Contents Doug Bradley - Hellraiser.


Peter Jackson.


Richard Stanley's Dust Devil.


David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch

Contents Top ten: Michele Soavi

Videodrome: reviews of Demonic Toys, The Runestone, Charles Manson Superstar, Def by Temptation, Revenge of Billy the Kid, Eerie Indiana

Contents Top Ten: Buddy Giovinazzo

Videodrome: reviews of:Psychic, Lost in Time, Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town, Strays, Return of the Living Dead, Critters 3, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Death Trap, Psychic Killer, Death Warmed Up

Contents Trauma: A world exclusive guide to Dario Argento's latest horror thriller.

Videodrme: reviews of Child's Play 3, Scanner Force, Basket Case 3, Amityville 1992, The Burning, The House by the Cemetery

Contents Anthony Hopkins in Coppola's Dracula.


Ticks.


White Angel.


Man Bites Dog.


Hellraiser III.

Contents Jason Goes To Hell.


Body Melt.


Asia Argento interview.


Accion Mutante.


Henry James's Turn of the Screw.

Contents Scanner Cop.

Joe Dante's Matinee.


Carnosaur.


Brian Yuzna on Return of the Living Dead III.

Contents Robert Englund.


Needful Things.


Alexandro Jodorowsky on Santa Sangre.


The Final Friday.

Contents Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers.


Jack Be Nimble.


Lance Henriksen.


Necronomicon.

Contents FunnyMan.


Bedlam.


George Romero on The Dark Half.


Corruption's Robert Hartford Davis.

Contents Phantasm III: Don Coscarelli reunites his original Phantasm cast.

Videodrome: reviews of Return of the LIving Dead 3, Bodysnatchers, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, Bloodstream, The Hidden II

Contents Pumpkinhead II: Stan Winston's super scary monster returns.

Videodrome: reviews of Warlock: The Armageddon, Trauma, Prelude to a Kiss, Scanner Cop, Arcade

Contents A history of Frankenstein + Kenneth Branagh on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.


Lord of Illusions.


Christopher Lee interview.


X-Files.


Clive Barker on Wes Craven.

Contents Neil Jordan on Interview with the Vampire.


Vampyr Chronicles.


Hellraiser IV.


X-Files: Tooms.

Contents Vampire Make-up.


John Carpenter.


Demon Knight.


Robert Englund.


HP Lovecraft.


Ghosts.

Contents David Duchovny interviewed after completing The X-Files Season Two. Special effects exclusives from Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions and John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. Tribute to Donald Pleasence. Star Trek's body horror - The Next Generation's Genesis episode examined. Movie Monsters from Outer Space, and their home-grown counterparts. Tales from the Crypt overview. Plus two Hammer videos reviewed, and In Search of... the Yeti in Bob Keen's debut feature.

Contents Mind Ripper.


Jeff Goldblum.


New X-Files.


American Werewolf in London.


John Wyndham.


Tobe Hooper.

Contents X-Files poster.


Christopher Reeve on Village of the Damned.


Killer Plants.


Clive Barker.

Langoliers.

Contents Bob Keen on Proteus.


Roger Donaldson's Species.


Mystery of Wax Museum.


Kolchak - Night Stalker.

Contents HR Giger interview.


Hellraiser IV.


Robin Hardy on The Wicker Man.


X-Files documentary.


Fantasm 95.

Contents Peter Cushing tribute.


Mad Love.


Forrest J Ackerman.


Frankenstein poster.


HR Giger's Ghost Train.

Contents X-Files Timeline Poster Part 1.


James Whale.


Kim Henkel.


Vincent Price in Madhouse.


Candyman 2.


Hallowe'en edition

Contents Demons


X-Files Season 3 plus Time-line Part 3


Halloween 6


Sometimes They Come Back


Island of Lost Souls

Contents Seven


Mitch Pileggi (X-Files Skinner) interview


The X-Files Season Three


Hammer's Dracula disc

Contents The Wolf Man


The X-Files Season Three reviews


Dracula TV


Virtuosity


Mulder Quotes Poster

Contents Making of The X-Files

Scully Quotes Poster


Plague of the Zombies


Hammer Horror

Contents Making of X-Files: Little Green Men


Lone Gunmen Quote Poster


Horror Writers


Story Editor Frank Spotnitz

Contents Boris Karloff


TV Frankensteins


X-Files Writer Darin Morgan & Season 3's Revelations


Vampire in Brooklyn

Contents Ingrid Pitt Interview Pt 1


X-Files Writer Darin Morgan Pt 2


From Dusk Till Dawn - George Clooney


Quatermass & the Pit

Contents Ingrid Pitt Pt 2


Philip Ridley - Passion of Darkly Noon


Boris Karloff


Making of The X-Files Duane Barry

Contents Top 50 Horror Films


House That Dripped Blood


Killer Barbys


Sangster & Bernard - Hammer writer/scorer

Contents Top 25 TV Horrors


X-Files Mitch Pileggi & Nic Lea


Fantasm 96


Hammer Celebration


X-Files poster

Contents Crow 2


Hallowe'en edition


The Craft


X-Files Jose Chung


Neil Gaiman


Phantom


Simpsons Hallowe'en

Contents X-Files Poster & reviews - plus the making of Darkness Falls


Godzilla


Kindred: The Embraced

Contents Peter Jackson's Frighteners


X-Files poster & preview


American Gothic


Bordello of Blood


Fantasy Film Festival report

Contents The making of Psycho


X-Files Season 4 reviews


Relic


Thesis


American Gothic


UK 70s Horror


Stage Dracula

Contents X-Files make-up artist Toby Lindala


Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Tobe Hooper


Chris Carter - Millennium

Contents Night of Living Dead - George Romero


Genesis of X-Files


Chris Carter Millennium


Island of Dr Moreau

Contents Kevin Williamson's Scream


Nigel Kneale's Stone Tape


Revenge of Frankenstein & X-Files poll results

Contents Luc Besson's Fifth Element


Scream


Millennium


Buffy the Vampire Slayer


X-Files poll Pt 2

Contents Son of Frankenstein


Scream


Dracula's brides


X-Files reviews


Tender Flesh


Crescendo


Andrew Keir

Contents Men in Black - review & poster


The X-Files new season


Stephen King interview


Blood of the Vampire

Contents Event Horizon - behind the scenes plus review & poster


Tom Baker - Mutations


Rick Baker - MIB


X-Files latest

Contents Nic Lea interview plus The X-Files A-Z of Horror


Theatre of Blood


Millennium


Guillermo Del Toro

Contents American Werewolf in Paris


X-Files - DPO


Behind the scenes of Scream 2


Poltergeist: The Legacy

Contents Alien Resurrection - feature & poster


X-Files Season 5 preview


Edgar Allan Poe films of Roger Corman


Sitges festival

Contents Scott Reynolds' The Ugly


X-Files Season 5 preview

Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires


It's Alive!

Contents 70-page full-colour issue with fold-out celebration poster! Christopher Lee recalls his legendary career: 6-page interview feature. Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Tobe Hooper's seminal shocker exhumed. Carry On Screaming - Britain's neglected horror comedy celebrated. Talos The Mummy - on-set report from Alan Jones, himself a Pharoah in Russ Mulcahy's film. Hellraiser 4 - a troubled path from script to screen uncovered. Plus new reviews section and the Shivers story so far, with star guest messages.

Contents Buffy the Vampire Slayer - behind-the-scenes with Todd McIntosh plus poster, Barbara Steele, Hellraiser IV from script to screen

Contents Scream 2 - Scriptwriter Kevin Williamson on making a second genre homage with Wes Craven. Plus exclusive poster. Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Grooming the undead with make-up artist Todd McIntosh: Part 2, with Todd's own pictures. Ken Russell - What is Horror? The British scare supremo talks exclusively to Ingrid Pitt. Christopher Lee - Ol' red eyes on Karloff, singing and turning down Airplane. The Nanny - Hammer's classic 1960s nursery shocker starring Bette Davis. Plus Tod Browning's The Ugly, The X-Files, The Devil-Doll.

Contents Summer of Horror preview: Genesis, Species II, Deep Rising, Sisters, The X-Files: Fight the Future + X-Files poster, Ken Russell

Contents Peter Atkins' Wishmaster & its special effects, The Crazies, Outer Limits, Dario Argento's Phamtom of the Opera, Hammer goes Online, Motel Hell

Contents John Carpenter - interviewed by Dennis Etchison part 1, plus Vampires. Behind the scenes on Mimic. Godzilla - pull-out poster & effects wizard interviewed. X-Files conspiracy arc examined. Previews of Perdita Durango and Razor Blade Smile.

Contents Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Horror's hottest heroine, profiled. Plus a Buffy and Angel poster. John Carpenter - interview part 2. The Devils - Depravity, demons and mad nuns in Ken Russell's 1970's shocker. Hammer's 40th Anniversary reunion reported. Killer B's in London. The X-Files: Season Five's thrilling conclusion unravelled.

Contents Phantoms - Director Joe Chappelle; Species 2 - Producer Frank Mancuso, director Peter Medak and pull-out poster of Eve. Doug Bradley on Pinhead and other Horror roles. Joseph Ross - make-up secrets from An American Werewolf in London to Event Horizon. Buffy the Vampire Slayer's first TV episode and Cronenberg's Rabid re-assessed. Plus Cube, Kim Newman on Godzilla and 11 pages of reviews (64-page issue).

Contents Angel - examining Buffy's charismatic vampire, with pull-out poster. William Friedkin on The Exorcist, 25 years on. Stephen King on Bag of Bones, film adaptations and his latest TV projects. Disturbing Behaviour - X-Files director David Nutter on his debut feature. Cube reviewed and director Vincento Atali interviewed. Kim Newman on Val Lewton. Ingrid Pitt on the X-Files movie.

Contents Halloween: H20 - Chris Durand, aka masked killer Michael Myers, on working with Jamie Lee Curtis to revive a Horror icon. Plus: behind-the-scenes of John Carpenter's original Halloween (1978), Kim Newman's disturbed screening and a pull-out poster. Ultraviolet - writer/director Joe Ahearne on his modern-day TV vampires. Director Michael Haneke on his disturbing Funny Games. How Quentin Tarantino revived Fulci's The Beyond. Alicia Witt on Urban Legend.

Contents Blade - writer David Goyer on the making of the latest vampire-hunting phenomenon, plus his Quatermass script. Buffy's David Boreanaz looks forward to an Angel spin-off series. The Exorcist - We go back 25 years to chronicle the genesis of thie classic. Alan Jones reports on the projects unveiled at Sitges 98. Plus: Thorley Walters - Hammer's comic gentleman, advance sketches for Phantasm Oblivion, and 60 favourite moments from Horror history for our 60th issue.

Contents Psycho - director Gus van Sant's controversial remake examined. Apt Pupil - director Bryan Singer on his provocative Stephen King adaptation. Buffy the Vampire Slayer's season 3 premiere in focus, with pull-out cast poster. Nasties! - censorship and 'banned' films uncovered in London. Hammer's Abominable Snowman - unjustly neglected? Graham Masterson on his horror novels. Boris Karloff commemorated, Kim Newman on Bela Lugosi, The Exorcist Diaries (pt 2).

Contents From Buffy to I Know What You Did Last Summer, we look at the heroes and villains who are the Boys of Horror, including profiles of Nicholas Brendon and David Boreanaz. We look at the successful new independent film Pi, which combines magic with mathematics, we feature the new quartet of Mummy movies for 1999, there's a peep at Horror websites and a feature on Christopher Lee in The Hands of Orlac.

Contents The Girls of Horror - the changing role of heroines, profiling Alyson Hannigan, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Neve Campbell. Gods and Monsters, the acclaimed biopic of director James Whale, examined. Make-Up, Magic and Monsters - a three-part series starts with the craft's film pioneers. The Faculty - behind-the-scenes exclusive on Robert Rodriguez's new college Horror. Plus Gaspar Noe on I Stand Alone, Deranged, Kim Newman on censorship, and James Bernard's Universal Memories.

Contents A bumper 80-page extravaganza with the very best from the varied worlds of Horror. We look at the Villains of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and continue our three-part feature on monster make-up secrets. We interview John Bruno, director of Virus and talk to Oscar nominees Bill Condon and Sir Ian McKellen about their work on the James Whale biopic Gods and Monsters.

Contents David Cronenberg - the celebrated and complex director discusses Existenz. The Angel Chronicles examines Buffy's best-known vampire's second season. We conclude our exclusive feature Make-up, Magic and Monsters, profiling Dick Smith, Stan Winston and Rick Baker. Carrie 2: The Rage - screenwriter Rafael Moreau on following a classic. Our regular look at new Horrors in TV, videos, books and movies, plus Kim Newman on Stanley Kubrick - and Queen of Horror herself, Ingrid Pitt.

Contents Idle Hands - we interview the hands-free horror comedy's director Rodman Flender. Highly popular Horror actress Caroline Munro recalls her Hammer career. We preview Ravenous with screenwriter Ted Griffin, and the surpise blockbuster The Mummy. Nicky Henson's rare recollections of Witchfinder General, Psychomania and Vampira. Tribute to Oliver Reed. Possession's director Andrzej Zulawski. Plus Kim Newman, Ingrid Pitt and all the usual reviews sections.

Contents The making of Universal's blockbuster hit The Mummy, director Jan De Bont and actress Catherine Zeta Jones discuss their new film The Haunting, there's an interview with cult superstar Udo Keir (Warhol's Dracula), and more on Apt Pupil from scriptwriter Brandon Boyce. Also: Jennifer Tilly and director Ronny Yu on making her Bride of Chucky, the Hammer reunion at Bray studios and an Edgar Allan Poe film season in London. Plus 11 pages of reviews, Kim Newman and Ingrid Pitt.

Contents The Blair Witch Project - the scariest film to come out of America in 20 years? The Abominable Dr Phibes - retrospective of a celebrated Vincent Price role. Pumpkinhead - SFX Guru Stan Winston's creepily effective film recalled. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - the curious fate of the two 'banned' episodes. Hannibal Lecter's screen debut in Michael Mann's Manhunter examined. Stigmata - psychological thriller starring Patricia Arquette and Jonathan Pryce previewed. Talos the Mummy - scriptwriter talks!

Contents The making of the modern vampire: how the bloodsuckers of old became heroes for a new generation. Directors of new vampire films interviewed: Richard Elfman on Revenant and Elias Merhige on Shadow of the Vampire. Four film incarnations of Bram Stoker's Queen Tera recalled, and Peter Cushing's final appearance as Baron Frankenstein for Hammer. Plus all the latest reviews, including Buffy The Vampire Slayer's first four Season Three episodes - and a look at Xander's progress.

Contents The Blair Witch Project - we interview Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, directors of the hottest Horror hit for years. Stigmata - Rupert Wainwright, director of the terrifying religious-themed hit, talks. Phantasm - retrospective on the classic series. Braindead - a look at Peter Jackson's influential early movie. Plus news and reviews of Horror-themed films, books, videos and soundtracks, Ingrid Pitt in a special Monster Rally report in 'The Pitt of Horror' and Kim Newman on the Blair Witch phenomenon

Contents Inside our 80 fright-packed pages for Halloween: Buffy and Angel - status report on the new series, Robia La Morte (Ms Calendar) interviewed, plus 5 episodes new to the UK this month reviewed. Sleepy Hollow - Tim Burton's ghostly new gothic treat previewed. Blair Witch Project - concluding our directors' interview. Clive Barker encountered during a fascinating tour. Stigmata - scribe Tom Lazarus interviewed. With Abbott & Costello vs. movie monsters, rare Sheila Keith interview, the usual mix of news and reviews of Horror-themed films, books, videos and soundtracks, plus Ingrid Pitt and Kim Newman's columns.

Contents Cover feature:The Sixth Sense - 1999's most highly-acclaimed chiller investigated. New horror for 2000 previewed from the influential Sitges Festiival. Blair Witch - on trial? We proclaim the charges. The House on Haunted Hill - William Castle's creaky classic and the Halloween hit remake explored. Brazil - an in-depth look at Terry Gilliam's nightmarish vision. Black XXX-Mas - indie Horror from an in-your-face Belgian company. Plus screenwriter Duncan Kennedy on Deep Blue Sea, our usual collection of news and reviews (with more episodes of Buffy Season Three) and Kim Newman's Opinion column.

Contents Sleepy Hollow: Johnny Depp on playing Ichabod Crane in Tim Burton's decap-tivating movie, plus costume designer Colleen Attwood and stuntman Nick Attwood. Brian Yuzna: the director of gore-fest Society on setting up a new Hammer style studio in Spain. End of Days: cast & crew on the millennial supernatural movie, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Dogma: the anarchic film from Kevin Smith that unites Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Alan Rickman as apocalyptic Angels examined. Stir of Echoes: David Koepp's film about a man haunted by a sinister figure previewed. PLUS: News, reviews of The Sixth Sense, Carrie 2 and Sleepy Hollow, Tom Baker's new book, and new tv including Angel and The X-Files' Season 7.

Contents Gormenghast - Christopher Lee and Jonathan Rhys Meyers on bringing Mervyn Peake's weird Fantasy to life for the BBC. The League of Gentlemen - Are you local? Visit the wild world of TV comedy's darkest half-hour with Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton. Naked Lunch - How David Cronenberg filmed the unfilmable. Jeffrey Combs - Confessions of a Re-Animator, plus grisly poster! The Nameless - Jaume Balaguero's chiller previewed. Victor Buono - hollywood heavyweight's career reviewed.

Contents Jason X: Friday the 13th producer Sean S Cunningham on his masked killer's genesis and new voyage. The Green Mile - Director Frank Darabont and his cast, led by Tom Hanks, on the Stephen King supernatural drama. The Hunger - producer Jeff Fazio reveals secrets behind his sexy and chilling anthology. Lord of Illusions - Clive Barker's 1995 film mixing film noir and Horror, revisited. Plus faces of Frankenstein, Hammer Lives!, Prints of darkness for classic horror authors, 9 pages of reviews.

Contents Nightmare on Elm Street - the secrets of Wes Craven's landmark original. Buffy and Angel - Part 1 of a special interview with creator Joss Whedon. English Gothic - Jonathan Rigby on his new book recalling 100 Best British Horrors. The Ninth Gate - our preview unravels Polanski's macabre chiller. Pitch Black - meet the newest Outer Space movie monster. Plus: Murder Rooms - the dark beginnings of Sherlock Holmes, The Hunger, columns from Ingrid Pitt and Kim Newman, and eight pages of reviews.

Contents Bumper edition! Includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel - David Boreanaz and Anthony Stewart Head interviewed, plus Joss Whedon (part 2) and Pinata - the makers of Nicholas Brendon's Mexican-styled monster movie give an exclusive preview. Urban Gothic - new British TV horrors from Tom de Ville. Final Destination - Death is the enemy in Morgan & Wong's teen terrifier. Spanish Horror surveyed in a fascinating beginner's guide

Contents Peter Cushing - the original Vampire Slayer! Reassessing the life of Horror's Gentleman, Part 1, with unpublished photos. Ed Gein - behind-the-scenes on the startling film about the notorious killer. Frequency - Toby Emmerich on his ghostly broadcasting project. Urban Gothic - producer Steve Matthews on the Channel 5 anthology's genesis. American Psycho - how Bret Easton Ellis's novel made it to the cinemas. Plus Charles Gray remembered, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's fairy-tale episode Hush goes under the scalpel.

Contents The Evil Dead - the making (and banning) of the 1980's most maligned video nasty, plus poster of Bruce Campbell as Ash. Jorge Grau - the Spanish master of terror on Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, and more. X-Men - director Bryan Singer reveals the mutants' secrets. Vampyres - meet beautiful ladies with a thirst for blood in our retrospective on Larraz's 1974 chiller. Supernova - troubled history of the outer-space shocker. Peter Cushing appreciation continued, Kim Newman on cliches, and Ingrid Pitt at the Dracula Congress in Romania.

Contents Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Alyson Hannigan on the secrets of Willow, our favourite teen sorceresss. Pupi Avati - The Italian master talks on set for Knights of the Quest. Lost Souls - Janusz Kaminski's chilling film starring Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin. Ring - Sadako's fury is unleashed in this excellent Japanese Horror. Michael Ripper - a tribute to Hammer's longtime supporting player. Angel Heart - Alan Parker's bewitching blend of film noir and Horror with Rourke and De Niro revisited. Hollow Man - Paul Verhoeven takes the Invisible Man into a new and terrifying dimension. Plus ten pages of reviews and our usual columns.

Contents Nightbreed. We revisit Clive Barker's film about the fabulous realm of Midian. Tigon Terrors - the British company that rivalled Hammer. We examine their Sorcerers and Witchfinder General. Frankenhooker - New on DVD, this sexy spoof from Basket Case director Frank Henenlotter. Pupi Avati - More from the acclaimed Italian maestro of Horror and Fantasy. What Lies Beneath - Robert Zemeckis' supernatural hit previewed. Fright Fest 2000 - the biggest London Horror film festival for years! The Thirteenth Sign - Meet Adam Mason, co-director of this new British indie feature. Plus Ingrid Pitt, Kim Newman, 11 pages of reviews and Full Circle in Fright of Your Life.

Contents The Cell - Director Tarsem Singh on creating a serial killer's fantasy mindscape in the hit film starring Jennifer Lopez. Brotherhood of the Wolf - director Christophe Gans on his tale of the Beast. What Lies Beneath - Harrison Ford on taking a spooky lead role. Bless the Child - director Chuck Russell on weaving supernatural spells with Kim Basinger. Tigon Terrors - classic British Seventies Horror revisited, part 2. Plus part 2 of our Nightbreed retrospective, Kim Newman on Orson Welles' radio Dracula, FrightFest 2000 and 11 pages of reviews, Fright of Your Life on Mystery of the Wax Museum, and a poster of our Jennifer Lopez cover.

Contents 80 pages celebrating Hallowe'en in style. Dario Argento - exclusive talk with the King of Euro-Horror, back to his roots with I Can't Sleep. Angel - how the Buffy spin-off developed. Buffy - writers Dean Batali & Rob Des Hotel on creating Snyder and transforming Oz. Joe Dante on Mario Bava's worldwide appeal. The Bunker - writer Clive Dawson & director Rob Green unveil British Horror starring Jason Flemyng. Brains in Bottles - Curt Siodmak's legacy. Cannibals - Kim Newman explores eat-me films from Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Cannibal Ferox. Brotherhood of the Wolf - director Christophe Gans talks, Pt. 2. Blair Witch 2 - Jeff Donovan on taking part in the sequel, Book of Shadows. Universal Horror Mazes - spooky Hallowe'en attractions (aided by Joss Whedon and Clive Barker) unveiled. Plus The People Under the Stairs, Ingrid Pitt takes tea with Robert Englund and Fright of Your Life: Fulci's zombiefest The Beyond.

Contents The Company of Wolves - We take a look back at Neil Jordan's scary fairy tale. Lost Souls - Janusz Kaminski turns to Horror to direct Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin in Lost Souls, a terrifying tale of exorcism. Universal Hallowe'en Horror - We venture into the Buffy maze at Universal studios, with comments from Giles, Willow and Whedon. Brian Clemens - Creator of The Avengers discusses his Horror films, including Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde and Captain Kronos. Urban Legend: Final Cut - We meet stars Jennifer Morrison, former teen idol Joseph Lawrence and Loretta Devine. Strange Love - The stunning art of Claudia Andrei.

Contents The League of Gentlemen: On location in a Christmas comic ghost story in Victorian Royston Vasey.


Faust: Brian Yuzna on his Barcelona frightmare.


The Best of 2000: We look back at the year's greatest scares.


Sounds of Hammer: Gary Wilson bangs on about the Hammer soundtracks.


The Irrefutable Truth about Demons: director Glenn Standring on influences and legends.


Don Sharp: Director of Hammer classics and everyone's Festival favourite, Witchcraft.


Plus Horror on the Web, reviews, Fright of Your Life: Werewolf of London, and cover poster: League of Gentlemen, frightening!

Contents Vampire Edition! Shadow of the Vampire: John Malkovich on playing director FW Murnau in Elias Merhige's fantasia, plus Cary Elwes, Eddie Izzard and more.


Nosferatu: the real story behind Murnau's 1921 classic.


Dracula 2000: Director Patrick Lussier & Producer Wes Craven bring the greatest vampire of all back to life!


The Art of Argento: beginning a two-part examination of Dario's career by the author of 'Art of Darkness'.


Valentine: sneak preview of the first film to star David 'Angel' Boreanaz.


El Celo: a fascinating new Spanish version of Henry James' ghost classic Turn of the Screw.


Plus 14 pages of Horror Reviews.

Contents Hannibal: Anthony Hopkins on how it felt to return to the character of Dr Lecter with director Ridley Scott.


Lon Chaney: the life and hard times of the silent cinema's Man of a Thousand Faces.


Christopher Lee: previewing a new book on his screen career, we look at the continental pictures Lee made in the 1960s.


Revelation: director Stuart Urban on his globe-trotting, Time-travelling Horror story.


Dario Argento: Continuing our guide to the works of Italy's King of Terror, including Opera. Plus Nonhosonno: Argento's newest, which Argentophiles see as a distinct return to horrifying giallo form, reviewed.


The Medusa Touch: Richard Burton stars in a terrifying tale of telekinetic revenge from 1978.


Plus Ingrid Pitt, Kim Newman, Fright of Your Life and 9 pages of Reviews.

Contents Buffy Monster Make-Up: meet Greg Solomon, the Optic Nerve artist behind many incredible creatures on Buffy The Vampire Slayer (exclusive Season 4 pictures).


Amando De Ossorio: the late Spanish film maker and his famous Blind Dead films recalled.


Alice Krige: the charismatic actress familiar as the Borg Queen on her many Horror / Fantasy roles, including Institute Benjamenta and Ghost Story.


Dino De Laurentiis: The irrepressible mogul on his eventful career, and the huge success of Hannibal.


Don't Look Now: Nic Roeg's atmospheric tale revisited.


Christopher Lee: more of Lee's 1960s continental pictures, including the fairy-tale inspired Die Schlangengrube... uncovered.


Devil Movies: A look at Lucifer's many and various film appearances, from the earliest days of cinema to the outrageous End of Days.


Kim Newman on the decline of Cinefantastique.


Horror on the Web: Jo Botting surfs for slasher movies and finds...


Brad Dourif! Fright of Your Life: Peter Cushing plays Russian Roulette in The Skull.


The Pitt of Horror: Ingrid Pitt enters the mysterious world of Uri Geller in darkest Teddington.


Plus nine pages of Reviews.

Contents The Mummy Returns - the roots of the sequel, teaming Fraser and Weisz with WWF star The Rock! Plus pull-out poster. Buffy Make-Up - Optic Nerve's Greg Solomon on how Adam was made, plus the sinister Gentlemen; exclusive pictures! Conrad Veidt - From Caligari to Casablanca, the first bona fide Horror star. Battle of the Werewolves - We compare An American Werewolf in London with The Howling. Phantom of the Paradise - the making of Brian de Palma's Rock Opera, part 1. The Forsaken - Phina Oruche on starring as a vampire. Frost is Faust - Mark Frost on his role in Brian Yuzna's new version. Plus Opinion - Kim Newman on Vlad the Impaler, Fright of Your Life - Jonathan Rigby on The Brotherhood of Satan, Ingrid Pitt takes tea with Ray Harryhausen, plus news and reviews.

Contents Resident Evil - Exclusive! Director Paul Anderson on his movie of the massive zombie game. Ginger Snaps - the acclaimed Canadian film about a female lycanthrope. Upcoming Horrors for the UK: The Forsaken, Jeepers Creepers, From Hell and Ghosts of Mars. Horror History Pt. 1 - All you ever wanted to know... but were afraid to ask! Voodoo Lady - Meet Rachel Grant, aka the Sci-Fi channel's hottest Horror hostess, Nina. House on Nightmare Park - Titter Ye Not! Frankie Howerd stars in this British comic horror classic. Psycho Beach Party - Genre-bending Psychedelic Horror becomes a cult favourite. Phantom of the Paradise - More on Brian de Palma's shock-rock opera, 25 years on - exclusive artwork! The Mummy Returns - nadir of the Horror genre? Plus poster of Milla Jovovich as Resident Evil's Alice, all our regular columnists, news and reviews.

Contents Jeepers Creepers - Director Victor Salva on an acclaimed movie that alters the traditional roles and packs an almighty punch! Session 9 - Director Brad Anderson on filming a chiller in a real abandoned asylum. Fright Fest Preview - The treats in store for this August's festival at London's Prince Charles cinema. Night Visions - We meet the executive producers of the TV anthology. Chinese Ghost Stories - Horror/Fantasy cinema's best-kept secret, including Spooky Encounters, Mr Vampire and Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain. Night of the Triffids - Simon Clark on the challenge of writing a sequel to John Wyndham's classic. Horror History #2 - We continue our lightning tour through a century of Horror. Plus Fright of Your Life on Karloff in The Body Snatcher, Kim Newman on Straight On Till Morning, Ingrid Pitt recalls her audition for The Vampire Lovers, and 11 pages of reviews.

Contents Short supply Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Joss Whedon on leaving no genre stone unturned, and what's in store for Season 6 and beyond. X-Files Resurrected - Writer/producer John Shiban on recasting and reviving TV's premier creepshow. John Carpenter - the veteran Horror director on his latest frightener Ghosts of Mars. Dog Soldiers - Neil Marshall, director of this new Brithorror about being trapped on a werewolf-ridden Scots moor! Horror History #3 - Our overview concludes via Carpenter's Halloween, Freddy Krueger and Barker's Pinhead. Reptile Boy - The perils of playing a monster in Buffy, by Robin Atkin Downes. Plus Chinese Ghost Stories (Part 2), Kim Newman on how killing off TV heroes loses its novelty, Fright of Your Life on Masque of the Red Death, Ingrid Pitt on making Countess Dracula, and 10 pages of Reviews including: Battle Royale, Ed Gein, a DVD double bill of Lecter, and the last WB episodes pairing Buffy and Angel.

Contents The Others: Top director Alejandro Amenabar on his debut in English, a supernatural story set in 1944 with Nicole Kidman.


Jeepers Creepers: Young stars Gina Philips and Justin Long on this US #1 Box-Office hit.


Guillermo del Toro: The creator of Cronos on his gorgeous ghost story The Devil's Backbone, produced by Almodovar.


13 Ghosts: Steve Beck, director of the remake of William Castle's shocker, on awkward shooting in a glass set.


Fright Fest 2001 revisited: Highs and lows of the London Horror festival, including Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Bunker, Revelation, and Cubbyhouse.


James Herbert: The world-famous writer on reassessing fairy tales in his novel Once.


Urban Gothic 2: A plethora of photos from series 2 of the UK TV shocker: meet producer Steve Matthews, effects guru Neill Gorton and Anthony (C-3PO) Daniels!


Buffy Lives!: A taster for the 6th season of Buffy and the 3rd season of Angel.


Joanna Cassidy on her new role in Ghosts of Mars, and kicking Martian ass for John Carpenter.


Plus the regulars: Alan Jones' news, Kim Newman in The Cave of the Living Dead, Ingrid Pitt on more dastardly Victorian crime, Fright of your Life on Whistle and I'll Come to You, 8 pages of reviews, and a Jeepers Creepers poster.