Brian Harris

Tim Paxton

Tony Strauss

Weng's Chop #8.5 - 2015 Holiday Spooktacular by Brian Harris, Tony Strauss & Tim Paxton Weng's Chop: The Incredible Cinema Megazine returns with its 3rd annual Holiday Spooktacular, and the goons from Wildside-Kronos have a sack of gruesome, groovy goodies for all the ghouls and gals! This crazy little digest features a stunning Sherlock Holmes cover by illustrator extraordinaire Jolyon Yates and features the conclusion to legendary writer Stephen Bissette's extensive Sherlock Holmes vs. Mars article. You'll also find filmmaker Bennie Woodell's Tuesday Night Grindhouse Night at the New Beverly trip diary, more gold age porn from author Louis Paul, an interview with filmmaker Justin M. Seaman (THE BARN) and much more. Reviews include: DEADLY EYES, YELLOWBRICKROAD, LONG WEEKEND, THE DEVIL'S NIGHTMARE, JERSEY SHORE SHARK ATTACK, MILFS VS. ZOMBIES, MUSEO DEL HORROR, SICK GIRL, MUTANT, THE COMPANY OF WOLVES, THE VAMPIRE AND THE BALLERINA, BLOOD REINCARNATION, THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, DEVIL'S PASS, PADHUKAPPU, Heir, BIGFOOT CAPTURED and RATMAN. So a Happy Halloween, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from everyone here at Wildside-Kronos to you and yours!

The 2015 Holiday Spooktacular

Weng's Chop #8. 5

Steve Fenton

Stephen Bissette

Daniel Best

MONSTER! #28/29 Amazon hype Okay, this here's our first ever (and hopefully last!) "double" issue, which has twice as many pages as our usual average-sized ish, hence it must be our... Spring Special! However, rather than come up with a paragraph of sales hype which is twice as long as usual, we're just gonna keep things short (unlike the mag itself!) and sweet. Thanks to our regular reliable roster of talented scribes (and artists) - plus a few new contributors besides - we've got a gigantic grab-bag of monstersome goodness (and BADness) for you: including articles about/reviews of a clutch of HPL-themed movies; Jess Franco's 1970s "monster mash" trilogy; '70s FRANKENSTEIN made-for-TV flicks; a cinema/pop culture career overview of Countess Elizabeth Bathory; Pt.2 of "Australian Gothic," about the 1929 Australian stage tour of the play DRACULA; the obscure 1960s monster mag called SHRIEK!; Mexi-mummy movies featuring the shabby shamble known as Popoca; plus plentiful other features interspersed throughout, of both the written word and visual art kinds. Individual movies covered include DAGON (2001), THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE (2010), CULT OF THE COBRA (1955), IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994), THE PROJECTED MAN (1966), CTHULHU MANSION (1990), HOUSE (1986), THE BLOOD BEAST TERROR (1967), THE PROMISE KEEPER (2006), plus more besides. Our vaster than usual list of writing contribs totals Michael Hauss, Seb Godin, Cédric Monget, Eric Messina, John Harrison, Bill Adcock, Martín Núñez, Troy Howarth, Stephen R. Bissette, Andy Ross, Daniel Best, Christos Mouroukis, Matthew E. Banks, Ian Coleman, John Goodrich, Les Moore, Brian Harris, Tony Strauss, Steve Fenton, and Tim Paxton, plus we have some real snazzy artwork contributions from Matt Bradshaw, Jeff Grimal and Andy Ross. Then there's book and comic reviews, plus a whole whack of info regarding the video availability of specific movie titles covered. Get set for Creature feature overload!

Super Spring Special - Lovecraftian Vampires and More

Monster! #28/29 (Vampire Cover)

Join the geeks of WENG'S CHOP as they dig deep thru the outer reaches of oddball and obscure to bring you the wildest and weirdest in global cinema! This issue includes an insane amount of interviews, reviews and articles written by people from all walks of life, with all kinds of tastes in film. Over 200 pages of cinematic sludge, motion picture mayhem and exploitation gold! If you're tired of the same old, same old and you'd like to check out something unique, give Weng's Chop Magazine issue #6 a try!

Weng's Chop #6 (Kinski's Chop Cover)

Okay, just in time for April Fool's Day (not that we're foolin', mind you!), here comes MONSTER! #27... which just happens to be the first of our loose "H.P. Lovecraft" specials (we're doing another one next month, too). In this issue, it's about a 70/30% split, respectively, between HPL-themed material and other stuff. Steve Bissette (with an invaluable assist from Rick Lai) gives us Part 1 of his massive, laboriously-researched two-part analysis of the made-for-TV monster movie DARK INTRUDER (1965), which, while not "officially" derived from any particular HPL written work, is steeped in Lovecraftian lore and atmosphere nonetheless. Our review section reflects the issue's main theme, including coverage - by both long-time Lovecraft devotees and novices - of such cinematic adaptations of his works (both "legit" or only nominal) as CASTLE FREAK (1995), CHILEAN GOTHIC (a.k.a. PICKMAN'S MODEL, 2000), THE CURSE (1987), CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR (1968), THE DUNWICH HORROR (1970), THE HAUNTED PALACE (1963), ISLAND OF THE FISHMEN (1979), NECRONOMICON (1993), THE RESURRECTED (1991), and THE SHUTTERED ROOM (1967). Non-Lovecraft-related material this ish includes the first instalment of another epic historical overview from the scholarly Daniel Best on the subject of vintage horror entertainment Down Under, entitled "Australian Gothic"; this time Daniel covers the 1929 stage production of Bram Stoker's DRACULA which toured Australia's theatre circuit with considerable success in its day, but has since been as-good-as forgotten by history. All this and a bunch more goodies besides! Including: coverage of the PHANTASM movie quadrilogy, a piece about "apocalyptical dino-monsters" in modern popular culture, a review of the newest Karloff biography, Stephen Jacobs' BORIS KARLOFF: MORE THAN A MONSTER, plus, more, more, MORE! Other writing contributors this issue were C. Michael Hall, Christos Mouroukis, Eric Messina, Dennis Capicik, Allen A. Debus, Dawn Dabell, Sebastien Godin, Martín Núñez, Matthew E. Banks, Christopher J. Maurer, Daniel Best, Les Moore, Brian Harris, Steve Fenton, and Tim Paxton. And not only that, but we've also got some stark 'n' stylin' HPL-inspired artwork from Jolyon Yates, Andy Ross, Matt Bradshaw and C. Michael Hall, too! And last but not least, rounding out this super-stuffed 125-pager is our usual listing covering the video availability of titles discussed within.

Tim Paxton

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