1998
Issue 49
January 1998
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Scott Reynolds' The Ugly<BR>
X-Files Season 5 preview
Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires<BR>
It's Alive!
Issue 50
February 1998
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70-page full-colour issue with fold-out celebration poster! Christopher Lee recalls his legendary career: 6-page interview feature. Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Tobe Hooper's seminal shocker exhumed. Carry On Screaming - Britain's neglected horror comedy celebrated. Talos The Mummy - on-set report from Alan Jones, himself a Pharoah in Russ Mulcahy's film. Hellraiser 4 - a troubled path from script to screen uncovered. Plus new reviews section and the Shivers story so far, with star guest messages.
Issue 51
March 1998
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - behind-the-scenes with Todd McIntosh plus poster, Barbara Steele, Hellraiser IV from script to screen
Issue 52
April 1998
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Scream 2 - Scriptwriter Kevin Williamson on making a second genre homage with Wes Craven. Plus exclusive poster. Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Grooming the undead with make-up artist Todd McIntosh: Part 2, with Todd's own pictures. Ken Russell - What is Horror? The British scare supremo talks exclusively to Ingrid Pitt. Christopher Lee - Ol' red eyes on Karloff, singing and turning down Airplane. The Nanny - Hammer's classic 1960s nursery shocker starring Bette Davis. Plus Tod Browning's The Ugly, The X-Files, The Devil-Doll.
Issue 53
May 1998
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Summer of Horror preview: Genesis, Species II, Deep Rising, Sisters, The X-Files: Fight the Future + X-Files poster, Ken Russell
Issue 54
June 1998
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Peter Atkins' Wishmaster & its special effects, The Crazies, Outer Limits, Dario Argento's Phamtom of the Opera, Hammer goes Online, Motel Hell
Issue 55
July 1998
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John Carpenter - interviewed by Dennis Etchison part 1, plus Vampires. Behind the scenes on Mimic. Godzilla - pull-out poster & effects wizard interviewed. X-Files conspiracy arc examined. Previews of Perdita Durango and Razor Blade Smile.
Issue 56
August 1998
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Horror's hottest heroine, profiled. Plus a Buffy and Angel poster. John Carpenter - interview part 2. The Devils - Depravity, demons and mad nuns in Ken Russell's 1970's shocker. Hammer's 40th Anniversary reunion reported. Killer B's in London. The X-Files: Season Five's thrilling conclusion unravelled.
Issue 57
September 1998
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Phantoms - Director Joe Chappelle; Species 2 - Producer Frank Mancuso, director Peter Medak and pull-out poster of Eve. Doug Bradley on Pinhead and other Horror roles. Joseph Ross - make-up secrets from An American Werewolf in London to Event Horizon. Buffy the Vampire Slayer's first TV episode and Cronenberg's Rabid re-assessed. Plus Cube, Kim Newman on Godzilla and 11 pages of reviews (64-page issue).
Issue 58
October 1998
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Angel - examining Buffy's charismatic vampire, with pull-out poster. William Friedkin on The Exorcist, 25 years on. Stephen King on Bag of Bones, film adaptations and his latest TV projects. Disturbing Behaviour - X-Files director David Nutter on his debut feature. Cube reviewed and director Vincento Atali interviewed. Kim Newman on Val Lewton. Ingrid Pitt on the X-Files movie.
Issue 59
November 1998
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Halloween: H20 - Chris Durand, aka masked killer Michael Myers, on working with Jamie Lee Curtis to revive a Horror icon. Plus: behind-the-scenes of John Carpenter's original Halloween (1978), Kim Newman's disturbed screening and a pull-out poster. Ultraviolet - writer/director Joe Ahearne on his modern-day TV vampires. Director Michael Haneke on his disturbing Funny Games. How Quentin Tarantino revived Fulci's The Beyond. Alicia Witt on Urban Legend.
Issue 60
December 1998
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Blade - writer David Goyer on the making of the latest vampire-hunting phenomenon, plus his Quatermass script. Buffy's David Boreanaz looks forward to an Angel spin-off series. The Exorcist - We go back 25 years to chronicle the genesis of thie classic. Alan Jones reports on the projects unveiled at Sitges 98. Plus: Thorley Walters - Hammer's comic gentleman, advance sketches for Phantasm Oblivion, and 60 favourite moments from Horror history for our 60th issue.