Monday, April 10, 2023

SCARY MONSTERS #130: DRIVE-IN NOSTALGIA

Scary Monsters #130 (Spring 2023) is a blessing to those who dig horror/sci-fi, drive-in theater nostalgia. Artist-supreme, Scott Jackson does a wondrous job brewing the saturating atmosphere with his fantastic, front-cover and "ballyhoo", back-cover collages. 


And as far as ballyhoo goes, #130 sure lives up to the hype, featuring heartfelt memories of those drive-in theaters that once stood throughout the nation, the garish movies that once occupied their screens and the news ads that promoted them: Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary (aka The Incredibly Strange Creatures...); Blood of Dracula; The Night Walker; Blood Feast; Two Thousand Maniacs; Kiss of the Vampire; The Face of Fu ManchuTaste the Blood of Dracula; TrogFrogs; StanleySlithis; Empire of the AntsThe Golden Voyage of Sinbad; The Velvet Vampire, Scream of the Demon Lover; Tales from the Crypt '72; The Hand; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2TorsoPhantasmDawn of the Dead '79; Alice, Sweet AliceKing Kong '76; The Legend of Boggy Creek; the original Planet of the Apes theatrical flicks; and so many more!

In addition to these imaginative insertions, #130 contains a scholarly rundown of those ghastly ghouls, Burke and Hare; a look at The Curse of the Faceless Man; an essay on fright masters, Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven and George A. Romero; Dark Shadows fandom; horror-movie tunes; video-store recollections; monster collectibles; and (hold onto your seat!) the captivating Carol (The Poseidon Adventure) Lynley and the larger-than-life (Suddenly, Last Summer) Liz Taylor. 

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