Issue #110 • ships from Jan 8 2004
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Dawn of the Dead
• Zack Snyder directs a new take on George Romero’s tale of zombies and shopping. We meet stars Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames, guest star Tom Savini and scriptwriter James Gunn

Halloween: 25 Years On
• It's 25 years since the first movie, we talk to Moustapha Akkad and Irwin Yablans, producers of John Carpenter’s Halloween and its sequels.

Sitges Festival Report
• Our report on the newest films from the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival including Switchblade Romance, The Toolbox Murders, Dragonhead and One Missed Call

Freddy #3
• We look back at how the Elm Street legend took a turn in the third film of the series, Dream Warriors directed by Chuck Russell and starring Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger.

Dracula’s Director
• Patrick Lussier, editor on Wes Craven’s Scream movies, tells how he took the director’s chair for the newest update of the Dracula legend

A Year of Shivers
• 2003 proved a good year for cinema Horror. We look back at some of the hits and misses

Freak Out
• We look at the wildest and wackiest low-budget Horror film to come out of Bournemouth

• A new Horror role for Blade 2’s Luke Goss, a Harry Potter spoof, the demonic doll returns in Seed of Chucky and there’s a new version of The Fly

• Sarah Polley stars in the new Dawn of the Dead

• Jonathan Rigby chooses a classic scene from Horror history – this issue, Roman Polanski’s tale of witchcraft Rosemary’s Baby

• Kim Newman discovers a forgotten British Fu-Manchu serial from 1923!

• Ingrid Pitt remembers a master of the macabre – novelist Dennis Wheatley

• TV Reviews
  We review the newest episodes from Season 5 of Angel
  
  
• Film Reviews
  The return to cinemas of Ridley Scott’s Alien, and new Horror in Dead End
  
  
• DVD Reviews
  Jeepers Creepers 2, Alien Hunter, cowboys versus dinosaurs in Valley of Gwangi, the apocalyptic BBC drama Survivors and Jess Franco
  
  
• Book Reviews
  We look at a new biography of James Herbert and a children’s fable from Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman, plus a new book devoted to the defining images of Hollywood Horror
  
  

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: Anchor Bay Entertainment

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2004. Not for reproduction

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