| In
this issue of Shivers (#92):
 The X-Files
Resurrected
• “We’ve come up with some great scary stories within the new
Scully/Doggett dynamic.” Writer/producer John Shiban talks about his role
in recasting and reviving TV’s premier creepshow
 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• “If there’s a genre we’ve left unturned, then I’m
angry and confused!” Joss Whedon on what lies in store for
Buffy’s Season 6, plus his plans for the spin-off series starring
Anthony Stewart Head’s character Rupert Giles
• Plus our cover montage as a pull-out
poster!
 John Carpenter
Interview
• Veteran Horror director John Carpenter discusses his action-packed new
Sci-Fi Horror film Ghosts of Mars starring rapper Ice Cube and Natasha
(Species) Henstridge, and how he loves to relate his movies to
Westerns
 Dog
Soldiers
• “I wanted to revive the werewolf picture in a more contemporary,
dynamic & unique way.” Director Neil Marshall on this new British
Horror movie, featuring a soldier squad trapped on a werewolf-infested Scottish
moor!
 Horror History #3
• Our Horror History concludes. How John Carpenter ‘ended the Sexual
revolution’ with Halloween in 1978, Wes Craven unveils Freddy
Krueger and Clive Barker presents Pinhead. So where next for terror
films?
Reptile Boy
• “I couldn’t see during filming, I didn’t have a lot of
movement and I had no idea where the camera was. I was just trying to be a
snake!” The perils of playing a monster in Buffy are explained by
Robin Atkin Downes
Chinese Ghost Stories
• We conclude our look at the diverse and diverting Chinese ghost
films
Plus our
regular sections:
- News by Alan Jones
Stephen King’s Kingdom, Gary Oldman to star in the remake of
Macabre, Vin Diesel in XXX, plus Dawn of the Dead 2, Exorcist
4 and Michael Crichton’s Timeline
- 10 pages of Horror Reviews including
• Book reviews: include Neil Gaiman’s
American Godsand Kelley Armstrong's Bitten
• Film reviews: The controversial Japanese
movie Battle Royale, Ed Gein,
and Final Fantasy
• Video / DVD reviews: includes double
portions from Hannibal Lecter and Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast and
Two Thousand Maniacs!)
• TV Reviews: Final episodes of Buffy
& Angel in the 2000-01 seasons plus a full season checklist
- Opinion:
Kim Newman examines how the ratings-grabbing trick of killing off our TV heroes
is rapidly losing its novelty
- The Fright of
Your Life: Jonathan Rigby selects Prince Prospero’s climactic
encounter with his doppelganger in The Masque of the Red Death
- The Pitt of
Horror: Hammer’s Horror Queen Ingrid Pitt looks at the making of
Countess Dracula
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