Description
INSIDE ISSUE #164
Features
A GRIM PRAIRIE TALE With The Reflecting Skin restored and issued on Blu-ray, writer/director Philip Ridley revisits the sublimely grotesque world of his tortured coming-of-age story. Plus: Jeremy Cooper, star of the film, recalls making a very strange movie in the wheat fields of Alberta. By Michael Doyle
THE SEQUELS THAT TIME FORGOT Genre cinema’s drive-in and VHS eras are a landfill of bogus cash-cow releases. We round up the odd, obscure and sometimes downright illegal. Plus: Troll 2, the sequel that time didn’t quite forget. By Adam Clarke and Paul Corupe
INSIDE THE CAVE OF THE CRYSTAL SEPULCHRE Rue Morgue’s Editor-In-Chief visits Belize to tour a subterranean world littered with the remnants of human sacrifice. Plus: A physical anthropologist working in Belize takes us into the stranger side of ancient Mayan life… and death. By Dave Alexander and Amy Michael
HELL UNDERGROUND Could mind-bending occult gore film Baskin initiate a wave of Turkish horror cinema? By Sean Plummer
DEPARTMENTS
NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND Prairie horror companion
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 American Horror Project
BOWEN’S BASEMENT The Last Horror Film
BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS Comic reviews feat. Rue Morgue Library #6
THE NINTH CIRCLE Book reviews feat. Rusty Fischer’s Vampire Book of the Month Club
THE FRIGHT GALLERY Mike Hrubovcak’s Visual Darkness
THE GORE-MET Tantrum and Madness of Many
AUDIO DROME Music reviewes feat. Tales From Beyond the Pale Season 3
PLAY DEAD Game reviews feat. Tharsis and Oxenfree
CLASSIC CUT Roman Polanski’s Macbeth
