LOVE HURTS

Australian cinema has bred all sorts of Outback psychos over the years. Now, Sean Byrne’s The Loved Ones continues the tradition with a teen terror in a pink prom dress.

PLUS: Snowtown mines one of Australia’s most shocking crimes, and Greg McLean checks in with the latest on his Wolf Creek sequel.

by Stuart F. Andrews, A.S. Berman and The Gore-met

THE INVASION BEGINS… AGAIN!

With a whole new batch of Mars Attacks cards on deck, the co-creator of the original series helps us unearth the history of gory collectibles that scandalized American youth.

PLUS: The invasion-loving men behind IDW’s new Mars Attacks comic outline their plan to outdo the violence, bloodshed and black humour of the trading cards.

by April Snellings

MINISKIRT MASSACRE

Sex appeal, zombie slaughter and gore gags are pushed to extremes in the new console title Lollipop Chainsaw.

PLUS: Five video game vixens that lead the charge in style, smarts and kicking ass.

by Monica S. Kuebler, Jessa Sobczuk and Brittany Vincent

TELLER OF STRANGE TALES

With a fan-favourite Twilight Zone collection hitting Blu-ray, legendary screen scribe George Clayton Johnson details his uncanny contributions to the series.

by Michael Doyle

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun.

DREADLINES

Stephen King tribute arrives amid author’s many new projects; Luchador legend Mil Máscaras wrapping mummy movie trilogy; New documentary aims to decode The Shining.

THE CORONER’S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Gruesome Grad Nights.

NEEDFUL THINGS

Vampire Kitchen Timer, Voodoo Bones Shower Curtain, Outlandish Mini Figure Guys Series 1, Zombie Stitch Necklace, and Cryptic Collectibles features the Prom Night Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of Monster Brawl, True Blood: The Complete Fourth Season, The Fields, Exit Humanity, Neverlost, Sector 7, Camel Spiders, Fright Flick, Smile, and Lights Camera Dead. Abbreviated Terrors covers Familiar, The Post-Lifers and Ethereal Chrysalis. Reissues reviews Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Mimic: 3 Film Set (1997-2003), Ghostkeeper (1981) and The Wizard of Gore (1970)/The Gore Gore Girls (1972).

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

Die! Die! My Darling!(1965).

BOWEN’S BASEMENT

Zaat (1971).

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter, plus reviews of I… Vampire!, Rex, Zombie Killer #1, ’68 Scars #1 of 4, Mind the Gap #1, and Saga #1.

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Steve Lillebuen’s The Devil’s Cinema. Library of the Damned remembers Michael Louis Calvillo. Plus, reviews of Blood Splatter: A Guide to Cinematic Zombie Violence, Gore and Special Effects, Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, The Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster, Dayna Ingram’s Eat Your Heart Out, V.M, Zito’s The Return Man, Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre, Mason James Cole’s Pray to Stay Dead, and Caitlin R. Kiernan’s The Drowning Girl.

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

Garbage Pail Kids Make a Comeback

THE GORE-MET

Menu: House of the Flesh Mannequins (2009)

AUDIO DROME

Featuring the black metal of Sweden’s Marduk. The Devil’s Playlist gives the lowdown on the latest advances in cinema sound. Plus, reviews of The Raven/An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe OST, The Masque of the Red Death OST, Lords of the Highway, Windhand, The Decomposed, Marilyn Manson, Six Feet Under, Macabra, and Monarch.

PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of House of the Dead and Dark Legends: 3D MMO.

CLASSIC CUT

The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967).

GIVEAWAYS THIS ISSUE

20 new subscribers will win a copy of Lollipop Chainsaw, courtesy of WB Games.