Monster! #33: Spring 2018

BEHOLD, NOT UNLIKE THE ETERNAL DRACULA, MONSTER! HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE TO TERRORIZE YOU ANEW! After more than a year hiatus, MONSTER! is finally back with our bumper 33rd issue, the biggest one yet at 370 heavily-illustrated pages. This inch-thick behemoth comes fully-loaded with a wide variety of articles and movie reviews on the zine’s unifying theme: MONSTERS! We’ve got Daniel Best’s The Mummy in Australia , which covers the history of Universal’s Imhotep / Kharis series Down Under; Dana Marie Andra’s Inside THE OUTER LIMITS: Interviews with OL Alumni Harlan Ellison & Robert Culp ; Stephen Jilks’ Channel of Darkness: DOCTOR WHO & the BBC’s Gothic Horrors of the 1970s ; Stephen R. Bissette’s Anarchy & Monsters: The Brett Piper Interview (Parts 2 & 3 [of 6]) ; Dan Ross’ NATIONAL KID: The ‘Superman’ of Japan , a retrospective of the vintage tokusatsu superhero teleseries; John Harrison’s Monster Magazines That Time Forgot: Poster Mags , including an interview with MONSTER MAG’s Dez Skinn; Neil D'Silva’s LAPACHHAPI: A Real Game-Changer for Indian Horror Cinema! including an interview with its director Vishal Furia; and Mike Hauss’ Keys to the House: Turning Experimentation into Expression! an analysis of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s unique 1977 Japanese horror-fantasy movie HAUSU; and Christos Mouroukis’ Return of My Monster Movie Marathon Diary: Godzilla A Go-Go! ;plus oodles of creature feature reviews, original art contributions, detailed video availability information about the movies covered, and all sorts of other ghoulish goodies besides! This ish’s contributors also include: Alex Wald, Marcio Costa, Dennis Capicik, Martin Nunez, Mark Nelson, Jeff Goodhartz, Sebastien Godin, Andy Ross, Eric Messina, Les Moore, Mongo McGillicutty, Heather Paxton, Tim Paxton, and Steve Fenton.