There’s a lot of madcap stuff going down in the climactic party scene of John Hughes ’ classic sci-fi comedy Weird Science, ...

Back when he was still a relative unknown, Robert Downey Jr. appeared in perhaps John Hughes' strangest (and most ...

While Hall was established as the '80s nerd extraordinaire thanks to his roles in the Hughes classics Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, Mitchell-Smith wasn't as well-known, and the comic ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In Weird Science, two nerdy teens named Gary (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt (Ilan Michael-Smith) ...

Part of growing up in the ‘80s meant watching John Hughes’ movies like Weird Science. The classic film starred Kelly LeBrock as Lisa, Anthony Michael Hall as Gary, and Ilan Mitchell-Smith as Wyatt. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...