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The current issue is another winner, boasting beautiful Rick Melton cover art and a fascinating main feature on John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980), the spooky ghost story that was Carpenter’s follow-up to his breakthrough hit, Halloween. Not a major success in its day, it has nevertheless gone on to attract a cult following. The feature contains up to date interviews with many of the principal players. We’d also like to bang the death drums for the second part of Denis Meikle’s bewitching feature on voodoo horror films, which covers everything from ‘‘TTHHEERREE’’SS Val Lewton’s 1943 masterpiece, I Walked With a Zombie, to Roy Castle’s creepily comical experiences in Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965). SSOOMMEETTHHIINNGG Not many modern day magazines bring you exhaustive articles charting the history of Filipino horrors, but you’ll find just such a fun feature here. IINN TTHHEE FFOOGG......’’ Local boy director Eddie Romero states: “A woman running naked through the jungle was a vital part of the formula”. Boy did we have fun illustrating AA CCAARRPPEENNTTEERR CCLLAASSSSIICC this one. You can also saddle up for a wild and woolly piece on Weird Westerns, exploring cult RREEVVIISSIITTEEDD chillers with a Western setting, including the likes of Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter and Curse of the Undead, where the gunslinger in black was also a vampire. EERIE OATERS On the interview front we catch up with actress FIENDS THAT Jennifer Ashley, star of such movies as Inseminoid WALKED THE WEST and Guyana: Cult of the Damned, and director Michael Armstrong and Valerie Leon recall their BLOOD ISLAND involvement with Hammer’s troubled 1971 movie, MEMORIES Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb. FILIPINO FRIGHTS There’s a lot more, of course, including all the GHASTLY ONE usual news and reviews, plus the shocking true-life ANDY MILLIGAN’S story of grindhouse auteur Andy Milligan (no relation to Spike) as told in the new FAB Press book, BLOOD RITES The Ghastly One. That’s all in Dark Side 209, in shops right now. And if you can’t find one open, take out a subscription! 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In an unsettling reversal of the normal important-looking officer was talking to camera but as I was way of things, teenagers have been yelling at their parents not a lip reader and there were no subtitles it was anybody’s for going out too much. It feels like nature has sent us all to guess as to what he was rattling on about. He gave a thumbs our rooms for being idiots. I certainly didn’t expect my post- up at the end however, signifying that the battle, and the apocalypse outfit to be an Only Fools and Horses dressing war, was obviously going in the right direction. gown, or that my freezer would be stuffed full of toilet rolls. That left two other 35mm reels. The biggest one Anyway, we’re back, even if a big proportion of society turned out to be Helpful Hints on Football from Danny is still being cautious. And don’t worry if you didn’t get out Blanchflower, in which the famed Irish-born Tottenham to the shops to pick up issue 27 because this is it and you Hotspur footballer served up visual demonstrations of haven’t missed anything aside from standing in a queue for his sporting prowess while running around the pitch in 40 minutes. As usual we have plenty of nostalgic overwhelmingly large shorts. There were treats lined up for you and one that brings back no fouls in evidence or indeed spectators particularly fond memories for me is Richard raising the question of the referee’s dubious Molesworth’s fun feature on Chad Valley parentage, though a few of the players did Give-a-Show Projectors. stop by the goal mouth for a well-deserved Every kid seemed to have one back in my coffin nail. Danny was a big celebrity back day. They were a bit cheap and cheerful, then and he made it into the record books but they allowed users to create “shows” as the only person who refused to accept using light projectors and cut-outs. Many Eamonn Andrews’ big red book on This is Your of the Give-a-Show supplements were based Life, considering it an invasion of privacy. He on popular series, such as Planet of the Apes and is still a legend today and according to the official Star Wars. In 1965, a series of Doctor Who comic slides Spurs website, their exclusive Blanchflower lounge offers were released. These were the first Who comics to feature an “informal match-day experience where complimentary companions from the TV show, namely Barbara Wright gourmet deli sandwiches are served”. Not sure if you are still and Ian Chesterton. Just prior to me getting one of these allowed to smoke behind the goal posts though. projectors for Christmas, around 1963, I was rooting around Moving on, however, when I started cranking the handle in the coal shed of our prefab home in Westcott and trying on my fourth and final movie ‘discovery’ an image leapt out on my dad’s gas mask, which smelled horrible, and I of a rather voluptuous young lady laboriously unbuttoning unearthed some rusty cans of old 35mm film. her corsets in preparation for a bubble bath. Unfortunately When I showed them to my dad he did some further my mum made me stop cranking away before the plot digging and uncovered a small hand-cranked 35mm could fully develop, and when my dad came home from the projector. It even had a working bulb and so that evening pub he got a bit of verbal GBH. “It won’t do him any harm” I settled down to enjoy some celluloid delights on the I could hear him protesting. I did have strange dreams that kitchen wall. First out of the box was a very short reel which night, though. opened on what looked like a theatre stage as someone or I guess that the Give-a-Show Projector was a natural something was about to be unveiled. To my great delight it extension of that old hand-cranked 35mm effort. Okay, the turned out to be an enormous monkey, later known to me pictures didn’t move but they were pretty good quality for and everyone else as King Kong! The trouble is, I only got a as long as the bulb lasted, and they kept us amused giving few quick glimpses of this magnificent creature before the shows to our friends and family in a world far different to reel ended. Crikey, I couldn’t wait to see the full version! the one we live in today. Come to think of it, I wished I’d Eagerly I threaded up a second, slightly longer reel, held on to mine for this lock-down. which was actually in lurid colour and seemed to consist of Allan Bryce. 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You can reach us by via: WEB: www.infinitymagazine.co.uk EMAIL: [email protected] FACEBOOK: Infinity Magazine ADDRESS: I NFINITY Magazine, Ghoulish Publishing Ltd, 29 Cheyham Way, South Cheam, Surrey, SM2 7HX IINNFFIINNIITTYY 55 Name of feature THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME The Infinity team bring you news on your favourite TV shows and movie franchises, including the very first InfiniFest at London’s Genesis cinema and our great new book on alien invasions! PANDEMIC UPDATE This adaptation (by comedy writer Nev Fountain) is Normally we’d be telling you all about upcoming sci-fi based on Lloyd’s original pitch document featuring conventions, but of course this dreadful global pandemic extensive notes from Adams himself.   has knocked them all on the head for the time being. Here’s a run-down of the storyline. It even put paid to our planned InfiniFest at the end of Earth - a small, insignificant planet. Entirely devoid May, where we had some great films and guests lined up. of intelligent life.  At least that’s according to the Tahned Gween deosnis’t c einveenm kan ios wst yilel tc liof sweed waisl lI b wer aitbel eth teos heo wldo rodusr THE THE MAGwAZwINwE. iBnEYfiOnNiDt yYOmURa IgMaAzGiINnAeT.IcOoN.uk ltehgeaml sdeolcvuesm aetn tthse.  Tcheen tDreo cotfo ar, mRoomsta unnau asnuda lK t9ri afiln. d  DarkFest there this year. It’s not planned until the end of GFRUOIDME STPOA VCIESITORS   A intergalactic corporation want to bulldoze the November, so fingers crossed. planet for a development project. Only a previous It also affected production and distribution of our court’s preservation document is standing in their way. magazines. This issue was originally scheduled to hit The Doctor has been summoned as an expert witness. shops on April 30th, but since sales of issue 26 were badly If he can prove Earth contains intelligent life, the whole affected by shop closures, especially in travel points and world will be saved. But with a fortune at stake... it was in American stores, we decided to basically just move the never going to be that simple.  next publication date on six weeks to June 11. We could #01 EDITED BY ALLAN BRYCE  Director Nicholas Briggs said: “The Doomsday have gone ahead with a smaller print run for subscribers Contract is a tremendous example of the best kind of story from that era only, but since 85% of our regular readers buy the magazine in shops that of Doctor Who where the brief was to veer from overt violence and threat would have been most unfair to those building a collection. to wit and fun. When I was a teenager, I was far too serious for this sort of What we decided to do in the interim period was finish work on our thing. But what we have in this story is a tremendously witty script by Nev Invasion! book, which has been a great success on the pre-order front Fountain that made me laugh out loud when I read it. But it’s not simply a and is now in stock - check out the ad elsewhere in this issue. We also comedy. It’s loaded with threat and adventure and brilliant characters all embarked on a run of reprints, giving us small quantities of Infinity issues mixed up in a really special story. I loved it.”  2, 3, 5 and 6, as well as our long-out-of-print Doctor Who and Horror The Doomsday Contract is now available for pre-order as a collector’s Classics specials. We still have copies left and plan to reprint issues 7, 8, 9, edition 2-disc box set or download from just £12.99, exclusively at the Big 10 and 11 in the coming months so you can all have a fighting chance of Finish website - www.bigfinish.com completing your Infinity collections.  Big Finish listeners can save money by pre-ordering a bundle of forthcoming adventures from The Lost Stories range, including both Return John Leeson and Tom Baker, of the Cybermen and The Doomsday Contract, from just £25.  back together for Big Finish’s  Due to scheduling changes, both Fourth Doctor Lost Stories (The The Doomsday Contract Doomsday Contract and Return of the Cybermen) are now due for release in March 2021.   THE WORM RETURNS A lot of blockbuster movies planned for release in 2020 have been pushed back until 2021 now, but one major sci-fi effort that hasn’t is Denis Villeneuve’s new big screen version of Frank Herbert’s famous 1965 sci-fi novel, Dune. As previously planned, the movie will arrive in cinemas in December in time for the Christmas holidays, and the director is anticipating that audiences will enjoy the release together. “I look forward to a time when we can all get together again as Dune was made to be seen on the big screen,” he said in a recent interview. In this intergalactic, future-set saga, Timothy Chalamet’s Paul hails from an aristocratic family on the planet of Caladan who decide to take over the desert world of Arrakis, which is rich in an essential spice TOM BAKER IS BACK AS DOCTOR WHO Timothy Chalamet called melange. A Doctor Who story treatment initially developed by TV comedy producer and Rebecca ”The immediately Ferguson in Dune John Lloyd in 1979 will finally see the light of day as a full-cast audio appealing thing about (2020) drama with the original lead actors.   The next Doctor Who – The Lost Paul was the fact that in Stories release from our friends at Big Finish will be John Lloyd’s Fourth a story of such detail and Doctor adventure, The Doomsday scale and world-building, Contract. Tom Baker, Lalla Ward the protagonist is on an and John Leeson reprise their anti-hero’s-journey of roles as the Doctor, Romana and sorts,” Chalamet says. K-9 in a story which was originally “He thinks he’s going intended for production as a Doctor to be sort of a young Who television adventure during general studying his the show’s seventeenth season. father and his leadership At the time, Douglas Adams (of of a fighting force later Hitchhikers’ Guide to the before he comes of age, Galaxy fame) was the series’ script hopefully a decade later, editor and flat-mate of John Lloyd. or something like that.” 66 IINNFFIINNIITTYY Name of feature Jill, who died aged 83 in April played DI Forbes in the trailblazing series Denis Villeneuve on set for his from 1980 to 1984. new version of “The Gentle Touch had been the first telly drama to base itself around Dune a female copper,” she told an interviewer in 2008. “Helen Mirren and Prime Suspect came after me.” Before The Gentle Touch, 1970s police dramas such as The Sweeney and The Professionals marginalised women, but Maggie was a new kind of detective. She tackled topical crimes involving prostitution, racism, euthanasia, anti-Semitism and mental health more empathetically than would have been possible for her predecessors. The Gentle Touch was created by Terence Feely, whose previous writing credits included The Avengers, The Saint and The Persuaders. It was a huge success – one 1982 episode was the fifth most popular programme that year, with more than 18 Chalamet is just one of many big names attached to the project. Oscar million viewers, one place higher in the ratings than a programme that carried on Isaac plays Paul’s father, Duke Leto Atreides, while Rebecca Ferguson as if feminism had never happened, The Benny Hill Show. plays his mother, Lady Jessica. Josh Brolin portrays Gurney Halleck Once The Gentle Touch finished in 1984, she took the lead in another and Jason Momoa is Duncan Idaho, two warriors training Paul in combat. Feely drama, C.A.T.S. Eyes. Its premise was that Forbes had joined Eyes, a Javier Bardem is Stilgar, the leader of a group of indigenous people called private detective agency in Kent, which was a front for an all-woman Home Fremen. Zendaya will star as Paul’s love interest, Chani, a mysterious woman Office team, Covert Activities Thames Section. with shining blue eyes. After C.A.T.S. Eyes finished in 1987, she starred with John Thaw in the last Stellan Skarsgård is Baron Vladimir, a rhino-like creature and leader of series of the ITV sitcom Home to Roost, but she never repeated the ratings House Harkonnen, a great house on Arrakis that feuds with the Atreides triumph of The Gentle Touch. She moved to Los Angeles in the 90s with her family. French cinematic icon Charlotte Rampling is the reverend mother of second husband, the actor Alfred Molina, and wrote three successful novels. the Bene Gesserit, an order of women who can read or control minds. (Paul’s In 2009, it was announced that she was scheduled to return to British mother Jessica is part of this group.) And Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Rogue television in EastEnders, playing Glenda Mitchell, mother of Ronnie and One) is Dr. Liet Kynes, an ecologist who tries to keep peace between the Roxy. But on the first day on set the following year, she withdrew saying she clashing houses. This character has always been portrayed as a white man, felt she “lacked the right experience to film such a big continuing drama”. but Villeneuve changed the portrayal for his rendition. The role went to Glynis Barber. In 2013, at a Beverly Hills gala to raise money Alejandro Jodorowsky made an unsuccessful attempt to adapt and film for those afflicted with Alzheimer’s, Gascoine announced that she had been Dune in the mid-1970s, and David Lynch brought it to the screen in 1984 diagnosed with the disease, which eventually took her life. after David Lean turned it down. Intriguingly Lynch, in turn, refused the chance to direct Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) telling We also say goodbye George Lucas, “It’s your thing, it’s not my thing.” to beloved cowboy hero It does sound to us that this is very much Denis Villeneuve’s thing, Stuart Whitman who however. He helmed the Oscar-nominated Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 and headed off into the sunset was also behind the lens for 2015’s Sicario and 2013’s Prisoners. In addition on March 16th 2020 at to directing, he also co-wrote the Dune script with Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, A the age of 92. Known Star Is Born) and Jon Spaihts (Prometheus, Doctor Strange). for his rugged roles and handsome charm, the California native had more Stuart Whitman as than 180 credits to his Marshal Jim Crown in Cimarron Strip name between the early (1967-1968) 1950s and 2000. But he was perhaps best known for his westerns alongside Hollywood heavyweight John Wayne, most notably in The Comancheros, a 1961 film directed by Casablanca’s Michael Curtiz. Whitman earned a best actor Oscar nomination that same year for this starring role in the The Mark, a controversial movie about a paedophile. He was cast in the 1965 aviation comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines and played the leading character in the 1972 sci-fi horror flick Night of the Lepus, a cult classic about mutated rabbits. On TV, Whitman was just as prolific, but his most iconic role on the small screen came in the 1960s when he starred as Marshal Jim Crown in the western TV series Cimarron Strip. Whitman made his last on-screen appearance on the 2000 CBS movie The President’s Man. He reportedly made a fortune in real estate and retired in 2000 to his 35-acre ranch in Santa Barbara. IN MEMORIAM We’ve lost a lot of great TV and movie favourites this year already, including the likes of Kirk Douglas, Nicholas Parsons and that fine actor John Stuart Whitman Shrapnell. Now we also mourn the passing of Jill Gascoine, best known for in the ‘Ghoulsville’ her small screen portrayal of Maggie Forbes in the popular detective series story in 1981’s The Monster Club The Gentle Touch. IINNFFIINNIITTYY 77 WELL, HELLO CHEEKY! I t’s that old chestnut: what’s the best children’s humour comic? A show of hands, please, for The Beano…The Dandy…The Beezer…? Well, for my money (What money? I’m not paying you for this drivel—Ed), it has to be none other than IPC’s Cheeky Weekly. I know it’s all subjective. I was ten years old when issue #1 appeared, dated 22 October 1977. An offshoot of Krazy Comic, I saw it advertised and decided to buy it for myself. (I hadn’t got Krazy from the start, so this felt different.) It starred my favourite character from Krazy. I always thought I was a bit ‘cheeky’ myself (Nothing’s changed—Ed), the class prankster, so this guy was right up my street. Also, we had the same teeth. Objectively, however, I do think that the concept for the comic, its USP if you will, is genius. In a nutshell, it set out a weekly narrative across the whole issue, with Cheeky introducing us to all the characters and the serial stories along the way. It was a bold move and tied all the strips together into a beautifully coherent narrative. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think that’s ever been done before or since. If Cheeky is the best comic ever, then issue one is its best issue. Let’s dissect it. When Mark Campbell was a wee lad, Cheeky was his role model. A buck-toothed lad with big ears and a penchant for hoary puns, Mark says he has no idea why he liked him so much…. 8 INFINITY THE CLOSEST THING TO KRAZY WELL, HELLO CHEEKY! Left: The gorgeous Lily Pop appeared in 113 issues of Cheeky Weekly. She was employed as a school crossing supervisor (or ‘lollipop lady’, hence her name), but she was guaranteed to stop the traffic even without her ‘lollipop’ The cover gift is a Red Jet Rattler (paper plane to you and me), which sadly I lost years ago. We start proper with SUNDAY. Cheeky’s doing his paper round, swapping jokes with Cheeky’s Dad does all day—so is his Milkie and Manhole Man, characters familiar boss!”), and then slip up to the attic to to Krazy readers, until he comes to a house find one of his Dad’s old… no, not porn with a ramp and—RUMBLE! ZOOM! ROAR!— mags, but a page from a 1949 Knockout something rushes out, nearly knocking Comic. It was a brilliant way of reusing old him over. It’s Skateboard Squad, who (i.e. ancient) material. Other old comics appear overleaf, drawn by Jimmy Hansen. included Radio Fun (1958) and School (Skateboards were the ‘in’ thing in 1977. That Friend (1950). When his Dad catches him, and some sci-fi movie.) The Squad dutifully Cheeky dashes downstairs to find Doodle protect some little kids from playground Doug proffering a simple three-frame bullies and then it’s onto SUNDAY evening cartoon. The following year, Doug (or and back to Cheeky, this time encountering rather, artist Jack Clayton) would draw the Walter Wurx, an old favourite, who rushes full-page Paddywack strip, about a thick off when Cheeky tells him his Dad’s new Irishman—I’m saying nothing—who car registration starts with “P”. Mocking would then interact with Cheeky at odd incontinence? You’d never get away with that moments in ‘real life’. It was all very meta. now, it’d be taking the piss. MONDAY, and following Cheeky’s After a full-colour poster of the lad Cheeky is called in for bedtime and encounter with the buxom Lily Pop (“Tell me himself, we come to WEDNESDAY and settles down with Fangs of Fear—cue a a joke, big boy!”), he gets home just in time find Cheeky in a glum mood, as he’s glorious double-page spread by Massimo to watch Episode One of 6 Million Dollar Gran, babysitting Baby Burpo, a toddler who Belardinelli as James Bold and Angel O’Mercy yet another riff on the popular TV show— makes Damien from The Omen look investigate a mist-shrouded Yorkshire Krazy had The 12½p Buytonic Boy. Drawn by angelic. Cheeky’s wheeze is to read him mansion. But at the cliffhanger moment, the great Ian Knox, this would last to the end a ‘Creepy Sleepy Tale’ (in the style of Cheeky’s Mum turns his light off. We’d have to of the run and beyond, eventually renamed Monster Fun’s classic Badtime Bedtime wait till next Sunday! This was apparently a Robot Granny. Storybook), with the aim of traumatising redrawn version of Maxwell Hawke from 1960s TUESDAY we see Cheeky meet his Dad the little bleeder so much he’ll never need Buster—can Infinity readers confirm this? from work (“If you’re wondering what to babysit again. IINNFFIINNIITTYY 9 9 Name of feature ROGER CROW searching for a ‘mystery comic’. In the first issue he ends up in a dentist’s waiting room, in the second a barber’s etc. What they read is Mustapha Million, about a lonely Arab boy who has so much money he bribes people to like him. It’s what nowadays might be termed ‘culturally insensitive’. Later, Mustapha would form the core of a separate comic inside Cheeky called…The Mystery Comic. Imaginative, eh? Reg Parlett and Joe McCaffrey shared artistic duties. On SATURDAY, Cheeky goes to his local cinema to watch the Saturday morning picture show. Remember those? I do. (No, you’re not doing an article on those!—Ed) But before Space Family Robinson starts (Episode 1: The Snatch—no sniggering at the back), there’s an old Warner Bros reprint to represent the supporting feature. This is easily the weakest bit of the comic, but at least it makes narrative sense. (The thrilling serial itself ran for a whopping 36 instalments.) As Cheeky emerges from the cinema and walks past people already queuing outside the newsagent for the next issue, the first ever Cheeky Weekly comes to an end. A MAMMOTH JOB In that first issue, we had nine comic strips (seven brand new) plus twelve pages of full-on Cheeky action. It was a heady mix, and it lasted pretty much unchanged till the end. Frank McDiarmid provided all the Cheeky content (words and art) in #1, and the lion’s share across the whole run. (It was such a mammoth job that various artists ‘ghosted’ for him over the next 117 issues: Tom Patterson, Dick when that adventure was over, he’d watch Millington, Jim Petrie and Barrie Appleby.) the next one, Island of Fear, on the big screen It’s no exaggeration to say the success of (issue dated 1 July 1978). The same issue the comic was largely down to him, though. introduced us to Calculator Kid, a trusting He combined a free-flowing, sketchy style lad who always did exactly what his pocket with a graphic art sensibility, creating bold, calculator told him, however weird. As imaginative designs that swept across the lessons in blind obedience go, it was second page. And he would fill every frame with to none. Sadly he never typed out ‘58008’ Top left-right: But of course it’s Cheeky who gets the detail. For instance, written on the side of a and held it upside-down. (What we kids did From the willies. Artists for this, which usually formed van: “Rue De Noise – Paris” (I think I’ve only before the internet, eh?) first issue of the colour centre pages, included Mike Brown got this, 43 years after the fact). Cheeky Weekly, readers had and Keith Reynolds. The 1977 Christmas issue revealed more THEMED ISSUES been intrigued THURSDAY sees Cheeky meet more pals about Cheeky’s family, with his toothy Mum Sometimes Cheeky would indulge in themed by Cheeky’s weekly search and then go to Oscar’s house to watch his and Dad inviting Flash Harry to take a photo issues. One of the best was the issue dated for a copy of The latest Super 8 epic. “I hope it’s as hilarious of all his aunts and uncles and cousins and 19 August 1978 in which Crystal Belle Mystery Comic, a publication which as your last one,” says Cheeky. “Especially grandparents—all toothy, even their dog! predicted what life would be like sixty years was evidently the serious bits!” Back in the 1970s, making When the festivities are over, Cheeky’s so hence in 2038. Suddenly Cheeky and his pals not sold in the movies was a big hobby. I made lots of them sleepy it’s left to his pet Snail (who’d later get were decrepit OAPS —although if Cheeky newsagents of Cheeky’s when I was a kid—fancy an article, Allan? his own back page strip, Snail of the Century) was, say, ten, then he looked considerably neighbourhood (Only if it’s free—Ed) What would follow to conclude the riveting Fangs of Fear, “even older than a mere 70! And some of the adults would be a page drawn by Jack Clayton if it takes me all night to turn the pages!” he met would have been well over 100. Sadly parodying various film genres—Hambush After this, Cheeky would sneak into his the general strips were still from 1978— at Deadmanz Gulch or Airship over England newsagent to read the next James Bold although very cleverly integrated—but all (certificut: “zzz”) for example. adventure, but was always turfed out by the the Cheeky segments kept up the theme, FRIDAY finds Cheeky and his pals owner at the most exciting moment. And with a still-sexy Lily Pop and Baby Burpo as 10 INFINITY