Merchants of Menace!
 Christopher Lee
• Accompanying his new book on the screen career of this versatile actor,
Jonathan Rigby looks at the continental pictures which Lee made in the 1960s.
Join us for Uncle Was A Vampire, The Hands of Orlac and The
Whip and the Body
 Anthony Hopkins on Hannibal
• Hopkins, who placed ‘the cannibal’ Dr. Lecter in a thousand
nightmares, explains how it felt to return to the character with director
Ridley Scott in the record-breaking Hannibal
• plus Hopkins, Julianne Moore and Ray Liotta feature in this exclusive
Shivers pull-out poster
 Lon Chaney
• Along with the directors of a new TV biography of the star, we look at
the life and hard times of Lon Chaney, the silent cinema’s Man of a
Thousand Faces. Chaney chilled spines with the celebrated 1920s versions of
The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera
Horrors old and new
 The Medusa
Touch
• A Seventies disaster movie with a difference - for a start, the initial
disaster is lunar... Richard Burton and Michael Hordern starred in this
terrifying tale of telekinetic revenge, directed by Jack Gold in 1978. We
recall 'a product of its time'...
Dario Argento
• Continuing Argento expert Chris Gallant's guide to the works of
Italy’s King of Terror. Opera is his masterpiece, but there are
lean years with flops like The Stendhal Syndrome and Phantom of the
Opera...
• plus Nonhosonno
Gallant reviews Argento’s newest film, which Italian critics treated
with disdain, but which Argentophiles see as a distinct return to horrifying
giallo form
Revelation
• Udo Kier and Terence Stamp join a young unknown cast in a
globe-trotting, Time-travelling Horror story from Our Friends in the
North director Stuart Urban. Alan Jones talks to the director about his
"quest movie with real thought-provoking substance".
Plus our
regular sections:
- 10 pages of Horror Reviews
• Books: new novels from Koontz and King
• Video / DVDs: including Lynch's
Eraserhead, Bats, Vampyros Lesbos and many more
• Films: including Nonhosonno and
The Gift
• TV Reviews: New season episodes of Buffy
The Vampire Slayer and Angel, plus Christopher Lee in Ghost
Stories for Christmas
- News by Alan Jones
Four pages including Nonhosonno opens in Italy, new roles for Green
Mile actor, and Luke Goss asks if he will be famous in Blade
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- Opinion:
Writer and critic Kim Newman investigates a remake of (wait for it)
Satan’s School for Girls
- In The Pitt of
Horror: Ingrid Pitt, Hammer’s Queen of Horror, finds a terrifying
tale of Victorian crime on her own doorstep
- The Fright of
Your Life: Flashback to Mad Love, starring Peter Lorre as the
deranged Dr Gogol and Colin Clive as the tormented Orlac
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