#204 Jan/Feb 2022 - Variant Cover

Limited Edition collectible variant cover! FEATURES Meet the ADAMS, the family who just made HELLBENDER, their second horror movie… and it’s going to blow your mind. Plus! Real-life couple EMILY BENNETT and JUSTIN BROOKS weathered the lockdown by writing and directing their first feature-length horror film, ALONE WITH YOU. Nature, ghosts and ancient Chinese folklore coalesce in a ritual of extreme music and myth known as ZURIAAKE. Plus! Illustrator GUANG YANG explains his craft, and a look at PEST PRODUCTIONS, the indie label that brought Chinese black metal to the world for the past fifteen years and counting. Horror fans rejoice! Film fests and conventions are back. Time to plan your year in horror with Rue Morgue's official 2022 HORROR CONVENTION & FILM FESTIVAL GUIDE of the world's top genre events. Rue Morgue bids farewell to another year of milestones and headstones in RIP 2021: THE YEAR IN REVIEW. DEPARTMENTS NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND All in the family. 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 featuring Scream 2022 REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: Death Game BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: The Demon Murder Case (1981) BLACK MUSEUM EXHIBIT: Mill of the Stone Women (1960) BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Koren Shadmi’s Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: Alessandro Manzetti’s 150 Exquisite Horror Books THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Neverending Nightmares of Matt Lombard DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: The Monsters PLAY DEAD PLAYING: In Bed with Slender Man VS DEBATE: What movie features the best kill scene of an elderly person?