This extra special issue of the Dark Side celebrates the work of Amicus Studios, a very British company founded by two Americans...

The Amicus Story

Max and Milton were an odd couple indeed, but together these two Americans formed on of Britain’s most famous and enduring horror studios. Denis Meikle’s epic feature article traces the rise and fall of Amicus Productions.

Writer’s Bloch

Most famous as the man who write Psycho, the prolific Robert Bloch also forged a lasting association with Amicus Films. The Dark Side checks out his many contributions to horror history.

Twisted Tales

An Amicus speciality, the “Omnibus” horror movie harks back to the silent days and continues to appeal to genre film producers even now. Denis Meikle takes us through the history of these celluloid tales of terror.

The Director That Time Forgot

Kevin Connor crafted some of the most fondly remembered Amicus romps, including The Land That Time Forgot and At The Earth’s Core. Calum Waddell talks to him about his days directing Edgar Rice Burroughs on a budget!

This extra special issue of the Dark Side celebrates the work of Amicus Studios, a very British company founded by two Americans...

The Amicus Story

Max and Milton were an odd couple indeed, but together these two Americans formed on of Britain’s most famous and enduring horror studios. Denis Meikle’s epic feature article traces the rise and fall of Amicus Productions.

Writer’s Bloch

Most famous as the man who write Psycho, the prolific Robert Bloch also forged a lasting association with Amicus Films. The Dark Side checks out his many contributions to horror history.

Twisted Tales

An Amicus speciality, the “Omnibus” horror movie harks back to the silent days and continues to appeal to genre film producers even now. Denis Meikle takes us through the history of these celluloid tales of terror.

The Director That Time Forgot

Kevin Connor crafted some of the most fondly remembered Amicus romps, including The Land That Time Forgot and At The Earth’s Core. Calum Waddell talks to him about his days directing Edgar Rice Burroughs on a budget!

The Halloween Issue

Man Behind the Mask

Meet Kane Hodder, Friday The 13th's Jason!

Zombie Creeping Flesh

Video Nasty Star Franco Garofalo Talks.

Django Strikes Back

Franco Nero Shoots From The Lip...

Destruction Down Under

Aussie Exploitation Meltdown!

Argento's Dracula 3D

A Vampire In Your Lap!

The King of Carnage

Gore Guru Tom Savini Interviewed!

Englund Swings

Are You Ready For Freddy? We Chat To Robert Englund!

Jason X-ploitation

You don't want to trifle with a tramp and his rifle. Especially if that tramp is Rutger Hauer and that rifle is a shotgun. Alan Jones talks with Jason Eisener, director of the gory Grindhouse hit, Hobo With A Shotgun.

In The Zone

"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known by man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity..." There's a signpost up ahead, guess what it says?

Hills of Fire

From Alien to The Warriors and from Streets of Fire to Johnny Handsome, Walter Hill has caused controversy and carnage in equal measures. The Dark Side's Calum Waddell catches up with him...

Femmes Fatale

What constitutes a Scream Queen? Allan Bryce attempts to find out as he interviews horror film actresses Jennifer Lim and Marysia Kay...

King of the Chainsaw

Erstwhile Leatherface actor Gunnar Hansen speaks to Dark Side about the trials and tribulations of sawing his way into screen history!

An Eye for Horror

Alan Jones experiences the blind terror of Julia's Eyes and interviews director Guillem Morales about his creepy modern day classic.

Helle's Belles

Tom DeSimone might be best known for 1981's superior slice 'n' dice movie Hell Night but, as Calum Waddell discovers, there is far more to his career than just low budget carnage...

The Writer Who Fell to Earth

As the 1976 David Bowie movie The Man Who Fell To Earth arrives on Blu-ray for the first time. Allan Bryce chats with the man who wrote the screenplay, former film critic Paul Mayersberg.

Amer Amore

Alan Jones celebrates the return of the classic giallo with Amer, a movie that he says, "Continually flits through the mind like a butterfly with bloodstained wings."

Scream & Scream Again

Wes Craven revives his hugely popular horror movie franchise with the long-awaited Scream 4, and we have an interview with the man himself!

Resurrection Man

John Landis is back with Burke & Hare, another horror comedy classic about body snatchers. Alan Jones caught up with Landis on set.

Killer Clown

Allan Bryce interviews famed tough guy actor William Forsythe, who plays serial killer John Wayne Gacy in The Last Victim

Enter the Saxon

From giallo classics to battling flesh-hungry cannibals and facing up to Freddy Krueger - actor John Saxon has long carried legendary status... and rightly so! Calum Waddell catches up with the great man for a long overdue career retrospective.

Toxic Terrors

Lloyd Kaufman has been peddling his kooky celluloid for over three decades and, as The Dark Side discovers, he has no intention of slowing down any time soon.

PASOLINI'S TALES
As the BFI release four of Pier Paolo Pasolini's greatest movies on DVD and Blu-ray, John Martin takes a look at the director's career...



FRIDAY FRIGHT
At midnight he will possess your soul, but meanwhile there's still time for Vera Brozzoni to chat with Brazilian horror icon Jose Mojica Marins, aka Coffin Joe, about his creepy comeback movie, aptly titled Embodiment of Evil!





TEXAS MOVIEHOUSE MASSACRE
What happened was true... Jay Slater and a bunch of his journo mates travelled to Texas to drink lots of beer, eat lots of food, ogle lots of women, and, oh yes, watch lots of horror movies!



SEER TERROR
Jay Slater goes on set in County Kildare with the new Irish monster movie, Seer!




INTERVIEW
WITH A VAMPIRE
John Amplas obtained screen infamy by
playing a blood-sucker with a difference in the classic gore-satire Martin. Over 30 years later Calum Waddell catches up with him to see what he has been up to since...




THE WICKING MAN
David McGillivray
went to the recent memorial for his friend, Christopher Wicking, writer of movies for AIP and Hammer




RICK's PAGES
Greetings, pop pickers. If you thought Alan Freeman was the worst DJ-turned-actor, wait until you take a butcher's at Mike Raven in Hammer's Lust For A Vampire. Our resident artist
Rick Melton sticks the knife in!




GOREGEOUS
Top UK Scream Queen Eileen Daly continues her
regular DarkSide diary with news of her upcoming Liverpudlian
zombie movie, Braincell!




JACK OF ALL TRADES
In a DarkSide exclusive Calum Waddell explains why he loves
Jack Hill enough to document his carnage-packed career...

!
zombie movie, Braincell!




CHOICE CUTS
Censorship guru Brad Stevens checks out the latest
developments in the wacky world of the Soho Square scissors folk!



James Whittington interviews up and coming scream queen Fiona Horsey...James Whittington interviews up and coming scream queen Fiona Horsey...James Whittington interviews up and coming scream queen Fiona Horsey...


BOOKS GAMES REVIEWS
James Whittington casts his critical eye over the latest terrifying text
and gory game releases on offer!

SAINTS AND SINNERS: Marie O'Regan previews the impressive new BBC supernatural series Apparitions, talking to writer Joe Ahearne and star Martin Shaw.



AXELLE RISING: James Whittington interviews Axelle Carolyn, a former DarkSide
contributor who has become a genre star in her own right!.





HALLOWEEN REVISITED : Stef Hutchinson was one of the driving forces behind the critically acclaimed documentary Halloween: 25 Years of Terror and is the writer of a new range of Halloween comic books. James Whittington stalked him in a William Shatner mask wielding a large kitchen knife to ask him about his involvement with the much loved slasher series..



BAD BRAD!: Brad Dourif has gone from Oscar
nominations to horror sequels and Hollywood blockbusters. Calum Waddell sits down for a chat with the man who supplied the voice of killer doll Chucky!.




EATING ITALIAN!: Jay Slater visits: The Last House In The Woods for an exclusive interview with up and coming director Gabriele Albanesi....




GOREGEOUS!: Top UK Scream Queen Eileen Daly continues her regular DarkSide diary with an interview
with acclaimed comic book artist John Gallagher.




FAMILY SPLATTERS: Family man Jay Slater talks to talented director Steven Shiel, about his Mum & Dad... and they are a very nasty pair indeed!




STRANGE GIRLS: Strange Girls certainly lives up to its title and is one of the year's most bizarre horror pictures. However, as Calum Waddell discovers, it is also destined for cult classic status. You read about it here first!




PITT STOP: The artistic genius that is Rick Melton, author of the bestseller, 'Different Ways To Spell Bob,' sucks up to Ingrid Pitt and enjoys some Toasted Oats. So it's business as usual in the Melton household....




CHIOCE CUTS: Censorship guru Brad Stevens checks out the latest
developments in the wacky world of the Soho Square scissors folk!



James Whittington interviews up and coming scream queen Fiona Horsey.


BOOKS GAMES REVIEWS: James Whittington casts his critical eye over the latest terrifying text
and gory game releases on offer!

LOVE STORY:
Suzanna Love was one of the 1980s great scream queens. But whatever happened to her? Calum Waddell tracks her down for the following DarkSide interview.




BEE MOVIE STAR:
Tony Todd has played one of horror's most iconic figures in the ghostly Candyman, headlined a George Romero remake before such things were in vogue and racked up a CV of credits that includes everything from Star Trek to Michael Bay... Calum Waddell catches up with the actor for the following exclusive interview...




SHAUN OF THE SLUGS:
Since the publication of Slugs in 1982 Shaun Hutson has been at the top end of the charts as a bestselling author of horror thrillers. Subsequent titles include Erebus, Nemesis, Hell To Pay and Twisted Souls, and he has written novels under nine different pseudonyms. Here Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan put the questions to him about his career and his new book, Unmarked Graves. .




GORY G.I. JOE:
Joe Pilato fought the zombie hordes in Day of the Dead as the villainous Captain Rhodes - and made Romero's flesh-eaters seem positively lightweight by comparison.
Calum Waddell catches up with the actor for
the following Q and A....




DEE TIME:
She fought Stephen King's Cujo, was the mum in E.T. and played a sexy werewolf in Joe Dante's The Howling!
Steven Murray chats with legendary actress Dee Wallace about her eventful genre career!




GOREGEOUS!:
Top UK Scream Queen Eileen Daly begins a regular DarkSide diary!...




DIGITAL SCREAMS:
Our man Jay Slater in conversation with Jaume Balaguer? and Paco Plaza directors of the terrifying new POV horror hit, [Rec]!...




ALLIGATOR MAN:
Lewis Teague had a giant alligator destroy New York and brought Stephen King's Cujo to the big screen.
Now he sits down with Calum Waddell for an exclusive interview...!








CHIOCE CUTS:
Censorship guru Brad Stevens checks out the latest
developments in the wacky world of the Soho Square scissors folk!


James Whittington interviews up and coming scream queen Fiona Horsey...James Whittington interviews up and coming scream queen Fiona Horsey...James Whittington interviews up and coming scream queen Fiona Horsey...


BOOKS GAMES REVIEWS:
James Whittington casts his critical eye over the latest terrifying text
and gory game releases on offer!

SWEDE TERROR:
Pidde Andersson relates the fascinating history of Swedish
horror films.




SENANTARY WOMAN:
Wrong Turn director Rob Schmidt is the
latest filmmaker to be bestowed with the "Master of Horror" title.
Calum Waddell was on the set of season two of the hit television series and also caught the skinny on the director's upcoming serial slasher shocker. The Alphabet Killer...




ZOMBIE DAWN!:
What if Terrence Malick made a zombie film? The result, according to our man in the know, Jay Slater, would be a film like The Vanguard, a new post-apocalypse Brit horror. Jay talks to the movie's
director, Matthew Hope.




BROTHERS OF TEARS:
Alan Jones meets Cristian Solimeno and Adam James, the two main male stars of Dario Argento's
long-awaited Mother of Tears.




WAZ:
Alan Jones interviews Tom Shankland,
director of the acclaimed serial killer thriller, WAZ




PETER PAN'S LABYRINTH:
Juan Antonio Bayona's ultra-scary
The Orphanage is out on DVD from Optimum.
Alan Jones talks to the director...




SICK PUPPY:
Kevin Ogilvie is better known as Ogre, front man and vocalist for the legendary Skinny Puppy. Now he's taking his act to the big screen,
as Chris Alexander discovers...




CALL A MEDAK!:
Calum Waddell interviews the talented Peter Medak, who worked for Hammer in the early days, went on to make such great movies as The Krays and The Changeling, and is now one of the Masters of Horror!








CHIOCE CUTS:
Censorship guru Brad Stevens checks out the latest
developments in the wacky world of the Soho Square scissors folk!


James Whittington interviews up and coming scream queen Fiona Horsey...James Whittington interviews up and coming scream queen Fiona Horsey...James Whittington interviews up and coming scream queen Fiona Horsey...


BOOKS GAMES REVIEWS:
James Whittington casts his critical eye over the latest terrifying text
and gory game releases on offer!

Interviews with Doug Bradley ,Fred Williamson, as well as articles on Turkish horror,THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, WRONG TURN 2,indie filmmakers Polonia Brothers and Tim Lucas Bava book is reviewed. Plus game ,dvd, book reviews. Plus, an odd piece about an imaginary horror film, ATTACK OF THE WALL CRAWLERS .

FATHER OF CHUCKY:
Calum Waddell shoots the breeze with
legendary writer/director Tom Holland, the man who gave us such horror classics as Fright Night, Child's Play and Psycho 2!




THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN:
Calum Waddell
interviews Oscar
winning horror effects guru Matthew Mungle




MONSTER MASH! :
Baron John Martin(stein) was working in the lab late
one night when his eyes beheld a fearful sight. Our man in a white coat examines the grand cinematic tradition of the
monster rally...


EYES FRIGHT SHUT !:
Heidi Martinuzzi visits the set of the American remake of The Eye and talks to filmmakers David Moreau and Xavier Palud...


TRAILER TRASH:
No, we don't have a review copy of the Britney Spears blow job tape (or, as our lawyers like us to refer to it, the alleged Britney Spears blow job tape)... more's the pity! But if you crave satisfaction, JOHN MARTIN's got the kind of action that will put your ass in traction as he rounds up DVD anthologies of coming attractions...


STARDUST:
Paul Kane previews the upcoming movie version of Neil Gaiman's Stardust - and reckons it's going to be regarded as one of the best fantasy flicks ever!


FLESH FEAST! :
Paul Kane previews the upcoming movie version of Neil Gaiman's Stardust - and reckons it's going to be regarded as one of the best fantasy flicks ever! out what rocks his world...


BREAD AND CIRCUS:

The DarkSide's Jay Slater chats with Morten Loke, director of Norway's first high end splatter movie, Bread and Circus.


CHIOCE CUTS :
Censorship guru Brad Stevens checks out the latest
developments in the wacky world of the Soho Square scissors folk!

Sleepwalking to success: Masters of Horror creator Mick Garris interviewed.

Texas movie massacre: One of Darkside's finest attends the Austin Fantastic Fest and loses his liver!

The Bridge: Is this the first ever arthouse snuff movie?

Oktober Man: Author Stephen Gallagher interviewed!

Spaghetti splatter revival: Chew down on Cannibal Holocaust 2.

Raising hell: 20 years of Pinhead and his petrifying pals.

Killer carpet: Can you face The Creeping Terror?

Plus: Censorship watch, post mortem, loads of DVD reviews and more.

SPELLBINDER!: The Perverse, Deranged Movies and Lost Movies of an Italian Wildcard.
A retrospective on Alberto Cavallone by Jay Slater...

CANDY TANGERINE MAN: Director Matt Cimber talks to Calum Waddell about his career to date - including the controversial 'video nasty' The Witch Who Came From The Sea and the blaxploitation hit Candy Tangerine Man.

STAN THE MAN!: Stan Winston is a genuine
DarkSide icon - and now he's in these very pages chatting to
Calum Waddell about his work!

CHOICE CUTS: Censorship guru Brad Stevens checks out the latest
developments in the wacky world of the Soho Square scissors folk!

BURN BABY BURN!: Richard Holliss tosses another log on the pyre as he contemplates the fiery fate suffered by movie witches - from Salem to Smallville...

THE ZOMBIE DIARIES: Jay Slater interviews Kevin Gates, co-director of The Zombie Diaries, an ambitious new low-budget British horror movie...

'THEY'RE COMING AT YA, BARBARA!': It is written that when there is no more room in Hollywood Hell,
zombie remakes will walk the Earth. Mark Berry previews the latest...
a remake of Night Of The Living Dead in eye-popping 3D!

James Whittington interviews up and coming scream queen Fiona Horsey...

BOOKS GAMES REVIEWS: James Whittington casts his critical eye over the latest terrifying text
and gory game releases on offer!

SAW POINTS: With Jonathan Liebesman's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning due on DVD, John Martin surveys 33 years of hardcore
hardware horror...

JACK OF ALL TRADES!!: Calum Waddell interviews exploitation movie legend Jack Hill, director of such B-movie classics as Coffy, Foxy Brown and Spider Baby...

THE TOOTH HURTS!: Just when you thought it was safe to run a bath, Jay Slater checks out some of the best - and worst - 'sharksploitation' flicks!

CHOICE CUTS: Censorship guru Brad Stevens checks out the latest developments in the wacky world of the Soho Square scissors folk!

'P' IS FOR PETRIFYING!: More rabid ramblings from the man who puts the Bang in Bangkok... Yes, Jay Slater's back to interview former Wild Geese star Paul Spurrier - the first Westerner to make a Thai horror movie!

SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS: Tim Sullivan is a long-time fan of the horrorgenre, whose remake of H. G. Lewis' Two Thousand Maniacs has become a cult hit. Now in this exclusive interview with Paul Kane & Marie O'Regan, he discusses his life, work, how he really feels about the finished cut of 2001 Maniacs, and his new project Driftwood...

FEAR HAS THREE FACES: Following up Suspiria and Inferno, Dario Argento's The Three Mothers is possibly the most eagerly awaited new horror movie of the decade. Alan Jones talks to one its stars, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni...

RETURN OF THE BOOGEYMAN: Calum Waddell interviews
Ulli Lommel,
director of the
notorious Video Nasty,
The Boogey Man!

RAGING BOLL!: Two set visits, one film festival,
director Uwe Boll smashing the hell out of his critics in a series of boxing matches and parties galore - DarkSide's Calum Waddell hits Vancouver for the trip of a lifetime!...

WOLF CROC!: Jay Slater interviews Greg McLean, director of Wolf Creek, about his new killer crocodile movie, Rogue!

CHOICE CUTS: Censorship guru Brad Stevens checks out the latest
developments in the wacky world of the Soho Square scissors folk!
DARK DREAMER!: John Martin talks to
Mariano Baino, director
of the cult horror flick
Dark Waters...

MASTER CLASS: Wrong Turn director Rob Schmidt is the
latest filmmaker to be bestowed with the 'Master of Horror' title. Calum Waddell was on the set of season two of the hit television series and also caught the skinny on the director's
upcoming serial slasher shocker The Alphabet Killer...

TWISTED SISTER: James Whittington interviews up and coming
scream queen Fiona Horsey...

COLD CHILLS: Jay Slater talks to Anders Banke, director of the brand new Swedish vampire movie, Frostbite.....

SAN SABASTIAN: Jay Slater returns to the San Sebastian fest... Why they keep inviting him back is beyond us!

A Death Dealer - Susumu Saegusa Japanese creator of the notorious Faces Of Death series!; Wicker World - Neil LaBute interviewed, director of the big budget Nicolas Cage Wicker Man remake!; Freddy's Not Dead - Robert Englund's horror career continues to go from strength to strength; Craven Images - Films like Last House On The Left, Scream and A Nightmare On Elm Street have made Wes Craven a horror legend... so what will he do next!; Slay The Piper - meet an unsung hero of low budget exploitation cinema, director Brett Piper; Baker, Nightmare Maker! - Oscar-winning make-up artist Rick Baker talks about his amazing career!

Are We There Yeti? - You won't be walking in the air with this snowman, because frankly he's Abominable!; Playground Of Fear - We talk to cult director Dante Tomaselli about his intriguing new movie, Satan's Playground; Halloween's Sole Survivor - P. J. Soles, star of Halloween, Stripes and Carrie interviewed; E-Baying For Blood - What are those old VHS Video Nasties worth to collectors these days?; Double-D Avenger - Director William Winckler interviewed about his involvement with large-chested ladies!; Fausto's Nights Of Terror - Unsung horror hero Fausto Lombardi gets the interview treatment!; The Scent Of Death - Dave Payne, director of the spooky new horror hit, Reeker, interviewed.

Bloody Belgium - The 24th Brussels Fantastic Film Festival; Actress Olivia Hussey on her career, from starring in Romeo And Juliet to cult horrors like Black Christmas!; Disciples Of Death - The makers of one of the most obscure horror flicks of all time; Fear On The Phone - In the creepy tradition of The Blair Witch Project, The Collingswood Story is a scary movie shot on a video phone!; Doll Of The Dead - Actress Antonella Interlenghi is best know as the gal who sicked up her insides in City Of The Living Dead, here she spills all to us!; Babe of Blood - We interview Connie Mason, The Playboy centrefold who starred in Blood Feast and 2000 Maniancs!

Vampire Slayer - The Slayer is one of the most elusive of Video Nasties-now meet the man who made it!; The Good Goblin Guide - John Martin trawls through his huge collection of Italian soundtrack CDs; Killer Clown - There's nothing comical about Sid Haig's creepy Captain Spaulding!; Snuffed Out - Real life torture and murder are the main ingredients of this new shocker from Bernard (Candyman) Rose!; Fantasporto - Jay Slater has been to Portugal again - and just about lived to tell the tale...; Doom Service - Could Eli Roth's Hostel be the nastiest horror movie ever made?

Screamfest - Friday The 13th slasher Jason's got a big knife, but he's only cutting a cake for a change!; Night Of The Living Dorks - Gotte in himmel! Those crazy Germans bring us a spoof of a George Romero classic; The Bulldog Breed - Veteran actor Richard Johnson talks about fighting zombies on a tropical island!; The South's Gonna Rise Again - A gore-filled Herschell Gordon Lewis classic gets the remake treatment!; Witch Report - Steve Biodrowski examines the cult of Witchfinder General!; Monsters Reunited - Director Fred Dekker talks about his cult classic, The Monster Squad.

Ratman Returns - You can't keep a good Italian exploitations director down...or a bad one, for that matter!; Mother Of Sighs - John Martin profiles the career of Italian horror icon Daria Nicolodi, ex-wife of Dario Argento; Choice Cuts - Brad Stevens delves into censorship issues; Deadly Company - Veteran Director Curtis Harrington with fascinating tales of old Horrorwood!; Satan's Little Helper - Squirm at director Jeff Lieberman's latest horror outing; Exorcism Of Emily Rose - Move over Linda Blair...another young lady has got the devil in her!

Nasties Revisited - When it comes to striking up the banned, John Martin is always there to conduct proceedings; King Of The Jungle - A candid chat with Ruggero Deodato, who gave the world the fearsome Cannibal Holocaust; The Man Who Made Witchfinder - The short, tragic life of Michael Reeves, as examined in a fascinating new book; Fright Nights - London's premier horror event discussed and dissected, you shoulda been there..; San Sebastian Fest - Another year, another freebie beanfeast for Jay Slater. It's a dirty job, etc.; Shaun Of The Red - Heavy metal horror merchant Shaun Hutson interviewed!