Rue Morgue Issue#55 Sneak Peek! Spotlight on Eurotic Horror

[Jovanka Vuckovic]

On stands April 1st!

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SINEMA OF FLESH AND BLOOD
Rue Morgue mounts an exploration of the relationship between horror and pornography with a peek at the perverse pleasures of the Eurotic horror movement of the 1970s. Exclusive interviews with filmmakers Jean Rollin, José Larraz and scream queen Lina Romay. Plus: Joe D'Amato exhumed, contemporary Splatter Porn and more!
by Chris Alexander, Jovanka Vuckovic, Stuart Andrews and Dave Alexander.

DAWN OF THE DEAD HEROES
The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman explains what happened to the classic men in tights after Marvel placed its entire universe in his maniacal hands. Plus: a corpse comics APB and a look back at Deadworld.
by Gary Butler, Jovanka Vuckovic and Sam Costello

INVASION OF THE SEX SLUGS FROM OUTER SPACE!
James Gunn gives us the scoop on the goop in his new retro-splatter-comedy Slither.
by Dave Alexander

NECRO EROTICA
Exhumed for your viewing pleasure, the beautifully morbid photography of Chad Michael Ward.
by Jovanka Vuckovic

DEPARTMENTS

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND:
Pornography.

DREADLINES:
Del Toro readies Pan's Labyrinth, anticipates future monster movies; Rob Zombie back in musician's saddle with Educated Horses; World Horror Con brings top genre writers to San Francisco.

CINEMACABRE:
Featuring: Marebito, Final Destination 3, Tamara, Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis, Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys, Tears of Kali, House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim, Hard Candy, and more! Reissues presents Gorgo, Night of the Skull, Magic, Satan's Blood, Poltergeist: The Legacy: Season One, Women's Prison Massacre, One Dark Night, When A Stranger Calls, the Luciano Ercoli Death Box Set and much more!

INDIE TERROR FEST:
Spotlight on Andrew Leman's The Call of Cthulhu.

CINEMARQUEE:
Earth vs. The Spider (1958)/War of the Colossal Beast (1958) and How to Make a Monster (1958)/Blood of Dracula (1957).

SCHIZOID CINEPHILE:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS:
The Ticking, Crickets, The Great and Secret Show, The Territory, Hellboy: Makoma, Werewolves: Call of the Wild.

THE NINTH CIRCLE:
Spotlight on David Wellington's Monster Island, also featuring The Nightmare Encyclopedia, Hitchcock and 20th Century Cinema, Poems Bewitched and Haunted, Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles, Stephen King's Cell, Christopher Golden's The Shell Collector and John Pelan's The Color Out of Darkness, and more!

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR:
The Mummies of Ancient Egypt.

THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Antropophagus.

AUDIO DROME:
Featuring the swampy, haunted, piano-driven rock jangles of Rock City Morgue, plus reviews of Die You Zombie Bastards! OST, Slaughter Disc OST, Hayride to Hell, Pledge Your Allegiance to Satan!, Zombie Ghost Train, Ennio Morricone, Covered In Bees, Hallowmas, American Werewolves, Severe Torture, Impaler and more!

PLAY DEAD:
Friday the 13th & A Nightmare on Elm Street Killer Trivia, Monster Mad Libs, Zombies!!! 5: School's Out Forever.

CLASSIC CUT:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

GIVEAWAYS THIS ISSUE!:
Rue Morgue and Dark Sky Films want you to bring home a putrid puppet! Twenty-five winners will be selected at random from all the new subscriptions received between April 1 and 30, 2006.

[deathmachine]

Well this issue isn't going to be work safe! lol

Looking forward to the Slither & Marvel Zombies and the cover pieces.

[Marquis_de_Sass]

I've got to say that the cover designs are just fantastic lately. Whoever is responsible gets some Kudos!

[Jo Satana]

I only have one thing to say: Thank you (sniff) thank you....:p

[Dread]

This will be the first issue of my subscription.

Interestingly enough there is a feature on comic books (my chosen medium) and Joe D'Amato (whom I have a soft spot for; pun intended).

[JamesV]

Looks like a solid issue. I'm very interested in reading about Kirkman's thoughts on zombifying the Marvel canon. Good score with that article.

[Clayton_George]

...whooo, man, am I glad I re-upped my sub! This could be the Era of Jovanka version of the Troma "Sex and Horror" cover. Yum. Yum-de-doodly-dum....

[lethaldread]

iam driving 830 miles just to get the issue! Only becuase ill be on vacation when it comes out :D

[jaysaw]

To quote the great wacko and yacko- HEEEELLLLLOOOO NURSE!:D

Oh, the the contents looks killer.:evil:

[KISS Fan]

Looks Great. I love the cover. I am looking forward to the trivia as well as the porn.

[brainbug]

Rollin, Larraz and Romay! Could this be the best issue ever?

[Melo]

Originally posted by KISS Fan
I am looking forward to the trivia as well as the porn. lol...me too.

This looks like a great one. Can't wait. Fapfapfapfapfap

[Count Whackula]

Mmmmmmmmmmm....... Pornography.

[Vampy Von Pire]

Hell yes! Chad's a talented mofo!

[Boudin Noir]

Cant go wrong with horror and porn.Looking forward to it.

[iuchiban]

Looks like another awesome issue.

[triefy]

Originally posted by Melo
Fapfapfapfapfap

Color me disturbed.

[ROBERT BLACK]

Now this is more like it!:thumb: I may even pick this one up at the Morgue store if advance copies are available?

[HammerHorrorFan]

Originally posted by lethaldread
iam driving 830 miles just to get the issue! Only becuase ill be on vacation when it comes out :D

That is too funny! LOL. Looks like another great issue.

Notice how a few well-written words in RM are comparable to a long article in most other film magazines?

[Jovanka Vuckovic]

Originally posted by ROBERT BLACK
Now this is more like it!:thumb: I may even pick this one up at the Morgue store if advance copies are available?

Yes it's already here.

[Mr. Monster]

Looking forward to the cover story for sure. Also, I really like TCM2, should be an interesting article.

So, could you guys mail mine early? (pretty please?)

[HammerHorrorFan]

Is that cover a photo or artwork? It might just be hard to tell from the smaller size.

I like the fact that you stick with art for most of your covers, and hope that continues.

[Ghoulish Gary Pullin]

Originally posted by HammerHorrorFan
Is that cover a photo or artwork? It might just be hard to tell from the smaller size.

I like the fact that you stick with art for most of your covers, and hope that continues.

That's a photograph from Jean Rollin's Living Dead Girl.

We love illustrated covers too. It's a great tradition and I'm sure there will be more on future issues!

[Nonsense]

SCHIZOID CINEPHILE:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.


YES!



THE GORE-MET:
Menu: Antropophagus.


YES!

Well done and bloody rare!

[Perryoke Terror]

Yeah, this one will not be a work friendly issue, but that's half the fun! I too am looking forward to Alexander's words on TCM2 and I recently picked up D'amato's Anthropophagus so this looks like yet another stellar issue.

[Uberdemon]

Looks like another phenomenal issue! It amazes me how Rue-Morgue is ALWAYS ahead of the horror curve! I can't wait to get mine! I'm gooey with gory anticipation!

[Draccenstein]

Originally posted by deathmachine
Well this issue isn't going to be work safe! lol

***when I say "you" I don't mean deathmachine in particular, I mean us, the readers in general***

that is such a sad statement when you think about it. How has it come to the point where we're frightened to bring a friggin movie magazine to work with us?

The Cover doesn't feature this woman with her legs wrapped around her head giving us a full view of her nether regions and from the looks of it you don't even see her nipples. IMO, this cover is no worse than any Maxim, FHM or Stuff out there on the shelves.

If it's the content inside that makes this a not "work safe" issue then that's worse because if it's your's and as long as your not flashing the pages to everyone in sight then it's nobody's business even if there's nudity inside or not.

It stinks to high heaven because even with the non nudity cover and you not showing this to people around you, there is still the fear of "what if someone sees this and is offended? I could be disiplined or worse, I could lose my job".

What a society!

[KISS Fan]

Kick ass. I got this in the mail today. I will dig through this tonight and post my thoughts. I did see that Iuchiban got a letter posted in the Post Mortem section.

[jaysaw]

Originally posted by Draccenstein
***when I say "you" I don't mean deathmachine in particular, I mean us, the readers in general***

that is such a sad statement when you think about it. How has it come to the point where we're frightened to bring a friggin movie magazine to work with us?

The Cover doesn't feature this woman with her legs wrapped around her head giving us a full view of her nether regions and from the looks of it you don't even see her nipples. IMO, this cover is no worse than any Maxim, FHM or Stuff out there on the shelves.

If it's the content inside that makes this a not "work safe" issue then that's worse because if it's your's and as long as your not flashing the pages to everyone in sight then it's nobody's business even if there's nudity inside or not.

It stinks to high heaven because even with the non nudity cover and you not showing this to people around you, there is still the fear of "what if someone sees this and is offended? I could be disiplined or worse, I could lose my job".

What a society!

Hey drac, i agree. But i can't wait to take it to my work with my two VERY religious work colleges. even cop a spec of the cover they will send me to the very depths of hell! I can't wait!:evil:

[HammerHorrorFan]

Hey, I like the redesigned postings pages, but where is the RM Hammer avatar?!? I want it back! :)

[Monica S. Kuebler]

HammerHorrorFan - Try reselecting it from the avatar menu in "edit avatar" in the User CP. If you don't see it there drop me a PM and let me know. A few things may have been lost during the board upgrade, if we know what they are chances are we can put them back without too much trouble.

[HammerHorrorFan]

HammerHorrorFan - Try reselecting it from the avatar menu in "edit avatar" in the User CP. If you don't see it there drop me a PM and let me know. A few things may have been lost during the board upgrade, if we know what they are chances are we can put them back without too much trouble.

Monica,
Your pm's are full.

No, I looked twice and don't see the RM Hammer avatar anymore. Can you get it back up into the avatars list and let me know when you do?

I'd love to have it back!

Thanks!!

[Clayton_George]

...when I checked to see why my Leatherface wasn't coming up, NONE of the avatars showed up, only the "broken" images and the "selected" green dots. Ahem...I think the term is, "If it ain't broken, don't fix it."...(sigh)...seems like the overall situation is: if it's an original avatar, it doesn't come up. If it's from somewhere else, it comes up. Odd...

[Monica S. Kuebler]

...when I checked to see why my Leatherface wasn't coming up, NONE of the avatars showed up, only the "broken" images and the "selected" green dots. Ahem...I think the term is, "If it ain't broken, don't fix it."...(sigh)...seems like the overall situation is: if it's an original avatar, it doesn't come up. If it's from somewhere else, it comes up. Odd...

Well, it was broken - remember how everyone was complaining about the avatars crapping out and refusing to upload. This was the only way to begin to fix the problem - the software we were using was YEARS outdated.

It is easy enough to replace the missing public avatars as long as folks tell me which ones didn't make it through the transition/upgrade.

[Clayton_George]

Well, it was broken - remember how everyone was complaining about the avatars crapping out and refusing to upload. This was the only way to begin to fix the problem - the software we were using was YEARS outdated.

It is easy enough to replace the missing public avatars as long as folks tell me which ones didn't make it through the transition/upgrade.
..............OK. By the way, Monica, thanks for not losing your temper at all the "no sir, I don't like it" bitching and whining going on, while you're all running around like maniacs trying to fix the problems AND run a magazine AND all the other things. It can't be easy. (big hug)...

[FFD]

This March has been an absolutely tragic, depressing and exhausting month. I'm looking forward to this issue so I can escape for a while.

[Bub's_Razor]

___

[RaoulDuke]

I love the cover. My well known love for bloody naked women aside, it's laid out really well. I hate busy covers.

Sure, I'm going to buy the issue anyhoo, but... that's no excuse for bad layout.
Well done.

I'll buy it, as per usual, with my copy of BIG BUTT and LEG SHOW at Tower.

You have to love the irony- I don't subscribe to RUE, but I DO subscribe to Martha Stewart's LIVING.

[Asmodeus]

Very nice. The sexy horror issue!

I LIKE IT!

[hypnos]

looks nice in person too. my copy showed up today!

[Asmodeus]

Oh wait...shit!
How am I going to read this on the subway?

I get enough tisks and stares with all the Rue issues.

Oh well... f#$@ em!

P.S. Oh goody, Rue will have to come in a brown wrapper soon!

[Norman]

two words: porn... POOORN! :angel:

[deathmachine]

***when I say "you" I don't mean deathmachine in particular, I mean us, the readers in general***

that is such a sad statement when you think about it. How has it come to the point where we're frightened to bring a friggin movie magazine to work with us?

The Cover doesn't feature this woman with her legs wrapped around her head giving us a full view of her nether regions and from the looks of it you don't even see her nipples. IMO, this cover is no worse than any Maxim, FHM or Stuff out there on the shelves.

If it's the content inside that makes this a not "work safe" issue then that's worse because if it's your's and as long as your not flashing the pages to everyone in sight then it's nobody's business even if there's nudity inside or not.

It stinks to high heaven because even with the non nudity cover and you not showing this to people around you, there is still the fear of "what if someone sees this and is offended? I could be disiplined or worse, I could lose my job".

What a society!

Unfortunatly that's the case with where I work. I don't have a problem with the cover, but I might offend someone reading it at work. Now I do work with a great bunch of people in my department who know me well, but it's whose out of the department that circulate around my desk and might glance at what I've got hidden under some papers and snatch it for further inspection.

I've got a Trailer Park Boys calendar hanging up in my office and I can hear the old "Betty's" tisk tisk it as they walk by. With this cover, no nudity is involved, but the implications of what's going on can run miles in someone's uneducated mind. Think of the movie Office Space, then think of the female who's passing cake around. Nuff said.

When people get fired in my office for gossip, I'll simply enjoy reading this month's issue in the comforts of my home.

[KillerShrew]

Fuck me! This looks like a groovy one! Can't wait 'til it hits the stands.

[Thanatos]

WHOOOO HOOOO! Got mine in the mail today. I'm at work so I gotta wait to read it. Looks awesome tho.

Be sure to go strait to page 65 and check out the Vampirewear.com ad. :P

[Spookyfresh]

I received my issue yesterday. I hate read about half of the articles and I think this is another great issue. I just read the "Slither" article and I am now totally wanting to see it this weekend. I STILL have not seen trailers for it so I did not know what to expect.

[KISS Fan]

WHOOOO HOOOO! Got mine in the mail today. I'm at work so I gotta wait to read it. Looks awesome tho.

Be sure to go strait to page 65 and check out the Vampirewear.com ad. :P

I noticed that. Nice Ad. Of course she did post that picture on here not too long ago.

[Andromeda]

:regan: Thanks for the love Jovanka & the rest of the corpses on the Rue Morgue staff! We're stoked on the mention of our film and the review of the soundtrack in Issue 55!

[Bloodloss]

Unfortunatly that's the case with where I work. I don't have a problem with the cover, but I might offend someone reading it at work. Now I do work with a great bunch of people in my department who know me well, but it's whose out of the department that circulate around my desk and might glance at what I've got hidden under some papers and snatch it for further inspection.

I've got a Trailer Park Boys calendar hanging up in my office and I can hear the old "Betty's" tisk tisk it as they walk by. With this cover, no nudity is involved, but the implications of what's going on can run miles in someone's uneducated mind. Think of the movie Office Space, then think of the female who's passing cake around. Nuff said.

When people get fired in my office for gossip, I'll simply enjoy reading this month's issue in the comforts of my home.

I live in a small,very religious town and I had to ask a grocery store to order Rue for me.They always have to hide Rue and Fango way in the back so nobody will see.People have got such problems with things they don't understand.It's rather sad.

[SavageSinister]

On behalf of the World Horror Convention 2006 (http://www.whc2006.org) Committee, I'd like to thank Monica and the Rue Crue for the rockin' write-up on Page 10 of #55! I've spent the last year promoting the WHC to the best of my abilities, and this coverage is the icing on a very deserving cake!

As a quick update, Clive Barker had to cancel due to his schedule, but Bill Moseley has stepped up to be our Media Guest of Honor, and Ray "Live Girls" Garton has been named as the WHC Grand Master Award Winner, and will be at the convention.

We hope to see you all out in San Fran this May, and in Toronto in 2007!!

[Boudin Noir]

Be sure to go strait to page 65 and check out the Vampirewear.com ad. :PThats cute dude.Judging by your facial expression I think you might have your bite me thong on backwards.:D

[Vampy Von Pire]

Thats cute dude.Judging by your facial expression I think you might have your bite me thong on backwards.:D

I only let him wear my skirts, not my undies. :P

[jaysaw]

I only let him wear my skirts, not my undies. :P


Why does it not surprise me steve wears skirts! Just be carefull vamps, my prediction of you going round to his and him in the lingerie he bought you could come true!:lol:

[Clayton_George]

...sweet, the avatars are back. Hello, 'face! Nice to see you...
...now, to get to the business at hand (big grin), my copy should be in palm...um..hand by the end of the week, one hopes...sometimes, Nova Scotia mail is rather Twilight-Zone-y, so...looking forward to the new bumper sticker...

[Count Whackula]

Got mine in the mail today.

[iuchiban]

Got mine yeasterady I'm to the feature article which is as far as I can read here at work...

Sweet so far, and I got a letter printed!!!

[HammerHorrorFan]

Got my issue at Border's yesterday.

Sure agree here with the final statements made in Joel Wickland's letter. Gore is SOOOO overdone today. That sentiment is probably due to my age as well (42). But, honestly, gore is just a cheap scare.

So I love seeing RM embrace films that don't rely on gore to frighten. I thought Blair Witch and Sixth Sense were enough to change the face of horror films, and they sure did help, but now things are slipping back into gore for gore's sake. Not a good trend.........

Even though RM has more than it's share of gore, it still sure is a great read. I'll be voting for it in the next Rondo awards I'm sure.

[Boudin Noir]

Different taste I guess.I thought the Blitch and 6th Sense were overrated and I've been enjoying the return to gore in the theaters but its cool that Rue Morgue has stuff that appeals to both of us.

[Greg Lamberson]

Amazing issue--reminds me of cINEFaNtaSTIQUE 25 years ago, when it took more than 2 hrs. to read an entire issue. I'll be digesting this one for days.

Greg

[HammerHorrorFan]

Amazing issue--reminds me of cINEFaNtaSTIQUE 25 years ago, when it took more than 2 hrs. to read an entire issue. I'll be digesting this one for days.

Greg

I hear you. What strikes me about RM is the quality of the writing. I have every issue of CFQ, and was happy to see it come back after Fred's passing, but those run-on sentences in CFQ sure get annoying.

There is more real info in 1 page of RM than in 5 pages of most other newsstand mags.

[superbeast]

Awesome!, can't wait to buy it Jovanka, i hope it wasen't April Fools joke. :tongue:

[livingdeadboy]

Looking forward to reading it:)

[Asmodeus]

Someone stole the latest issue out of my office on Friday. BUMMER!
Hmmm, the cleaners have been looking a little more goth lately.

[Etidorhpa]

that is so amazing!

[Asmodeus]

Wonderful AV! Etidorhpa

Where's it from?

[Clayton_George]

...got mine yesterday. Greg Lamberson's stone right; RM does remind me of the old-style CFQ ( I've got CFQ all the way back to the BLACK HOLE issue, and the dense, information-packed writing style is very similar.), but with more than a touch of the "Castle of Frankenstein" intelligence behind the words. This issue is...well, let's say that I may have to get a second copy...(evil grin)...

[brainbug]

Still waiting for mine. Anybody in Ottawa gotten theirs yet?

[Dread]

Got mine in the mail today. Have to wait to get home to flip through it. Work would be a bad place to read this seeing as I'm teaching grades 3-5 today...

[Chainsaw]

I just wanted to take a quick second to say how much I enjoyed (actually, enjoying. I'm still reading it) this month's issue. It's wonderful to see the mag take on such a sticky (pardon the pun) topic such as sex and horror by focusing on the Eurotic movies of the 60's and 70's. Presenting such a thoughtful and insightful view on this, framed with great interviews from the creators of such wonderfully disgusting fare, just reminded me more why RM is my favorite mag going. And, as much as I love porn and horror mashing together, a lot of great points were brought up about the lack of artistic style to the current crop of splatterporn. Again, great work by all.

The Slither interview and comic book zombies was pretty good, too. ;)

[Sindaddy58]

I loved the new issue, couldn't put it down, I just wish there could have been more info about other directors who direct eurorotic horror films or here in the states as well, keep up the good work and hope to find the next issue sometime soon, by the way...........congrats Jovanka on making editor-in-chief, i know i'm late but, oh well, your the hottest editor-in-chief i know....lol
;)

[undeadfred]

http://www.midnite-films.com

The movie is called Blood Lake