Contents Watchdog news: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Reinventing the mythos on video.

Video Tapevine: Cappuccino, The Crier, House Of Pancakes, Fade To Black, Gate Of Flesh, James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction, Kolobos, The Last Way Out, Mr. Vampire, The Night Caller From Outer Space, Progeny, The Stendhal Syndrome, Willis O' Brien Films, Zeder.

The Blair Witch Project: Tim Lucas reviews the film that took Artisan Entertainment out of the woods and into the black! Also reviewed are Curse of The Blair Witch and the Blockbuster video exclusive, Sticks And Stones!

Richard Gordon: The face behind the fiends: M.J. Simpson interviews the producer of such films as First Man Into Space, The Haunted Strangler, Island of Terror and Fiend Without A Face on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in show business!

Discs : The Last Man On Earth, Panic In Year Zero, Blithe Spirit, The Bride Of Frankenstein, Halloween: Limited Edition, Kill, Baby...Kill, Last Year At Marienbad, Long Arm Of The Law I & II, The Mummy (1999): Collector's Edition, Nightmares, The Phantom of the Opera (1990), La Fantasma Dell' Opera (1998), The Playgirls And The Vampire, Tekken: The Motion Picture, Terror of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, X The Man With X-Ray Eyes.

Biblio Watchdog: John Carradine: The Films, Of Gods And Monsters.

Contents Watchdog news: Monty Python's Flying Circus, Night of the Living Dead.

Video Tapevine: Boiling Point, Comin' At Ya, The Day Of The Locust, Erotic Ghost Story, The Flying Serpent, General Chaos: Uncensored Animation, The Moon Child, My Lucky Stars, Sleepy Eyes Of Death: Sword Of Satan, Violent Cop, Virgins from Hell, Woyzeck.

Tapes from the attic: Blackenstein, The Headless Eyes, Keep My Grave Open.

Size does matter. The Bert I. Gordon interview: David Dell Valle delivers an exclusive Q&A with Mr. BIG himself, the American master of B-movie cinema who turned napkin-sized ideas into colossal entertainments! Want to know more about how The Cyclops, Earth vs. The Spider and The Magic Sword were made? You 'll find the long and the short of it right here.

Discs : Bride Of Chucky, Child's Play 2, Creepshow, Dracula (1931), EdTV, 8 Man, Excalibur, I Saw What You Did, Jackie Chan: 5 Hard-Hitting Movies (Half A Loaf of Kung Fu, The Killer Meteors, New Fist of Fury, Spritual Kung Fu, To Kill With Intrigue), The Lair Of The White Worm, Meet Joe Black, Monkeyshines, The Dark Half, Night Of The Living Dead, Salome's Last Dance, The Tingler, Tommy: The Movie, Twin Dragons.

Biblio Watchdog: Vincent Price A Daughter's Biography, Midnight Marquee Actors Series: Vincent Price, Tim Burton: An Unauthorized Biography of the Filmmaker.

Contents Watchdog news: Sound errors with Argento's The Phantom Of The Opera.

Video Tapevine: The Abominable Snowman, The Brothers Quay Collection, Institute Benjamenta, The Bubble, Deluge, The Devil Bat's Daughter, First Option, From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter, Nude For Satan, Peter Pan, Strangler Of The Swamp, Tales Of Tomorrow Volume 1 & 2, Wizards Of The Demon Sword.

Lasers revoked. Revisiting the Criterion Bonds: In this special report, Tim Lucas casts a fond look back at three classics: The Criterion Collection's rare CAV pressings of Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger.

The James Bond Collection. A critical dossier: 'DVD Savant' Glenn Erickson investigates MGM Home Entertainment's luxurious new boxed set of 007 entertainments on DVD: Goldfinger, Thunderball, Live And Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, Licence To Kill, Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies!

Discs : Black Mask, Bye Bye Monley, Don't Look In The Basement, Driller Killer, eXistenZ, Fando & Lis, Gargoyles, Idle Hands, Jack Be Nimble, The Miracle Fighters, Mosquito, Night Of Cabiria, And The Ship Sails On, Pleasantville, Tenderness Of The Wolves, Virus.

Biblio Watchdog: Forbidden Fruit, Reptilicus the screenplay.

Contents Watchdog news: Restored footage in Spider Baby, Scream Your Head Off & Farewell My Concubine.

Video Tapevine: Animal Farm, Black Cat, Django, Django Strikes Again, Fitzcarraldo, The Intruder, Man Eater, The Phantom Planet, Puzzle, Queen Emeraldas, Riki-Oh: The Story Of Ricky, Schlock, Sofi, Two-Lane Blacktop, The Woman Who Came Back.

Tales from the attic: The Deadky And The Beautiful.

'Viddy Well?' A look at the Stanley Kubrick Collection: Glenn Erickson scrutinizes Warner Home Video's box set of seven Kubrick classics: Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket and ponders the question, 'Director-approved?'.

Discs : Bay Of Blood, Carmen Baby, The Demoniacs, Fascination, The Living Dead Girl, Requiem For A Vampire, Gulliver's Travels, The Hound Of Baskervilles, Lips Of Blood, Night Tide, Piranha, Ravenous, Return Of The Chinese Boxer, Royal Tramp II, Salem's Lot, The Sentimel, Shirobaru Gakuen: Soshite Zenin Okasareta, Tower Of Evil, The Untold Story 1 & 2, Yojimbo, Sanjuro.

Biblio Watchdog: Claude Rains: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference, Peter Lorre.

Contents Watchdog news: Image Entertainment's & Anchor Bay's new releases.

Video Tapevine: Coming Apart, Curse of the Black Widow, The Day It Came to Earth, Death is Nimble Death is Quick, East of Borneo, Freak, Fudoh The New Generation, Gallery of Horrors, Legend of the Chupacabra, Moon Over Tao/Makaraga, The Murder In The Museum, Open Your Eyes, Orochi The Eight-Headed Dragon, The Prodigal Boxer, Boxer's Adventure, Raiders of the Living Dead, Starlost, Witchcraft/Who Goes There.

The short, unhappy film life of Stephen Weeks: Rebecca & Sam Umland examine the neglected works of one of Britain's most promising directorial talents of the 1970s - I Monster, Madhouse Mansion and Sword Of The Valiant.

Godzilla Destroyed! Mothra Reborn!: Tim Lucas appraises the newest Toho double features to reach our shores, courtesy of Columbia Tristar Home Video

Discs : The Big Combo, Coma, Eaten Alive, Fright Night, The Last Broadcast, The Matrix Special Edition, Minnie And Moskowitz, Shaolin Master Killer, Shiver of the Vampires, The Stand, Stargate Special Edition, Stir Of Echoes, Tiger Cage, Trinity And Beyond The Atomic Bomb Movie, Tokyo Decadence.

Biblio Watchdog: A Guide to Charlie Chan Films, The Charlie Chan Film Encyclopedia, Jacques Tourneur The Cinema of Nightfall, Bizarre Sinema! Jess Franco: El Sexo Del Horror.

Contents Watchdog news: The long happy film life of Stephen Weeks. Brightness ahead for Night of Dark Shadows.

Video Tapevine: Breeders, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1955), Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fist of Legend, Police Story 2, Supercop 2, Fugitive Mind, The Good Book, Habit, Her and She And Him, Murder By Invitation, Robo Warriors, Scream Bloody Murder, Sisters of Death, Squirm, Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo.

Tapes from the attic: Love Me Deadly.

Herschell Gordon Lewis on DVD: The Gory Details: John Charles reviews the new DVDs of Blood Feast, Tho Thousand Mamiacs!, Color Me Blood Red and The Wizard Of Gore from Something Weird Image Entertainment.

The schlock that wouldn't die! Herschell Gordon Lewis Interviewed: Bill Kelley and M.J. Simpson interrogate the Sultan of Slaughter on the occasion of his films' DVD debut.

DVDs : Army of Darkness: Limited Edition, Bats, Dance with the Devil, Dark Shadows, Edge of Darkness, House on Haunted Hill, In The Line Of Duty III, IV, V, Natural Born Killers, The Prophesy II, III, Running Time, Tourist Trap.

Biblio Watchdog: Herschell Gordon Lewis Godfather Of Gore The Films, The Naked And The Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror.

Contents Watchdog news: Hand Of Death, Supergirl, 2001: DVD oddities.

Video Tapevine: The Avengers '64 Set 1, The Bells, Captain Celluloid vs. The Film Pirates, The Fruit is Swelling, The Hunger Collection: Vampires, Kagero, The Killer Priest Comes Back, Kimba The White Lion, Lost Continent, The Sons of Great Fear, Womens Prison Massacre.

Tapes from the attic: The Lost Empire.

Supernatural - perhaps... Baloney - Most Definitely! Poverty Row Horror of the 1940s: Ken Hanke takes us on a sentimental tour of the benighted B-movies of Monogram and PRC, starring the likes of Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Mantan Moreland and The Dead End Kids! With subject matter like that, can he help it that he's loquacious.

DVDs : Deep Red, Eyes Wide Shut, Horror Hospital, Inferno, The Mirror, The Rage: Carrie 2, The Sacrifice, Shogun Assassin, Stigmata.

Biblio Watchdog: Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945-1970, Jack The Ripper: His Life and Crimes in Popular Entertainment.

Contents Watchdog news: DVD genre releases, Restored Spirits Of The Dead.

Video Tapevine: Dead Fright, The Devil's Sword, The Hideous Sun Demon, Jackie Chan's Project A, Narcotic/Maniac, The Return of the Frog, Strangers of the Evening, The Crooked Circle, Secrets of Wu Sin, Tomorrow at Seven, The Ghost Walks, One Frightened Night, The Rogues' Tavern, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, A Wife to be Sacrificed, A woman Called Sada Abe.

Tapes from the attic: Hunters of the Golden Cobra, The Ark of the Sun God... Temple of Hell, Jungle Raiders.

The rise and fall and rise of The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse: All Day Entertainment's David Kalat looks back on the production of Fritz Lang's final film and tells the story of its arduous restoration and resurrection on VHS and DVD.

The real Hammer film: Mickey Spillane's The Girl Hunters: For years, it was harder to find than a clean glass in Joe's Bar, and if you did find it, it was more cut-up than your worst broken heart... But here's Max Allan Collins with the scoop on Mickey Spillane's only performance as Mike Hammer - now restored for its home video debut.

DVDs : The Big Sleep, The Birds, Marnie, Bluebeard, The Bone Collector, Caligula 20th Anniversary Edition, Deadbeat at Dawn, The House of Whipcord, The Killing Hour, The Limey, They Might Be Giants, The Third Man.

Biblio Watchdog: The Essential Monster Movie Guide by Stephen Jones.

Contents Watchdog news: Discs from other regions.

Video Tapevine: The Buddhist Fist, Choo-Choo, Destiny's Son, Sword Devil, The Kingdom Of The Looking Glass/A Tale Of Lost Time, My Wife's Lover, The Ninja Dragon, The Omega Code, Tinto Brass Presenta: Corti Circuiti Erotici, Victory.

Eurocine: The best little horror house in France: Donald E. Hood and Curtis Fukuda interview Marius and Daniel Lasoeur, the pere et fils team responsible for over 30 years of bizarre cinema, including The Awful Dr. Orlof, Female Vampire, and Zombie Lake.

DVDs : 4D Man, Curse of the Voodoo, Deep Blue Sea, Desecration, Destination Moon, Extreme Crisis, The Ghost Goes Gear, Girl on a Motorcycle, Horror Express, House on Haunted Hill, Human Condition I, II & III, I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname, The Iron Giant, The Island at the Top Of the World, Mommy, Mommy 2: Mommy's Day, Mystery Men, Possession, Prehistoric Women, The Sixth Sense, Vampyres, The Viking Queen.

Biblio Watchdog: English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema.

Contents Watchdog news: VW writers make good. Websites.

Video Tapevine: Asylum, The Boxer's Omen, Carnegie Hall, Devil Girl From Mars, Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins, Gamera vs. Guillon, The Girls From H*A*R*M, Impact, D.O.A., Kronos, The Orphic Cycle, Blood of a Poet, Orpheus, Testament of Orpheus, Sisters, Zatoichi The Outlaw.

The adventures of Hercules: Tim Lucas flexes his critical muscles on Trimark Home Video's new box set of seven classic sword & sandal pictures: Hercules vs. The Hydra, Hercules vs. The Sons of the Sun, Hercules vs. The Moloch, Medusa vs. The Son of Hercules, The Triumph of Hercules, Lion of Thiebes and The Trojan Horse with Steve Reeves!

DVDs : Beyond Atlantis, Twilight People, Bob Clampett's Beavy and Cecil: The Special Edition, Carnival Of Souls, Don't Torture a Duckling, La Grande Bouffe, It Happened Here, The Killing Of Sister George, Las Vegas Hillbilly's, Hillbillys in a Haunted House, The Mighty Peking Man, Nang Nak, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, 70 Years of Popeye, Sleepy Hollow, The Strange Woman / Moon Over Harlem, Torso, Trader Hornee, The Vengeance Of She, The Bloody Judge, Peur Sur La Ville.

Biblio Watchdog: The Alien Quartet by David Thomson.

Contents Watchdog news: The long and short of Vampyres. Frogs. Spanish DVDs.

Video Tapevine: The Best of Zagreb Film: Be Careful Whar You Wish For/The Classic Collection, Cave of the Living Dead, Cinderella, The Cosmic Man, Deadly Snail vs. Kung Fu Killer, Filthy Guy, Hit Man in the Hand of Buddha, The Invincible Killer, Revengeful Swordswoman, Shaolin Disciple, The Young Avenger, Marlene, The Vampire Happening, The Woman Eater.

The Argument: Walking the extra mile for Donald Cammell: Sam and Rebecca Umland investigate the posthumous restoration and completion of a formerly ''lost'' short film by the notorious, late director of Performance, Demon Seed and White of the Eye!

Universal's classic monsters rerturn: DVD producer David J. Skal has served up another batch of ''Golden Age'' thrills fron the vaults at Universal Studios Home Video: The Invisible Man, Phantom of the Opera (1943), Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Creature from the Black Lagoon! How do they rate? How are the extras? Tim Lucas tells you!

DVDs : American Psycho, Antonio Gaudi, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Dead of Night, End of Days, Fight Club, The Gore Gore Girls, Ilsa She Wolf of the SS, Ilsa Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, Ilsa The Wicked Warden, I Married a Strange Person, Parsifal, Shock, The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella, Swamp Thing, The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse/The Crimes of Dr. Mabuse, L'Oiseau Au Plumage De Cristal, Le Chat A Neuf Queues, Suspiria, Tenebres.

Biblio Watchdog: The Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H.P. Lovercraft, Robin Hood, King Arthur on Film.

Contents Watchdog news: Frederick S. Clarke 1949-2000. Brief reviews: The Beast of Yucca Flats, The Body Beneath, Frankenstein's Daughter, Galaxina, The Hidden, Space Thing.

Video Tapevine: The Best of Bulgarian Animation, House of Black Death, Jill the Ripper, Kimba the White Lion Vol. 2 & 3, Konga, Masters of Russian Animation Vol. 1& 2, Psychomania.

Tapes from the attic: Paul Naschy: In this special extended installment, Shane M. Dallman, Tim Lucas and Richard Harland Smith examine several works by Spain's great hyphenate of horror: writer/producer/director/actor Paul Naschy! The Fury of Wolfman, The Wolfman Never Sleeps, Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf, Curse of the Devil, House of Psychotic Women, The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, Night of the Howling Beast, Hall of the Mountain King, The People Who Own the Park.

Jorge Grau: Director of Manchester Morgue: Perry Martin and R.J. Gallentine interview the director of the classic Spanish zombie film, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie!

DVDs : Black Orpheus, The Blood Spattered Bride, Blue Velvet, Cannibal Man, Connan the Barbarian: Collector's Edition, The Erotic Adventures of Zorro, The Fly/Return of the Fly, Gorgo, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, MS. 45, North By Northwest, Project Moon Base, Rocketship X-M, She Freak, The Adult Version Jekyll and Hide, She Killed in Ecstasy, Something Weird, The Vampires' Night Orgy.

Biblio Watchdog: Memoirs of a Wolfman by Paul Naschy, Zombie edited by Allan Bryce.

Contents Watchdog news: Creature from the Black Lagoon music, DVDs: Evil Dead 2, Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Curious Dr. Humpp, Green Snake, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Trancers.

Video Tapevine: Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, The Blood Beast Terror, Condemned To Live, Computer Animation Marvels, Infinity's Child, The Invincible Kung Fu Trio, The New Game, Secret of the Chinese Kung Fu, The Six Directions of Boxing, Journey to the Center of Time, The Ogre, Rip Roaring Riley, Tomb Of Torture, Velocity Trap.

Tapes from the attic: A Bell from Hell, Pieces.

Four for the Filmgroup: Monte Hellman's TV Expansions: Brad Stevens delves into Monte Hellman's earliest work as a film director: the scenes he wrote and filmed to pad four of Roger Corman's Filmgroup productions (Beast from Haunted Cave, Ski Troop Attack, Last Woman on Earth and Creature from the Haunted Sea) for TV! Plus information on a surprise fifth TV expansion!

DVDs : Bad Girls Go to Hell/Another Day Another Man, Blaze Starr Goes Nudist, Deadly Weapons, Double Agent 73, Nude on the Moon, The Bone Crushing Kid, Eagle's Claw, 18 Secrets of Kung Fu, Emperor of Shaolin Kung Fu, Yoga and Kung Fu Girl, Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, Dragonheart: A New Beginning, The Fly (1986)/The Fly II (1989), Magnolia, The Ninth Gate, Planet of the Apes: The Evolution, The Tempest, A Canterbury Tale, A Matter of Life and Death.

Biblio Watchdog: Roger Corman by Beverly Gray, Forgotten Horrors: The Definitive Edition by G. Turner & M. Price.

Contents Watchdog news: Catching up with Jess Franco: Lust For Frankenstein, Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula, Vampire Blues, Red Silk.

Video Tapevine: The Baby, The Hot The Cool And The Vicious, Magnificent Fist, 99 Cycling Swords, The 72 Desperate Rebels, Rich and Famous, Tragic Hero, They Saved Hitler's Brain.

For VW's eyes only: The Living Daylights work print exposed: Dan Gale examines a rare artifact - a bootleg work print of Timothy Dalton's 007 debut, The Living Daylights - and describes the film that might have been.

Box sets are forever: The rest of Bond on DVD: Accepting a task that would have daunted many a top agent, Nathaniel Thompson reviews the entire contents of the second and third James Bond 007 DVD box sets from MGM - and also the latest Bond adventure, The World Is Not Enough!

DVDs : A Bucket of Blood, Dinosaurus, Edward Scissorhands, Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, First Spaceship on Venus, Guts of a Beauty, Insomnia, Martin, Knightriders, Never Say Never Again, Organ, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, The Undertaker And His Pals, What Have they Done To Your Daughters?

Biblio Watchdog: The Haunted Screen Ghosts in Literature and Film by Lee Kovacs.

Contents Watchdog news: DVD new releases of two Soledad Miranda's classics: Vampyros Lesbos & She Killed In Ecstasy; Mario Bava's DVDs: The Whip And The Body, Hercules, Hercules Unchained.

Video Tapevine: Beowulf, The Deadly Sword, The Last Duel, The Shaolin Brothers, The Dunwich Horror, Heavy Metal 2000, Hellraiser:Inferno, Komodo, Octopus, My Son The Vampire, The Sinister Monk, The Watcher In The Attic.

Tapes from the attic: The Legend Of Spider Forest, The Pyx.

Beach Party Tonight: Tim Lucas pays tribute to American International's ''other'' great series on the occasion of MGM Home Entertainment's DVD release of four ''Beach Party'' movies: Beach Party, Bikini Beach, Pajama Party and How to Stuff A Wild Bikini.

DVDs : And Then There Were None, City Of The Living Dead, The Exorcist III, The Gruesome Twosome, Kwaidan, Nekromantik, Pitch Black, Seven Days In May, Fail Safe, She Devils On Wheels, The Shooting, Ride In The Whirlwind, The Stuff, A Taste Of Blood, Touch Of Evil, X-Men, I Am A Nymphomaniac, I Am Frigid... Why?, Pussy Talk.

Biblio Watchdog: Vampire Over London: Bela Lugosi In Britain.

Contents Watchdog news: Russian fairy tales come to disc: The Amphibian Man, Barbara The Fair With The Silken Hair, Vij.

Video Tapevine: Battlefield Earth: A Saga Of The Year 3000, The Cell, The End Of The Wicked Tiger, He Has Nothing But Kung Fu, Killer From Above, Real Kung Fu Of Shaolin, Gladiator, The Haunted Lantern, Hollow Man, The Return Of Chandu, SOS Pacific, Trans-Atlantic Tunnel, Urban Legends: Final Cut.

Don't open the door: An investigation into the Hauntings of Hill House: Nathaniel Thompson traces The Haunting from Shirley Jackson's acclaimed source novel, through Robert Wise's revered 1963 film version, to Jan de Bont's recent effects-heavy version.

DVDs : Dementia / Daughter Of Horror, Detour, A Fistful Of Trailers, Frostbiter, Immoral Tales, Independence Day, Kentucky Fried Movie, Lured Innocence, Naked Poison, The Omen: Special Edition, Perfect Blue, Rabid, Resort Massacre, Scream 3, Sisters, Slaughterhouse, The Straight Story, The Terminator.

Biblio Watchdog: Worlds To Conquer Steve Reeves An Authorized Biography by Chris LeClaire.

Contents Watchdog news: First Spaceship on Venus, Black Christmas, Rabid.

Video Tapevine: Behind Locked Doors, Strange Impersonation, Blowback: Love & Death, Buck Rogers, Challenge Of Death, The Leg Fighters, The Day Of The Beast, Frightmare, General Idi Amin Dada: No One Can Run Faster Than A Rifle Bullet, Revenge Of The Sun Demon, The Shaolin Invincibles, The Super Ninja, Silent Shakespeare: Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On, The Sopranos: The Complete First Season, The St. Francisville Experiment, Zero Woman: The Accused, Zero Woman: The Hunted.

Godzilla 2000: Shane M. Dallmann reviews Toho's 23rd Gojira movie - and the first to play in American theaters since 1985.

The man behind Godzilla 2000 Michael Schlesinger interviewed: Shane M. Dallmann and Tim Lucas interview the unbilled writer/director/producer of the American version of Godzilla 2000, that rare variant which actually improves upon the original.

DVDs : Autopsy (1973), Black Tight Killers, Blackmale (1999), Les Bonnes Femmes, The Brain From Planet Arous, Cold Harvest, Erotica Japan, Castle Orgies, Lustful Revenge, Sugar: Howling Of Angel, The Exorcist: The Version You Have Never Seen, Forgotten City, Joy House, Manhunter: Limited Edition, Pit Stop, Radar Men From The Moon, Teaserama, Varietease, Teenage Doll, The Wild Angels, Wax Mask (1997).

Biblio Watchdog: Hitchcock Becomes ''Hitchcock'': The British Years by Paul M. Jensen, Ridley Scott - Close Up: The Making Of His Movies by Paul M. Sammon.

Contents Watchdog news: Monte Hellman's Iguana, The Vampire Lovers, The Complete Superman Collection.

Video Tapevine: Eyes Without A Face, Fantasia 2000, Fists And Guts, The Shaolin Drunken Monk, The Warrior From Shaolin, The Glass Ceiling, Invasion Of The Bee Girls, Princess Mononoke, A Quiet Place In The Country, Supernova, The Tales Of Hoffmann, Time Flies.

2+2=5: Dusan Makavajev and the mysteries of cinema: Richard Harland Smith looks at six new tapes from Facets Video by Dusan Makevajev, Yugoslavia's leading director of bizarre cinema!

Frank Herbert's Dune: How does the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries stack up against David Lynch's 1984 feature version? You'll find out when Stephen R. Bissette reviews John Harrison's epic, three part remake.

DVDs : The Blob (1958), Beware The Blob (1971), Blobermouth, Bloody Pit Of Horror, Frankenstein's Castle Of Freaks, Bluebeard, Brain Dead, Cockfighter, The Dead Zone, Evil Dead Trap, Fiend Without A Face, Iguana, The Man From Planet X, The Pirates Of Capri, Teenage Monster, Titan A.E. Special Edition, Treasure Island, Unspeakable, Vengeance.

Biblio Watchdog: French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror And Pulp Fiction A Guide To Cinema, Television, Radio, Animation, Comic Books and Literature, Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age Of British Horror Films 1956-1976.

Contents Watchdog news: The rise and fall of Mexican horror on DVD: The Bloody Vampire, The Brainiac, Bring Me The Vampire, Samson In The Wax Museum, Samson vs. The Vampire Women, The World Of The Vampires.

Video Tapevine: The Beast Must Die, Blair Witch 2: The Book Of Shadows, The Massacre Of The Burkittsville 7: The Blair Witch Legacy, Die Screaming Marianne, More, Maitresse, The Whispering Shadow, The Phantom Creeps.

The man who fell from Liberty: Norman Lloyd interviewed: He appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur and Spellbound before becoming a producer and director of TV's Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Norman Lloyd talks to Tom Weaver about his long and happy affiliation with the Master of Suspense!

Dial DVD for Hitchcock: Tim Lucas, Nathaniel Thompson and Kim Newman review some of the latest releases in Universal Pictures Home Video ''Alfred Hitchcock Collection'' DVD series (Saboteur, Shadow Of A Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, The Trouble With Harry) and The Criterion Collection's restored version of The 39 Steps!

DVDs : Bedazzled, Beyond The Clouds, Dancer In The Dark, The Defilers / Scum Of The Earth, Eva / Eve, Go Go Second Time Virgin, Ecstasy Of The Angels, Interview With The Vampire, Mantis In Lace, Mother's Day, Repo Man.

Biblio Watchdog: Wes Craven: The Art Of Horror, Screams & Nightmares The Films Of Wes Craven.

Contents Watchdog news: New DVD releases and updates: Don't Look Now, The Flesh And The Fiends, Terror In The Midnight Sun, Double Suicide, The Intruder, Sci-Fi Fighters.

Video Tapevine: Blood Surf, Herdsmen Of The Sun, Leon Morin Priest, The Finger Man, The Samurai, Le Coup De Grace, Oasis Of The Zombies, Orloff And The Invisible Man, La Tumba De Los Muertos Vivientes, Zombie Lake.

Tapes from the attic: Counter Destroyer, Diamond Ninja Force, Ninja The Violent Forcerer, Vampire Raiders Ninja Queen, Zombie vs Ninja.

A venomous flower: Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz: Universal's new DVD of Hitchcock's underrated Cold War thriller restores quite a bit of previously unavailable footage, but in this article, Hitchcock At Work author Bill Krohn finds compelling evidence to suggest that the restoration is not yet complete!

Dial DVD for Hitchcock Part 2: Tim Lucas, Nathaniel Thompson and Kim Newman review the rest of Universal's ''Alfred Hitchcock Collection'' as well as four volumes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Image Entertainment's A Talk With Alfred Hitchcock! (The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family Plot)

DVDs : Destiny, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Pit And The Pendulum, ''X'' The Man with The X-Ray Eyes, From Dusk Til Dawn, Hellraiser, The Long Night, Redline, Spaceways, Teenage Gang Debs / Teen-age Strangler, Twisted, The Violent Years / Girl Gang.

Biblio Watchdog: See No Evil: Banned Films and Video Controversy, Fleshpot: Cinema's sexual Myth Makers & Taboo Breakers.

Contents Watchdog news: Sleep no more: Argento's Nonhosonno comes to DVD; The Burning; The Living Head.

Video Tapevine: Un Chien Andalou/Land Without Bread, Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne, The Death Duel Of Kung Fu, Dirty Kung Fu, Flash Future Kung Fu, War Of The Shaolin Temple, The Elusive Pimpernel, Kimba The White Lion Vol. 4: Pretender To The Throne, Kimba The White Lion Vol. 5: Trapped, Nightwatch, The Nun, Women Of The Prehistoric Planet.

Lost no more! The restorations of Willis O'Brien's The Lost World: Stephen R. Bissette delves into the production history of the first full-lenth dinosaur movie, and compares the recent George Eastman House restoration to the more recent David Shepard restoration now available on home video from Image Entertainment! Including dozens of rare photos!

Finding The Lost World: Ace interviewer Tom Weaver gets the story of The Lost World's restoration straight from the gentleman responsible, David Shepard!

DVDs : Angel's Wild Women, Blood And Ghastly Horror, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, I Spit On Your Corpse, Satan's Sadists, Black Narcissus, The Boneyard, The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie, Free Enterprice, Nosferatu, The Puppet Films Of Jiri Trnka/The Emperor's Nightingale, Real Time: Siege At Lucas Street Market, Shadow Of The Vampire, Six Days In Roswell.

Biblio Watchdog: Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959. The Films Of John Carpenter.

Contents Watchdog news: The return of Universal's classic monsters on DVD. New & improved on DVD.

Video Tapevine: Armageddon (Tin Dei Hung Sam), Dream Of Light, The Lost Jungle, Machiste In Hell, Shadow Of Chinatown, Blake Of Scotland Yard, Shaolin Popey, Shaolin Popey II: Messy Temple, Stavisky, Zero De Conduite.

Tapes from the attic: Miracle Mile, Supersonic Man.

Inside the ring with Enzo G. Castellari: Mark Wickum interviews the two-fisted director of Cold Eyes Of Fear, 1990: The Bronx Warriors, and the Italian western classic, Keoma!

Restoring Mario Bava's Planet Of The Vampires: DVD Savant Glenn Erickson details the behind-the-scenes story of how MGM meticulously restored Mario Bava's sci-fi/horror classic prior to releasing it on DVD!

DVD Spotlight: Planet Of The Vampires: Nathaniel Thompson reviews MGM's new ''Midnight Movies'' DVD!

DVDs : All That Heaven Allows, Written On The Wind, At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse, The Beast That Killed Women / The Monster Of Camp Sunshine, Blood Suckers / Blood Thirst, Computer Animation Extravaganza, Little Bytes, Dr. Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine, Dragon Inn, The Phantom Lover, Dreamscape, Fruits Of Passion, Keoma, The Princess And The Pea, The Soul Guardians, Tomie, Underdog: Collectors Edition, La Dernier Maison Sur La Gauche (The Last House On The Left).

Biblio Watchdog: The Gorehound's Guide To Splatter Films Of The 1960s And 1970s, Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema And The Art Of Entertainment.

Contents Watchdog news: Overseas DVDs: Twin Peaks, The Kingdom, The Isle; The Prisoner DVD Mega-Set & The Complete Emma Peel DVD Mega-Set; The Bird With The Crystal Plumage.

Video Tapevine: A Nous La Liberte, La Balance, Chac - The Rain God, Diary Of A Chambermaid, The Edge Of The World, The Mystery Of Oberwald, The Serpent's Kiss, Tales Of Tomorrow Volume 3: The Evil Within, Tales Of Tomorrow Volume 4: Past Tense.

Superman: Look - up there on your home entertainment screen! It's on disc! It's Superman! And comics fan extraordinaire Kim Newman is here to review the new Christopher Reeve DVDs from Warner Home Video!

Super heroes: There's no shortage of superheroes on DVD at the moment: Witness Shane M. Dallmann on Batman (1966) and Supergirl, John Charles on The Phantom and various adventures starring The Lone Ranger, and Kim Newman on M. Night Sfyamalan's rumination on the subject, Unbreakable!

DVDs : Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Endless Night, Death On The Nile, The Mirror Crack'd, Evil Under The Sun, The Final Programme, Knives Of The Avenger, The Mummy: Ultimate Edition, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Robotech: The Macross Saga-First Contact, Somewhere In Time: Collector's Edition, Topper Returns, Crying Freeman.

Biblio Watchdog: Ten Years Of Terror: British Horror Films Of The 70s.

Contents Watchdog news: Universal Monsters: DVD wrap-up: Werewolf Of London/She Wolf Of London, Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman/House of Frankenstein, The Mummy's Ghost/The Mummy's Curse.

Video Tapevine: Blood: The Last Vampire, Legend Of Bruce Lee, Mio In The Land Of Faraway, Night Walker: Midnight Detective, Room 13, Tom Corbett Space Cadet Volume 2: The Asteroid Of Death, The Victim.

Dissecting Lady Frankenstein: Tim Lucas examines the various versions of Mel Welles' 1971 addition to Frankenstein lore! Read all about the two dozen cuts that Roger Corman made in the US version!

Father of Lady Frankenstein. Mel Welles interviewed: You'll be learning heaps in this exclusive Q&A with the great Mushnik - about Lady Frankenstein, Island Of The Doomed, The She Beast, and his career as a voice actor, dubbing director and all around mensch!

DVDs : Aguirre The Wrath Of God, Woyzeck, Cobra Verde, My Best Friend, The Black Cat (Il Gatto Nero), Curse Of The Vampires, Demonia, The Erotic Ghost, Fatal Frames, The Green Hornet, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, House By The Cemetery, Quills, Scars Of Dracula, Short Circuit, The Wicker Man Limited Edition, Anatomy.

Biblio Watchdog: The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld Of Filmmaker Andy Milligan.

Contents Watchdog news: Overseas DVDs: Witchfinder General, Phenomena, Perdita Durango. Indian films: Sangharsh, 100 Days, Gumnaam, China Gate, Devi Maa-Boon Of Goddess, Dil Se, Sholay. The Francois Ozon Collection: See The Sea, Sitcom, Criminal Lovers, Water Drops On Burning Rocks, Under The Sand.

Video Tapevine: Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter, Leonard Maltin's Animation Favorites From The National Film Board Of Canada, Mystery Of The Necronomicon: Book Of The Dead, Demon Warrior Koji, Running Out Of Time, The Saint '66-67, Village Of The Giants.

Tapes from the attic: The Courtyard, The Tempter (L'Anticristo) .

Four films on silver circles: The latest Argento DVDs: We've got everything you need to know about the latest Dario Argento releases from Anchor Bay and Image Entertainment! Richard Harland Smith explores the ''found family'' theme of Dario Argento's warmest thriller The Cat O'Nine Tails, Nathaniel Thompson notices some surprising differences of sight and sound in Suspiria and Opera, And Tim lucas reviews the Channel Four Documentary Dario Argento-An Eye For Horror!

DVDs : Blood From The Mummy's Tomb, The Flesh And The Fiends, Un Flic, The Flying Saucer, Hollywood Boulevard, The Horror Of Frankenstein, The Horror Of Hammer, Tales Of Frankenstein, Pulp Cinema, How To Get Ahead In Advertising, Invasion Of The Blood Farmers, The Invisible Ghost, Ghost On The Loose, Just For The Hell Of It/Blast-Off Girls, The Mad Butcher, Monster From The Ocean Floor, Out Of The Present, The Sword And The Sorcerer, The Thing With Two Heads, X2000-The Collected Short Films Of Francois Ozon, The Yakuza Way, Young Hannah Queen Of The Vampires, Croix De Fer (Cross Of Iron), Massacre A La Tronconneuse (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).

Biblio Watchdog: Anticristo: The Bible of Nasty Nun Sinema and Culture by Steve Fentone.

Contents Watchdog news: East German fairy tales: The Golden Goose, The Devil's Three Golden Hairs, The Story Of Little Mook, The Singing Ringing Tree. French DVDs: Cinema de Quartier. DVD update: Deadful Melody, Green Snake, Wife to Be Sacrificed.

Video Tapevine: Creature Features: Day The World Ended, Creature Features: She Creature, Crucible Of Terror, The Duel, Death Ring, Inheritor Of Kung Fu, A Life Of Ninja, Ninja Hunter, Ninja vs. Ninja, Mantis Combat, Masters Of Russian Animation Vol 3 & 4, Therese Raquin, Venomous, Vibration.

Yilmaz Atadeniz: Superman of Turkish Cinema: An overview of the weird and wonderful Turkish fantasies of Yilmaz Atadeniz on VCD!

DVD spotlight: Paul Verhoeven: Nathaniel Thompson reviews three new DVD releases from Anchor Bay Entertainment: Turkish Delight, Soldier Of Orange and The Fourth Man!

DVDs : Basket Case, Beast From Haunted Cave, Bruiser, The Caveman's Valentine, Circus Of Horrors, Davey And Goliath: vol 1 & 2, Marihuana/Assassin Of Youth/Reefer Madness, Memento, Piranha Piranha, Ruslan I Lyudmilla, Theatre Of Death, Triumph Of The Will: Special Edition, Wham-Bam-Thank You Spaceman, Au Coeur De La Nuit (Dead Of Night), Crimes Au Musee Des Horreurs (Horrors Of The Black Museum).

Contents Watchdog news: BMW's The Hire; Italian DVDs from Media Blasters; UK DVDs: Whistel And I'll Come To You, The Sorcerers, The Key; DVD update: Breeders, Halloween II, A Night To Dismember, Reptilicus, Schlock.

Video Tapevine: Cecil B. Demented, Creature Features: Earth vs. The Spider, Creature Features: How To Make A Monster, Creature Features: Teenage Caveman, The Dominici Affair, Around The World With Orson Welles, The House Of Seven Corpses, Tigris.

Monsters crash the pajama party: Bill Cooke reviews Something Weird Video's, jam-packed Spook Show DVD! Trailers, stills, ads, home movies, commentaries, 3-D - even London After Midnight - with no menu verbiage to help you locate any of it! Sly prank or an inspired work of art? Find out here!

Spooks-A-Talkin'! Mike Vraney on Something Weird's DVD Spooktacular!: SWV grand poobah Mike Vraney regales interviewer Bill Cooke with the incredible ''behind the screams'' story of how the Monsters Crash The Pajama Party DVD was born!

DVD spotlight: Hannibal: Stephen R. Bissette And Tim Lucas say a mouthful about Ridley Scott's admirable sequel to The Silence Of The Lambs and its release as a deluxe MGM double-disc DVD!

DVDs : The Amazing Transplant, At Home Among Strangers A Stranger Among His Own, Blind Beast, The Day The Earth Caught Fire, Doomwatch, Howling III: The Marsupials, Jungle Girl, Monster From Green Hell, Rififi, She Demons, Terror In The Midnight Sun/Invasion Of The Animal People, Voices From Beyond, Zero Kelvin, Thunderbirds: The Complete Series, Stingray: The Complete Series.

Biblio Watchdog: Art Of Darkness The Cinema Of Dario Argento. It Came From Bob's Basement.

Contents Watchdog news: Midnight Marquee's Luminary Press; Creature Features on DVD; DVD update: Daimajin Box Set.

Video Tapevine: Aenigma, Caged Heat, The Erotic Rites Of Countess Dracula, Fist Power, Mau Mau Sex Sex, The Raiders Of Leyte Gulf, The Ravagers, The Walls Of Hell, The Young Bruce Lee.

The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension - The true story declassified at last: Almost two decades after its theatrical release, the filmed exploits of the world's greatest scientist/philosopher/rock star makes its DVD debut with 14 once deleted scenes recently declassified by The Banzai Institute! Blue Blazer Irregular Sean Murphy has been entrusted with the whole story, straight from the mouths of director W.D. Richter and Team Banzai historian Reno Nevada.

DVD spotlight: Space: 1999: John Charles reviews not one, not two or three episodes of the Gerry & Sylvia Anderson live action series, but the entire first season of episodes, now available on DVD from A&E Home Video!

DVDs : The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension, Big Trouble In Little China, Cape Fear 1961, Cape Fear 1991, Escape From New York, Kiss Me Quick/House On Bare Mountain, Mee Pok Man, Moulin Rouge, Please Don't Eat My Mother, The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus, Scare Their Pants Off/Satan's Bed, Stargate SG-1: Season 1, Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1 and 2, Godzilla X Megaguiras, Godzilla vs. Megaguirus.

Biblio Watchdog: Christopher Lee The Authorised Screen History by Jonathan Rigby.

Contents Watchdog news: Luchino Visconti arrives on DVD: Il Gattopardo, The Damned, Rocco E I Fratelli. DVD update: Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Die Monster Die, The Dunwich Horror.

Video Tapevine: Body Weapon, Cop On A Mission, The Double-D Avenger, New Mr. Vampire, Play-Mate Of The Apes, Sexy Beast, Super Kung Fu Kid.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Bonnie's Kids, Daddy Darling, The Daughter (I A Woman Part III), Dr. Frankenstein On Campus, The Ghastly Ones, I Drink Your Bloof, I Eat Your Skin, It Happened In Hollywood, Kama Sutra, Mafia Girls, Man And Wife, Plucked, Raw Meat, The Seducers, Sweden Heaven And Hell, Together, Werewolves On Wheels, Whirlpool.

DVD spotlight: Planet Of The Apes: Tim Lucas reviews Tim Burton's take on the Apes saga - and as much of the 13 plus hours of DVD extra as time permitted!

DVDs : A Better Place, Axe, Astro Zombies, Blood Orgy Of The She-Devils, The Corpse Grinders, The Doll Squad, Girl In Gold Boots, 10 Violent Women, The Worm Eaters, Bloodsucking Pharaohs In Pittsburg, The Mind Benders, The Servant, Accident, The Notorious Daughter Of Fanny Hill/The Dead Mistress, Planet Of The Apes: The Complete TV Series, Schizo, The 10th Victim, Kill Baby... Kill.

Biblio Watchdog: Tokyo Scope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion.

Contents Watchdog news: The two faces of Barrymore's Dr. Jekyll; DVD update: The Eternal Evil Of Asia, Death Race 2000, Marat/Sade, Vigilante.

Video Tapevine: The Black Coin, Holt Of The Secret Service, Drums Of Fu Manchu, The Great Alaskan Mystery, The Lost City, The Mystery Squadron, Ace Drummond, Raiders Of Ghost City.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Black Caesar, Eugenie The Story Of Her Journey Into Perversion, 5 Fingers Of Death, I Escaped From Devil's Island, Night Of The Lepus, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Teenage Sex Report.

Storming the Castle: Four new releases from Columbia Tristar present legendary spookmeister William Castle at his merry and malevolent best! But are the movies really that good, or just good fun? Charlie Largent takes a hard look through his Truth Viewer at the DVDs of 13 Ghosts, Homicidal, Mr. Sardonicus and Strait-Jacket!

Hammer House of Horror: Shane M. Dallmann unlocks the prime piece of unreal estate that is A&E's new DVD box set of Hammer Films' 1980 teleseries! Every episode is reviewed - including the one deemed too extreme for broadcast in America!

DVDs : An American Werewolf In London, Blood Simple, The Educational Archives Volume One: Sex & Drugs, The Educational Archives Volume Two: Social Engineering 101, 8 1/2 (Otto Y Mezzo), 8 1/2 Women, H.G.Wells' Things To Come, Jurassic Park III, The Last Wave, Lust For A Vampire, The Mummy Returns, Shrek, That Obscure Object Of Desire, Wuthering Heights, The League Of Gentlemen.

Contents Watchdog news: Mexican film treasures available from the Agrasanchez Film Archive: El Fantasma Del Convento, Dos Monjes, El Baul Macabro, Herencia Macabra, La Llorona.

Video Tapevine: The Assassin, Escape Velocity, The Heroes, Pandora And The Magic Box, Red Roses Of Passion, Secret Of Tai Chi, Sleepless Nights, Tremors 3: Back To Perfection.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: The Big Doll House, Frazier The Lovable Lion, Fulfilment Something Worth Remembering, The Hot Box, The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant, Naked Angels, Night Call Nurses.

Riddle me this: Mulholland Dr., Rashomon and the puzzle movie tradition: Charlie Largent inserts a key into the puzzle box of David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. and discovers a subtle relationship to Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon and other movies that cast suspicion on the nature of identity and reality!

DVD spotlight: Eugenie De Sade: Tim Lucas compares one of Jess Franco's most audacious and compelling films to the Marquis de Sade story that inspired it! Plus a look at the three ''Unfinished Franco'' fragments included as supplements on the Wild East Production DVD!

DVDs : As Tears Go By, Days Of Being Wild, In The Mood For Love, Billy Liar, The Dr. Who Collection, HPE: Hardcore Poisoned Eyes, The Last Temptation Of Christ, Play Misty For Me: Collector's Edition, The Possession Of Nurse Sherri, Rebecca, Strange Illusion, Subway, The Vanishing, Sherlock Holmes: The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Play Of The Month: The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Count Dracula.

Biblio Watchdog: Fantasy Femmes Of Sixties Cinema by Tom Lisanti; Trash: The Graphic Genius Of Xploitation Movie Posters by Jacques Boyreau.

Contents Watchdog news: Lost Vincent Price interview comes to DVD; The Stratten story; Region 2 News; Sing a song of Tai Seng.

Video Tapevine: Batman: The Animated Series, Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage, Women In Cages, Memoirs Of A Survivor, White Lotus Cult, Sam The Iron Bridge, One Arm Hero.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Pufnstuf, The House That Screamed, Private Duty Nurses, The Student Teachers, Von Richthofen And Brown, To Hex With Sex, Willard.

Boxed Turtle: The classic Gamera on import DVD: In part 1 of a two-part overview, Bill Cooke profiles the prehistoric, hard-shelled friend of all children, Gamera! This installment reviews the first two of three deluxe box sets, now available in Japan, covering the years 1966-1980, which include classic battles with Barugon, Gaos, Guiron, Viras and more!

DVDs : Audition, A Bullet For The General, Donnie Darko, Four Of The Apocalypse, Hell Of The Living Dead, Rats: Night Of Terror, The Mummy, Peter Gunn Set 1 & 2, Ruby, Texas Adios, The Great Silence, Companeros, Thir13en Ghosts, Le Trou.

Biblio Watchdog: Amicus: The Studio That Dripped Blood.

Contents Watchdog news: Hand Of Death lives again; London After Midnight reconstructed; The Haunted House Of Horror restored; DVD update: Guru The Mad Monk, Hellbound: Hellraiser II.

Video Tapevine: The Adventures Of Prince Achmed, Boogiepop Phantom: Evolution 1, 2, 3, 4, The Breed, John Canemaker: Marching To A Different Toon, The Man Who Haunted Himself, Plucking The Daisy, The Night Heaven Fell, Don Juan (or If Don Juan Were A Woman), Raptor.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Behind The Green Door, Bloody Mama, Celebration At Big Sur, The Man Who Haunted Himself, Paranoia, Tale Of The Dean's Wife.

Boxed Turtle: The Gamera of the '90s!: Everyone's favorite flying turtle returns in Part 2 of Bill Cooke's overview of Gamera in the Cinema, which coincides with the release of the entire series on Japanese import DVD! In this final installment, Bill reviews Gamera-Guardian Of The Universe, Gamera 2: The Advent Of Legion, and Gamera 3: The Awakening Of Irys!

DVD spotlight: John Frankenheimer: In tribute to the late John Frankenheimer (who died on July 6), Bill Cokke offers in-depth reviews of two of his most controversial films, Seconds and Prophesy - now available on DVD from Paramount Home Video!

DVDs : And Soon The Darkness, Dracula 2000, From Hell, Giants And Toys, Afraid To Die, Gunman In The Streets, Killer Barbys, The Naughty Stewardesses, Primitive Love/Mondo Balordo, Series 7: The Contenders, Session 9, Strange Invaders, War-Gods Of The Deep.

Biblio Watchdog: Science Fiction Confidential: Interviews with 23 Monster Stars and Filmmakers by Tom Weaver. So You Want To Be In Pictures: From Will Hay To Hammer Horror And James Bond by Val Guest.

Contents Watchdog news: Critical visions of The Dead Zone.

Video Tapevine: Bullets Of Love, The Crimson Circle, Dagon, Ed Gein, The Exquisite Cadaver, Keep Your Right Up!, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, The Terror.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Count Yorga Vampire, Equinox, The Return Of Count Yorga, War Between The Planets, Witchcraft '70.

Reflections in a haunted eye: The making of The Watcher In The Woods: Filmmaker Paul Talbot returns to VW with a production history of Walt Disney's first excursion into 'young adult horror,' now available on DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment! Read all about the Disney studio's struggle to regain an audience in the 1980s, and to find the right ending for their comeback feature! With comments from stars Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, and director John Hough!

DVD spotlight: Harry Potter: Sam and Rebecca Umland tackle the modern wizardry of J.K. Rowling in a review of Warner Home Video's Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone!

DVDs : Bones, Britannia Hospital, The Changeling, The Woman In Black, The City Of The Dead, The Female Criminal, Fritz Lang: Circle Of Destiny, Ghosts Of Mars, Gosford Park, The Indian Tomb, The Stunt Man: Special Edition, Mondo Kammibalen, Jungfrau Unter Kannibalen, Mondo Kannibalen 4. Tiel Nackt Unter Wilden.

Biblio Watchdog: Spawn Of Skull Island by George E. Turner, The Cinema Of Tsui Hark, Jet LI: A Biography.

Contents Watchdog news: Anchor Bay's The Evil Dead, Criterion's Spellbound, WHV's Exorcist II: The Heretic, Scream And Scream Again's music score, Flash Gordon's serials.

Video Tapevine: Arachnid, Astro Boy Volume 1,2 and 3, B And Below: We 're Not In Hollywood Anymore, Fist Of Fury, Martial Arts Master Wong Fei Hung, Night Walker: Prescription For Death, Night Walker: Eternal Darkness, Project Viper.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: The Cat O' Nine Tail, Coffy, Deep Thrust, Katmandu, Pit Stop, Vanishing Point.

We Are Controlling Transmission: The Outer Limits arrives on DVD: Novelist/screenwriter David J. Schow, author of the Outer Limits Companion, commemorates the release of MGM's First Season box set of The Outer Limits with a chronological overview of all 32 episodes! With many never-before-published photos!

DVDs : Africa Screams/Jack And The Beanstalk, Beast Of The Yellow Night, Cannibal Apocalypse, The Young Ones, Summer Holiday, Wonderful Life, Demons Of The Mind, Doctor Dracula, The Grapes Of Death, Hot Summer, Meet Joe Black: Ultimate Edition (with Death Takes A Holiday), The Revenge Of Frankenstein, Star Slammer, Straight On Till Morning, Zombie Holocaust, Gemini/Hiruko The Gobelin, Tokyo Fist/Bullet Ballet.

Biblio Watchdog: The Outer Limits Companion by David J. Schow.

Contents Watchdog news: The Korean Mulholland Dr., Macaroni Western Bible: Minnesota Clay, Blind Man, Il Pistolero Dell' Ave Maria, Straw Dogs DVD.

Video Tapevine: Code Of Honor, Jet Li The Legend Of The Swordsman, Swordsman II, Lemonade Joe, The Phantom, The Thirteenth Guest, The Intruder, A Shot In The Dark, The Rats, Waking Life.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: The Laughing Woman, The Legend Of Hell House, Panorama Blue, Satan's Sadists, Teenage Fantasies, Touch Me, Voodoo Heartbeat.

Kay Linaker: At war with Tod Browning & James Whale: She lived next door to Freaks director Tod Browning during his early years of retirement, and was a featured actress in two films directed by Frankenstein's James Whale - including his last! What were these mysterious figureheads of 1930s fantastic cinema really like and why did their careers come to such abrupt and early ends? After decades of speculation, actress Kay Linaker provides the answers to these questions (and others) in a fascinating interview about Hollywood's WWII years!

DVDs : The Alien Factor, Harvesters, Bob Le Flambeur, The Crawling Eye, Cuban Story, The Devil's Backbone, J.D.'s Revenge, Juliet Of The Spirits, Notorious, The Others, Thesis, Tales From The Darkside: The Movie, Twice Told Tales, Kriminal, Il Marchio Di Kriminal.

Biblio Watchdog: H.G. Wells On Film: The Utopian Nightmare by Don G. Smith.

Contents Watchdog news: Roger Corman's Vampire Collection, Cumming Soon DVD trailer compilation.

Video Tapevine: Desire Under The Palms, Odd Triangle, The Layout, El Cisco, Ghost World, The Hand Of Pleasure, Terror At Orgy Castle, Joan The Maid, The Steamroller And The Violin, The Young Erotic Fanny Hill.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: The Beast Must Die, The House That Dripped Blood, Tales That Witness Madness.

DVD spotlight: The Giallo Collection: Short Night Of Glass Dolls, The Case Of The Bloody Iris, Who Saw Her Die?, The Bloodstained Shadow.

DVDs: Amelie, The Blue Angel/Der Blaue Engel, The Cry Of The Owl, Edge Of Sanity, Graveyard Of Horror, The Image, Inga, Joy Ride, Jungle Holocaust, Monster A-Go Go/Psyched By The 4D Witch, Mountain Of The Cannibal God, Slave Of The Cannibal God, The Rape Of The Vampire, Sadistic City/Taboo, The Saragossa Manuscript, Stagefright, The Church, Angel Dust, Say Yes.

Biblio Watchdog: The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuuse by David Kalat.

Contents Watchdog news: Seduction Cinema's horror-themed DTV erotica; Man Bites Dog DVD; Tai Seng's Martial Arts Theater; DVD Update: And Then There Were None, Vampire In Brooklyn, Venomus.

Video Tapevine: Capture That Capsule, Legend Of Horror, The Magic Serpent, Mister Peek-A-Boo, The Peeping, Room Of Chains, Warning From Space.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: The Carey Treatment, Duck! You Sucker (A Fistful Of Dynamite), Pat Garret And Billy The Kid, Straw Dogs, The Wild Bunch.

The Ring cycle. A gaze into the wellspring of new Japanese horror: Everyone's either talking about it or wondering about it - so where did The Ring come from? Richard Harlan Smith answers that burning question with an insightful overview of the Ring phenomenon, including reviews of all five Ring films currently available on import DVD and VCD... plus thoughts on the recent American remake.

DVD spotlight: Flint lives: Tim Lucas pays tribute to the late James Coburn with a critical essay/review of Our Man Flint and In Like Flint, now available on DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

DVDs: The Black Cat/The Fat Black Pussycat, Carnival Of Blood/Curse Of The Headless Horseman, Dracula The Dirty Old Man/Guess What Happened To Count Dracula?, Eyewitness, Fright, Highlander, Johnny Firecloud/Bummer, The Phantom Empire, Satan In High Heels, Werewolf Shadow, Curse Of The Devil, The Fury Of The Wolfman, Dr. Jekyll And The Werewolf.

Biblio Watchdog: The Mummy In Fact, Fiction And Film by Susan D. Cowie and Tom Johnson.

Contents Watchdog news: Honoring Jack Pierce, James Batman, Lugosi's Devil Worshipping days, Glittering Images' Bizarre Sinema #4.

Video Tapevine: Astro Boy Vol. 4, 5, 6, Between God The Devil And A Winchester, The Kung Fu Master, Love After Death, The Marriage Of Maria Braun, The Stalker.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Battle For The Planet Of The Apes, Captain Nemo And The Underwater City, The Forbin Project, Silent Running, Wonder Women, Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth).

Curse Of The Demon: Two versions, two critics: By popular demand. You 've wondered what it would be like to read a ''duelling critics'' assessment of a new DVD release, so here it is! UK critic Kim Newman and US critic Bill Cooke are actually in agreement about Columbia TriStar's new DVD of the Jacques Tourneur classic, but they manage to say some very different things about it! Includes a breakdown of all the changes made to the original Night Of The Demon cut, which is also included on the DVD.

DVDs: Earth vs. Flying Saucers, Fangs Of The Living Dead, Frankenthumb, The Gambler, Fingers, Gremlins, Innerspace, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Hardware Wars, Star Warp'd, A Galaxy Far Far Away, Thumb Wars: The Phantom Cuticle, Heart Of Glass, Little Dieter Needs To Fly, The Mothman Prophecies, Pet Sematary Two, The Prowler, The Return Of The Vampire, Shock Waves, The Toolbox Murders, The Unearthly, Wild Strawberries, Zeta One, Au Pair Girls, Le Amanti Del Mostro.

Biblio Watchdog: The Devil On Screen: Feature Films Worldwide, 1913 through 2000 by Charles P. Mitchell. Going To Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film, 1978-1986 by Adam Rockoff.

Contents Watchdog news: 'We Are Going To Eat You' by Stephen R. Bissette; Starman Vol 1 & 2; Uschi Digart movies.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: 10 Rillington Place, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, The Cycle Savages, Deep End, The Long Goodbye, Marlowe.

Portals to a shadowed past: 4 silent horror classics revisited: Gary L. Prange reviews Kino on Video's new German Horror Classics box set of The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Golem and Waxworks - and tells how Caligari and Nosferatu compare to previous releases.

A Phildickian look at Minority Report: Philip K. Dick biographer Gregg Rickman makes his VW debut with an absorbing essay about Steven Spielberg's latest science fiction film, which asks the ever-relevant question ''What does it mean to be human?''

DVD spotlight: Spider-Man: Spider-fan Charlie Largent analyzes the sustained appeal of Marvel Comics' friendly neighborhood superhero and reviews the Sam Raimi film's presentation on DVD.

DVDs: The Curse Of Frankenstein, Horror Of Dracula, Fuego/The Female, Grave Of The Fireflies, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, The Incubus, Last House On Dead End Street, Legend, Men Cry Bullets, Of Freaks And Men, Seance On A Wet Afternoon, Star TRek: The Motion Picture: The Director's Edition, La Vallee, Gojira Mosura Kingu Ghidorah: Daikaju Soukougeki, Godzilla Mothra And King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Human Lanterns.

Biblio Watchdog: White Zombie: Anatomy Of A Horror Film by Gary D. Rhodes; Horror Films Of The 1970s by John Kenneth Muir.

Contents VW Editor Tim Lucas picks his favorite DVDs of 2002!

Watchdog news: Criterion's new deluxe DVD of Beauty and The Beast (1946); German DVDs go a step further.

Video Tapevine: It's A Haunted Happenin', The Thirsty Dead, Up Your Teddy Bear, Virgin Sacrifice, Way Out, You 've Got To Be Smart, The Zodiac Killer.

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Blood Demon, The Blood On Satan's Claw, Mad Doctor Of Blood Island, Night Of Bloody Horror, Twitch Of The Death Nerve.

Blood Chiller Review-O-Rama! : Written in the Real Tombs of Horror! Shane M. Dallmann pays tribute to six hemorrhaging horror hits from the heyday of Hemisphere Pictures! That's right-a half dozen hits (more or less) of Filipino fright, all now available as Image Entertainment's 'Blood Collection': The Blood Drinkers! Brides Of Blood! Mad Doctor Of Blood Island! Beast Of Blood! Blood Of The Vampires (aka Curse Of The Vampires) and the faux Filipino Brain Of Blood! Plus, extra special bonus feature with this article only: Al Adamson's Horror Of The Blood Monsters! It's incredddddible! It's unbelievvvvvable!

DVD Spotlight: UFO Set 1: John Charles looks at the first 13 episodes in Gerry Anderson's cult TV series, available from A&E Home Video!

DVDs: Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People, Confessions Of A Psycho Cat, Don Knotts as The Incredible Mr. Limpet, The Coen Brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There, the big bug classic Them!, and Hammer's To The Devil A Daughter...plus, imports DVDs of Hideo Nakata's Dark Water, Paul Naschy as the School Killer, and the Mexican horror classics Fernando Mendez's The Vampire and Juan L. Moctezuma's Alucarda!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter and a panel of fellow enthusiasts select The Best and the Rest of 2002!

Biblio Watchdog: Charlie Largent reviews Heaven & Hell To Play With: The Filming Of The Night Of The Hunter and Anthony Ambrogio probes The Mummy Unwrapped: Scenes Left On Universal's Cutting Room Floor!

Contents Watchdog news: You see them in all the stores, but what are all the budget DVDs from Brentwood Entertainment like? Tim Lucas and John Charles bring you some answers to that question with reports on the 10-movie DVD set Tales Of Terror, Al Adamson's John Carradine Western Five Bloody Graves, Vincent Price in The Jackals, and the early Jack Nicholson drag-racin' extravaganza The Wild Ride!

Reptilicus: A Tale of Two Tales!: Danish filmmaker Nicolas Barbano pays homage to the original Tivoli fright! You've seen Reptilicus on MGM Home Entertainment's 'Midnite Movies' DVD -- now read about the differences between the AIP version directed by Sid Pink and the simultaneously filmed Danish version never shown in America!

DVD Spotlight: Captain Scarlet (A&E Home Video): Shane M. Dallmann wires you into the greatest of all Gerry & Sylvia Anderson 'Supermarionation' adventures with a complete episode guide!

Days of Being Wild: Leslie Cheung: In the wake of his April 1 suicide, the late superstar/provocateur of HK cinema is paid tribute in a thoughtful eulogy by VW's resident HK expert John Charles!

Tapes/DVD-Rs: The condensed feature version of the Bruce Lee-inspired miniseries Fist Of Fury: Sworn Revenge, Jon Bon Jovi vs. the Undead in John Carpenter Presents Vampires: Los Muertos, the HK actioner My Schoolmate The Barbarian, Wes Craven's Summer Of Fear and the long-lost, recently recovered Herschell Gordon Lewis curio Year Of The Yahoo!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Vintage reviews of Tinto Brass's psychedelic Deadly Sweet with Ewa Aulin and Jean-Louis Trintignant, Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr in The Magic Christian, Richard Benjamin doin' a 'food of love kinda thing' in Portnoy's Complaint, the Three In The Attic sequel Up In The Cellar, and two by Jerry Lewis: the Salt & Pepper sequel One More Time and the Dick Miller-scripted Which Way To The Front?

DVDs: The Amicus crawling hand fest --And Now The Screaming Starts!, Walerian Borowczyk's erotic fairy tale The Beast, Brad F. Grinter's indescribable Blood Freak, the acid flashback thrills of Jeff Lieberman's Blue Sunshine, Paul Naschy in Crimson, Peter Cushing in the latter-day Hammer production Fear In The Night, Wes Craven's woebegone sequel The Hills Have Eyes Part 2, Phil Karlson's classic noir Kansas City Confidential, the impoverished prehistorica of The Mighty Gorga / One Million AC/DC, the seldom-seen British voodoo film Naked Evil and its Independent-International re-edit Exorcism At Midnight, Luchino Visconti's neorealist masterpiece Ossessione (based on The Postman Always Rings Twice), Mario Bava's Western comedy Roy Colt & Winchester Jack, Billy Wilder's masterpiece Sunset Boulevard and Reggie Nalder in Zoltan... Hound Of Dracula!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter pays tribute to 'Le Miz' with reviews of several new Vic Mizzy releases from Percepto Records, including his soundtracks for William Castle's The Night Walker and The Spirit Of Willing/ The Busy Body, along with reviews of Milos Raickovich's The Map Of Sex And Love and the various artists compilation Carnivore!!

Biblio Watchdog: Anthony Ambrogio dons his deerstalker for a midnight perusal of Sherlock Holmes On Screen: The Complete Film And TV History by Alan Barnes!

Contents Watchdog news: All Import DVD news: including the new Austrian DVD of Mario Bava's Blutige Seide [Blood And Black Lace], and a wealth of new disc releases from the Swiss label VIP, including numerous important Jess Franco titles in definitive English presentations!

Video Tapevine: Feng Xiaogang directs Donald Sutherland and Paul Mazursky in the filmmaking satire Big Shot's Funeral... Kane Hodder haunts the night as Darkwolf... in darkest Africa, a two-fisted hero guards the interests of a beautiful heiress in the 1930's Universal serial Jungle Jim... a behind-the-scenes look at skin-trade stardom in the unrated documentary Porn Star: The Legend Of Ron Jeremy... the slithering shocks of the DTV duo Python And Python II... surf-guitar king Dick Dale adds six-string fire to A Swingin' Affair... and we survey exploitation at its most tasteless in The Wild, Wild World Of Jayne Mansfield!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Grab your raincoats! It's 'Adults Only' month in the Fleapit as Joe recites The ABC's Of Marriage, dresses down The Devil In Miss Jones, and tussles with Russell in a quadruple dose of Russ Meyer features: Cherry, Harry And Raquel, 'Finders Keepers Lovers Weepers,' Russ Meyer's Vixen! And The Seven Minutes!

EEGAH to Please: The Richard Kiel Interview: Tom Weaver corners everyone's favourite 7' 2' actor for a revealing, down-to-earth interview about his first screen role... as the bearded, lovesick caveman, EEGAH!

DVD Spotlight: Brotherhood Of The Wolf

DVDs: Two by Peter Jackson (Bad Taste and Heavenly Creatures), two by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Katzelmacher and The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant) and two by Bob Clark (Deranged and Murder By Decree) are just the icing on the DVD review cake this month! Also covered in this issue: the ''personality horrors'' double feature of The Attic/Crawlspace... giant grasshoppers run amok in Bert I. Gordon's Beginning Of The End... the violent Spanish Western Cut-Throats Nine... some unlucky critters get turned into Farmer Vincent's Fritters in Motel Hell... machine-gun-toting zombies take over Umberto Lenzi's Nightmare City... Bruce Dern and his droids protect the last vestiges of Earthly nature in Silent Running... a ''Sam, Rebecca and John Thumbland'' review of Steve Oedekerk's Thumbtanic, The Blair Thumb And Bat Thumb... and the classic martial chivalry film, A Touch Of Zen!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter listens to Jean-Pierre Melville movie music (Le Circle Rouge, L'Armιe des Ombras), as well as Thomas Bangalter's music for Gaspar Noι's Irrθversible, as well as some current and early work by Hans Zimmer, including Tears Of The Sun, The Peacemaker, Ancient Evil: Scream Of The Mummy And The Frightening!

Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of Bill Landis & Michelle Clifford's long-awaited Sleazoid Express book and the 'McFarland Classic' trade paper edition of Science Fiction Films Of The Seventies by Craig W. Anderson!

Contents AIP and Pillage: The Cries and Screams of Gordon Hessler: Suppressed for more than 30 years, the original director's cuts of Gordon Hessler's four horror films for AIP are now available for viewing on DVD! Tim Lucas offers a reassessment of Hessler's work, while comparing the various versions of The Oblong Box (1969), Scream And Scream Again (1969), Cry Of The Banshee (1970) And Murders In The Rue Morgue (1971)!

Return to the Rue Morgue: A Conversation with Gordon Hessler: David Del Valle meets with the Poe-director laureate to discuss his AIP legacy and the restoration of the 'lost' versions of his movies on DVD!

DVD Spotlight: Eraserhead: Bill Cooke explores the intricacies of David Lynch's feature debut in an original essay, and also reviews its debut release on DVD, available exclusively from davidlynch.com!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: It's a motley line-up this month as Joe attends screenings of the sexploitative The Girl Grabbers... the Toho kid fantasy Godzilla's Revenge... Ralph Bakshi's early live-action/animation combo Heavy Traffic... Jane Fonda's Oscar-winning performance in Klute... Alan Alda versus devil worshippers in The Mephisto Waltz... and Burt Reynolds and Roger C. Carmel conspiring against adorable missing links in Skullduggery!

Tapes: You'll believe a boy can fly in Astro Boy Volumes 7-9... plus Herman Cohen's Thai import Crocodile... Richard Harrison in the widescreen Italian peplum epic Gladiators 7... and Jeff Fahey in the DTV sleeper Maniacts!

DVDs: Jon Hall stars in and directs The Beach Girls And The Monster... Jack Palance exposes Hollywood sleaze in Robert Aldrich's The Big Knife... David Hess gets picked up by Corinne Clery in Hitch-Hike... Something Weird Video bags another JD double feature with Lost, Lonely And Vicious and Jacktown... Roman Polanski meets the bloody Bard in MACBETH... AIP explores the Sixties counter-culture in Psych-Out and The Trip... and Jack Palance returns to chew futuristic wallpaper in The Shape Of Things To Come!

Plus: In our 'Imports' section, we review Bloody Moon, Jess Franco's imitation (or is it a satire?) of 1980s teenage 'body count' movies... and a newly released, uncut edition of the HK exploitation favorite, Killer Snakes!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter reviews new CDs of the scores from The Martian Chronicles, Ice Station Zebra, THX 1138, Femme Fatale, Gohatto and Battle Royale!

Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of Peter Dendle's The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia and John B. Murray's biography The Remarkable Michael Reeves: His Short And Tragic Life!

Plus! A look at new Region 2 'Arkoff Film Library' DVD releases of AIP's '50s classics Day The World Ended, War Of The Colossal Beast, The Spider and How To Make A Monster... and much, much more!

Contents In Search of London After Midnight: As Rick Schmidlin's 'stills reconstruction' of Tod Browning's lost vampire opus comes to DVD, Gary D. Rhodes and Ryan Baker explore our ongoing fascination with a film we'll probably never see... and the attempts which have been made to reconstruct it!

Double Dog Dare: Society: You've asked for it, so VW inaugurates the dreaded 'Double Dog Dare'--a new, occasional department wherein two critics challenge one another with contrasting opinions of a single film! In this round, Richard Harland Smith and Kim Newman beg to differ about Brian Yuzna's Society!

DVD Spotlight: Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring: Our resident mythologists, Rebecca & Sam Umland, turn their attentions to the first instalment of what promises to become the greatest fantasy film series of all time: Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: This month, Joe screens: Beryl Reid and Flora Robson care for The Beast In The Cellar... Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee and Barbara Steele form The Crimson Cult... Ken Russell raises Hell in The Devils... bullets fly in the Spaghetti Western God Forgives--I Don't... the world hears again from Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) in Kiss And Kill... and Oliver Reed and Alan Bates introduce full frontal male nudity to the screen in Women In Love!

DVDs: The Spaghetti Westerns Day Of Anger and Boot Hill... Laura Gemser horses around in Joe D'Amato's notorious Emanuelle In America... Michael Myers returns from the grave in Halloween: Resurrection... the strangely named Dr. Ood embarks on even stranger experiments in The Head... Richard Carlson puts a positive face in extraterrestrial invasion in It Came From Outer Space... An animated Boris Karloff puppet hosts Mad Monster Party?... Douglas Fairbanks Sr. swashes buckles in The Mark Of Zorro, Don Q, Son Of Zorro and The Iron Mask... Something Weird Video delves into unholy, unclothed rituals in the Double Feature DVD The Naked Witch / Crypt Of Dark Secrets... the Japanese tackle a banned masterpiece of Chinese erotica in The Notorious Concubines... three different versions of the same basic footage are compared in our review of Image Entertainment's Raiders Of The Living Dead... Joe Turkel hires bikers to snare two teenage girls in a Savage Abduction... Michael Gambon and Dennis Potter extend the creative boundaries of the TV miniseries in The Singing Detective... and All Day Entertainment rescues from oblivion the rare British thriller Wanted For Murder!

Plus: Kim Newman examines the new Region 2 DVD release of the classic Hammer science fiction thriller, THE Quatermass Xperiment!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter calculates the listenability of the soundtrack CDs of Open Your Eyes, The Thin Blue Line, Fear No Evil, Gacy and Auto Focus!

Biblio Watchdog: Anthony Ambrogio delves into the long-awaited Forgotten Horrors 3: Dr. Turner's House Of Horrors By Michael H. Price and John Wooley, with George E. Turner!

Plus! A look at the Pros and Cons on the new D-VHS format in 'Watchdog News' and much more.

Contents Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Frankenstein Must Be Destryed, Hands Of The Ripper, The Horror Of Frankenstein, Lust For A Vampire, Scars Of Dracula, Twins Of Evil, The Vampire Lovers.

Dog Bytes: The Adventures Of The Flying Cadets, Assault On Precinct 13, Assignment Terror, At The Earth's Core, Baba Yaga, The Beast Within, The Believers, Black Samurai, Blade II, Bride Of Re-Animator, Bride Of The Gorilla, A Bullet For Sandoval, The Cars That Ate Paris, Chained Heat, La Collectionneuse, The Crawling Hand, Cut And Run, Dangerous Game, The Dark Tales, The Day Of The Dolphin, Dead Again, Deadlier Than The Male, Dead Of Night/Queen Of Spades, Dead Of Winter, The Deathmaster, Die Monster Die, Doomwatch, The Dynamite Brothers, The Face Of Fu Manchu, Fahrenheit 451, Flavia The Heretic, I Frati Rossi/The Red Monks, The Frightened City, Frogs, The Ghost And Mrs. Muir, The Giant Of Metropolis, The Giant Spider Invasion, The Gingko Bed, The Godthumb, Grave Of The Vampire, The Hearse, Hell Is A City, Horror Rises From The Tomb, Horrors Of The Black Museum, The House Of The Laughing Windows, It! The Terror From Beyond Space, It Happened Tomorrow, Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Kill By Inches, Kingdom Of The Spiders, Kingu Kongu Tai Gojira, Kourei, The Last Vampyre, Last Woman On Earth, Legend Eight Samurai, Love Bites, Macon County Line, Mad Max 2, Masque Of The Red Death/The Premature Burial, Miracle Mile, Modesty Blaise, The Monster That Challenged The World, The Moon Warriors, Murder By Television, My Dear Killer, The Nameless, The New Gladiators, Night Child, Night Of The Ghoul, 1984, The Ninth Configuration, Oedipus Rex, One Step Beyond, The Piano Teacher, Pin, Quiet Days In Clichy, Rodan, Satan's Brew, The Severed Arm, Sherlock Holmes And The Deadly Necklace, Shriek Of The Mutilated, Ski Troop Attack, Sound Of Horror, The Specials, Spontaneous Combustion, The Steel Fisted Dragon, The Stranger's Gundown, Supercar, Thirst, Trick Or Treat, Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna, Venom, What's The Matter With Helen?/Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, Wgat's Up Tiger Lily?, Wild Zero, With A Friend Like Harry, The Year Of The Sex Olympics.

Overlooked gems: The most important video release VW somehow failed to cover in its first 100 issues: Darby O'Gill And The Little People, Doctor Who-The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, Master Of The Flying Guillotine, The Nutty Professor, Phantom Of The Paradise, Rituals, Stigma, Theater Of Blood, The Thief Of Bagdad, Zardoz.

Biblio Watchdog: Rational Fears: American Horror In The 1950s, The Cutting Edge: Art-Horror And The Horrific Avant-Garde, Horror Film Reader, The Ninth Cinfiguration, Shock Theater: An Illustrated History.

Contents Metropolis: Lang vs. Rintaro: Bill Cooke reviews Kino on Video's breathtaking new restoration of Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction masterpiece-and compares and contrasts it with Rintaro's dazzling 2001 anime interpretation from Columbia TriStar! An illuminating text with numerous frame-to-frame image comparisons!

DVD Spotlight: 28 Days Later...: It's like all three of George A. Romero's 'Living Dead' films boiled down into one relentless nightmare! Kim Newman reviews the latest from Trainspotting director Danny Boyle, which he calls 'The best British film in its genre since Raw Meat (1973)!'

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: This month, just for fun, Joe Dante screens the late '60s/early '70s films of Elvis Presley and Charlton Heston: Change Of Heart, The Hawaiians, Number One, The Omega Man, Skyjacked and The Trouble With Girls!

Plus! Dog Bytes: Reviews of Charles Bronson's 10 To Midnight, the Arthur Bernede adaptation Belphegor-Phantom Of The Louvre, Jess Franco's The Devil Came From Akasava and X-312 Flight To Hell, Boris Karloff in The Devil Commands, Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Hellseeker, kinky Japanese offerings Midnight Whispers and The Pornographers, Herman Cohen's Target Earth and more!

In-Depth Reviews: Including the new Marvel Comics adaptation Daredevil, Spaghetti Westerns Find A Place To Die, Any Gun Can Play and the Dario Argento-scripted Today We Kill... Tomorrow We Die!, wild drive-in favorite I Drink Your Blood, three volumes of the stylish anime NOIR, H.G. Clouzot's decadent thriller Quai Des Orfevres, Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard, Something Weird nudie cuties Sinderella And The Golden Bra and Herschell Gordon Lewis' Goldilocks And The Three Bares, Peter Bogdanovich's Karloff classic Targets, the conspiracy thriller satire Winter Kills-and Import reviews of Bounce Ko Gals and Toho's 'Dracula Trilogy': Legacy Of Dracula-The Bloodthirsty Doll, Lake Of Dracula and Evil Of Dracula!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter on Brian Eno and the rise of ambient film scores!

Biblio Watchdog: Anthony Ambrogio reviews Arthur Lennig's The Immortal Count: The Life & Films Of Bela Lugosi, and Tim Lucas reviews Kent Byron Armstrong's Slasher Films!

Contents All That You See And Hear: The Outer Limits Season 2 on DVD: In which David J. Schow sharpens to crystal clarity our appreciation of this classic series' final 17 episodes, including 'Demon with a Glass Hand'!

He Restoreth The Ghoul MGM'S James Owsley on the Karloff Classic: Tim Lucas interviews the man responsible for MGM's stunning new DVD restoration of this once-lost 1930s British horror classic starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ernest Thesiger!

DVD Spotlight: The Incredible Hulk: Shane M. Dallmann shines this month's spotlight on four Marvel-ous TV movies starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno: The Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Hulk Returns, The Trial Of The Incredible Hulk and The Death Of The Incredible Hulk! Read all about the first failed attempts to put Marvel's classic characters Daredevil and The Mighty Thor on film!

Space: 1999 - A Critical Episode Guide to Season 2: John Charles offers a complete critical episode guide to the Second Season of this popular Gerry Anderson series, available from A&E Home Video as Space: 1999 (Sets 5-8)!

Dog Bytes: Compact capsule reviews of Ray Dennis Steckler's The Adventures Of Rat Pfink And Boo Boo, a new DVD import of Orson Welles' Confidential Report (Aka MR. ARKADIN), Something Weird Video's wrestling horror double feature of Doctor Of Doom & Wrestling Women vs The Aztec Mummy, a Hong Kong import of Toho's latest Godzilla X Mechagodzilla, Patrick Macnee meets Joanna Lumley in The New Avengers, four El Santo movies (Infraterrestre, Santo En El Tessorio De Dracula, Santo Y Blue Demon Contra Dracula Y El Hombre Lobo and Santo Y Blue Demon Contra El Dr. Frankenstein), Jeff Lieberman's Squirm, and two Crypt Keeper presentations, Tales From The Crypt Presents Demon Knight and Tales From The Crypt Presents Bordello Of Blood!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Our Man in the Fleapit looks on in amazement as Delphine Seyrig charms the blood out of two newlyweds in Daughters Of Darkness... as Mick Jagger plays an Australian outlaw in Ned Kelly... as Mia Farrow runs blind through See No Evil... as Andrew Prine captures and tortures young lovelies in Terror Circus aka Barn Of The Naked Dead... as Ray Harryhausen puts the emotion in stop-motion in The Valley Of Gwangi... and as David Janssen tries to cope with the generation gap in Where It's At!

DVDs: The piece de resistance! In-depth reviews of the C.S. Lewis adaptation The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Blue Underground's rough-riding Spaghetti Western Collection (Django, Django, Kill... If You Live, Shoot!, Run Man Run, Mannaja aka A Man Called Blade), the French horror satire Frankenstein 90, Boris Karloff and Ernest Thesiger in the beautifully restored 'lost' 1930s classic The Ghoul, Vincent Price's House Of Wax (and the original Mystery Of The Wax Museum starring Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill), a new Special Edition of Joe Dante's The Howling, a Criterion double feature set of both versions of The Killers, the notorious Michael & Roberta Findlay trilogy of The Touch Of Her Flesh / The Curse Of Her Flesh / The Kiss Of Her Flesh, plus Import reviews of Jess Franco's X ('Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell') and the greasy horror stuff of the Shaw Brothers' Oily Maniac!

Contents DVD Spotlight: The Sherlock Holmes Collection Volume One: Universal's classic 1940s Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce mysteries are finally afoot on DVD... but do MPI Home Video's release of the UCLA 35mm restorations live up to their promise? Find out as Tim Lucas raises his magnifying glass to Sherlock Holmes And The Voice Of Terror, Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon, Sherlock Holmes In Washington and Sherlock Holmes Faces Death! With rare vintage colour graphics!


Nobuo Nakagawa: Master of Japanesque Horror: Veering from West to East, VW and Bill Cooke bring you the first in-depth English-language study of Japan's supreme maker of kaidan eiga ('ghost story') films, whose works-including The Ghost Of Yotsuya and Jigoku ('Hell')-are currently available as import DVDs!


Dog Bytes: Reviews of reviews of Fred Olen Ray's Alien Dead... Elizabeth Hurley meets a serial killer in Beyond Bedlam... Peter Cushing's swan song Biggles-Adventures In Time... Al Adamson goes blaxploitation in Black Heat... Grand Guignol on the cheap in Dungeons Of Harrow... another little girl with a bouncing ball terrorises people through Fear Dot Com... Frank LaLoggia's debut Fear No Evil... the Richard Christian Matheson-scripted Full Eclipse... an import Hammer box set including Countess Dracula, Twins Of Evil and Vampire Circus... Haskell Wexler's seminal docudrama Medium Cool... snowboarders get slashed in Shredder... masked superhero shenanigans, Italian style, in Superargo Contro Diabolicus... and Crispin Clover starts a new Rat Pack in the remake of Willard!


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Joe is back with another assortment of early 1970s reviews, this time including Gianfranco Parolini's Adios Sabata, Don Siegel's cop classic Dirty Harry, the British vampire opus The Hand Of Night (aka Beast Of Morocco) and-pardon us as we genuflect-Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West!


DVDs: Our in-depth reviews of The Adventures Of Pinocchio, The New Adventures Of Pinocchio (both with Martin Landau and Udo Kier!) and Roberto Begnigni's Pinocchio... the Coen Brothers' hilarious fantasy The Big Lebowski... the Max J. Rosenberg-produced Bloody Birthday... dark gods, kung fu, exorcisms and enhanced breast nudity in Japan's Dragon Blue... comparisons of the domestic and import discs of the terrifying HK/Thai horror film The Eye... Ken Russell's bizarre home movie The Fall Of The Louse Of Usher... Something Weird's serpentine double feature of Rattlers and The Snake People (with Boris Karloff)... the acclaimed British horror classic of the 1970s, Raw Meat aka Death Line (the subject of our next VW Round Table Discussion!)... Steve Reeves teams with Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava for The White Warrior... plus import reviews of Nicolas Roeg's mesmerizing and transgressive Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession... the Thai horror thriller Bangkok Haunted... Jess Franco's hardcore horror-sex fantasy Doriana Grey... and a new British DVD of Michael Armstrong's legendarily gruesome Mark Of The Devil (complete with a rare colour shot of the legendary deleted scene)!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter on Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Scarface and new Italian horror score releases! Need we say more?


Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of three McFarland and Company Releases-The Films Of Tobe Hooper: Eaten Alive At A Chainsaw Massacre... Don Glut's The Frankenstein Archive... and Neil Pettigrew's mammoth The Stop Motion Filmography!

Contents Esotika Erotika Psicotika: A Beginner's Guide to the Best Euro Lounge Soundtracks:

Perhaps you know the names of the all-time greats Morricone, Piccione, Cipriani, Umiliani but where should you begin as a collector? Euro soundtrack authority John Bender defines the territory and provides some valuable pointers in an absorbing new essay! Dozens of essential releases discussed!


DVD Spotlight: Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines: Tim Lucas on Jonathan Mostow's action-packed addition to the James Cameron/Arnold Schwarzenegger franchise, now available from Warner Home Video as a two-disc DVD!


Dog Bytes: Info-packed capsule reviews of Greg Kinnear as sex-addicted Bob Crane in Auto Focus... Klaus Kinski is stalked by his twin brother in The Bloody Dead and Creature With The Blue Hand... angora-clad Charlotte Austin gets pawed by Spanky the Gorilla in the Ed Wood-scripted The Bride And The Beast... Don Knotts spends the night in a haunted house in The Ghost And Mr. Chicken... Karena Lam is plagued by visions of ghosts in the HK thriller Inner Senses... James Best holds giant rodents at bay in The Killer Shrews... you'll believe an iguana is a T Rex (maybe, maybe not) in Bert I. Gordon's King Dinosaur... the Sasquatch stalks Arkansas in The Legend Of Boggy Creek... Al Adamson and Leon Klimovsky 'collaborate' on Mean Mother... Mexico's masked wrestling hero returns in Santo Contro La Hija De Frankenstein and Santo En El Hacha Diabolica... Euro favourite Michel Lemoine becomes obsessed with a woman's portrait and flips out in Seven Women For Satan... and strange creatures run amok in the 'Yokai Monsters' trilogy Spook Warfare, 100 Monsters and Along With Ghosts!


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: In the 21st instalment of this popular column, Joe screens the long-unavailable screen adaptation of Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me... Bob Clark's Ed Gein-inspired Deranged... Toho's popular monster rally Destroy All Monsters... Melanie Griffith's mother getting naked for Don Johnson in The Harrad Experiment... Lee Van Cleef shooting up the screen in the Spaghetti Western Sabata... and Bonnie Bedelia in the low-budget MISERY template The Strange Vengeance Of Rosalie!


DVDs: In-depth reviews of Blue Underground's new Larry Cohen trilogy of Bone, God Told Me To and Q The Winged Serpent... the modern day vampire angst of Cold Hearts... the French-set Spanish horror of Devil's Kiss... Philip K. Dick adapted to the screen once again in Impostor... Malcolm McDowell gets real ugly in Island Of The Dead... Christopher Walken in his first major adult role in The Mind Snatchers... wrestling women, heart surgery and reverse evolution in Night Of The Bloody Apes (plus co-feature, Emilio Vieyra's Feast Of Flesh)... Charlton Heston watches Woodstock and still has time to kill vampires, bed Rosalind Cash and save Richie in The Omega Man... Santo returns to save Earth from alien attack in Santo Vs. La Invasion De Los Marcianos... Michael Findlay's notorious Snuff ('Made in South America-where life is Cheap!')... Roger Corman's elegiac The Tomb Of Ligeia (and co-feature An Evening Of Edgar Allan Poe)... Sonny Bono sprouts foliage in the mind-boggling Troll (plus its even more mind-boggling co-feature, the Italian-made Troll 2)... and Radley Metzger adds skin to the French '50s sexploitation classic The Twilight Girls!


Plus! Import DVD reviews of the Shaw Brothers' sex-and-violence HK classic Intimate Confessions Of A Chinese Courtesan... the excellent South Korean techno-horror Phone... and the German sexploitation items Train Station Pickups (with Katja Bienert) and Ernst Hofbauer's What Schoolgirls Don't Tell (aka Secrets Of Sweet Sixteen)!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter on the introductory releases of the new Digitmovies label, including the long-awaited soundtracks of Fellini's Toby Dammit/Satyricon/Roma (Nino Rota)... the alternate score for the Italian release of Godard's Contempt (Piero Piccioni)... Piranha Ii: The Spawning (Stelvio Cipriani)... Crimes Of The Black Cat (Manuel De Sica)... Killing Birds (Carlo Maria Cordio)... Wax Mask (Maurizio Abeni)... and the Mario Bava classic Planet Of The Vampires (Gino Mariunuzzi, Jr.)! Plus Hexacord's 'Wizards of Sound' tributes to Ennio Morricone and Alessandro Alessandroni!


Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of the third edition of Michael R. Pitts' Horror Film Stars and the second, expanded edition of Beverly Gray's Roger Corman biography!

Contents Adrian Messenger Unmasked!: The Many Faces of Jan Merlin: Tom Weaver interviews the familiar character actor about his hush-hush involvement in the filming of John Huston's 1963 gimmick mystery, The List Of Adrian Messenger! Read all about one of the biggest cover-ups in mystery history! See page after page of exclusive photos!


DVD Spotlight: Lon Chaney Collection: Tim Lucas reviews Warner Home Video/TCM Archives' stunning retrospective tribute to silent screen great Lon Chaney, including The Ace Of Hearts, Laugh, Clown, Laugh, The Unknown, Kevin Brownlow's documentary Lon Chaney-A Thousand Faces, the stills reconstruction of London After Midnight and much more!


Dog Bytes: Capsule reviews of The Adventures Of Dr. Fu Manchu, four episodes of a 1950s TV revival of Sax Rohmer's Napoleon of crime... Chantal Akermann's La Captive, an erotic contemporary adaptation of a novel from Marcel Proust's Remembrance Of Things Past... Christopher Lee's Count Regula is resurrected in Harald Reinl's Castle Of The Walking Dead... The Crazies, George A. Romero's biochemical cautionary tale... Henri-Georges Clouzot's rarely-screened spy thriller Les Espions... Hands Of A Stranger, an obscure 1960s American film unofficially based on The Hands Of Orlac... Mandrake The Magician meets The Wasp in a Columbia serial based on Lee Falk's popular comic strip... My Tango With Porn, a documentary about the Canadian film ratings system... Ed Nelson stalks a pre-Alien creature that bursts out of its human host in Night Of The Blood Beast... Pink Floyd Live In Pompeii: The Director's Cut, Adrian Maben's redo of his 1970s midnight movie stoner classic... two Universal serials based on Secret Agent X-9... Barbara Steele in Michael Reeves' directorial debut The She Beast... Hammer's early experiment in television Tales Of Frankenstein (and its companion feature, Roger Corman's The Terror)... Trevor Howard seeks revenge in Cavalcanti's suspense thriller They Made Me A Fugitive... and Reed Hadley dons the mask of Don Diego in the Republic serial Zorro's Fighting Legion!


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: This month, the screening room offers something for Euro oater fans, as Joe jots down his impressions of Ace High (starring Terence Hill as 'Cat Stevens'!)... Lee Van Cleef and Carroll Baker in the Philip Yordan-scripted Captain Apache... A Few Bullets More, a Spanish, pre-Peckinpah telling of the story of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid... A Long Ride From Hell, the final film and only Western of movie great Steve Reeves... and a sprinkling of scares, courtesy of Gordon Hessler's Murders In The Rue Morgue and Brian De Palma's Sisters!


DVDs: In-depth reviews of the Hammer cult favorite Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter... Tony Anthony forms a menage e trois with Luciana Paluzzi and Rosemary Dexter in Cometogether... George A. Romero's trilogy-capping Day Of The Dead... Gary Sherman's Dead & Buried... Criterion's new box set A Film Trilogy By Ingmar Bergman: Through A Glass Darkly, Winter Light and The Silence (plus the documentary Ingmar Bergman Makes A Movie)... Peter Cushing bids au revoir to his beloved Baron in Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell... Herschell Gordon Lewis dumps horror in favour of hillbilly hootch in the double feature This Stuff'll Kill Ya! and The Year Of The Yahoo!... the undead anime Vampire Princess Miyu: Volume One... Plus 'Import' DVD reviews of the latest Asian shock success Ju-On: The Grudge... three new 'Arkoff Film Library' discs of the AIP classics The She Creature, Voodoo Woman and The Undead... and a Shaw Brothers production about a ghost girl with a bouncing white ball, The Siamese Twins!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter waxes poetic over several new Bernard Herrmann releases (including On Dangerous Ground and several volumes of his radio and television scores for CBS) and the long-awaited CD debut of Nino Rota's score for Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit!


Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier's Shadowmen: Heroes And Villains Of French Pulp Fiction and Adam Lukeman's Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen!


Plus! Thrill to some amazing full-colour photos of Paul Blaisdell's creature creations for The She Creature and Voodoo Woman.

Contents The Alien Quadrilogy: It presents eight distinct cuts of four films on nine discs! This 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment release truly raises the bar for what is possible within the home video format! Bill Cooke signs up for the long haul with the sort of definitive, fully illustrated, feature-length review that only VW can deliver!


Dog Bytes: Capsule reviews of Joseph Losey's British underworld drama The Criminal... Republic's Sax Rohmer serial Drums Of Fu Manchu... Neil Jordan's Bob le Flambeur remake The Good Thief... Klaus Kinski meets Edward G. Robinson in the Italian heist caper Grand Slam... Daphne Zuniga stars in the Texas-made slasher pic The Initiation... Metrov's fascinating DVD-R sleeper Little Eden... Jean-Pierre Denis' Murderous Maids, about a 1933 double-homicide that rocked France... Demi Moore and Cherie Currie meet Parasite... Oliver Reed locks and loads for Sergio Sollima's Revolver... Mexico's famed masked wrestler meets the monsters in Santo en Atacan las Brujas ('Santo in Attack of the Witches'), Santo en La Venganza de la Momia ('Santo in The Mummy's Revenge') and Santo y Mantequilla Napoles en La Venganza de la Llorona ('Santo & Mantequilla Napoles in The Vengeance of The Crying Woman')... Sergio Martino and Ernesto Gastaldi give crime thrillers a spin in The Violent Professionals... and Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are on the lam in Fritz Lang's existential classic You Only Live Once!


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: This month, we tear your tickets for vintage reviews of Alex de Renzy's Censorship In Denmark-A New Approach... Luchino Visconti's Death In Venice... John Boorman's Deliverance... Donovan in Jacques Demy's fable The Pied Piper... and Entertainment Ventures' smut expose Red White And Blue!


DVDs: Oliver Reed and Bette Davis star in Dan Curtis' Burnt Offerings... More chests are bursting with alien thingies in Luigi Cozzi's Contamination... Fredric March and Spencer Tracy interpret two of the great roles in fantastic literature in the 1932 and 1941 versions of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (the topic of next month's Round Table Discussion at www.videowatchdog.com!)... Billionaire J.K. Rowling's brainchild is back in Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets... Robert Wise delivers one of the screen's great ghost stories in The Haunting... Lonelyhearts Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco are The Honeymoon Killers... Suzannah York is a schizophrenic losing touch with reality in Robert Altman's frighteningly fragmented Images... Passion Of The Christ effects man Les Bernstien's turns director with the contemporary noir Night Train... A top-to-bottom examination of all three movies in the Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit... and James Arness is the mind-boggling intellectual carrot that is The Thing From Another World!


Imports: A look at Peter Watkins' pioneering docudramas Culloden and The War Game... Jess Franco's Killer Barbys vs. Dracula... the elaborate Thai mermaid fantasy Phra-Apai-Mani... and John Mills portrays Nigel Kneale's classic sci-fi hero in Thames Television's four-part miniseries Quatermass and its feature-length condensation, The Quatermass Conclusion!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter is first on the scene with a review of Claudio Simonetti's score for Dario Argento's latest, Il cartaio ('The Card Player') and CD reissues of his scores for Demons and Opera... as well as Lalo Schifrin's The Hellstrom Chronicle, Danny Zeitlin's Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, and the latest from Film Score Monthly: Ron Goodwin's Where Eagles Dare/Operation Crossbow, Elmer Bernstein's McQ and Miklos Rozsa's Moonfleet!


Biblio Watchdog: Richard Harland Smith reviews a new McFarland and Company title, Serial Killer Cinema: An Analytical Filmography by Robert Cettl!


...and in The Letterbox...Would you believe a letter from Bonnie Bedelia?

Contents Our Lady Of The Fantastique: The Edith Scob Interview: Frederic Albert Levy and Tim Lucas peer behind the mask of Eurocult cinema's seminal star in her first-ever English language interview, covering her work with Georges Franju (Eyes Without A Face, Judex), Luis Bunuel (The Milky Way) and Christophe Gans (Brotherhood Of The Wolf)! With many rare and exclusive photos!


Dog Bytes: Brett Piper's stop-motion bugfest Arachnia... undead George Zucco and his hunchbacked minion Dwight Frye prove to a hick PRC cast that Dead Men Walk... Larry Buchanan raises poor man's goosebumps in the Azalea productions It's Alive! and Year 2889... Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Richard Roundtree and Jim Kelly bring back blaxploitation in One Down Two To Go... Colin Farrell has hang-ups in the Larry Cohen-scripted thriller Phone Booth... Eighties schlock sequelitis runs rampant in Return Of The Killer Tomatoes! and Return To Horror High... the story of The Kung Fu Master [VW 93:14] continues in Revenge Of The Kung Fu Master... Minetaro Mochizuki's yakuza manga gets the live action treatment in Shark Skin Man And Peach Hip Girl... Jess Franco tries his hand at mondo and report movies in Virgin Report... and Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin score in the Richard Fleischer's film of the hit Broadway thriller Wait Until Dark!


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: America quits smoking and goes Cold Turkey... Kurt Russell tops the honor roll at Medfield College in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes... people have sex on camera in He And She... Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee work up a sweat in Terence Fisher's Island Of The Burning Damned... Rock Hudson waxes studly in Roger Vadim's Pretty Maids All In A Row... and Robert Stack and Bibi Andersson test the waters of Italian filmmaking in Leonardo Bercovici's Story Of A Woman!


DVD Spotlight: Bill Cooke examines Kino on Video's new DVD of a true and influential classic of silent fantastic cinema-Paul Leni's adaptation of a Victor Hugo novel, starring the great Conrad Veidt!


DVDs (In-Depth Reviews): Spooky trash times three in the Something Weird triple header The Atomic Brain/Love After Death/The Incredible Petrified World (with John Carradine!)... Rural raunch times two in the Something Weird double bill Common Law Wife and Jennie: Wife/Child (by The Sadist director James Landis!)... Blake Edwards and Glenn Ford conduct an Experiment In Terror... see the first-rate sci fi that most people missed in the recently cancelled Firefly: The Complete Series... Perry Tong's gory indie joins Sam Sherman's 'Cult Cinema Collection' in Hands Of Blood... Roger Corman tackles H.P. Lovecraft in The Haunted Palace and then scarifies Shakespeare with producer brother Gene Corman in Tower Of London (both starring Vincent Price!)... Masayuki Ochiai creates a Mabuse-like thriller in The Hypnotist... Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill's acclaimed graphic novel reaches the screen with Sean Connery at the helm in The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen... Black Mask director Daniel Lee Yan-kwong adapts a 20-volume martial arts novel as The Master Swordsman... the monument to absurdity that is Queen Kong... Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis get caught up in some deadly Road Games... Charlton Heston learns the truth about tomorrow's snack food and turns Soylent Green... Oscar-winning writer-director Bill Condon (Gods And Monsters) writes his first script for Strange Behavior... Keith Carradine is back on the street in Sam Fuller's Street Of No Return... classic Toho gets an anime twist in Super Atragon: The Motion Picture... and Barbara Lass is terrorized by hirsute Curt Lowens in the Italian cult classic Werewolf In A Girl's Dormitory! Plus import discs! The Shaw Brothers resurrect their weird HK sex-horror romp Black Magic... and Klaus Kinski goes for the ladies in Jess Franco's thinly-disguised Awful Dr. Orlof remake, Jack The Ripper!


Biblio Watchdog: Gilles Boulanger's John Carpenter-The Prince Of Darkness and Gary D. Rhodes' Horror At The Drive-In: Essays In Popular Americana, reviewed by Brett Taylor!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter and his team of sonic experts list their favorites of 2003 in Audio Watchdog's annual 'Best and Rest of...' column!

Contents The Poetic Universe of Georges Franju: Never Before in English! L'Ecran Fantastique founder Alain Schlockoff interviews the father of French horror-fantasy about his classics Eyes Without A Face (1960), Judex (1963) and Shadowman (1974)!


DVD Spotlight: Rediscovering Polanski: Kim Newman revels in a wealth of Roman Polanski titles now available on DVD, including Knife In The Water (1962), Repulsion (1965), Cul-De-Sac (1966), What? (1974), The Pianist (2002) and eight early short films!


Dog Bytes: Frank Agrama brings out the gore of ancient Egypt in Dawn Of The Mummy... William Sanderson explodes the limits of political correctness in Fight For Your Life... Juliana Margulies and Gabriel Byrne seek treasure aboard a Ghost Ship... a 'Big G' triple feature of Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, Godzilla Mothra And King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack and Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla... Dyanne Thorne stars in the pre-Ilsa sleazefest Love Me Like I Do... San Francisco horror host John Stanley writes and directs a Nightmare In Blood... Andreas Schnaas gets medieval in Nikos The Impaler... Carlo Collodi meets The Jetsons in Pinocchio In Outer Space... Laurence Payne and Adrienne Corri star in the Brian Clemens' scripted shocker The Tell-Tale Heart... Jess Franco attends the jungle rhythms of Voodoo Passion (aka Der Ruf Der Blonden Gottin)... and Arch Hall Sr. satirizes late night TV talk shows in The Weird Ones.


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Dick Van Dyke pays tribute to silent comedy in the cult feature The Comic... Christina Lindberg gets in your face in the West German sexploitation comedy Love In 3-D... Reggie Nalder painfully produces the confessions of witches in Mark Of The Devil and Mark Of The Devil, Part II... Kurt Russell goes back to Medfield College for Disney's Now You See Him, Now You Don't... and Isaac Hayes is a baaaad mutha (shut your mouth!) in Truck Turner! Can you dig it?


DVDs: In-depth reviews of Bruno Bozzetto's animation classic Allegro Non Troppo... a flesh-eating virus is no vacation for the stars of Cabin Fever... Chuck Barris goes from Gong Show host to CIA hit man in Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind... George A. Romero's zombie classic goes five channels in Anchor Bay's new 'Divimax' 5.1 release of Dawn Of The Dead... Paul Naschy offers an interesting approach to Bram Stoker's classic character in Dracula's Great Love... Jess Franco gets his biggest budget in twenty years in the curiously campy horror drama Faceless... Pakistan enters the horror film sweepstakes with The Living Corpse... Evans Chan Yiu-shing charts human geography in the thought-provoking The Map Of Sex And Love... Keanu Reeves plugs back into black for The Matrix Reloaded, while various filmmakers explore Matrix terrain in short form in The Animatrix... Lon Chaney is unmasked, and unmasked again, in two distinct versions of his classic The Phantom Of The Opera... Ajita Wilson rules over a women's prison with a leather whip in Sadomania... Plus! Import reviews of new releases of Dario Argento's The Bird With The Crystal Plumage and Tenebrae... the 3D HK thriller The Park... and Jackie Chan faces the undead in The Twins Effect!


Biblio Watchdog: Brett Taylor reviews Stefan Jaworzyn's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Companion!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter listens to the latest from Ennio Morricone... Daniele Luppi's delirious Eurocult pastiche album An Italian Story... and new titles from Film Score Monthly, including Logan's Run: Television!

Contents The Sherlock Holmes Collection: Continuing our overview of Universal's film series (begun in VW 103), Tim Lucas offers an in-depth report on MPI Home Video's The Sherlock Holmes Collection, Volumes Two and Three, containing eight more Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce classics: The Spider Woman, The Pearl Of Death, The Scarlet Claw, The House Of Fear, The Woman In Green, Pursuit To Algiers, Terror By Night and Dressed To Kill!


Plus!: Elsewhere in this issue, Kim Newman reviews an additional 10 Sherlock Holmes films from America, Great Britain and Russia!


DVD Spotlight: Rebecca & Sam Umland embark on the mammoth quest of Reviewing The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers: Special Extended DVD Edition!


Dog Bytes: A Woody Allen lookalike meets Russ Meyer starlets in Bang! Bang! The Mafia Gang... Fred Williamson earns his nickname on the big screen in Hammer... Lene Riefenstahl scales The Holy Mountain... a quality report card on the five movies in Platinum's cheap-o Horror Classics: Bela Lugosi (The Ape Man, The Gorilla, The Devil Bat, The Human Monster And The Invisible Ghost)... the BBC's Christmas production of The Hound Of The Baskervilles... Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke star as Holmes and Watson in The Master Blackmailer and The Eligible Bachelor... Seijun Suzuki stages a Pistol Opera... Edgar Allan Poe, puppet-style, in Puphedz: The Tattle-Tale Heart... the self-explanatory Santo And Blue Demon Vs. The Monsters... Baker Street done Smallville-style in Sherlock... four vintage television episodes are collected in The Sherlock Holmes Collection... Ian Richardson dons the deerstalker cap (at least figuratively speaking) for The Sign Of Four... and Spielberg is beaten to the punch by 1981's Young Sherlock: The Mystery Of The Manor House!


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Booked in Joe's grindhouse of yesteryear this month are Anthonies Quinn and Frans in Across 110th Street... the Mario Bava classic Baron Blood... Kerwin Mathews follows Harryhausen with hairy makeup in The Boy Who Cried Werewolf... the self-explanatory An Elephant Called Slowly (well, not really-we just don't want to explain it!)... Victoria Vetri stars in the sexy sci-fi of Invasion Of The Bee Girls... The Postgraduate, one of those dreary sex education for adults movies... and Woody Allen, preserved like a TV dinner, awakens in a far-flung future in Sleeper!


DVDs: Sergio Martino's futuristic biker rumble 2019: After The Fall Of New York... innocent grocers get sauced in Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes... Rankin/Bass (and Boris Karloff!) enter the stop-motion business with the Hans Christian Andersen romp The Daydreamer... you thought he was dead, but Snake Plissken returns in Escape From New York: Special Edition... Eddie Albert saves Disney tots from peril in Escape To Witch Mountain... same tots, now pre-teens, run afoul of Christopher Lee and Bette Davis in Return From Witch Mountain... Ang Lee throws some new curves into the Marvel universe with the controversial Hulk... Scilla Gabel is kept young and alive by her insane father in the Italian horror classic Mill Of The Stone Women... William Shatner makes an early acting appearance (behind a mask) in Oedipus Rex... Russia hops aboard the Conan Doyle bandwagon with Sherlock Holmes And Doctor Watson, The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes And Doctor Watson: The King Of Blackmail and The Hound Of The Baskervilles... Russian fantasy master Aleksandr Ptushko adapts Pushkin's classic poem in The Tale Of Tsar Saltan... and Christopher Lee serves the reincarnation of a 17th century sadist in Antonio Margheriti's The Virgin Of Nuremberg!


Imports: Five movies (Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors, ... And Now The Screaming Starts!, The Beast Must Die, Asylum And The House That Dripped Blood) are collected in a coffin in The Amicus Collection... Jennifer Connelly follows her Argento experience with another Italian thriller called Etoile... Karine Gambier and Erik Falk run a women's prison in Gefangenefrauen (Caged Women)... the Shaw Brothers remake one of their 1970s classics in Lust For Love Of A Chinese Courtesan... and Jean Renoir offers a unique addition to the Jekyll/Hyde filmography in Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier!


Plus! 'Audio Watchdog' on Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai... 'Biblio Watchdog' reviews Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life... Edith Scob writes to 'The Letterbox'... and much, much more!

Contents Once Is Not Enough! Sergio Leone's Railroaded Masterpiece: Steven Lloyd, a first-generation fan of Once Upon A Time In The West, charts the five different versions of the film which have played theatrically in the United States since 1969-and explains why Paramount's DVD, billed and widely acclaimed as the 'original uncut masterpiece,' is neither uncut... nor the original version!


DVD Spotlight: Kill Bill, Vol. 1: Who better to review Quentin Tarantino's maximum blood-shed revenge opus for VW than Bill himself? Bill Cooke delivers a perfectly honed, steel-edged appraisal of Miramax's domestic DVD release, as well as the more gruesome Japanese and Korean imports!


Dog Bytes (Short Reviews): Fred Olen Ray offers a new remastering of his early opus The Alien Dead... Patrick Bergin suffers more than monthly in Dracula's Curse... jailhouse erotica meets ferocious feminism in the Japanese Female Convict #701 Scorpion... the raucous misbehavior, '70s drive-in style, of The Girls From Thunder Strip... the wholesome spooky shenanigans of I Downloaded A Ghost... Andzrej Vajda's Polish cinema classics Kanal and Ashes And Diamonds... Herschell Gordon Lewis taps into the 'Laugh-In' craze with the very nude Miss Nymphet's Zap-In... Heather O'Rourke is back in Poltergeist Ii and Poltergeist Iii... and the first four adventures of Japan's famous blind samurai/masseur in Zatoichi 1: The Tale Of Zatoichi, Zatoichi 2: The Tale Of Zatoichi Continues, Zatoichi 3: New Tale Of Zatoichi and Zatoichi 4: The Fugitive!


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Joe pops up a buttery assortment of titles worthy of VW's 'Special Revenge Issue': Lewis Gilbert's overblown epic of Harold Robbins' trashy novel The Adventurers... Russ Meyer's cotton-pickin', bra-stuffin look at the Old South, Blacksnake!... Sam Fuller's Dead Pigeon On Beethoven Street, scored by the great German rock group Can... Lady Kung Fu... the Brother Man goes to the Mother Land in Shaft In Africa... and Barbara Leigh signs up for showers and mistreatment on Terminal Island!


DVDs (In-Depth Reviews): Two different approaches to Patricia Highsmith's 'Ripley' character in The American Friend and Ripley's Game... the first Argentinian vampire movie, Blood Of The Virgins... an H. G. Clouzot double feature of art and suspense in Le Corbeau and The Mystery Of Picasso... Takashi Miike's urban crime/science fiction Dead Or Alive Trilogy (Dead Or Alive, Dead Or Alive 2 and Dead Or Alive Final)... believe it or not, a Tai Chi variation on DR. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, produced by Francis Ford Coppola... it comes from the commode in Ghoulies and Ghoulies Ii... Let's Scare Jessica To Death auteur John D. Hancock returns to suspense with Suspended Animation... Larry, Moe and Curly Joe introduce Martians to pie-fighting in The Three Stooges In Orbit... Walt Disney's 'Rondo Award'-winning live action fantasy masterwork 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea... and Seijun Suzuki's highly decorative yakuza dramas Underworld Beauty and Kanto Wanderer!


Imports: Rutger Hauer's brain is squirmin' like a toad in the deluxe British/German import, The Hitcher... weird monsters arise from the ancient past in Mortuary Blues... and reality TV gets out of hand in My Little Eye!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter reviews Vic Mizzy's The Ghost And Mr. Chicken, Capitol's new domestic remaster of Ennio Morricone's The Good, The Bad And The Ugly... and Tangerine Dream's Bootleg Box Set and Bootmoon Series releases!

Contents Universal's Monsters: A Legacy of Blood, Fur & Electricity: Bill Cooke reviews Universal's 'Legacy Collection' box sets and throws the switch on an informative, action-packed overview of the Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolf Man series-fourteen films in all! And wait till you see the rare (in some cases, never-before-published) stills and artwork courtesy of The Del Valle Archive! You'll be blown to atoms!


Re-Arranging the Rue Morgue: You've probably seen Robert Florey's Universal terror classic starring Bela Lugosi... but did you know that it was re-edited against the director's wishes prior to its 1932 release? In this article, Tim Lucas suggests an alternative editing scheme (using the timecodes of Universal's out-of-print laserdisc) that may bring Florey's foiled intentions into sharper focus!


Dog Bytes (Capsule Reviews): Forrest J Ackerman hosts The Creep, the first DTV episode of 13 O'clock Theater... Bela Lugosi avenges himself on being retired from the cologne racket in The Devil Bat... Deborah Kerr wants to join the Irish Republican Army in I See A Dark Stranger... John Cusack and Ray Liotta star in the shocker Identity... Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom and Peter Sellers connive to steal £60,000 in The Ladykillers... wholesome DTV sorcery and mysticism rule in Max Magician And The Legend Of The Rings... Tom Mix takes his last gallop in the serial The Miracle Rider... various macabre short films compose Night Of The Yardsale Monkey... Susan Penhaligon cares for a comatose telepath in Patrick... the adult film industry is profiled, black socks and all, in Red, White & Blue... Hong Kong cinema's Charlie's Angels clone So Close ... Tony Leung stars in Water Margin: The True Colors Of Heroes, a remake of the Shaw Brothers' 1972 classic Pursuit... and Ichi the Blind returns in Zatoichi 5: On The Road, Zatoichi 6: Zatoichi And The Chest Of Gold, and Zatoichi 7: Zatoichi's Flashing Sword!


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: JCliff Robertson scores with Pamela Franklin in Ace Eli And Rodger Of The Skies... Amicus sets a horror anthology in a looney bin in Asylum... British spy sexploitation rules in Big Zapper... John Wayne meets Bruce Dern in The Cowboys... Roy Thinnes meets his doppelganger in the Gerry Anderson production Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun... and Pamela Franklin returns to join a coven ruled by putty-nosed Orson Welles in Bert I. Gordon's NECROMANCY!


DVDs (In-Depth Reviews): Warhol protege Edie Sedgwick gets her moment of glory in Ciao! Manhattan... Classic Dick Tracy Movies collects Dick Tracy Vs. Cueball, Dick Tracy's Dilemma and Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (starring Boris Karloff as guess who!)... Toilet Seat Girl becomes Grim Reaper in Dead Like Me-The Complete First Season... Jess Franco dances with Miss Death in The Diabolical Dr. Z... a nuclear-armed warship reverts through time to the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor in The Final Countdown... Osamu Tezuka's Jungle Emperor Leo, the anime classic that may have inspired Disney's The Lion King... Sleazeploitation trailer narrator Joel Holt earns a black belt, but not in filmmaking, in Karate: The Hand Of Death... Mary Woronov stars in a sci-fi twist on an old Cukor favorite in The New Women... Francis Coppola sends out a refurbished edition of his '70s musical fantasy One From The Heart... Criterion offers a definitive edition of Kaneto Shindo's erotic horror masterpiece Onibaba... Klaus Kinski smokes a full pack while ogling Rosalba Neri and Margaret Lee in Slaughter Hotel... home video jumps on the summer blockbuster bandwagon with Universal's animated Van Helsing: The London Assignment and the unauthorized (but Stoker-crediting knock-off) The Adventures Of Young Van Helsing: Quest For The Lost Scepter... Antonio Bido joins forces with Herman Cohen in the giallo Watch Me When I Kill... and VW discovers new layers at the bottom of the barrel in a triple feature review of Nathan Schiff's 8mm messterpieces Weasels Rip My Flesh, Long Island Cannibal Massacre and They Don't Cut The Grass Anymore! Plus Import reviews of Hex (the latest from the Chinese director of Killer Snakes) and the Japanese jolter Ju-On: The Grudge 2!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter reviews the latest soundtrack releases from BT (Monster), Francesco de Masi (India), Mario Nascimbene (Footprints In Jazz) and more!

Biblio Watchdog:

Tim Lucas reviews A Quaint & Curious Volume Of Forgotten Lore: The Mythology & History Of Classic Horror Films by Frank J. Dello Stritto!


A lengthy and eye-opening 'Letterbox' report on scenes missing from Warner Home Video's incomplete Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1941)!

Contents Issue #112-October 2004

'Here's to a Son of the House of Frankenstein!': The Donnie Dunagan Interview: Tom Weaver crowns nearly 25 years as an interviewer by finding the most elusive of all Universal Classic Horror stars: the curly-topped moppet of Son Of Frankenstein! A jackpot of priceless stories about the filming of SON, Tower Of London and Walt Disney's Bambi, for which Donnie provided the title character's voice! With many incredible never-before-seen stills from Donnie's personal collection!

Also published as Signature Edition #1 Limited to 500 copies with same interior text and autographed by Donnie Dunagan.

Among the DVDs Reviewed in this Issue: A robotic gambler takes centerstage in the French silent classic The Chess Player... The Lord of the Undead gets probed by modern day lab rats in Dracula Ii: Ascension... Ridley Scott makes his directorial debut with The Duellists... Death comes to collect in Final Destination 1 & 2... VW returns to Baker Street with Paul Morrissey's The Hound Of The Baske+F4859rvilles and the Spielberg-produced Young Sherlock Holmes... Atomic Age paranoia runs amok in Invasion U.S.A.... the serial fun of King Of The Royal Mounted and Radar Men From The Moon... the Grade Z bliss of Manos: The Hands Of Fate... the anime action of Ninja Scroll, Noir Volume 4, Samurai Deeper Kyo, The Twelve Kingdoms and Virus Buster Serge... your favorite masked wrestler goes head-to-head with new monsters in Santo contra los Jinetes del Terror... Al Adamson makes his directorial debut with Psycho A Go-Go... Something Weird offers a demented triple bill of Rent-A-Girl, Aroused and Help Wanted Female, and a prehistoric double bill of When Women Played Ding Dong and 50,000 B.C. (Before Clothing)... Fred Olen Ray has tickets for Scalps... George Stover defies the Undead in STAKES... Maurice Devereaux takes on Reality TV in Slashers... British science fiction hits a commercial high with Village Of The Damned and Children Of The Damned... plus import DVD reviews of The Beheaded 1000 and Dario Argento's latest, The Card Player... and many more!


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Joe's vintage Film Bulletin coverage of Mauro Bolognini's Arabella... Carlo Ponti's X-rated The Best House In London... blaxploitation favorites Cool Breeze and Trick Baby... the Bondian blaxploitation of Live And Let Die... and it's snakes ahoy in Sssssss! (Don't say it... hiss it!)


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter on the new CD of incidental music from Dawn Of The Dead.


Biblio Watchdog: Anthony Ambrogio on David Hughes' book The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made.


And a special installment of The Letterbox featuring the return of legendary Eyes Without A Face actress Edith Scob!

Contents Quest for Jonny: In this in-depth essay, David J. Schow scopes out Warner Home Video's Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season, examining each of the 28 episodes, tracing the program's roots back to the 1930s Doc Savage pulp novels of Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent), and giving credit where credit is due to an under-acknowledged key creator!


DVD Spotlight: Tim Lucas takes a look at the fates of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other greats of Warner Bros.' stable of cartoon characters on the big screen in a lengthy review of Space Jam and Joe Dante's Looney Tunes Back In Action complete with exclusive photos from Joe's own collection!


Other Animation Coverage in this Issue: Witness the dawn of cartoon animation in Winsor Mccay: The Master Edition... DC Comics on the move in Batman The Animated Series Volume One and Justice League: Starcrossed The Movie... Vin Diesel, more animated than usual, in The Chronicles Of Riddick: Dark Fury... and anime thrills in Blue Seed: Perfect Collection, Dangaizer 3: Volume 1, Dai-Guard: Terrestrial Defense Corp. Volume 1-Hostile Takeover, Noir Volume 5: Terminal Velocity and Zone Of The Enders: Idolo!


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Peter Cushing clamps an artery in Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell... James Earl Jones becomes the first black President of the United States in the Rod Serling-scripted The Man... Mimsy Farmer takes a lot of drugs and takes off her clothes in More... the 3D sexploitation of Prison Girls... Jacqueline Bisset intrudes on a disturbed adolescent's Secret World... and Britt Ekland has a politically incorrect affair with stepson Mark Lester in What The Peeper Saw!


Also Reviewed in this Issue: Beverly Garland trapped in the Louisiana swamps of The Alligator People... the nostalgic ninja fu of Yuen Woo-ping's Chinese Heroes... Lucio Fulci films naked women and werewolves out of focus in Conquest... Zach Snyder's no-holds-barred remake of George Romero's Dawn Of The Dead... the silent screen gives rise to the first superhero in Louis Feuillade's JUDEX... Bert I. Gordon at his best in The Magic Sword... Woody Strode shakes a spear in the vintage TV series Ramar Of The Jungle Volume One... Roger Corman sends Touch Connors up river with a boatload of Swamp Women... superhero mythology is humorously deconstructed in Superguy: Behind The Cape... a group of campers take a Wrong Turn... and Ichi the Blind returns in Zatoichi 8: Fight, Zatoichi, Fight and Zatoichi 9: Adventures Of Zatoichi! All this, plus Import DVD reviews of Jess Franco's La Fille Du Dracula ('Dracula's Daughter') and Danny & Oxide Pang's scary sequel THE EYE 2!


'Biblio Watchdog' reviews of Brad Stevens' Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision and Mickey Knox's memoir The Good, The Bad And The Dolce Vita: The Adventures Of An Actor In Hollywood, Paris, And Rome


Douglas E. Winter's 'Audio Watchdog' audits the soundtracks of Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising, Klaus Badelt's Ned Kelly and much more!

Contents 'Ungawa!': Tarzan, Lord Of The DVDs!: Bill Cooke outdoes himself with a heroic swing through Warner Home Video's The Tarzan Collection, with in-depth reviews and appreciations of MGM's Tarzan The Ape Man (1932), Tarzan And His Mate (1934), Tarzan Escapes (1936), Tarzan Finds A Son! (1939), Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) and Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)! Including rare images of the Eck Bird and scenes cut from the banned original version of Tarzan Escapes! But that's not all! Elsewhere in this issue, Bill continues his expedition through more than a half-dozen other adaptations of Edgar Rice Burroughs' character currently on DVD, including Tarzan Of The Apes (1918) with Elmo Lincoln, Tarzan The Fearless (1933) with Buster Crabbe, Tarzan And The Green Goddess (1938) with Herman Brix, Tarzan's Revenge (1938) with Glenn Morris, Tarzan And The Trappers (1958) with Gordon Scott, Tarzan The Ape Man (1981) with Miles O'Keefe and Bo Derek, and Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes (1984) with Christopher Lambert!


DVD Spotlight: Kim Newman on Warner Home Video's recent DVD issues of Hammer's Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed and Taste The Blood Of Dracula!


Dog Bytes (Capsule Reviews): Don Dohler returns with Alien Factor 2: Alien Rampage, which isn't a sequel but a remake of another Dohler movie that was a remake of Alien Factor (got that?)... A killer in an Elvis mask gets a music video crew all shook up in The Backlot Murders... David Carradine meets a carload of director cameos in Paul Bartel's Cannonball... Edward Arnold meets Mantan Moreland in Eyes In The Night... a woman finds her suburban life beset by The Ghosts Of Edendale... Strother Martin plus King Cobras equals SSSSSSS... Jamie Lee Curtis meets magician David Copperfield on Terror Train... and the latest batch of movies about master samurai Ichi the Blind: Zatoichi 10: Zatoichi's Revenge, Zatoichi 11: Zatoichi And The Doomed Man and Zatoichi 12: Zatoichi And The Chess Expert!


Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Angela Mao kicks back (but winsomely) in Deadly China Doll... Woody Strode unholsters his authority in The Italian Connection... Catherine Spaak takes a horsey ride on Jean-Louis Trintignant in The Libertine... Cornel Wilde offers the apocalyptic ecological nightmare of No Blade Of Grass... Adam Roarke commandeers millionaire Jay Robinson's jet in This Is A Hijack... No Blade Of Grass star Lynne Frederick returns to meet the undead in Hammer's Vampire Circus... and Dean Stockwell attacks the President of the United States when a full moon turns him into The Werewolf Of Washington!


DVD Reviews: Martin Scorsese returns to his independent film roots with the quirky black comedy After Hours... Retromedia Entertainment recreates the 1960s double bill of Alfred Vohrer's Dead Eyes Of London and Riccardo Freda's The Ghost... John Marley and Lynn Carlin are the parents tortured by the return of a son from a war he did not survive in Deathdream... a young animated woman takes unusual roads in search of an orgasm in the anime F3 Menage A Trois... the Devil gets the Amazing Kreskin's goat in Horror... a child's hopes are raised by his discovery of a unicorn in Carol Reed's A Kid For Two Farthings... plus ImporT reviews of Piers Haggard's 'witchfinder' classic The Blood On Satan's Claw... The Eye's Angelica Lee Sinjie runs afoul of a kidney thief in Law Chi-leung's Koma... and Roger Corman anticipates the Viking craze of the early 1960s with the marquee-challenging The Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage Into Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent!


Plus! Biblio Watchdog reviews Peter Hutchings' The Horror Film and Chas Balun's Beyond Horror Holocaust... Douglas E. Winter's Audio Watchdog reviews the soundtracks of Hellboy, Collateral and the latest releases from Film Score Monthly!

Contents 24 Monsters Per Second: The Dvd Voyage Of Ray Harryhausen: With Columbia TriStar and Warner Home Video's releases of Ray Harryhausen's feature catalog now complete, it's time for VW to pay the master stop-motion animator some long overdue, extravagant hommage! Charlie Largent gladly obliges with a 14-title overview of a career that... well, moves us!
Included: The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, It Came From Beneath The Sea, Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers, 20 Million Miles To Earth, The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, The 3 Worlds Of Gulliver, Mysterious Island, Jason And The Argonauts, H.G. Wells' First Men In The Moon, One Million Years B.C., The Valley Of Gwangi, The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad, Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger And Clash Of The Titans!

DVD Spotlight: Star Trek Generations: Michael Lennick returns to our pages with a lavish review of Paramount Home Entertainment'ss new deluxe double-disc of the movie in which Captain Picard meets Captain Kirk, and Kirk... well, that would be telling!

Dog Bytes (Capsule Reviews): Two giant serpents get into a hissing match in Boa Vs Python... Michelle Yeoh and Tony Leung spark some steel in Butterfly Sword... Lawrence Tierney co-stars with his brother Edward in the hard-hitting crime drama The Hoodlum... Aerial pulp thrills predominate in Pilot X: Murder In The Sky... Rex Harrison and John Saxon go Bollywood in Raiders Of The Sacred Stone... Fangoria's Michael Gingold heads the cast of the DTV compendium The Tenement... the J-Horror trilogy Tomie, Tomie Re-Birth and Tomie Replay... and somehow they made a movie about an Undiscovered Tomb!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: George Lucas has his first blockbuster success with American Graffiti... Sean Connery returns to challenge Blofeld once again in Diamonds Are Forever... Angel Tompkins plays moll to a gang of bankrobbing midgets in Little Cigars... Francis Coppola embarks on a new road of independent filmmaking in The Rain People... Pam Grier growls at a different kind of Bat Man in Twilight People... and Joe Don Baker swings a different kind of bat in Walking Tall!

DVD Reviews: William Marshall finds belated stardom in Blacula and Scream Blacula Scream... Elvis joins forces with JFK (?) to combat a soul-suckin' mummy in Bubba Ho-Tep... scads of James Bonds scurry across the screen in the monumentally excessive Casino Royale... Jean-Pierre Melville and Alain Delon join forces once again for the classic heist film Le Cercle Rouge... Paul Naschy makes his American horror film debut in Countess Dracula's Orgy Of Blood and returns to the screen as Waldemar Danisky in Tomb Of The Werewolf... Larry Cohen writes and directs a couple of offbeat pictures called Perfect Strangers and Special Effects... Anton LaVey is the subject of the exploitative documentary Satanis The Devil's Mass, while Ray Dennis Steckler offers the chaotic co-feature Sinthia, The Devil's Doll... Japanese animation gets jumper-cabled in Speed Racer Collector's Edition... and Christina Lindberg takes aim at the people who took her eye and ruined her life in Thriller-A Cruel Picture (aka They Call Her One-Eye)!

Plus! Import DVD reviews of a new German anamorphic release of Hammer's Plague Of The Zombies and Tsui Hark's cannibal frenzy We're Going To Eat You!

Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of Nightmares In Red, White And Blue by Joseph Maddrey and Cult Movies In Sixty Seconds: The Best Films In The World In Less Than A Minute by Soren McCarthy!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter takes a privileged listen to a promotional-only issue of Tyler Bates' soundtrack to the Dawn Of The Dead remake, as well as a two-disc bootleg... and offers additional reviews of Jeff Danna's Resident Evil: Apocalypse and the various artist compilation Music From & Inspired By Resident Evil: Apocalypse... Dan Mudford and Pete Woodhead's Shaun Of The Dead... and Hideakuri Sakurai & Kunihiko Murai's The Best Of Lone Wolf And Cub!

All this plus The Return Of Donnie Dunagan and much, much more!

Contents Things from the Attic: By Popular Demand! We're bringing back our 'Tapes from the Attic' feature on an irregular basis, but now it's expanded into 'Things from the Attic'-not just domestic tapes, but rare foreign tapes, laserdiscs and even out-of-print DVDs! In a special 'EuroCult' installment, Tim Lucas blows the dust off Riccardo Freda's Double Face, The House With The Yellow Carpet, Antonio Margheriti's Disneyesque Mr. Superinvisible, Ruggero Deodato's superhero actioner Phenomenal And The Treasure Of Tutankamen, and a comparison review of Margheriti's Seven Deaths In The Cat's Eye and its French widescreen edition, Les Diablesses!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: More vintage fun as Joe Dante tears your tickets to retrospective reviews of Cheri Caffaro in The Abductors... Peter Cushing and Patrick Macnee in Blood Suckers... Ingrid Pitt in the heavily-cut domestic release of Countess Dracula... Alex Cord and Samantha Eggar in Armando Cripino's The Dead Are Alive... Woody Allen's R-rated sketch comedy Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)... and Giacopetti/Prosperi's appalling 'You Are There' shockumentary about slavery in the Old South, Farewell, Uncle Tom!

DVD Spotlight: Interested in how Kino on Video's box set The Wong Kar-Wai Collection stacks up against import disc releases of As Tears Go By, Chungking Express, Days Of Being Wild, Fallen Angels and Happy Together? John Charles answers all your questions in a detailed Spotlight review!

Dog Bytes: Capsule reviews of Lui's Bun~uel's surrealist classic L'Age d'Or... Bob Swaim's film noir pastiche La Balance... Peter Cushing makes his final performance in Biggles: Adventures In Time... Don Johnson and his best friend trod a post-apocalyptic landscape in A Boy And His Dog... anime explodes into wild pop art in Dead Leaves... Catherine Breillat directs a deadly portrait of sibling rivalry in Fat Girl... Catherine Deneuve introduces Susan Sarandon to The Hunger... Lon Chaney Jr. quivers his baggy eyes in the '50s programmer Indestructible Man... four heads aren't necessarily better than two when you buy the MGM double feature The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant/The Thing With Two Heads... Moon Lee CHoi-fung lashes out in the martial arts spectacular Iron Fist... the low-budget graveyard lunacy of Ring Of Terror... John Carradine guards the entry to Hell In The Sentinel... Michael Murphy hits the campaign trail in Robert Altman & Garry Trudeau's political satire Tanner '88... our nation's figure head runs a few victims up the flagpole in Uncle Sam... and we witness the birth of psychoanalysis in Young Dr. Freud!

DVDs: In-depth reviews of William Castle's swan song Bug... Robert Altman's masterpiece about the gambling bug, California Split ... Robert Quarry finds stardom at AIP in Count Yorga, Vampire and its sequel The Return Of Count Yorga... Robert Bresson's ascetic classics Diary Of A Country Priest and A Man Escaped... Mark Redfield's surprising homegrown production of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde... Fangoria hosts a filmmaking competition with Fangoria Blood Drive: America's Best Short Horror Films, hosted by Rob Zombie... Grade A giggles in Larry Blamire's B-movie spoof The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra... a trio of Claude Chabrol suspensers (La Ce're'monie, Masques, Story Of Women)... Vincent Price meets John Carradine at The Monster Club... Macha Me'ril makes a terrifying impression in Night Train Murders... Matt Frewer dons a deerstalker cap in yet another Sherlock Holmes Collection... Santa decks the halls with the bowels of Holly in Silent Night, Deadly Night and Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2... Japan's favorite superhero returns in Ultraman Gaia The Battle In Hyperspace... Alberto Sordi stars in Federico Fellini's debut feature The White Sheik... and an excursion into Japanese 'pink' cinema with The World Of Geisha and A Woman With Red Hair!

Imports: Tsui Hark directs a legion of bloodsucking flappers in his debut feature The Butterfly Murders... and Peter Cushing battles an army of bonesucking silicate creatures on the Island Of Terror, then sweats out an alien invasion with Christopher Lee on the Night Of The Big Heat!
Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter reviews Trey Parker & Marc Shaiman's score for Team America: World Police, Jeff Rona's Traffic: The Miniseries, Basil Poledouris's Amerika, and also The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Volume 3 with music by Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens, David Grusin and Gerald Fried!

Contents Issue #117-March 2005
The Strange Loves of Yutte Stensgaard: An Interview with the Vampire!: Danish filmmaker Nicolas Barbano interviews his country's most famous horror personality, the lovely and elusive star of Lust For A Vampire and Scream And Scream Again! In this exclusive interview, Ms. Stensgaard talks about her life today, her philosophies and the peace she has made with her movies from the screaming Seventies!

DVD Spotlight: Your friendly neighborhood VW critic Shane M. Dallmann spins his opinionated web on Buena Vista Home Entertainment's lavish box set of Spidey's complete animated exploits from the 1960s! Is Shane right? Listen, Fred - he's got Video Watchdog cred!

Dog Bytes: Capsule reviews of Irene Papas in a George Tsavellas' 1961 production of the Greek tragedy Antigone, plus... H. B. Warner takes his gun and badge into the City Of Missing Girls... vehicles guzzle more than gas in Peter Weir's The Cars That Ate Paris... an enchanted pendant makes unsuspecting people horny in Curse Of The Erotic Tiki... 'Devil's Night' Halloween riots and worse await you in Filthy... Anthony Mann co-directs with Alfred Werker in the noir classic He Walked By Night... Tangerine Dream lends a new prog score to the Italian silent spectacle L'Inferno... Sonny Chiba cracks a few dozen more skulls in Killing Machine... Jack LaRue runs the mob in the UK crime programmer Murder In The Night... Don Dohler rehashes his earlier The Alien Factor in Nightbeast... Marlon Brando and Richard Boone terrorize Pamela Franklin in The Night Of The Following Day... vampires are on the loose in the DTV horror anthology Realms Of Blood... Repo Man director Alex Cox turns his attention to 17th century drama in Revenger's Tragedy... Rob Lowe heads an all-star cast in TNT's remake of 'Salem's Lot... and Frank Sinatra plays a would-be Presidential assassin in Suddenly!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Reminisce about the heyday of grindhouse entertainment with these vintage reviews: Lucretia Love stars as a good-girl warrior in Alfonso Brescia's Battle Of The Amazons... Clint Eastwood and Don Rickles head an all-star cast in the Yugoslavia-made Kelly's Heroes... David Hess scares the yell out of everybody in Wes Craven's The Last House On The Left ('It's only a movie... it's only a movie...')... Kate Jackson and David Selby endure a Night Of Dark Shadows... Marie Liljedahl heats up the screen with a little help from ABBA's Bjorn and Benny in Joe Sarno's The Seduction Of Inga... and Antoinette Bower uses animal extract to turn Craig Littler into Superbeast!

DVDs: In-depth reviews! Ashton Kutcher makes a powerful bid to be taken more seriously in the child abuse fantasy The Butterfly Effect... Roman Polanski directs Sharon Tate for the first and only time in The Fearless Vampire Killers... Tobe Hooper shows us that there are worse things awaiting man than the sideshow in The Funhouse... Bret Wood chronicles the darker avenues of road safety cinema in the documentary Hell's Highway: The True Story Of Highway Safety Films... Fantoma delivers more discs in their 'Educational Archives' series: Driver's Ed, On The Job, Religion and Patriotism... Umberto Lenzi tackles an Edgar Wallace krimi in Seven Blood-Stained Orchids and dabbles in the giallo genre with Spasmo... and Lucio Fulci's Zombie is followed up with the not-for-the-squeamish Zombi 3 and Zombie 4: After Death!

Plus: Import Reviews!: Chang Cheh directs the Shaw Brothers classic The Brave Archer (aka Kung Fu Warlords)... a new Italian import double-feature offering first-time-ever anamorphic masters of Mario Bava's Lisa And The Devil and The House Of Exorcism... and the unauthorized Australian import of Sergio Martino's tantalizingly titled Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (aka Gently Before She Dies), starring Edwige Fenech!

Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of Mr Skin's Skincyclopedia by Mr. Skin... Brad Stevens' Monte Hellman: His Life And Films... and William Tsutsui's Rondo Award-nominated Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years Of The King Of Monsters!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter lends his reliable ears to an amazing new two-disc set of Bronislau Kaper's music for the 1962 Mutiny On The Bounty, as well as other Film Score Monthly titles... and covers recent releases composed by The X-Files' Mark Snow, including The Best Of Millennium and Helter Skelter!

All this and another brilliant Charlie Largent cover, Tim Lucas's 'The Watchdog Barks' and much, much more!

Contents Universal's Other Monsters!: ~A Legacy Written in Gauze, Claws and Tana Leaves~: Bill Cooke follows his Rondo-nominated coverage of Universal's first three Classic Monster 'Legacy Collections' in VW #111 with a Monster Rally sequel of his own! Read all about the screen sagas of The Invisible Man, The Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon... all thirteen of 'em! As before, lavishly illustrated with original art by Charlie Largent and rare stills from the Del Valle Archive!

DVD Spotlight: A Tale Of Two Sisters: Tim Lucas reviews the hottest new chapter in the annals of Asian horror: a ghostly tale of broken lives and shattered minds by Korean director Kim Jee-woon - now available in single and two-disc editions from Tartan Asia Extreme!

Dog Bytes: You get pretty much what you'd expect in Bloodsucking Redneck Vampires... teens find holiday peril in Bloody New Year... original horror host John Zacharle chortles his merry way through the DTV epic Dr. Horror's Erotic House Of Idiots... Something Weird Video delivers the ultimate Andy Milligan double feature with The Ghastly Ones / Seeds Of Sin... an anime classic spins off a new sci-fi police procedural series in Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex Vol. 01... Fred Olen Ray and Steve Latshaw argue on the commentary track of JACK-O... Sonny Chiba brains some bulls in Karate Bullfighter... our coverage of a major anime series concludes with Noir Volume 6: Cloaks And Daggers and Volume 7: The End Of The Matter... Shakespeare comes to DVD in contemporary attire in Richard The Second... a new DVD release of the Vincent Price thriller Shock... and Fred Olen Ray gives Dinosaur Island a sexy makeover as Teenage Cavegirl!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Some real obscurities this month, along with a couple of cult classics, as Joe attends first run screenings of the German sexinstruktion import The Adult Workshop On Love... Peter Lawford meets Luciano Pigozzi in Dead Run... something called The Deviates... Lenore Kasdorf as a kung fu-fighting stewardess in New World's forgotten softsploitation Fly Me... George Lucas spins a student film into his directorial debut feature THX 1138... Marvin Gaye scores Trouble Man... and Green Acres director Richad L. Bare makes his bid for horror history with Wicked, Wicked ('filmed in Duo-Vision')!

DVDs: Bill Cooke on Tod Browning's Freaks... Kim Newman on Larry Cohen's mutant baby trilogy It's Alive, It's Alive Ii: It Lives Again and It's Alive III: Island Of The Alive... Shane M. Dallmann on Stephen King's Lars von Trier adaptation Kingdom Hospital: The Entire Series... Sam & Rebecca Umland on John Woo's all-star Philip K. Dick adaptation Paycheck... Richard Harland Smith on Shikoku, an early ghost story appearance by Kill Bill's Chiaki Kuriyama... plus reviews of Stephen Sommers' overblown Van Helsing... Zero Focus and The Demon, two adaptations of Japanese mystery writer Seicho Matsumoto... Lucio Fulci's paura pasta Zombi 2: 25th Anniversary Special Edition... and Import reviews of The Norman J. Warren Collection (Satan's Slave, Prey, Terror and Inseminoid)! Also, John Charles praises the boundary-shattering horror of the Asian horror anthology Three... Extremes and the feature-length 'director's cut' of its tastiest story, Dumplings: Three... Extremes!

Biblio Watchdog: Anthony Ambrogio reviews Mark Clark's Smirk, Sneer and Scream - Great Acting In Horror Cinema!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter reviews a number of recent solo piano soundtrack releases by Philip Glass and Dave Grusin, as well as other soundtracks from Glass and Craig Armstrong!

All this - plus the first installment of Tim Lucas' Voom Viewing Diary.

Contents The Prosperities of Vice: An Unholy Three By Jess Franco: Tim Lucas essays three of Franco's earliest Sadean works: Marquis De Sade's Justine, Eugenie... The Story Of Her Journey Into Perversion, and The Bloody Judge!

DVD Spotlight: Franco's 101 Women: There is still more Franco to be found as we review the seminal WIP movie 99 Women, the Sax Rohmer pastiche The Girl From Rio, and the psychedelic fan favorite Venus In Furs! Also in this issue's 'Import' review section, reviews of Franco's 'monster rally' movies Dra'cula contra Frankenstein (aka The Screaming Dead) and Ein Jungfrauen in den Krallen von Frankenstein (aka The Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein)!

Watchdog News: By Popular Demand! VW's News department returns with information about Columbia's 50th Anniversary Godzilla releases... a look at some interesting Italian DVD releases, including a couple of early films photographed by none other than Mario Bava... and a report card assessing the quality of the 8 movies comprising Volumes 1 and 2 of Rhino Home Video's Horrible Horrors!

Dog Bytes: Vic Morrow and Fred Williamson take action in 1990: Bronx Warriors... Gwen Verdon vies for the soul of Tab Hunter in Damn Yankees... Dennis Weaver tries to lose a tailgater in Steven Spielberg's Duel... Roger Corman crosses the finish line first in The Fast And The Furious... Jayne Mansfield falls for Tom Ewell because The Girl Can't Help It... Tom Hanks makes his big screen debut in the '80s slasher pic He Knows You're Alone... Meet a vampire slayer named Alucard in the anime Hellsing: Complete Collection... Sonny Chiba graduates from bulls to bears in Karate Bearfighter and then fights blood-bathing demon women in Legend Of The Eight Samurai... Ulli Lommel takes Suzanna Love into Hitchcock territory in the Vertigo-like Olivia... a comatose patient wreaks mental havoc in the extremely graphic Italian rip-off Patrick Still Lives... two different silent film adaptations of The Student Of Prague... a J-Horror DTV series reaches its conclusion with Tomie: Forbidden Fruit... and George Stover polishes his stake and sharpens his crucifix before going up against the Vampire Sisters!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: This month, Joe's grindhouse retrospective reviews favor the Old West as 'Alan Smithee' directs Richard Widmark in Death Of A Gunfighter... Rock Hudson saves Sylva Koscina from being raped by a bunch of horny teens (then rapes her himself) in Hornets' Nest... Omar Sharif presides over a brutal and unusual game in The Horsemen... Mary Woronov stars with fellow Warhol Factory alumni (and John Carradine!) in token horror title Silent Night, Bloody Night... Swiss filmmaker Erwin C. Dietrich offers a new definition of 'layover' in The Swingin' Stewardesses... Gary Graver directs and photographs the obscure exploitationer There Was A Little Girl... and John Wayne saddles up with Ann-Margret in The Train Robbers!

DVDs: Subterranean film noir in the Chinese import Blind Shaft... Danny Elfman does Cab Calloway while Susan Tyrell does Herve' Villechaize in Forbidden Zone... Tong Lung doubles Bruce Lee and also plays his brother in the delirious Game Of Death II... Japan's biggest export stomps his old stomping grounds in Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.... Paul Naschy rules in a special two-disc set devoted to one of his scariest films, Horror Rises From The Tomb... three schlocky '50s sci-fi films are assembled for Horrors From Space Collection (Teenagers From Outer Space, Phantom From Space and Killers From Space)... Lifeforce is given an anime remake (sort of) in Kimera... ambitious anime culminates in a massive WTF ending in Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth and The End Of Evangelion... Paul Naschy makes an extraordinary comeback in the new Rojo Sangre... Misty Mundae loses her virginity to a crucifix in Satan's School For Lust... a bunch of slackers eventually arise to the occasion of saving humanity from a zombie takeover in Shaun Of The Dead... H.G. Wells follows Jack the Ripper into the disco era in Time After Time... and a woman possessed by evil forces is compelled to commit murders in the South Korean period fantasy The Legend Of The Evil Lake!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter reviews Digitmovies' new two-disc set of Bruno Nicolai's Eugenie De Sade '70 (containing his music for Eugenie... The Story Of Her Journey Into Perversion and other Franco films of the early '70s) and the latest 'Bruno Nicolai in Giallo' disc, La Coda Dello Scorpione! Also, Locust Music's soundtrack of the classic Cornel Wilde adventure The Naked Prey!

All this... plus Bob Burns' report on Paul Blaisdell's unheralded contributions to Teenagers From Outer Space.

Contents Dr. Paul Armstrong's: Handy Guide to '50s Sci-Fi Heroes: Larry Blamire (that 'Lost Skeleton of Cadavra' guy!) makes his VW debut with an amusing and insightful tribute to the stars who inspired him: Arthur Franz, Richard Carlson, John Agar... and every other screen scientist who rolled up his sleeves to clean a monster's clock!

Triffids on the March: From John Wyndham to the BBC: David J. Schow turns a new leaf by puttering around the science fiction classic THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS-from its roots in science fiction, to its motion picture offshoot, and its full flowering as a BBC serial (now available on DVD)!

Dog Bytes: Capsule reviews of Al Adamson's BLAZING STEWARDESSES... Lash LaRue's return to the screen in the North Carolinian horror flicks THE DARK POWER and ALIEN OUTLAW... the Austrian existentialism of FREE RADICALS... the South Korean blade vengeance of SWORD IN THE MOON... and Image Entertainment's two-disc retrospective THE MUNSTERS: AMERICA'S FIRST FAMILY OF FRIGHT!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Joe collects ticket stubs for ACT OF THE HEART, a religious quasi-horror film starring Donald Sutherland and Genevi?ve Bujold... John Carradine and Joi Lansing in BIGFOOT... Mark Lester makes a play for family entertainment in BLACK BEAUTY... George C. Scott brings star power to Richard Fleischer's crime drama THE LAST RUN... Calvin Lockhart and Rosalind Cash headline the obscure blaxploitation murder mystery MELINDA... John Houseman grades Timothy Bottoms' law school tests in THE PAPER CHASE... and Paul Bartel makes his directorial debut with the memorably creepy PRIVATE PARTS!

DVDs: In-depth reviews of AIP's monster teen comedies GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW and THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI (starring Boris Karloff as The Corpse!)... the British-made Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT and THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT... Cheryl Smith lends her signature performance to Richard Blackburn's LEMORA: A CHILD'S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL... Fisherman Richard Harris is targeted for revenge by ORCA: THE KILLER WHALE... Steven Soderbergh parodies mainstream and arthouse cinema in SCHIZOPOLIS... Shinya Tsukamoto explores the middle ground of blackmail and erotic fantasy in A SNAKE IN JUNE... STREET MOBSTER and GRAVEYARD OF HONOR, two peak period yakuza thrillers from Kinji Fukasaku... THE UP SERIES, Michael Apted's 40 years-in-the-making study of British youth... and Park Ki-Hyung's seminal South Korean horror hit WHISPERING CORRIDORS!

Imports: Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi set the screen ablaze in Wong Kar-wai's melancholy, sci-fi-tinged masterpiece 2046... Nicole Kidman suffers a nightmare on Elm Street in Lars von Trier's DOGVILLE... and veteran director Bruno Mattei hits the DTV trenches with SNUFF TRAP!

Plus!: The 100th installment of Douglas E. Winter's 'Audio Watchdog' column... Kim Newman's 'Watchdog News' report on BBC4's live remake of THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT... 'Biblio Watchdog' reviews of Tom Johnson & Mark A. Miller's THE CHRISTOPHER LEE FILMOGRAPHY and editor Stephen Prince... 'Letterbox' appearances by director/cameraman Gary Graver and producer Richard Gordon...

...and much more!

Contents Shades of Renfield: 10 Buzzing Performances: To complement the arrival of his new novel THE BOOK OF RENFIELD: A GOSPEL OF DRACULA, Tim Lucas looks back on the screen history of one of the most beloved characters in the annals of horror fiction! Whose portrayal best embodies Renfield as Bram Stoker described him? Which of these performances are underrated? Which are overrated? Who among today's actors might still do justice to the role? Find out in this detailed analysis of ten outstanding performances!

DVD Spotlight: As long as we're talking about Renfield, Kim Newman weighs in with his appraisals of John Badham's romantic 1979 version of DRACULA, starring Frank Langella, and the recent short-lived Canadian program, DRACULA THE SERIES!

Dog Bytes: Capsule reviews of TENEBRAE's Eva Robins in the Pierfrancesco Campanella giallo BAD INCLINATION... David Carradine plays four roles (and the flute!) in the Zen fantasy CIRCLE OF IRON... Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee trace the origins of Evil in THE CREEPING FLESH... the James Gunn-scripted movie that calls itself 'Sister-lickin' good,' INBRED REDNECK ALIEN ABDUCTION... Sonny Chiba stages a 'Hall of Mirrors' battle of his own in KARATE FOR LIFE... Merchant Ivory tackle a Bombay police procedural in THE PERFECT MURDER... new China tensions and homicide merge in SEVENTEEN YEARS... and screenwriter James Gunn shows a little more ambition in the superhero-spoof, THE SPECIALS!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: It's 'sex and suspense' month here in the Fleapit, as Joe hunkers down for Seventies screenings of the SCREW Magazine-related EROTICON... the third and final 'Ginger' movie GIRLS ARE FOR LOVING... Robert Culp and Bill Cosby surpise I SPY viewers' expectations in HICKEY AND BOGGS... the biker DIRTY DOZEN variation THE LOSERS (aka NAM'S ANGELS)... LUNCH (from the auteur who brought you STINKYBUTT!)... PRIVATE SCHOOL GIRLS, a non-SCHOOLGIRL REPORT series look at West German schoolgirls... Mercedes McCambridge in the rural jailbait meller SIXTEEN... and little Mark Lester returns to witness a political assassination in John Hough's SUDDEN TERROR (aka EYEWITNESS)!

DVDs: In-depth reviews of BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES VOLUME TWO... the Czech zombie import CHOKING HAZARD... PITCH BLACK's Vin Diesel returns in THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK: UNRATED DIRECTOR'S CUT... Stuart Whitman serves the Kool-Aid in Rene Cardona Jr's exploitative GUYANA: CRIME OF THE CENTURY... Antoine Fuqua casts Bond hopeful Clive Owen as KING ARTHUR... Tod Slaughter, the first British horror star, chortles over the topside of melodrama in THE MURDER IN THE RED BARN, SWEENEY TODD THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, CRIMES AT THE DARK HOUSE, THE FACE AT THE WINDOW and HORROR MANIACS... two people are abandoned in shark-infested OPEN WATER... Hywel Bennett traces his family wee in the penis transplant comedy PERCY... a science fiction saga is set in the alternative history of the 1920s in the anime SAKURA WARS 1: RETURN OF THE SPIRIT WARRIORS and SAKURA WARS 2: WEDDING BELLS... Rene Cardona Sr. serves up the JULES AND JIM of killer shark pictures with TINTORERA... Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis vie for shapely princess Janet Leigh in THE VIKINGS... and Alfred Hitchcock puts a neorealistic spin on suspense in THE WRONG MAN!

Imports: In-depth reviews of the erotic '70s BBC serial CASANOVA, starring Frank Finlay... Max Mok Siu-chung falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a flesh-eating, blood-drinking spirit in the Shaw Brothers' THE ENCHANTRESS... John Woo's A BETTER TOMORROW is ripped-off in detail by the Japanese LAST DROP OF BLOOD... and Laura Antonelli stars in an obscure adaptation of Georges Bataille's 'Story of the Eye' called Yo soy la pas?on ('I Am Passion')!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter assembles his choices for the Best (and the Rest) soundtrack releases of 2004!

Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of John T. Soister's UP FROM THE VAULT: RARE THRILLERS OF THE 1920S AND 1930s and Caelum Vatnsdal's THEY CAME FROM WITHIN: A HISTORY OF CANADIAN HORROR CINEMA!

Plus!: Letterbox correspondence from Yutte Stensgaard... the continuation of Tim's VOOM Diary...

...and much more!

Contents Edison's FRANKENSTEIN: Found & Lost?: Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb, the phonograph... and the American horror film! Stephen R. Bissette reviews this 1910 relic, as it appears on a short-lived, already out-of-print DVD release, and ponders how the recent death of preservationist Alois F. Detlaff, Sr. will affect this once-lost film's future availability!

LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION: Steven Lloyd returns to our pages with a detailed appraisal of the 56 cartoons included in Warner Home Video's first box set of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons! Next issue: the second box!

VIDEODROME: Bill Cooke cracks the shrinkwrap on Criterion's deluxe edition of David Cronenberg's prophetic tale of techno-terror!

Dog Bytes: Capsule reviews of Ray Dennis Steckler's noir tribute BODY FEVER... Joy Houck Jr.'s BOGGY CREEK knock-off CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE... Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee and Barbara Steele interpret an uncredited H.P. Lovecraft story in CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR... John Turturro seeks the answers to his wife's random murder in the Hubert Selby-scripted FEAR X... Halle Berry stars in the Dark Castle-produced GOTHIKA... MGM releases yet another disc of Dan Curtis' THE NIGHT STALKER / THE NIGHT STRANGLER... the gruesome South Korean mystert OLDBOY... the return of BEYOND THE DOOR producer Ovidio Assonitis in the giallo-like RED RIDING HOOD... a detective tries to find out why 54 schoolgirls would join hands and leap onto the tracks before an oncoming train in SUICIDE CLUB... Buster Crabbe ogles burly-q queen Ann Corio in the Retromedia double feature WHITE HUNTRESS and JUNGLE SIREN... Millie Perkins sharpens her blade to deal with some football players in THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA... Ichi the Blind returns in ZATOICHI 13: ZATOICHI'S VENGEANCE and ZATOICHI 15: ZATOICHI'S CANE SWORD... a marbles championship assumes unsuspected importance in the enchanting Mexican fantasy ZURDO... all this, plus remarks on the box set releases of FIREBALL XL-5... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV'S STORIES FROM MY CHILDHOOD... TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED SET 1... THE TWILIGHT ZONE - THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION, SEASON 1... and THE TWILIGHT ZONE - SEASON 1 1985 -86!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Joe is back with vintage trade magazine reviews of the Lee Van Cleef/Warren Oates Western BARQUERO... football pro Terry Carter turns detective in the blaxploitation item BOOTS TURNER... John Carradine, Robert Dix and other Al Adamson vets rev up for a slice of Civil War bloodshed called CAIN'S WAY... Sibylla Kay is the perky au pair girl in Tigon's MONIQUE... George Hilton and Klaus Kinski shoot up the West (West Germany, that is) in THE RUTHLESS FOUR... and an all-star cast turns topsy-turvy in the Irwin Allen disaster epic THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE!

DVDs: In-depth reviews of Patty McCormack as THE BAD SEED... Marc Singer talks to the animals in THE BEASTMASTER... John Daniels sweet-talks some red hot mamas in BLACK SHAMPOO... Christina Ricci survives a werewolf bite in CURSED (unrated version, of course)... Pierce Brosnan finds himself seduced by the lifestyle of those who worship Kali the Destroyer in THE DECEIVERS... Peter Fonda leans on the speedometer in the '70s drive-in classics DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY and RACE WITH THE DEVIL... Tyrone Power drinks until he becomes a pathetic sideshow act in NIGHTMARE ALLEY... Lee Marvin rescues Sissy Spacek from meat-eating Gene Hackman in PRIME CUT... and alien lifeforms are shoved down the throats of the unsuspecting in STARSHIP TROOPERS 2: HERO OF THE FEDERATION (would you like to know more?)

Imports: In-depth reviews of Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence in the Brian Eno-scored THE DEVIL'S MEN... the 'Dark Tales' of author Pu Songling are adapted in the Hong Kong omnibus FAIRY, GHOST, VIXEN... and Jim Mitchum joins the ranks of Eurocult stars in the early Sergio Martino Western MASSACRE AT GRAND CANYON (available as a German DVD import under the title KEINEN CENT F?R RINGOS KOPF)!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter stops watching the skies long enough to review Film Score Monthly's exciting new soundtracks of THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and the 1970's remake of KING KONG (John Barry)!

Biblio Watchdog: Ramsey Campbell joins the VW Kennel with a review of BEATING THE DEVIL: THE MAKING OF NIGHT OF THE DEMON by Tony Earnshaw... and Bill Cooke reviews Roy Webber's THE DINOSAUR FILMS OF RAY HARRYHAUSEN!

...and much more!

Contents LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION VOLUME 2: Steven Lloyd returns with a look at Warner Home Video's second collection of classic Warner Bros. cartoons, including Porky's foray into Wackyland, Wile E. Coyote's patronage of Acme Inc., Hubie and Bertie's head games on Claude Cat, the song stylings of Owl Jolson and Michigan J. Frog, and much, much more!

DVD Spotlight: Three by Kiyoshi Kurosawa: David Kalat profiles a current master of 'J-Horror' with reviews of CURE, CHARISMA and BRIGHT FUTURE!

Dog Bytes: CAMP FEAR... FEEDING THE MASSES... THE FIEND (aka BEWARE THE BRETHREN)... FLESH-EATING MOTHERS... HEX VS WITCHCRAFT... LIBERA ME... RAZORTEETH... STREET TRASH... and A WHISPER IN THE DARK!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: CAHILL UNITED STATES MARSHALL... THE DIRTY HEROES... EASY VIRTUE... HELL'S BELLES... THE SLAMS... SOME KIND OF NUT... THE SPECTRE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE... and WESTWORLD!

DVDs: THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT... THE BIG ALLIGATOR RIVER... CASTLE KEEP... CONQUEST OF SPACE... THE FREAKMAKER... HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN... MAYOR OF THE SUNSET STRIP... THE NAKED JUNGLE... RED TROUSERS... SASQUATCH HORROR COLLECTION (SASQUATCH: THE LEGEND OF BIGFOOT, SNOWBEAST, SNOW CREATURE)... SECRETS OF A CALL GIRL... SEED OF CHUCKY (Unrated and Fully Extended)... SHADOW OF THE WRAITH... TAKE ME NAKED and A THOUSAND PLEASURES... plus Import reviews of I, MONSTER... JESS FRANCO'S PASSION... and KARL MAY DVD COLLECTION I (THE TREASURE OF SILVER LAKE, HALF BREED and WINNETOU AND HIS

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter covers the soundtrack CD beat with Michael Winterbottom's CODE 46... Alex Wurman's MARCH OF THE PENGUINS... BT's STEALTH... Chroma Key's GRAVEYARD MOUNTAIN HOME... and more!

Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of LIVING DANGEROUSLY: THE ADVENTURES OF MERIAN C. COOPER by Mark Cotta Vaz... THE CINEMA OF JOHN CARPENTER: THE TECHNIQUE OF TERROR, edited by Ian Conrich and David Woods... and THE SCARECROW MOVIE GUIDE!

Contents Toho Terrors!: Bill Cooke celebrates the golden age of Japanese fantasy with reviews of DOGORA (THE SPACE MONSTER), MATANGO (ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE), THE MYSTERIANS and VARAN THE UNBELIEVABLE-new on DVD from Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters!

The Third Dimension of Evil: The Making of AMITYVILLE 3-D: Filmmaker Paul Talbot documents the production of the only three-dimensional entry in the popular 'Amityville' franchise, with exclusive interview input from director Richard Fleischer!

Ramsey's Rambles: New Column! Ramsey Campbell has written some of the finest ghost stories and horror fiction of our time, so which films would you expect to find bedevilling his imagination? Well, this month it's Lu?s Bu?uel's 1950 classic, Los Olvid?dos-he'll tell you why!

Things from the Attic: Back by Popular Demand! Tim Lucas and Rebecca & Sam Umland clear the cobwebs off their copies of the vintage bizarre! Jack Palance sacrifices nubile young beauties to the bargain basement African love god Chuku in CRAZE... Bert I. Gordon (THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN) documents how size counts in different ways in HOW TO SUCCEED WITH SEX... A B-movie master shepherds a new generation of filmmakers into the fields of exploitation-with-a-message in ROGER CORMAN: HOLLYWOOD'S WILD ANGEL... and Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre stalk the Swing Era of Kay Kyser in YOU'LL FIND OUT!

Dog Bytes: Celebrity cameos enliven the slashfest BLOODY MOVIE... Warren Oates runs an errand worthy of an Edgar Allan Poe character in Sam Peckinpah's BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA... Jess Franco stars in his own Raymond Chandler pastiche DOWNTOWN... Sonny Chiba gives a commanding performance in G.I. SAMURAI... Al Adamson directs the usual suspects (and KFC's Colonel Sanders!) in HELL'S BLOODY DEVILS... C. Thomas Howell faces down a Martian invasion in the other version of H.G. WELLS' WAR OF THE WORLDS... the '30th Anniversary Edition' of Steven Spielberg's JAWS... Ray Dennis Steckler sequelizes his HOLLYWOOD STRANGLER MEETS THE SKIDROW SLASHER in THE LAS VEGAS SERIAL KILLER... Sonny Chiba takes a backseat to Hiroyuki Sanada in NINJA WARS... Roberta Findlay offers a Queens-side view of rubbery monsters and the supernatural in THE ORACLE... aliens in the abyss meet fanged fish in RAGING SHARKS... Lee Van Cleef earns a box set in two of the three films composing MGM's THE SABATA TRILOGY (SABATA, ADIOS SABATA, RETURN OF SABATA)... England's Compton Cameo and producer Tony Tenser reveal the SECRETS OF A WINDMILL GIRL... yet another Sonny Chiba contest, this time against Ken Ogata, in SHOGUN'S SHADOW... and Jacky Wu Jing demonstrates astounding agility in the condensed period miniseries THE TAI CHI MASTER!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: It's a Western/Action festival in the old Fleapit this issue, as Joe tears your tickets for vintage reviews of Yul Brynner and Daliah Lavi in CATLOW... Charles Bronson in CHATO'S LAND... John Woo's early directorial effort FISTS OF THE DOUBLE K... George Peppard in the sci-fi-tinged espionage thriller THE GROUNDSTAR CONSPIRACY... Clint Eastwood in HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER and JOE KIDD... Raquel Welch in KANSAS CITY BOMBER... Ron O'Neal in SUPERFLY T.N.T.... and Barry Morse (though not as Lt. Phillip Gerard!) in the forgotten sexploitation flick THE TELEPHONE BOOK!

DVDs: Detailed reviews of Walerian Borowczyk's erotic fairy tale THE BEAST... Maurice Tourneur's silent screen classics THE BLUE BIRD and LORNA DOONE... a new deluxe 'Special Edition' of the anime classic GHOST IN THE SHELL... J-Horror gets body conscious in Masayuki Ochiai's INFECTION... Jim Carrey looms large in the baroque children's fantasy LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS... Yuen Woo-ping tries his hand at a terroist action thriller in RED WOLF... Paul Naschy returns to the screen in Brian Yuzna's ROTTWEILER... American independent cinema turns metaphysical in THE STICKY FINGERS OF TIME and PRIMER... and Michael Keaton is haunted by telephonic messages from his dead wife in WHITE NOISE! Plus import reviews of the spectral Shaw Brothers comedy THE FAKE GHOST CATCHERS and Paul Ouellette's returns to H.P. Lovecraft's Miskatonic University, THE UNNAMABLE and THE UNNAMABLE RETURNS!

Biblio Watchdog: Brett Taylor reviews Phil Hall's THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNDERGROUND MOVIES: FILMS FROM THE FRINGES OF CINEMA and Tom Weaver's SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FILM FLASHBACKS: CONVERSATIONS WITH 24 ACTORS, WRITERS, PRODUCERS AND DIRECTORS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE!

Contents LAND OF THE DEAD: A Video Watchdog Round Table Discussion: It's George A. Romero's first movie as a director in 5 years, his first zombie script in 15 years, and the first zombie picture he's directed in 20 years. So what does his eager audience think of LAND OF THE DEAD? VW regulars-Kim Newman, Stephen R. Bissette, John Charles, Richard Harland Smith, Shane M. Dallmann, David Kalat, and editor Tim Lucas-discuss the unrated return of one of the fantastic cinema's great mavericks!

DVD Spotlight: KING KONG: Bill Cooke reviews Warner Home Video's deluxe two-disc set of the 1933 Cooper/Schoedsack classic-the most eagerly awaited DVD ever, and the VW's Kennel's choice for 0ur Favorite Disc of 2005!

Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks: Joe takes a third row aisle seat for vintage screenings of Barry Brown in BAD COMPANY, Faye Dunaway in Rene Clement's THE DEADLY TRAP, Bernie Casey in George Armitrage's blaxploitation fever dream HIT MAN, and Tony Curtis in SUPPOSE THEY GAVE A WAR AND NOBODY CAME?, while Jay North enters Angel Tompkins' course in THE TEACHER!

Plus Reviews of...: THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN-THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON, ALONE IN THE DARK, BATMAN BEGINS, DAY OF THE DEAD 2: CONTAGIUM, DERANGED, ENTRAILS OF A VIRGIN, ENTRAILS OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, EXORCIST-THE BEGINNING and DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST, FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON, GODZILLA FINAL WARS, HOLY BATMANIA!, HOUSE OF WAX (2005), KING KONG-PETER JACKSON'S PRODUCTION DIARIES, KONGA, MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN, MARK OF THE WITCH/THE BRIDES WORE BLOOD, MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, NIGHT AND THE CITY, NIGHT OF THE SKULL, RED COCKROACHES, SHATTER DEAD, SIXTEEN TONGUES, SON OF KONG, SPIDER-MAN 2, THIEVES' HIGHWAY, ZATOICHI CHALLENGED, ZATOICHI THE OUTLAW

And... RAMSEY CAMPBELL on THE CALL OF CTHULHU, the new silent film produced by The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society!

DOUGLAS E. WINTER on new soundtrack releases from Monstrous Music (THIS ISLAND EARTH), Percepto Records (DINOSAURUS!), and La La Land Records (KING KONG VS. GODZILLA)!

Contents Edgar Wallace and the Paternity of KING KONG: Merian C. Cooper once declared that Edgar Wallace 'didn't write a bloody word of KING KONG.' Now, in a groundbreaking feature article, Tim Lucas refutes that statement by detailing Wallace's four-month stint as the film's first screenwriter, and by tracing Kong's bloodline to surprising ancestors in Wallace's own bibliography!

Francesco de Masi: The Noble Heart of Italian Film Music: Francesco de Masi died last November, bringing the curtain down on a long and distinguished record of service to the Italian popular cinema. In this article-part tribute, part personal memoir-John Bender reflects on de Masi's contribution to Italian horror, Italian pepla and, above all, the Italian Western!

DVD Spotlight: KING KONG: Tim Lucas reviews Universal's two-disc widescreen edition of Peter Jackson's KING KONG, of course!

Also reviews of ACE HIGH... THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN - THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON... THE AGATHA CHRISTIE MISS MARPLE MOVIE COLLECTION (MURDER AT THE GALLOP, MURDER AHOY)... BETTY... Radley Metzger's THE CAT AND THE CANARY... CLONUS... CHALLENGE OF THE TIGER... CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY... Umberto Lenzi's THE CYNIC, THE RAT, AND THE FIST... DEEP CRIMSON... DRACULA III LEGACY... FOR YOUR HEIGHT ONLY... two versions of GASLIGHT... JACQUELINE HYDE (unrated version)... Jeff Lieberman's JUST BEFORE DAWN... LIVING HELL... MPD PSYCHO 1-3... THE PREMONITION... SCARY TRUE STORIES... Walt Disney's original THE SHAGGY DOG... SHAOLIN VS EVIL DEAD... SORUM... A STUDY IN TERROR... TENEMENT - GAME OF SURVIVAL... TEN LITTLE INDIANS with Daliah Lavi and Shirley Eaton... WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?... and the latest 'Zatoichi' releases, ZATOICHI AND THE FUGITIVES (#18) and SAMARITAN ZATOICHI (#19)!

Plus ... The latest installments of JOE DANTE'S FLEAPIT FLASHBACKS... RAMSEY 'S RAMBLES (Ramsey Campbell)... AUDIO WATCHDOG (Douglas E. Winter)... BIBLIO WATCHDOG (book reviews)... and much, much more!

Other contributors to this issue: Anthony Ambrogio, John Charles, Bill Cooke, Shane M. Dallmann, Kim Newman, Richard Harland Smith and Brett Taylor.

Contents BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS: Sheldon Inkol salutes 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's long-overdue two-disc release of Russ Meyer's cult classic as a DVD worth waiting for!

In Search of Del Tenney: Auteur of PARTY BEACH: His work is immediately recognizable and consistent, but is Del Tenney one of the horror genre's auteurs? Tim Lucas screens VIOLENT MIDNIGHT, THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, THE CURSE OF THE LIVING CORPSE, I EAT YOUR SKIN and DESCENDANT in search of the answer!

Hammer & Universal: A Marriage of Monsters: From THE BRIDES OF DRACULA to THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN, Bill Cooke's latest monster round-up attends the eight fright films that resulted when the world's greatest horror manufacturers joined forces in the early 1960s!

PLUS! JOE DANTE collects his final batch of retrospective reviews for the farewell edition of 'Joe Dante's Fleapit Flashbacks'!

RAMSEY CAMPBELL on his 'favorite Horror-Western,' Anthony Mann's MAN OF THE WEST!

DOUGLAS E. WINTER on the latest crop of Euro cult soundtracks from Digitmovies, Goblin's reunion disc, and an assortment of Goblin tribute recordings!

BOOK REVIEWS of Doyle Greene's MEXPLOITATION CINEMA, Howard Hughes' ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE ITALIAN WEST, and more!

PLUS dozens of DVD reviews! Among the highlights: Bruce Campbell battles space termites in ALIEN APOCALYPSE; Alain Delon on both sides of the law in Jacques Deray's BORSALINO & CO. and FLIC STORY; Candy Samples, Uschi Digart, and Cheryl 'Rainbeaux' Smith bare their emotions in the sexploitation anthologies FANTASM and FANTASM COMES AGAIN; Howard Vernon, Rosalba Neri, and Barbara Bouchet are up to no good in the 'Euro trash must-see' FRENCH SEX MURDERS; John Carradine and Lon Chaney make a hoot out of an owl's ear in the mind-boggling GALLERY OF HORRORS; Reg Park appears in new and recycled Bava and Cottafavi footage in HERCULES THE AVENGER; Alan Steel crosses swords with Spanish rogues in HERCULES AND THE BLACK PIRATE; a hotsy-totsy android tears up a town in the Indonesian action rip-off LADY TERMINATOR; Joe D'Amato puts the 'horror' back in 'horny' in PORNO HOLOCAUST; Mary Woronov gives us a guided tour of PRISON A-GO-GO; Paul Bartel makes his directorial debut in the kinky thriller PRIVATE PARTS; sexploitation scrapes the bottom of a lager barrel in SS CAMP WOMEN'S HELL and SS EXPERIMENT LOVE CAMP; Jess Franco experiments with carte blanche in 'The Sensation of '69,' SUCCUBUS; we enter the sensual world of Dr. Emy Wong in the hilarious YELLOW EMANUELLE; and we offer a crash course in the works of British shockmeister Pete Walker with our reviews of THE COMEBACK, DIE SCREAMING MARIANNE, THE FLESH & BLOOD SHOW, FRIGHTMARE, HOUSE OF MORTAL SIN, and HOUSE OF WHIPCORD! All this-and much, much more!

This Issue's Contributors: Ramsey Campbell, John Charles, Bill Cooke, Shane M. Dallmann, Joe Dante, Sheldon Inkol, Tim Lucas, Kim Newman, Richard Harland Smith, Brett Taylor, and Douglas E. Winter.

Contents Tony Russel: Our Man on Gamma I: He was the star of the cult classic THE WILD WILD PLANET, a swashbuckling villain on the classic Disney series ZORRO, Elvis Presley's bartender in KING CREOLE, a sword-and-sandal hero, and a movie dubber par excellence! Meet Tony Russel in this exclusive interview by Michael Barnum!

THE WILD WILD WEST: OUTER LIMITS COMPANION author David J. Schow sings the praises of his other favorite Sixties TV series in this extended review of the classic CBS-TV show's First Season-now on DVD!

DVD Reviews: Our trademark intensive coverage of Don Dohler's homemade horrorfest ALIEN FIEND (THE ALIEN FACTOR / FIEND)... Indian horror star Ajay Agarwal headlines two features (BANDH DAWARZA and PURANA MANDIR) in THE BOLLYWOOD HORROR COLLECTION VOLUME 1... Laura Gemser straps on the role that made her famous and infamous in BLACK EMANUELLE (soft and hardcore imports!)... Mexican horror finds its zenith in BLACK PIT OF DR. M, CURSE OF THE CRYING WOMAN and THE WITCH'S MIRROR... J-Horror returns in CURSED and PULSE... two from the late director William Girdler, DAY OF THE ANIMALS and GRIZZLY... some of Hollywood's finest special effects artists cut their teeth on the 16mm home movie project EQUINOX... Dr. Nadir looks for pregnable Earth women in FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER... Halloween horror resurrects the Headless Horseman in THE HOLLOW... two from Jess Franco's seldom seen 1980s period, MACUMBA SEXUAL and MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD... Boris Karloff wields his own unique brand of weird science in THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND and THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES... PULSE... vampire hunter Dr. Nietsche pounds some stakes during a SLAUGHTER OF THE VAMPIRES... the Asian dietary horror SLIM TILL DEAD... Barbara Stanwyck is troubled by threatening calls in SORRY, WRONG NUMBER... and much, much more!

Imports: Special Hammer Section: Detailed reviews of recent UK releases of Peter Sasdy's COUNTESS DRACULA and HANDS OF THE RIPPER (plus its German release version, HAND VOLLER BLUT), and four early Terence Fisher titles: STOLEN FACE... FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE... SPACEWAYS... and MASK OF DUST!

Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter reviews the latest horror, cult and fantasy soundtracks, including Howard Shore's A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and Leigh Harline's THE 7 FACES OF DR. LAO!

Ramsey's Rambles: Ramsey Campbell wraps his mind around the bizarre spectacle of 3 DEV ADAM, a Turkish film that pits Captain America against Spider-Man!

Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of ROGER CORMAN: METAPHYSICS ON A SHOESTRING... JULES VERNE ON FILM: A Filmography of The Cinematic Adaptations of His Works, 1902 Through 1997... COUNT DRACULA GOES TO THE MOVIES: STOKER'S NOVEL ADAPTED, 1922-2003 Second Edition... MAKING FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE LEGEND OF CAMP BLOOD... and THE RING COMPANION!

This Issue's Contributors: Anthony Ambrogio, Michael Barnum, Stephen R. Bissette, Ramsey Campbell, John Charles, Bill Cooke, Shane M. Dallmann, David Kalat, Tim Lucas, Kim Newman, David J. Schow, Richard Harland Smith, Brett Taylor, and Douglas E. Winter.

Contents THE DESCENT: United They Bite, Divided We Fall: Sam Umland and Richard HarIand Smith discuss the pros and cons of the Lionsgate horror hit, the latest work from DOG SOLDIERS writer-director-editor Neil Marshall!

DVD Spotlight: The SAW Trilogy: Shane M. Dallmann takes an in-depth, unbiased look at Lionsgate's other top horror franchise! Do SAW, SAW II and SAW III cut the mustard, or do they merely spray the catsup?

Dog Bytes: Love spells run amok in the Shaw Bros. classic BLACK MAGIC... Jack Nicholson makes his movie debut in the Roger Corman production THE CRY BABY KILLER... Linnea Quigley and Aldo Ray caution us DON'T GO NEAR THE PARK... we ponder the question of upgrading to the DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN 75TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONS... your worst fears about amusement park rides come true in FINAL DESTINATION 3... Roy Thinnes tracks a zombie in the Dan Curtis production THE NORLISS TAPES... kung fu zombies attack visitors to Thailand in SPIRITED KILLER... and a junkyard suffers a cheap hooch meltdown in STREET TRASH!

DVDs: In depth reviews of the Toho sci-fi tech spectacle ATRAGON... Warner Oland takes most honorable bite out of crime in THE CHARLIE CHAN COLLECTION VOLUME 1... Dark Sky Films enters the 'drive in double feature' game with CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS (Andy Warhol's favorite movie!) and Antonio Margheriti's WAR BETWEEN THE PLANETS... Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino explore the dual meaning of the word HOSTEL... Zohra Lampert is tormented within a shred of her sanity in LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH... nature turns against campers in the Aussie horror item LONG WEEKEND... Patrick McGoohan stars in a new 'megaset' of the classic British spy series SECRET AGENT aka DANGER MAN... Hayata flashes his Beta capsule to become the kaiju-bashing superhero ULTRAMAN... Princess Dragon Mom unleashes her monsters against SUPER INFRAMAN... Toho apes STAR WARS in the kooky THE WAR IN SPACE... Plus: IMPORT REVIEWS of the French pulp hit ARSENE LUPIN... Nigel Kneale's rarely seen teleseries BEASTS and KINVIG... Russell Mulcahy's directorial debut RAZORBACK... and VW's first-ever HD review section!

Also

The long-awaited return of THINGS FROM THE ATTIC... Biblio Watchdog Tim Lucas on Richard Scrivani's GOOD NIGHT, WHATEVER YOU ARE: MY JOURNEY WITH ZACHERLEY, THE COOL GHOUL... Ramsey Campbell rambles on Max Oph?ls' THE RESTLESS MOMENT... Audio Watchdog Douglas E. Winter audits Scott Bradley's MGM Cartoon music, Armando Trovajoli's HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD, the MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. movie scores, and much, much more!

Contents In Remembrance of Freddie Francis:

Ted Newsom pays his respects to the talented British director-cameraman responsible for the indelible images of films like THE INNOCENTS, PARANOIAC, THE SKULL, DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE, TALES FROM THE CRYPT and THE ELEPHANT MAN. Includes excerpts from Ted's interview with Francis himself!


In Search of Ganja & Hess:

All Day Entertainment's David Kalat recounts the behind-the-scenes story of bringing a more complete version of Bill Gunn's renowned vampire classic to DVD!


DVD Spotlight:
The Boris Karloff Collection:

Kim Newman critiques Universal's welcome if somewhat inglorious tribute to their greatest horror star, with reviews of NIGHT KEY, TOWER OF LONDON, THE CLIMAX, THE STRANGE DOOR and THE BLACK CASTLE!


Dog Bytes:

Short form reviews! Jason Statham must keep his (and your) heart rate up or die in CRANK... Leif Garrett and a group of psychotic kids terrorize a house of adults in DEVIL TIMES FIVE... Barry Prima wields a lustrous weapon in the Indonesian fantasy THE DEVIL'S SWORD... John Carradine shares the screen with Tina Louise and Julie Newmar in EVILS OF THE NIGHT... Doris Wishman explores (or exploits?) the transsexual subculture in LET ME DIE A WOMAN... Klaus Kinski and Tina Aumont seek to extend their LIFESPAN... and James Coburn acts with someone else's voice in the Italian 'Dirty Dozen' Western A REASON TO LIVE, A REASON TO DIE!


DVDs:

In-depth reviews of all three titles in THE AZTEC MUMMY COLLECTION (THE AZTEC MUMMY, CURSE OF THE AZTEC MUMMY and THE ROBOT VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY-in both their Spanish and English versions!)... Ulli Lommel's BOOGEYMAN 2 and BOOGEYMAN 2: DIRECTOR'S CUT... Hideo Nakata's directorial debut CURSE, DEATH, AND SPIRIT... Cameron Mitchell and Jayne Mansfield meet in Yugoslavia while filming DOG EAT DOG... all three titles in THE DR. MABUSE COLLECTION (THE RETURN OF DR. MABUSE, THE INVISIBLE DR. MABUSE and THE DEATH RAY MIRROR OF DR. MABUSE)... Robert Aldrich rides the action thriller to the end of the line in EMPEROR OF THE NORTH... Gordon Mitchell fuses pepla and science fiction in THE GIANT OF METROPOLIS (we review TWO versions!), while Gordon Scott fights a giant mollusc in HERCULES AND THE PRINCESS OF TROY... Darren McGavin keeps his stakes sharpened and his crucifixes shiny in the TV series KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER... Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh get all hopped up on horror in NIGHT OF THE LEPUS... Ray Milland tackles THE PYJAMA GIRL CASE... PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES' Angel Aranda invites some friends to his humble abode to spill SATAN'S BLOOD... in the tradition of Godzilla and Mothra, Toho unveils SPACE AMOEBA... and hippie bikers grow hairier in WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS!


Plus!


Import reviews of Johnny Depp in Emir Kusturica's surreal ARIZONA DREAM... Mario Bava's Le spie vengono dal semifreddo (the original Italian version of DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS)... and Massimo Dallamano's harrowing giallo WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS?!


Not enough? Sam & Rebecca Umland also bring you their detailed HD reviews of CONSTANTINE and the '50s science fiction classic FORBIDDEN PLANET!


Also...


Ramsey Campbell on Gaspar No?'s IRREVERSIBLE... Audio Watchdog Douglas E. Winter on the CD soundtracks of THE PRESTIGE, THE ILLUSIONIST and THE FOUNTAIN... book reviews of SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE AT THE CINEMA, THE MEXICAN MASKED WRESTLER AND MONSTER FILMOGRAPHY and CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES... the surprise return of 'Watchdog News'... and much, much more!

Contents A Toast to Curtis Harrington: Tim Lucas remembers the late director of GAMES, RUBY and WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HELEN? as one of horror cinema's first critics and preservationists, as an filmmaker, and as a friend.


Athens After Midnight: A Guide to Greek Fantastic Cinema: You've read all about the horror and fantasy cinemas of Spain, Italy, China and Mexico, but what about Greece? In a groundbreaking article full of information new to English reference, Dimitris Koliodimos explores more than a half-century of mind-bending film from the Mediterranean isles where myth and legend were born!


DVD Spotlight: CASINO ROYALE: Tim Lucas reviews Sony's standard, widescreen and Blu-ray discs of the 21st 007 adventure and explains why nobody does it better than Blu-ray!


Dog Bytes: Short form reviews! Alain Robbe-Grillet details a detective's dream encounter with a lady in distress (or is she a vampire?) in LA BELLE CAPTIVE... Philip Ko must battle an evil wizard in the mind-bending Shaw Brothers epic THE BOXER'S OMEN... he sucks and she... fights back in EMMANUELLE VS. DRACULA... the great Meiko Kaji completes her run from corrupt law enforcement in FEMALE PRISONER #701 SCORPION: BEAST STABLE and FEMALE PRISONER #701 SCORPION: GRUDGE SONG... one episode isn't enough, so we cover THE MILTON THE MONSTER SHOW THE COMPLETE SERIES... Jess Franco mixes Pauline Re?ge with his own Sadean tropes in THE SEXUAL STORY OF O... Terence Hill is the cop a bullet can't stop in SUPER FUZZ... and we revel in the extras included with Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 THE GRUESOME EDITION!


DVDs: In-depth reviews of TV's altogether ooky THE ADDAMS FAMILY (VOLUMES 1 and 2)... thought-provoking science-fiction comes to DTV with ASCENSION... the Dark Knight and the Man from Krypton raise the bar of TV toons in BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES VOLUMES 3 and 4 and SUPERMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES VOLUMES 1 and 2... Zalman King explores eroticism, vampirism, and many other isms in CHROMIUMBLUE.COM... Bollywood does its own version of THE EYE in NAINA... Paul Naschy plays three roles in VENGEANCE OF THE ZOMBIES and directs himself as Waldemar Daninsky for the first time in THE NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF... and Robert W. Chambers' classic 'The King in Yellow' opens its gnostic realms to an unwitting artist's model in THE WEIRD TALE COLLECTION, VOLUME 1: THE YELLOW SIGN AND OTHERS!


Plus!

HD/BLU-RAY reviews of Terry Gilliam's THE BROTHERS GRIMM and Richard Linklater's Philip K. Dick adaptation A SCANNER DARKLY!


And IMPORT reviews of a new R2 Special Edition of Nicolas Roeg's classic 'DON'T LOOK NOW'... Enzo G. Castellari's Shakespearean Spaghetti Western JOHNNY HAMLET... and Noel Black's dark Americana gem PRETTY POISON!


Ramsey's Rambles: Ramsey Campbell on Allen Baron's independent noir BLAST OF SILENCE!



Biblio Watchdog: Brett Taylor reviews new books on Philip K. Dick in the cinema, Hammer composer James Bernard, Mondo movies and Roman Polanski!




Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter on the latest spy-themed soundtrack releases, including David Arnold's CASINO ROYALE and Lalo Schifrin's THE LIQUIDATOR (with a theme song by Shirley Bassey)!

Contents An All-Review Issue!



THE WILD WILD WEST - SEASON TWO: David J. Schow follows up his coverage of the first season of Michael Garrison's cult spy Western in VW #128 with a detailed overview of Season Two! Guests include Boris Karloff, Hurd Hatfield, Ida Lupino, Victor Buono, John Astin, Agnes Moorehead, and of course, Michael Dunn!



Dog Bytes: Bite-sized reviews of John Malkovich as Alan Conway, the man who challenged the world to COLOR ME KUBRICK... the 'Starlite Drive-In' double features of HUSTLER SQUAD & WILD RIDERS and MADMEN OF MANDORAS, THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN & THE DEVIL'S HAND... the atmospheric Korean horror thriller THE RED SHOES... Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry provide voices for the Canadian animation feature ROCK & RULE... Jonathan Yudis carries the torch for Russ Meyer in the effectively buxotic PERVERT!... there's a whole lot of flogging goin' on in the Shaw Brothers production THE SHADOW WHIP... Brandon Routh assumes the mantle of the Man of Steel in SUPERMAN RETURNS... and the Long Brothers brandish their weapons in VENGEANCE IS A GOLDEN BLADE!


Things From the Attic: By Popular Demand! Tim Lucas dusts off some wild, vintage VHS thrills as Paul Naschy adds more monster performances to his growing gallery in LYCANTHROPUS: THE MOONLIGHT MURDERS and THE MUMMY'S REVENGE... Edward D. Wood, Jr. teams up with MANSTER director Kenneth G. Crane for the unbelievable THE REVENGE OF DR. X... Jean-Louis Trintignant finds himself involved in a deadly affair with Carroll Baker in Umberto Lenzi's SO SWEET... SO PERVERSE... and Teri Tordai presides over Black Widow-like orgies and executions in TOWER OF SCREAMING VIRGINS!



DVD Spotlight: TARZAN COLLECTION VOL. 2: Bill Cooke swings back with a follow-up to his MGM TARZAN article for VIDEO WATCHDOG #114, a critical appreciation of Johnny Weissmuller's last half-dozen Tarzan adventures for RKO! Read all about TARZAN TRIUMPHS, TARZAN'S DESERT MYSTERY, TARZAN AND THE AMAZONS, TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD WOMAN, TARZAN AND THE HUNTRESS, and TARZAN AND THE MERMAIDS!


DVDs: In-depth reviews of Bob Kane's 'other' gift to posterity -- COOL McCOOL: THE COMPLETE SERIES... Christopher Lee stars in an Italian adaptation of Sheridan LeFanu's 'Carmilla': CRYPT OF THE VAMPIRE (aka TERROR IN THE CRYPT)... David Cronenberg takes the fast lane to exploitation in his racing drama FAST COMPANY, and the high road to experimentation in STEREO and CRIMES OF THE FUTURE... Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy bring a touch of elegance to FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY... Nicole Kidman takes a walk on the wild side in FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS... the horror genre's favorite sisters return in the inspired sequels GINGER SNAPS 2 UNLEASHED and GINGER SNAPS BACK THE BEGINNING... Ishiro Honda makes a profound post-atomic statement with GOJIRA and Toho resurrects its thunder lizard for GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN and MOTHRA VERSUS GODZILLA... Vermont-based horror director Lance Weiler shows us THE LAST BROADCAST before inflicting a little HEAD TRAUMA... Japanese science fiction achieves new high notes of the bizarre in PRINCE OF SPACE and INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN... and Lucky McKee dares to probe the darkness of THE WOODS! Plus a detailed review of John Boorman's EXCALIBUR on HD-DVD!



Imports: Kim Newman reviews CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING and DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY!



Ramsey's Rambles: Join Ramsey Campbell for a hilarious viewing of Onar Films' incredible Turkish double feature of THE DEAD DON'T TALK and THIRSTY FOR LOVE, SEX AND MURDER!


Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of DONALD CAMMELL - A LIFE ON THE WILD SIDE... THE CHANGING VAMPIRE OF FILM AND TELEVISION... THE HELLRAISER FILMS AND THEIR LEGACY... THE WINSTON EFFECT: THE ART AND HISTORY OF STAN WINSTON STUDIO... and WOMEN SCIENTISTS IN FIFTIES SCIENCE FICTION FILMS!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter attends the latest work of Dominic Frontiere to surface on CD (including his score for the OUTER LIMITS episode 'The Forms of Things Unknown'), as well as the new-to-disc legacy of the Colpix label!

Contents
'THESE ARE THE DAMNED': The Restored Director's Cut Examined: Joseph Losey's 1961 Hammer film was mutilated for its theatrical releases both here and abroad and then disappeared from circulation for more than 20 years. With Sony's fully restored version now showing on TCM and rumored for DVD release in the near future, Tim Lucas takes an in-depth look at what's been put back!





DVD Spotlight: CHARLIE CHAN VOLUME 2: It's Kim Newman at the Movies as he reviews 20th Century Fox's second set of classic CHARLIE CHAN mysteries: AT THE CIRCUS, AT THE RACE TRACK, AT THE OPERA and AT THE OLYMPICS!



Watchdog News: A detailed report on the differences between the Spanish and English language versions of the Mexican horror-exploitation film NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES!



Dog Bytes: Capsule-length reviews of the recently rediscovered 'lost' Herschell Gordon Lewis sexploiter THE ALLEY TRAMP and its companion feature OVER 18... AND READY... then a steep turn toward the refined and magisterial Powell & Pressburger classic A CANTERBURY TALE... followed by another extreme turn to Terence Hill and Bud Spencer as a couple of cops on the make in CRIME BUSTERS... the critically acclaimed health care satire THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU... Mark Redfield ventures back to 19th century Baltimore to chronicle THE DEATH OF POE... the 1970s HK drive-in perennial FEARLESS FIGHTERS... India's first Miss World is terrorized by a man who won't stay dead in the Bollywood suspenser THE FOG... Godzilla returns to stomp Tokyo as well as Planet X in GHIDORAH THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER and INVASION OF ASTRO-MONSTER... characters try to out-do one another in the Crazy department in MACHINES OF LOVE AND HATE... Ralph Fiennes teams with David Cronenberg for a memorable portrait of schizophrenia in SPIDER... and Nicolas Cage takes a most peculiar trip to Summersisle in Neil LaBute's remake of THE WICKER MAN! ('Oh, no! Not the bees! Not the bees!')




Things From the Attic: Richard Harland Smith emerges from a candle-lit trip into the upper tiers of his domicile with a three-part tribute to the films of Al Mulock and Pedro Mari S?nchez: FLYING FROM THE HAWK, REFUGE OF FEAR and A WITCH WITHOUT A BROOM!



DVDs: In-depth reviews of John Gulager's FEAST: UNRATED and James Gunn's equally slimy SLITHER... Joseph Cotten steals a million dollars bound for destruction to fund a new uprising of the Confederacy in THE HELLBENDERS... Tony Kendall and Brad Harris co-star in the trilogy of films composing THE KOMMISSAR X COLLECTION (KISS KISS... KILL KILL, SO DARLING SO DEADLY, and DEATH IS NIMBLE DEATH IS QUICK)... Gordon Liu wields the LEGENDARY WEAPONS OF CHINA... Retromedia pays tribute to a worthy subject in THE LON CHANEY COLLECTION (including MANFISH and INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN)... Lloyd Nolan embodies Brett Halliday's pulp hero in MICHAEL SHAYNE MYSTERIES VOLUME 1 (MICHAEL SHAYNE PRIVATE DETECTIVE, THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T DIE, SLEEPERS WEST and BLUE WHITE AND PERFECT)... Martin Landau and Barbara Bain accept dangerous assignments from Steven Hill in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE COMPLETE FIRST TV SEASON... Tyler Tharp keeps the spirit of '70s horror alive in RETURN IN RED... strange things happen in a very peculiar way in THE COMPLETE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH... Elliott Gould cuts in on a bank robbery to the intense displeasure of THE SILENT PARTNER... a New Yorker runs afoul of a voodoo sorcerer in SLIME CITY... variations of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Ape Man drops his loin cloth in the double feature TARZ, JANE & CHEETA and TARZUN AND THE VALLEY OF LUST... Elliot Ness cracks down on Prohibition era bootleggers in THE UNTOUCHABLES, SEASON 1, VOLUME 1, and AIP explores the dark side of the 1960s youth culture in WILD IN THE STREETS and GAS-S-S-S!




Plus: HD-DVD reviews of Alfonso Cuaron's science fiction gem CHILDREN OF MEN and Ben Affleck as George 'Superman' Reeves in HOLLYWOODLAND!




An Imports review of John Phillip Law's classic Spaghetti Western DEATH RIDES A HORSE!




Ramsey Campbell on Jean-Pierre Melville's newly restored masterpiece ARMY OF SHADOWS!




Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter on Percepto's essential new box set: MAD, MOD & MACABRE: THE RONALD STEIN COLLECTION, including the full scores for such cult favorites as ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS, PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES, DEMENTIA 13 and THE TERROR!

Contents EDGAR WALLACE: Your Pocket Guide to the Rialto Krimi Series:

Kim Newman patrols all 33 films of the delightfully grisly and wickedly humorous West German horror-crime sequence, now available in state-of-the-art transfers in eight import DVD box sets from TOBIS/UFA Home Entertainment! Illustrated with amazing images!





INGMAR BERGMAN Tribute:

Sam Umland goes solo to pay homage to one of our favorite filmmakers, a realist who brought to the screen some of its most penetrating scenes of horror, fantasy and dark psychology. Covered in this article are Bergman's classics THE SEVENTH SEAL, SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT, and a number of nascent gems collected in Eclipse's box set EARLY BERGMAN!





DVD Spotlight: INLAND EMPIRE:

David Lynch is back with one of his most maddening mysteries yet!
Kim Newman sorts through the rabbits to get to the core of this story of 'A Woman in Trouble'!




Dog Bytes:

Al Adamson takes fairy tales into the 21st century and sets the cinema back 100 years in CINDERELLA 2000... But do we stop there? No, we proceed to cover the Al Adamson double feature FIVE BLOODY GRAVES and NURSE SHERRI... then Raymond Briggs' proto-SHREK childrens' book becomes a TV miniseries in FUNGUS THE BOGEYMAN... Orlando James learns to outrun a gigantic crocodile in PRIMEVAL... Hayao Miyasaka animates the classic fable of PUSS 'N BOOTS... and James Houghton protects a dysfunctional family from supernatural attack in SUPERSTITION!



DVDs (In-depth reviews):

Glen Morgan remakes Bob Clark's other holiday classic BLACK CHRISTMAS... Bette Davis murders her twin sister to take her place in DEAD RINGER... Dan Grimaldi (THE SOPRANOS) invites women into his house and torches them alive in the sadistic '80s shocker DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE... more aspiring filmmakers try their hands at horror in the compilation FANGORIA BLOOD DRIVE II... Hammer Films features American actors in four film noir B-pictures: THE GLASS TOMB (John Ireland), PAID TO KILL (Dane Clark), Terence Fisher's TERROR STREET (Dan Duryea), and WINGS OF DANGER (Zachary Scott)... Kara Hui Ying-hung scintillates in the HK action comedy MY YOUNG AUNTIE... Joan Crawford concludes an impressive screen career with Herman Cohen's TROG... plus an HD review of the new remake of THE HITCHER, and an Import review of the Tony Anthony Spaghetti Western BLINDMAN, featuring Ringo Starr!




Ramsey's Rambles:


This month, Ramsey continues his fling with Simone Signoret with a discussion of Jacques Becker's period crime thriller CASQUE D'OR!



Audio Watchdog:


Douglas E. Winter spins some of the latest Italian movie soundtracks from Digitmovies, including SODOM AND GOMORRAH, WAR OF THE ZOMBIES and the Steve Reeves classic THE SLAVE!

Contents The VW Interview: JUDI BOWKER: BEYOND ANDROMEDA:

With her ethereal beauty and surprising depths of courage and strength, Judi Bowker became a fast fan favorite as the star of BROTHER SUN SISTER MOON, the Louis Jourdan version of COUNT DRACULA, and CLASH OF THE TITANS. Mark F. Berry makes his VW debut with an inviting profile and candid interview with one of the most beloved and respected British actresses to emerge in the 1970s!


DVD Spotlight: PAN'S LABYRINTH:
Tim Lucas reviews Guillermo del Toro's latest and most celebrated addition to his filmography!


DVD Reviews:
1984
BEDAZZLED
DARK SHADOWS - THE BEGINNING (COLLECTION 1)
DEVILS OF DARKNESS
DOCTOR STRANGE
FEED
FIDELITY (Andrzej Zulawski)
'G' MEN
GODZILLA AND OTHER MOVIE MONSTERS
GHOST RIDER
HARD-BOILED
HELLBOY ANIMATED: BLOOD & IRON
THE KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
THE MANITOU
STREETS OF FIRE
VACANCY
VIRGINS FROM HELL
WITCHCRAFT
WOMEN BEHIND BARS
and much MORE!

Plus!:

Ramsey Campbell on NIGHT OF THE EAGLE (BURN, WITCH, BURN)!

Douglas E. Winter on Simon Boswell's CLOSE YOUR EYES!

Kim Newman on Stephen Thrower's NIGHTMARE USA!

Tim Lucas on Tom Weaver and Michael & John Brunas' UNIVERSAL HORRORS and

Gary D. Rhodes & Richard Sheffield's BELA LUGOSI DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES!
and, again, much MORE!

Contents Special GRINDHOUSE Issue!


GRINDHOUSE
A VW Round Table Discussion

Kim Newman, Stephen R. Bissette, Shane M. Dallmann and Tim Lucas put their heads together to weigh the pros and cons of the controversial GRINDHOUSE theatrical release and the separate home video issues of Quentin Tarentino's DEATH PROOF and Robert Rodriguez's PLANET TERROR!



DVD Spotlight:
SCHOOLGIRL REPORT #1 and #2
Tim Lucas steps to the lectern to teach VW readers everything they always wanted to know about the ins and outs of Ernst Hofbauer's classic Seventies sexploitation film series-from its origins on the German bestseller list to its arrival on DVD from Impulse Pictures!



DVD Reviews in this issue include:
ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN,

THE BLOOD ROSE,

CHOSEN SURVIVORS,

THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING,

FIRE AND ICE,

FLASH GORDON: SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE EDITION,

THE GIANT BEHEMOTH,

HOME BEFORE MIDNIGHT,

KARZAN, JUNGLE LORD,

POLICE STORY,

QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE,

RETRIBUTION,

SWORDSMAN II,

A TOUCH OF GENIE,
VIRGIN WITCH.


Plus!

John Carpenter's classic HALLOWEEN on Blu-ray!


Ramsey Campbell on Hayao Miyazaki's KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE!


David J. Schow reviews THE BATTLE FOR BOND: THE GENESIS OF CINEMA'S GREATEST HERO!


Audio Watchdog Douglas E. Winter reviews David Arnold's GODZILLA and the latest Bava soundtrack releases from Digitmovies!




All this and much, much MORE!



Other contributors featured in this issue:
Anthony Ambrogio, John Charles, Bill Cooke, David Kalat, Charlie Largent, and Brett Taylor!

Contents
A Very Special Event!

Available in Regular and Signature Editions!


Amy and Her Friends
The ANN CARTER Interview
Tom Weaver returns to our pages with another prize interview catch! In her first-ever career-length interview, the star of Val Lewton's THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE reminisces about her many onscreen friends (Simone Simon, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Muni, Sir Lancelot, Barbara Stanwyck and more), describes her participation in several other 1940s fantasy classics (I MARRIED A WITCH, THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT and more), and shares the amazing story of her past fifty years! Illustrated with more than 40 rare and never-before-seen photos from Ann's personal collection!


Plus!

'Introducting Ann Carter'
An essay-length appreciation of the actress by Tim Lucas.


And..

Tim Lucas reviews the new documentary VAL LEWTON-THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS and Lewton's recently restored and reissued Depression era novel NO BED OF HER OWN!


Reviewed in this issue:
BLACK SHEEP,
CAPTIVITY (UNRATED),
THE FOOD OF THE GODS,
HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN,
HELP!,
HOSTEL PART II (UNRATED),
THE HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN / THE MEPHISTO WALTZ,
KING BOXER,
5 FINGERS OF DEATH,
ONE MISSED CALL,
POPEYE THE SAILOR 1933-1938 VOLUME 1,
THE PSYCHIC,
BEATRICE CENCI,
SAM KATZMAN: ICONS OF HORROR COLLECTION,
- CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN,
- THE WEREWOLF,
- THE GIANT CLAW,
- ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU,
TALES FROM THE CRYPT / THE VAULT OF HORROR,
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND-30TH ANNIVERSARY ULTIMATE EDITION,
GHOST SHIP.


...and many other exciting new releases!



Plus!


Ramsey Campbell on the Bizarre Turkish horror film THE SERPENT'S TALE!


Douglas E. Winter on a new boxed set of Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs!


All this and much, much MORE!


Other contributors to this issue:
John Charles, Bill Cooke, Shane M. Dallmann, Sheldon Inkol, David Kalat, Charlie Largent, Michael Lennick, and Kim Newman.

Contents California Gothic: The Corman / Haller Collaboration:

Roger Corman and his AIP art director Daniel Haller participate in a VW Round Table Discussion, about their classic Edgar Allan Poe series and other past projects, with fellow director-fan Joe Dante and moderator Lawrence French!


DVD Spotlight: UNIVERSAL HORROR CLASSIC MOVIE ARCHIVE:
Bill Cooke reviews five of Universal's 1940s B-horror classics: MAN MADE MONSTER, HORROR ISLAND, THE BLACK CAT (1941), NIGHT MONSTER and CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN!



PLUS REVIEWS OF...:
ALIBI,
BASKET CASE 2,
BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON,
BLIND BEAST VS. KILLER DWARF,
DEAD SILENCE (UNRATED),
ELECTION,
THE FORGOTTEN PISTOLERO,
THE MAID,
ONCE UPON A GIRL,
RED ROAD,
RETURN TO HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL,
SCREWED,
SINGAPORE SLING,
SPIDER FOREST,
STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS,
THE THIRD SECRET,
TWILIGHT ZONE THE MOVIE,
TWIN PEAKS DEFINITIVE GOLD BOX EDITION,
UNHOLY,
THE UNHOLY FOUR,
VON RICHTHOFEN AND BROWN,
THE WAR IN SPACE,
WRONG TURN 2: DEAD END.



And...


Tim Lucas reviews the return of Lamberto Bava to the horror genre with two imports, THE TORTURER and GHOST SON!




Ramsey's Rambles:

Ramsey Campbell praises Jacques Tourneur's classic Western CANYON PASSAGE!




Audio Watchdog:

Douglas E. Winter reviews new soundtrack releases by Francisco De Masi, Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai, Mark Mancina and Enoch!




Biblio Watchdog:

Anthony Ambrogio and Brett Taylor review FRANKENSTEIN: A CULTURAL HISTORY, THE MEXICAN CINEMA OF DARKNESS and EROTIC CINEMA!





All this and much, much MORE!



Other contributors featured in this issue:
John Charles, Shane M. Dallmann, Sheldon Inkol, David Kalat, Kim Newman, and Richard Harland Smith.

Contents A 'DOCTOR WHO' Special!:

Where to Start with DOCTOR WHO?
The Best of the Third and Fourth Doctors:

With more than 700 episodes in the original series alone, where should latecomers jump aboard the TARDIS? Sheldon Inkol recommends four Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker classics from the 1970s: 'Inferno,'
'Genesis of the Daleks,' 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang'
and 'The Horror of Fang Rock'!



DVD Spotlight:
DOCTOR WHO: THE COMPLETE THIRD SERIES:
David Kalat pens an appreciation of David Tennant's third season as the BBC's most popular Doctor ever, and Tim Lucas adds a postscript of praise for the season's most acclaimed episode, 'Blink'!


PLUS!




THEY CAME FROM PROTELCO!:
In this interview, British producer Richard Gordon tells Tom Weaver
the inside story of the short-lived company responsible for producing ISLAND OF TERROR (starring Peter Cushing) and
THE PROJECTED MAN (starring Bryant Haliday)!



THIS MONTHS REVIEWS INCLUDE::
Stephen King's 1408,
Billy Wilder's ACE IN THE HOLE,
Radley Metzger's CAMILLE 2000,
Tobe Hooper's EATEN ALIVE,
Jess Franco's EUGENIE DE SADE,
The real Emmanuele directs LAURE,
Crown International 'Grindhouse' classics MALIBU HIGH & TRIP WITH THE TEACHER,
1950s shockers THE RETURN OF DRACULA and THE VAMPIRE,
SAW III: DIRECTOR'S CUT,
SAW IV: UNRATED DIRECTOR'S CUT,
Nobuo Nakagawa's SNAKE WOMAN'S CURSE,
David Fincher's ZODIAC


...and many more... including the Paul Naschy double feature
THE NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF and VENGEANCE OF THE ZOMBIES on Blu-ray!




Ramsey's Rambles:

Ramsey Campbell takes on another Turkish turkey as The Iron Claw meets Fant?mas in DEMIR PENCE KORSAN ADAM!


Audio Watchdog:

Douglas E. Winter reviews new soundtrack CD releases of MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, FAHRENHEIT 451, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, and more!


Biblio Watchdog:

David Kalat, Tim Lucas and Brett Taylor review A YEAR OF FEAR: A DAY-BY-DAY GUIDE TO 366 HORROR FILMS by Bryan Senn, FANTOMAS IN AMERICA by David White, Staci Layne Wilson's 50 YEARS OF GHOST MOVIES and the uncredited picture/CD book DARIO ARGENTO!

Contents Bewitching Hazel:
David Del Valle notes the recent passing of Hazel Court with an entertaining and sometimes moving memoir of his long friendship with the actress and her actor-director husband Don Taylor! Including Hazel's comments on films like THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and PREMATURE BURIAL, and co-stars Vincent Price and Anton Diffring!


Meiko Kaji:
Woman with a Vengeance:
Danish film scholar Rikke Schubart describes the unique and haunting appeal of the enigmatic star of the LADY SNOWBLOOD
and FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION series!


Things From the Attic:
CED VideoDisc: The Dawn of High End Video:
Rebecca and Sam Umland look back at the introduction of letterboxing on home video--not on VHS, but on CED discs,
a forerunner of laserdisc--with an archeological review of
AMARCORD and MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL!


DVD Spotlight:
Kim Newman reviews rediscovered performances by Boris Karloff,
Lee Marvin, George Reeves and others in
SUSPENSE: THE LOST EPISODES, COLLECTION 1!



Also reviewed in this issue...:
APARTMENT 1303,
AQUARIUM,
BLUE SUNSHINE,
CHARLIE CHAN VOLUME 3:
BEHIND THE CURTAIN,
THE BLACK CAMEL,
CHARLIE CHAN'S SECRET,
CHARLIE CHAN ON BROADWAY,
CHARLIE CHAN AT MONTE CARLO,
DEATH SENTENCE,
THE DEVIL'S RAIN,
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (David Hemmings version),
THE DUNGEON OF DR. DRECK,
GAMERA, SUPER MONSTER,
THE HOUSE OF USHER,
JEKYLL: SEASON 1,
LIZ & HELEN (aka DOUBLE FACE),
LOFT,
METAL SKIN: SPECIAL EDITION,
MONSTROID,
THE NIGHT OF THE SORCERERS,
PLANET OF DINOSAURS: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION,
THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE,
VAMPIRA: THE MOVIE,
WITCH'S MIRROR,
... and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY on Blu-ray!


Ramsey's Rambles:
Ramsey Campbell on Jean Renoir's LE CRIME DE MONSIEUR LANGE!


Audio Watchdog:
Douglas E. Winter reviews new soundtrack releases, including THE BLOB, Roger Corman's THE INTRUDER and more!


Biblio Watchdog:
Brett Taylor reviews John Kenneth Muir's HORROR FILMS OF THE 1980s and David Kalat's A CRITICAL HISTORY AND FILMOGRAPHY OF TOHO'S GODZILLA SERIES!

Contents Here Lies a Man Who Was Not of This Earth: A Eulogy for Charles B. Griffith: Justin Humphreys recalls his friendship with the late screenwriter of THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, A BUCKET OF BLOOD, ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS and many other Roger Corman classics, with quotations from his correspondence and descriptions of the movies that might have been!


DVD Spotlight: FOX HORROR CLASSICS: Bill Cooke reviews 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's collection of 1940s terror classics by cult director John Brahm: THE UNDYING MONSTER, THE LODGER and HANGOVER SQUARE!



Also reviewed in this issue...

THE AMICUS COLLECTION:
ASYLUM
-AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS!
THE BEAST MUST DIE
BEAUTY QUEEN BUTCHER
BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE
THE CHAIN REACTION
CHARLIE CHAN VOLUME 4:
CHARLIE CHAN IN HONOLULU
CHARLIE CHAN IN RENO
CHARLIE CHAN AT TREASURE ISLAND
CHARLIE CHAN IN CITY OF DARKNESS
DIVA DOLOROSA
THE HELLFIRE CLUB
HEROES TWO
THE H.P. LOVECRAFT COLLECTION, VOLUME 1-4
THE INVASION
INVISIBLE STRANGLER
THE IRON ROSE
THE MIST: TWO DISC COLLECTOR'S EDITION
THE NAKED PREY
THE PINK PANTHER AND FRIENDS CLASSIC CARTOON
COLLECTION: THE INSPECTOR (VOLUME 6)
RAIDERS OF THE DAMNED
THE SECOND COMING OF SUZANNE
SHREK THE THIRD
SPIDER-MAN THE HIGH DEFINITION TRILOGY
SPIDER'S VENOM
WITCHBOARD
WITCHERY


Ramsey's Rambles: Ramsey Campbell looks back on one of Peter Sellers' breakthrough performances in John Guillermin's crime thriller NEVER LET GO!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter celebrates Digitmovies' 100th compact disc release with reviews of their most recent titles, including the coveted FEMINA RIDENS -- and also a limited release of Dave Neabore's score for LUCIO FULCI REMEMBERED!


Biblio Watchdog: Tim Lucas reviews A NEW HERITAGE OF HORROR: THE ENGLISH GOTHIC CINEMA by David Pirie and WILD BEYOND BELIEF! INTERVIEWS WITH EXPLOITATION FILMMAKERS OF THE 1960s AND 1970s by Brian Albright

All this and much, much MORE!

Contents THE PRISONER: A New Order: Tim Lucas reviews Network Video's 40th anniversary upgrade of the classic Patrick McGoohan teleseries and proposes his own unique viewing order of the 17 episodes!!


THE ROUTE 66 MONSTERS: In 1962, Bob Burns presented the first-ever color photo of Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney in makeup as the Frankenstein Monster and Wolf Man in a centerfold of his magazine FANTASTIC MONSTERS OF THE FILMS. Now Bob unveils the other never-before-seen color shots taken at his request on the set of ROUTE 66's 'Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing' in an historic VW photo gallery feature!


DVD Spotlight: THE SKULL: Tim Lucas reviews this new release from Legend Films and explains why this little-known widescreen thriller may be the best of the post HORROR OF DRACULA Lee and Cushing pictures and the finest horror film Amicus ever produced!




Also reviewed in this issue...

AB-NORMAL BEAUTY
ALL SOULS DAY
BABY FACE
BOOGEYMAN 2
CELLO
EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS
THE END OF AUGUST AT THE HOTEL OZONE
FRANKENSTEIN
FRANKENSTEINS BLOODY NIGHTMARE
HALLOWED GROUND
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA
THE GALAXY INVADER
THE GLADIATORS
KILLING SPREE
KONG ISLAND
THE QUIET EARTH
PLAYROOM
PUNISHMENT PARK
RED-HEADED WOMAN
RINGO KILL (NIGHT OF THE SERPENTS)
SATAN'S PLAYGROUND
SEE NO EVIL: THE STORY OF THE MOORS MURDERERS
SOUTHLAND TALES
SUFFOCATION
James Whale's WATERLOO BRIDGE
THRESHOLD
VITAL
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
WHITE NOISE 2
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
WRESTLEMANIAC


Ramsey's Rambles: Ramsey Campbell traces the influence of Antonioni's LA NOTTE on horror cinema!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter reviews new CD soundtracks, including 28 WEEKS LATER and ALL ALONE IN THE DARK!

Biblio Watchdog: Brett Taylor reviews Rob Cohen's new book THE FILMS OF LARRY BUCHANAN: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION!


All this and much, much MORE!

Contents RODD DANA L The Actor with the 3-D Name: Michael Barnum interviews the American actor who spent the Fifties with Roger Corman, Herman Cohen and Bert Gordon, and the Sixties in Italy, making CLEOPATRA, Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy flicks, and dubbing well over 300 movies!


DVD Spotlight: THE LAWRENCE JORDAN ALBUM: New contributor Michael Barrett reviews a lavish new box set that collects the outstanding work of the great animator!



Also reviewed in this issue...

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
THE BOOTH
BLACK NIGHT
CEMETERY OF TERROR
CUJO
HOUDINI
THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH
THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH
THE MASTER
P2
PHASE IV
SERENITY: COLLECTOR'S EDITION
TOBOR THE GREAT
THE VICTIM
... and many other new releases, including the Blu-ray import of Powell & Pressburger's BLACK NARCISSUS!

Ramsey's Rambles: Ramsey Campbell on Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature, STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter on Claudio Simonetti's THE THIRD MOTHER and other new Italian soundtrack releases!


Biblio Watchdog: Brett Taylor on the book ORSON WELLES REMEMBERED!


All this and much, much MORE!

Contents The Ubiquitous: DABBS GREER: M.J. Simpson offers a 1999 interview with the late star of 100 features (including HOUSE OF WAX, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and THE GREEN MILE) and close to 600 different television roles (everything from SPACE PATROL to PICKET FENCES) covering his entire, incomparable career!


DVD Spotlight: ICONS OF ADVENTURE: Bill Cooke reviews Sony's premiere collection of Hammer holdings, including widescreen presentations of THE STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY, THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER, THE TERROR OF THE TONGS and THE DEVIL-SHIP PIRATES!



Including reviews of...

2103 THE DEADLY WAKE
6 FILMS TO KEEP YOU AWAKE
ALUCARD
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: RAZOR: UNRATED EXTENDED EDITION
BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! (incomplete - reprinted in issue 146)
CHALLENGE OF THE MASTERS (incomplete - reprinted in issue 146)
CLOVERFIELD on Blu-ray
DARK CHAMBER
THE HOST
I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU
THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO LOVE
JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN
THE LAST LEGION
THE LUCK OF THE IRISH
PARIS, JE T'AIME
ROYAL FLASH
SIMON, KING OF THE WITCHES
THE SLIT-MOUTHED WOMAN
SODOM THE KILLER
SPLATTER BEACH
TRAPPED ASHES
VENUS IN FURS (Massimo Dallamano version)
THE VOYEUR
THE WITCHING HOUR

Ramsey's Rambles: Ramsey Campbell on Cecil B. DeMille's shocking SIGN OF THE CROSS!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter on the Ian Curtis/Joy Division biopic CONTROL!

Biblio Watchdog: Reviews of HAZEL COURT HORROR QUEEN and THE BIONIC BOOK: THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN AND THE BIONIC WOMAN RECONSTRUCTED!


All this and much, much MORE!

Contents DVD Spotlight : The Films of ROB ZOMBIE: It's high time that VW covered the work of this 21st century horror maverick, and Shane M. Dallmann is on the case with reviews of HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS: UNRATED and HALLOWEEN: UNRATED DIRECTOR'S CUT!



GEORGES MeLI?S: First Man on the Moon: David Kalat reviews Flicker Alley's GEORGES MeLI?S: FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA (1896-1913), the only truly comprehensive collection of short films by the father of fantastic cinema. In the process, he takes us back in time to origin of motion picture exhibition and discusses other relevant collections, including MeLI?S THE MAGICIAN, SAVED FROM THE FLAMES (1896-1944), THE MOVIES BEGIN: A TREASURY OF EARLY CINEMA (1894-1913), and more!



Cincinnati, Heaven and Hell: Tim Lucas reacts to achieving his 30 year dream of seeing
SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL with an appreciation that is part essay, part review, and part fever dream. Revised and re-illustrated from its original appearance on Video WatchBlog!!



Sex, Lies and Bikini Lines: A Swede's Response to SWEDEN, HEAVEN AND HELL: On the occasion of the classic mondo movie's first-ever release in Sweden, Lars Erik Holmquist takes the film to task for its flagrant distortions of fact and tradition!




Including reviews of...

BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHT
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE: THE COMPLETE SERIES
THE LAST WINTER
OM SHANTI OM
101 DALMATIANS - PLATINUM EDITION
ROGUE
ROUTE 66: SEASON ONE, VOLUME ONE
SCARECROWS
SCOTT WALKER 30 CENTURY MAN
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES
STARSHIP TROOPERS 3: MARAUDER
THE TOYBOX
WOLF CREEK

Ramsey's Rambles: Ramsey Campbell on CAVE OF THE YELLOW DOG!


Audio Watchdog: Douglas E. Winter on the recorded legacy of Joy Division!



All this and much, much MORE!

Contents Harry Redmond Jr. : Last Survivor of Skull Island: Mark F. Berry interviews the last surviving member of the original KING KONG's special effects unit, who also has tales to tell about his special effects pioneer father and how they devised the cinematic illusions for SHE, THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII, LOST HORIZON and many other classics!



DVD Spotlight: Best Buy Exclusives: Kim Newman reviews three Double Feature discs first sold as Best Buy exclusives: MOON ZERO TWO / WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH, WORLD WITHOUT END / SATELLITE IN THE SKY and BATTLE BENEATH THE EARTH / THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR!!




Plus...

Minira, Prince of the Monsters, becomes the confidant of an imaginative latchkey kid in ALL MONSTERS ATTACK aka GODZILLA'S REVENGE... the Big G's metallic alter ego returns in TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA... VW gets its second shot at presenting reviews of BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! and CHALLENGE OF THE MASTERS... CLASSIC BRITISH THRILLERS, a new three-disc set including two early Michael Powell films... Steve Miner remakes George Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD pretty much in name only... a lovesick documentarist turns his camera on his lesbian ex-wife in EXTREME PRIVATE EROS LOVE SONG 1974... Conrad Veidt inherits THE HANDS OF ORLAC... Chuck Connors is told by Enzo G. Castellari to KILL THEM ALL AND COME BACK ALONE... James Cagney (with the help of Bud Westmore's crew) becomes Lon Chaney, the MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES... rock video director Chris Boger tries his hand at THE MARQUIS DE SADE'S JUSTINE... Boris Karloff at his best in the original THE MUMMY, now available in an expanded two-disc edition... Guillermo del Toro produces another Spanish horror gem with THE ORPHANAGE... Ida Lupino sizzles in the film noir classic ROAD HOUSE... a terrifying prehistoric plot hatches in RODAN... Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson takes aim with his bow and arrow in THE SCORPION KING, and his origin story is told in THE SCORPION KING 2: RISE OF A WARRIOR... guitarist extraordinaire lends his soloing skills to experimental shorts and classic horror imagery in 'SOUNDS OF THE SURREAL' AND 'MONSTERS FROM THE ID'... Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh combine formidable forces in TAI CHI MASTER... a maniac in a Ronald Reagan mask sets about turning blue states into red states in THE TRIPPER... green and brown giants run amok through Japan in the delirious WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS... and Crispin Glover's remake somehow fails to improve on the original THE WIZARD OF GORE!


IMPORT REVIEWS of the indescribable UK TV cult experience GARTH MARENGHI'S DARKPLACE... and the diminutive Nelson de la Rosa goes for the cheese in RATMAN!



Plus...

Ramsey Campbell on Powell & Pressburger's THE SMALL BACK ROOM!


Anthony Ambrogio reviews the ultimate book on CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND!


Douglas E. Winter reviews the latest CD soundtrack releases, including SHE and WRONG TURN 2!


And Tim Lucas bids farewell to FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND's founding father, Forrest J Ackerman!



All this and much, much MORE!

Contents MOTHER OF TEARS: THE THIRD MOTHER: A Video Watchdog Round Table Discussion:
Maitland McDonagh makes a long-overdue return to our pages to discuss, dissect and analyze Dario Argento's latest release with
Tim Lucas, Kim Newman, Richard Harland Smith and Brad Stevens.
Is it an unworthy disaster, a surrealist masterpiece,
or something in between?


DVD Spotlight

Three by Jean-Pierre Melville

Rebecca and Sam Umland review the best of
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Lino Ventura in these
essential new releases from the master of French crime cinema:
LeON MORIN, PRIEST, Le Doulos and Le Deuxi?me Souffle!



Plus Reviews of...

The TV remake of THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN... Ed Wood's bestiality romance THE BRIDE AND THE BEAST... William Cameron Menzies' CHANDU THE MAGICIAN with Bela Lugosi... Wong Kar-wei's captivating and imaginative romance CHUNGKING EXPRESS... the Ballardian and Australian CRASH TEST... the contemporary giallo DARKNESS SURROUNDS ROBERTA... J. Carrol Naish keeps DR. RENAULT'S SECRET... we apply some critical soap to DRACULA'S DIRTY DAUGHTER... Vincent Price presages his classic Poe performances in the 1940s melodrama DRAGONWYCK... Miles Davis scores Louis Malle's directorial debut thriller ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS... Horst Tappert organizes THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY... Roddy McDowall reanimates a golem in IT!... Charlotte Gainsbourg's tense household is overtaken by a LEMMING... Anthony Hopkins and a scary ventriloquist's dummy double talk their way through MAGIC... THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB PRESENTS ANNETTE... Jacques Dutronc and Sophie Marceau make beautiful rhymes together in Andrzej Zulawski's MY NIGHTS ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN YOUR DAYS... Gillian Hills stars in the surprisingly erotic Granada Television family entertainment THE OWL SERVICE... in the near future, rock music converts the masses to conformity in Peter Watkins' PRIVILEGE... Kathryn Harrold tends to a psychic patient in THE SENDER... Oliver Reed pursues Carol Lynley into THE SHUTTERED ROOM... colors explode in the Wachovski Brothers' SPEED RACER... Ken Foree and Lynn Lowry return to the screen in SPLATTER DISCO... David Carradine stars in SUNDOWN: THE VAMPIRE IN RETREAT... Fred Olen Ray taps into the erotic side of anime in SUPER NINJA DOLL... an undead Elvis impersonator plays house in TRAILER PARK OF TERROR... and a strange albino ape turns amorous in THE WHITE GORILLA!


And...

Ramsey Campbell on the bizarre Turkish comedy-adventure KORKUSUZ KAPTAN SWING!


Books: Sam Umland reviews Taschen's latest piano-sized book THE INGMAR BERGMAN ARCHIVES, and Tim Lucas reviews Carl Wilson's LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE: A JOURNEY TO THE END OF TASTE.


All this and much, much MORE!

Contents CHARLIE CHAN: Curtain Down at Fox:

Kim Newman covers the last of the Sidney Toler programmers
included in Fox's CHARLIE CHAN COLLECTION VOL. 5:
CHARLIE CHAN IN PANAMA, CHARLIE CHAN'S MURDER CRUISE, CHARLIE CHAN AT THE WAX MUSEUM, MURDER OVER NEW YORK, DEAD MEN TELL, CHARLIE CHAN IN RIO
and CASTLE IN THE DESERT.


DVD Spotlight

KAIDAN:

David Kalat discovers a copy of Hideo (THE RING) Nakata's
'lost' ghost story Kaidan and compares it to the earlier
Nobuo Nakagawa film on which it is based.



Plus Reviews of...


88 MINUTES,
ABOMINABLE,
BACTERIUM,
BAD BLOOD,
Jack Arnold's BOSS (BOSS NIGGER),
THE CHASER,
DARK FORCES,
DEAD SET,
THE DEADLY DUO,
THE DEVIL'S CHAIR,
George A. Romero's DIARY OF THE DEAD,
EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES,
THE HEIRLOOM,
HEROES OF THE EAST,
MADHOUSE,
Herschell Gordon Lewis' MOONSHINE MOUNTAIN,
NEIGHBOR NUMBER 13,
POLICE STORY 2,
POPULATION: 1,
RED,
RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP,
THE RUINS,
SECRET THINGS,
THE SKELETON OF MRS. MORALES,
SLASHERS,
STARDUST,
Alex Cox's STRAIGHT TO HELL and WALKER,
THE STRANGE VENGEANCE OF ROSALIE,
THE TRIPPER,
WAR OF THE LIVING DEAD,
WINTERBEAST




And...

Ramsey Campbell on INTO THE MIRROR!


Douglas E. Winter's 'Audio Watchdog' look at the latest Italian horror and fantasy soundtrack CDs!


All this plus Biblio Watchdog, Letterbox and much, much more!

Contents Stranger Than Truth:
The Rise of 'Fictuality':

J-HORROR author David Kalat's essay on reality trends in current fantastic cinema looks at the reasons for it, traces it back to its origins in the silent cinema, and considers how films like CLOVERFIELD, DIARY OF THE DEAD and CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST have sharpened the cutting edge of horror and fantasy.


DVD Spotlight

HAMMER FILMS:
ICONS OF HORROR COLLECTION:

Kim Newman reviews the latest batch of Hammer classics from
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment: THE GORGON, THE CURSE
OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB, SCREAM OF FEAR, and a version of Terence Fisher's THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL more complete than any previously released in England or the United States.



Plus Reviews of...

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET in Blu-ray,
BARRACUDA,
BLOODSUCKERS FROM OUTER SPACE,
BURST CITY,
CAREFUL,
CHOCOLATE,
DEATH RACE: UNRATED,
DONNIE DARKO THE DIRECTOR'S CUT in Blu-ray,
DRAINIAC!,
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE,
EDEN LAKE,
ELECTRIC DRAGON 80000V,
THE FABULOUS BASTARD FROM CHICAGO,
FORTRESS OF THE DEAD,
FREDDY VS JASON in Blu-ray,
THE FURY OF JOHNNY KID,
THE ICE HOUSE,
IN THE FOLDS OF THE FLESH,
ISLAND FURY,
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 3D ,
JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER,
LIFE THE WAY IT IS,
MAGDALENA'S BRAIN,
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION,
M SQUAD: THE COMPLETE SERIES,
THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR,
NO MERCY, NO FUTURE,
OUR MAN IN HAVANA,
R-POINT,
SCREAMERS: THE HUNTING,
SEEDING OF A GHOST,
THE SIGNAL,
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK,
TIMECRIMES



And...

Award-winning novelist Ramsey Campbell on Juan Piquer Simon's PIECES.

Audio Watchdog:
Douglas E. Winter's reviews the latest soundtrack CDs, including Hans Zimmer's THE DARK KNIGHT, John Murphy's SUNSHINE, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES and more.


Biblio Watchdog:
A Super Hero selection of book reviews: SUPERMAN VS. HOLLYWOOD, JOHN PHILLIP LAW: DIABOLIK ANGEL and
THE AMAZING TRANSFORMING SUPERHERO.



All this and much, much more!

Contents The Superhero Blu Initiative:

Rebecca and Sam Umland review the Blu-ray releases
of 2008's top superhero blockbusters:
THE DARK KNIGHT, IRON MAN and THE INCREDIBLE HULK!


Let the Twilight In:

Everybody likes one better than the other, but Stephen R. Bissette argues the equal importance and complementary qualities of 2008's young vampire phenomena, TWILIGHT and LET THE RIGHT ONE IN!



DVD Spotlight


Kim Newman reviews the nine obscure mystery/detective features included in VCI's FORGOTTEN NOIR COLLECTORS SET SERIES 3!

Plus Reviews of...

QUANTUM OF SOLACE,
SAW V: UNRATED DIRECTOR'S CUT,
THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN,
MY BLOODY VALENTINE (1981),
PUNISHER: WAR ZONE,
WANTED,
GAMERA THE BRAVE,
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN),
and AGE OF CONSENT,
EXPOSED,
DEADLY SWEET,
THE ROMANCE OF ASTREA AND CELADON,
LAST HOUSE ON THE BEACH,
ALICE IN WONDERTOWN,
HAND OF THE ASSASSIN,
SUZIE HEARTLESS



Plus...

Ramsey Campbell on Georges Franju's classic JUDEX!

Douglas E. Winter on a three-disc box set of music from the TV classic THE PRISONER!

Brett Taylor on the autobiography of Ed Wood star Dolores Fuller!

...and Two All-New Columns!

Video WatchBlog--the print version of Tim Lucas' award-winning blog!

AVI Watchdog--Brad Stevens inaugurates a new column about rare films downloadable online from file sharing websites!

All this and much, much more!

Contents Down the Block from Bergman

"THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT"

and Beyond

Eric Somer traces the debt of Wes Craven's directorial debut
to Ingmar Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING and the films it has inspired, including THE NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS, CHAOS and the new
LAST HOUSE remake!


DVD Spotlight

MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION

Denholm Elliott as Dracula!

Ian Holm as Frankenstein and Frankenstein's Monster!

Kim Newman reviews Network Video's 4-disc collection of the surviving episodes of a classic British teleseries!


Plus Reviews of...

THE CHECKERED FLAG,
DOOR INTO SILENCE,
KILLER'S MOON,
MEGA SHARK VERSUS GIANT OCTOPUS,
STORM TROOPERS U.S.A.,
THIRST,
PAPRIKA,
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE,
THE SHE-BEAST,
THE ENTITY,
GOLIATH AND THE BARBARIANS,
GOLIATH AND THE VAMPIRES,
LILIOM,
LIFE THE WAY IT IS,
THE REAPING,
THE SINFUL DWARF,
DOROTHY MILLS,
SWAMP THING-THE SERIES: SEASONS ONE & TWO,
TOKYO ZOMBIE,
BLIND CORNER,
SZAMANKA,
YANKEE.


Plus...

Ramsey Campbell on PAPRIKA!

Douglas E. Winter on the 35th Anniversary trilogy THE PRISONER FILES!

Charlie Largent reviews CREEPY ARCHIVES and EERIE ARCHIVES!

And...

Video WatchBlog--Tim Lucas on Italian Soundtracks!

AVI Watchdog--Brad Stevens reviews Ingmar Bergman rarities!


All this and much, much more!


Other contributors featured in this issue:

Michael Barrett, John Charles, Bill Cooke, Shane M. Dallmann, Sheldon Inkol, and Richard Harland Smith.

Contents While We Were Dreaming

Millennial Unreality at the Movies

Michael Barrett outlines possible new generic territory by exploring the ways in which 21st century cinema complicates, denies or just plain loses touch with reality!


DVD Spotlight

CRUISING

Drew Fitzpatrick on William Friedkin's controversial 1980 thriller,
now made more controversial by editorial changes made to
Warner Home Video's new "director's edition!"


Plus Reviews of...

FUNNY MAN,
HOUSE OF DREAMS,
THE LODGER,
PATRICK,
SIMON SAYS,
THE VAMPIRA SHOW DVD,
ICONS OF SCI-FI: TOHO COLLECTION,
BUG,
DEAD IN 3 DAYS,
HOME SICK,
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN,
NAKED RASHOMON,
PLAGUE TOWN,
REPULSION,
LONDON IN THE RAW,
PRIMITIVE LONDON,
THE LONDON NOBODY KNOWS,
LES BICYCLETTES DE BELSIZE,
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE.



Plus...

Ramsey Campbell on MUM AND DAD!

Douglas E. Winter on Mellotrons at the Movies!

J. Todd Kingrea reviews SACRED TERROR and Brett Taylor reviews
ED WOOD: MAD GENIUS!

And...

Video WatchBlog--Guest Blogger David Kalat on CRESCENDO and the Warner Archive Collection!

AVI Watchdog--Brett Taylor on NIGHTMARE ANGEL!

Contents Weird Scenes Inside the Fun House

The Making of MALATESTA'S
CARNIVAL OF BLOOD:
Shaun Brady interviews director Christopher Speeth
and other veterans of a 1973 low-budget attempt to wed
arthouse and exploitation cinema, shot in Pittsburgh, PA!


DVD Spotlight

PHANTASM

PHANTASM III: LORD OF THE DEAD

PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION


Bill Cooke digs deep through the topsoil at Morningside Cemetery to exhume reviews of Don Coscarelli's original PHANTASM and its second and third sequels, now available from Anchor Bay Entertainment!



Things From the Attic:

An assortment of "overlooked DVD" reviews, including Criterion's THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER, the bizarre Spaghetti Western MATALO!, the Nick Cave-scripted Aussie western THE PROPOSITION, Warner's THX 1138: THE GEORGE LUCAS DIRECTOR'S CUT~2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION and Higuchinsky's hallucinatory geometric horror, UZUMAKI!




Also Reviews of...


ATTRACTION (NEROSUBIANCO),
THE BED SITTING ROOM (Blu-ray import),
THE BOOBY HATCH,
BLACK MAGIC 2,
THE CENTERFOLD GIRLS,
COME DANCE WITH ME,
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON,
DEADGIRL,
HELLRAISER: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION,
THE HOWL,
MARTYRS,
MONSTER SQUAD,
MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D,
NAVAJO JOE,
ONE STEP BEYOND - SEASON ONE,
PINOCCHIO (Blu-ray),
THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (Blu-ray),
SLEEPING BEAUTY (Blu-ray),
SPLINTER,
SYNGENOR



Plus...


Ramsey's Rambles:
Ramsey Campbell on Sam Fuller's VERBOTEN!


Biblio Watchdog:
Reviews of Gregory William Mank's BELA LUGOSI AND BORIS KARLOFF: THE EXPANDED STORY OF A HAUNTING COLLABORATION and Jerry Vermilye's BUSTER CRABBE: A BIO-FILMOGRAPHY!


Audio Watchdog:
Douglas E. Winter reviews the CD soundtracks of 28 WEEKS LATER, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and many others!



Other contributors featured in this issue:
Michael Barrett, John Charles, Shane M. Dallmann, Sheldon Inkol,
David Kalat, Charlie Largent, Tim Lucas, Constantine Nasr,
Kim Newman, Eric Somer, Brett Taylor, and Sam & Rebecca Umland.