Yes, you read that correctly: issue 9 of Imaginator is going to be a CREATURE FEATURE SPECIAL…
Here’s a taster of some of the interviews that will be in this issue…
Also in this issue…
Steve Wang talks about creating the PREDATOR!
Chris Walas talks about creating his Oscar-winning makeup effects for THE FLY!
Veronica Cartwright talks about confronting the ALIEN!
There’s a chat with Michael Carter, who played Molasar in THE KEEP! The talented actor was also Bib Fortuna in RETURN OF THE JEDI and he was a very memorable victim of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON!
Plus – actress Geretta Geratta is interviewed about her films DEMONS and RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR!
And there’s going to be so much more, including reviews of a bunch of monster movies, including these beauties…
Yes! Issue 8 of Imaginator magazine is now roaming the world!
There are loads of links to places it can be bought HERE!
I am so proud of this issue!
I love the way the magazine looks, design-wise, and I think it contains a wealth of wonderful folk horror-related contents that anyone with even a passing interest in the sub-genre will enjoy reading!
Check out the magazine’s contents…
FOLK HORROR RISING
Noah Kneal looks at what makes Folk Horror so special… and ponders why the sub-genre continues to go from strength to strength.
ALL THE HAUNTS BE HERS
Ken Miller talks with Kier-La Janisse, the director of stunning folk horror documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror.
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REMEMBERING THE RITUAL
Dan Nicks reminds us why The Ritual (2017) is such a wonderful melding of folk horror and survival horror.
THE MAN WHO UNLEASHES HORRORS
Ken Miller speaks with Adam Nevill, author of such scrumptiously sinister folk horror books as The Reddening, The Ritual and Cunning Folk.
MAKING THE MONSTER!
Charlotte Quist supplies the lowdown on how the awesome and freaky Jötunn god-monster was created for the film adaptation of The Ritual.
DREAMING OF THE JÖTUNN
Talented Concept Artist and Creature Designer Keith Thompson reveals to Ken Miller how he designed the monstrous, marvellous movie beast featured in The Ritual.
FOLK HORROR MOVIE REVIEWS
Noah Kneal and Ken Miller review loads and loads of folk horror flicks… and horror fiction writer, editor and critic Ramsey Campbell provides a guest movie review too!
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
Writer, director and producer Sean Hogan chats to Ken Miller about his menacing, brooding, brilliant film To Fire You Come at Last.
“WHO IS THIS WHO IS COMING?”
Sebastian Starkey clarifies why Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad is such a fine ghost tale, then checks out the various adaptations, homages and parodies inspired by the story.
DESIGNING THE PERFECT WENDIGO
Creature Designer, Concept Artist and Illustrator Guy Davis divulges to Ken Miller how the fantastic folk-creature from Antlers (2021) was conceived.
SEQUENTIAL TALES OF TERROR
Artist and writer Russell Fox spills the beans on his stunning-looking folk horror graphic novel A VVitch. His illustration work is so good!
DEMONFINDER WARLOCK
Actor Russell Shaw tells Ken Miller what it was like playing the demon-hunting, bewhiskered, time-travelling protagonist in the wild, medieval-set movie Witch (2024)
RADIOACTIVE REVIEWS
The movies reviewed in this section are non-folk horror flicks (though some are folk horror-adjacent). Top scriptwriting guru and author William Martell supplies a guest film review.
I think this issue rocks – and I think you will agree once you’ve read it!
Devoted to every kind of movie and TV monster, from King Kong to Godzilla, from the Blob to Alien. Plus monsters from other media too, including books and comics.
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