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Best Threequels in 3-D! by VARIOUS 34 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. PLUS! Universal monsters reimagined as… The Mexican Monsters! by LISA MORTON PRIDE OF CHUCKY 44 At long last, one of horror’s longest running franchises becomes a television series. A few killer words with killer doll creator Don Mancini. by ROCCO T. THOMPSON FEMMES FATALES 50 Meet Micheline Pitt and Lynh Haaga, two innovative style mavens who are closing the gap between fan fashion and goth glamour with their boutique label La Femme En Noir. by ANDREA SUBISSATI NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND 6 CINEMACABRE 54 BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS 70 DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS 78 Hyper reality. The newest films reviewed, featuring INKED IN: Drew Zucker and Phillip Sevy’s CURIO: Slasher movie archetypes. Yasuhiko Shimizu’s Cube remake. The House. POST-MORTEM 7 AUDIO DROME 81 Letters from fans, readers and weirdos. REISSUED & REANIMATED 64 THE NINTH CIRCLE 72 NOW PLAYING: Spiritbox. THE CORONER’S REPORT 8 REVIVED: Frightening 4K. SPOTLIGHT: Richard Chizmar’s Chasing PLAY DEAD 84 the Boogeyman. Weird Stats & Morbid Facts, Expired BOWEN’S BASEMENT 66 PLAYING: Five years of Dead by Daylight. Minds, Shadowland and more! DUG UP: The Big Meat Eater (1982). THE FRIGHT GALLERY 76 VS 86 NEEDFUL THINGS 10 BLACK MUSEUM 68 ON DISPLAY: The Vintage Visions of DEBATE: Lovecraft or Poe: whose writings Austin Pardun. Strange trinkets from our bazaar of the EXHIBIT: The Last Man on Earth (1964). are more morbid? bizarre. II t’s that time of year again! I live four blocks from the nearest Bath and Body Works and I can smell the STAFF pumpkin spice candles from here – which is handy, because it’s hard to smell them in the store through my face mask. Rue Morgue’s annual fall double issue represents several things – our anniversary, for PUBLISHER EXECUTIVE EDITOR one; another tickmark on my coffin lid; another thatch of grey hair on my head; another year of winning Rodrigo Gudiño ANDREA SUBISSATI the battle against That Which Can’t Be Helped (a.k.a. the various hurdles of existence as a niche print periodical, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR MUSIC EDITOR MONICA S. KUEBLER AARON VON LUPTON ranging from the economic to the epidemiological). But let’s look on the bright side: I’ve got my Halloween costume picked out! I’m the girl from Logan’s Run, squinting against the sunlight as I emerge from my geodesic ART DIRECTOR GAMES EDITOR ANDREW WRIGHT EVAN MILLAR dome, loosed to rejoin the untouched wilderness and live out the rest of my thirties (lol) in something resembling freedom. OPERATIONS COORDINATOR STAFF WRITER MARIAM BASTANI sean plummer But I have to admit that freedom isn’t feeling the way I expected it to. Never mind the fact that we’re not quite out of the proverbial woods yet, or that my liver appears to have aged ten years in the past two, or that my FINANCIAL CONTROLLER HEAD ONLINE WRITER MARCO PECOTA MICHAEL GINGOLD clothes seem to have all shrunk at once. I’m crashing into a full year’s worth of FOMO and I’m realizing that I’ve become quite well adjusted to existence on my couch with my beloved 2960 x 1440 quad HD+ display and it’s INTERNS ONLINE MANAGING EDITOR Alexandrea Fiorante ROCCO T. THOMPSON been keeping me up at night in more ways than one. Can actual human experience really compete with this slab Haralambo Keriazes ONLINE ASSISTANT EDITOR of sensory instant gratification? And to what extent can I even expect it to? GRACE DETWILER You see, faithful readers, while some relax in the summertime reading campy fiction or beautifully designed MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS MANAGER SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER Canadian horror mags, yours truly sat around fretting about a French philosopher called Jean Baudrillard. We JODY INFURNARI DAVE ALEXANDER first became acquainted about a decade ago – he died in 2007 but his hot takes on postmodern semiology and PH: 905-985-0430 popular culture made him something of a hip cat in my alma mater’s sociology department, and he came up a E: [email protected] lot. I wasn’t the biggest fan at the time – far from what you’d call accessible academia, his work required its own glossary of terms before you could read a sentence, much less comprehend it – but his 1981 philosophical RUE MORGUE INTERNATIONAL treatise Simulacra and Simulation comes up every now and then on The Faculty of Horror podcast, which kept FABIEN DELAGE (FRANCE) facebook.com/RueMorgueFrance it fresh in my mind. Charlotte Stear (UK) facebook.com/RueMorgueUK I’ll attempt to summarize succinctly: JeanBo was concerned with a cultural trend he noticed where the human MOANER T. LAWRENCE (GERMANY) facebook.com/RueMorgueGermany experience was increasingly reliant upon a constructed simulation of reality – the simulacra – that was made up AARON SOTO (MEXICO) facebook.com/RueMorgueMexico of symbols and signs and other forms of meaning that only make sense within a specific cultural context. Like many a grumpy old sociologist, Baudy didn’t have the most positive prognosis for the way society was headed. CONTRIBUTORS This hyper-reality, as he termed it, was just the latest form of Marx’s concerns about alienation, and the result was a complacent populace taking commercial agendas as truth: confusing reality TV as reality, for example, DENMAN C. ANDERSON LAST CHANCE LANCE or taking one tweet as if it represents popular opinion at large. Examples of this hyper-reality anxiety abound in BENOIT BLACK ALISON LANG science fiction movies, often to horrific, dystopian effect – consider The Matrix or Total Recall; if all we have to JOHN W. BOWEN LISA MORTON identify reality is our sensory experience of it, how are we capable of discerning what is real? JAMES BURRELL PASHA NIELSEN Anyway, back to post-lockdown neurosis. My thinking on the subject started leaning into Beaudrillard’s in- PEDRO CABEZUELO JOE O’BRIEN tellectual turf after receiving Paul Corupe’s Files From the Black Museum entry from RM#200, in which he BRYAN CHRISTOPHER DEJAN OGNJANOVIC likens our house-bound quarantine situation to that of the marooned scientists in 1964’s The Time Travelers, RYAN COLEMAN GEORGE PACHECO where flickering electronic screens are not only technological marvels but a veritable lifeline to reality. It got me PAUL CORUPE PATTI PAULEY thinking that even though we’ve spent so much time physically apart, we Rue Morgue weirdos have been using DEIRDRE CRIMMINS STACIE PONDER the same movies for comfort and diversion, the same magazine for insight and community. Yes, we might have JOSE CRUZ PAIGE REYNOLDS been distracting ourselves from a terrible predicament by stargazing but we’ve been looking up at the same ALEX DELLER GRANT SKELTON stars, haven’t we? If Baudrillard is right and we’ve created our own hyper-reality by looking through these same CHRIS HAMMOND JEFF SZPIRGLAS blood-spattered lenses, maybe we’ve actually been much closer to each other than we might have realized. RICK HIPSON BREANNA WHIPPLE I know, I’m a huge nerd who could have just filled this page with the usual Happy Halloweenery that I normally KEVIN HOOVER OWEN WILLIAMS employ to kick off our annual anniversary issue instead of dusting off my old grad school textbooks, but it’s too late to return them and it’s important to me that we don’t look back on these difficult times as a complete loss (and I don’t look back on my masters degree as a complete waste of time). The magazine you hold in your hands RUE MORGUE #202 would not have been possible without can’t tweet or take your picture or lead you via GPS to the nearest Starbucks location but it’s part of the (hyper) the valuable assistance of Itsuki Yoshida, Josh Johnson, Scooter Jay, Trius Winery, the Spirits of the Woods, and Al reality we’re choosing to inhabit – and it’s one I’ll choose any day, not just Halloween. McMullan. Thanks for spending your lockdown with us… and HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Cover art: “The Blood on Satan’s Claw” by John Pearson Design by Andrew Wright Rue Morgue magazine is published bi-monthly and accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photos, art or other materials. Freelance inquiries ANDREA SUBISSATI can be submitted at Rue-Morgue.com. [email protected] RUE MORGUE Magazine #202 ISSN 1481 – 1103 Agreement No. 40033764 Entire contents copyright MARRS MEDIA INC. 2021. R M 6 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN CANADA. THE NEW @ruemorguemag [RM#201] came in saw and read and hoped this wasn’t a one-off. I Toronto. We will bring you a bottle of the good and I am happy as hell! It features a film I nev- eventually found out where to write to subscribe stuff. er even heard of but sounds awesome! Been a and purchased the back issues I was missing, so G.M. DARK, VIA YOUTUBE while since I saw something like that. Props to I now have a complete set of all 200 issues and the Rue team for keeping it fresh! counting! As a lover of all things horror through- RE: “SYMPATHY FOR THE SEQUEL” on Rue Morgue @JEKYL6669, VIA INSTAGRAM out my 57 years on this wicked planet, I found TV – Alex West makes me want to watch these and still find great information in each well-writ- movies I hate all over again. I’ll probably still JUST TREATED myself to an early birthday pres- ten issue of your magazine. From Needful Things hate them, but I’d still watch them again, when I ent. Hard to believe it’s my first subscription (af- to historical nuggets of info to movies I might be normally never would. Ever. ter a decade-plus of buying individual issues), interested in checking out, I find it all delight- WORD UNHEARD, VIA YOUTUBE but here we are! Looking forward to months of fully enjoyable. But my favourite section has to terrifying delights! be the Ninth Circle and the associated sidebars. RE: “TERROR TAROT” on Rue Morgue TV – As a @LAZRON, VIA TWITTER Although I truly enjoy all the staff that contribute fellow tarot enthusiast, I’m always so excited to to the Ninth Circle, a special shout-out, please, spot tarot cards in films. I recently rewatched Fi- JUST BIT THE BULLET and subscribed to @Rue- to Monica S. Kuebler and Dejan Ognjanovic. nal Destination 3 and the opening credits scene Morgue. At least now there will be the odd sur- They’ve introduced me to some amazing horror is full of tarot cards – a really interesting way of prise among all the bills and junk mail. authors that I might not ever have heard about, if representing foreshadowing and the fates of all @TIMMCGREGOR1, VIA TWITTER not for them. Thanks to everyone at Rue Morgue of the characters. I know it’s not film, but the for 200 deliciously delectable issues and many TV series Penny Dreadful also made great use FIRST OFF, I want to congratulate you guys on more! of tarot cards (they actually released a specific 200 issues. Great job! Now I think it’s time to get GREG REISER, VIA EMAIL deck inspired by the series which, of course, I down to more serious matters. For the past few had to get!). Looking forward to more entries in issues, I’ve been reading your Post Mortem sec- COME CELEBRATE with Michael Myers as he this series! tion and noticed that lately a lot of letters have reads the 200th issue of Rue Morgue magazine! THE GLAMOUR GHOUL, VIA YOUTUBE been coming from very disgruntled male readers THIRTEENTH FLOOR IMAGING, VIA FACEBOOK who have issues with the direction the magazine THERE ARE SO MANY frightfully wonderful lead- has taken since you took over from Dave Alexan- ers out there in the Horror/Halloween world, so der. They all seem to be against diversity and the keep being who you are and providing the world message you’ve been sending that everybody great scary things! One of those truly amazing should be welcome in the horror community. leaders is Andrea Subissati, the editor and head As someone who has had Asperger’s Syndrome grave robber at Rue Morgue magazine. Provid- his whole life, I wholeheartedly agree with your ing such a beautiful and thorough magazine, it message and embrace the positivity you’ve been is absolutely one of the scariest writings to come sending out that everybody should be included. out on a regular basis! I know right now there Also, I want to say good job on the Gary Sherman are tons of youth glaring through the pages and interview in RM#199. I bought Dead and Buried being inspired to keep the scare going for gen- and thought your coverage on it was well-timed. erations to come – and some of us “older” folks I also look forward to more of Stacie Ponder’s are drooling over the pages as well. Keep being Devil’s in the Details column in future issues. scary awesome, Andrea, and Rue Morgue, and BEN KASTEN, VIA FACEBOOK RE: “ABSINTHE WITH ANDREA” on Rue Morgue TV here’s to many great decades and new mag is- – I have been a [Rue Morgue] reader since the sues to come! A BIG, BLOODY HAPPY 200th issue to Rue Morgue first year and subscriber for quite a few years, JC GREENING, VIA FACEBOOK magazine! Andrea Subissati and her team con- would love to visit the Manor if we ever get to tinue to deliver incredible content 23 years into their run. All my love to everyone involved. WE ENCOURAGE READERS TO SEND THEIR COMMENTS VIA MAIL OR EMAIL. LETTERS MAY BE EDITED FOR LENGTH AND/OR CONTENT. JUSTIN BEAHM, VIA FACEBOOK PPOLEASSE SENTD T O [email protected] OMR: I REMEMBER back when I was visiting Toronto in 1997 and seeing copies of your relatively small magazine at Suspect Video just off Bloor Street C/O RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE 1411 DUFFERIN STREET and grabbing a couple of them. I liked what I TORONTO, ONTARIO M6H 4C7 CANADA WEIRD STATS & MORBID FACTS ISSUE # 202 ON RUE MORGUE’S Most of 1963’s The Haunting was shot through lenses that add a curvature to the SOCIAL MEDIA walls, making the house seem even more strange. If 2021 was a Halloween In a series of unfortunate events, a bride in Uttar Pradesh, India, suffered a fatal heart costume, what would it be? attack during her Hindu wedding ceremony, prompting the families to agree that the bride’s younger sister would wed the groom later that day. A shrug emoji with a hatchet. The songs “Red Right Hand” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Ride the Lightning” @KEVINSHAUNTEDTOYBOX, by Metallica, and “The Piper” by ABBA were all inspired by the Stephen King novel VIA INSTAGRAM The Stand. “The Pugilistic Stance” refers to a common condition of severely burned bodies, It would be one of the old vinyl mon- characterized by flexion of elbows, knees, hip, and neck, and clenching of hand into strosities from the ’70s. You know, a fist – a “defensive” position fancifully likened to one adopted by boxers. bad mask with elastic string and too-narrow eyeholes, splitting at the Horror Express (1972) is the second movie adapted from the novella “Who Goes seams… There?” by John W. Campbell Jr. The first was The Thing From Another World (1951). @DEMONPREACHER, VIA TWITTER In 1968, Herschel Thornton of Atlanta, Georgia, opened the world’s first drive-thru funeral home that featured five windows in which bodies could be viewed from the A sexy haz mat. comfort of one’s car. @JOODDITYART, VIA INSTAGRAM The cloud effect in 1958’s The Crawling Eye was achieved by nailing a piece of Clown suit. Seriously. cotton wool to a photograph of a mountain. @SAVAGESINISTER, VIA INSTAGRAM According to an ancient Chinese text on a ritual called the Yili, there were rules for how long a parent could mourn their dead child. Infants who lived less than three Toni Collette from Hereditary, 100%. months were prescribed one day of grieving for each month that the baby lived. @ASSYJACK, VIA TWITTER Veteran actor John Lithgow (Dexter, Pet Sematary) and cult icon Divine (Pink Flamin- goes, Tales From the Darkside) were born on the exact same date: October 19, 1945. A bucket of literal shit. KIM SAUTER-BRUNETTE, VIA FACEBOOK On August 22, 1888 at around 8:30 p.m., a shower of meteorites fell on a village in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, paralyzing one man and killing another. This is considered the FINAL WORDS only credible case of death-by-meteorite. Mexico’s Germán Robles became the first actor to show fangs as a vampire in El AS CAPTIONED BY YOU ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA vampiro (1957), shortly before Britain's Hammer Films’ Horror of Dracula (1958). Cosmologists Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold, and Hermann Bondi developed the Steady State Theory of the universe, an alternative to the Big Bang, after seeing 1945’s Dead of Night. They said that the circular nature of the plot inspired the theory. The world’s first robotic self-portraits, painted by an android called Ai-Da, were unveiled at an art exhibit in London this past May, despite the “artist” not having a “self” to portray. 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