Diabolique Magazine - No. 7 (Nov/Dec 2011)

In this issue

Inside this issue:
WELCOME TO FRIGHT NIGHT Sarah Crowther revisits Tom Holland’s original shocker (1985), with Roddy McDowall, to see why it still has a huge cult following after all these years
THE GENESIS OF FRANKENSTEIN David L Rattigan examines new research into the origins of Mary Shelley’s famous book
PUT AWAY THE FLESH Daniel Bird on Jaromil Jires’s Czech classic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
BETWEEN HORROR AND SURREALISM Peter Haymes provides further coverage ofValerie and Her Week of Wonders, the nightmarish fairy tale that marked the end of the Czech New Wave movement
LOAM A macabre piece of original short fiction from Joan Eyles Johnson
NEW NIGHTMARES Drew Beard examines postmillenial Eastern European horror cinema, with viscerally disturbing spectacles like Taxidermia (2006) and vampire epics like Night Watch (2004)
DR. KNOX’S DISSECTION TABLE David L Rattigan deconstructs a scene from Hammer’s 1968 occult thriller The Devil Rides Out
RED STATE OR RED TAPE? Robert J.E. Simpson on the controversy behind the marketing and distribution of Kevin Smith’s new and violent horror film
JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI’S DEEP END David Kleiler rediscovers this great British coming-of-age shocker, starring Jane Asher and John Moulder-Brown
SLAUGHTER OF THE VAMPIRES Robyn Talbot’s newest entry in his Italian Gothic series covers this highly atmospheric cult film
BOOK REVIEW Adrian Smith on Kim Newman’s Nightmare Movies