If you’re heading to a Halloween party this weekend, odds are you’re going to hear “Thriller” and “Monster Mash.” And why not? Those songs have become bonafide seasonal classics, catchy anthems for ...

Think of the incarnations of Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and The Terminator, or the alien robot, Gort, from the 1951 Cold War fear -jerker, The Day the Earth Stood Still.

How Cats Evokes the Uncanny Valley If you were asked to estimate the proportion of cat to human in the cats in Cats, it would be difficult. This is crucial to understanding why they seem so creepy ...

And, this can help explain why we find certain Halloween characters, like clowns and zombies, so downright creepy! Clowns, for example, are nearly human-like, but because of their face paint, and ...

Trending on NextShark: Man secretly learns Korean for a year, surprises bride with Korean speech at wedding Viral take on the uncanny valley: Content creator Zara (@alkiiwii) further catapulted the ...

But once a mask hits uncanny valley-levels of human-like realism and it's worn by a living person, the shivers kick in. Hyperflesh's $500 crying-baby mask is one of very few examples of a product ...

David is like a son to his creator, in a way that no C-3PO could ever be. David is creepy in a way that C-3PO could never be also. Maybe because he looks just like us, we expect David to have a soul.

Anyone driving in East Bideford, P.E.I., might find themselves fearing for their car. A giant sea monster can be seen chowing down on the Hardy family's "oyster-mobile' built for this year's Tyne ...

As for the word creepy is concerned, this is another uncanny word sounding mysterious. Hence my “@Uncanny Thoughts” [5] remain as it is, mysterious and strange as ever.