March 2014
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell is viewed by many as Hammer’s last hurrah. Forty years later, we ask if it was a gravestone or a swan song. PLUS: Best known for donning Darth Vader’s cape, David Prowse really relishes his turn as the creature in the film, and a review of Frankenstein Created Woman.
by Michael Doyle and James Burrell
THE DEVIL AND THE DETAILS
Incredibly intricate demons and skeletons dance through the Victorian-era 3-D cards featured in Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell.
by Claire Horsnell
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG RED
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola celebrates twenty years of his demonic asskicker. PLUS: Mignola reaches back into his Big Red files to pick his five favourite Hellboy stories.
by April Snellings
YOU’LL HAVE A HELL OF A TIME
Night of the Demons gets a special edition release; director Kevin Tenney joins us for a look back at his unexpected cult classic.
by Sean Plummer
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Sigh, Frankenstein…
DREADLINES
Online seminars cater to monster lovers worldwide; Something Weird founder Mike Vraney succumbs to cancer; Original Black Devil Doll director returns
THE CORONER’S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Hammer’s Frankenstein Body Mods.
NEEDFUL THINGS
Peter Cushing Bust; “Lost” Retro-style Alien Figures; Ghostbusters Venkman Costume Jacket; Skull Chair
CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features reviews of Devil’s Due, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, Nurse 3D, Contracted ,Cassadaga, Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear; 21st Century Serial Killer, Sloppy the Psychotic, and Freakshow Apocalypse. Reissues reviews House of Wax (1953), The Snake God (1970), Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: The Complete Series (1977), The Beast Within (1982), and Crawlspace (1986).
THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE
In The Vault: The House That Screamed.
BOWEN’S BASEMENT
Dug Up: Monster Mansion Memories.
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features In The Dark, plus reviews of Juice Squeezers #1 of #4, Curse #1 of 4, Bad Blood #1 of 5, Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird #1. and Grimm Fairy Tales: Tales From Oz #1 – Tin Man.
THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Nancy Baker’s The Night Inside reissued. Library of the Damned weighs in on the great Monster Porn debate. Plus, reviews of The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters; Torture Porn: Popular Horror After Saw. Out in the Dark: Interviews with Gay Horror Filmmakers, Actors and Authors, Nick Cutter’s The Troop. Michael Rowe’s Wild Fell: A Ghost Story, Devil’s Advocates: Carrie, Suffered From the Night: Queering Stoker’s Dracula, Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, and Marcel Theroux’s Strange Bodies.
THE FRIGHT GALLERY
On Display: Eelus.
THE GORE-MET
Menu: To VHS or Not to VHS?
AUDIO DROME
Featuring Cineploit Records. Listen to My Nightmare catches up with Electric Frankenstein. Plus reviews of Maniac Cop 2 OST, Castlevania – Lords of Shadow: Mirror of Fate OST, Call Me Greenhorn, Ovo, Johnny B. Morbid, Ghost B.C., Crypticus, Lesch-Nyhan, and Exhumed/Iron Reagan split.
PLAY DEAD
Features Horror film character cameos, plus a review of State of Decay: Breakdown.
CLASSIC CUT
George Archainbaud’s Thirteen Women.