of Universal StudiosNope—the latest wholly original, thought-provoking spine-tingler from Oscar-winning writer-director Jordan Peele—comes to Blu-ray next week, meaning the film, which was shot on IMAX cameras, will now squeeze onto TVs for home viewing. Though it’s not the ideal way to view his sci-fi chiller, Peele has made peace with that fact.“When I’m making a movie, I am thinking about the fact that it is a theatrical thing,” Peele told io9 over video chat. “I’m trying to make an experience that the…

If you’re looking for movies to watch this upcoming Halloween, Jordan Peele may fulfill your wish. We already know that when Jordan Peele made the spooky film Us, he was inspired by his own fear of doppelgängers. However, the Oscar-winning filmmaker had other sources of inspiration. Us star Lupita Nyong’o shared what movies she was asked by Peele to watch to prepare for her role, and now our Halloween watchlist is complete. Every horror movie director needs the inspiration to draw on, and why not allow yourself to be…

x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJp5pLsXhgo Just a couple of months after his most recent live-action horror NOPE hit theaters, Jordan Peele is back with a new Netflix movie that’s scaring its way onto streaming later this October. Wendell and Wild not only marks the latest collaboration between Peele and his frequent co-star Keegan-Michael Key, it also serves as the first partnership between the Get Out guru and stop-motion master Henry Selick. With the film’s release just a couple of week’s away, check out…

Image: Netflix“Prepare for Nuns. Demons. Murder. Some children. A Goat. And a dead priest,” warns the newest trailer for Wendell & Wild, the upcoming stop-motion film by The Nightmare Before Christmas creator Henry Selick and co-written by Get Out’s Jordan Peele. But can anyone ever truly prepare for goats and nuns?Unlike last month’s stylized, relatively sedate teaser, this full trailer is a cacophony of macabre shots from the film, which look like it fully lives up to the name of its second titular character. The…

Universal Jordan Peele, the writer-director of this year’s sci-fi spectacle of horror Nope, is addressing rumors that there is an extended version of the film floating out there somewhere. When asked whether a longer version of Nope with extra scenes was coming out at some point, the director told Collider “I can neither confirm nor deny anything of the sort.” However, his response also hinted at the fact that he is “hopeful” audiences will get to see more from the world of the film than what was shown in…

Mad magazine, America’s journal of adolescent satire, turns 70 this year. The publication will come out of hiatus on Oct. 4 for an anniversary edition headlined by tributes from Jordan Peele and “Weird Al” Yankovic, as well as the “Usual Gang of Idiots” who still carry on the magazine’s many absurd traditions. Yankovic will salute Al Jaffee, 101, who contributed his signature Fold-In puzzle to Mad’s back page for all but one issue over a 50-year stretch (1964 to 2013). Mad’s anniversary volume will also include a…

There are a number of parallels that can be seen when comparing Jordan Peele's Nope and Steven Spielberg's Jaws, and that very much includes the fact that both movies change the way that audiences look at the world around them. The beloved 1975 summer blockbuster forever altered the way that we see the ocean, and Peele's 2022 hit has people a bit more wary about strange cloud formations. Case in point: when Midnight Mass creator Mike Flanagan spotted a lone puff of vapor in the sky this morning, he immediately thought of…