|  The Evil Dead
In 1979, three college friends, Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell
dropped out to make a low-budget zombie picture - then called The Book of
the Dead. We find out how in 1983, the film, now titled The Evil
Dead, was banned in Britain...
 Jorge Grau – Read excerpts
here
• A rare interview with the Spanish master of Terror. His film No
profar el sueño de los muertos (better known as The Living Dead
at the Manchester Morgue) is an ecological parable, and one of the most
acclaimed zombie films ever
 X-Men
• "Ian McKellen pointed to the costume in the comic book and said 'Do
I have to wear that?'" Bryan Singer discusses the making of his Summer
blockbuster X-Men, based on the popular and long-running Marvel comics
series
 Vampyres
With a thrilling Anchor Bay DVD now out, we feature a retrospective on Jose
Larraz's British-made 1974 feature about two beautiful female vampires, who
prey on the unsuspecting visitors to their remote country house
Supernova
• We trace the troubled development of this Outer Space shocker, in which
a Deep-Space hospital ship, the Nightingale, answers a distress call and picks
up a mysterious young man
Peter Cushing
• We continue our look at the life of the beloved Horror star, featuring
extracts from the newly published Peter Cushing Companion, and many rare
photographs
Plus our
regular sections:
- News The Shock Around the Clock Festival becomes
London Fright Fest 2000, there's more animated weirdness in
Lenore, and a film from New Zealand called The Irrefutable Truth
About Demons
- Reviews selections
• Books: Including
Inside The Wicker Man,
plus four more reviews in print
• Video / DVDs: Gremlins, Gormenghast, The Gate, Lamberto
Bava's Demons, and more...
• Films: Polanski's The Ninth Gate and
the Spanish psychological thriller El arte de morir
• TV: The latest episodes of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Angel and The X-Files
- Opinion Writer
and critic Kim Newman lists some of the most aggravating clichés in
Horror cinema today
- In The Pitt of
Horror: Ingrid Pitt ventures to the birthplace of Vlad Tepes for the
Second World Dracula Congress. See her impressions of Romania's dramatically
beautiful land...
- The Fright of Your
Life: Another lady vampire who's a messy eater! John Landis' Innocent
Blood, starring Anne Parillaud
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Images taken from this issue are
copyright: Jorge Grau / Nigel
Burrell, BBC Video, FrightFest 2000, Sidgwick & Jackson
All other contents © Visual Imagination
Ltd 2000. Not for reproduction.
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