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Filmfax Dec/Jan 1992, No. 30
Departments: Redits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, Wax Museum, Classifieds

Articles and Interviews

  • Black Dragons: Bela Lugosi
  • Clayton Moore
  • Richard Derr
  • Wheeler & Woolsey: part 2
  • H. Rider Haggard: film adaptions
  • Marie Windsor
  • Boris Karloff's Thriller (pt 2)
  • Filmfax Feb/Mar 1992, No. 31
    Departments: Redits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, Wax Museum, Classifieds

    Articles and interviews

  • Children & Chills: Those terrified tots who suffered monster mayhem
  • George Zucco
  • Lionel Atwill
  • John Howard
  • John Brahm: director
  • Jack the Ripper: as dramatized in popular entertainment
  • The Unknown: starring Lon Chaney Sr.
  • Filmfax Apr/May 1992, No. 32
    Departments: Redits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, Wax Museum, Classifieds

    Articles and Interviews

  • Bruce Bennett (aka Herman Brix)
  • Jack Mercer: voice of Popeye
  • Jonathan Harris: Dr. Smith of Lost in Space
  • Dick York: farewell interview
  • Tom Steele interview
  • Spaghetti Westerns: Sid Pink interview
  • Harold Lloyd retrospective
  • Filmfax Oct/Nov 1992, No. 35
    Departments: Redits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, Wax Museum, Classifieds

    Articles and Interviews

  • Jack Pierce interviewed by Chuck Ctisafulli
    Colin Clive article by Gregory Mank
  • The Monsters and Mr. Liveright: excerpt from The Monster Show by David J. Skal
  • Edward Van Sloan article by David Bowman
  • Helen Chandler article by David Bowman
  • Dwight Frye article by David Bowman
  • Interview with Dwight D. Frye by Ron Ford
  • Filmfax Dec/Jan 1993, No. 36
    Departments: Re:Edits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, DiscFlix

    Articles and interviews

  • "V is for Victory: The Spysmasher Saga
  • Gorilla My Screams: Bob Burns friendship with Paul Blaisdell - interview by Mark Vogler
  • L'Enfant Terrible: Cinematic Poetry of Jean Cocteau
  • France's "Le roi de Crazy!": Jerry Lewis
  • Superman's Serious Sidekick: A Conversation with Phyllis Coates
  • Milburn Stone: Lost interview with Gunsmoke's "Doc"
  • Music to the Max: The Max Steiner story
  • Filmfax Feb/Mar 1993, No. 37
    Departments: Redits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, Wax Museum, Classifieds, DiscFlix

    Articles and Interviews

  • Confessions of a Teenage Hearthrob: Kenny Miller
  • The "How To" of Making a Monster Movie: interview with Herman Cohen
  • The Girl, the Gillman, and the Great White One-piece: interview with Julie Adams
  • Jack Arnold: Life Beyong the Camera - interview with Betty Arnold
  • The Creature Remake That Never Got Made: Conversation with Jack Arnold and Nigel Kneale
  • The Quatermass Experience
  • Hinds Horrors: Anthony Hinds article
  • Filmfax June/uly 1993, No. 39
    Departments: Re-dits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, Wax Museum, Classifieds, DiscFlix

    Articles and interviews
  • Play It Again, Jack: Remembering "Realart", the Re-releasing company
  • The Menacing of Dennis: Child Star Jay North puts the pieces back together
  • The Flirting Angel and the Tramp: Interview with Lita Grey Chaplin
    M
  • aster of Early Movie Makeup: Amazing Makep Secrets of Lon Chaney Sr. by Michael Blake
  • The Butler Who Did it For Decades: Interview with Ian Wolfe
  • Sea and the Cinema: Mapping the Currents of Submarine Movie-making
  • Bridges Under Trouble Water: Lloyd Bridges
  • Filmfax Oct/Nov 1993, No. 41
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, DiscFlix

    Articles and Interviews

  • Behind Badge 714: Pt 2. Inside Sory of Jack Webb and Dragnet
  • Fu Manchu: "The World Shall Hear from Me Again": The Film Career of Sax Rohmer's Greatest Villain
  • That Wonderful Wicked Witch: Lost Interview with Margaret Hamilton
  • Making it up As You Go Along: The Way Out World of Makeup Artist Dick Smith
  • Inside the Dahl House of Horror: Not Just Off the Beaten Path...It Was Way Out! (Roald Dahl TV series)
  • Clown Prince of Darkness: The Biting Brooklyn Wit of Al "Grampa" Lewis
  • The Boy Who Cried "Woof Woof": A Rewriting Interview with Butch Patrick
  • Filmfax Dec/Jan 1994, No. 42
    Departments: Re:Edits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, DiscFlix

    Articles and Interviews

  • The Art of Fright: Celebrating the Life of Vincent Price
  • And in the Beginning was the Word: an interview with Richard Matheson
  • Priceless: A Farewell interview with Vincent Price, by Gregory Catsos
  • Astroboy: Happy 30th to that Mighty Mechanical Mite
  • The Amicus Empire: An interview with Milton Subotsky
  • AKA Mr. TV: An interview with William Schallert
  • The Kinks of Comedy: Beyond the Laughter with Veteran Screenwriter Ed Hartmann
  • Filmfax April/May 1994, No. 44
    Departments: Re:Edits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, DiscFlix

    Articles and Interviews

  • Nobody Does It Better: Ian Fleming and the Early Years of James Bond
  • Winky Dink and You: Interactive Television in the 1950s
  • The Films of Val Lewton and Boris Karloff
  • Bela Lugosi and the Monogram Nine
  • The Thief of Bad Gags: TV Talk with "Uncle Miltie" (Milton Berlin)
  • It's in the Cards: The Life and Times of a Cue Card man
  • One Shot Fits All: The Rapid-fire Career of William Beaudine
  • Filmfax Mar/Apr 1995, No. 49
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, Construx, DiscFlix

    Articles and Interviews

  • Silent Space: Early Experiments in Sci-Fi Cinema
  • El Santo: And in this Corner-El Mascarado de Plata
  • The Haunting and Other Wise Tales: Interview with Robert Wise
  • AKA Shawn Smith: Interview with Shirley Patterson
  • Flash Gordon: Cruising the Cathode Ray
  • The Great Gildersleeve: The Great Bumbler's Silver Screen Adventures
  • A Fuller View: Interview with SAm Fuller
  • Delmar Watson: Before and Behind the Camera
  • Filmfax Nov/Dec 1995, No. 53
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, DiscFlix. Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Articles and Interviews

  • Confessions of a Brooklyn Gorilla: Sammy Petrillo
  • The Fright Before Christmas: holiday portfolio of celebrating celebrities
  • "One of Us": Tod Browning and Freaks
  • War of the Horrors: The Great Universal vs Hammer Movie Debate
  • Al Adamson interview
  • Sultans of Saturday morning: interview with Joe Barbera
  • Interview with Jean Van Der Pyl
  • Interview with Penny Singleston
  • Jane Greer: The Definitive Film Noir Femme Fatale
  • Interview with Dwayne Hickman
  • Filmfax Mar/Apr 1995, No. 55
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, DiscFlix. Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Articles and Interviews

  • Ro-man's Mate: An interview with Claudia Barrett
  • Strock Footage: An interview with Herbert Strock
  • The Sinister serials: Bela Lugosi
  • The Making of Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • Sue Ann Langdon: Pretty Sue ann meets Elvis and the boys
  • Wooden Performance: Tree Monster Chester Hayes Speaks
  • TV's Silent Panic: Harpo Marx and the Golden Age of Television
  • Son of Silence: Bill Marx
  • Filmfax Double Issue Oct 96-Jan 97, No. 58
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, DiscFlix, Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Articles and Interviews

  • The Batwoman From Cape Canaveral: An interview with Katherine Victor
  • Inside 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • Not Just A Screamer: An interview with Psycho's Janet Leigh
  • Bell Ringer of Notre Dame: Straightening out the hunchback myth
  • Elsa Lanchester: A Candid look at the Bride of Frankenstein
  • The Woman From Planet X: An interview with Margaret Field
  • Worlds, Wars & Wonders: Amazing career of Ib Melchior, part 2
  • The Creature Talks Among Us: Interview with Ricou Browning
  • Revenge of the (Other) Creatures: Interviews with Ben Chapman and Tom Hennessy
  • Going Batty: Three Film Adaptions of The Bat
  • Talking Eye to Eye: Interview with Duncan "Dean" Parkin
  • The Space Child Who Cried Them!: interview with Sandy Descher
  • Beauty and the Beasts: Interview with Mara Corday
  • The Lost Horrors of Hammer: Misplaced projects from the House of Hammer
  • Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire Over London: Arthur Lucan goes bats with Bela Lugosi
  • Filmfax June/July 1997 No. 61
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, DiscFlix, Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Features

  • The Ape Man
  • Artists and Models
  • The Brain that Wouldn't Die
  • Candles at Nine/ Evergreen
  • Captive Wild Woman
  • The Creature Walks Among Us
    Dr. Cyclops
  • Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
  • Earth vs the Flying Saucers
  • The 5,000 Fingers of Dt. T
  • Francis in the Haunted House/Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
  • Girls Town
  • The Matt Helm Series: The Silencers, Murderers Row, The Ambushers,
  • The Wrecking Crew
  • Horror of Dracula
  • The Human Monster
  • I Bury the Living
  • Invasion U.S.A.
  • The Invisible Ray
  • King of the Zombies
  • Ladies of the Chorus
  • The Monolith Monsters
  • Monsters Crash the Pajama Party
  • Mania
  • Nosferatu
  • Naughty New Orleans
  • Noir, the Dark Side of Hollywood: T-Men, Raw Deal, He Walked by Night
  • The Old Dark House
  • Psycho
  • The Quatermass Xperiment
  • The Return of the Vampire
  • The Revenge of Frankenstein
  • Son of Dracula
  • The Thirteenth Guest/ A Shriek in the Night
  • 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt
  • Tormented
  • Unnatural...the Fruit of Evil
  • The Vampire Lovers
  • A Virgin in Hollywood
  • The Wild Women of Wongo
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Zombies of Mora Tau
  • Filmfax August/September 1997 No. 62
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, DiscFlix, Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Features

  • Beauty and the Beast from 20,000 [Fathoms]: interview with Paula Raymond
  • The Golden Voyage of Gordon Hessler: From Hitchcock to Harryhausen
  • Worlds, Wars & Wonders, pt 5: the amazing career of Ib Melchior
  • AIP's Third Man: an interview with Deke Heyward
  • Cult of the Werewolf: Sound bites with lycanthrope Steve Ritch
  • Hideous monster maker from inner space: behind the scenes with Richard Cassarino
  • The Monster Man: "Destination Inner Space" creator Ron Burke
  • A Mant for all seasons: Robert Cornthwaite on The Thing and this and that
  • The Bloody countess: interview with Ingrid Pitt
  • Forgotten TV Films of Errol Flynn
  • Bela Lugosi: unmasking the mysteries: discover seven Lugosi riddles yet to be solved
  • Pasta primo: "Death rides a horse: and the spaghetti western
  • Moon Maiden: Heinlein's Project Moonbase star Donna Martell
  • Robert Siodmak: the uncrowned king of Forties film noir
  • Filmfax October/January 1997/98 No. 63/64
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, VideoScan, DiscFlix, Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Features

  • Gregory Walcott: How he learned to stop worrying and love Ed Wood's Plan 9 Bomb
  • Wood Worker: An Interview with Ed Wood regular Don Nagel
  • Voices from the House on Spider Hill: Invers with cast and crewmembers of Spider Baby
  • Merry -Go-Round: Interview with Merry Anders
  • Famous Fantastic Factoids: New insights and obscurata from your favorite fantasy films
  • Robert Culp, Harlan ELlison an dThe Outer Limits: Interviews
  • Atomic Blond: Kiss Me Deadly Fmme fatale Gaby Rodgers
  • Unknown Island" Behind the scenes on the "Other Lost World"
  • Barbara Steele: on the set with Fred Olen Ray's Prophet
  • Lovely But Lethaal: Interview with Barbara Shelley
  • Christopher Wicking: the Cineaste of British Horror
  • Team Spirit: the Career of Second Bananas Brown & Carney
  • An actor's Life: Lon Chaney's Film Biography Celebrate Middle Age
  • Worlds, Wars & Wonders, pt 6: The Amazing Career of Ib Melchior
  • Filmfax June/July 1998 No. 67
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, VideoScan, DiscFlix, Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Features

  • Bride of the Mummy: Interview with Ramsay Ames
  • Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory: interview with Curt Lowens
  • Anne Helm: from Sorcery to Rock and Roll
  • The Vampire Speaks: Interview with "El Vampiro" star GErman Robles
  • The Vampire's Lady: Interview with Ariadne Welter
  • The Lady Vampire: Interview with Carmen Montejo
  • Cinderella meets the Mexican Monsters: Interview with Evangelina Elizondo
  • This Bud's For You: Interview with John "Bud" Cardos
  • Snap, Crackle, Scream: Screams of Reason: Mad Science & Modern Culture, pt 1
  • Bob Burns: Fantastic Film Fandom's Good Will Ambassador, pt 1
  • Roy Barcroft: Purple Reign of the King of Silver Screen Villains
  • Expressionist by vocation: interview with Jess Franco
  • Guest of Honor: interview with Val Guest
  • The Way it Happened, pt 3: Autobigraphy by Louis M. "Deke" Heyward
  • Lovely Shades od Grey: Interview with Colleen Grey
  • An Actor's Actor: nterview with Richard Herd
  • Filmfax August/September 1998 No. 68
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, VideoScan, DiscFlix, Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Features

  • First Man-to-Flu: Interview with David "Al" Hedison
  • The Devil's Disciple: Interview with Amanda Duff
  • Irene Tsu: From Prehistoric Planet to Star Trek to Elvis
  • Snap, Crackle, Scream (pt 2): Screams of Reason: Mad Science & Modern Culture
  • Bob Burns (pt 2) Fantastic Film Fandom's Good Will ambassador
  • The 7th Voyage of the Invisible Boy: Interview with Richard Eyer
  • The Man From Planet X Files: Making of Edgar Ulmer's SF Cult Classic
  • The Marlboro Man Meets The Creeping Terror: Interview with William Thourlby
  • Cuban Rebel Girls: Errol Flynn's Last Adventure
  • The Way it Happened, pt 4: Autobiography of Louis M "Deke" Heyward
  • Beware All Monsters: Ultraman is Forever Earth's Champion!
  • I Was a Teenage Monster: Interview with stuntman Gil Perkinns
  • Whatever happened to George Nader?: Rise and fall of a Hollywood Sex Symbol
  • Fields of Glory: interview with Ronald J. Fields, WC's grandson
  • The Other Madman's Diary: Interrview with Tom Troupe
  • Filmfax Oct 98/Jan 1999, No. 69/70
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, DiscFlix. Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Articles and Interviews

  • Universal Beauty: an interview with Frankie Laine in honor of his wife Nan Grey
  • The Man From Planet X Files, pt 2: Behind the scenes on Man from Planet X
  • Jean Byron
  • Commando Cody Speaks: An interview with George Wallace
  • Dian McBain
  • Laughs Galore: The Career of Mantan Moreland
  • The Star Wars Holiday Special: After 20 years of silence, its creators take a critical look
  • Touch of Evil: Recreating the Directors' Cut
  • Bob Burns, pt 3
  • Spiderman Comes to Television, pt 1
  • Devil May Care: An interview with William Peter Blatty
  • The Way it Happened, pt 5: Autobiography by Louis M. "Deke" Heyward

  • Filmfax Feb/Mar 1999, No. 71
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, Videoscan, DiscFlix. Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Articles and Interviews

  • June Foray
  • Dave Sharpe
  • Monster Rumble: How the amateur films of Don Glut invaded the USC film school in the 1960s
  • Bad Blonde: the Tragic Story of Barbara Payton
  • Lon Chaney as Dracula? Setting the record straight
  • Like Father, Like Son, Like Grandson: an interview with Ron Chaney, Lon Chaney, Jr.s grandson
  • Two Lost Worlds: The 1925 and 1960 versions of Arthur Conan Doyle's great dinosaur adventure
  • Superman Comes to Television, pt 2
  • Woody Strode: remembering a forgotten icon
  • The Way it Happened, pt 6: Autobiography by Louis M. "Deke" Heyward
  • Filmfax Oct/Jan 2000 No. 75/76
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, VideoScan, DiscFlix, Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Features

  • The Haunting: interview with director Robert Wise
  • Rosalie Crutchley: Hill House housekeeper from The Haunting
  • La Residencia: Director Narcisco Ibanez Serrador on making The House that Screamed
  • Mary Maude: the bad girl from The House that Screamed
  • Robert Lees: on writiing Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein
  • Forever Princess: The Charmed Life of Elinor Donohue, pt 2
  • Karen Black: the triple star of Trilogy of Terror
  • Southern California Sorcerers: Origins of The Twilight Zone's "Group"
  • Charles Beaumont's "The Seeing I": Screenwriter "previews The Twighlight Zone
  • Richard Matheson: Into the "TV Zone" with "The Incredible Thinking Man"
  • The Third Gremlin: George Clayton Johnson remembers the "GRoup"
  • Sohl Man: Jerry Sohl on The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits
  • Roger Corman: Legendary AIP director Monsterizes AMC
  • William Campbell: You Know the Face, Now Meet the Man, pt 2
  • Beverly Washburn: Spider Baby sister and TV veteran
  • Filmfax August/September 2001 No. 86
    Departments: Re:edits, Cinema Sourcebook, DiscFlix, Hi-Tek Hi-Fi

    Features

  • Charles Middleton: Beyond the Ming Dynasty: Revelations from the Emperor's grandson, Ben Middleton
  • Keir Dullea: the Future is Now: 2001 and Beyond
  • Macho Memories of McQueen: William E. Nolan remembers Steve McQueen
  • Love that Blob: Celebrating the theater that made the Blob famous
  • Neile Adams: More than just Steve McQueen's wife
  • The Prime of Miss Ida Lupino (pt 2)
  • Have Gun Will Travel
  • The Two Paladins: The Doppelganger duel of Victor DeCosta
  • The Way it Happened: Deke Heyward on his early years in radio, TV, and Film
  • Filmfax Feb/Mar 20003, No 95
    Departments
    Re:Edits, Retro Sourcebook, VideoDiscFlix, Hi-Tek Hi Fi

    Articles

  • Glenn Ford the All-purpose Star
  • Jack Harris: the man behind the Blob
  • Wrestling Mexican monsters
  • Metropolis Reborn: The reconstruction and restoration of Fritz Lang's classic
  • Destined to play Wilma, pt 2: the life and times of Erin Gray (Buck Rogers)
  • Tinkering with the future: Tim O'Connor in the 25th century (Buck Rogers)
  • Another Tale Well-calculated to keep you in...Suspense: Real life, natural talent and the theatre of the mind: Interview with George Bamber
  • Filmfax July/Sept 2006, No 111
    Departments
    Re:Edits, Retro Sourcebook, VideoDiscFlix, Hi-Tek Hi Fi

    Articles and Interviews

  • Chesley Bonestall: Space Artist
  • Dennis Weaver: Duel
  • The Secrets of Futureworld
  • The Squid That Got Away: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • The Fantasmagorical Worlds of Michael Wm. Kaluta
  • Nightmare in Laughs: Victoria Carroll
  • Samurai Widow Tells All: John Belushi's widow
  • Music From the Eve of Destruction
  • Atomic City, Atomic World: Paranoia reaches Ground Zero in this tale of atomic espionage
  • This Is Not a Test: Interview with Mary Morlas
  • Samson Burke Meets the Three Stooges
  • Tommy "Butch" Bond
  • Superman's Pal, Jim Hambrick: How Kirk Alyn returned to Metropolis and forged his legacy as the first real Man of Steel
  • Filmfax Oct/Dec 2006, No 112
    Departments
    Re:Edits, Retro Sourcebook, VideoDiscFlix, Hi-Tek Hi Fi

    Articles and Interviews

  • DC Fontana: A Writer's Enterprise
  • Forbidden Planet's 50th: Warren Stevens, Richard Anderson and Earl Holliman
  • From Narrow Margins to Boston Stranglings: thrillers of director Richard Fleischer
  • The Squid That Got Away: The Making of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, pt 2
  • House Peters, Jr.
  • The Magical Worlds of Michael Wm. Kaluta, pt 3: From Wizards of the Coast to Books of Magic, Lucifer & Beyond
  • Dee Wallace-Stone: Cujo star interviewed
  • Lorne Peterson: from Star Wars to the Caribbean with ILMs Master Modelmaker
  • Programming Bloch: the small screen career of Robert Bloch
  • Defending Dracula: Tod Browning's Dracula Re-considered
  • The Curse of Hollywoodland: Hollywoodland insiders shed new light on an old mystery (death of George Reeves)
  • With One Magic Word: Jackson Bostwick talks bout Shazam!
  • Mommy Fearest: Daughter of actress Lisa Gaye grows up with Horror in Mind
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