#230 May/Jun 2026 - RARE

Filmmaker Curry Barker transforms a simple wish into a spiralling nightmare of love, possession, and bloodshed in his breakout feature OBSESSION. Plus: The story of Barker’s found-footage shocker MILK & SERIAL, which turned a micro-budget experiment into a viral horror breakout. Hollywood made it a monster. History tells a different story. Maya Annik Bedward’s new documentary BLACK ZOMBIE confronts a cinematic myth and restores the meaning buried beneath it. Plus! What turned Wes Craven’s THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW into one of horror’s most conflicted misfires. Original songs. Real performances. Anne Rice’s Brat Prince steps into the spotlight as a true glam rock force in Season Three of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. From P.T. to Exit 8, a new generation of ANOMALY HORROR traps players in repeating spaces where one small change might signal horrifying death. DEPARTMENTS NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Love Bites 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 Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED REVIVED: Peter Weir’s The Plumber (1979) BOWEN’S BASEMENT DUG UP: Hangover Square (1945) THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR ODDITY: A Meditation on Teeth and Horror BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS INKED IN: Bixby Grant, Private Eye: Fangs & Brimstone by Patrick Coyle THE NINTH CIRCLE SPOTLIGHT: Heather Parry’s Carrion Crow THE FRIGHT GALLERY ON DISPLAY: The Vintage Visions of Esther Limones DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS CURIO: Read Between the Landlines AUDIO DROME NOW PLAYING: Nash the Slash Rises Again PLAY DEAD PLAYING: An Abyss of Dreams and NO-SKIN VS DEBATE: What is the most unique take on zombies in cinema?