THE NUN II

First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

GETTY “What an excellent day for an exorcism.”

Time After Time

Executive producer Chris Grismer promises a season two full of changes for Quantum Leap

Robot Wars

There’s more than meets the eye to Skybound’s new Energon Universe as Transformers return

Got My Mind Set On You

Writer/director Daniel Benmayor on his new Spanish-language SF thriller Awareness

Cosmic Disorder

Science and magic aren’t poles apart in new Marvel series GODS

Best Of The Fest

If you’re quick you might catch some of these at the London Film Festival

Long Live The King

The beast is unleashed in Skull Island: Rise Of Kong

Tangled Web

IPC’s greatest heroes unite against the Spider in new miniseries Smash!

SFX SPACE AND TIME Celebrating 60 years of DOCTOR WHO

Miriam Margolyes is the Meep! See Roy Knipe’s

Reality Bytes

Zack Kaplan takes the red pill in his mindbending Vault Comics series Beyond Real

BETHANY JACOBS

MEET THE EDUCATION TECH CONSULTANT BEHIND SCI-FI THESE BURNING STARS

ARLEEN SORK IN 1955-2023

The screwball spirit of Harley Quinn

BETTER THE DE VTL YOU KNOW

DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID, YOUR HALLOWEEN DIRECTOR? DAVID GORDON GREEN’S ONLY GONE AND BROUGHT BACK AN ANCIENT EVIL IN THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER

THE DEVIL ME DO MADE IT

HOW WILLIAM PETER BLATTY DIRECTED THE EXORCIST III, BASED ON HIS NOVEL LEGION

WALKER AWAY

THE CAST AND CREW OF FEAR THE WALKING DEAD TAKE THEIR LAST APOCALYPTIC STEPS TOGETHER IN THE SERIES FINALE

SLICE AND DICE

THE ICONIC VIDEOGAME FRANCHISE FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S FINALLY HITS THE BIG SCREEN

VOODOO CHILD

HORROR DIRECTOR ELI ROTH REVISITS THE JOY OF SCARING YOUNG AUDIENCES WITH NEW SERIES FRIGHT KREWE

UNHALLOWED GROUND

DIRECTOR LINDSEY ANDERSON BEER ON WHY HER FEATURE DEBUT PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES IS PERSONAL

SCARER'S MARKET

LUKE ROMAN IS BACK TO SELL HAUNTED HOUSES IN SURREALESTATE, BUT WILL HIS MISSING POWERS EQUATE TO TERRIFYING RETURNS?

TERROR TALES

FROM DRACULA TO MARVEL ZOMBIES, THIS HALLOWEEN OFFERS A BUMPER CROP OF SCARY COMICS

FAMILY TIES

DIRECTOR LIZ FRIEDLANDER TEASES THE NEXT-STAGE HORRORS AWAITING THE PHELPS FAMILY IN SEASON TWO OF SHINING VALE

AMERICAN DOLL POSSE

LIFE IN PLASTIC ISN’T QUITE FANTASTIC FOR CHUCKY

GROWTH SIDES NOW

DIRECTOR ANNA ZLOKOVIC EXPLORES INNER DEMONS THAT BECOME CORPOREAL IN MILLENNIAL HORROR FILM APPENDAGE

MIND GAMES

SFX STOPS BY THE CREEL HOUSE AT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS

YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HYDE

EDDIE IZZARD LEADS HAMMER’S TRIUMPHANT RETURN IN DOCTOR JEKYLL

CREEPING BACK

CREEPSHOW VETERAN JOHN HARRISON TALKS DIRECTING SEASON FOUR

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

CJ TUDOR’S TALE OF MURDER AND MARTYRDOM COMES TO TV IN THE BURNING GIRLS

THOROUGHLY MODERN MUNSTERS

IT’S ONE OF FANTASY TV’S MOST MALIGNED REVIVALS… 35 YEARS ON, DOES THE MUNSTERS TODAY DESERVE A LITTLE MORE LOVE?

TIMES SLASH

DIRECTOR NAHNATCHKA KHAN BLENDS ALL THE GENRES IN THE GEN Z MEETS GEN X HORROR-COMEDY TOTALLY KILLER

DESIGNING THE BOOG EYMAN

DIRECTOR ROB SAVAGE DISCUSSES BRINGING YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE TO LIFE

KEPT IN THE LOOP

PREPARE TO BE BAMBOOZLED BY THE LAZARIJS PROJECT SERIES TWO, WHICH SPLICES THE SHOW’S TEMPORAL RESET PREMISE WITH PROPER TIME TRAVEL

ALIX E HARROW

Due south: the American writer tells us about her latest novel

THE CREATOR

Machines Against The Rage

T HEKIDSARE ALL BYTE

Four more robotic children

FOE

Three’s a crowd

A HAUNTING IN VENICE

Medium level Poirot

DOCTOR JEKYLL

This Hammer horror film is a refreshing throwback

GAMERA: REBIRTH

Season One

ONE PIECE Season One

Hats Entertainment

A TIME CALLED YOU

Season One

FUTURAMA

Season 11, Part One Express redelivery EPISODES 11.01-11.10

THE PSYCHO COLLECTION

Shall I be mother?

THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES

ALAMY BLU-RAY DEBUT The product of a short-lived

AWARENESS

He’s got the look

PET SEMATARY: BLOODLINES

PARAMOUNT+ This painfully unnecessary prequel to Pet Sematary

HOUSEBOUND

Arrested developments

HAUNTING OF THE QUEEN MARY

2023 | 18 | Download Star Trek Into

JURASSIC PUNK

2023 | 15 | Download By rights, Steve

FEAR THE NIGHT

2023 | TBC | Download Has anyone ever

DARK ASSET

An elite soldier (Street Fighter’s Byron Mann) gets

ZOMBI HOLOCAUST

ALAMY Zombi Holocaust was also released under the

4K X FOUR

OLD MOVIES NOW AVAILABLE ON UHD

GOTHIC

Undead Poets Society

THE FLASH

It’s Miller times two

THE WICKER MAN

Slayed In Flame

HOLLYWOOD DREAMS & NIGHTMARES

ICON Robert Englund’s dream started at age 12,

THE ANGRY BL ACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER

Vicarious thrills

ROUND UP

More blockbusters hitting shiny disc include GUARDIANS

CREATION NODE

Planet 9 From Outer Space

A STROKE OF THE PEN

It was The Colour Of Magic, first published

A STUDY IN DROWNING

There’s a delicious joy in figuring out the

SWORD CATCHER

Out of the shadows

ONCE A MONSTER

A Victorian mudlarker dreams of unearthing the discovery

A SWORD OF BRONZE AND ASHES

Publisher Flame Tree Press Anna Smith Spark’s prose

OUT THERE SCREAMING

An a-Peele-ing anthology

SUN OF BLOOD AND RUIN

The Spanish colonisation of the Americas forms the

AN INHERITANCE OF MAGIC

Best known for his Alex Verus urban fantasy

IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED

This fantasy debut about a plucky teenage girl

UPON A FROSTED STAR

MA Kuzniar’s Midnight In Everwood was inspired by

REISSUES

Pick of the paperbacks: RF Kuang’s BABEL

A MASTERPIECE IN DISARRAY

David Lynch’s Dune has been an easy punchline

THE BOOK OF BEASTS

Quatermass has had the spotlight lately, but Nigel

THE FANZINE BOOK

Publisher Telos Books You may think every atom

ALSO OUT

We could have filled this section three times

Cassandra Clare

The creator of The Mortal Instruments has written her first “adult” novel

KNIGHT TERRORS

EVENT Horror is always a tricky proposition when

STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE – ECHOES

ISSUES 1-5 The aftermath of Star Trek: The

MONICA

GRAPHIC NOVEL “Subject: Literary & Memoirs, War &

THE INCREDIBLE HULK

The green Hyde monster

CONAN THE BARBARIAN

ISSUES 1-3 After Marvel’s most recent run, which

STARFIELD

Space is big – really big

ARMORED CORE VI: FIRES OF RUBICON

VIDEOGAME When traces of an immensely powerful but

DOOM’S DAY: DYING HOURS

Up against the clock

100 YEARS OF AUDIO DRAMA

Centenary sounds

Pink y And The Brain

The Brain: so evil he even performs Chinese