First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

”Must be something you assimilated.” © CBS/PARAMOUNT Would

Back To The Office

The Monsters, Inc. legacy continues with Sully, Mike and new recruits in Monsters At Work

Break Of Spawn

After 30 years of Spawn, Todd McFarlane is launching his own shared universe…

Odd Squad

Trenton Lee Stewart’s beloved The Mysterious Benedict Society books have become a quirky Disney+ series

House Wins

New supernatural show SurrealEstate adds something truly horrifying to the mix: estate agents!

Family Affair

The classic comic series Batman: The Long Halloween gets a new life as a standalone two-part animated film

Savage Tales

After the scares of the Scream! & Misty Special, Black Beth is going solo in The Devils Of Al-Kadesh

NEIL SHARPSON

MEET THE WRITER BEHIND SCI-FI THRILLER WHEN THE SPARROW FALLS

Rain On Me

Temuera Morrison talks Occupation: Rainfall and Boba Fett

Oh Deer

Jeff Lemire’s beloved comic book Sweet Tooth is now a Netflix series

BILLIE HAYES 1924–2021

The whacked-out witch of HR Pufnstuf

All Around The World

The Judges of Dredd-world face an Angry Planet in this year’s 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special

TOMORROW  NEVER DIES

DIRECTOR CHRIS MCKAY AND WRITER ZACH DEAN ON WHAT COULD BE THE NEXT BIG SCI-FI FRANCHISE:

WHO’S THE DADDY?

It’s Chris Pratt, of course – playing Dan Forester, the timejumping teacher who just might be mankind’s last hope…

MONSTER MASH

Inspired by the movie magic of monsters since a child, creature designer Ken Barthelmey’s biggest influences were Star Wars and Jurassic Park. With the White Spikes in The Tomorrow War, the worlds have collided…

LOKI HERO

RUMOURS OF LOKI’S DEMISE HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED… AS THE TRICKSTER GOD LANDS HIS OWN DISNEY+ TV SHOW, THE BRAINS BEHIND HIS RETURN DISCUSS HIS NEW ADVENTURES IN TIME

NAT'S LANDING

SCARLETT JOHANSSON’S FIRST SOLO ADVENTURE AS BLACKWIDOW FINALLY TAKES FLIGHT – IN WAYS MCU FANS MAY NOT BE EXPECTING

PURE SHORES

DIRECTOR ENRICO CASAROSA DISCUSSES DISNEY AND PIXAR’S “COMING OF AGE” MONSTER MOVIE, LUCA 

WALK ON THE SHADYSIDE

IT’S A SCREAM, BABY! AS RL STINE’S  FEAR STR E E T NOVELS GET THE NETFLIX TREATMENT, WE TALK TO DIRECTOR LEIGH JANIAK ABOUT NOSTALGIA, ’90S SLASHERS AND POINT HORROR

MASK 4 MASK

FOR THE MAKERS OF   THE FOREVER  PURGE  PURGING IS A HARD HABIT TO BREAK,  AS CREATOR JAMES DEMONACO  AND  DIRECTOR EVERARDO  GOUT EXPLAIN

NASTY PIECE OF WORK

A FILM EXAMINER SUSPECTS FOUL PLAY IN VIDEO NASTIESERA HORROR CENSOR. WE TALK TO DIRECTOR PRANO BAILEY-BOND ABOUT HER FEATURE DEBUT

MILLA JOVOVICH

FACE TO FACE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS

THE MEDUSA TOUCH

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

CLASH OF THE CENSORS

Blood! Nudity! Maggots!

THE OWL SERVICE

Oscar-winning effects legend Colin Chilvers built the full-size Bubo for Clash Of The Titans. SFX speaks to the true-life Hephaestus…

NATASHA PULLEY

Meet the author fascinated by a century-old mystery

A QUIET PLACE PART II

Worth making a noise about

BLIND FURY

Four more nasties that don’t need sight to hunt you down

IN THE EARTH

Fungus The Bogeyman

MONSTER HUNTER

Creature discomforts

THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT

Charged with possession

SPIRAL

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 18 | 93

FREAKY

★★★★☆ RELEASED 25 JUNE 15 | 102 minutes

TOVE

The original Moominmamma

VOYAGERS

Fly Generation

COMING SOON

9 JULY BLACK WIDOW The much-delayed MCU

JUMBO

★★★ ☆ ☆ ► RELEASED 9 JULY  TBC

BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED 18 JUNE  18 | 89

SWEET TOOTH Season One

Animal Magic

M.O.D.O.K. Season One

Head of the family

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Blood On The Tracks

THE NEVERS Season One

Victorians’ Secrets

LUCIFER Season 5B

★★★★☆ ▶UK/US Netflix, streaming now ▶Showrunners Joe Henderson,

EDEN Season One

It’s no Wall-E ★★ ☆ ☆☆ ▶UK/US Netflix,

SOLOS

Only The Lonely

DOCTOR WHO Season 24

Booed camp

THE HANDS OF ORLAC

★★★★★ EXTRAS ★★★★★ ▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! 1924 |

ENCOUNTER OF THE SPOOKY KIND

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ EXTRAS ★ ★ ★

EYE OF THE CAT

GETTY ★★★ ☆ ☆ EXTRAS ★★★☆☆ ▶RELEASED 21 JUNE 1969

THE AMUSEMENT PARK

★★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ▶RELEASED OUT NOW! 1973

HAMMER: NIGHT SHADOWS

Phantom Menaces

FRIENDSHIP’S DEATH

RELEASED 21 JUNE 1987 | 15 | Blu-ray ►

CAVEAT

Dream job

DON’T LOOK BACK

★☆☆☆☆ EXTRAS☆☆☆☆☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020 |

PARALLEL

★★★☆☆ EXTRAS ☆☆☆☆☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 2020

UNEARTH

★☆☆☆☆ EXTRAS ☆☆☆☆☆ ► RELEASED 28 JUNE 2020

THE BABADOOK

Top hat and nails

TEZUKA’S BARBARA

Tokyo Drifters

LAKE MUNGO

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2008 | 15 |

ROUND UP

In troubled YA adap CHAOS WALKING (4K/

GODZILLA VS KONG

Fighting tooth and paw

THE JASMINE THRONE

★★★★ ☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 592 pages

SEVEN DEATHS OF AN EMPIRE

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED 24 JUNE 550 pages |

THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 432 pages |

HONEYCOMB

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 432 pages

BLACK WATER SISTER

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 384 pages |

ARMY OF THE DEAD THE MAKING OF THE FILM

Alpha Bite City

HEARTBREAK INCORPORATED

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED 22 JUNE 300 pages |

REISSUES

Jasper Fforde tackles racism in THE CONSTANT RABBIT

THE NINTH METAL

★★★☆☆ ►RELEASED OUT NOW! 288 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook

THE COWARD

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 412 pages |

FOR THE WOLF

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED 17 JUNE 480 pages |

THIS FRAGILE EARTH

★★★★☆ ►RELEASED 24 JUNE 368 pages | Hardback/ebook/

ALSO OUT

Patricia Marques’s debut THE COLOURS OF DEATH

THE GOD IS NOT WILLING

You’ll have an Orlong wait

Joanne Harris

THE SFX AUTHOR QUESTIONNAIRE

ALIEN

Cruz in for a bruising

ULTRAMEGA

SFX LOVES ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

PROCTOR VALLEY ROAD

★★★★ ★ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! ► Publisher

THE SWAMP THING

The Indian variant

FIREFLY: BRAND NEW ’VERSE

★★★☆ ☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW!

RATCHET & CLANK: RIFT APART

Gaming blasts to a new dimension

WARHAMMER AGE OF SIGMAR: STORM GROUND

★★★ ★☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! ► Reviewed

V FOR VENDET TA: BEHIND THE MASK

Anarchy In The UK

VIOLET EVERGARDEN: THE MOVIE

★★★ ☆ ☆ ► RELEASED 17 JUNE  12A

RAY HARRYHAUSEN

As Clash Of The Titans marks its 40th anniversary, how much do you know about the work of the Dynamation king?

Captain Zep: Space Detective

The cast of series one, featuring Paul Greenwood