|  Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• Meet Greg Solomon, the Optic Nerve make-up artist responsible for
Buffy's incredible creatures. Find out about 'borrowing' an
X-Files reject, and the complexities of modern prosthetics. With
stunning pictures of monsters from Buffy's Season 4.
Plus our pull-out poster of the cover
 Amando De Ossorio
• We remember this Spanish film maker, who died recently. He directed the
famous Blind Dead films, beginning with La noche del terror ciego
(aka 'Tombs of the Blind Dead') in 1972, featuring a band of zombified Templar
Knights - a monster genre Spain can call entirely its own
 Christopher
Lee
• To preview Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen
History (reviewed in this issue), we look at some more of the
continental pictures which Lee made in the 1960s, including the fairy-tale
inspired Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel
 Dino De Laurentiis
• The irrepressible Italian film mogul - responsible for
Barbarella, King Kong, Dune and many more, now honoured
with the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award at the Oscars – discusses his
current success with Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal
Don’t Look Now
• Moving from Hannibal's Florence over to Venice, we revisit
director Nic Roeg’s atmospheric tale of mystery and murder starring Donald
Sutherland and Julie Christie
Alice Krige
• The charismatic actress familiar to genre fans as the Borg Queen in
Star Trek: First Contact, talks about her many Horror and Fantasy roles,
including Institute Benjamenta with the Quay Brothers, The Little
Vampire and Ghost Story
Devil Movies
• A look at the many and various appearances of the Devil in the movies,
from the earliest days of cinema and Murnau’s Faust, through the
chilling Rosemary’s Baby and the outrageous End of
Days
Plus our
regular sections:
- Nine pages of Horror Reviews
• Books: new novels from Masterson and
Aycliffe, plus Jonathan Rigby's Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen
History
• Video / DVDs: including Ultraviolet
• Films: Hannibal considered, plus
The Navidson Record
• TV Reviews: More new season episodes of
Buffy and Angel...
- News by Alan Jones
All the latest news from the Horror scene, including: Dreamworks buys The
Ring, and Rowan Atkinson joins the cast of Scooby-Doo
- Opinion:
Kim Newman laments the decline of Cinefantastique,
but is the genre itself to blame?
- Horror on the
Web: Jo Botting looks for websites on slasher movies and finds... Brad
Dourif!
- In The Pitt of
Horror: Ingrid Pitt, Hammer’s Queen of Horror, enters the
mysterious world of Uri Geller in darkest Teddington...
- The Fright of
Your Life: Jonathan Rigby examines a favourite fright scene from Horror
film history. This month, Peter Cushing plays Russian Roulette in The Skull
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copyright: 20th Century Fox, Optic
Nerve / Greg Solomon, UIP, Reynolds & Hearn, Contender video
All other contents © Visual Imagination
Ltd 2001. Not for reproduction.
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