SEX, VIOLENCE AND 42ND ST.
Rue Morgue examines grindhouse ground zero, the seedy, sensational source of the movement, plus the upcoming Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double bill that pays homage to it. Interviews with Rodriguez, Kurt Russell, Tom Savini, Rob Zombie, Eli Roth and Edgar Wright. Plus: William Lustig remembers 42nd Street, H.G. Lewis on making exploitation films, and more!
by Stephen Thrower, Jovanka Vuckovic, Tom Murray, Dave Alexander, Paul Corupe, Last Chance Lance and H.G. Lewis.

SKINNY PUPPY: 25 YEARS OF AURAL VIOLENCE
This year, the harbingers of dark industrial music celebrate their silver anniversary. cEvin Key and Ogre speak! Plus: Skinny Puppy’s 25 most terrifying tracks.
by Chris Alexander and Liisa Ladouceur

CARNIVAL MACABRE
Welcome to Pooch Island, a cartoonish, monster-packed, acrylic thrill ride.
by Kirsten Anderson

LOVE WILL TEAR US APART
Lucky McKee and Angela Bettis trade director and actor roles for their latest collaboration, Roman.
by John W. Bowen

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Grindhouses.

DREADLINES:
Mondo Macabro produces first Pakistani gore film, Original Stuart Gordon storyboards up for auction, Zombies invade new interactive gaming technology.

THE CORONER’S REPORT:
Weird stats and morbid facts. The Rue Morgue Sick Top Six Instances of Angry Appendages.

NEEDFUL THINGS:
Frankenstein’s Monster Bust, Day of the Dead Wedding Cake Toppers, The Neil Gaiman Scent Collection, Gloomy The Naughty Adult Bear Journal and Stationary Set

CINEMACABRE:
Reviews of 300, The Number 23, Hot Fuzz, Hannibal Rising, Pumpkin: Ashes to Ashes, The Messengers, Sheitan, Masters of Horror: “Family,” Night of the Living Dorks, Open Water 2: Adrift, Heartstopper, Tokko. Reissues presents a look at Horror Trailer Compilations. Reviews of The Silence of the Lambs, Devil Times Five, Black Magic, The Forest, Jess Franco’s Count Dracula, Macumba Sexual, Mansion of the Living Dead.

CINEMARQUEE:
Monsters and Madmen Collection.

SCHIZOID CINEPHILE:
Spotlight: Coralina Cataldi Tassoni (Part 2).

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
Spotlight: Han Rickheit’s Chloe. Reviews of Dead World: Requiem for the World, Elk’s Run, Fall of Cthulhu, Roadkill Zoo, Sasquatch.

THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight: James Farr’s Xombie: Dead on Arrival. Reviews of The Hollywood Horror Film 1931-1941, Beasts!, Splatter Flicks, Stephen Graham Jones’ Demon Theory, William Hjortsberg’s Falling Angel.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
The Edogawa Rampo House – Tokyo, Japan.

THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Retro video cheapies from Camp Motion Pictures.

AUDIO DROME:
Spotlight: Godzilla music collector Larry Tuczynski. Reviews of Spasmo OST, Poultrygeist OST, L’iguana dalla lingua di fuoco OST, Pan’s Labyrinth OST, Rest Stop OST, Impious, Nekromantix, Lonesome Kings, Gorguts.

PLAY DEAD:
Monsters Menace America, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, Liber Necris: The Book of Death in the Old World.

CLASSIC CUT:
Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Blood Feast.