Contents

Only the most debauched of the devout stand between a Norse demon-god and the apocalypse in J.T. Petty’s Hellbenders. Do you know where that rosary’s been? PLUS: Sergio Stivaletti explains why his ambitious effects for Demons and its sequel were a game changer in Italian cinema, and more!



by April Snellings, Dejan Ognjanovic and Moaner T. Lawrence



HOW TO DISPOSE OF THE DEAD



Rue Morgue’s resident coroner, Last Chance Lance, takes a look at different funeral customs from around the world. PLUS: Reviews of Paul Koudounaris’ Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints From the Catacombs and the death-themed issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.



Last Chance Lance and Dave Alexander



TIFF 2013



Midnight Madness, the genre junkie portion of the Toronto International Film Festival, turned 25 this year, we give you a sneak peek at both the horror titles that premiered there, and the other global terrors unleashed.



by Dave Alexander, Stuart F. Andrews, Phil Brown, Monica S. Kuebler, Liisa Ladouceur, Sean Plummer and Tal Zimerman



THE GHOULS OF ’68



Rob Kuhn’s Birth of the Living Dead documentary traces the explosion of zombie culture back to its Romero roots.



by Tal Zimerman



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NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND



Leave those kids alone.



DREADLINES



Grand Guignol theatre makes a comeback in Paris; Kill your friends in new dungeon monster game; Original Svengoolie, Jerry. G. Bishop, dead at 77.



THE CORONER’S REPORT



Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Monsters of the Cloth.



NEEDFUL THINGS



Garden Nightmares, Custom White Bronze Skull Ring, Tentacle Doorstop, Pacific Rim Action Figures.



CINEMACABRE



CineMacabre features reviews of Curse of Chucky, Argento’s Dracula 3D, Devil’s Pass, Hidden in the Woods, Butcher Boys, No One Lives, Alyce Kills, The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Fourth Season, The Legend of the Psychotic Forest Ranger, Fear the Forest, and Last Kind Words. Reissues reviews Day of the Dead (1985), Snuff (1976), Prince of Darkness (1987), Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie (1996), In the Mouth of Madness (1994) and The Amityville Horror Trilogy.



THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE



In The Vault: The Blancheville Monster.



BOWEN’S BASEMENT



Dug Up: Slithis.



BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS



Features Rex: Zombie Killer, plus reviews of Baltimore – The Infernal Train #1 of 3, The Mocking Dead #1, The Halloween Legion HC, Love Stories (To Die For) #1, and Classics Illustrated Deluxe #10.



THE NINTH CIRCLE



Spotlight: Devil’s Advocates film book series. Library of the Damned cracks open Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep. Plus, reviews of Nicholas Kaufmann’s Dying is My Business, Alison Littlewood’s A Cold Season, Encounters with Flying Humanoids: Mothman, Manbirds, Gargoyles & Other Winged Beasts, Mick Ridgewell’s Evil Never Dies, Tales of Jack the Ripper, Barbie Wilde’s The Venus Complex, Bewitched Again: Supernaturally Powerful Women on Television 1996-2011, and The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two.



THE FRIGHT GALLERY



On Display: Dirty Donny’s Metallica pinball machines.



THE GORE-MET



Menu: Slew Hampshire.



AUDIO DROME



Featuring the music videos of Phil Mucci. Listen to My Nightmare spins Michale Graves’ The Lost Skeleton Returns. Plus reviews of Re-Animator OST, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow OST, Harley Poe, Unmothered, Salem Rages, The Nearly Deads, Ghoul, Coffins, and Carcass.



PLAY DEAD



Features reviews of Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, Rain, Ravaged Zombie Apocalypse, and Catastrophic Zombies!



CLASSIC CUT



The Alan Parsons Project’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe.

Contents

Nearly two years after its world premiere lit up the midnight audience at the Toronto International Film Festival, You’re Next brings its home invasion horror to theatres.

PLUS: We untangle the intersecting resumes of the You’re Next gang, and V/H/S/2 reviewed.



by Dave Alexander, Trevor Tuminski, Scott Feinblatt and Sam Costello



WORLDWIDE MONSTER WAR



Guillermo del Toro pits mechs against kaiju creatures in Pacific Rim, his biggest film yet.

PLUS: A look at Irish sea-monster comedy Grabbers, in which the only way to avoid being tasted, is to get wasted.



by Michael Doyle and Phil Brown



WAR MACHINES



After his stalled Nazi zombies project Worst Case Scenario, Richard Raaphorst returns with new WWII horrors in Frankenstein’s Army.

PLUS: The Frankenstein Theory reviewed.



by Peter Gutierrez and Dave Alexander



CONSPIRACY RESURRECTION



In time for the 20th anniversary of the TV series’ premiere, The X-Files gets a tenth season – in comic books.



by Monica S. Kuebler



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NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND



Storming the Castle.



DREADLINES



Harryhausen art show coming to Los Angeles; FX Artist Tom Woodruff, Jr. to helm first feature; J.T. Petty scripts upcoming survival horror game.



THE CORONER’S REPORT



Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Bio-Mechanical Monsters.



NEEDFUL THINGS



Zombie Wine Bottle Holder; Silence of the Lambs Wines; Elvira Coffin Purse; VHS Horror Pillows.



CINEMACABRE



CineMacabre features Tourist Trap, World War Z, The Conjuring, Dead Souls, Night of the Living Ed, Axe Giant: the Wrath of Paul Bunyan, and more! Reissues reviews Castle Freak (1995), Soft for Digging (2001) and Hands of the Ripper (1971).



THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE



In The Vault: And Then There Were None.



BOWEN’S BASEMENT



Dug Up: The Alligator People.



BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS



Features The Man Who Laughs, plus reviews of The Extinction Parade #1, Baltimore: The Inquisitor, Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem #1 of 3, Six-Gun Gorilla #1 of 6, and the Wake #1.



THE NINTH CIRCLE



Spotlight: Alexander Gordon Smith’s The Fury. Library of the Damned gets haunted. Plus, reviews of Fervid Filmmaking: 66 Cult Pictures of Vision, Verve and No Self-Restraint, Hauntings, Peter Cushing: A Life in Film, Seth Patrick’s Reviver, and more!



THE FRIGHT GALLERY



On Display: Jason Edmiston, Part II.



THE GORE-MET



Menu: Michael MagGot.



AUDIO DROME



Featuring Marco Beltrami’s World War Z score. Listen to My Nightmare turns the spotlight on Midnight Syndicate. Plus reviews of Dark Skies OST, Last Exorcism 2 OST, Goatcraft, Keep Our Heads compilation, Black Sabbath, Pest, Necronomicon, and Gulaggh.



PLAY DEAD



Features reviews of The Last of Us and State of Decay.



CLASSIC CUT



Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells.”

Contents THE WOODS ARE ALIVE

Thoughts of an Evil Dead remake threatening to swallow your soul? Director Fede Alvarez explains that having Sam Raimi in your corner is just one reason to welcome back the deadites.

PLUS: Straight from the set, the cast and crew take us behind the scenes, and more!

by Monica S. Kuebler and Sean Plummer


LONG LIVE 80S HORROR

Scream Factory is reviving one of the best decades for genre films, one pre-CGI gem at a time.
PLUS: Steve Railsback talks Lifeforce, Renny Harlin on Prison, and more!

by April Snellings, Sean Plummer, Stuart F. Andrews, Tal Zimerman, Dave Alexander, Andrea Subissati, James Burrell and Scott Neumyer


DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN

‘Tis the month to celebrate Walpurgisnacht, Germany’s diabolical cousin of Halloween.

by Moaner T. Lawrence


RETURN OF THE BIG BOX BEAST

Charles Band makes VHS horror freaks go mental by resurrecting Wizard Video.

By Tal Zimerman



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Do you suffer from fangina?


DREADLINES

Phil Anselmo and Author Corey Mitchell Launch Housecore Horror Film Festival; Toy Story 3 Director Uncovers Lost Ending to The Shining; Black Museum Lecture Series Launches 2013 Program.


THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Tree Mistreatment.


NEEDFUL THINGS

Zombie Bobblehead; Wall Torch; Hammer Dracula Bust; Zombie Flamingo.


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of Stoker, Dark Skies, Warm Bodies, Sleep Tight, Citadel, Axed and more! Reissues reviews Toxic Avenger: The Japanese Cut (1984), Chiller (1995), and Mark of the Devil (1970).


THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

In The Vault: The Name of the Game is Kill.


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Dug Up: Attack of the Beast Creatures (1985).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features London Horror Comic, plus reviews of Hellraiser: The Dark Watch #1, Morbius: The Living Vampire #1, Baltimore: The Widow and the Tank, Snapshot #1 of 4, The Curse of Dracula.


THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Laird Barron’s new short fiction collection The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. Library of the Damned takes bad book covers to task. Plus, reviews of Andrew Pyper's The Demonologist, Fear the Abyss, Australian Horror Films 1973-2010, Richard Gavin's At Fear’s Altar, Allan Grave's The Zombook and Jeremy Saffer and Ash Costello's Till Death: A Guide to Love and Loss.


THE FRIGHT GALLERY

M.Fersner’s Diabolical Art Deco.


THE GORE-MET

Menu: Come and Get Me.


AUDIO DROME

Featuring Ghost Ballads by Lonsome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks. Listen to My Nightmare provides A Brief History of Horror Music Makeup. Plus reviews of Mama OST, The Relic OST, The Last Man on Earth OST, John Dies at the End OST, Combichrist, Tombstone Highway, Devourment, Wormed, and more.


PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of Aliens: Colonial Marines and Universal Monsters Online.


CLASSIC CUT

The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror

Contents

MIDIAN CALLING

Two decades ago Clive Barker's Nightbreed was taken out of his hands and butchered by the studio. Now, thanks to a dedicated fanbase, the visionary Cabal Cut takes form.
PLUS: Interviews with actors Simon Bamford, Hugh Ross, Anne Bobby and Nicholas Vince.

by Ron McKenzie

 

RESTLESS SPIRITS

Genre legend Lance Henriksen taps Native American folklore for his first comic series, To Hell You Ride.
PLUS: Dark Horse editor-in-chief Scott Allie on building the company's horror line, and more!

by Monica S. Kuebler and Pedro Cabezuelo

 

HO-HO-HOMICIDE

Two of the men behind Silent Night, Deadly Night gift us with their fond - and not-so fond - memories of the scandalous 1984 slasher flick.
PLUS: Director Steven C. Miller on the remake.

by Aaron Von Lupton and Scott Neumyer

 

FROM ANVIL TO ALFRED

Hitchcock director Sacha Gervasi explains how making a rock doc got him behind the camera on a star studded biopic about the Master of Suspense.

by Stuart F. Andrews

 

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

"What is this place?"

 

DREADLINES

30 Days of Night creators Niles and Templesmith reunite; Gregory Lamberson spearheads new eBook format with upcoming novel; "Sleepy Hollow" to get biker makeover in Chopper Movie.

 

THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Barker's Beasts and Bad Guys

 

NEEDFUL THINGS

Day of the Dead Corkscrew, Nevermore Body Company Three Witches Line, Frankie And His Bride Salt and Pepper Shakers, and Ouija Shoes.

 

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Julian Richard's Darklands, plus reviews of Frankenweenie, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, The Hole, Airborne, FDR: American Badass, Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, Bloody Tease, Blood Oath and Tied In Blood. Reissues reviews They Live (1988), The Night of the Devils (1972), The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features, House of Dark Shadows (1970) and Night of Dark Shadows (1971).

 

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

In The Vault: Gifts that Keep on Killing.

 

BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Dug Up: Hard Rock Zombies.

 

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Haunted Horror, plus reviews of Ghost #1, The Pound: Ghouls Night Out #1, Sleepy Hollow #1, Rachel Rising #11 and Billy The Kid's Old Timey Oddities and the Orm of Loch Ness #1.

 

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Musique Fantastique: 100 Years of Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror Film Music. Library of the Damned finds a new Christmas horror classic in Brom's Krampus: The Yule Lord. Plus, reviews of The Forrest J Ackerman Oeuvre, Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology, The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: Volume 2, The Book of Cthulhu II, Hunter Shea's Swamp Monster Massacre, Mark Morris' Vampire Circus, Nicholas Vince's What Monsters Do and R.L. Stine's Red Rain.

 

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

On Display: Marc Hagan-Guirey's Horrorgami.

 

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Frank 'N' Flesh.

 

AUDIO DROME

Featuring the strange sounds of Corpusse. The Devil's Playlist explores the Darker Side of Christmas. Plus, reviews of Silent Hill: Revelation OST, Truth or Dare OST, Dead Souls OST, Alain Leonard and Alex Wank, Cradle of Filth, Swamp Thing, Theologian, Malignancy, and Satan's Wrath.

 

PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of Resident Evil 6 and You Are The Maniac!

 

CLASSIC CUT

The Other (1972).

Contents

THE ESSENCE OF EVIL

On the 25th anniversary of Prince of Darkness, we ask John Carpenter to explain his fascinating yet misunderstood excursion into the heart of pure malevolence.
PLUS: Alice Cooper talks about playing the film's lethal, bike-wielding street schizo; composer Alan Howarth on how he and Carpenter created their groundbreaking score, and more.

by Michael Doyle, Dave Alexander, A.S. Berman and Patrick Dolan

 

PARASITE FEVER

The 2012 Toronto International Film Festival unveiled all kinds of horror gems, including The Bay, a sickening found-foorage parasite movie from veteran Hollywood director Barry Levinson.
PLUS: A round-up of the Fest's genre films.

by Phil, Brown, Dave Alexander, Stuart F Andrews, Liisa Ladouceur, Ron Mckenzie, Sean Plummer and April Snellings

 

THE DUALITY OF DARKNESS

Silent Hill: Revelation 3D writer/director Michael J. Bassett reflects on a series that dirtorts its characters' worst fears into a nightmarish vision of Hell.

by Dave Alexander

 

WEST OF HELL

A new album and novel from country doom duo Those Poor Bastards revels in ole timey grime and gore.

by April Snellings

 

 

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Apocalypse angst.

 

DREADLINES

Best Worst Movie director returns with home haunter doc; The Gate's Louis Tripp reinvents himself as a musician, writer; Dark Regions press launches psychological horror imprint.

 

THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Sentient Slime.

 

NEEDFUL THINGS

Six Million Dollar Man Bigfoot Retro Figure, Death Wish Coffee, Zombie Foot Dog Chew, and Zombie Apocalypse Hot Sauce.

 

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Richard Bates Jr.'s Excision, plus reviews of Sinister, House at the End of the Street, The Barrens, Haven: The Complete Second Season, The Moth Diaries, The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, Lost Woods, Kids Go To The Woods...Kids Get Dead and Mourning Wood. Reissues reviews Terror Train (1980), Fallen (1998), Mother's Day (1980) and Sleepwalkers (1992).

 

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

In The Vault: The Poverty Row Cinema of Sam Newfield.

 

BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Dug Up: The Giant Gila Monster.

 

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Love Monster, plus reviews of B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth - The Return of the Master #1 of 5, Night Stalker #1, Homecoming #1, Lobster Johnson: Caput Mortuum and Judge Dredd: Cry of the Werewolf.

 

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: The web-based freaky, fictional folklore of creepypasta. Plus, reviews of Real Wolfmen: True Encounters in Modern America, Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its Internationcal Reception, 1800-2000, Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of the Devils, David Wong's This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It, A.J. Colucci's The Colony, Love You To Death: The Unofficial Guide to The Vampire Diaries Season 3, Guy Adams' Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr. Moreau, and Glen Hirshberg's Motherless Child.

 

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

The Cult of Chris Kuchta

 

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Porkchop II: Rise of the Rind and Zombie Babies.

 

AUDIO DROME

Featuring the dark electronica of Pittersplatter. The Devil's Playlist grills The Mission Creeps about their latest disc, Halloween. Plus reviews of Eraserhead OST, Frankenweenie OST, Friday the 13th OST, Troglodyte, The Evil Streaks, Seremonia, The Jimmy Psycho Experiment and Mastamind.

 

PLAY DEAD

Reviews of Darksiders II, The Sims 3: Supernatural, The Walking Dead and Murder of Crows.

 

CLASSIC CUT

The Stone Tape (1972).

Contents

UNIVERSAL THE STUDIO THAT MONSTERS BUILT!

Genre historian David J. Skal helps us celebrate 100 years of Universal Studios and the classic creatures it spawned.
Plus! Carla Laemmle takes us back to when she lived on the Universal lot, the children of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi reflect on their fathers' legacies, Creature From the Black Lagoon star Julie Adams and writer Tom Weaver on Universal's last great monster franchise, the lore of Germany's Castle Frankenstein, the five greatest sequels, and more!

by James Burrell, Paul Corupe, Moaner T.Lawrence, Sean Plummer and April Snellings

 

CINEMA APOCALYPTICA

If the Mayans are right, 2012 is the year we're all gonna die - the only question is, how? For years, filmmakers have speculated on all the ways our species could end, and we decided to catalogue 'em for your Armageddon convenience.

by Staff

 

'TIS THE SEASON TO BE WARY

Upon release, fans of the franchise hated it for its lack of Michael Myers, 30 years later Halloween III stands on its own.
Plus! We weigh the treats versus the tricks of the new Blu-ray reissues of Halloween II through 5.

by Michael Doyle and Aaron Von Lupton

 

ALL KINDS OF MONSTERS

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett gives genre fans a peek at his collection of rare horror memorabilia with a new book called Too Much Horror Business.

by Trevor Tuminski

 

FESTIVAL OF FEAR 2012

Rue Morgue's 9th annual horror convention in pictures.

by Ashlea Wessel and Dave Alexander

 

THIS HOUSE IS HAUNTED

Just in time for Halloween, we recount the history of Disney's world famous Haunted Mansion.

by Mike Beardsall

 

HAUNTED REALITY

When it comes to scaring the hell out of an audience, the makers of Paranormal Activity 4 know that the secret lies in the normal.

by Dave Alexander

 

 

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NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

My Frankenstein.

 

DREADLINES

Eli Roth's Goretorium open in Las Vegas; Urban zombie game inspired by Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later; Racially charged story ignites controversy at Weird Tales.

 

THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Apocalyptic Atrocities.

 

NEEDFUL THINGS

Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection Blu-ray; Bela Lugosi Dracula Model Kit; Ring of Dracula Prop Replica; and Mummy Minimates Box Set.

 

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Jennifer Lynch's Chained, and animated monster movies ParaNorman and Hotel Transylvania. Plus reviews of Solomon Kane, The Possession, Father's Day, Grimm: Season One, Bait, Screaming in High Heels, Crepuscule, PWCA, Her Heart Still Beats, The Revenant, Starship Troopers: Invasion, Deadtime, Dreams of the Dead, Where the Dead Go To Die, and My Sucky Teen Romance. Reissues features the five best episodes of the British TV series Hammer House of Horror, plus reviews Rosemary's Baby (1968), Re-Animator (1985), Death Watch (1980), Twins of Evil (1971) and Tales That Witness Madness (1973).

 

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

TCM Underground.

 

BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Funhouse (1981).

 

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Colder, plus reviews of The Creep #0 of 5, Godzilla: The Hald Century War #1 of 5, Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch, Dark Shadows/Vampirella #1, and Debris #1.

 

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: John Skipp's Psychos anthology. Library of the Damned rounds up five books for the bunker. Plus, reviews of Becoming Ray Bradbury, European Nightmares: Horror Cinema In Europe Since 1945, Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960, The Mammoth Book of Body Horror, Hugh Sterbakov's City Under the Moon, Corrine de Winter's Valentines for the Dead, David Annadale's Gethsemane Hall, Mariah de la Croix's Restless in Peace, and The Vampire Combat Manual.

 

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

Raiding the '80s with Slasher Design.

 

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Death Metal's Goriest Platters.

 

AUDIO DROME

Featuring a round-up of monster records. The Devil's Playlist compiles one last listening party for the end of the world. Plus, reviews of Brutal OST, I Married a Monster from Outer Space/The Atomic City OST, Lady In A Cage OST, When a Stranger Calls OST, Zonen, The Birthday Massacre, The Panic Beats, Jess and the Ancient Ones, Chrysalide, Dethklok, Dopethrone, Auroch, Nile, Dublin Death Patrol, and Autopsy's brand-new DVD.

 

PLAY DEAD

We play Dystopia Rising: A Zombie Larp, plus reviews of Skyrim: Dawnguard DLC and Eerie Estate Agent.

 

CLASSIC CUT

Rondo Hatton (1894-1946).

Contents GENERATION SICK

Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral sees disease, technology and celebrity worship mutate into a New Flesh nightmare for the 21st century.


PLUS: Hunger, sleep deprivation and pain - Antiviral star Caleb Landry Jones on playing disease bootlegger Syd March, and more.


by Dave Alexander, Trevor Tuminski and Ariel Esteban Cayer




ALL CREATURES GREAT AND TALL

To mark the 40th anniversary of the original Stan Winston Studio, the legendary character creator's son celebrates his legacy of mind-blowing creature craft.


by Jamison Ryan and Trevor Tuminski




FANTASIA 2012

Time for a sneak peek at the maddest horror movies on the horizon, courtesy of our annual pilgrimage to Montreal's legendary genre film festival.


by Dave Alexander, Mario Degiglio-Bellemare, Paul Corupe, Michele Galgana, Andy Mauro and Tal Zimerman




ANOTHER ONE FOR THE FIRE

Zombie Burger owner George Formaro celebrates one year of asking customers,"D'ya want brains with that?"


by Melissa Cocetta






NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

More human than human.


DREADLINES

Oliver Stone's son plays himself in his ghostly debut feature; New Ontario-based animation house reviving stop-motion monsters; Zombie-themed cruise sets sail in January.


THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Stan Winston's coolest creatures.


NEEDFUL THINGS

Skull Violin, Alien Chopstick, Bigfoot Air Freshener, and Prefectly Random Jewellery.


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of V/H/S, The Tall Man, The Victim, Some Guy Who Kills People, The River: The Complete First Season, ATM, Midnight Son, Scalene, Ratline, Black Rat, and Rat Scratch Fever. Reissues reviews Jaws (1975), Altered States (1980), Brainstorm (1983), and Tales That Witness Madness (1973).


THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

It Came from Outer Space (1953).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Prophecy (1979).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Pinocchio, Vampire Killer Volume 3: Of Wood and Blood, plus reviews of Revival #1, Eerie Comics #1, The Infernal Man-Thing #1 of 3, Hoax Hunters #1, and Hellblazer #292.


THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Dark Faith: Invocations. Library of the Damned looks for the Devil in the genre. Plus, reviews of The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema, Kier-La Janisse's House of Psychotic Women, Horror and the Horror Film, A Book of Horrors, Corey Redekop's Husk, Stefan Grabinski's On the Hill of Roses, Rob Deborde's Portlandtown: A Tale of the Oregon Wyldes, and The Ultimate Dead Baby Joke Book.


THE FRIGHT GALLERY

Raiding the '80s with Slasher Design.


THE GORE-MET

Menu: Death Metal's Goriest Platters.


AUDIO DROME

Featuring glam-rock ghouls The 69 Eyes. The Devil's Playlist calls out Scum of the Earth's Riggs. Plus, reviews of Rosemary's Baby OST, Prometheus OST, Johnny Flesh & The Redneck Zombies, Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space, Calabrese, Rob Zombie, Grave, and The Forsaken.


PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of The Secret World and Deadlight.


CLASSIC CUT

On the Beach (1959).

Contents THE LIFE, LOVES AND STRANGE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY


Filmmaker Tim Sullivan visited the author's home last year and sat down with him for a final interview. In this Rue Morgue exclusive, we get a very intimate look at the late literary legend.


PLUS: A roundup of some of Bradbury's best contributions to EC Comics in the 1950s, and the most impressive TV, movie and vintage audio adaptations of his work.


by Tim Sullivan, Paul Corupe, Jason Pichonsky and A.S. Berman



BLOOD IN THE WATER


A new in-depth documentary examines the lasting impact of the biggest horror movie ever made, Jaws.


PLUS: Producer Richard D. Zanuck takes us back to the beach.


by Aaron Von Lupton and James Burrell



THE FERAL CANVAS


Fuelled by metal and a love of '80s horror movies, Dan Mumford's art gives even the fiercest beasts a touch of grace.


by Moaner T. Lawrence



FAITH & PHANTOMS


The Awakening pits a diehard supernatural skeptic against a house with a horrible past.


by Phil Brown





NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Mind over mortality.


DREADLINES

Exorcist play updates original novel with modern evils; Slipknot launches Apocalypse-themed music fest; First and final Man-Thing comics to be released together this Halloween.


THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Villainous Volumes.


NEEDFUL THINGS

Lego Monster Fighter Sets, Zombie Bath Salts, Cthulhu Tiki Mug, and Frankenstein Tissues.


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of Prometheus, [REC]3 Genesis, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Devil's Carnival, Beyond the Black Rainbow, A Little Bit Zombie, George: A Zombie Intervention, The Zombie Farm, and Zombie Chronicles. Reissues reviews Chillers (1987), Gums (1976), Mystery Science Theatre 3000: Samson vs. The Vampire Women (1982), and Where Evil Lives (1989).


THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

The Mad Magician (1954).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Death Ship (1980).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Dorian Gray, plus reviews of Mars Attacks #1, Extermination #1, Pantha #1, Grim Leaper #2 of 4, and Severed (HC)


THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Chelsea Cain's Kill You Twice. Library of the Damned hunts down some New Zealand genre lit. Plus, reviews of Prometheus: The Art of the Film, Mysterious Minnesota: Digging Up the Ghostly Past at 13 Haunted Sites, John Hornor Jacobs' This Dark Earth, Stephen Graham Jones' Zombie Bake-Off, Caroline Munro: First Lady of Fantasy, Kim Newman's Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron and Laird Barron's This Light is the Darkness.


THE FRIGHT GALLERY

Godmachine.


THE GORE-MET

Menu: Dear God No! and The Turnpike Killer.


AUDIO DROME

Featuring the costumed theatrics of A Band of Orcs. The Devil's Playlist grills death rapper Necro. Plus, reviews of Predator OST, Piranha 3DD, The Pact OST, Vampires Everywhere!, Skinny Puppy, Nachtmystium, Denial of God, Zombiefication, and Satanic Bloodspraying.


PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of Lollipop Chainsaw and The Binding of Isaac: Wrath of the Lamb


CLASSIC CUT

The Literature of Terror (1980).

Contents The Demon's Plaything - Interview with Sidney J Furie, Ghosts of Horror Past - 25 Lost Films, Digging the Dirt with William Lustig, Touring Can Be Brutal - An Audience with Dethklok, Diablo III, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Other.

Contents Love Hurts - The Loved Ones, The Invasion Begins Again1 - Mars Attacks, Miniskirt Massacre - Lollipop Chainsaw, Teller of Strange Tales - George Clayton Johnson, Marduk, Garbage Pail Kids, Zaat.

Contents The Blood of Collinwood - Dark Shadows, Jonathan Frid and other cast remember the TV classic, Tim Burton on his remake, The First Wave of Israeli Horror Cinema, River Monsters - Legendary Freshwater Killers, Eduardo Sanchez's Lovely Molly, The Walking Dead Video Game, Strange Paradise, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Contents The Spirit of '82 - 30 Years of Poltergeist, Thrills, Chills & Double Bills - The Story of Crown International Pictures, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Industrial Metal Messiah Al Jourgensen, Viva La Rotten Revolucion - Juan of the Dead, The Devil's Carnival, Beowulf, Sarah Pinborough, The Boogens.

Contents FORLORN MANOR

The cast and crew of The Woman in Black tell us why Susan Hill's haunted house tale may just be "the perfect ghost story."

PLUS: The scoop on London's long-running stage production of The Woman in Black from its stars, a look back at the original novel, and more!


by Monica S. Kuebler, Cleaver Patterson, Sean Plummer and Dave Alexander



FANGS TO FLESH

Before Jean Rollin died in 2010, one of his biggest fans travelled to his Paris apartment to talk about a career forged in naked vampires and Gothic surrealism.

PLUS: The author of Fascination: The Jean Rollin Experience blog weighs in on Redemption's five new Jean Rollin Blu-ray reissues.

by Eric S. Eichelberger and Jeremy Richey



BUNKER MENTALITY

Nod in agreement, shake your fists in rage or send us a strongly worded letter - whatever you do, read what yanked our cranks this past year in horror.

by Phil Brown, with Dave Alexander



R.I.P. 2011: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Sperm monsters, gay werewolves, Nazi science, zombie orgies and shit jokes - Chillerama gives grindhouse the anthology treatment.

by Staff



THE 2012 HORROR CONVENTION AND FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Ready to scar that new calendar with a fresh batch of horror appointments?

by Staff



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Goodbye, Ghoulish One.



DREADLINES

Run for Your Lives adds new hurdle to obstacle courses: zombies; Night of the Living Dead alumnus seeks help to preserve iconic chapel; Rue Morgue expands into Italy.



THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Motel Monstrosities.



NEEDFUL THINGS

Create Your Own Zombie Action Figures; Lovecraftian Letters Fridge Poetry; Night of the Living Dead Karen Cooper Bobblehead; Killhouettes



CINEMACABRE


CineMacabre features Ti West's The Innkeepers, plus reviews of Hostel: Part III, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, Produce Your Own Damn Movie!, The Howling Reborn, Atrocious, The Child's Eye, The Perfect House, Face in the Crowd, Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned, The Gruesome Death of Tommy Pistol, and Demon Divas and the Lanes of Destruction. Reissues reviews Zombie (1979), Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy (1993-2001), Evil Dead 2: 25th Anniversary Edition (1987), Frankenhooker (1990), Maniac Cop (1988), and Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981).




CINEMARQUEE

Mysterious Island (1961).



BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II.



BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Monsters Among Us, Dark Shadows #1, The Pack #1 of 3, Fleshdigger #1, Hawken #1, and The Strain #1.



THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Inhabit Media's dark Inuit folk tales. Library of the Damned talks adapting novels to comics with P.C. Cast, author of the House of Night YA book series. Plus, reviews of Zombies Are Us: Essays on the Walking Dead, The Films of Oliver Reed, Jaws: Memories From Martha's Vineyard, Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan and Stephen Romano's Black Light, Supernatural Noir, Jeff Burk's Cripple Wolf, Daphne Du Maurier's The Doll: The Lost Short Stories, and John Thomas Grant's Final Thoughts: Eternal Beauty in Stone.




TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

Hell, Michigan.




THE GORE-MET

Menu: Grotesque and Macabre.



AUDIO DROME


Featuring the morbidly fun punk rock of Stellar Corpses. The Blood Spattered Guide reviews Rammstein's Made in Germany 1995-2011. Plus, reviews of The Thing (2011) OST, Mimic OST, Chillerama presents Zom-B-Movie OST, Hookers, Rufus Rex, Forbidden Dimension, Nine Covens, and Cradle of Filth.



PLAY DEAD

Features The Walking Dead vs. The Walking Dead, a cage match between the two new WD board games, plus reviews of Infamous 2: Festival of Blood, Pet Zombies, and Age of Zombies Anniversary.



CLASSIC CUT

Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife (1943).

Contents LEFT HAND OF DOOM

With his new autobiography, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi looks back on the eerie history and diabolical influence of heavy metal's founding fathers.

PLUS: Jack Osbourne on his new Ozzy doc, and more.


by Trevor Tuminski and Martin Popoff



SURVIVING AFRICA

Corruption, malaria, cannibalism - as The Dead director Howard J. Ford explains, it's all part of breaking new ground in the zombie subgenre.

PLUS: We chart the outbreak of global undead cinema.

by Sean Plummer and Peter Gutierrez



GEARS OF FEAR

Artisan Thomas Kuntz opens up about the clockwork horrors that make him tick.

by Justin Humphreys



DOWN 'N' DIRTY DRIVE-IN

Sperm monsters, gay werewolves, Nazi science, zombie orgies and shit jokes - Chillerama gives grindhouse the anthology treatment.

by April Snellings



UNTOWARD TOYS

To mark the Living Dead Dolls' thirteenth anniversary, Rue Morgue asks creators Damien Glonek and Ed Long about their line of loveable little hellspawn.

by Last Chance Lance



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Hypocrites and horror fans.



DREADLINES

Brandon Cronenberg follows in his father's footsteps with Antiviral; Weird Tales evolves once again with new ownership; GWAR guitarist found dead on tour bus.



THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Children of the Grave.



NEEDFUL THINGS

The Year of the Dead 2012 Swimsuit Calendar; Cthulhu Waterglobe; Zombie Fridge Magnets; and Vampire Fangs Bottle Opener.



MEMENTO MORGUE


Rue Morgue's Banquet of Blood, Misfits show, Father's Day Cinemacabre, and more!



CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, plus reviews of The Thing, Paranormal Activity 3, The Skin I Live In, The Sylvian Experiments, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, The Last Circus, Retreat, The Caller, Supernatural: The Anime Series, VLOG, Paranormal Entity, Paranormal Effect and Paranormal Parody. Abbreviated Terrors gives the final word on Up Under the Roof, Oysters & Pearls, and Mangrove Slasher 2. Reissues features Canada's first horror film, The Mask, plus reviews of Torso (1973), Subspecies 20th Anniversary Edition (1991), The Incredible Melting Man (1977) and The Bad Seed (1956).




CINEMARQUEE

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955).



BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Cry Baby Lane (2000).



BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Brian Ralph's Daybreak, plus reviews of 30 Days of Night #1, Key of Z #1 of 4, H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror #1 of 4, Legions of Monsters #1 of 4, and The Thing: The Northman Nightmare.



THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Turn-of-the-century French scribe Maurice Level. Library of the Damned shares a favourite zombie story. Plus, reviews of Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema; Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes; Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Night Eternal, Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead, Steven W. Booth and Harry Shannon's The Hungry; Michael Rowe's Enter, Night; Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson and Tim Waggoner's Ghost Trackers; and The Buffyverse Catalog.




TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR


Le Manoir de Paris - Paris, France.




THE GORE-MET

Menu: tenebrarum.



AUDIO DROME

Featuring drum and bass horror duo NC-17. The Blood Spattered Guide reviews Danzig's Legacy show. Plus, reviews of Fright Night OST, X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes/Tales of Terror: "Morella" OST, Gears of War 3 OST, Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks, Erebus Enthroned, The Brains, Misfits, Behemoth, and Untimely Demise.





PLAY DEAD

Features a preview of The Darkness II, plus reviews of Dark Souls and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record.



CLASSIC CUT

Black Sabbath's "Behind the Wall of Sleep" (UK - 1970).

Contents OVERTURE OF FEAR

The story behind 1925's The Phantom of the Opera is as ugly and elusive as the character himself. The man behind the film's latest incarnation delves into its legacy.

PLUS: Carla Laemmle, the last surviving cast member of the original Phantom, recalls the making of a masterpiece, and composer Gabriel Thibaudeau looks back on more than twenty years of performing his acclaimed live score.


by James Burrell and Trevor Tuminski



THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV TERROR

Rue Morgue tunes into an era when high-quality, original horror movies were a staple of prime-time television.

PLUS: Ten unlikely shows that have flirted with the dark side.

by Kier-la Janisse and Dan Murphy



DIRTY DOZEN

We link up with the director and star of The Human Centipede 2 to discuss raising the stakes on the disturbing pop culture phenomenon.

by Stuart F. Andrews



ARCHITECTURE OF THE DEAD

Empire of Death invites readers to visit the bone churches of the world and learn their secrets.

by Claire Horsnell



ABOMINABLE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

After four decades, Dr. Phibes returns in a new novel by his creator, William Goldstein.

by James Burrell



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Faces, phantoms and freak shows.



DREADLINES

Canadian horror producer John Dunning dead at 84; Scream queen Barbara Crampton returns; The Exorcist adapted for stage.



THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Rat Attacks.



NEEDFUL THINGS

Friday the 13th DVD Collection, Skeletal Aprons, Batmosphere Necklace, and Skeleton Espresso Cups.



MEMENTO MORGUE


Guillermo del Toro at CineMacabre, KillerCon 3, Encyclopedia Gothica book launch, and more!



CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features 2011 Toronto International Film Festival wrap-up, plus reviews of Red State, Contagion, Apollo 18, Super Hybrid, The Clinic, 51, Deadgirl. Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island, Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness, Sportkill, and Hidden. Reissues features makeup effects artist Mark Shostrom on Evil Dead II. Also, reviews of Halloween II (1981), Blue Sunshine (1978), The Pyx (1973), The Exterminator (1980), The Devil Within Her (1975), Dressed to Kill (1980) and The Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964).




CINEMARQUEE

Kuroneko (1932).



BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Orca (1977).



BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Severed, plus reviews of Battle for the Planet of the Living Dead #1, Kult #1 of 4, B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth Russia #1 of 5, John Saul's The Blackstone Chronicles, The Living Corpse: Exhumed #1



THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Weird fiction publisher Chomu Press. Library of the Damned has the True Blood blues. Plus, reviews of Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting, How to Draw Chiller Monsters, Werewolves, Vampires, and Zombies, Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga's The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor, Ronald Malfi's Floating Staircase, John Hornor Jacob's Southern Gods, Death Casket: Art of Unkle Pigors, The Ghost Handbook: An Essential Guide to Ghosts, Spirits, and Spectres, and Kenneth Hite's Cliffourd the Big Red God.




TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

Fiesta de las Natitas - La Paz, Bolivia.




THE GORE-MET


A hankering for Henenlotter.



AUDIO DROME

Featuring the return of Anthrax. The Blood Spattered Guide on Sopor Aeternus. Plus, reviews of Super 8 OST, Final Destination 5 OST, Koffin Kats/12 Step Rebels, The Phantom Creeps, Fantomas, Zombie Inc., Mr. Death, The House of Capricorn, and Blood Red Throne.





PLAY DEAD

Reviews Dead Island, The Binding of Isaac, Bloodrayne: Betrayal, Cthulhu Gloom: The Game of Unspeakable Incidents and Squamous Consequences, and Zombie Smarts: Clear Your Mind.



CLASSIC CUT

S.T. Joshi's The Weird Tale (1990).

Contents MAN IS AN INSECT

On the 25th anniversary of his defining film, David Cronenberg reflects on the horrors of The Fly.

PLUS: Creature effects designer Chris Walas, and actors Eric Stoltz and John Getz discuss The Fly through to its monstrous sequel; David Hedison and Brett Halsey of the original trilogy recount their respective transformations; and the authors of The Fly at Fifty trace the fascinating life of George Langelaan, the man behind the original story.


by Dave Alexander, James Burrell and Trevor Tuminski



POSTER MONDO

Rue Morgue scours the globe for the most eye-popping horror movie poster art you've probably never seen.

by Tal Zimerman



DIE MUTILATED!

The stars of Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky flashback twenty years to making the ultimate kung fu splatterfest.

PLUS: More crazy kung fu horror films.

by Aaron Von Lupton and Colin Geddes



MELANCHOLY THEATRE

William Basso uses a variety of media to set the stage for the antiquated ghouls and haunted ephemera of his twilight world.

by April Snellings



FESTIVAL OF FEAR 2011

Rue Morgue's 8th annual horror convention in pictures.

photos by Ashlea Wessel, Matthew Marigold, Dave Alexander and Kiva Reardon



UNFINISHED HORROR BUSINESS

Jerry Only evades the cops long enough to fill us in on the Misfits' first original album in nearly thirteen years.


by Tomb Dragomir and Trevor Tuminski



WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER

Rue Morgue discovers new life on the set of The Thing prequel.

by Trevor Tuminski



CARVING OUT A NICHE

The director of ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 and the director of the original My Bloody Valentine talk 30 years of slasher cinema.

by Sean Plummer



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND


Beyond Brundle.



DREADLINES

Rue Morgue founder in production on first feature; Toronto After Dark Film Festival marks its sixth year; Hammer screenwriter Jimmy Sangster dead at 83.



THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: The Fly's Flesh Transgressions.



NEEDFUL THINGS

The Fly Bobble-head, Dismember-Me Plush Zombie, Brain Soap in a Jar, and Ossuary Dice.



MEMENTO MORGUE

We remember Halloween.



CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Savage, and paranormal investigators on Paranormal Activity 3, plus reviews of Fright Night, Final Destination 5, Shark Night 3D, Texas Killing Fields, Bereavement, Strigoi: The Undead, Creature, The Coffin, Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, Frat House Massacre, Yellowbrickroad, Dead Cert, Mothman, Exit 33, Dinocroc vs. Supergator, Megashark versus Giant Octopus, Creep Creepersin's Frankenstein, Ding Dong Dead and Peeping Blog. Abbreviated Terrors presents Stealin' Home, Hike and Curiosity Kills. Reissues features Guillermo del Toro on Mimic: The Director's Cut, while John W. Bowen and The Gore-met taking on the Retro '80s box set from Camp Motion Pictures. Also featuring reviews of Things (1989), Damnation Alley (1977), MST3K vs. Gamera: Mystery Science Theater 3000, Vol. XXI (1991), The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer (1993), Final Exam (1981), Trailers From Hell! Volume Two and Elvira's Movie Macabre: The Satanic Rites of Dracula/The Werewolf of Washington and Night of the Living Dead/I Eat Your Skin.




CINEMARQUEE

Island of Lost Souls (1932).



BOWEN'S BASEMENT


The Baby (1973), The Unseen (1980) and Bad Boy Bubby (1993).



BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features The Strange Case of Luther Strode, plus reviews of Dark Axis: Rise of the Overmen #1, The Vault #1 of 3, The Heap #1 of 3, Walter Koenig's Things to Come #1 and Anne Rice's Servant of the Bones #1.



THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: John Landis' Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares. Library of the Damned grills Liisa Ladouceur on Encyclopedia Gothica. Plus, reviews of Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980, Back from the Dead: Remakes of the Romero Zombie Films as Markers of Their Times, Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night, In Laymon's Terms, Joseph Nassise's Eyes to See, Gris Grimly's Atrum Secretum: 13 Years of Hidden Truths, Tim Powers' The Bible Repairman and Other Stories and Kendare Blake: Anna Dressed in Blood.




TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

Fort Fright at Old Fort Henry - Kingston, Ontario.




THE GORE-MET

Chewing the fat with H.G. Lewis.



AUDIO DROME

Featuring Ghost, the world's most elusive metal band. The Blood Spattered Guide interviews Ghoul. Plus reviews of Dexter: Season 5 OST, Being Human Series 1 and 2 OST, The Shrine OST, Hammer Legacy: The Frankenstein Collection, Hammer Legacy: The Vampire Collection, Chelsea Wolfe, Midnight Syndicate, Tasseomancy, Vladimirs, The Marshmallow Ghosts, Evil Elvis, Abhor, Alice Cooper, and Morbus Chron.




PLAY DEAD

Reviews Call of Duty - Black Ops: Rezurrection, Ugly Americans Apocalypsegeddon, Trauma, Granny vs. Zombies and Ghostly Trivia/Undead Trivia.



CLASSIC CUT


Paul Leni's The Man Who Laughs (1928).

Contents WELCOME TO BLOOD BEACH

Dead Island drops the cartoon gore and humour of today's top zombie gaes for something much more realistic, grisly and terrifying.

PLUS: A look ahead at The Walking Dead game and other upcoming zombie titles.


by Monica S. Kuebler and Dave Alexander



STILL CREEPIN' WHILE YOU'RE SLEEPIN'

Alice Cooper and the original bad dream team reunite for a sequel to his most famous album, Welcome to My Nightmare.

PLUS: Producer Bob Ezrin on creating both the original record and Welcome 2 My Nightmare.

by Aaron Von Lupton and Trevor Tuminski



FANTASIA 2011

Celebrating fifteen years, the FanTasia Film Festival once again lured Rue Morgue to Montreal to digest equal amounts of boundary-pushing cinema, French beer and poutine.

by Stuart F. Andrews, Paul Corupe, Mario Degiglio-Bellemare, Michele Galgana, Andy Mauro and Trevor Tuminski



NIGHT TERRORS

Guided by producer Guillermo del Toro, Tory Nixey takes on a remake of the 1970s TV movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

by Phil Brown



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Earn your place.



DREADLINES

New website integrates social networking with the funeral industry; Inside directors unveil Argento-inspired vampire film; Horror prop maker reality show coming to Syfy.



THE CORONER'S REPORT


Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Vicious Villagers.



NEEDFUL THINGS

Rue Morgue Musicskins, Cthulhu Lollipops, 3-D Zombie Fridge Magnets, and Hammer Horror Masterpiece Collection.



MEMENTO MORGUE

Rue Morgue at San Diego Comic Con.



CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Adam Wingard's A Horrible Way to Die, plus reviews of Cowboys & Aliens, Boggy Creek, Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf, The Task, Scream of the Banshee, Slime City Massacre, The Violent Kind, Cell 213, I am Virgin, Stripperland!, and The Terminators. Reissues offers up reviews Bloody Birthday (1981), Blood Bath (1966), The Nesting (1981), and Nightmares (1980).





CINEMARQUEE

The Phantom Carriage (1921).



BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Jason Zinoman's new book Shock Value.



BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Andrew Foley and Fiona Staples' Done to Death, plus reviews of Crawl to Me #1, Hack/Slash Meets Zombies vs. Cheerleaders #1, Flashpoint: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #2 of 3, Witchdoctor #1 of 4, and Ghost Rider #1.



THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: New anthology The Monster's Corner. Library of the Damned mourns the loss of L.A. Banks. Plus, reviews of Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture, The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America, Sell Your Own Damn Movie!, Dan Simmons' Summer of Night, Eric S. Brown's Bigfoot War 2: Dead in the Woods, Awful/Resilient: The Art of Alex Pardee, David Lubar's Attack of the Vampire Weenies, and Bob McLain's Snow White and the Seven Dead Dwarves: A Zombie Fairy Tale.




TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

Wicklow's Historic Gaol - Wicklow, Ireland.




THE GORE-MET

Brain Dead, and Opstandelsen.



AUDIO DROME


Featuring hybrid indie pop-cabaret band The Real Tuesday Weld. The Blood Spattered Guide talks to Kim Nekroman about the new Nekromanics album, What Happens in Hell Stays in Hell. Plus reviews of Scream OST, Zombie! OST, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Volume 1 OST, The Channeling, God Module, :Wumpscut:, Vomitoma, Goreaphobia, and Denial Fiend.




PLAY DEAD

Featuring a round-up of creepy iPhone games, plus reviews of Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, Dead Block, and Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D.



CLASSIC CUT

Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine (1981-1989).

Contents RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO HELL

With a remake out this month, we go back to the original bloodsucker-plagued suburbs of 1985's Fright Night. Writer/director Tom Holland helps us illustrate how his unlikely hit reinvented the vampire for modern viewers.

PLUS: Stars Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale and Stephen Geoffreys reminisce about the shoot; and Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin and Craig Gillespie discuss the new remake.


by April Snellings, Trevor Tuminski, Monica S. Kuebler and Dave Alexander



SMALL TOWN STRANGE

Haven, an unsettling series about a tormented town with deep, dark secrets, is just one of the growing army of genre programs invading your TV.

PLUS: A round-up of this season's new and returning horror shows. >

by Monica S. Kuebler, Trevor Tuminski, Brenton Bentz, Pedro Cabezuelo and Dave Alexander



ANATOMY DIVINE

Body Worlds creator Gunther von Hagens on morbid art, controversial science and facing his own mortality

by Nadja Sayej

with photos by Dave Alexander



FEAR THE REAPER

In anticipation of this month's Final Destination 5, we've rounded up the franchise's top ten kills to prove that death never takes a holiday.

by Last Chance Lance



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Vampires and VHS.



DREADLINES

Behind the Mask director seeks funding via Facebook, Horror films ignite controversy on both ends of political spectrum, After Dark film set to become a play to die for.



THE CORONER'S REPORT


Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Bar Brutality.



NEEDFUL THINGS

Vamplets, Zombie Blood, Cthulhu Roaster and The Kraken Rum.



CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer, Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet, Blood Junkie, Exorcismus, Mongolian Death Worm, Fall Down Dead, Killer Yacht Party, Death Tube, Death Tube 2, and Cam Girl. Reissues features reviews of Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007), The Last Dinosaur (1977), Alien 2: On Earth (1980), and Old Dracula (1975).




CINEMARQUEE

Curse of the Faceless Man (1958).



BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Bowen calls bullshit on genre deniers.



BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Xombi, Mystery Men #2 of 5, Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing #1 of 3, Fear Itself: Fearsome Four #1 of 4, That Hellbound Train #1 of 3, and The Goon #34.



THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley. Library of the Damned spills some convention secrets. Plus, reviews Allied Artists Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, Benjamin Radford's Tracking the Chupacabra, Rock 'n' Roll is Dead: Dark Tales Inspired by Music, Gary McMahon's The Concrete Grove, Tom Fletcher's The Leaping, Crazy 4 Cult: Cult Movie Art, Martin Popoff's Black Sabbath FAQ, and Hank Schwaeble's Diabiolical.




TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR


Rose Hall Great House - Montego Bay, Jamaica.




THE GORE-MET

Psycho Holocaust, Bunnyman and If A Tree Falls.



AUDIO DROME

Featuring the return of goregrind gods Exhumed. The Blood Spattered Guide discusses the horror of Atari Teenage Riot. Plus reviews Black Sunday OST, Heartless OST, Stake Land OST, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari OST, Hexentanz, Eve Hell & The Razors, The Black Dahlia Murder, Debauchery, and Haemorrhage.




PLAY DEAD


Featuring reviews of F.E.A.R.3., Alice: Madness Returns, Shadows of the Damned and Army of Darkness Defense.



CLASSIC CUT

Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway's Man-Thing (1971)

Contents

Contents

Contents DAYS OF HELL

The makers of Mulberry Street, Jim Mickle and Nick Damici, talk Stake Land, their new coming-of-age journey into the heart of post-apocalyptic vampire America.

PLUS: An interview with co-star Danielle Harris, and more.
by Dave Alexander and Marie-Eve Larin

STRANGE WORLDS, SENSUAL CINEMA

Rue Morgue explores some of the most original visions of violence and sexuality from around the world. Interviews with Amer creators Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Gaspar Noe on Enter the Void, and a look at the special editions of Santa Sangre and Embodiment of Evil.

by Shade Rupe, Dave Alexander and Stuart F. Andrews

BODIES R US

Caught without a corpse? Hollywood movie and television prop supplier The Dapper Cadaver is your one-stop shop for all things morbid.

by Greg Jacobs, photos by Efren Herrera

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Mighty Men & Monster Maker.

DREADLINES

Pin director to remake... Pin; Monster mask pioneer Verne Langdon dead at 69; Former Leisure editor heads up new horror line.

THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Grim Gravediggings.

NEEDFUL THINGS

Rob Zombie Coffee, Zombie Jerky, Skinbag, and Nomskulls Cake Moulds.

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Sharktopus, plus reviews of The Rite, Season of the Witch, The Tempest, Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, Vanishing on 7th Street, Harpoon: Whale Watching Massacre, Hide and Go Kill, Hide and Go Kill 2, and Skull Heads. Reissues features reviews of Vampire Circus (1972), Not of This Earth (1988), The Cyclops (1957) and Puppet Master Collection (1989-2010).

CINEMARQUEE

Diary of a Madman (1963).

BOWEN'S BASEMENT

The Curious Dr. Humpp (1969).

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Wrath of the Titans: Revenge of Medusa, plus reviews of Infestation #1, Detective Comics #873, Doc Macabre #2 of 3, Let Me In: Crossroads #2 of 4 and Vampirella #2.

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Michael Louis Calvillo. Library of the Damned considers the definition of horror. Plus, reviews of Zombie Holocaust: How the Living Dead Devoured Pop Culture, Jonathan Lethem's They Live, Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films 1928 - 1982, Lee Thomas' The German, P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast's Awakened, Sleeping Beauty III - Memorial Photography: The Children, Joe R. Lansdale's Flaming Zeppelins and Dwight Christopher Kemper's The Vampire's Tomb Mystery.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

Museum of the Weird - Austin, Texas.


THE GORE-MET

Blood Pigs.

AUDIO DROME

Featuring the old-time death dirges of The Unsettlers. The Blood-Spattered Guide tunes into the sounds of The Tempest. Plus reviews of Carrie OST, Dead Rising 2 OST, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles OST, Fear Incorporated, Electric Wizard, Ghost, iVardensphere, Psycho, and Shroud Eater.

PLAY DEAD

Featuring reviews of Dead Space 2, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Jekyll & Hyde, and FaceEater.


CLASSIC CUT

Coven's Witchcraft: Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls (1969).

Contents PIETY AND PESTILENCE

Driven by the fever of both the plague and religious fundamentalism, Christopher Smith's Black Death takes an unflinching approach to the dirty, brutal world of medieval horror.

PLUS: The Anatomy of a Plague Doctor, and Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden's Baltimore: The Plague Ships.

by Monica S. Kuebler, Justin Erickson and Pedro Cabezuelo


KILLER IN ME, KILLER IN YOU

South Korea's most graphic and violent film to date, I Saw the Devil, has made a big, red splash on the international festival circuit. Director Ji-Woon Kim explains that there's a message in the mayhem.

PLUS: A history of Asian serial killer films, and Hong-jin Na's The Chaser.

by Phil Brown and Tom Mes


R.I.P. 2010: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Time to celebrate the smashes and see what Rue Morgue trashes in our annual overview of the past year in horror.

by Staff


THE 2011 HORROR CONVENTION AND FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Start saving those vacation days...

by Staff



DIRTY DEEDS DONE SIX FEET DEEP

An Austrian art collective is granting the chance to take your sex life to the next level - underground!

by Nadja Sayej


NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

WTF is "elevated genre"?


DREADLINES

Australian police raid film festival director's house over L.A. Zombie; Paris-set horror anthology to gather international directors; Coscarelli returns with adaptation of John Dies at the End.


THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Mutilated Musicians.


NEEDFUL THINGS

Nosferatu Statue, Zombie Invasion Hoodie, Grab A Scab, Plague Doctor Figurine.


CINEMACABRE


CineMacabre features reviews of Skyline, Best Worst Movie, RoboGeisha, And Soon the Darkness, The Lost Tribe, Altitude, Red Scream Vampyres, Silent Scream and Scream Dream. Plus! It's a Dead World After All as we round up zombie movies from around the globe: reviews of The Horde, Colin and Aaah! Zombies. Reissues features reviews of The Magician (1958) Blu-ray, The Unholy Three (1925) DVD, Gamera: Guardian of the Universe/Attack of the Legion (1995-96) Blu-ray, My Mom's a Werewolf (1989) DVD and The Alien Anthology (1979-1997) Blu-ray.


CINEMARQUEE

The Hypnotic Eye (1960).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Dirty Harry's Scorpio (1971).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Grimm Fairy Tales: Myths and Legends, plus reviews of Zombies vs. Cheerleaders #2, Abattoir #1 of 6, Dungeons and Dragons #1, Warlord of Mars #1 and Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula #1.


THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Zombie anthology cage match. Library of the Damned sets predictions for 2011. Plus, reviews of Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror: The Complete Career; Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars; Jamie Lee Curtis: Scream Queen; Tesseracts 14; Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010; Paul Braus' The Creature's Curse; Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film; and Robert Aickman's Sub Rosa.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

The Museum of Mourning Art - Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.



THE GORE-MET

Sella Turcica (2010).


AUDIO DROME


Featuring The Young Werewolves. The Blood-Spattered Guide investigates a curious collection from Danny Elfman. Plus reviews of Alien Resurrection OST, Giallo OST, Mirrors 2 OST, Zombie Surf Camp, The Church of Abject Sorrow, The von Drats, Acid Witch, Athorn and Yogsothery - Gate 1: Chaosmogonic Rituals of Fear.


PLAY DEAD

Featuring reviews of Dead Space 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Splatterhouse and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare.



CLASSIC CUT

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death."

Contents BAD TIDINGS

Finland's Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale taps into the grim lineage of Santa Claus to deliver a Yuletide yarn for horror fans.

PLUS: Krampus and the Dutch slasher movie Sint.

by Trevor Tuminski, Jan Doense, James King and Alice Jaroschek


DAMNATION AND ALCHEMY

Guillermo del Toro's debut feature, Cronos. To celebrate, the filmmaker talks about re-imagining vampires, building infernal machines and being exorcised as a child.

PLUS: The latest news on del Toro's many film projects.

by Phil Brown and Stuart F. Andrews


STROKES OF MIDNIGHT

A new art book traces the legacy of Hammer's vibrant poster graphics.

by Sean Plummer


AXES AND EYEBALLS

The Weird World of Eerie Publications opens the latest chapter on horror comics' grisly history.

PLUS: The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read.

by April Snellings and Dave Alexander



CEREMONIA SATANICA

Exclusive photos from Rue Morgue's annual Halloween birthday bash.

by Ashlea Wessel



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND


Hood for the holidays.


DREADLINES

Famed Hammer director Roy Ward Baker dead at age 93; Jamie Foxx shepherding new multi-ethnic horror anthology show; Until the Light Takes Us duo mounting a horror feature.


THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Diminutive Devilspawn.


NEEDFUL THINGS

Elvira Action Figure, Zombie T-shirt, Catacomb Boxers, 2011 Zombie Pinup Planner.


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of Black Swan, Paranormal Activity 2, Saw 3D, My Soul to Take, Giallo, Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl, Lost Boys: The Thirst, Lake Placid 3, Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives, Terror Overload, Vindication and Aegri Somnia. Blood on a Budget tackles The Resurrection Game and Saturday Nightmares: The Ultimate Horror Expo of All Time! Reissues features reviews of Maniac: 30th Anniversary Edition (1980) Blu-ray, The Blair Witch Project (1999) Blu-ray, The Terror Within (1989)/Dead Space (1990), Crucible of Terror (1971), Curtains (1983) and Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)/Gamera vs. Jiger (1970).


CINEMARQUEE

Sh! The Octopus (1937).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

The Incredible Melting Man (1977).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS


Features Harbor Moon, plus reviews of Night of the Living Dead #1, Angel vs. Frankenstein II, Edge of Doom #1, X-men vs. Vampires #1 and Tomb of Terror #1.


THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Bob Fingerman's Pariah. Library of the Damned flogs an undead horse. Plus, reviews of Touchstones of Gothic Horror: A Film Genealogy of Eleven Motifs and Images, When There's No More Room in Hell: The Sociology of the Living Dead, Asian Horror, Riding the Bullet: Deluxe Special Edition Double, Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within, David Saunders' H.J. Ward, Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Allyson Bird's Wine and Rank Poison.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

International Cryptozoology Museum - Portland, Maine.



THE GORE-MET

S&Man (2006).


AUDIO DROME

Featuring cremation vinyl. The Blood-Spattered Guide tunes into Voltaire's Spooky Songs for Creepy Kids. Plus reviews of Drammi Gotici (Gothic Dreams) OST, The Horde OST, The Vampire Diaries OST, Kreeps, Cryptids, October Rising, Thrall, Sargeist, and Stench.


PLAY DEAD

Featuring reviews of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Space: Ignition.



CLASSIC CUT

John Updike and Edward Gorey's The Twelve Terrors of Christmas.

Contents THE ART OF ATROCITY

A new wave of rage-fuelled cinema is rearing its head in Serbia. Ultra-violent, explicit and psychologically crushing, one movie in particular has left a trail of devastation in its wake. Steel yourself for A Serbian Film.

PLUS: The Life and Death of a Porno Gang and a guide to Serbian horror cinema.

by Dejan Ognjanovic


TOGETHER IN THE SHADOW OF GIANTS

Romantic entanglements meet tentacled mayhem in Gareth Edward's epic indie creature feature Monsters.

by Sean Plummer


ONLY WOMEN BLEED

The only feminist slasher series gets the special edition treatment with the release of The Slumber Party Massacre Collection. We track down the women behind the "Ultimate Driller Killer Thrillers."

by April Snellings


HORROR COMES TO HOGTOWN


The 2010 Toronto International Film Festival previewed some of the most anticipated and under-the-radar genre movies. Adjust your anticipation accordingly, fright fans...

by Dave Alexander, Stuart F. Andrews, Todd Brown, Liisa Ladouceur and Trevor Tuminski



MY HORROR HAREM

Dani Filth celebrates Cradle of Filth's new album - based on the demoness Lilith - by rounding up his top ten favourite women in horror movies.

by Dani Filth and Trevor Tuminski




NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

On the offensive.


DREADLINES


The Thing prequel aims to replicate world of original film; The Dark Tower saga set to return in multiple formats; FX legend Greg Nicotero adds 'director' to resume.


THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Diminutive Devilspawn.


NEEDFUL THINGS

Necronomicox, Proton Pack Backpack, Monster Kookies Jewellery, Zombie Sock Monkeys.


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre puts Fangoria's FrightFest imprint to the test. Plus reviews of Hatchet II, Let Me In, Devil, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Case 39, 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, After.Life, Bikini Bloodbath Car Wash, Bikini Bloodbath Christmas and Bikini Bloodbath on Ice. Reissues features Nobuhiko Obayashi's House and Don Sharp's Psychomania, plus reviews of The Twilight Zone: Season 1 (1959) Blu-ray, Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)/Gamera vs. Viras (1968), King Kong (1933) Blu-ray and Mad Ron's Prevues From Hell (1987).


CINEMARQUEE

The Soul of a Monster (1944).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

The Pit (1981).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Nosferatu, plus reviews of Weird War Tales #1, The Scourge #1, Eeek!, It! The Terror from Beyond Space #3 and Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer and The Great Puppet Theater.


THE NINTH CIRCLE


Spotlight: J.W. Ocker's The New England Grimpendium. Library of the Damned takes on Banned Books Week. Plus, reviews of A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series, Horror Movie Freak, Scary Science: 25 Creepy Experiments, Reggie Oliver's Dramas From the Depths, F.G. Cottam's Dark Echo, Michael Marano's Stories from the Plague Years, David Moody's Autumn and The Art of Drew Struzan.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

Whitby Dracula Walk - Whitby, England.



THE GORE-MET

The Law and Inner Depravity.


AUDIO DROME

Featuring Pennsylvanian horror screamo band Motionless in White. The Blood-Spattered Guide spotlights tomandandy, composers for Resident Evil: Afterlife. Plus reviews of Resident Evil: Afterlife OST, The Wicker Man (1973) OST, Prelude to a Nightmare, Phantom 13, Mad Tea Party, Gravewurm, Diskreet, Nocturnal Blood and GWAR.


PLAY DEAD

Featuring Saw II: Flesh & Blood, plus reviews of Twisted Lands: Shadow Town and Mage: The Awakening.



CLASSIC CUT

The Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil.

Contents WE ALL GO A LITTLE MAD SOMETIMES

Fifty years ago Marion met Norman at the Bates Motel and the modern horror film was born. Rue Morgue's panel of experts celebrates the lunatic legacy of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece. Featuring Wes Craven, assistant director Hilton Green, and authors Stephen Rebello and David Thomson.

PLUS: A look at Bernard Herrmann's score, a new documentary on the film, sequel spotlights, and more!

by Aaron Von Lupton, Mark R. Hasan, James Burrell, Stuart F. Andrews, Joseph O'Brien and John W. Bowen


50 REASONS TO LOVE HORROR COMICS

From pre-Code grue to today's top purveyors of terror, read about the scariest, goriest, strangest and most original stories, series, characters, things and even places on the panelled page.

PLUS: Interviews with Bernie Wrightson, Dick Ayers, Eric Powell, Mike Carey, and more!

by Dave Alexander, Pedro Cabezuelo, Paul Corupe, Monica S. Kuebler and April Snellings


HE IS LEGION: WILLIAM PETER BLATTY REVISITS THE EXORCIST

The film often regarded as the scariest movie ever made arrives on Blu-ray. The man who started it all takes stock of its lasting legacy.

PLUS: Cinematographer Owen Roizman on crafting the look of evil.
by John W. Bowen and Stacie Ponder


PLAYING WITH MADNESS

Derek Riggs, creator of Iron Maiden's infamous Eddie mascot, reflects on a career forged in metal.

by Ashley Thorpe



FESTIVAL OF FEAR 2010

Pics from Rue Morgue's 7th annual horror convention.

Photos by Ashlea Wessel, Matthew Marigold, Robert "Nix" Nixon and James Burrell


SKIN CITY

Zombie mayhem heads to Vegas in Dead Rising 2.


by Monica S. Kuebler



GHOULISH GRINS

The history of the jack-o'-lantern.

by Last Chance Lance



THROUGH THE CREAKING DOOR

Glass Eye Pix resurrects the dark audio drama for the digital age with Tales From Beyond the Pale.

by Jason Pichonsky



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND


In the shower with Psycho.


DREADLINES

Sam Raimi brings Zombie Roadkill to the web; Teen filmmaker enlists Machete talent for Twilight spoof; Australian horror film being presold one frame at a time.


THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Psycho's Most Scarring Scenes.


NEEDFUL THINGS

Psycho House, Zombie Wrapping Paper, Blood Bath Shower Gel and Team Sleep Monsters.


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features a look back at the Saw franchise, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil and new documentary The Aurora Monsters - The Model Craze That Gripped the World, plus reviews of Piranha 3D, Night of the Demons, Buried, Sea of Dust, Dorian Gray, Dark and Stormy Night, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, Ghost Hunters International, Squeal, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Madeline's Halloween and Other Spooky Tales, Parasomnia, Assault of the Sasquatch, The Bloody Rage of Bigfoot, Inbred Redneck Vampires, I Spit Chew on Your Grave and Terror at Blood Fart Lake. Blood on a Budget spotlights Legion of Terror and Cruel. And Reissues features Dark Night of the Scarecrow, plus reviews of Cannibal Girls (1973), Grindhouse (2007) Blu-ray, The Evil (1978) and Martin (1977) Blu-ray.


CINEMARQUEE

Horrors of the Black Museum (1959).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Reptilicus (1961).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS


Features American Vampire, plus reviews of Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom #1, A Very Zombie Summer, King #1, Ides of Blood #1, and Dracula: The Company of Monsters #1.


THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Rob Sacchetto's Zombiewood Weekly. Library of the Damned investigates the "zombie romance" of Hungry for Your Love. Plus, reviews of The Filmmaker's Book of the Dead, He Is Legend: An Anthology Honoring Richard Matheson, Night of the Living Dead: Behind the Scenes of the Most Terrifying Zombie Movie Ever, Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Fall, Haunted Legends, Jonathan Cape's Haunted Air, R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Horrorland: Weirdo Halloween and So Now You're a Zombie: A Handbook for the Newly Undead.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

Canada's Wonderland Halloween Haunt - Toronto, Canada



THE GORE-MET


Menu: I Spit on Your Grave (2010)


AUDIO DROME

Featuring the Halloween carols of Kristen Lawrence. The Blood-Spattered Guide investigates the Haunted Mansion theme song. Plus reviews of Piranha 3D OST, Predators OST, The Dead Matter OST, Earth vs. The Spider (1958) OST, Vampires Suck OST, Dax Riggs, The Other, The Birthday Massacre, The Creepshow, Psycho Charger, Psyche, Interment, Tombstones, and The Devil Wears Prada


PLAY DEAD

Featuring a round-up of horror games on Facebook, plus reviews of Clash of the Titans, Vampire Saga: Pandora's Box and The Serial Killer Trivia Game.


CLASSIC CUT

Robin Wood's Hitchcock's Films.

Contents DEAD AIR

Frank Darabont wants to rot your brain with his TV take on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead, the greatest zombie comic of all time.

PLUS: Kirkman on his original comic book series and the TV adaptation, and quotes from the cast and crew.

by Dave Alexander and April Snellings


THE MEAT GENERATION

Fantagraphics' Four Color Fear unearths the goriest, most perverse and offensive terror tales responsible for ushering in the dreaded Comics Code Authority.

by April Snellings


FANTASIA

Rue Morgue travels to Montreal for the fest that showcases the most cutting edge, bizarre and often dangerous international genre films.

PLUS: A look at the Subversive Serbia program and short film highlights from Small Gauge Trauma.

by Dave Alexander, Stuart F. Andrews, Michele Galgana, Monica S. Kuebler, Andy Mauro, Jessa Sobczuk and Trevor Tuminski


THE RHYTHM OF WORLD'S END

Killing Joke original lineup reforms for a gloomy new offering to the audio gods.

by Trevor Tuminski







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

The seduction of the not-so innocent.


DREADLINES

Upcoming opera to expand upon 'Blood Countess' legend; The Mistress of the Dark returns to TV this fall; Puppets, drag and blood in store for Carrie stage adaptation


THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Nasty Nazis.


NEEDFUL THINGS

Coffin Couches, Sourpuss Diaper Bag, Human Tooth Necklace and Bat Boy Figure


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D and vampire comedy Suck, plus reviews of Predators, Nightmares in Red, White and Blue, The Death of Alice Blue, Durham County Season 2, Sutures, Puppetmaster: Axis of Evil, A Nocturne: Night of the Vampire, The Uninvited, Don't Look Up, The Brotherhood V: Alumni, House of Usher, and The Pit & the Pendulum. Abbreviated Terrors spotlights Eyes Beyond, Dracula's Daughters vs. The Space Brains, and Remote. And Reissues reviews The Evil Dead (1981) Blu-ray, Predator: Ultimate Hunter Edition (1987) Blu-ray, Submission of a Woman (1992), and Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Blu-ray.


CINEMARQUEE

A Bucket of Blood (1959).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

The Horror Films of Joan Crawford.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Boneyard Vol. 7, plus reviews of The Death of Dracula #1, Sci-fi and Fantasy Illustrated: Red Banned, True Blood #1, The X-Files/30 Days of Night #1, and Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper #1.


THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: PS Publishing. Library of the Damned celebrates Yvonne Navarro's "Wicked Willow" Buffy the Vampire Slayer tie-in novel trilogy. Plus, reviews of Dario Argento, Top 100 Horror Movies, Confessions of a Scream Queen, William Harms' Dead or Alive, Craig Davidson's Sarah Court, Twice the Terror: The Horror Zine Vol. 2, James J. Murphy III's The Nursing Home, and Barbara Wade Rose's The Priest, The Witch & The Poltergeist.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

The Ghosts of Times Square Tour - New York City, New York


THE GORE-MET

Menu: ...And Then I Helped


AUDIO DROME

Featuring a look at witch house. The Blood-Spattered Guide reviews Alice Cooper's Theatre of Death tour. Plus reviews of The Beast Within OST (1981), Night Child/Evil Eye/Voices From Beyond OST, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse OST, Murderdolls, Mad Sin, The Mission Creeps, Lordi, The Last Felony, and Profanatica.


PLAY DEAD

N3II: Ninety-Nine Nights, Stabstab, and Soul of Darkness.


CLASSIC CUT

Verne Langdon's Monster Masks

Contents MALICIOUS FISHES

Joe Dante schools us on Piranha, a Jaws rip-off packed to the gills with blood, boobs, and other low-budget mayhem from the Roger Corman school of exploitation filmmaking.

PLUS: Alexandre Aja on Piranha 3D, and Roger Corman discusses the controversial Humanoids from the Deep.

by Phil Brown and John W. Bowen

CONVULSIVE BEAUTY

Nightmares in Decay, a new book celebrating macabre artist Harry Clarke, signals a renewed interest in turn-of-the-century genre artwork.

PLUS: The most provocative periodicals of the era.

by Chris Jozefowicz

KING OF THE CARDBOARD CASTLE

A new documentary celebrates the world's most unstoppable horror host, Count Gore de Vol.

PLUS: Six more contemporary horror hosts.

by Eric Veillette and Trevor Tuminski

LURID BE THY NAME

Astro Zombies, Blood Orgies and Corpse Grinders - Ted V. Mikels reflects on six decades of low-budget sensational cinema.

by Dave Alexander

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

A salute to poster artists.

DREADLINES

Scholars gather at Oxford for Fear, Horror and Terror; Historic home of Hammer classics set to become housing; Genre scholar Everett Franklin Bleiler remembered


THE CORONER'S REPORT


Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Resurrected Water Rotters.


NEEDFUL THINGS

Arachnoid Guitar, Immortal Coffee, Dia De Los Muertos Jewellery, and Sarah Legault Dolls.


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of Open House, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Burning Bright, Southern Gothic, Neowolf, The Eclipse, Bloody Mary, Dead Mary, and Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet. Blood on a Budget spotlights Pop Punk Zombies and Horrid. And Reissues reviews Gamera vs. Barugon (1966), Horror Hospital (1973), The Best of Trailers from Hell Volume 1, and Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961).



CINEMARQUEE

Thriller: "The Incredible Doktor Markesan" (1945).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

The Kindred (1987).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Dark Shadows: The Complete Series Volume 1, plus reviews of Dracula #1 of 4, Classic Red Sonja Re-mastered #1, Mystery Society #1, Hack/Slash: My First Maniac #1 of 4, and Nanny and Hank #1 of 4.


THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Dark Regions Press' New Voices of Horror anthology series. Library of the Damned says farewell to Necro Publications. Plus, reviews of Horror Film Aesthetics: Creating the Visual Language of Fear, Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, John Ajvide Lindqvist's Handling the Undead, Nate Kenyon's Sparrow Rock, Adam Nevill's Apartment 16, Nate Southard's He Stepped Through, Nick Arnold's Evil Inventions, and John Skipp and Craig Spector's The Bridge.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR


The Amsterdam Ghost Walk - Amsterdam, The Netherlands


THE GORE-MET

Menu: Slasher (2007) and Break (2009)


AUDIO DROME

Featuring the doom metal of The Body. The Blood-Spattered Guide spotlights Adult.'s horror shorts. Plus reviews of Theater of Blood (OST), Dead Like Me (OST), A Primitive Evolution, Haunted George, Those Poor Bastards, Sybreed, Grave, Ramesses, and Scaremaker.


PLAY DEAD

Naughty Bear, A Vampire's Romance: Paris Stories, and I'm Not Alone.


CLASSIC CUT

Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)

Contents WHERE DARKNESS LIVES:
The creators of [REC] 2 shine a light on one of the most terrifying examples of the New Spanish Horror film.
PLUS: An interview with The New Daughter director Luis Berdejo, the films of Jaume Belaguero and Paco Plaza, and more!
by Dave Alexander, Rodrigo Gudino and Trevor Tuminski.


GRIM GRAPPLERS:
From The French Angel to The Undertaker, Rue Morgue squares off against the killer tag team of horror and wrestling.
PLUS: An interview with Gangrel, the vampire of the squared circle, and the Top 5 Wrestler Smackdowns in Horror Movies.
Dan Murphy, Aaron Von Lupton and Trevor Tuminski.


THE CANVAS CANNOT HOLD THEM:
Award-winning artist Daniel Horne built an unlikely career on classic creature oil paintings, but his monsters won't be chained to just one medium.
by Gary Pullin.


GLOOMY ROOMIES:
BBC TV series Being Human asks what would happen if a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost shacked up in a flat in Bristol.
by Claire Horsnell.







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Thrill of the hunt.


DREADLINES:
Fantasia 2010 Spotlights Stuart Gordon, Ken Russell and Extreme Serbia; New Festival Spotlight Horror Shorts by Women; Toxie Remake and Sequel Among New Troma Ventures.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Perverse Penetrations.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Aunt Tilly. Pan's Labyrinth Busts, Barnabas Collins Doll, and Skeleton Doc Martens.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre features suburban siege story Salvage, and reviews of Splice, Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, Dark Nature, Hard Ride to Hell, The Shadow Within, Women's Studies, Cockhammer, Nixon and Hogan Smoke Christmas and Colonel Kill Motherfuckers. Abbreviated Terrors reviews The Horror of our Love: A Short Film, Massacrator and Seance. And reissues spotlights Roger Corman's Cult Classics Galaxy of Terror (1981) and Forbidden World (1982), with reviews of City of the Living Dead Special Edition (1980), Death Race 2000 (1975), Euro Fantastico: The Black Cobra (1963)/No Survivors Please (1964) and Evil Toons (1992).


CINEMARQUEE:
The Monster and the Ape (1945).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Death Spa (1988).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Features Poultrygeist: Return of the Chicken Dead, plus reviews of Sweet Tooth Volume 1 TPB, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Bram Stoker's Death Ship #1, The Claw & Fang #1 and Batman Confidential #44.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: More Stories from the Twilight Zone, featuring an interview with editor Carol Serling. Library of the Damned presents a round-up of must-read blogs by genre authors. Plus, reviews of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema: A Filmography of Their 22 Collaborations, The Bitten Word, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Zombies, Gemma Files' A Book of Tongues, R.B. Russell's Literary Remains, Mark Wheaton's Four Nails in the Coffin, Real Zombies, The Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse and Quentin S. Crisp's "Remember You're a One-Ball."


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Beyond Belief: The Curious Collection of Professor Rufus Excalibur Bell - Higgins Armory Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams.


AUDIO DROME:
Featuring Dark Shadows audio drama The Night Whispers. Blood Spattered Guide revisits Concrete Blonde's Bloodletting. Plus reviews of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) OST, True Blood: Music from the HBO Original Series Volume 2 OST, Harley Poe, The Brains, Balzac, Sabbath Assembly, Ov Hell, Hooded Menace and Rammer.


PLAY DEAD:
Alan Wake, Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper and Zombie Infection.


CLASSIC CUT:
Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla"

Contents HEART OF THE DEVIL

Rue Morgue travels to Los Angeles for an exclusive interview and photo shoot with Glenn Danzig. With a new album and other projects in the works, he exorcizes any rumours of retirement.
PLUS: The demonic muscle-bound art of Danzig collaborator Simon Bisley, a review of Deth Red Sabaoth, and more!
by Trevor Tuminski, Gabrielle Gieselman and Dave Alexander


ONCE BITTEN

Alan Ball isn't much of a vampire fan, but that didn't stop him from bringing blood lust to the masses. Meet the unlikely creator of True Blood.

PLUS: Michelle Forbes on being the big bad maenad in Season Two, author Charlaine Harris' latest entry in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series, and more! by Monica S. Kuebler and Justin Humphreys


AT HOME WITH THE DEAD

George A. Romero invites us over for a face-to-face talk about his unlikely new zombie western, Survival of the Dead.
by Stuart F. Andrews


THE RHYTHM OF FEAR

Australian dance troupe splintergroup stages a paranoid nightmare in the outback.
by Michael Mitchell and Monica S. Kuebler







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Devil music.


DREADLINES

John Carpenter and Steve Niles team up for F.E.A.R. 3; Interactive art project puts you in the zombie apocalypse; Walking Dead TV series goes into production, and more!


THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six - Face Masks.


NEEDFUL THINGS

Karloff Busts, Remote-Controlled Bigfoot, Dead Tired Pillowcases, Undead Art


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Descent 2, Transylmania, Haunted Echoes, Life Blood, Cold Storage, Bigfoot, Penance, Abduction and Hospitality. Blood on a Budget reviews Zombie Dearest and The Landlord. And reissues reviews The Sadist with the Red Teeth (1971)/Forbidden Paris (1969), Two Evil Eyes (1990), House of the Long Shadows (1983) and The Masters of Science Fiction (2007).


CINEMARQUEE

Beginning of the End (1957).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

The World Beyond (1978).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Kolchak: Lovecraftian Damnation, plus reviews of Kill Shakespeare #1, Marvel Zombies #1 of 5, We Will Bury You #2, Random Acts of Violence and Grim Fairy Tales #5.


THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Philip Nutman's Cities of Night. Library of the Damned takes a look at the importance of young adult horror. Plus, reviews of Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon, Silver Scream Volume Two: 40 Classic Horror Movies 1941-1951, David Moody's Dog Blood, Weston Ochse's Empire of Salt, Joey Comeau's One Bloody Thing After Another, Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies: Compendium Monstrum, Mira Grant's Feed and Bites: Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

The Dublin Ghost Bus - Dublin, Ireland


THE GORE-MET

Menu: Specialite du chef and The Greatest American Snuff Film.


AUDIO DROME

Featuring Dutch retro-rock occult band The Devil's Blood. Blood Spattered Guide says R.I.P. to Peter Steele. Plus reviews of Clash of the Titans (2010) OST, Shiver OST, The Nothing Like Vaudeville Show OST, Prophecy OST, Diemonsterdie, Others, Soulfly, Wormfood and Kerasphorus.


PLAY DEAD

Monster Hunter Tri, Zombie Driver: Slaughter and N.Y. Zombies.


CLASSIC CUT

Danzig's Danzig II: Lucifuge.

Contents ROYAL BLOOD: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPER LEE

To celebrate our 100th issue, Rue Morgue proudly presents the ongoing story of the genre's greatest living legend and the studio that made him an icon.

Plus: Interviews with Hammer star Ingrid Pitt, the man who revived the company, Hammer 101, and more!


by James Burrell, Sean Plummer, Trevor Tuminski and Paul Corupe



13 YEARS OF FEAR

Rue Morgue writers consult experts and luminaries for an in-depth look at how the genre has changed since we began publishing in 1997, and where it's headed...

by Rue Morgue Staff




THE NIGHTMARE GALLERY

We commissioned sixteen of the best dark artists out there to each create an original piece that exemplifies a personal nightmare, and tell us why the work haunts them. The results will scare you too.

curated by Gary Pullin



HYMNS FROM THE HOUSE OF HORROR

Dive into Rue Morgue Radio's first ever free downloadable terror tunes compilation, with a spotlight on all seventeen of the rare, classic, remixed and world premiere tracks! Hear what the bands themselves have to say about their caustic cuts.

by Trevor Tuminski, Tomb Dragomir and Dave Alexander




GATHER 'ROUND, KIDDIES

During the 1990s, R.L. Stine's creepy children's books sold millions of copies. The often reclusive, incredibly prolific author tells his own spooky story.

by Phil Brown



iSCARES

Rue Morgue downloads the top ten iPhone apps for horror fans.

by MARIE- eVE LARIN






DEPARTMENTS:



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

What's in a number?



DREADLINES

Indian film promoters take cues from William Castle; Kinetik Fest aims to make Montreal top destination for industrial music fans; New Mexico to host horror film boot camp, and more!



THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Christopher Lee Dracula Deaths




NEEDFUL THINGS

Hammer Poster Reprints, Hellbent for Cooking, Gruesome Gift Baskets, Murder Ink Notepad



CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Best Worst Movie, plus reviews of Clash of the Titans. The Day of the Triffids, Freeway Killer, Tony, The Real Wolfman, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, Monster Warriors, Lo, The Caretaker, Ravage the Scream Queen, Breaking Her Will and Night of the Pumpkin. Abbreviated Terrors reviews Cheerbleeders, Night of the Hell Hamsters and 2:22. And reissues features Arrow Video's new Dario Argento DVDs, plus reviews Girly (1970), Honeymoon of Horror (1964), Goodbye Gemini (1970) and Knife of Ice (1972).




CINEMARQUEE

Gamera (1965).



BOWEN'S BASEMENT

The Giant Spider Invasion (1975).



BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS


Features Day of the Dead: Desertion, plus reviews of American Vampire #1, The Mystic Hands of Doctor Strange #1, Zombies Vs. Robots Aventure #1, The Ghoul #3 and Greek Street Volume 1.




THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Tom Jokinen's funeral industry tell-all Curtains. Library of the Damned presents a World Horror Con 2010 recap. Plus, reviews of A Sci-fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers, The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror: Two Decades of Dark Fiction, Marie Corelli's Vendetta, Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Alexandra Sokoloff's Book of Shadows, Altered Visions: The Art of Vincent Chong, Neil Cross' Burial and The Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead.




TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

Musee Fragonard D'Alfort - Paris, France



THE GORE-MET

Menu: Long Pigs (2007) and La petite mort: Die Nasty (2009).




AUDIO DROME

Featuring experimental metal outfit Hobgoblin. Blood Spattered Guide features The Ghost. Plus reviews of The Crazies (2010) OST, Grace OST, The Wolfman OST, Robe., Rodentum: The Best of Dark Roots Music Volume IV, :Wumpscut:, Darkthrone, Psycho, The Vision Bleak, Lair of the Minotaur, Barren Earth, Omega Lithium, Unholy Grave, and Abscess.



PLAY DEAD


Metro 2033, Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon and Deadly Premonition.



CLASSIC CUT

Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein.

Contents FREDDY VS. FREDDY

One, two, Freddy's born anew...

Robert Englund passes the glove to Jackie Earle Haley for the remake of A Night on Elm Street. Both actors help us dissect the iconic boogeyman.

Plus: Interviews with the remake's director Sam Bayer, Heather Langenkamp and the makers of a new documentary on the original series, and the weirdest Freddy merchandise ever made.


by Aaron Von Lupton, Dave Alexander and James Burrell


GROSS ANATOMY

Yes, it's exactly what the title promises - The Human Centipede is a nauseating exercise in mad sciences that broadens the scope of body horror, segment by segment.

Plus: Confessions of a Rogue Taxidermist and Taxidermia.

by Stuart F. Andrews, The Great Orbax and Rodridgo Gudino


FLESH FOR FIENDS

Philadelphia tattoo phenom Paul Acker expands the art of horror ink, one ghastly visage at a time.

by April Snellings


ATLAS TO THE ARCANE

A hefty new tome by Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth and author Gavin Baddeley brings the band's darkest influences to light.

by Evan Davies












NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Of 'burbs and boogeymen.


DREADLINES

Forgeries on the ride in vintage horror movie poster market; The 2010 European Film Market offers sneak peek at international genre titles; Miskatonic University planned for Montreal.


THE CORONER'S REPORT


Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Television Trauma.


NEEDFUL THINGS

New Nightmare Glove, Dethklok Fountain, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Journal and Postcards, Red-Eyed Zombie Sleep Mask.


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of The Wolfman, The Crazies remake, Legion, Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated, Sorority Row, Phantom Racer, Cabin Fever 2, Alone in the Dark II, 5ive Girls, 100 Feet and 2010: Supernova. The Latest 8 to Die for examines the fourth installment of Lionsgate's After Dark Horrorfest, including reviews of Dread, The Final, The Graves, Hidden, Kill Theory, Lake Mungo, The Reeds and Zombies of Mass Destruction. And reissues reviews Day of the Dead (1985) Blu-ray, The Wraith (1986) and Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay (1992).


CINEMARQUEE

Them! (1954).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

The Night Flier, Gotham Cafe and Desperation.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features The Waking, plus reviews of Punisher #14, The Astounding Wolf-Man #21, Aladdin: Legacy of the Lost #1 of 3, Supernatural: Beginning's End #1 and Ghostbusters: Tainted Love.


THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Christopher Moores's Bite Me. Plus, reviews of American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture, Features from the Black Lagoon: The Film, its Sequels, the Spinoffs and the Memorabilia, Halloween: New Poems, Lesser Demons, In the Closet Under the Bed, The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology, How to Speak Zombie: A Guide for the Living, The Frenzy Way and Strange Magic.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR


The Accidental Mummies of Guanajuato - Travelling Exhibit


THE GORE-MET

Menu: The Toolbox Murders on Blu-ray.


AUDIO DROME

Featuring Italian metalcore outfit Stigma. Blood Spattered Guide features A Nightmare on Elm Street composer Charles Bernstein. Plus reviews of The Entity OST, The Descent: Part 2 OST, Silent Night Bloody Night OST, The Caller OST, Calabrese, Nekrasov/Aderlating, Sons of Azrael, Disfigured Dead and The Beast of the Apocalypse.


PLAY DEAD

Calling, Heavy Rain and Bioshock 2.


CLASSIC CUT

Carol J. Clover's Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. (1992)

Contents THE CREATURE INCARNATE

When Paul Naschy died this past November, he left behind a legacy of monster movies. In an exclusive 2007 interview, the actor, writer, director and producer talks about being the "Lon Chaney of Spain."

Plus: The essential Naschy filmography, and an interview with his biographer.

by Mirek Lipinski, Shade Rupe and The Gore-met



A FATAL PORTRAIT

After more than 30 years and twenty albums, King Diamond reflects upon a legendary career as horror metal's reigning showman. All hail!


Plus: A new documentary reveals the true face of Norwegian black metal, and more.

by Evan Davies and Trevor Tuminski



AT HOME WITH THE GROTESQUE

Veteran photo illustrator J.K. Potter has created art for many of horror fiction's heavyweights. Join us as we dissect his beautiful mutations.

by Richard Gavin



THE GODSON OF GORE

Get ready for girls 'n' guts! This month sees the release of Smash Cut, Lee Demarbre's lurid and loving tribute to Herschell Gordon Lewis.


by Phil Brown





DEPARTMENTS:



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

"The Return of the Repressed."



DREADLINES

Famous Monsters headed back to newsstands this summer; Night of the Living Dead re-envisioned as animated epic; Chas. Balun remembered by horror fans.




THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Gruesome Ghosts.



NEEDFUL THINGS

Paul Naschy Daninsky Figure, Living Dead Beetlejuice, Blood Spill Bookmark, Iron Fist Wolf Beaters Pumps.



CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features The Crazies remake, plus reviews of Frozen, Bad Biology, Vampire Killers, 5150 Elm's Way, Blood Creek, InAlienable, Virginia Creepers: The Horror Host Tradition of the Old Dominion, Skeleton Crew, Slaughtered Vomit Dolls, The Witches Hammer, Vampire Party, Dragon Wars, Rise of the Gargoyles and Pterodactyl. Abbreviated Terrors features Ashley Thorpe's animated love letters to classic British horror. And reissues reviews Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), The House on Sorority Row (1983), Uninvited (1988), Silent Night, Deadly Night 3 Disc Set (1989, 1990, 1991) and Orlok the Vampire (1922).




CINEMARQUEE

The Wolf Man (1941).



BOWEN'S BASEMENT

The Giant Claw.



BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery, plus reviews of Weird Western Tales #71, Dante's Inferno #1, Weekly World News #1 of 4, Dead, She Said and Vincent Price Presents #16.




THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies! The 21st Century Edition. Plus, reviews of The Philosophy of Horror, The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, Dream Spectres: Extreme Ukiyo-e: Sex Blood, and the Supernatural, Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead, Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Joe Hill's Horns, Barbara Roden's Northwest Passages, The Baby Boomer Horror and Sci-fi Handbook, Stephen Volk's Gray Matter Novella 5: Vardoger, and The New Vampire's Handbook.




TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

Dracula Castle and Poienari Castle - Romania



THE GORE-MET

Menu: Maskhead



AUDIO DROME

Featuring Canada's godfathers of psychobilly The Deadcats. Blood Spattered Guide features the music of Alice in Wonderland. Plus reviews of The Fourth Kind OST, Pandorum OST, The House of the Devil/I Can See You OST, The Deadcats, Creature with the Atom Brain, Rob Zombie, Six Feet Under, Shining and Through the Eyes of the Dead.




PLAY DEAD

Dante's Inferno, Scary Tales: Snow White vs. The Giant, Scary Tales: Little Red Riding Hood vs. Pinocchio and Aliens vs. Predator.



CLASSIC CUT

Enrique L. Equiluz's La marca del Hombre lobo (a.k.a. Frankenstein's Bloody Terror).

Contents THE FUTURE HAS FANGS

They helped jolt the zombie film back to life with Undead. Now the Spierig Brothers inject fresh blood into the vampire movie with Daybreakers. The twin writer/director team talks about bringing their inventive sci-fi-action-horror hybrid to the screen. PLUS: Interviews with Daybreakers star Sam Neill and soundtrack composer Christopher Gordon, Vampire Hunter D creator Hideyuki Kikuchi on his long-running sci-fi bloodsucker saga, author/editor Nancy Kilpatrick on the Evolve anthology and more!


by Sean Plummer, Last Chance Lance, Mark R. Hasan and Monica S. Kuebler



THE CURSE OF MOONLIGHT

The long-awaited, problem-plagued Wolfman finally arrives in theaters. Director Joe Johnston, co-star Hugo Weaving and effects legend Rick Baker help us tear through the rumours and get to the meat of the big-budget remake. PLUS: Lon Chaney Jr.'s grandson Ron stars in House of the Wolf Man and The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men reviewed.


by April Snellings, James Burrell and Monica S. Kuebler



HYBRID MOMENTS

Eerie Von's new book presents a photographic history of The Misfits, Samhain and Danzig.

by Aaron Von Lupton




R.I.P. 2009: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Once again, we heap praise (and occasionally scorn) upon notable releases across the horror spectrum.

by Rue Morgue Staff



THE 2010 HORROR CONVENTION AND FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Plan your genre geek-outs for the upcoming year.

by Rue Morgue Staff






DEPARTMENTS:



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Growing up with vampires.



DREADLINES

Stephen King talks Shining sequel with David Cronenberg; Mulberry Street team leaves Manhattan for Stake Land; Australian horror films boost tourism down under.




THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Leg Lacerations.



NEEDFUL THINGS

Bloody Energy Potions; B-Movie Bags; Tim Burton Skins; My Lil Zombie



CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of The Box, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Fourth Kind, The Stepfather (2009), The Echo, Hanger, The Canyon, Staunton Hill, Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown, Sauna, Eulogy for a Vampire, Fist of the Vampire and Bloodwars. Reissues reviews of Razorback (1984), Silent Scream (1980), Satan's School for Girls (1973) and Born of Fire (1983).




CINEMARQUEE

Murder in the Zoo (1933).



BOWEN'S BASEMENT

The Honeymoon Killers



BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom, plus reviews of The Unwritten #7, Victorian Undead #1, Strange #1 of 4, Strange Suspense: The Steve Ditko Archives Volume 1 and Vlad the Impaler: The Man Who Was Dracula.




THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight on UK publishers Tartarus Press, plus reviews of Produce Your Own Damn Movie!, Real Vampires, Night Stalkers and Creatures from the Darkside, Grande Dame Guignol Cinema: A History of Hag Horror from Baby Jane to Mother, Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes, Mark E. Rogers' The Dead, Tesseracts Thirteen, Stephen King's Under the Dome, John Everson's The 13th, Vlad Mezric's The Vampire is Just Not That Into You and Half-Minute Horrors.




TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

Museum of Witchcraft - Boscastle, UK



THE GORE-MET

Menu: Submerged in a Slime City Massacre



AUDIO DROME

Featuring the occult metal of The Grotesquery and the Blood Spattered Guide spotlights Fever Ray. Plus reviews of Child's Play OST, Night of the Creeps OST, The Definitive Horror Music Collection, The Misfits, The Riptides, Mad Tea Party, Esham, Sigh and Dissidium.




PLAY DEAD

Left 4 Dead 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Night Horrors: Grim Fears.



CLASSIC CUT

The Duchess of Malfi

Contents A VERY CAREFUL HATRED

Even among lesser-known horror films, Rituals stands alone as an all-but-lost gem. This punishing deep-woods thriller finally emerges from limbo with its long-awaited arrival on DVD. Cast and crew remember the 1977 film and its director Peter Carter. Interviews with stars Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell, Ken James, Gary Reineke and screenwriter Ian Sutherland.
Plus: The Rue Crew picks more VHS releases ripe for a DVD reissue.

by John W. Bowen, Dave Alexander and Rue Morgue Staff


TRASH ON TAPE

FAB Press commemorates the 25th anniversary of the UK's infamous Video Recordings Act with its reissue of The Art of the Nasty. Co-author Nigel Wingrove and box art illustrator Graham Humphreys discuss the films and their lurid art.
Plus: Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box, and Rue Morgue investigates recent developments which may herald a new era of video nasties.

by The Gore-Met, A.S. Berman and Dave Alexander


I AM JOHNNY LEGEND

Resurrecting the ghosts of trash horror past, Johnny Legend is home video's mad curator of the esoteric and unusual.
Plus: The latest unearthed treasures from Legend's Raunchy Tonk label.

by Paul Corupe and Eric Veillette


THE MELODY OF ANIMAL MATTER

The grotesque, surreal and sublime make music together in Hans Rickheit's bizarre graphic novel The Squirrel Machine.


by Dave Alexander



NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

A message from Rue Morgue's president.


DREADLINES

Repo! director tackles Mother's Day remake; Christopher Lee spearheads Hammer revival; Low budget horror films tap fans for funding and marketing.


THE CORONER'S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Brutal Burnings.


NEEDFUL THINGS


Monster Bandages, Nerdcore Calendar, True Blood Jewellery, Twilight Zone Stamps


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of Paranormal Activity, Saw VI, Where the Wild Things Are, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, The Collector, Stan Helsing, Left Bank, Nature of the Beast, The Children, Children of the Corn (2009), It's Alive (2009), Live Evil, Evilution and Evil Things. Reissues features reviews of The Stepfather (1987), The Stepfather II (1989), The New York Ripper (1982), Night of Death! (1980), The Hanging Woman (1973), Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989).


CINEMARQUEE

Mad Monster Party (1967).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Distortions Unlimited, plus reviews of Dark Entries, Pixu: The Mark of Evil, Dusk, Razorjack and Grimm Fairy Tales Presents Pinocchio.


THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt's Dracula the Un-Dead. Plus, reviews of Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Journey into Vampire Country and the Dracula Phenomenon, Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King, The Golden Labyrinth: The Unique Films of Guillermo del Toro, The Big Book of Canadian Hauntings, Peter Ackroyd's The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, Claude Lalumiere's Objects of Worship, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies!: A Book of Zombie Christmas Carols, Hammer Glamour, Bitten: Dark Erotic Stories, and Ryan Mecum's Vampire Haiku.



TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

The Royal Tyrrell Museum - Drumheller, Alberta


THE GORE-MET

Menu: Silence, We're Shooting!


AUDIO DROME

Featuring horror noise act The Rita. Blood Spattered Guide spotlights Tales From the Crypt's Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas. Plus reviews of Trick 'R Treat OST, Zombieland OST, I Sell the Dead OST, Clive Barker's Book of Blood OST, Dead Elvis, Back to Zero, Dead Man's Bones, Rammstein, and Nirvana 2002.


PLAY DEAD

Ju-on: The Grudge, Dead Space: Extinction and Martian Fluxx.


CLASSIC CUT


Bernard Rose's Paperhouse.

Contents AIM FOR THE HEAD!

First-person shooters are all the rage, especially when players get to blow zombie brains all over their TV screens. Apocalyptic survival horror video game Left 4 Dead 2 arrives with new characters, more weaponry and so much zombie gore that it was banned in Australia.

Plus: The history of zombie video games and more!

by Monica S. Kuebler and Andrew Lee


SCREAM FOR YOUR LIVES! THE CARNIVAL CINEMA OF WILLIAM CASTLE

Rue Morgue looks back on the life and films of the genre's legendary showman.

Plus: Castle's greatest gimmicks, film reviews, and more.

by Paul Corupe


A BRUSH WITH DARKNESS: ART INSPIRED BY STEPHEN KING

Centipede Press releases a 450-page collection of art based on the tales of the King of Horror.

by James Grainger


THE CORPSE MINDERS

The Dickensian horror-comedy I Sell the Dead is the latest labour of love from Glass Eye Pix, a company building its reputation on unconventional genre pictures.

by Stuart F. Andrews










NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Video games.


DREADLINES

Zombies, vampires and suburban mayhem mark genre highlights of TIFF 2009; Ron Howard plans a Lovecraft comic book adaptation.


THE CORONER'S REPORT


Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Geriatric Attacks.


NEEDFUL THINGS

Devil Cane, Bloody Beanies, Lovecraft Scents, Evidence Chef's Knife


CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of Fear Itself: The Complete First Season, Zombieland, Pandorum, Jennifer's Body, The Final Destination, The Thaw, Jack Ketchum's Offspring, The Last Resort, The Evil Woods, Dead Wood and Deadwood Park. Reissues features reviews of The Hilarious House of Frightenstein: Bats, Bones and Creepy Poems (1971), The Strangeness (1985), Prey (1978) and The Weekend Murders (1970).


CINEMARQUEE

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT

Masked Avenger Versus Ultra-Villain in the Lair of the Naked Bikini.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features North 40, plus reviews of Vincent Price Presents: The Tingler #1 and 2, Superman & Batman vs. Vampires & Werewolves, FVZA #1 of 3, Sullengrey: Sacrifice #1 of 2 and The Unknown: The Devil Made Flesh #1 of 4.


THE NINTH CIRCLE


Spotlight: Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures. Plus, reviews of Beyond Hammer: British Horror Cinema Since 1970, The New Horror Handbook, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration, Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary, Lovecraft Unbound, Visions Deferred: Three Unfilmed Screenplays by Richard Matheson, Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of the Atlantic Paranormal Society, Michael Poeltl's The Judas Syndrome, Robert J. Weirsema's The World More Full of Weeping and Scott Kenemore's Z.E.O.: A Zombie's Guide to Getting (A)Head in Business.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR

The Tomb of Belon - Lampa, Peru.


THE GORE-MET

Menu: How to Get Your Region-Free Global Gore Fix


AUDIO DROME

Featuring Razorback Records founder Billy Nocera. The Blood Spattered Guide spotlights Gatekeeper's debut EP Optimum Maximus. Plus reviews of The Believers OST, Halloween II OST, Dracula A.D. 1972 OST, True Blood OST, Mutilators, Insane Clown Posse, Portal, Nile and Revolting.


PLAY DEAD

Wolfenstein, Cursed Mountain and Twilight: The Game.


CLASSIC CUT

Arch Oboler's Drop Dead! An Exercise in Horror! (1962).

Contents MASTER OF THE MACABRE: A PORTRAIT OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most significant yet most misunderstood writers that ever lived. To celebrate the bicentennial of his birth, Rue Morgue attempts to unravel the mystery of the man in an interview with experts including filmmaker Roger Corman, author Clive Barker, academic Scott Peeples and Poe House curator Jeff Jerome. Plus: Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs on the one-man play Nevermore, a lost silent German Poe film is resurrected, reviews of new Poe-related books, and much more!

by James Grainger, Stacie Ponder, Jovanka Vuckovic, Paul Corupe, Liisa Ladouceur, Last Chance Lance, Monica S. Kuebler, Justine Warwick, James King, Keir-La Janisse and Colin McLaughlin


CANDY APPLES AND RAZOR BLADES

After two years in limbo, Trick 'r Treat finally arrives just in time for Halloween. Interviews with director Michael Dougherty and actor Brian Cox.

Plus: Inside the pages of the graphic novel.

by Phil Brown, Peter Guttierez and Dave Alexander


TV'S COOLEST CARTOON CREEPS

Rue Morgue takes you back to your misspent youth with the kookiest characters to haunt Saturday mornings. Hold onto your cereal bowls, kids!

by Paul Corupe and Eric Veillette


RE-INVASION OF THE ALIEN SLUG ZOMBIES FROM OUTER SPACE!

Fred Dekker's '80s classic Night of the Creeps has finally slithered its way onto DVD. Dekker and actor Tom Atkins remember the totally mental genre mash-up.

by Aaron Von Lupton


THE GROSS HISTORY OF GWAR

The most disgusting band in the universe turns 25! To celebrate, we've invited Dave Brockie to spew on the top ten moments of his group's gruesome past.

by Dave Brockie (A.K.A. Oderus Urungus)


FESTIVAL OF FEAR 2009

Pics from Rue Morgue's 6th annual horror convention.

Photos by Ashlea Wessel and Matthew Marigold


GHASTLY GREETINGS

A brief look at the history and revival of Halloween cards.

by Last Chance Lance







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
The Masque of the Red Death.


DREADLINES:
Jack Brooks team gets serious with The Shrine; Tim Burton celebrated at Museum of Modern Art; the 1st annual Reaper Awards.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Military Monster Mistakes.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Poe Statue, Poe Stamp, Poe Mug, "The Raven" Facsimile.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre features reviews of District 9, Halloween II, Nature's Grave, Deadgirl, Edges of Darkness, Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead, Live Animals, Backwoods, Ghost Cat, Nightmare, Wyvern, Red Velvet and Silent Venom. Reissues features the Special Edition DVD release of Hardware and Happy Birthday to Me now with its original score, plus reviews of The Gate Monstrous Special Edition, Door Into Silence, 42nd Street Forever Volume 5: Alamo Drafthouse Edition, Audition, Neither the Sea nor the Sand, Trapped, Animalda, Psychos in Love and The Black Torment.


CINEMARQUEE:
The Black Cat (1941).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
A Storied Past: John W. Bowen's favourite novels with potential for film adaptation.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Features Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer, plus reviews of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder #2, The Hangman #1, Incarnate #1 of 3, The Complete Dracula #2, and Ghost Riders: Heaven's on Fire #1 of 6.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues. Plus, reviews of Hollywood Monster, Bite: A Vampire Handbook, Making a Monstrous Halloween, F.G. Cottam's The House of Lost Souls, Mighty Unclean, Seamus Cooper's Mall of Cthulhu, Ed Gorman's The Midnight Room, Cthulhu Unbound: Genre-Blending Tales from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation and Jasper Bark's Way of the Barefoot Zombie.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Universal Studios � Orlando, Florida.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: The Gore-Met Slices up The Butcher.


AUDIO DROME:
Featuring Halloween record collecting. Plus reviews of Home: The Horror Story OST, Orphan OST, Monsters Vs. Aliens OST, The Blob (and Other Creepy Sounds) OST, Jennifer's Body OST, Drag Me to Hell OST, Paid in Black II: A Tribute to Johnny Cash, Big John Bates, Stellar Corpses, Sunn O))), Slayer, Behemoth and Mount Eerie.


PLAY DEAD:
Batman: Arkham Asylum, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, and Saw.


CLASSIC CUT:
"The Raven" (1845).

Contents THE BAD MOON RISES AGAIN

In the decades since its release, An American Werewolf in London has been embraced by genre fans as a truly unusual beast. With a fresh re-release and a new documentary out, creator John Landis and makeup effects legend Rick Baker talk about the blackly comic special effects masterpiece.

by Jason Lapeyre, Jovanka Vuckovic and W. Brice McVicar


MOMMY'S LITTLE MONSTER

Paul Solet tackles the nature of motherhood in his feminist horror film debut Grace. Plus: Larry Cohen on It's Alive!, the original killer baby movie.

by Claire Horsnell and James Burrell


FANTASIA 2009: FESTIVAL REPORT

Vigilantes, killer kids, beautiful monsters, two Clive Barker adaptations, the return of Coffin Joe and all kinds of international cult craziness graces the screen at Montreal's 2009 FanTasia film festival. Rue Morgue takes a peek at a selection of titles in the programme.

by Dave Alexander, Stuart F. Andrews, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Kier-La Janisse, Liisa Ladouceur, Andy Mauro, Eric Veillette and Jovanka Vuckovic


I WAS A TEENAGE MAN-EATER

If Juno warmed your heart, then Jennifer's Body is set to rip it out. The team behind the Oscar-winning teen comedy return with the bloody tale of a cheerleader from hell.

by Sean Plummer.







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:

An American Werewolf in London.


DREADLINES:

New dating site aimed at horror fans; Tsukamoto completes third Tetsuo film; Halloween Haunt returns to Canada's Wonderland.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Putrid Poisonings


NEEDFUL THINGS:

The Ex Voodoo Knife Set, Crawling Zombie Torso Gelatin Mould, Bigfoot Garden Sculpture, Nosferatu Necklace


CINEMACABRE:

CineMacabre features reviews of Antichrist, Orphan, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, The Hills Run Red, Cadavres, The Shortcut, How To Be a Serial Killer, Onechanbara: The Movie, Messengers 2: The Scarecrow, Death Racers, The Day the Earth Stood Stopped, 2012: Doomsday. Abbreviated Terrors features Teller on the &Teller films. Blood on a Budget features reviews of In Search of Lovecraft, Witches Night and Under the Raven's Wing. Reissues features an interview with Don Coscarelli on Phantasm II, plus reviews of Children of the Corn: 25th Anniversary Edition (Blu-Ray), Marquis De Sade's Prosperities of Vice, Invitation to Hell and The Last Night.


CINEMARQUEE:
The Walking Dead (1936).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Features Robot 13, plus reviews of Creepy #1, Tales from Wonderland: The Cheshire Cat, Blackest Night #1 of 8, Aliens #1 of 4 and Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth #1.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:

Spotlight: Kim Paffenroth's Valley of the Dead. Plus reviews of Just When You Thought It Was Safe: A Jaws Companion, Ed Wood, Mad Genius: A Critical Study of the Films, Monster Parties and Games, Vile Things, Midnight Walk, Rhodi Hawk's A Twisted Ladder, Dracula: A Classic Pop-Up Tale, Jason Beam's Daughters of Digital Alchemy, Todd Strasser's Nighttime: Too Scared to Sleep and Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
FrightTown - Portland, Oregon.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Black Devil Doll.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: The Accused. Plus reviews of Mars Attacks! OST, Skulls 158, Nim Vind, The Body Bags, Hellbats, 28 Weeks Later OST, Dethklok, Mark Statler and His Creepy Classic Chiller Band, Ninetail and 3 Inches of Blood.


PLAY DEAD:
Konxari Cards, Blood Bowl and Sherlock Holmes: Mystery of the Mummy.


CLASSIC CUT:
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

Contents ON THE ETIOLOGY OF A VAMPIRE VIRUS:
Guillermo del Toro teams up with author Chuck Hogan to craft an epic trilogy in which a plague of disease-ridden vampires pushes humanity to the brink of extinction. Rue Morgue puts The Strain and its creators under the microscope. Plus: David Wellington on his popular bloodsucker novels and a look at Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire series that inspired the hit show True Blood.
by Jovanka Vuckovic and Monica S. Kuebler


PORTRAITS OF PECULIAR PEOPLE:
Feast your eyes on Travis Louie's monstrous menagerie of inhuman oddities...
by Jovanka Vuckovic


NOLLYWOOD NIGHTMARES:
INSIDE NIGERIA'S HOMEGROWN HORROR INDUSTRY:
Supernatural gore, religious terror, cannibalism and ritual killing collide in Nigeria's outrageously prolific movie industry.
by Jason Lapeyre


SCARY STORIES 101:
In Writers Workshop of Horror, 26 genre authors share the secrets of their success.
by Monica S. Kuebler







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
The Vukodlak.


DREADLINES:
Over 60 top FX artists gather for Dick Smith tribute; Nazi zombies, Coffin Joe and Trick 'r Treat anchor TADFF 2009


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Vampiric Expirations.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Crystal Head Vodka, Death Mints, Noose Tie, Night of the Living Dead Mego-Style Action Figures.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre features reviews of Surveillance, Horsemen, The Cell 2, Carnivorous, Blood Ties: Season One, Divine Intervention, Chainsaw Sally, Driller, Thirst and Blood: The Last Vampire. Reissues features reviews deluxe editions of Friday the 13th parts IV, V and VI and the Suspense: Ultimate Collection, plus reviews of Slime City Grindhouse Collection (1988-1999), Sacred Flesh (2000), RIFFTRAX: Night of the Living Dead (1968) and The Hunger: The Complete First Season (1997).


CINEMARQUEE:
Mothra (1961).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Dug up: Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977).


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Features Impaler, plus reviews Madame Xanadu #1, Hellblazer #256, Werewolves on the Versus Vampires #1 of 3, Salem's Daughter: The Awakening #1, and Poe #1 of 4.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Ghost story publisher Ash-Tree Press. Plus, reviews of Trashfiend, Phantom Variations, Comedy-Horror Films, The Fourth Black Book of Horror, Paul G. Tremblay's The Harlequin and the Train, Hank Schwaeble's Damnable, Jack Hill: The Exploitation and Blaxploitation Master, Film by Film, Richard D. Satterlie's Imola, Kiki Thorpe's Meet the Kreeps: The Mad Scientist and Creepy Images Vol. 1.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Chicago Hauntings Ghost Tour - Chicago, Illinois.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Welcome to Casa del Gore-met.


AUDIO DROME:
Featuring Romero remixers 400 Lonely Things. Plus reviews of Laid to Rest OST, Transylvania 6-5000/Korgoth of Barbaria OST, No-do (The Beckoning) OST, Oscar B., Lonesome Wyatt and Rachel Brooke, Eels, Municipal Waste, The Graveyard Boulevard, Dead and Divine, and My Dying Bride.


PLAY DEAD:
Necrovision, Wolfenstein 3-D, and Terminator Salvation.


CLASSIC CUT:
Crestwood House's Monster Series books.

Contents THE LORD OF LEGENDARY THINGS:
Ray Harryhausen has brought some of the most memorable movie monsters to life through the meticulous art of stop-motion model animation. More than five decades after those curious creatures first appeared on theatre screens, his work continues to thrill and fascinate. In a new interview, Rue Morgue pays tribute to the legendary animator.
Plus: The History of Stop-Motion Animation, new Harryhausen books, and more!
by Paul Corupe, Jason Pichonsky and James Burrell


THE ROTTEN REICH:
Tommy Wirkola sprays blood all over the Norwegian film industry with his country's first zombie movie, the undead Nazi splatter comedy Dead Snow.
Plus: An overview of the strange Nazi zombie subgenre, and a sneak peek at Army of Frankenstein.
by Sean Plummer, Jovanka Vuckovic and John W. Bowen


RETURN TO SPOOK CENTRAL:
Twenty years after the last Ghostbusters film, the original cast reassembles for a video game that invites you to strap on a Proton Pack and battle some familiar denizens of the underworld. Who ya gonna call?
by Monica S. Kuebler


ALL YOU NEED IS BRAINS:
With everything from superheroes to classic works of literature getting the undead treatment these days, it was only a matter of time before the invasion of The Zombeatles.
by Last Chance Lance







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
To Ghostbusters, with love.


DREADLINES:
Crazies remake expands scope of Romero's infection story; Toronto's Luminato Festival celebrates Poe's 200th birthday; Stoker Awards returns to Burbank with Mathesons, Garris and Braunbeck in lineup.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Perilous Plants.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Zombie Pumps, Cryptozoological Figure Set, Bloodstained Bathmat and Shower Curtain, Zombie Wedding Cake Toppers


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre features reviews of Fear(s) of the Dark, Shuttle, Sea Sickos, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Succubus: The Demon, Dorm, Sick Nurses and SARS Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis. Abbreviated Terrors reviews The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon, Wretched and Terror! Reissues reviews the latest Hilarious House of Frightenstein releases, as well as House on Haunted Hill: 50th Anniversary Special Edition (1959), Scorpion with Two Tales (1982) and Redneck Zombies (1986).


CINEMARQUEE:
Nightmare Castle (1965).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Dug up: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Features Bad Kids Go to Hell, plus reviews Devoid of Life, Fall of Cthulhu: Nemesis #1, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #21, Irredeemable #1, and Dark Tower: The Sorcerer.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Dwight Kemper's Bela Lugosi and the House of Doom. Plus, reviews of Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 3, Monster Movies, The Pain and Pleasure of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey, Michael McBride's Bloodletting, Charles Wilkin's In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Memoir, Robert Boyczuk's Horror Story and Other Stories, Erotic Comics: A Graphic History Vol. 2, Traps, Ronald Kelly's Midnight Grinding and Other Twilight Tales and P.C Cast and Kristin Cast's Hunted.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Old Montreal Ghost Walk - Montreal, Quebec.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Header.


AUDIO DROME:
Featuring The Giallos Flame. Plus reviews of Boogeyman OST, The Last House on the Left OST, Themes from Horror Movies, Fredrik Klingwall, The Brains, Rosemary's Babies, The Meteors, The Rigormorticians, Under a Nightmare, Funeral Mist, and Jungle Rot.


PLAY DEAD:
Spirit Slayers/Night Stalkers, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and The Penumbra Collection.


CLASSIC CUT:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 'Requiem.'

Contents RAIMI, REPOSSESSED:
More than fifteen years and three blockbuster Spider-Man movies since the last Evil Dead film, Sam Raimi returns to his low-budget horror roots with Drag Me To Hell. Featuring interviews with the director, co-screenwriter Ivan Raimi and makeup effects guru Greg Nicotero.
by Phil Brown, Jovanka Vuckovic and Joseph O'Brien


GRAVEN IMAGES: THE ART OF JAPANESE BLOODY UKIYO-E:
Grotesque and sublime, Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints depict a long-held fascination with supernatural terrors and human slaughter. Presenting a look at the history of the elegant but shocking art form.
by Jason Lapeyre


ALL GUTS, NO GLORY:
In J.T. Petty's new horror-western hybrid The Burrowers, men are evil, monsters are hungry and the frontier has never been more frightening.
by Dave Alexander


EIGHT MORE TO DIE FOR:
Lionsgate releases the third collection in its After Dark series... but are they even worth watching, never mind dying for?
by Stacie Ponder







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Sam Raimi.


DREADLINES:
Genre fans and icons give Hollywood send off to Forrest J Ackerman; Chicago theatergoers brace for zombies.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Assaults on Ash.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Return of the Living Red Wine, Dexter Action Figure, Horror Pendants, Villainess Soaps


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre features reviews of The Last House on the Left, Monsters Vs Aliens, The Haunting in Connecticut, American Scary, Late Bloomer, Cyclops, Swamp Devil, Epitaph, Craig, Dark Reel, Barely Legal Lesbian Vampires, Night Fangs and Lust for Dracula. Blood on a Budget features Fetus, Pink Eye and Paper Dolls. Reissues reviews Veerena, Purani Haveli, Requiem for a Vampire, The Sinful Dwarf, The Centerfold Girls, The Whip and the Body, Conspiracy of Torture, Slaughter High, Repossessed, My Best Friend is a Vampire, An Angel for Satan, The Long Hair of Death, and The She-Beast.


CINEMARQUEE:
The Sadist (1963).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Dug up: The Candy Snatchers.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Features Tales of Rocky Point Park, plus reviews of Criminal Macabre: Cellblock 666 #3, House of Mystery Vol. 1, Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The First Death TPB, Zombie Tales #12, and Solomon Kane #5.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman's Personal Effects: Dark Art. Plus, reviews of The Television Horror of Dan Curtis, Cheap Scares!, The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings, Horror Library Volume 3, Hiromi Goto's Half World, Deadly Intent: Crime & Punishment, Steven Deighan's Stages of Undress, Edward Lee's The Golem and Joseph D'Lacey's Garbage Man.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Museum of Death - Hollywood, California.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Antonio Margheriti.


AUDIO DROME:
Featuring Toronto's legendary electric violin-wielding monster Nash the Slash. Plus reviews of Twisted Nerve/The Bride Wore Black OST, The Unborn OST, The Uninvited OST, Twilight OST, My Bloody Valentine (2009) OST, Sono Morti, The Independents, Dead Sea Surfers, Blood, Spectrum-X, Tribulation, and Mantic Ritual.


PLAY DEAD:
Resident Evil 5, Shellshock 2 and Madworld.


CLASSIC CUT:
Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film.

Contents IN MEMORIAM: THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LEATHER LAGOON:
This past February Lux Interior, frontman of the seminal swamp rock band The Cramps, passed away, ending a career steeped in horror and lunacy. Rue Morgue pays tribute to the icon in a recently unearthed interview with Lux and his long-time musical and life partner Poison Ivy. Plus! The complete Cramps discography.
by Rodrigo Gudi?o, Greg Chant and Tomb Dragomir


APOCALYPSE AFRICA:
For thirteen years, Resident Evil has immersed gamers in an epic apocalypse of zombies, mutants and corporate conspiracy. Now, RE5 takes the celebrated survival horror franchise deep into the heart of Africa to expose the root of the series' devastating viral agent. Plus! The history of the franchise, and more!
by Andrew Lee and Last Chance Lance


SUFFER THE CHILDREN:
Fabrice du Welz's Vinyan depicts a mind-bending journey that delves into madness, obsession and deadly offspring. Plus! A roundup of new killer kids movies.
by Liisa Ladouceur and Jason Lapeyre


PUTTING THE DEATH IN DEATH METAL:
Cannibal Corpse singer George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher talks two decades of atrocity, censorship and zombies.
by The Gore-met


GREETINGS FROM CAMP BLOOD:
Resident summer camp killjoy Jason Voorhees returns in a big budget remake, some long-awaited reissues and a new documentary. Pack your bags and say your prayers, we're going to Crystal Lake!
by Aaron Von Lupton


STAINLESS STEEL PSYCHO:
Effects man Robert Hall pays tribute to '80s slasher gore with Laid to Rest.
by Philip Brown







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
The trouble with mainstream horror.


DREADLINES:
Forrest Ackerman's memorabilia up for auction; Dracula-themed literary festival coming to Dublin; Classic Monsters cruise sails this Halloween.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Killer Clowns.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Anchor Bay's Hellraiser Limited Edition Box Set, Amok Time's Doctor Tongue Figure, Universal Monsters Bracelet, Sourpuss Carry-All Bags.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre features reviews of Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, The Uninvited, Crowley, Feast III: The Happy Finish, Splinter, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, Otto; or, Up With Dead People, Ice Spiders, Grizzly Park and Lockjaw: Rise of the Kulev Serpent. Reissues reviews Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971), Demoniacs (1974), Tales from the Darkside: The First Season (1984) and Cannibal! The Musical: 13th Anniversary Shpadoinkle Edition (1996).


CINEMARQUEE:
Five (1951).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Freeway.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Features Vincent Price Presents, plus reviews of Miss Don't Touch Me, Runes of Ragnan: The Flames of Muspell, Zombie Cop, Cthulhu Tales #11, Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead #1.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Seth Grahame-Smith on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Plus, reviews of Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King, Film Brawl, The Dead Walk, Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror, Giant R.B. Russell's Putting the Pieces in Place, Cherie Priest's Fathom, Greg Taylor's Killer Pizza, Patrick Carman's Skeleton Creek: Book One and Scott Edelman's The Hunger of Empty Vessels.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
The Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres - Toronto, Ontario.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Cat in the Brain.


AUDIO DROME:
Featuring horror prog rockers Zombi. Plus reviews of Deathstalker/Chopping Mall OST, Dracula vs. Frankenstein OST, Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula OST, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans score and soundtrack, Onethirtyeight, Carcass, Alex Machine, Dead Vampires, Gruesome Boys and Rose Funeral.


PLAY DEAD:
The House of the Dead: Overkill, Dead Reign and Coraline.


CLASSIC CUT:
Dick Jacobs and his Orchestra's Themes from Horror Movies: In Ghoulish High Fidelity.

Contents THE CULT OF SUFFERING
The French New Wave of Horror continues to shower us in gore with one of the cruelest modern genre movies - Pascal Laugier's religious-themed torture porn vehicle Martyrs. In interviews with the director and its star Morjana Alaoui, Rue Morgue examines the controversial film.
by Kier-La Janisse and Jason Lapeyre


DIVINITY IN DARKNESS: THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN HORROR
Proving that there's something for everyone in the genre, Christian horror is thriving, delivering fears to the faithful and - surprisingly - nightmares to non-believers, as well.
by Lea Lawrynowicz and Sean Plummer


THE GIANT SPIDER, THE CANDYMAKER AND THE WOLF WITH HANDS
Photographer Joshua Hoffine captures moments of paralyzing childhood fear with his unusual series of fairy tale-inspired horror images.
by Jovanka Vuckovic


MASTER OF HORROR, REMASTERED
Richard Matheson is celebrated in a new tribute anthology featuring horror's top scribes, as well as two volumes of rare, previously uncollected works.
by Joseph O'Brien and Paul Corupe


TERMS OF ENDANGERMENT
Welcome to Pontypool, Ontario, a town in the grip of a word-borne virus, where simply talking affectionately can turn you in to a bloodthirsty maniac.
by Dave Alexander







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Martyrs.


DREADLINES:
Canadian vampire comedy scores A-list rock star cast; Adam Green kicks off a slew of new film projects with Grace; Ontario gallery hosts death and mourning exhibit.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Subway Psychos.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Anatomy Prints, Remote Control Zombie, Garlic Mints, Razor Blade Bracelet.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre presents Fearsome Faces, reviews of two new DVD documentaries that delve into the world of Special EFX Makeup - Fantastic Flesh and Kreating Karloff. Reviews of My Bloody Valentine 3-D, The Unborn, Just Buried, Pulse 3, Metalocalypse Season 2, The Grudge 3, Remembering Don Dohler: Blood, Boobs & Beast, Baghead, Wild Country, Demon Sex, Blood Scarab and The Frightening. Reissues reviews 42nd Street Forever Vol 4: Cooled By Refrigeration, Chamber of Horrors (1966), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), Madhouse (1981) and In the Folds of the Flesh (1970).


CINEMARQUEE:
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Spotlight: The Swarm.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Features Demon Squad. Plus reviews of The Bomb, Netherworld #1, The Lagoon, The Fantastic Worlds of Frazetta and Hexed #1 (0f 4).


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow's Jake's Wake. Plus, reviews of Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition, Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide, John Landis, David Moody's Hater, Lore of the Ghost and Mark Samuels' Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Sleepy Hollow, New York.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: The Last House on the Left.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: Creeping Cruds. Plus! Reviews of Let the Right One In OST, Rogue OST, Prince of Darkness OST, Nightmare Revisited, Fredrik Klingwall, 7 Killings in 2 Weeks, Zombina and the Skeletones, The Matadors, October Rising, Lordi, The Lurking Corpses and The wHORROR.


PLAY DEAD:
Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game, Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ and Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad.


CLASSIC CUT:
Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953).

Contents HEARTSTOPPER! HARRY WARDEN'S REIGN OF TERROR CONTINUES
Canada's most underrated slasher is back in both an uncensored reissue and a 3-D remake of My Bloody Valentine. Interviews with director George Mihalka and producer John Dunning, who helped restore over nine minutes of gore footage for the upcoming DVD. Plus: A conversation with the director of the remake and a look at the history of 3-D films.
by James Burrell, Paul Corupe and Jason Pichonsky


BEYOND THE SHADOWS
A legendary genre author remembers filmmaker Dan Curtis, the man behind Dark Shadows, Trilogy of Terror and The Night Stalker.
by William F. Nolan


SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
Enter Horroridor, an art installation that surrounds the viewer with a madness-inducing barrage of shrieks from hundreds of genre movies.
by Stuart F. Andrews


SOLDIER OF MISFORTUNE
Bloody, paranormal-fuelled combat returns in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, the first-person shooter set in a supernatural hell.
by Last Chance Lance


THE DEFINITIVE 2009 HORROR CONVENTION SCHEDULE
Map out the coming year with this indispensable guide to the best genre events around the globe.
by Staff


RIP 2008: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Our annual awards for standout genre contributions, as well as a few you should have missed.
by Staff







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Hoser horror.


DREADLINES:
Nearly 70 genre films previewed at The American Film Market; More zombies on horizon for Max Brooks.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Instances of Premature Burial.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
The Pit and The Pendulum Statue, Bloody Stump Wrist Rests, Cocktail Demons, Chainsaw Cufflinks.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre presents Dante's Inferno and Dead Fury, two new animated fright flicks. Reviews of Twilight, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, [REC], My Name is Bruce, Satanic Sluts II: The Black Masses, Summer Scars, Cold Prey, Shiver and The Devil's Chair. Last Rites reviews Massacre, Summer of the Massacre and Miner's Massacre. Reissues takes a look at the new comprehensive Abbott and Costello box set. Plus! Reviews of Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), Daughters of Darkness (1971), Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976), Fascination (1979), Devil Hunter (1980), The Outer Limits: The Complete Original Series (1963), Thirst (1979) and The Watcher in the Attic (1976).


CINEMARQUEE:
The Shuttered Room (1967).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Spotlight: The Sentinel.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Features Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode. Plus reviews of Mercy Thompson: Homecoming #1 of 4, The Dresden Files: Storm Front #1, Zombie Tales: Oblivion, The Asylum of Horrors #1 and City of Dust #2 of 5.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Gerard Houarner's Blood of Killers. Plus, reviews of The Pocket Essential George A. Romero, The Cinema of Tod Browning: Essays of the Macabre and Grotesque, Creature Features: Nature Turned Nasty in the Movies, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19, Adam Golaski's Worse Than Myself, Beasts! Book 2, Jan Burke's The Messenger, Tom Becker's Darkside: Lifeblood and Joseph McGee's The Reaper.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Bloodbuster - Milan, Italy.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Urban Flesh and Red Room 2: The Broken Dolls.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: Composer Elia Cmiral. Plus! Reviews of the new Rosemary's Baby score release, The Strangers OST, Rest Stop: Don't Look Back OST, Dirty Dead, Der Fluch, Species, Radio Cult, Enslaved and Trigger the Bloodshed.


PLAY DEAD:
Dead Space, Left 4 Dead and Slumber Party Slaughterhouse.


CLASSIC CUT:
Rudolph Grey's Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

Contents THE UNHOLY UNDERTAKER RETURNS
Brazil's notorious boogeyman, Coffin Joe, rises from the ashes with the long-awaited third entry in the trilogy that began with one of the most outrageous films to ever come out of South America - or anywhere. Featuring an interview with Coffin Joe himself, Jose Mojica Marins, and screenwriter Dennison Ramalho.
Plus: The Essential Jose Mojica Marins filmography.
by Scott Gabbey, Jovanka Vuckovic, Paolo Zelati and Kier-La Janisse


BERNIE WRIGHTSON'S FRANKENSTEIN REBORN
Twenty-five years ago famed comic book artist Bernie Wrightson remade Mary Shelley's original version of Frankenstein. Now one of the most sought-after adaptations of the story lives again in a new hardcover special edition.
by James Grainger


PAPERBACK SHUDDERS: THE HISTORY OF HORROR NOVELIZATIONS
Believe it or not, horror tie-ins have been around since long before you bought that novelization of Halloween when you were a kid. Rue Morgue takes a look at the 80-year legacy of these collectible books. Plus: An interview with tie-in novelist Dennis Etchison.
by James Burrell and Monica S. Kuebler


RETRO PLASTIC NIGHTMARES
After nearly four decades, the once-notorious Aurora Monster Scenes model kits return. Will they titillate a new generation of kids and offend a new generation of parents?
by James Burrell







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Coffin Joe.


DREADLINES:
Toronto After Dark Film Festival wraps year three; Mary Lambert directs online vampire series; Manhattan's FIT hosts gothic fashion exhibit.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Instances of Insect Expulsions.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Baby's First Boo, Gentle Giant's Jason Voorhees Animated Maquette, Girls and Corpses 2009 Calendar, The Zombie of Monclaire Moors Garden Sculpture.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre presents a round-up of recent horror porn titles. Blood on a Budget reviews Attitude for Destruction, Slayer and Am I Evil. Plus! Reviews of Quarantine, Saw V, Feast II: Sloppy Seconds, Return to Sleepaway Camp, Zombie Strippers! Trailer Park of Terror, Seed, Scarce and Vipers. Last Rites reviews Suburban Sasquatch, Skeleton Man and The Malibu Beach Vampires. Reissues presents a feature on the latest double-feature discs from BCI Eclipse. Plus! Reviews of The Hilarious House of Frightenstein: Gory Gory Transylvania (1971), Cannibal Terror (1981), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1990) and Strange Behavior (1981).


CINEMARQUEE:
Psycho (1960).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Spotlight: Monster Movie Matinee.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
The horror comic book gospel rounds up the best of Christmas-themed horror comics. Plus reviews of Rex Mundi 13, Things comic book adaptation, Warlash: Dark Noir 1, Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch and The Cleaners 1 of 4.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Axelle Carolyn's It Lives Again! Horror Movies in the New Millennium. Plus, reviews of The Monster Hunter in Modern Popular Culture, Videodrome, The Great Monster Magazines: A Critical Study of the Black and White Publications, Ghost Stories, Jonathan Maberry's Patient Zero, Rakie Keig's Terror Island, Bruce Boston's The Nightmare Collection, Kenneth Hit and Andy Hopp's Where the Deep Ones Are, and Nate Kenyon's The Reach.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Mothman Festival - Point Pleasant, West Virginia.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Vagrant and Blitzkrieg: Escape From Stalag 69.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: Blood Ceremony. Plus! Reviews of Mirrors OST, Jack Brooks Monster Slayer OST, Leviathan, Ghoultown, North Side Kings, The Rabies, Behemoth, Ohgr, Sycksyde, and Cradle of Filth.


PLAY DEAD:
Silent Hill: Homecoming, A Touch of Evil: The Supernatural Game and Vampire Rain: Altered Species.


CLASSIC CUT:
Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise.

Contents STAINED SNOW, LOST SOULS
One of the most unique and haunting vampire films ever made, Sweden's Let the Right One In is poised to chill your blood. Interviews with Tomas Alfredson and novelist John Ajvide Lindqvist.
by Mitch Davis and Monica S. Kuebler


YOUNG BLOODLOVERS
Stephenie Meyer's best-selling young adult novel Twilight is a vampire Romeo and Juliet tale about love, blood lust and the dangers of being mortal. The highly anticipated film adaptation hits theatres this month. Plus: Teen vamp fiction and HBO's True Blood.
by Monica S. Kuebler and Liisa Ladouceur


8MM CREATURE FEATURES
Before home video, the most popular way to invite your favourite monsters into your living room was through brightly packaged film reels available at the local drugstore. Rue Morgue looks back at this decades-long tradition.
by Eric Veillette


THE GOD OF HELLFIRE
Arthur Brown, the madman who shoved shock rock in the face of the Peace and Love Generation with his proto-corpsepaint, fiery stage shows and occult themes, celebrates the 40th anniversary of his most influential album.
by Kier-la Janisse







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Vampire movies.


DREADLINES:
Toronto International Film Festival horror highlights; First all-horror shorts website launched.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Instances of Needle Nastiness.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Tofu the Vegan Zombie, Vampire Teeth Place Card Holders, Alfred Hitchcock Birds Barbie Doll, Just Severed Silicone Ear.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre presents reviews of eight films from Ghost House Underground. Abbreviated Terrors reviews Penny Dreadful, His Last Request and In the Wall. Plus! Reviews of The Zombie Diaries, Halloween: 3-Disc Unrated Director's Edition, Brutal Massacre - A Comedy, Home Sick, Pathology, Five Across the Eyes, Gimme Skelter, The Killing Gene, Dungeon Girl and Starship Troopers 3: Marauders. Last Rites reviews Undead or Alive, The Quick and the Dead and Ghost Gunfighter. Reissues presents a feature on the new four-DVD collection from Hammer Films. Plus! Reviews of Sal?, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976), Dark Forces (1980), Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (2001) and The Dead Pit (1989).


CINEMARQUEE:
The Mask (1961).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Spotlight: The Werewolf of Washington.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
The horror comic book gospel welcomes returning columnist Pedro Cabezuelo! Reviews of A Treasury of 20th Century Murder: The Lindbergh Child, The EC Archives: Tales From the Crypt Volume 3, The Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. One and Tales From the Crypt #4.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Weird Tales magazine. Plus, reviews of Taboo Breakers, Flowers From Hell: The Modern Japanese Horror Film, Spirits and Death in Niagara, The Ghost Quartet, Stephen Romano's Shock Festival, Tolerance: The Art of Chris Mars, Derek McCormack's The Show that Smells, and Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus' Orgy of Souls.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Monroeville Mall - Monroeville, Pennsylvania.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Lunchmeat fanzine.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: Veronique Chevalier's Polka Haunt Us. Plus! Reviews of The Fly Opera, Death Race OST, Midnight Meat Train OST, The Dead Next Door OST, Invaders from Mars OST, and new records from Amanda Palmer, The Voodoo Organist, Mondo A Go-Go, White Chapel and Anima.


PLAY DEAD:
Reviews of Monsterpocalypse, Dracula 3: Path of the Dragon and Siren: Blood Curse.


CLASSIC CUT:
Dell Abyss.

Contents FAMOUS MONSTER
When Famous Monsters of Filmland hit newsstands in 1958, it united an entire generation of creature-loving children and sparked genre fan culture. No one anticipated the effect it would have on some of those 'Monster Kids,' who would go on to become genre legends. This Halloween, Rue Morgue celebrates the 50th anniversary of the magazine that started it all via a conversation with founding editor Forrest J Ackerman. Featuring words with and by filmmakers John Landis and Joe Dante, rock legend Gene Simmons, legendary cover artist Basil Gogos, SFX Wizard Rob Bottin, and more. Plus! Director Tim Sullivan takes us on a guided tour of the Ackermansion in its heyday, and much more!
by Paul Corupe, Gene Simmons, Jovanka Vuckovic, Joe Moe, Tim Sullivan, Forrest J Ackerman, Dave Alexander and Rob Bottin


THE GORE-MET'S 50 ESSENTIAL GORE FILMS
A comprehensive list of vital cinematic atrocities every hardcore horror fan needs to see. Bring on the blood!
by The Gore-met


NOCTURNAL ADMISSIONS
American Baroque painter Michael Hussar reveals the very personal meaning behind his perverse and morbid body of work.
by Jovanka Vuckovic


THE SIMPSONS VAULT OF TERROR
Once a year The Simpsons is taken over by The Treehouse of Horror Halloween special. Time to take stock of nearly two decades of hilariously blood-curdling cartoons.
by Philip Brown


SHOCKWAVES: A CLASSIC HORROR RADIO ROUNDUP
Gather 'round the wireless and set your transistors for terror as Rue Morgue explores the sinister chills and thrills of yesteryear's audio plays.
by Richard Gavin


FESTIVAL OF FEAR 2008
Pics from our 5th annual horror convention.
Photos by Ashlea Wessel and Ian Goring


COSMIC CARNAGE
Gory new video game Dead Space launches the survival horror genre deep into outer space. Plus: Downfall, the animated prequel.
by Monica S. Kuebler


DEVIL'S ON OUR SIDE
The Creepshow, Canada's horrorbilly sensation returns with an album warning you to Run for Your Life.
by Trevor Tuminski


DOUG BRADLEY'S DEADTIME STORIES
Everyone's favourite cenobite tackles Lovecraft in a new type of audio book.
by James Grainger







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Famous Monsters of Filmland.


DREADLINES:
Toronto After Dark Film Festival continues growth for year three, Fright Channel to relaunch online, Teen filmmaker preps second horror feature.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six Instances of Torturous Transformations.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Halloween Living Dead Dolls, Thanksgiving T-shirt, Royal Mail Classic Hammer Stamps, Toilet Ink.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre presents features on Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown and Wicked Lake. Abbreviated Terrors reviews 2007 Toronto After Dark Film Festival short film highlights. Plus! Reviews of Stuck, Death Race, Mirrors, Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead, End of the Line, Shutter, Resurrection Mary, Rest Stop: Don't Look Back, Dark Honeymoon, Triloquist, Steel Trap, Wide Awake and Trapped Ashes. Last Rites reviews The Raven, Kaw and Birds of Prey. Reissues presents features on Pieces, Fox Horror Classics Collection Volume 2 and Friday the 13th: The Series. Plus! Reviews of Child's Play (1988), Barracuda (1978)/Island Fury (1989), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Psycho Kickboxer (1997), Swamp Thing The Series Volume 2 (1992-1993), The X-Files: Revelations (1993-1999), The Unseen (1981) and Virgin Witch (1972).


CINEMARQUEE:
The Portrait of Dorian Gray (1945).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Spotlight: Invasion of the Blood Farmers.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Steve Niles on Gotham after Midnight. Plus reviews of Almighty, City of Dust #1 (of 5), The Nightmare Factory Volume 2, Zombie Tales #4.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Matthew Warner's Horror isn't a 4-Letter Word. Plus, reviews of A Hallowe'en Anthology: Literary and Historical Writings over the Centuries, The Alfred Hitchcock Story, The Book of Lists: Horror, Joe R. Lansdale's Leather Maiden, Ryan Mecum's Zombie Haiku, Ramsey Campbell's The Grin of the Dark, and Bill Hussey's Through A Glass Darkly.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Halloween in Sin City.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Faces of Death.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: Son of Sam. Plus! Reviews of Hellboy 2: The Golden Army OST, The Midnight Meat Train OST, The X-Files: I Want To Believe OST, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor OST, Shutter OST, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Score, Midnight Syndicate, The Rotted, In a World..., Chris Alexander & Carrie Eliza, Displacer, Diemonsterdie, The Night Shift, Brother Von Doom, Ghosts Run Wild, Captain A-Hole a.k.a. Yogi, Leather Wolf, and more!


PLAY DEAD:
Zombies!!! 7: Send in the Clowns!, Magic: The Gathering - Planeswalker, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.


CLASSIC CUT:
Vampirella.

Contents RETURN OF THE SPIDER
The original shock rocker is back with a concept album based around an arachnid-obsessed serial killer. Join us in Alice Cooper's web as he spins his latest venomous tale of insanity, mutilation and murder. Plus: Multiple Maniacs, a guide to the most deranged personalities of Alice Cooper.
by Aaron Von Lupton


PRIME-TIME TERRORS
Five new genre television releases on DVD are bringing monsters, murder and mayhem to the masses. Plus: Spotlights on Canada's Durham Country, as well as Six Films to Keep You Awake, Spain's answer to Masters of Horror.
by John W. Bowen, Monica S. Kuebler, Jovanka Vuckovic, Dave Alexander and Sean Plummer


THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE
Painter Vincent Castiglia captures the beauty of decay using a very unusual medium... his own blood.
by Jovanka Vuckovic


FANTASIA 2008: FESTIVAL WRAP-UP
Selected reviews from this year's programme of dark cinema.
by Dave Alexander, Stuart F. Andrews, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Kier-la Janisse and Jovanka Vuckovic







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Alice Cooper.


DREADLINES:
Inside directors ready survivalist slasher film, Halloween sequel; Dylan Dog set for Hollywood debut; James Gunn heads up Xbox 360 horror-comedy shorts.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. The Rue Morgue Sick Top Six Instances of Shark Slaughter.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Adidas Hellboy Sneakers, Nosferatu Coffin Box, Magnetic Monsters Tin, Coffin Cookie Cutter.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre reviews The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Lost Boys: The Tribe, Death Note, Timber Falls, Voice, Hybrid, Shark Swarm, The Hive, and more! Reissues features reviews of Phantasm: Oblivion, Lips of Blood, The Beast in Space, Things, Killer's Moon, and more!


CINEMARQUEE:
The Mummy (1932).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
River's Edge.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Spotlight: The Walking Dead (issues 43-50). Plus reviews of Feels Like Stephen King, The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8, Smuggling Spirits (1-2) and The Revenant.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Jonathan Maberry's Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead. Plus reviews of The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula, A Year of Fear, Hideaki Sena's Parasite Eve, Brent Hayward's Filaria, Michael Slade's Crucified, and more!


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
The Mummies of Ireland - Dublin, Ireland


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Snuff: A Documentary about Killing on Camera.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: The Toxic Avenger musical. Reviews of The Abandoned OST, The Dark Hour/Home Delivery OST, The Cottage OST, Crimson Ghosts, Gutter Demons, Angelspit, Gama Bomb and The Rotted. Plus Video Drome coverage of Cannibal Corpse's Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years DVD and Gorgoroth's Black Mass Krakow 2004 DVD.


PLAY DEAD:
Hellboy: The Science of Evil, Teenage Zombies: Attack of the Alien Brain Thingies, and Lord of the Fries.


CLASSIC CUT:
James Ensor's Skeletons Warming Themselves.

Contents THE TORTURED SOUL OF ED HARTLEY
The late great Stan Winston's monster-making career was in hyperdrive during the late 1980s, but he took time out from big money projects to make his directorial debut with a low-budget, old-school creature feature with a classic morality play at its core. Interviews with star Lance Henriksen and Oscar-winning creature creators Alec Gillis and (Pumpkinhead himself) Tom Woodruff Jr.
by John W. Bowen and Jovanka Vuckovic


THE CANNIBAL EXPRESS
The first of fifteen film adaptations of Clive Barker's Book of Blood begins with the ultra-gory Midnight Meat Train. Now, after a bumpy studio ride, Ryuhei Kitamura's Midnight Meat Train rolls into theatres. Plus: News on two more Films of Blood.
by James Grainger and Paul Kane


WITCHES IN THE WOOD
In the secret occult world of Katy Horan's folk art, the forest is a very dark place.
by Dave Alexander


BIRDS OF A FEATHER... SLAY TOGETHER
Robert E. Howard's Pigeons from Hell continues to take flight, most recently as a comic book miniseries.
by Gary Butler







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Stan Winston.


DREADLINES:
Cameron Romero moves on to second feature with Staunton Hill; Experimental Poe film one of several biographies timed for author's bicentennial; Bruce McDonald wraps new spin on the zombie film.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. The Rue Morgue Sick Top Six Instances of Death From Above.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Coffin Couches, Wormweird Tarot, 30 Days of Night tee, Masters of Horror Season Two Box Set.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre features Greg McLean's Rogue, plus reviews of The Happening, The Strangers, The Eye 3, Long Dream, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Tattooist, The Cottage, and more! Reissues features reviews of Madame O, The Nanny, Drainiac, Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals, and more!


CINEMARQUEE:
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Mother's Day.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Spotlight: Necronomicon. Plus reviews of Chopper Zombie, Coraline, The Goon #27, Demo TPB, Hellblazer: The Fear Machine.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: New & Reissued Jack Ketchum titles. Plus reviews of Hammer Music Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde, Carnivora: The Dark Art of Automobiles, Modern Mythmakers, Nicholas Pekearo's The Wolfman, Mike Carey's Vicious Circle and Thomas Tryon's The Other, and more!


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Sideshows by the Seashore, Coney Island - Brooklyn, USA


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Philosophy of a Knife.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: the bloodsoaked hip-hop of Mr. Hyde. Reviews of The Eye (2007) OST, The Rage OST, Sentenced to Misery, Chesty Malone and the Slice 'Em Ups, Bloodsucking Zombies from Outer Space, Rezurex, Xasthur, Grave Robber, Colony 5, Hellboundheart, Hatchet, Nachtmystium, more!


PLAY DEAD:
Alone in the Dark, Belief & Betrayal, Unreal Tournament 3


CLASSIC CUT:
Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Contents BEASTS OF THE APOCALYPSE
Guillermo del Toro goes epic with Hellboy II: The Golden Army, a thoughtful, hard-boiled creature feature that pits man and monster against, well, man and monster. Interviews with del Toro, actor Doug Jones and series creator Mike Mignola. Plus: New Hellboy books from Dark Horse reviewed.
by Jovanka Vuckovic, Monica S. Kuebler and Gary Butler


THE X-FILES: DECLASSIFIED
Back in the 1990s The X-Files reinvigorated mainstream interest in genre TV, On the eve of the second feature film based on the series, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Rue Morgue looks back at the show's legacy and peers at its closely-guarded future. Chris Carter speaks. Plus: A selection of the creepiest X-Files episodes.
by Monica S. Kuebler


TERROR IN CENTRAL PARK
Pioneering survival horror title Alone in the Dark is back with a reboot that rethinks the narrative structure of video games and pits its hero against something that could've crawled right out of Cloverfield.
by Daniel Kaszor


DREYER'S DARKEST DREAM
This month, an unsung vampire classic by a Danish auteur is finally given its due, as Carl Dreyer's Vampyr joins the Criterion Collection.
by Paul Corupe







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Guillermo del Toro


DREADLINES:
FanTasia rings in its twelfth year with over 100 global genre titles; Oscar-winning Juno screenwriter turns to horror with Jennifer's Body.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. The Rue Morgue Sick Top Six Instances of Hook Homicides.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
H.P. Lovecraft Bust, The Tingler Prop Replica, Mansinthe, Skull Flip-Flops.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre features reviews of Botched, Sisters, Otis, American Zombie, Side Sho, and more! Reissues features reviews of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, Visions of Hell: The Films of Jim VanBebber, Simon, King of the Witches, Lucker the Necrophagous, Love Me Deadly, and more!


CINEMARQUEE:
The Skull (1965).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Mill Creek Marathon


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Spotlight: Jon J. Muth's M. Plus reviews of Cthulhu Tales #2, Gabriel, The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs, Strange Embrace, The Straw Men #1, Three Shadows.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Gary A. Braunbeck's Coffin County. Plus reviews of Wild Beyond Belief!, Brian J. Shower's The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories, Sins of the Sirens: Fourteen Tales of Dark Desire, Dennis Etchison's Got to Kill Them All, Alexandra Sokoloff's The Price, and more!


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
The Paris Opera/Notre Dame Cathedral/The Louvre - Paris, France


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: The Worst Horror Movie Ever Made


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: South America's Damn Laser Vampires. Reviews of The Mist OST, Doomsday OST, La Terza Madre OST, Joshua OST, Thee Merry Widows, The Birthday Massacre, Devian, Deicide, Bong-Ra, Meshuggah, more!


PLAY DEAD:
Dracula: Origin, Overclocked: A History of Violence, Growing Hunger


CLASSIC CUT:
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

Contents UNDERAGE RAGE IN JAPAN
The term 'young offender' has never carried as much weight as it does in Japan, a nation plagued by teenage violence and suicides. For genre filmmakers, though, the phenomenon has also led to some of the country's most outrageous, if stunningly cruel and bloody, cult films. Rue Morgue examines the cycle of Japanese youth violence movies with a panel of experts including director Sion Sono, Asian cinema authority Tom Mes and Japanese film scholar Jay McRoy. Plus: A look at the country's new and upcoming youth violence films including The Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police, Karaoke Terror, and more!
by Dave Alexander and Jovanka Vuckovic


THE BLOODSTAINED BURKA
Omar Ali Khan's Hell's Ground - an unprecedented mix of American horror and Lollywood cinema - issues a killer challenge to Pakistan's film industry.
by Paul Corupe and Sean Plummer


A FEAST OF DEVIANCE
The short-lived Decadent Movement of the late-1800s attacked Victorian sensibilities with equal parts nihilism and grotesque imagery.
Rue Morgue investigates one of horror literature's least known subgenres.
by Richard Gavin


SING A SONG OF SAVAGERY
Darren Bousman has left the Saw franchise for gothier pastures with Repo! The Genetic Opera, a bizarre futuristic fairy tale musical featuring everything from gory organ repossession to Paris Hilton.
Now all he has to do is get it into theatres.
by Sean Plummer







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Horror Tattoos.


DREADLINES:
New horror anthology coming to French television; Monsterpocalypse - a new style of game for horror fans; Troll 2 fans to gather for the Nilbog Invasion.


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre features Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered Volume 1, plus reviews of The Ruins, Prom Night, Retribution, The Sick House, Gabriel, and more! Reissues features reviews of Schizo, Student Bodies, Women's Prison Massacre, Killing Car, The Torture Chamber of Doctor Sadism, Death Smiles on a Murderer, and more!


CINEMARQUEE:
Secrets of a Soul (1961).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Carrie on, my wayward Sean....


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Spotlight: Stef Lenk's The Details. Plus reviews of Abe Sapien: The Drowning 1-5, B.R.P.D. 1946 1-5, Battle Royale Ultimate Edition Volume 3, Madame Xanadu 1, Life Sucks, and Willow Creek.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Borderlands Press. Plus reviews of Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema, Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 2, Yasutaka Tsutsui's Hell, Tony Barlow's Sharp Teeth, Stephen King's Duma Key, and more!


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Draugasetrid (The Ghost Centre) - Stokkseyri, Iceland.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Amicus Mortis and The Gateway Meat.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: The doom country of Those Poor Bastards. Reviews of Resident Evil: Extinction OST, The Girl Next Door OST, The Fright, L'Ame Immortelle, The Mountain Goats, Boris Randall, Catastrophic, Isole, more!


PLAY DEAD:
HorrorClix: Nightmares and Freddy vs. Jason, Kill Doctor Lucky... And His Little Dog, Too!, Dark Sector.


CLASSIC CUT:
W.W. Jacobs' 'The Monkey's Paw'.

Contents ENFANTS TERRIBLES
A handful of young French filmmakers are re-invigorating the genre with films that are both beautiful and bloody. Rue Morgue interviews the latest practitioners of Franco gore movies, with a look at the pregnancy-themed slasher Inside, from newcomers Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, as well as the politically conscious survival horror Frontier(s). Plus: Interviews with the female anti-scream queen stars of both films, reviews of recent fright films from France, and more!
by Stuart F. Andrews, Jason Lapeyre, Dave Alexander, Liisa Ladouceur, Kier-La Janisse and James Grainger


BLACK MAGIC WOMEN
Dario Argento returns with The Mother of Tears, his long-awaited, ultra-violent finale to the Three Mothers trilogy. Interviews with the legendary director and the one of the film's screenwriters. Plus: Argento's own brand of Hitchcockian horror comes to DVD with the obscure television series Door into Darkness!
by The Gore-met, Dave Alexander and Mark R. Hasan


THE EVIL EYE
Photographer Peter Beste spent seven years documenting those dedicated to the world's most notorious music scene. His new book, True Norwegian Black Metal, sheds some light on the darkness.
by Liisa Ladouceur







NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Female villains.


DREADLINES:
Rue Morgue Cinema launches first feature-length project, releases new short; Convention to celebrate 30 years of Halloween this fall; Stage adaptation of Misery restores horror to King's story.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. The Rue Morgue Sick Top Six Instances of Skin Stripping.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Bone Chiller Ice Cube Trays, Walking Dead Statue, Human Skeleton Five-Year-Old Comparative Set, Uncle Cthulhu Poster


CINEMACABRE:
CineMacabre presents reviews of Funny Games, Doomsday, Shutter, Day of the Dead, Deadly End, Outpost, Shrooms, Furnace, Wrestlemaniac, Nature Morte, The Backwoods, and more! Reissues features reviews of The Case of the Bloody Iris, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Sister of Ursula, Sex Slaves of the S.S., The Bloodstained Shadow, and more!


CINEMARQUEE:
Curse of the Doll People (1961).


BOWEN'S BASEMENT:
Spotlight: Meanest Machine Ever: The Car.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Spotlight: Jessica Farm. Plus reviews of Comic Arf, Haunted, House of Mystery, Lesions on the Brain, Short Stack and 'Spring 2061' from Zombie Tales #1.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Graham Roumieu's Bigfoot: I Not Dead. Plus reviews of Necronomicon: Book Five, Basil Copper: A Life in Books, Offensive Films, Sweeney Todd: The Real Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, David Wellington's 99 Coffins, and more!


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Haunted Fort George - Niagara-on-the-Lake


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Two German underground films from Unearthed.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: The vintage horror-soaked punk-psychedelia of Forbidden Dimension . Reviews of Haunting Villisca OST, Jaws 3-D OST, Polkadot Cadaver, Funeral Crashers, The Forbidden 5, Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, Anima Morte, Brain Drill, Helgrind, Sinamore, more!


PLAY DEAD:
Condemned 2: Bloodshot, Obscure: The Aftermath and Requiem: Bloodymare.


CLASSIC CUT:
Time-Life Books' The Enchanted World series.

Contents Vampira: The Last Interview; Ghost Hunters Paranormal TV; Malleus Maleficarum;
sculptor/artist Kris Kuksi; Dimmu Borgir; author Del James; the gialli of Aldo Lado; Varney
the Vampire; Travelogue on the Hollywood Forever Cemetery (by Bill Moseley);
China's Cat III films; Johnny Hollow; Lars von Trier's The Kingdom; more!

Contents Spotlight on Indie Horror featuring Mulberry Street, The Living and the Dead,
The Lost, 8 Films to Die For; Prom Night reunion; 85 Years of Lovecraft Art;
Hearse Bikes; Earth vs. the Flying Saucers; The Green Slime; Brian Keene;
The World Famous Frankenstein 1818 Pub; Horror Rises from the Tomb; James
Fisher's Aberrant; The Savage Planet; more!

Contents Tim Burton on Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; George,
A. Romero's Diary of the Dead; The Signal; Babylon Fields; zombie portrait
artist Rob Sachetto; The Definitive 2008 Convention Schedule; R.I.P. 2007:
The Year in Review; Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows; The Last Man on
Earth; Werewolf novels; Cela Kula (Skull Tower); Gorgeous Frankenstein;
Rudyard Kipling's 'The Vampire'; more!

Contents Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, interviews with Gregory M. Wilson,
Blanche Baker, Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman;
Tim Lucas' Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark; artist Tom Chantrell;
Mike Nelson; John Brahm; Renny Harlin's Prison; Steven Hall's The Raw
Shark Texts; Ohio State Reformatory; Hellraiser; Dethklok; Man Bites
Dog; more!

Contents The Mist, interviews with Frank Darabont and Thomas Jane;
Vintage Board Games; Poultrygeist; Festival of Fear 2007;
Supernatural; Phil Mucci; Bob Clark; The Lost World (1925);
Adele Hartley; The Jekyll & Hyde Club; The Mother of Tears;
Maris the Great & the Faggots of Death; Wladyslaw Starewicz;
more!

Contents The Thing, interviews with John Carpenter, Rob Bottin, Kurt
Russell, Keith David; 10 Years of Rue Morgue; Clive Barker's
Mister B. Gone & Jericho; The History of Black Metal; 30 Days
of Night; Monster Cereals; author F. Paul Wilson; Horror
Podcasts; The Nightmare Factory graphic novel; Greg Lamberson's
Johnny Gruesome; Spider Baby; The Hunchback of Notre Dame;
Fright Night; Day of the Dead festival; Inner Depravity; The
Darkest of the Hillside Thicket's; John W. Campbell's Who Goes
There; more!

Contents The Return of the Living Dead, interviews with Dan O'Bannon, Linnea
Quigley, Allan 'The Tarman' Trautman, Dinah Cancer of 45 Grave;
Death Photography; Adam Green's Hatchet; FanTasia 2007 Report;
Bioshock; Jeff Lindsay's Dexter in the Dark; The Burning; Sarah
Langan's The Missing; Eastern State Penitentiary; Ebola Syndrome;
Balzac; Deep Red Magazine; more!

Contents THE NEW BOOGEYMAN OF HADDONFIELD:
Love it or hate it, Rob Zombie has remade Halloween. The question on everyone's mind is: will his vision do the iconic film justice? Rue Morgue gets to the heart of the matter in a frank interview with the rock star director. Plus: Franchise producer Malek Akkad continues his father's legacy, and a look at Halloween fan films.
by: Chris Alexander, Jovanka Vuckovic, James Grainger and Dave Alexander.


THE COPYCAT KILLERS:
David Michael Latt, president of The Asylum Home Entertainment, takes us inside the surprisingly prolific studio that brought you outrageous mockbusters such as Halloween Night and Snakes on a Train. Plus: Slumming attractions from The Asylum and reviews of their delirious doppelgangers.
by: Last Chance Lance.


THROUGH THE EYES OF LES EDWARDS:
Les Edwards has been illustrating in the genre for over 35 years with an impressive assortment of book covers and movie posters.
by: Paul Kane.


THE HORRORS OF EVERYDAY LIFE:
Reclusive scribe Bentley Little weaves biting social commentary with traditional horror.
by W. Brice McVicar.


GRIMLY'S FAIRY TALE THEATRE:
Acclaimed writer/illustrator Gris Grimly takes the plunge into filmmaking with Cannibal Flesh Riot!
by: James Grainger.




DEPARTMENTS


NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Halloween.


DREADLINES:
Russian gore film marks first feature from Unearthed; Ghost stories of M.R. James coming to North American stage; Interactive zombie film goes for record.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. The Rue Morgue Sick Top Six Instances of Blood Baths.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
The Great Cthulhu, Spine Lamp, Crystal Skull Necklace, Monster Theatre Figures.


CINEMACABRE:
Reviews of Hostel: Part II, Mr. Brooks, Meatball Machine, The Thirst, Masters of Horror: 'We All Scream for Ice Cream' and 'Valerie on the Stairs,' Bloody Reunion, Marcus, and more! Reissues presents reviews of Malpertuis, Deadtime Stories, Trog, The Giant Behemoth and Splatter Farm.


CINEMARQUEE:
The Mummy's Hand (1940).


SCHIZOID CINEPHILE:
Spotlight: The Devil's Nightmare.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Spotlight: Josh Simmons' House. Reviews of Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures Vol. 1 HC, Cthulhu Tales Vol. 3, Edmund and Rosemary Go To Hell, Loveless #1-19, Of Scenes and Stories TPB, The Saga of the Bloody Benders HC.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden's Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire. Reviews of Hitchcock and Philosophy: Dial M for Metaphysics, The Cramps: A Short History of Rock 'n' Roll Psychosis, Clare Clark's The Nature of Monsters, Alan Drew and Chet Williamson's The Story of Noichi the Blind, Richard Gavin's Omens, and more!


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Lovecraft's Brattleboro, VT.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Zombie Bloodbath trilogy director Todd Sheets.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight on composer Jaye Barnes Luckett. Plus reviews of The Changeling OST, BUG OST, Snakes on a Plane OST, Shadow in the Trees, Bamboula, Diemonsterdie, Impetigo, Creepersin, Johnny Gruesome and Xcross.


PLAY DEAD:
HorrorClix: Hellboy and Alien vs. Predator, Death Jr. and The Science Fair of Doom and Infernal.


CLASSIC CUT:
William Hope Hodgson's House on the Borderland.

Contents KIDS VS. MONSTERS
The Monster Squad, a Bad New Bears-meets-the-Universal monsters kid comedy, has gathered an impressive cult following since its release twenty years ago. This month, the lost gem finally makes its way to DVD. Rue Morgue reunites Fred Dekker, the entire cast of monsters, creature designer Stan Winston and star Andre Gower.
by: Chris Alexander, Dave Alexander and Jovanka Vuckovic


THE CRYPT NEVER CLOSES
Tales from the Crypt is reborn and looking better than ever with Gemstone Publishing's ongoing series The EC Archives. The history and legacy of the most famous horror comic book series of all time.
by: Paul Corupe


SPILLING GUTS WITH SLAYER
Twenty-four years after Slayer's unholy inception, guitarist Kerry King reveals the lighter side of his band's fascination with evil, ritual dismemberment... and all manner of anti-Christian abomination.
by: Jovanka Vuckovic


HOUSE OF WAX
Visit The Witch's Dungeon wax museum, North America's longest-running Halloween attraction.
by: Paul Corupe




DEPARTMENTS


NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Rape.


DREADLINES:
FanTasia highlights include Jean Rollin and apocalypse films; Undead creators trade zombies for vampires in second feature


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. The Rue Morgue Sick Top Six Instances of Maggot Mayhem.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Session 9 T-shirt; Bloody Mary Jewelled Compact Cases; Coffin Boxes; Hollywood Zombies


CINEMACABRE:
Reviews of Joshua, 1408, Day Watch, Bug, 28 Weeks Later, MoH's The Black Cat, Alone with Her, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Blood Tea & Red String and more. Reissues presents Deimos Entertainment's Welcome to the Grindhouse series, reviews of Who Can Kill a Child?, The Blind Woman's Curse, Five Bloody Graves/Nurse Sherri, Video Violence... When Renting is Not Enough, and more.


CINEMARQUEE:
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1958)


SCHIZOID CINEPHILE:
Spotlight: Tales That Witness Madness


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Spotlight: The Spectre. Reviews of Arkadian: No Witness, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Creature from the Depths, Hack/Slash, and Jonah Hex.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: film scholar Tom Weaver. Reviews of Television Fright Films of the 1970s, Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares, Michael Marshall's The Intruders, B.H. Fingerman's Bottomfeeder, Steve Gerlach's Love Lies Dying, and more.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Dearly Departed Tours - Hollywood, California


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Video sex and violence from Japan.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: Toger Army. Reviews of The Dead Girl OST, Dead Silence OST, Zombi, The Ripmen, Serpenteens, Marilyn Manson, 3 Inches of Blood, Killing Jokes, Blood Freak, and Glenn Danzig.


PLAY DEAD:
Zombietown, Penumbra: Overture, and Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia


CLASSIC CUT:
The Quatermass Xperiment.

Contents MY PET ZOMBIE
This month, Lionsgate releases Fido, a '50s-styled satirical zom-com that plays out like a parody of Lassie with Day of the Dead's Bub in the role of the family dog. Interviews with director Andrew Currie, zombie hero Billy Connelly, and more!
by: Monica S. Kuebler, Dave Alexander, Last Chance Lance and Mark R. Hasan


BENEATH THE CITY OF OTHERS
Comic book titans Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson team up for City of Others. Plus: Future Frights from Steve Niles.
by: Jovanka Vuckovic and Joseph O'Brien


THE VIOLENCE OF THE LAMBS
In the tradition of Peter Jackson's early splatter comedies comes Jonathan King's Black Sheep, New Zealand's latest horror export. Plus: review of three new tainted meat movies.
by: Dave Alexander, Brad Abraham, Chris Alexander and JJ McAllister


T.S. KUEBLER'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Step inside and witness the exquisite full-size monster sculptures of Thomas Scott Kuebler.
by: Jovanka Vuckovic


CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT
Eli Roth returns to the torture dungeons of Eastern Europe with a sequel to Hostel.
by: Dave Alexander




DEPARTMENTS


NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Women and horror.


DREADLINES:
Versus director helms Barker's Midnight Meat Train, Corman's Leeches to rise again in remake, Horror-themed social networking grows with FearNet.


THE CORONER'S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. The Rue Morgue Sick Top Six Instances of Deadly Dolls.


NEEDFUL THINGS:
Cthulhu Slippers, Lisa Petrucci Figures, Danzig Stationary, Hellboy Fridge Magnets


CINEMACABRE:
Reviews of Grindhouse, Rise; Blood Hunter, Severance, Slaughter Night, Vacancy, The Reaping, Creepshow III, Ils, The Nature of Nicholas, Shutter, The Screwfly Solution, 13 Tzameti, and more. Reissues presents Deimos Entertainment's deluxe Paul Naschy series, reviews of Night of the Comet, The Clown Murders, The Man and the Monster, Bleak Future, and more.


CINEMARQUEE:
Frankenstein Conquers the World (1966).


SCHIZOID CINEPHILE:
Nomads.


BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Spotlight: Hellblazer. Reviews of Dead High Yearbook, Micrographica, MPD Psycho, The Secret, and Detective Comics #622-624.


THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: John Kenneth Muir's Horror Films of the 1980s. Reviews of Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, Mondo Lucha A Go-Go, La Dolce Morte, Jeff Strand's The Sinister Mr. Corpse, Scott Sigler's Ancestor, and more.


TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Devil's Den, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.


THE GORE-MET:
Menu: The Gore-met calls out Grindhouse.


AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: The Brains. Reviews of Planet Terror OST, Death Proof OST, L'isola degli uomini pesce OST, The Reaping OST, Greatest Science Fiction Hits V, Bardi Johannsson, Glenn Danzig, Calabrese, Welcome to Circus Punk-a-Billy Vol. 2, :Wumpscut:, and Rwake.


PLAY DEAD:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: The Shadow of Chernobyl, 300: March to Glory, Ghost Rider.


CLASSIC CUT:
Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology

Contents Jodorowsky Unbound! The Exiled Cult Genius comes to DVD, featuring interviews
with Alejandro and Cristobal Jodorowsky; Nacho Cerda's The Abandoned; Fred
Vogel beyond gorenography; Jason D'Aquino's sinister miniatures; 28 Weeks
Later; The Mario Bava Box Set; The Living Coffin; Remembering Bob Clark;
Earthling Publications; Warwick Castle, England; The Twilight Theatre;
F.W. Murnau's Faust; more!

Contents SEX, VIOLENCE AND 42ND ST.:
Rue Morgue examines grindhouse ground zero, the seedy, sensational source of the movement, plus the upcoming Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double bill that pays homage to it. Interviews with Rodriguez, Kurt Russell, Tom Savini, Rob Zombie, Eli Roth and Edgar Wright. Plus: William Lustig remembers 42nd Street, H.G. Lewis on making exploitation films, and more!

SKINNY PUPPY: 25 YEARS OF AURAL VIOLENCE:
This year, the harbingers of dark industrial music celebrate their silver anniversary. cEvin Key and Ogre speak! Plus: Skinny Puppy's 25 most terrifying tracks.

CARNIVAL MACABRE:
Welcome to Pooch Island, a cartoonish, monster-packed, acrylic thrill ride.

LOVE WILL TEAR US APART:
Lucky McKee and Angela Bettis trade director and actor roles for their latest collaboration, Roman.

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Grindhouses.

DREADLINES:
Mondo Macabro produces first Pakistani gore film, Original Stuart Gordon storyboards up for auction, Zombies invade new interactive gaming technology.

CINEMACABRE:
Reviews of 300, The Number 23, Hot Fuzz, Hannibal Rising, Pumpkin: Ashes to Ashes, The Messengers, Sheitan, Masters of Horror 'Family,' Night of the Living Dorks, Open Water 2: Adrift, Heartstopper, Tokko. Reissues presents a look at Horror Trailer Compilations. Reviews of The Silence of the Lambs, Devil Times Five, Black Magic, The Forest, Jess Franco's Count Dracula, Macumba Sexual, Mansion of the Living Dead.

CINEMARQUEE:
Monsters and Madmen Collection.

SCHIZOID CINEPHILE:
Spotlight: Coralina Cataldi Tassoni (Part 2).

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Spotlight: Han Rickheit's Chloe. Reviews of Dead World: Requiem for the World, Elk's Run, Fall of Cthulhu, Roadkill Zoo, Sasquatch.

THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: James Farr's Xombie: Dead on Arrival. Reviews of The Hollywood Horror Film 1931-1941, Beasts!, Splatter Flicks, Stephen Graham Jones' Demon Theory, William Hjortsberg's Falling Angel.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
The Edogawa Rampo House - Tokyo, Japan.

THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Retro video cheapies from Camp Motion Pictures.

AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: Godzilla music collector Larry Tuczynski. Reviews of Spasmo OST, Poultrygeist OST, L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco OST, Pan's Labyrinth OST, Rest Stop OST, Impious, Nekromantix, Lonesome Kings, Gorguts.

PLAY DEAD:
Monsters Menace America, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, Liber Necris: The Book of Death in the Old World.

CLASSIC CUT:
Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast.

Contents IN THE SHADOW OF THE TALL MAN:
Don Coscarelli reminisces about his genre-bending, skull-drilling, shape-shifting series, Phantasm. Plus: Interviews with Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister, and more!

ANIMATING HELLBOY:
Tad Stones and Mike Mignola discuss the trials and tribulations of creating two movie-length Hellboy cartoons. Plus: Ron Perlman on being Hellboy, and more!

PAINT IT RED: THE HISTORY OF AURORA MONSTER MODELS:
Rue Morgue presents the story of the most influential monster collectibles ever made.

THE MAYOR OF GHOULTOWN:
An interview with the dead man behind Ghoultown, Texas' mariachi-fuelled, strange cousin to gothabilly.

HOLLYWOOD HAD IT COMING:
Mick Garris unleashes his first novel, Development Hell, inspired by tinseltown's fickle film business.

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Nightmares.

DREADLINES:
Controversial serial killer film held up due to trial concerns, Edward Scissorhands story expanded in stage adaptation, Zombie feature directed by twelve-year-old girl hits DVD.

CINEMACABRE:
Reviews of The Hitcher, Blood and Chocolate, Primeval, Black Christmas, MoH: Pro-Life, Altered, MoH: Pelts, Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, Creepies 2, Werewolf in a Woman's Prison, The Witch's Sabbath. Indie Terror Fest reviews Mercy, Acne, My Dead Girlfriend. Reissues presents a tribute to Don Dohler (RIP). Reviews of Future-Kill, The Manitou, The True Story of the Nun of Monza, Christmas Evil, Maniac Cop, Doom Asylum.

CINEMARQUEE:
The Aztec Mummy Collection (1957).

SCHIZOID CINEPHILE:
Spotlight: Coralina Cataldi Tassoni.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Spotlight: A celebration of Dark Horse Comics. Reviews of Crossing Midnight #1-3, The Grave Robber's Daughter, TAG: Cursed #1 (of 5), Whistles #2, Dear Julia.

THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: Michael Laimo. Reviews of Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin, Strange Indiana Monsters, Midnight Premiere, The Keeper, The Beast of Noor, Bunnicula Meets Adgar Allan Crow, In the Dark: Stories from the Supernatural, Lisey's Story.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
Ottawa International Youth Hostel - Ontario, Canada.

THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Cannibal.

AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: Death Breath. Reviews of Lifeforce OST, Una vergine tra i morti viventi OST, Frostbite OST, Troll OST, The Deadcats, Bourbon Crow, Rammstein, The Lurking Corpses, Makeup and Vanity Set.

PLAY DEAD:
MMM...Brains!, An Evening of Murder: A Feast to Die For/Last Call, Waifs and Strays.

CLASSIC CUT:
Carlos Clarens' An Illustrated History of the Horror Film.

Contents IT CAME FROM THE HAN RIVER!:
Korean terror invades North America with Bong-Joon Ho's modern creature feature, The Host. Plus: The Birth of K-Horror, new releases and more!

SILENT SCREAMS: HOW THE HORROR FILM FOUND ITS VOICE:
Rue Morgue examines how the Expressionist films of the 1920's influenced how we identify the look and style of horror. Plus: A new book on H?xan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, silent horror's most bizarre movie.

THE FORGOTTEN GUILD OF FUNERARY VIOLINISTS:
An interview with Rohan Kriwaczek, the man behind a new book on the death dirges of funerary violinists.

THE DEFINITIVE 2007 HORROR CONVENTION SCHEDULE:
Map out the coming year in horror with this indispensible guide to the best genre events in North America.

RIP 2006: THE YEAR IN REVIEW:
Our list of what we feel you should have seen, listened to, played and read, and what you should have missed.

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
The Host.

DREADLINES:
Kubrick's lost genre script coming to theatres; Stuart Gordon tackles true crime in latest film; Film adaptation of Poppy Z. Brite's Exquisite Corpse in the works.

NEEDFUL THINGS:
Sota Dagon figure, Intramural Zombie Hunter Tee, Coffin Quill Pen Set, 2007 Men of Mortuaries Calendar.

CINEMACABRE:
Reviews of Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Turistas, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, The Return, The Roost, Population 436, Ghosts of Mae Nam, Voodoo Moon, House of 9, Slashers, Death Tunnel, and The Maid. Abbreviated Terrors presents highlights from the 2006 New York City Horror Film Festival. Reissues presents Harry Kumel's Daughters of Darkness, The Addams Family series and film reissued. Plus reviews of Frankenhooker, Superstition, Ganja & Hess, House of the Damned and Witchery.

CINEMARQUEE:
El Vampiro (1957) and El Ataud del Vampiro (1958), by Fernando Mendez.

SCHIZOID CINEPHILE:
C.H.U.D.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Featuring Alan Moore's Lost Girls, reviews of Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery, Cthulhu Tales: The Rising, Dr. Strange Vs. Dracula: The Montesi Formula, Graphics Classics: H.P. Lovecraft (2nd Edition), The Pirates of Coney Island #3 (of 8) and Please Release.

THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight on the vampire fiction of Jemiah Jefferson. Plus! Reviews of The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless, The EC Archives: Shock Suspenstories Volume 1, Projected Terrors, Max Brooks' World War Z, Bloodlines and more!

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage - The Bronx, New York.

THE GORE-MET:
Menu: In celebration of his 50th column, the Gore-met spills his guts.

AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight on electro-sideshow horror music of Creature Feature. Plus reviews of The Grudge 2 OST, The Dark OST, Masters of Horror Vol II and new music from Lonesome Kings, Michale Graves, The Memphis Morticians, The Horrors, The Horrifics, Nightmare at Hanging Rock, The Gothic Archies and The Demon Seeds.

PLAY DEAD:
Vampire: Dark Influences, Dead Money and Arkham Horror: Curse of the Dark Pharaoh.

CLASSIC CUT:
The Ghost Story of Yotsuya, by Tsuruya Namboku.