REVIEWS

First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

© BBC “Who was that terrible woman?” The

Little Grey Men

Director Brian Duffield puts actress Kaitlyn Dever through her paces in sci-fi thriller No One Will Save You

Puppet Mastery

Otto Baxter: Not A F***ing Horror Story brings a unique new voice to the screen

Ghoul Power

Transport yourself into films, shows and videogames at Halloween Horror Nights

Resistance Is Futile

Humanity pokes the hornet’s nest as Invasion returns

Sting In Her Tale

Murder is afoot as the Wasp and Vision join forces for Avengers Inc.

Monster Fun

Ahoy Comics uncovers rare beasties in new anthology Project: Cryptid

War Games

Worlds collide as 2000 AD and Battle Action unite

Body Snatchers

First comics, then TV, and now Secret Invasion comes to prose fiction with Paul Cornell’s new novel

MARIELY LARES

MEET THE FORMER SYSTEMS ENGINEER BEHIND FANTASY SUN OF BLOOD AND RUIN

WILLIAM FRIEDKIN 1935-2023

The power of cinema compelled him

LOST IN FRANCE

NORMAN REEDUS SWAPS CONTINENTS AND REVERTS BACK TO LONER MODE IN HIS SPIN-OFF SERIES, THE WALKING DEAD:DARYL DIXON

MAN VS MACHINE

DIRECTOR GARETH EDWARDS RETURNS WITH THE CREATOR, AN ORIGINAL SCI-FI STORY THAT CONFRONTS ALL OUR AI ANGST

TRUE BRIT

ARTHURIAN LEGEND COMBINES WITH THE WEST WING-STYLE POLITICKING AS BERNARD CORNWELL’S NOVEL THE WINTER KING COMES TO THE SMALL SCREEN

BACK TO SCHOOL

THE BOYS GETS A SUPERHERO SCHOOL SPIN-OFF – MEET THE GEN V STUDENTS

ENSIGN OF THE TIMES

AS STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS WARPS INTO ITS FOURTH SEASON, SUPERVISING DIRECTOR BARRY J KELLY REVEALS HOW THE CARTOON SITCOM IS EXPLORING NEW FRONTIERS

Saw That Coming

JOHN KRAMER’S ALIVE – AGAIN! SAW X DIRECTOR KEVIN GREUTERT TELLS SFX WHY THE ICON’S LATEST KILLING SPREE IS SURPRISINGLY EMOTIONAL

UNDEAD RECKONING

WE HAVE A CODE FIVE! ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF ULTRAVIOLE T, CREATOR JOE AHEARNE LOOKS BACK AT THE VAMPIRE-SLAYING TV CLASSIC

DESIGNING THE LAST OF US

PRODUCTION DESIGNER JOHN PAINO TALKS SFX THROUGH CONCEPT ART, RENDERS AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES IMAGES FROM THE MAKING OF THE LAST OF US SEASON ONE

DESIGNING THE LAST OF US

BOSTON CONTINUED... We used downtown Edmonton for

THE SOUNDS OF SUMMERISLE

COMPOSER GARY CARPENTER REFLECTS ON THE WICKER MAN ’S ICONIC SOUNDTR ACK

MELISSA NAVIA

She’s a fly girl – writing the book on piloting an iconic starship

EVERY BODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE

IT’S JAMIE VS THE EVIL DALEKS FOR DOCTOR WHO STAR AND FIRST-TIME NOVELIST FR AZER HINES

JOH N CONNOLLY

Worlds collide: the Irish writer talks genre and literature as therapy

BLUE BEETLE

Scarab Spring

OTTO BAXTER: NOT A F***ING HORROR STORY

RELEASED OUT NOW! (Also on Sky Documentaries/NOW from

MEG 2: THE TRENCH

Consider this shark jumped

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

RELEASED OUT NOW! PG | 89 minutes

IT LIVES INSIDE

RELEASED 22 SEPTEMBER 15 | 99 minutes

MERCY FALLS

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 104 minutes

THE CHANGELING Season One

Born To Be Reviled

STRANGE PLANET Season One

Feeling blue

THE CHOSEN ONE Season One

Christ alive!

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Season Two

All Kinds Of Everything

MECH CADETS Season One

UK/US Netflix, streaming now Creator Aaron Lam Cast

DOCTOR WHO Season 20

Many happy returns

THE KNOCKING

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | TBC | VOD

SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN

A Farewell To Arms

ANDRZEJ ŻUŁAWSKI

Whatever possessed him?

THE ANTICHRIST

RELEASED 11 SEPTEMBER 1974 | 18| Blu-ray/DVD/download

BABYLON 5: THE ROAD HOME

A Shadow of its former self?

GOOD BOY

RELEASED 11 SEPTEMBER 2023 | TBC | Download

ZOM 100

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | 15 | SVOD

OUTPOST

RELEASED 11 SEPTEMBER 2022 | 15 | Download/VOD

BAD THINGS

RELEASED OUT NOW! 2023 | TBC | SVOD

BLACK MAGIC RITES

Castle Maim XXXX

IT FOLLOWS

Panic In Detroit

JEAN ROLLIN

French undressing

STARTER VILLAIN

Time to get lair-y

DESERT CREATURES

RELEASED OUT NOW! 288 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD

RELEASED OUT NOW! 235 pages | Hardback/ebook Author

EDGE OF HERE

Blackened Mirror

A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY

RELEASED OUT NOW! 250 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN

The Book of Genesis

42

RELEASED OUT NOW! 298 pages | Hardback Editor

THE DEATH I GAVE HIM

RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER 432 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN

RELEASED 14 SEPTEMBER 352 pages | Paperback/ebook Author

FORGED BY BLOOD

RELEASED OUT NOW! 400 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

WORLDS BEYOND TIME

RELEASED OUT NOW! 224 pages | Hardback Author

THE LAND OF LOST THINGS

RELEASED 7 SEPTEMBER 416 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook

PULL TO OPEN

RELEASED OUT NOW! 424 pages | Paperback Author

ALSO OUT

There’s plenty more titles that we couldn’t quite

Rick Riordan

The creator of Percy Jackson can’t seem to escape Dungeons & Dragons…

THE AVENGERS

Trials and tribulations

ORDER & OUTRAGE

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Dark Horse Comics

TIMEQUAKE

RELEASED Late September Publisher Hibernia Books Writers

W0RLDTR33

Caught in the web

THE TOMORROW PEOPLE Volume One

RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Chinbeard Books Writers

BALDUR’S GATE 3

Rolls a natural 20

SHADOW GAMBIT: THE CURSED CREW

RELEASED OUT NOW! Reviewed on PlayStation 5

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE

Will you be hooked?

SPACE MARINE: THE BOARD GAME

One man army

FLOWERS

Quick, call Alan Titchmarsh! Some of this issue’s brain-teasers are blooming difficult…

The X-Files: “X-Cops”

TotalRecall Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy