 The Sixth Sense
• "I can see dead
people… walking around like regular people." We investigate the
highly acclaimed new chiller from M Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis as a
psychologist whose young charge (Haley Joel Osment) is afflicted with a talent
to see the dead…
 Sitges Fantasy Film Festival
• Alan Jones reports from the most influential Fantasy Film Festival in
the world. New movies previewed include Princess Mononoke, The
Nameless, Ring, Goodbye to the 20th Century, The Ugliest
Girl in the World and Terror Firmer.
Selected excerpts here
 The
House on Haunted Hill
• Geoffrey Rush takes on the mantle of Vincent Price in this updated
version of William Castle’s creaky 1958 classic. Would the old impresario
be proud of America's latest Halloween hit movie (also starring Famke Janssen
and Taye Digges)? We tread warily around the House to find out...
 Brazil
• "Gilliam intended the film as a dark reflection of the present - as
he put it, 'the other side of now'". We present an in-depth look at the
realization of Terry Gilliam’s nightmarish vision of an all-too possible
future, starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Ian Holm and
Michael Palin.
Blair Witch Project
• An argument that The Blair Witch Project isn’t the scariest
film ever made, and that we have all had the wool pulled over our eyes!
Deep Blue Sea
• Screenwriter Duncan Kennedy explains how his script for the new movie
Deep Blue Sea was based on a recurring nightmare of being chased by a
shark
Black XXX-Mas
The new independent short from an in-your-face Belgian Horror film
company...
Plus our regular
sections:
- News The return of the Rocky Horror Show, new
Schwarzenegger, Jonathan Rhys Meyers as a vampire in Jonny Domino...
- Poster:
Our Sixth Sense cover...
- Ten pages of Reviews – Halloween, The Exorcist and a host
of Universal Horrors on video; New books from veteran Horror writer Hugh B Cave
plus Indigo by Graham Joyce and Andy Warhol’s Dracula by Kim
Newman; thumbs down for John Carpenter’s Vampires and Deep Blue
Sea, but praise for the BBC documentary Wisconsin Death Trip;
soundtracks for Teaching Mrs Tingle, The Alfred Hitchcock
Collection and Deep Blue Sea; more TV episodes of Buffy
recently on Sky, including the return of wicked Willow in
Doppelgängland, plus Channel 4’s Shockers.
Review selections here
- The Pitt of
Horror: Ingrid Pitt avoids the monsters at a New York Horror convention,
but bumps into some old friends
- Opinion: Writer
Kim Newman on Horror-themed episodes of American cop shows
- The Fright of Your
Life: There are some malevolent mannequins at a wayside diner in the
macabre Tourist Trap
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