And I wondered why videogames don’t have their versions of Annihilation. Don’t get me wrong: We have weird science fiction ...

Weird Science (1985) is a science-fiction movie that revolves around two unpopular students who are constantly mocked by their seniors for crushing over their girlfriends. Furious about the situation, ...

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Hughes adapted the screenplay for Weird Science from the EC Comics anthology series of the same name. Most issues of the comic featured four self-contained stories, giving readers a variety of options ...

The 1986 film, which saw two teenage boys use the magic of computer science to bring their dream girl to life, celebrated its 40th anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 2 — four decades after first being ...

There are a lot of riffs on Frankenstein, but none more extra than the 1985 cult classic, Weird Science. A wish-fulfillment film filled to the brim with hormones, Weird Science might, at first glance, ...

Oh, 1985, what a year, such weirdness! 2025 is the Weird Science 40th anniversary. Let’s revisit the movie – with techie dreams, awkward teenage fantasies, and, uhh, creating the “perfect woman” (on a ...

Anthony Michael Hall has raised generations of kids and teens with movies like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science. As just a kid himself when he was cast in those iconic John ...

The iconic John Hughes film stared Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder, Judie Aronson and Robert Downey Jr. The 1986 film, which saw two teenage boys ...