Captain’s Log

“I have to go back to the Terrifier.”

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

A New Frontier

DreamWorks brings CG animation full circle with The Wild Robot

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Desert Storm

Star Wars’ lost war comes to comics in The Battle Of Jakku

Raiders Of The Lost Arc

Lara Croft is back globetrotting, anime style, in new Netflix series Tomb Raider: The Legend Of Lara Croft

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

BUCKETS OF GORE

SCI-FACT! Cinemark has also recently released popcorn buckets

GORE BLIMEY!

This month marks the 50th anniversary of The

GORE TITLES

There’s a slew of movies relevant to SFX

SFX SPACE AND TIME NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF DOCTOR WHO

Anna Lundberg and Georgia Tennant. The cast of

Stalk This Way

Genre auteur Alice Lowe talks about her new timeywimey romcom Timestalker

I, Robot(s)

How the makers of Transformers One gave the classic robots newfound heart

JAMES EARL JONES 1931-2024

Remembering the voice of Vader

JULIE LEONG

MEET THE “RECOVERING INVESTMENT BANKER” BEHIND THE TELLER OF SMALL FORTUNES

NEVER TEAR US APART

SPOILER ALERT!

CLOWNING AROUND

DAVID HOWARD THORNTON IS ART THE CLOWN

THROUGH THE LOOKING CLASS

FROM SHOWRUNNERS JOHN GRIFFIN AND JEFF PINKNER EXPLAIN WHY THEY BREAK THE RULES OF THEIR OWN SHOW IN SEASON THREE

WHY DON'T YOU STAY FOR A BITE?

THE VAMPIRE COMES HOME AS DIR ECTOR EUROS LYN WELCOMES SFX TO HIS NEW DARK COMEDY THE RADLEYS

GIVING THEM HELL

IT’S NEW TERRITORY FOR HELLBOY IN THE CROOKED MAN

THE MAINE EVENT

THE DARK IS RISING IN SALEM'S LOT AS STEPHEN KING’S DEATHLESS TALE RETURNS TO THE SCREEN

THE SOUND OF SILENCE

YOU WON’T WANT TO MAKE A NOISE WHILE PLAYING NEW VIDEO GA ME A QUIET PL ACE: THE ROAD AHEAD

BEING HUMAN EVOLUTION

IT MAY HAVE BEEN AN INSTANT HIT, BUT BBC THREE’S DARKLY COMIC DRAMA ABOUT A HOUSE-SHARING VAMPIRE/WEREWOLF/GHOST TRIO HAD A STRANGE JOURNEY TO THE SCREEN, SERIES CREATOR TOBY WHITHOUSE TELLS SFX

COMING TO AMERICA

THE MOGWAI LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THEIR SECOND CHAPTER, GREMLINS: THE WILD BATCH

MUNSTER MASH!

PRODUCTION HELL, SHOCK RECASTING AND HOTLY CONTESTED AUTHORSHIP. AS THE MUNSTERS CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH ANNIVERSARY, WE UNCOVER HOW THE SPOOKY SITCOM WAS ALMOST DEAD ON ARRIVAL

BOILINC POINT

TEACUP SHOWRUNNER IAN MCCULLOCH INTRODUCES HIS NOVEL ADAPTATION OF ROBERT MCCAM MON’S THRILLER , STINGER

UNDEAD REFLECTIONS

NEIL JORDAN ON BRINGING ANNE RICE’S MODERN VAMPIRE CLASSIC TO SCREEN, 30 YEARS ON

SERVICE WITH A SMILE

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU COMBINE 2022 HORROR HIT WITH TAYLOR SWIFT’S ERAS TOUR? THE ANSWER IS ONE OF 2024’S MOST HOTLY ANTICIPATED SEQUELS…

SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK

FROM THE RETURN OF EC COMICS TO SCREAM!, THIS YEAR’S HALLOWEEN OFFERS UP HORROR COMICS FOR ALL THE AGES

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL

THE DEVIL’S HOUR STRIKES TWICE AS THE GENRE-DEFYING DRAMA RETURNS

ONE FOR THE VAULTS

SHOWRUNNER PAUL SIMMS BRINGS THE BLOODY PARTY TO AN END WITH THE LAST SEASON OF WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS

WHO YA CONNA CALL?

BEHIND THE SCENES AT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS FOR GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE

MANAG ANGER EMENT

WITH A NEW TRILOGY IN SIGHT, WE SPEAK TO THE DIRECTOR OF – THE ORIGINAL CHILLING SEQUEL TO DANNY BOYLE’S SEMINAL SURVIVAL HORROR

ALAN MOORE

The legendary writer on the first volume of his Long London quintet

Susanna Clarke

The writer of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell has a porcine pal…

X-MEN

A Summers lease

PHANTOM PATROL

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Bear Alley

MARVEL 85TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Marvel Comics

GOTHAM CITY SIRENS

Putting the gang back together

FINAL CUT

CHARLES BURNS ★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher

ALAN MOORE

He’s Britain’s greatest comics writer – but do you know the score?

At The Earth’s Core

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX

Bad Romance

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX

Mad Love

THE WILD ROBOT

RELEASED 18 OCTOBER U | 102 minutes Director

SALEM’S LOT

Kingdom Come

TIMESTALKER

© LUDO ROBERTS RELEASED 11 OCTOBER TBC |

TRANSFORMERS ONE

Hooray, no Michael Bay!

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE

Dead Man Walking

DRAGONKEEPER

RELEASED OUT NOW! PG | 99 minutes

SPEAK NO EVIL

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 110 minutes Director

THE CROW

RELEASED OUT NOW! 18 | 111 minutes Director

AFRAID

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 84 minutes Director

REBELLIOUS

RELEASED 25 OCTOBER PG | 94 minutes

HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN

The Big Red One

MY OLD ASS

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 89 minutes Director

NEVER LET GO

The ties that bind

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER Season Two

Sauron runs rings around the Elves

LEGO STAR WARS: REBUILD THE GALAXY

UK/US Disney+, streaming now Showrunners Dan Hernandez, Benji

TWILIGHT OF THE GODS Season One

Ragnarök out with your cock out

PRODUCED BY VAL LEWTON

Under The Shadow

EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC

★★★☆☆ RELEASED 7 OCTOBER 1977 | 18 |

GAIRA’S GUTS TRILOGY

Pinky And Deranged

A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY

A brush with the supernatural

APARTMENT 7A

A bun in the coven

TURN ME ON

★★★☆☆ RELEASED 7 OCTOBER 2024 | N/A |

HOME SWEET HOME

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2024 | 15 |

AZRAEL: ANGEL OF DEATH

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW!/ 31 OCTOBER 2024 |

HAUNTED ULSTER LIVE

★★★☆☆ RELEASED 14 OCTOBER 2024 | N/A |

ODDITY

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2024 | 15 |

TIGON COLLECTION

Big Moth Strikes Again

ISLAND OF TERROR

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 1966 | PG |

UGLIES

Pretty Vacant

THE HITCHER

Thumbs up

THE OUTCASTS

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 1982 | 15 |

THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER

Sordid sorcery

ROUND UP

Russell Crowe plays an actor in a possession

The Coven

“YOUR DESTINY IS NOT TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT. YOUR DESTINY IS TO DESTROY US ALL.”

THE GREAT WHEN

London Calling

THE TAPESTRY OF TIME

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/

WILLIAM

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 224 pages | Hardback/ebook/

THE WILDING

A difficult bog visit

THE SEARCH FOR BOND

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 224 pages | Hardback/ebook

THE FANTASY WORLDS OF IRWIN ALLEN

Mr Big

THE STARDUST GRAIL

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 320 pages | Hardback/ebook/

MARIGOLD MIND LAUNDRY

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 248 pages | Hardback/ebook/

UNTIL WE SHATTER

★★★★☆ RELEASED 17 OCTOBER 336 pages | Hardback/ebook/

LET’S SPLIT UP

★★☆☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Paperback/ebook

REISSUES

Our pick of the paperbacks this month is

THE WORLDS OF GEORGE RR MARTIN

RELEASED 10 OCTOBER 208 pages | Hardback/ebook (out

JACKAL

★★★★☆ RELEASED 10 OCTOBER 448 pages | Paperback

THE TRIPODS: ALL FOR NOTHING?

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 300 pages | Hardback

ALSO OUT

As ever, there’s loads more books we couldn’t

STAR WARS OUTLAWS

X-winging it

CONCORD

★★★☆☆ RELEASED 23 AUGUST - 6 SEPTEMBER, RIP

BLACK MYTH: WUKONG

Monkey business

VAM PD Volume One

The Fang Blue Line