Rue Morgue #224 May/Jun 2025

FEATURES

FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES infuses fresh blood into one of the genre’s most enduring franchises, returning this year with a new concept, state-of-the-art kills… and a heartfelt farewell from the legendary TONY TODD. A talk with directors ZACH LIPOVSKY and ADAM STEIN. Plus! A countdown of our favourite kills from the franchise!

This year SHUDDER, the genre-exclusive streaming platform, celebrates ten years of keeping the red stuff flowing – right into your living room. Rue Morgue speaks to the minds who pick your nightmares. Plus! Back from the grave under all-new management, SCREAM TV resurrects the joys of streaming television for horror fans.

It’s been two decades since Marina de Van’s IN MY SKIN devastated and delighted art house gore fans. Now, her debut feature promises to cut deep once again with a restored release from Severin. Plus! MARINA DE VAN’s continued deconstruction of the body horror genre.

Out April 29 from Del Rey, Chuck Wendig’s THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS is a journey to someplace strange and frightening.

DEPARTMENTS

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
Terror Tariffs

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 David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds

REISSUED & RE-ANIMATED
REVIVED: The Last Shark Finally Resurfaces

IT CAME FROM BOWEN’S BASEMENT
DUG UP: The Medusa Touch (1978)

THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR
EXHIBIT: Death Cafes

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
INKED IN: Michael W. Conrad and Dave Chisholm’s Plague House

THE NINTH CIRCLE
SPOTLIGHT: Fathom Press

THE FRIGHT GALLERY
ON DISPLAY: The Petrifying Props of Pumpkin Pulp

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS
CURIO: Our Meatsacks, Ourselves

AUDIO DROME
NOW PLAYING: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

PLAY DEAD
PLAYING: Karma: The Dark World and Confronted

VS
DEBATE: What is the most quintessentially Canadian horror film ever made?