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Some of the marketing for this film seemed to position T. Ryder Smith, playing the mysterious video game host "Trickster," as a wannabe successor to Robert Englund's Freddy Krueger. Brainscan, written by Andrew Kevin Walker, is a bit of a relic from the dying days of virtual reality-mania, in which a teen looking for the ultimate video game experience finds a game that causes him to black-out and apparently murder real people while he thinks he's playing. Have you ever lost hours of your life to a video game?

This Japanese poster for AVP2: Requiem uses a bold silhouette of the "Predator-ized" xenomorph to great effect, creating a very cool poster for a movie that most people found disappointing. Audiences didn't exactly flock to see the Predators fight the Aliens in a present-day, rural Colorado town. Fox has since decided to "reboot" both franchises, separate from one another.

I love this poster for the American release of 1961's Mothra. In the first appearance of Toho's second most-recognizable monster after Godzilla, the exploitation of an uncharted island's people by greedy Japanese opportunists leads to the wrath of the island's sole protector -- a giant, irradiated moth. Mothra went on to appear in ten more Toho films, often as Godzilla's co-star. They're the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan of destroying Tokyo.

In the ground-breaking 1927 silent film by Fritz Lang, a female android leads the working class, forced to live underground, into a rebellion against the rarified upper class who live on the surface. The idea that the modern city rests on the backs of the working man is made evident In this vintage German poster.

With the March 19th release date for Repo Men fast approaching, Universal has seen fit to kick the marketing up a notch for their Jude Law and Forest Whitaker-starring genre hybrid about a future in which life-saving organ transplants can be repossessed if a customer gets behind on their payments. Their campaign includes a run of posters advertising the fictional organ donation conglomerate, ominously titled The Union, and today the Moviefone network (of which Sci-Fi Squad is a part) has been given four of their artificial organ advertisements to unveil.

And, honestly, I do dig the mood they're going for here (I'm also a big fan of posters that don't actually have the film's title on it). It's clear from the trailer that Miguel Sapochnik's film had a twisted sense of humor, but these new posters, combined with the real website for the fake Union corporation, are sure driving that tongue deeper into the cheek. Check out the "Go ahead. Have the Cheeseburger." variant in full below and head over to Inside Movies, Cinematical and Horror Squad for the other three.

Oh, and if you're looking to make some cash, keep your eye out for an upcoming team up between Universal, Repo Men, and Wired that will give four lucky nomads a chance at $10,000 grand if they can stay hidden off the grid for about a month.

I'm not one to get really hyped up for films before their release, preferring to keep a level-head lest I build up my expectations to the point where I am let down more often than I am satisfied. With that said, when it comes to these leaked Green Lantern design pics, there's only one thing I can say: OOOMMMMGGGGOMG!!!1111!!!!!!!!!111OMGGGGGG!

Ahem.

Yes, I will be a total drooling idiot by the time Summer 2011 gets here, in anticipation of Martin Campbell's live-action adaptation of one of the coolest superheroes ever created, DC's Green Lantern. What we have in these leaked alien character designs are the potential movie versions of Abin Sur, the dying ring-bearer who bestows his power ring to Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds in the film), as well as Green Lantern Corps members Tomar Re and, below the jump, trainer Kilowog.

I've never been much of an art critic, or much of an art anything for that matter, but I know what I like. And Ronald Kurniawan's demented work pulled me away from watching Ricky Gervais chatting with Larry David, so that means it's got to be good.

According to Kurniawan's somewhat baffling bio on Escape Into Life, the man is a Los Angeles-based artist inspired by "ideograms, syllables, letterforms, beasts and heroic landscapes." Translation: He paints some amazingly surreal stuff that's more or less informed by 1950s sci-fi movie posters, fantasy novel covers and an obvious love for nightmarish scenes. Check out a few of our favorite paintings in the gallery below.

Yes, there's an entire web site lovingly dedicated to the man, Number One himself, Commander William Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation. And why not? If you ask me, the Enterprise D's seductively stocky first officer is just as iconic as Spock, Kirk or Picard. His beard alone deserves its own web site, or at least a Facebook fan page. And what about that unforgettable walk? Have you ever seen a man pace so confidently with his head unnaturally tilted to one side? While wearing a unitard? I don't think so.

These are things that deserve recognition, and the folks at, er, this place, are happy to dole it out.

The Riker site mostly consists of screenshots of Jonathan Frakes pizzazing his way through every single TNG episode ever made, but some spirited -- and damn funny -- fan art has recently popped up on the home page. Check out a few of our faves from the gallery below.

What else is there to do when you're shooting for hours upon hours in a hot desert environment while dressed in a smokin' futuristic bikini? Why, how about sunbathing! That's exactly what Carrie Fisher did alongside her stunt double in this behind-the-scenes shot while filming Return of the Jedi. Can you tell who is who?

I'd love to know where these ladies are, exactly, because we can see Jabba's ship off in the distance, and across from that looks to be she ship that Luke, Han and Chewbacca are on before the big battle begins. So are they up on some giant crane or something? Wherever they are, I bet the dude who quietly snapped this photo was very proud of himself (or herself, I suppose). Check out a larger version below ...



[via BoingBoing]