#218 May/Jun 2024

FEATURES A brutal family thriller from a legacy family in horror, CAITLIN CRONENBERG’s HUMANE is a debut befitting her surname. Plus! A horror dynasty is birthed with the arrival of THE WATCHERS, ISHANA SHYAMALAN's modern gothic debut; and a look at the new work from the children of some of the genre’s biggest icons. Vampire survival-horror game V RISING emerges from early access, inviting PC and PS5 gamers to join the hunt. Plus! SUCK UP utilizes cutting-edge AI technology for a wildly interactive – and hilarious – game all about convincing people to invite a vampire in – and hilarious – game all about convincing people to invite a vampire in. Shockingly gory yet slow and subdued, CHRIS NASH’s ultraviolent debut feature IN A VIOLENT NATURE turns the slasher subgenre inside out. Plus! SFX wizard STEVEN KOSTANSKI dissects his work on the movie. Lincoln International’s line of knock-off CLASSIC HORROR FIGURES from the ’70s is back from the grave with new leadership and modern quality. DEPARTMENTS NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Multi-player Morgue 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 John Rossman's New Life REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: Rebuilding The Death Machine IT CAME FROM BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: Monster From the Ocean Floor (1954) FILES FROM THE BLACK MUSEUM EXHIBIT: Tormented (1960) BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Beth Hetland's Tender THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: Queer for Fear THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Menacing Monster Sculpts of Imaginerick DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: A cow in the Kingdom of the Spiders AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: Blood Opera PLAY DEAD PLAYING: Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and Pacific Drive VS DEBATE: Have video games becomes more frightening than horror movies?