This Issue Of The Dark Side

Britain’s most comprehensive guide to the latest
horror and sci-fi DVD releases.

John Martin
simultaneously ponders the fate of DVD and his own status as a washed-up scribbler, taking time out to review a few new discs along the way... can you dig it?

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!
PBrad 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!

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

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Contents in Special Collector's Edition
FEAR FAVOURITES - A host of Dark Side folk choose the movies that scared them the most!
COSTA DEL TERROR - Cathal Tohill hits Spain, and Spain hits him back.
LAST HOUSE IN SOHO SQUARE - The full story behind the BBFC's censoring of the Wes Craven horror classic…
THE BRYCE'S FRIGHT! - You axed for it - the Ed's Top Ten terrors unveiled!
FEAR FAVOURITES - THE RETURN - The chillers that put the willies up genre heroes Alan Jones and Kim Newman!
MAESTRO OF MAYHEM - Tom Savini talks to Dark Side about his career in makeup carnage.
SPIDER SAM - From The Evil Dead to Spider-Man, Sam Raimi interviewed!
WICKER'S WORLD - Robin Hardy discusses his most famous film, The Wicker Man, and the Hollywood remake!
GREAT SCOTT - Okay, it's a crap title, but a great interview with Ridley Scott nevertheless.
WIN HAMMER HORROR BOX SETS - Features Hammer's Curse Of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy.
WIN THE EXORCIST TRILOGY - Grab some holy water and pea soup and settle back for a night of terror.
FIVE DVDS OF REVELATION TO BE WON - If you enjoyed The Omen then you are going to get a similar scary kick out of Revelation.
WIN A COPY OF PYROKINESIS - One of the best Japanese sci-fi/horror shockers of recent years. Pyrokinesis is hot stuff indeed, out on the Artsmagic label this month.
POST MORTEM - Readers tell us what they think of the mag, hopefully avoiding too many expletives.
DVD LIBRARY - Our biggest DVD review section yet, which is just as well because we have more pages to fill this issue…
DARK SIDE HORROR GUIDE - Did you realise just how many horror and fantasy films begin with the letter S? Just don't get us started…
CHOICE CUTS - More cutting comments from the man with the stopwatch, Brad Stevens.