ON STANDS NOW!
Rue Morgue is happy to announce the publication of a unique issue that reaches into the shadowy margins of the genre to bring you the weirdest and most wondrous in world horror and culture. Look for it on stands May 1st! Heres a quick look at this issues contents:
Sick Inside the Machine
A look at maverick Japanese filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto, whose films are finally being issued in North America, beginning with Tetsuo: The Iron Man, his terrifying fusion of skin and metal forged in the fires of industrial angst and perverse sexual extremes. Plus: Author Tom Mes delves further inside the career and canon of Japans cyber-horror visionary.
by Dave Alexander and Tom Mes
Generation Black
Granted, adolescence is a confusing time, but the world never seemed weirder and more nightmarish than in Black Hole, Charles Burns comic book ode all the anxieties that ever plagued a teenager.
by Gary Butler
Effigies of Anguish
In the past Rue Morgue has examined the popularity of horror toys based on everything from classic movie monsters to serial killers and historical madmen. Now Parastone Studios in the Netherlands brings to life an unusual line of sculptures lifted from some of the worlds darkest paintings. Plus: A Medieval Monster Manifesto!
by Jovanka Vuckovic and Ed van Rosmalen
Grim Glamour
He is a favourite of Alice Cooper and a host of modern Scream Queens. His name is Ward Boult, and his photographs specialize in sin and sadism.
by Emma Anderson
PLUS:
Dreadlines: Hammer to Premiere Dracula-inspired fashion line, Lions Gate to release Haute Tension, Undead, preps Saw 2, Canadian Transylvanian Society celebrates 10th Anniversary in Toronto.
Cinemacabre Features: Well of Sorrows, Dahls Dark Side, Reopening the Cellar Door.
Scizoid Cinephile: Bloody Pit of Horror.
Blood in four Colours: Eric Red on Containment, Ashes, Whitechapel Freak, The Irregulars, Ravenous, Teenagers from Mars.
The Ninth Circle: Jekyll and Hyde Dramatized, The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror, The Book of Renfield, Weird Tales, March 1924 reprint, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons.
Lit Feature: Dissecting Horror Lit: Studies in Modern Horror
Travelogue of Terror: The Mutter Museum
The Gore-met: Cannibal Ferox and the Cannibal film cycle.
Audio Drome: Interview with Wednesday 13, reviews of King of the Ants, Chris Alexander, Electra-Kill, The Rita, Matter, Hallowmas, Silverscream musical, Nim Vind, The Hangmen, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, Icarus Witch, Lord Gore.
Play Dead: Gloom, Doom: The Board Game, Constantine
Classic Cut: The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
Rue Morgue is happy to announce the publication of a unique issue that reaches into the shadowy margins of the genre to bring you the weirdest and most wondrous in world horror and culture. Look for it on stands May 1st! Heres a quick look at this issues contents:
Sick Inside the Machine
A look at maverick Japanese filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto, whose films are finally being issued in North America, beginning with Tetsuo: The Iron Man, his terrifying fusion of skin and metal forged in the fires of industrial angst and perverse sexual extremes. Plus: Author Tom Mes delves further inside the career and canon of Japans cyber-horror visionary.
by Dave Alexander and Tom Mes
Generation Black
Granted, adolescence is a confusing time, but the world never seemed weirder and more nightmarish than in Black Hole, Charles Burns comic book ode all the anxieties that ever plagued a teenager.
by Gary Butler
Effigies of Anguish
In the past Rue Morgue has examined the popularity of horror toys based on everything from classic movie monsters to serial killers and historical madmen. Now Parastone Studios in the Netherlands brings to life an unusual line of sculptures lifted from some of the worlds darkest paintings. Plus: A Medieval Monster Manifesto!
by Jovanka Vuckovic and Ed van Rosmalen
Grim Glamour
He is a favourite of Alice Cooper and a host of modern Scream Queens. His name is Ward Boult, and his photographs specialize in sin and sadism.
by Emma Anderson
PLUS:
Dreadlines: Hammer to Premiere Dracula-inspired fashion line, Lions Gate to release Haute Tension, Undead, preps Saw 2, Canadian Transylvanian Society celebrates 10th Anniversary in Toronto.
Cinemacabre Features: Well of Sorrows, Dahls Dark Side, Reopening the Cellar Door.
Scizoid Cinephile: Bloody Pit of Horror.
Blood in four Colours: Eric Red on Containment, Ashes, Whitechapel Freak, The Irregulars, Ravenous, Teenagers from Mars.
The Ninth Circle: Jekyll and Hyde Dramatized, The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror, The Book of Renfield, Weird Tales, March 1924 reprint, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons.
Lit Feature: Dissecting Horror Lit: Studies in Modern Horror
Travelogue of Terror: The Mutter Museum
The Gore-met: Cannibal Ferox and the Cannibal film cycle.
Audio Drome: Interview with Wednesday 13, reviews of King of the Ants, Chris Alexander, Electra-Kill, The Rita, Matter, Hallowmas, Silverscream musical, Nim Vind, The Hangmen, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, Icarus Witch, Lord Gore.
Play Dead: Gloom, Doom: The Board Game, Constantine
Classic Cut: The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
VIEW 25 of 25 COMMENTS
solid!!!
[Edited on May 09, 2005 2:38AM]
Call ya soon.