MOTHER MADE ME

Franck Khalfoun, director of the Maniac remake, explains why he and the rest of the team behind French gore shocker High Tension remade the nastiest grindhouse movie ever made.
PLUS: Horror movie maniac Elijah Wood explains why he took on the darkest role of his career, and words from co-writer/producer Alexandre Aja.

by The Gore-Met, Dave Alexander, and Aaron Williams

BEAUTY AND THE BLADE

Feminist body horror takes a surgical twist at the hands of Jen and Sylvia Soska, the twin filmmakers behind American Mary.
PLUS: Katherine Isabelle dissects her starring role as an aspiring surgeon who’s so much more than another woman on the edge, and more!

by Claire Horsnell and Andrea Subissati

A MIND FOR MOVIE MAYHEM

As The Dude Designs, Tom Hodge makes some of the most eye-catching genre art out there right now, but not without a fight.

by Colin McCracken

LEADER OF THE PACK

More than three decades after it first saw the light of the moon, Joe Dante’s The Howling finally transforms in glorious high definition.

by Scott Neumyer

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Frank and Mary.

DREADLINES

Great horror campout pits campers against monsters, maniacs; Daughter of famed ghost hunter revives father’s legacy; Eco-friendly found-footage One pushes boundaries of Indian Horror

THE CORONER’S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Mannequin Madness.

NEEDFUL THINGS

Child’s Own Monster; A Nightmare On Elm Street Toaster; Misfits Platforms; Dexter Blood Slide Coasters.

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features The Corpse Grinders 3 and Hemlock Grove, plus reviews of Manborg, True Blood: The Complete Fifth Season, Nobody Gets Out Alive, and more! Reissues reviews The Burning (1981), Sexcula (1974), The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976).

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

In The Vault: Shanks.

BOWEN’S BASEMENT

Dug Up: Octaman.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Witch Doctor Volume 2: Mal Practice, Dark Shadows Year One #1, Hoax Hunters #9, Aliens: Inhuman Condition, ABE Sapien #1, and Miniature Jesus #1.

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Pseudopod audio horror. Library of the Damned tours Scarfolk. Plus, reviews of How To Make Movies, The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies, Unutterable Horror: A History Of Supernatural Fiction, and John Langan’s The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies.

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

On Display: William Stout.

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Three new releases from Chemical Burn.

AUDIO DROME

Featuring Skinny Puppy. Listen to My Nightmare gets the scoop on The Brains’ The Monster Within. Plus reviews of Evil Dead OST, She Demons/The Astounding She-Monster, The Hole OST, The Haxan Cloak, Blood Ceremony, Maniac OST, Warbeast, and The Black Dahlia Murder.

PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of Dead Island: Riptide and Dusk Falling.

CLASSIC CUT

William Lustig’s Maniac.

GIVEAWAYS THIS ISSUE

10 New Subscribers will win a 10-pack of Stan Winston School of Character Arts DVDs. PLUS One Grand Prize Winner will win a one (1) year premium subscription to Stan Winston School of Character Arts, a copy of Stan Winston Studio Behind the Scenes Documentary Vol.I (online streaming version) and a Stan Winston School T-Shirt.