Horror magazines

[Mojo]

What about everyone's favourite horror mags, then? Here's mine:

House Of Hammer Brilliant combination of comic strip / retrospective / very readable contemporary reviews. Fantastic hand - painted covers. Best horror mag ever IMO

World Of Horror Bought this as a kid for the Dr Who cover. Never looked back since. Nuff said!

The DarkSide Helped reinvigorate my interest in horror. Kudos to Allan Bryce for keeping this a very readable mag.

Is It Uncut? Excellent stuff. The DVD news section is a good reason in itself for buying the mag.

Monster Mag Who can forget this? Eye popping stuff as a kid!

[Vaughan]

Monster Mag was the best ever. EVER!

[Mojo]

I loved 'Monster Mag' too, but I always thought 'World Of Horror' was better. 'House Of Hammer' was still the best though!

[Grant]

not strictly horror but Video Watchdog is always a fantastic read.

Grant

[Mojo]

Yeah - it's a great mag.

Also thought 'Flesh And Blood' was terrific, too.

[Phill]

It's a bit tacky, what with the porn in the back of the magazine, but I love DVD World. This month has an exclusive interview with George. A. Romero on Land Of The Dead and an article on Canibal Apocalypse! Where else would you find that?

[THE CULT]

The only horror mag i have is an issue of Fangoria from 87 which had a few pages on an early horror series called Werewolf that aired back in 91 on Sky One - in fact thats the only reason i picked it up

[sweenytodd]

While we are on the subject can anyone recommend the best place to sell off back copies as I have a load of old Darkside & Samhain & Fangoria to sell off.
I tried the Vintage Magazine shop in Brewer Street but they were not interested.
Sabre

[Wes Moynihan]

I gotta say that Darkside's Vide Nasties issue, way back in early '90's really opened the floodgates for me, introducing me to Argento, Fulci, Deodato, Last HOUSE ON THE LEFT etc, so for me that issue alone was a massive influence on the kind of films I ended up collecting. Other great fanzines from that era that I read - In The Flesh, Samhain, Shock Xpress, Headpress, Invasion of the Sad Man Eating Mushrooms, the short-lived 3-issue only Monstroid..... so many memories !

[mrb]

=I tried the Vintage Magazine shop in Brewer Street but they were not interested.=

i miss being able to buy old horror mags from the Cinema Store as well.
i spose the space is more profitable with import dvds.

has anyone noticed how in the 'coming soon/news' sections of old film mags you get reports of films in production that have only come out a lot later?STARBURST 32 ,for example, tells us that Carl Sagans CONTACT isn't coming out until 1983...Polygram blame the delay on the effects!

[Rich]

My interest in horror movies was definitely on the wane before I discovered The Dark Side,that magazine really helped to re-ignite my interest in horror all over again.Then I got bored with it,bought a computer and got access to the net and,hey presto,here I am.

[Vaughan]

--I loved 'Monster Mag' too, but I always thought 'World Of Horror' was better. 'House Of Hammer' was still the best though!--

There wasn't much to read in "Monster Mag", that's the thing. And many (most.... all) of their articles read like marketing spin from ad agencies. There are simply no critical comments at all.

But.... that poster. Man, glorious. I had those on my walls when I was a kid, and they have stuck with me forever. You know, I had a complete (well, not issue 2, which was of course banned) set of Monster Mags as a kid. Along lifes long journey, I lost them all. Then, about a year ago, maybe more, I got an itch to own all of them again. So I started scouting Ebay and secondhand stores etc. I now am the proud owner once again - and I really do mean *proud* - of the 15 of so issues of the magazine. Well, again, sans issue 2 which goes for around $300. I couldn't be happier.

Good times. Strangely, I don't feel a need to own any other horror magazines. Monster Mag was *it* for me, the one.

[Peter Neal]

I was an avid collector of horror-movie-mags: Fangoria, Gorezone (way more interesting than Fango, as long as it lasted) and the German mags "Splatting Image", "Doom" and (for its first couple of years) "Moviestar".
I've kept most of them, too. But I stopped collecting mags alltogether a couple of years back, since I rather spent more money on buying movies than mags about movies.
But I occasionally go through my old mags, which is always pretty nostalgic.

[dbeefy]

Samhain, Shock Xpress, Fangoria in the 80s, Psychotronic, Film Threat, Trash City, and who could forget the late great Sheer Filth Still got a big pile of mags that I haven't looked at in years..

[Mark Y]

Me too. The first mags I read were Marvel's Monsters Of The Movies and Quasimodo's Monster Magazine. Quasi went all jokey after a few issues though and that ruined it - it was also printed on really cheap paper. I only got one issue of World Of Horror (the one with the gory Sheila Keith cover), the came Fangoria a few years later, followed by Psychotronic, Cult Movies, Filmfax, Flesh and Blood, In The Flesh, Cinefantastique etc. Plus lots of one-off things from that Media Publications were selling at the time. I rarely buy horror/fantasy mags these days as I have so many old ones.

[mark meakin]

I loved :-
HOUSE OF HAMMER (paid £20.00 for no4 a few years back ! )
FLESH & BLOOD (great stuff !) STARBURST(lots of good horror stuff in the 80s & zombie issue 48)
SHIVERS (went downhill with Buffy / X-Files article overkill)
FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND (Nice bit of Nostalgia)
FANGORIA (for the pictures more than the articles)
VIDEO WATCHDOG would love to get the ones I missed. essential reading.

[se7en45]

It's a bit tacky, what with the porn in the back of the magazine, but I love DVD World.

Pray tell, what's wrong a bit of porn, eh? You prude, you!

It's about the only magazine that caters for adult dvd collectors. And lets not beat behind the bush here. Most of the forum members enjoy Horror and Sex films. No harm in it. Except maybe blindness...

Video Watchdog is essential reading for anyone remotely interested in Cult / Horror / Sci-Fi / Bava / Franco / Exploitation.

Grab it!

[andyman]

Gorezone (way more interesting than Fango, as long as it lasted)

This was a great mag Gorezone Issues

Fave fanzine was IN THE FLESH. Great editorship from Steve C. Happy Days!!!

[Mojo]

There wasn't much to read in "Monster Mag", that's the thing. And many (most.... all) of their articles read like marketing spin from ad agencies. There are simply no critical comments at all.

Yeah - it wasn't exactly 'Video Watchdog' was it?

Still, the photos were simply eye - popping as a kid - I'd never seen anything like them. I used to have pretty much all the issues, but flogged them many years ago. Same with 'World Of Horror'. Shame.

Still, 'House Of Hammer' is my all time fave. I've still got every issue -and I ain't selling 'em!

[embmmusic]

I read DVD World every month but I'm beginning to get fed up with the amount of porn content in the mag. It used to be more focused on horror, but the sex side keeps getting bigger and bigger and seems to be taking over the mag (they had an interview with Jodie Marsh in the last issue - sheesh!). I always feel kinda embarassed buying it these days because it looks like a porn mag - especially when they include a cover-mounted DVD with pictures of porn stars on the sleeve. I would subscribe, but I'm waiting for a decent DVD as a subscription freebie - I've not been interested in any of the recent ones.

As far as Dark Side goes - I used to be an avid reader, even though it contains a lot of the same articles as DVD World. However, I can't find it anywhere these days. I used to get it from Another World, but the last time I asked about it in there, the guy behind the counter just gave me a bemused look and said he had never heard of it. Does anyone in Nottingham know where in the centre I can get a copy?