#200 May/Jun 2021

Rue Morgue talks to one of Hollywood’s most controversial auteurs, OLIVER STONE, about the oft-overlooked horror films that launched his career. Plus! A look back at Stone’s first feature SEIZURE – an oddball Canadian horror/comedy with stranger than fiction production woes.

On the event of our 200th issue, Rue Morgue brings together some of our contemporaries in genre journalism past and present – MICK GARRIS, TONY TIMPONE, TIM LUCAS, BRAD MISKA and KAT ELLINGER – to take the pulse. Plus! A glance at the DIY horror fanzines of yesteryear.

With CENSOR, filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond explores the triggers of trauma against the backdrop of UK’s video nasties era. Plus! The New Nasties.

Back in 1973, surrealist painter OTTO RAPP committed a terrifying vision to canvas that continues to fascinate the genre’s imagination four decades later.

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND 200

POST-MORTEM Letters from fans, readers and weirdos

THE CORONER’S REPORT Weird Stats & Morbid Facts, Expired Minds, Shadowland and more!

NEEDFUL THINGS Strange trinkets from our bazaar of the bizarre

CINEMACABRE The newest films and reissues, featuring Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth

REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: Severin’s Santa Sangre 4-Disc Digipack

BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: Gargoyles (1972)

BLACK MUSEUM EXHIBIT: The Time Travellers (1964)

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Rich Davis’ Cult of Dracula

THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: The Shadow Book of Ji Yun

THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Grim Graphite of Chad Wehrle

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: Killer Workout (1987)

AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: Midnight Syndicate

PLAY DEAD PLAYING: Days of Doom

VS DEBATE: What is the best worst horror movie sequel ever made?