RUE MORGUE
Canada's Premier Horror Magazine
Modern Horror Bimonthly Magazine from Canada

- First issue: 1998
- There are an average of three main features in any given issue: The first is the cover story, usually an interview with a celebrity, the second feature is reserved for a musician or group who have drawn heavily from the genre in making their music and in the third feature they try to emphasize the culture of horror, and how it has developed throughout history.
- Published by MARRS Press.
- Website: www.rue-morgue.com

Only the most debauched of the devout stand between a Norse demon-god and the apocalypse in J.T. Petty’s Hellbenders. Do you know where that rosary’s been? PLUS: Sergio Stivaletti explains why his ambitious effects for Demons and its sequel were a game changer in Italian cinema, and more!

by April Snellings, Dejan Ognjanovic and Moaner T. Lawrence

HOW TO DISPOSE OF THE DEAD

Rue Morgue’s resident coroner, Last Chance Lance, takes a look at different funeral customs from around the world. PLUS: Reviews of Paul Koudounaris’ Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints From the Catacombs and the death-themed issue of Lapham’s Quarterly.

Last Chance Lance and Dave Alexander

TIFF 2013

Midnight Madness, the genre junkie portion of the Toronto International Film Festival, turned 25 this year, we give you a sneak peek at both the horror titles that premiered there, and the other global terrors unleashed.

by Dave Alexander, Stuart F. Andrews, Phil Brown, Monica S. Kuebler, Liisa Ladouceur, Sean Plummer and Tal Zimerman

THE GHOULS OF ’68

Rob Kuhn’s Birth of the Living Dead documentary traces the explosion of zombie culture back to its Romero roots.

by Tal Zimerman

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NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Leave those kids alone.

DREADLINES

Grand Guignol theatre makes a comeback in Paris; Kill your friends in new dungeon monster game; Original Svengoolie, Jerry. G. Bishop, dead at 77.

THE CORONER’S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Monsters of the Cloth.

NEEDFUL THINGS

Garden Nightmares, Custom White Bronze Skull Ring, Tentacle Doorstop, Pacific Rim Action Figures.

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features reviews of Curse of Chucky, Argento’s Dracula 3D, Devil’s Pass, Hidden in the Woods, Butcher Boys, No One Lives, Alyce Kills, The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Fourth Season, The Legend of the Psychotic Forest Ranger, Fear the Forest, and Last Kind Words. Reissues reviews Day of the Dead (1985), Snuff (1976), Prince of Darkness (1987), Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie (1996), In the Mouth of Madness (1994) and The Amityville Horror Trilogy.

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

In The Vault: The Blancheville Monster.

BOWEN’S BASEMENT

Dug Up: Slithis.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features Rex: Zombie Killer, plus reviews of Baltimore – The Infernal Train #1 of 3, The Mocking Dead #1, The Halloween Legion HC, Love Stories (To Die For) #1, and Classics Illustrated Deluxe #10.

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Devil’s Advocates film book series. Library of the Damned cracks open Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep. Plus, reviews of Nicholas Kaufmann’s Dying is My Business, Alison Littlewood’s A Cold Season, Encounters with Flying Humanoids: Mothman, Manbirds, Gargoyles & Other Winged Beasts, Mick Ridgewell’s Evil Never Dies, Tales of Jack the Ripper, Barbie Wilde’s The Venus Complex, Bewitched Again: Supernaturally Powerful Women on Television 1996-2011, and The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two.

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

On Display: Dirty Donny’s Metallica pinball machines.

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Slew Hampshire.

AUDIO DROME

Featuring the music videos of Phil Mucci. Listen to My Nightmare spins Michale Graves’ The Lost Skeleton Returns. Plus reviews of Re-Animator OST, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow OST, Harley Poe, Unmothered, Salem Rages, The Nearly Deads, Ghoul, Coffins, and Carcass.

PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, Rain, Ravaged Zombie Apocalypse, and Catastrophic Zombies!

CLASSIC CUT

The Alan Parsons Project’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe.

Nearly two years after its world premiere lit up the midnight audience at the Toronto International Film Festival, You’re Next brings its home invasion horror to theatres.
PLUS: We untangle the intersecting resumes of the You’re Next gang, and V/H/S/2 reviewed.

by Dave Alexander, Trevor Tuminski, Scott Feinblatt and Sam Costello

WORLDWIDE MONSTER WAR

Guillermo del Toro pits mechs against kaiju creatures in Pacific Rim, his biggest film yet.
PLUS: A look at Irish sea-monster comedy Grabbers, in which the only way to avoid being tasted, is to get wasted.

by Michael Doyle and Phil Brown

WAR MACHINES

After his stalled Nazi zombies project Worst Case Scenario, Richard Raaphorst returns with new WWII horrors in Frankenstein’s Army.
PLUS: The Frankenstein Theory reviewed.

by Peter Gutierrez and Dave Alexander

CONSPIRACY RESURRECTION

In time for the 20th anniversary of the TV series’ premiere, The X-Files gets a tenth season – in comic books.

by Monica S. Kuebler

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NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

Storming the Castle.

DREADLINES

Harryhausen art show coming to Los Angeles; FX Artist Tom Woodruff, Jr. to helm first feature; J.T. Petty scripts upcoming survival horror game.

THE CORONER’S REPORT

Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Bio-Mechanical Monsters.

NEEDFUL THINGS

Zombie Wine Bottle Holder; Silence of the Lambs Wines; Elvira Coffin Purse; VHS Horror Pillows.

CINEMACABRE

CineMacabre features Tourist Trap, World War Z, The Conjuring, Dead Souls, Night of the Living Ed, Axe Giant: the Wrath of Paul Bunyan, and more! Reissues reviews Castle Freak (1995), Soft for Digging (2001) and Hands of the Ripper (1971).

THE LATE-NITE ARCHIVE

In The Vault: And Then There Were None.

BOWEN’S BASEMENT

Dug Up: The Alligator People.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

Features The Man Who Laughs, plus reviews of The Extinction Parade #1, Baltimore: The Inquisitor, Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem #1 of 3, Six-Gun Gorilla #1 of 6, and the Wake #1.

THE NINTH CIRCLE

Spotlight: Alexander Gordon Smith’s The Fury. Library of the Damned gets haunted. Plus, reviews of Fervid Filmmaking: 66 Cult Pictures of Vision, Verve and No Self-Restraint, Hauntings, Peter Cushing: A Life in Film, Seth Patrick’s Reviver, and more!

THE FRIGHT GALLERY

On Display: Jason Edmiston, Part II.

THE GORE-MET

Menu: Michael MagGot.

AUDIO DROME

Featuring Marco Beltrami’s World War Z score. Listen to My Nightmare turns the spotlight on Midnight Syndicate. Plus reviews of Dark Skies OST, Last Exorcism 2 OST, Goatcraft, Keep Our Heads compilation, Black Sabbath, Pest, Necronomicon, and Gulaggh.

PLAY DEAD

Features reviews of The Last of Us and State of Decay.

CLASSIC CUT

Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells.”