Amazon’s Homecoming—corporate clinics and creepy filmmaking make a fun thrill ride

The second trailer for Amazon’s Homecoming. Its 10-episode first season debuted this weekend. Homecoming, Amazon Prime’s new political techno-mystery series starring Julia Roberts, has a tough task: how do you translate an effective podcast into effective television? The story here started off as a successful fiction series from Gimlet Media, a podcasting entity started by […]

‘Dear David’ Movie, Based on a Creepy Twitter Thread, Coming from New Line

Hollywood has decided to turn to Twitter for inspiration. What could go wrong?! New Line Cinema has snapped up the rights to Dear David, a ghost story that was originally told in a series of tweets by former BuzzFeed writer Adam Ellis. Ellis presented the tweets as true, detailing the story of a ghost haunting his […]

‘The Prodigy’ Trailer: Georgie from ‘IT’ Plays Your Typical Creepy Kid Creating Jump Scares

Since Halloween hit theaters this weekend, studios knew they needed to pack the pre-show with a bunch of horror trailers to get those hungry for scares excited about the terrors to come. Unfortunately, since it’s October, that means we’re talking about horror movies that will get dumped in the early months of 2019, where bad […]

Vizio, sued for making creepy smart TVs, will notify customers via the TVs

Enlarge / An employee pushes a trolley with a Vizio Inc. high-definition television (HDTV) at a Target Corp. store on Black Friday in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2017. (credit: Laura Buckman/Bloomberg via Getty Images) In what is likely a first in the industry, Vizio is on the verge of agreeing to display a […]

Creepy, cute and elusive: In search of Madagascar’s strangest creature

Mark Stratton September 6, 2018 Share this article It’s been a 10-year quest for travel writer Mark Stratton to see an aye-aye, one of Madagascar’s rarest lemurs, in the wild. Would this road trip end with a sighting? Five years ago, I slipped a security guard €5 and snuck into Antananarivo zoo at night. I […]

Google Maps Street View: Very creepy figures spotted lurking in spooky cemetery

Google Maps Street View has captured a very spooky image set in a graveyard in the US. The shot is, at first glance, of a picturesque green, wooded area with late afternoon sunlight streaming through the trees. It was taken at Martha Chapel Cemetery in Texas, USA, which in itself sets a foreboding tone to […]

Creepy realistic humanoid robot footage sends shivers through Twitter

A video has emerged on Twitter showing a faceless, but worryingly realistic humanoid robot walk in what looks like a perfectly mundane courtyard. The trip down the uncanny valley caused some users to proclaim impending apocalypse. The clip shows the stoop-backed robot whirr its way past the cameraman, with ominous music playing in the background. […]

Google Maps Street View: VERY creepy figures spotted in a window – who are they?

Google Maps Street View has snapped an unnerving sight on a deserted Chicago street. The street itself seems perfectly normal. Houses stand spaced apart and cars are parked on the street, just like any other American road. However, one house in particular stands out from the rest due to the chilling sight in one of […]

Man’s creepy “upskirting” plan foiled when his shoe camera explodes

Enlarge (credit: Petar Milošević) A Wisconsin man’s plan to use a shoe camera to take photographs up women’s skirts was foiled this week when the battery exploded, injuring the man and causing him to rethink his pervy plan. “When the explosion happened, he got treatment for minor burns, then disclosed what happened to his mentor, […]