 Gormenghast
• Making the BBC adaptation of
Mervyn Peake's macabre Fantasy. Genre hero Christopher Lee (as the faithful
retainer Flay), plus director Andy Wilson and producer Estelle Daniel discuss
the epic tale of the evil Steerpike (Jonathan Rhys Meyers)
 The League of Gentlemen
• We interview Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy
Dyson, the dark princes of comedy who present a glorious gallery of hilariously
horrific characters in the 'Local' town of Royston Vasey
Selected excerpts here
 Jeffrey Combs
• The popular Horror star, who came to fame as H P Lovecraft's Herbert
West in Brian Yuzna's film Re-Animator, talks about his association with
the genre and his role in Peter Jackson's The Frighteners
plus an extra-grisly pull-out A3 poster!
 Naked Lunch
• How David Cronenberg, the director of Dead Ringers and The
Fly, brought beat guru William S Burroughs's 'un-filmable' tale of drugs
and mugwumps to the screen, complete with seedy cinematography, prosthesis and
puppetry
Victor Buono
• We look at the life of the heavyweight Hollywood star who specialized in
nervy maniacs, and who played Horror with a comic touch. His screen appearances
include roles in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Strangler, Moon Child and
The Evil
The Nameless
• A complex new chiller with a millennial punch from Spain, directed by
newcomer Jaume Balaguero
Plus our
regular sections:
- News Is the ideal casting at hand for a Bela and
Boris bio-pic, depicting the rivalry between Karloff and Lugosi? Plus Alan
Jones' exclusive trip to filming of the pre-Psycho life of Ed
Gein
- Poster:
It's a grisly pull-out this month as we celebrate
Jeffrey Combs in Re-Animator
- Reviews selections
• Book Reviews: include The Apprentice
• TV Reviews: include episodes from the
newest US season of The
X-Files.
• Film Reviews:Mateo (Thesis) Gil's weird new
movie Nadie Conoce A Nadie, plus End of Days
• Video / DVD Reviews: include I Still Know What You Did Last
Summer
- The Pitt of
Horror: Ingrid Pitt is planning a holiday, to the land beyond the
forest, in Castle Dracula!
- The Fright of Your
Life: Crimean criminal Zaroff hunts humans for sport in The Most
Dangerous Game
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