Rue Morgue #220 Sep/Oct 2024 Halloween Special Issue

FEATURES

Filmmaker OSGOOD “OZ” PERKINS returns with his fourth horror film, a police procedural steeped in sadism, occult ritual… and Nicolas Cage. Plus! Oz talks about a career making horror movies, and shares thoughts about his father, the late, great ANTHONY PERKINS.

Having originally announced a remake of F.W. Murnau’s Expressionist masterpiece back in 2015, visionary filmmaker ROBERT EGGERS reveals how his NOSFERATU took a decade to make, even if it was a century in coming. Plus! WILLEM DAFOE on his return to the dark world of hideous monsters; DACRE STOKER sets the record straight on a historic feud; and a look at NOSFERATU'S SYMPHONIES OF HORROR THROUGH THE AGES.

Horror movies are replete with the worst human beings on the planet – a key ingredient to their success. In that spirit, we thought it would be apropos to celebrate the Halloween season by tracking the 50 VILEST VILLAINS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS, who rely less on gimmicks and gloss than sheer depravity.

THE MORBIDLY CURIOUS BOOK CLUB invites readers to come together to learn about death and the more macabre side of life.

In A GOTHIC COOKBOOK, Dr. Alessandra Pino and Ella Buchan explore the relationship between food and the Gothic. Plus! Pino explores what it means to have pizza delivered within a genre movie.

Back in 2023, A.A. Milne’s beloved children’s story, Winnie-the-Pooh, entered the public domain… and the minds of two horror fans who prompted A POOHNIVERSE of horror movies based on children’s characters of yesteryear.

MEMENTO MORGUE 2023-2024 A scrapbook of highlights from Rue Morgue events throughout the year!

DEPARTMENTS

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Upstream

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 James Watkins’ Speak No Evil

REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED
REVIVED: A New Beginning for the Friday the 13th Remake

IT CAME FROM BOWEN’S BASEMENT
DUG UP: Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby (1976)

FILES FROM THE BLACK MUSEUM
EXHIBIT: Empire of the Ants (1977)

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
INKED IN: The Return of EC Comics

THE NINTH CIRCLE
SPOTLIGHT: Laird Barron’s Not a Speck of Light

THE FRIGHT GALLERY
ON DISPLAY: The Anatomical Nightmare Art of Roberto Diaz

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS
CURIO: Purgery

AUDIO DROME
NOW PLAYING: The vintage sounds of Halloween

PLAY DEAD
PLAYING: Shift 87 and Slayaway Camp 2

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DEBATE: What horror movie features the best Halloween party ever?