RUE MORGUE

Launched in 1997 by Rodrigo Gudiño, RUE MORGUE is the world’s leading horror in culture and entertainment brand, spearheaded by its multiple award-winning magazine, RUE MORGUE and RUE MORGUE DIGITAL; RUE MORGUE TV specialty horror channel; RUE MORGUE LIBRARY book series; RUE MORGUE PRESENTS FRIGHTMARE IN THE FALLS horror expo and RUE MORGUE PRESENTS CINEMACABRE MOVIE NIGHTS monthly film series.

RUE MORGUE DIGITAL is funded by the Government of Canada

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

RUE MORGUE

POST MORTEM • COMMENTS • QUESTIONS • CRITICISM

CORONER’S REPORT

THE TEXARKANA MOONLIGHT MURDERS

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO… • Larry Zerner, Friday The 13th Part III’s Shelly

NEEDFUL THINGS

TWISTED ROOTS OF FOLK HORROR • THIS HALLOWEEN, RUE MORGUE CELEBRATES THE HISTORY, RECENT REVIVAL, AND ENDURING LEGACY OF A CANON OF FILMS SET IN RURAL LANDSCAPES AND STEEPED IN WEIRD FOLKLORE

Essential Folk Horror: LAKE OF THE DEAD • Kåre Bergstrøm, Norway, 1958

Essential Folk Horror: IL DEMONIO • Brunello Rondi, Italy, 1963

Essential Folk Horror: VIY • Konstantin Ershov and Georgiy Kropachyov, Russia, 1967

MUSIC FOR A WEIRD TALE • COMPOSER TIMOTHY FIFE STRAYS FROM HIS CONVENTIONAL SCHLOCK SOUNDTRACKS TO SCORE AN AUDIO CD OF ARTHUR MACHEN’S SEMINAL FOLK HORROR STORY “THE WHITE PEOPLE”

Essential Folk Horror: EYES OF FIRE • Avery Crounse, USA, 1983

Essential Folk Horror: CLEARCUT • Ryszard Bugajski, Canada, 1991

BIRTH OF THE VAMPIRE • BEFORE STOKER, LE FANU, OR EVEN POLIDORI, THE VAMPIRE LOOMED LARGE IN SERBIAN FOLKLORE – A FACT BEST REFLECTED IN DJORDJE KADIJEVIC’S THE SHE-BUTTERFLY, APPEARING FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON SEVERIN’S FOLK HORROR BOX SET

THIRTY THRILLING THREEQUELS! • HORROR FANS KNOW THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS ALL TOO WELL, AND NOWHERE IS IT MORE AT PLAY THAN IN THE DREADED THIRD SEQUEL OF PRETTY MUCH ANY MOVIE YOU CAN NAME. BUT WE WOULDN’T BE DOING OUR DUE DILIGENCE IF WE DID NOT MAKE YOU AWARE, DEAR READER, OF THE EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE. RUE MORGUE HEREBY PRESENTS…

TWO OUT OF THREE IN 3-D! • RUE MORGUE DONS THE OL’ CARDBOARD SPECS FOR A LOOK BACK AT AN EARLY 1980S TRIPTYCH OF THIRD INSTALLMENTS IN 3-D

MOTHERS OF THE MEXICAN GOTHIC • OVER HALF A CENTURY AGO IN LATIN AMERICA, THERE AROSE A MINI AGE OF WAILING WOMEN, VAMPIRE QUEENS, AND SOME OF THE GREATEST FEMINIST HORROR MOVIES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN

MEXICAN MONSTERS • MEXICAN GOTHIC MOVIES LIBERALLY PULLED FROM UNIVERSAL HORROR, REIMAGINING CLASSIC ICONS IN THE PROCESS

PRIDE OF CHUCKY • AT LONG LAST, ONE OF HORROR’S LONGEST-RUNNING FRANCHISES BECOMES A TELEVISION SERIES

FEMMES FATALES • MEET MICHELINE PITT AND LYNH HAAGA, TWO INNOVATIVE STYLE MAVENS WHO ARE CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN FAN FASHION AND GOTH GLAMOUR

CINEMACABRE • FILM + DVD + REISSUES

LAST RITES • THIS ISSUE: LANCE HITS THE (DIS)LIKE BUTTON

SHORT CUTS • ON THE SLAB: HAUNTINGS FOR HALLOWEEN!

J-CUBE • WITH ORIGINAL MOVIE DIRECTOR VINCENZO NATALI SERVING AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, YASUHIKO SHIMIZU’S JAPANESE CUBE REMAKE TAKES THE STORY BACK TO SQUARE ONE

REISSUED & REANIMATED

IT CAME FROM BOWEN’S BASEMENT • DRIVE-INS, DELETE BINS AND OTHER SINS

FILES FROM THE BLACK MUSEUM • THE LONG SHADOWS OF CLASSIC HORROR’S PAST

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS

QUICK CUTS

THE NINTH CIRCLE BOOKS

DANTE’S PICK

MEMORIES OF MURDER • RICHARD CHIZMAR’S CHASING THE BOOGEYMAN FINDS ITS TERROR IN THE UNSETTLING PLACES WHERE REALITY AND FICTION COLLIDE

LIBRARY OF THE DAMNED • SCREAMING INTO PRINT

THE FRIGHT GALLERY • CURATED BY PAIGE REYNOLDS

DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS • A DUMPSTER DIVE INTO HORROR’S ODDS & CURIOS

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