Description
INSIDE ISSUE #168
Features
I LIVE IN THE WEAK AND WOUNDED Intensely psychological and mature, Session 9 was the antithesis of the teen slashers dominating horror fifteen years ago. Director Brad Anderson takes us back behind the peeling walls of the infamous Danvers State Mental Hospital where it came to life. Plus: A look at Session 9’s sound design, and take a trip inside the walls of Europe’s oldest former asylum, now a museum dedicated to disease, deformity and the disturbing history of institutionalization. By Michael Doyle, Dejan Ognjanovic, Aleksandra inic Kanada and Andrea Butler
BEYOND THE BLEAK At Home with Monsters, Guillermo del Toro’s first museum retrospective, premieres this month in Los Angeles with over 500 items representing the scope of the filmmaker’s dark obsessions. Plus: Los Angeles County Museum of Art curator Britt Salvesen takes us deeper into the exhibit, and more. By Dave Alexander and April Snellings
TO A DAUGHTER… A DEVIL Osgood Perkins, son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins, channels personal tragedy in his satanic thriller The Blackcoat’s Daughter. By Sean Plummer
HE STILL MAKES HOUSE CALLS The epitome of spaghetti splatter, Dr. Butcher M.D. rises from the grave to make a Blu-ray premiere – restored, uncut and stranger than ever. By The Gore-met
DEPARTMENTS
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Mazes and monsters
POST-MORTEM Letters from fans, readers and weirdos
DREADLINES News highlights, horror happenings
THE CORONER’S REPORT Weird stats, morbid facts and more
NEEDFUL THINGS Strange trinkets from our bazaar of the bizarre
CINEMACABRE The latest films, the newest DVDs and reissues
THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
BOWEN’S BASEMENT Driller: A Sexual Thriller
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS Indroctination
THE NINTH CIRCLE Book reviews feat. At The Edge
THE FRIGHT GALLERY Art by Abigail Larson
THE GORE-MET America’s Deadliest Home Video; Sheep Skin
AUDIO DROME Music reviews feat. Misfits reunited
PLAY DEAD Game reviews feat. Doom and Coffin Dodgers
CLASSIC CUT Codex Gigas