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The
League of Gentlemen
• “We wanted to pull out the stops to make a really Christmassy
Christmas special.” You saw them here first! TV Comedy’s darkest
foursome present a seasonal Ghost story. We go on location to Victorian Royston
Vasey with Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton
Plus: We’ll have no trouble here! It’s the
League of Gentlemen Christmas poster, based on our cover
 The Irrefutable Truth About Demons
• Jacques Tourneur? Dennis Wheatley? Magic mushrooms? New Zealand director
Glenn Standring on the influences behind his début feature and
Sitges Festival hit, this
improbably-named satanic shocker
 Faust
• Brian Yuzna’s Spanish-based Fantasy Factory delivers its first new
film. Giving the Mephistophelean tale a super-hero spin, it stars Andrew
Divoff, popular star of the Wishmaster movies. Yuzna explains why this
could be the start of something big
 The Year in Horror
• As we move forward into 2001, we look back at the Horror successes and
horrible failures of the year 2000, from the thrilling Final Destination
to the disappointing Blair Witch 2, plus the new British TV Horror show
Urban Gothic
 Don Sharp
• The director of Hammer’s Kiss of the Vampire and Rasputin
the Mad Monk recalls his long association with the Horror genre, which also
takes in The Face of Fu Manchu, and Witchcraft with Lon Chaney.
Plus the truth about Psychomania
Sounds of Hammer
• Gary Wilson explains how he established the successful range of Hammer
Horror soundtracks, which now include Quatermass and Frankenstein
compilations
Plus our
regular sections:
- News by Alan Jones
Five pages including Dust Devil director Richard Stanley rides again,
more news from Sitges, Conan returns, Guy Pearce in The Time
Machine, Resident Evil and another Battlefield Earth?
- Reviews section
• Books: include Lunatic Cafe, Stephen
King’s On Writing: A Memoir, and See No Evil, a history of
banned video and controversial film. Plus Ingrid Pitt’s new book on
Murder, Torture and Depravity
• Video / DVDs: include a new host of Horror
DVDs including The Craft, Edward Scissorhands and Stanley
Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange
• Films: include Little Nicky,
Urban Legends: Final Cut and the new director’s cut of The
Exorcist
• TV Reviews: New season episodes of Buffy
The Vampire Slayer and Angel
• Horror on the Web: Josephine Botting looks
at the vexed question of censorship from two perspectives
- Opinion:
Kim Newman looks at some interesting non-Horror films from this year which
Horror junkies might have missed
- In The Pitt of
Horror: Ingrid Pitt enjoys a touch of time-travel at a Victorian fancy
dress party in Richmond, and a meets Hollywood star Michael Douglas
- The Fright of
Your Life: : a regular final page examining a favourite fright from the
archives. This issue, Henry Hull dabbles in forbidden knowledge as the fearsome
Werewolf of London
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Images taken from this issue are
copyright: Jan Vincent-Rudzki,
Fantastic Factory / Filmax S.A., Hammer films, Castle Rock / New Line
All other contents © Visual Imagination
Ltd 2000. Not for reproduction.
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