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Horror
in issue 56
Anorexic Logic: On American Psycho — "I should like to keep that out of me"
"Pity Poor Flesh": Terrible Bodies in the Films of Carpenter, Cronenberg, and Romero — "We are always already in a state of being on the cusp of an unraveling, a violent deconstruction, an explosive discharge of disruption and freeplay . . ."
in issue 54
Hairy on the Inside: Surrealism and Sexual Anxiety in Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves — "If there's a beast in men, it meets its match in women too."
in issue 53
Young Vampires in Love: Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark — Not the usual suspects
in issue 50
Night of the Living Dead: Reappraising an Undead Classic — Romero's canonical work remains timely decades later
An Unsawed Woman: Re-exhuming The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake — How Jessica Biel's Moral Hotness Tamed the West
There's Nothing You Can Do: Notes on William Friedkin's The Guardian — We have met the enemy and he is us
Darkness, Darkness: The Films of Val Lewton: Looking Back at a B-Movie Master — Lewton's struggles to make magic had their own horrors
"What It Takes to Make a Softie": Breaking Noir Tradition in The Leopard Man — "Lewton's deep faith in humanity quietly waits for the smoke to settle so it can step in and start patching up the wounds."
Les Fleurs du Mal: The Leopard Man and Le Corbeau: Tourneur and Clouzot Deliver Homefront Perversity, Paranoia, and Subversion — "Nothing is so transient as sanity and safety . . ."
Far from the Madding Multiplex: The Subtle Horror of The Innocents — This ghost story's charms are far from ephemeral
in issue 46
Horror Queens: Divas from Hollywood's Golden Age Rampage Through the Sixties —
"She's supposed to be shriveling away," observed Davis, "but her tits
keep growing. I keep running into them, like the Hollywood hills."
in issue 37
"I'm Taking the Kids!" Larry Clark's Teenage Caveman on DVD — Girlflesh 'n boyflesh 'n apocalypse
in issue 34
Jean Epstein's The Fall of the House of Usher — Poe's favorite story dressed to kill by a legendary surrealist auteur
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Wizard of Gore — An interview with the man who created one of cinema's most enduring genres
Gore Galore: Audition — Takashi Miike's notorious film has earned both awards and mass walkouts
in issue 32
"They Ate His Genitals!" A Sampling of European Sex and Horror Films — These seminal sleazefests — and a couple of arty classics — will make you twist and shout
Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932): Production Notes and Analysis — The normals are the real freaks in this still gut-wrenching horror classic
in issue 30
Edgar G. Ulmer's Daughter of Dr. Jekyll on DVD — Monsters are bad enough, but their relatives?
in issue 29
American Psycho, Stay Away from Me! — If looks could kill, this dude wouldn't need a blade
in issue 28
Here's Looking at You, Kid! Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho —
Hitch's — and by now the whole damn culture's — seminal Oedipal nightmare revisited
Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space and Bride of the Monster — Graverobbers and drag queens from outer space! A big limp octopus! Charming "anti-classics" from the intensely weird and constantly surprising world of Ed Wood.
in issue 26
Mario Bava's Baron Blood on DVD — This beautifully photographed film stars Elke Sommer as one of the least convincing architecture students in cinema history
in issue 23
Queer Horror: Decoding Universal's Monsters — What do horror and homosexuality have in common anyway? The all-pervasive, barely disguised, downright queerness of classics like Dracula, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, and Dracula's Daughter
in issue 19
Sexual Subversion: James Whale's The Bride of Frankenstein — No institution — society, religion, marriage, or heterosexuality — was safe from the penetrating queer eye of James Whale. Make way for the homosexual creator!
in issue 17
Half-Human, Half Garbage Disposal: The Island of Dr. Moreau — See Val Kilmer feed psychedelic mushrooms to the crazed beast-people! See Aissa's forbidden jungle dance! See the terrible white monster who lumbers across the sets in pancake makeup and Bea Arthur's old caftans!
in issue 15
Lon Chaney, Sr. — Supermasochist! — With his lacerations, deformities, faux stump legs, and shaved head, Chaney was the original Modern Primitive
