First Contact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Captain’s Log

Let it burn! © UNIVERSAL This issue of

Da Doo Ron Wrong

The star of Ron’s Gone Wrong has a message for everyone – including his own creators

Back To Life (Back To Reality)

Same premise but very different predicaments in this 4400 reboot

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Resident Alien

Blood runs thicker in Al Ewing, Ram V and Bryan Hitch’s all-new Venom

Look Who’s Back

But not for long. Doctor Who’s materialising soon

Night Rider

Gotham is now under Ryan Wilder’s protection as Batwoman. Be careful what you wish for…

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Scorpio rising spells closure for Blake’s 7 completists

● If for the past 40 years you’ve been

JUNE CL TAN

MEET THE WRITER BEHIND YA FANTASY JADE FIRE GOLD

TONY SELBY 1938-2021

The star behind Doctor Who’s cosmic con man

Weird War

There’s a different breed of vampire at the cold heart of Rob Williams’s new horror comic Out

DIAL M FOR MURDER

The man behind the mayhem of Halloween Kills – no, not Michael Myers – sits down with SFX to talk sequels, stars and screams to come

JUDY GREER IS Karen Nelson

Have Halloween fans managed to watch any filming? ●

JAMIE LEE CURTIS IS LAURIE STRODE

JLC hearts David Gordon Green, pass it on!

AND MATICHAK IS ALLYSON NELSON

Kills was actually filmed during Halloween season

GHOST TOWN

Ghostbusters: Afterlife links the original busters to the next generation – and pays tribute to a fallen hero

EGPN, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

The death of Harold Ramis left an irreplaceable void in the Ghostbusters universe

MUPPETS MOST HUNTED

WELCOME, FOOLISH MORTALS… AND EQUALLY FOOLISH MUPPETS. GONZO AND THE GANG GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT IN NEW HALLOWEEN SPECIAL MUPPETS HAUNTED MANSION

SLEEPING WIH GHOST

“BE WARY OF FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS” IS THE CAUTIONARY TALE OF EDGAR WRIGHT’S LOVE LETTER TO LONDON, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO

DRAWN OF THE DEATH

DIRECTOR JASON AXINN TELLS US WHY HE’S RESURRECTING RO MERO WITH NIGHT OF THE ANIMATED DEAD…

DIE ANOTHER DAY

GEORGE ROMERO’S 1985 ZOMBIE MOVIE HAS INSPIRED A DAY OF THE DEAD TV SERIES – BUT IT HAS A VERY DIFFERENT PLOT. WHAT THE HELL?! SHOWRUNNERS JED ELINOFF AND SCOTT THOMAS EXPLAIN WHY

BREKING NEWS

Natalie Malaika managed not to run over any co-stars…

WALK ON BY

THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND SEASON TWO

SUMMER MADNESS

24 YEARS SINCE TEENS FIRST BATTLED A KILLER FISHERMAN, A FRESH BATCH OF YOUNGSTERS GET THE CHOP IN THE I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER TV SERIES. BUT WHAT DID THEY DO LAST SUMMER? AND IS THE FISHERMAN REALLY BACK? SHOWRUNNER SARA GOODMAN SENDS SFX A HANDWRITTEN NOTE

BRICKING IT

A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY GETS SPOOKY FOR THE FIRST TIME

KEEPERS OF THE KEYS

THE LOCKES THOUGHT THEIR TROUBLES WERE ALL OVER, BUT THEY’RE ONLY JUST BEGINNING AS LOCKE & KEY RETURNS FOR SEASON TWO

BROKEN DREAMS

AFTER A LIFETIME SPENT FIGHTING HOLLYWOOD, ALAN MOORE MAKES A FILM ON HIS OWN TERMS WITH THE SHOW. SFX VISITS THE SET OF THE BRITISH NOIR FANTASY THAT’S GOING TO KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT…

AMERICAN DOL POSSE

THE RESIDENTS OF HACKENSACK, NEW JERSEY HAD BETTER WATCH OUT – CHUCKY’S IN TOWN AND HIS PAST IS CATCHING UP WITH HIM…

BLACK MIRROR

BLACK WRITERS ARE READY TO SCARE YOU SILLY WITH ANTHOLOGY MOVIE

IN FULL BLUM

Blumhouse, the production company behind Insidious, The Purge and Halloween, has treated us to four new tales of terror. SFX chats to the directors to find out what lies in wait in each of them

BAD HARE DAYS

A NEW TOWN OF THE FUTURE HOLDS ANCIENT SECRETS IN HARLAND, LUCY CATHERINE’S FOLK HORROR THRILLER

JACK QUAID

The star of The Boys on beaming up and becoming a superhero

CEREAL KILLERS

FRITZ KIERSCH TALKS ABOUT DIRECTING THE ORIGINAL 1984 ADAPTATION OF STEPHEN KING’S HORROR TALE CHILDREN OF THE CORN

CHRISTINA DALCHER

Meet the writer of dystopias who used to be a researcher in linguistics

DUNE

Herbert gets his just deserts

MALIGNANT

Will be too heady for some

LAST NIGHT IN SOHO

West End Girls

HALLOWEEN KILLS

On the Strode to recovery

EVEN MICE BELONG IN HEAVEN

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JOHN AND THE HOLE

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ALSO OUT

It’s been sitting on a shelf since March

Reviews

“Yep, it’s undoubtedly a nose you’ve got there.”

GALAXIAS

On the Blink

Naomi Novik

The Temeraire author sometimes needs to set something on fire…

BATMAN: REPTILIAN

Full scale attack Batman’s shiatsu technique was a

DEATHLOOP

Let’s do the crime loop again

ARMY OF THE DEAD: VIVA LAS VENGEANCE

★★★★☆ ► RUNNING UNTIL 23 DEC ► Venue:

THE EFFECT

► RELEASED OUT NOW! ► 219 minutes |

ALIEN: FATE OF THE NOSTROMO

Morale issues

LIFE IS STRANGE: TRUE COLORS

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! ► Reviewed on

JIM HENSON

It’s time to get things started… but is your brain ready to raise the curtain on all things Muppet and beyond?

Christine

Even more scary than Christine Hamilton. © COLUMBIA/ALAMY