DESTROYER OF WORLDS

Director Gareth Edwards explains the monumental task of re-envisioning the King of All Monsters for a modern audience, 60 years after Godzilla first stomped Tokyo. PLUS: Oddzilla Attacks! – Godzilla’s weirdest incarnations, and in the new comic and web series Enormous, monsters kick mankind to the bottom of the food chain.

by April Snellings and Adam Clarke

DARK EMPIRE

We’ve got seven reasons the morbid-minded need to visit New York City this summer.

by Peter Gutierrez

WORD OF THE FATHER

For The Sacrament, Ti West mirrors the real-life religious cult horrors of the Jonestown Massacre. Plus: A review of Proxy.

by Sean Plummer and Dave Alexander

SUMMER’S LAST GASP

Scream Factory drags director Robert Hiltzik’s Sleepaway Camp out of the closet for a Blu-ray release.

by April Snellings

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Give us this day your scaly head.

DREADLINES

Scott Spiegel to helm Easter-themed horror film; Interactive horror camp-outs starting up this summer; GWAR frontman Dave Brockie dead at age 50.

THE CORONER’S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Bad Cop Brutality.

NEEDFUL THINGS

Godzilla figure; ThinkGeek Eviltron; Human Skull Art; Handmade Shark Beer Glass.

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of Wolf Creek 2, Almost Human, Dark House, Black Water Vampire, Happy Camp, Return to Nuke ‘Em High: Volume 1, Holy Ghost People, The Returned, Angry Nazi Zombies, Code Red, Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz, Porn Shoot Massacre, Sorority Party Massacre, and Babysitter Massacre. Reissues reviews Witchboard (1986), Ozploitation Trailer Explosion, Dead Kids (1981), and The Beast From Hollow Mountain (1956)/The Neanderthal Man (1953).

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

In The Vault: The Horror at 37,000 Feet.

BOWEN’S BASEMENT

Dug Up: Give in to the dark side already!

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Tales of the Night Watchman: It Came From the Gowanus Canal, plus reviews of The Returning #1 of 4, Nosferatu Wars One-Shot, Warren Ellis’ Gravel: Combat Magician #1, The Witcher: House of Glass #1 of 5, and Monster & Madman #1.

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Aaron Sterns and Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek: Origin. Library of the Damned reviews Alys Arden’s The Casquette Girls. Plus reviews of Daniel Mills’ The Lord Came at Twilight, Fearful Symmetries, Clive Barker’s Chilead: A Meditation, Adam Cesare’s Zero Lives Remaining, Lovecraft’s Monsters, Eerie America, Tim Lebbon’s The Reach of Children, and Andrew Bonazelli and Coleman Yunger’s Disposed Of.

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

On Display: Scarecrowoven.

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Discopath.

AUDIO DROME

Featuring Bloody Hammers. Listen to My Nightmare catches up with Sleepaway Camp’s Jonathan Tiersten. Plus reviews of The Hills Have Eyes OST, The Fearless Vampire Killers OST, Scream in the Dark OST, The Amatory Murder, Kreeps, For The Wolf, Helgardh, Sahg and Coffin Dust.

PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of Dead Panic and Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls.

CLASSIC CUT

The Surgeon’s Photograph.

GIVEAWAYS THIS ISSUE

1 new subscribers will win a limited edition Godzilla army bag and ten secondary winners will receive a movie prize pack.