Warren Publishing

Issue #135

July, 1977

Reviewer:    C. L. Werner

Articles include:

• Terror Times Two - the amicus story - by Randy Palmer - A look at the history of British Horror film studio Amicus and its founders Milton Subotsky and Max J. Rosenberg. From their first film, 1960's Horror Hotel, starring Christopher Lee, to their many horror films in the late '60's and early 70's, the evolution of the studio is recapped. Amicus was responsible for horror vignettes like Asylum, Robert Bloch's Torture Garden and the Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing vehicle Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as well as the now famous Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror. Sadly, Amicus went out of business shortly after their string of big-budget prehistoric films, among them The Land That Time Forgot and At the Earth's Core with Peter Cushing.

• Godzilla vs. Bionic Monster - A wildly inaccurate filmbook for the soon to be released Godzilla film Godzilla vs the Cosmic Monster. Among the oddities in the article: King Seesar becomes King Seesaw. Not once is the name Mechagodzilla mentioned, instead he is always 'Bionic Monster'. It is Ghidrah, the three-headed monster, who attacks the disguised Bionic Monster, not Anguirus.

• Chris Lee, Danforth's Pal & Supermen... meet Robert Bloch in Metropolis - by Paul Linden - A report on the ceremonial luncheon of the Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Hall of Fame, held in Hollywood in December 1976. Among the guests of honor were Christopher Lee, the screen's definitive Dracula; Forrest J. Ackerman, who inducted the late Fritz Lang director of such films as Metropolis and M into the hall of fame for his work; and Robert Bloch, author of countless horror stories, H. P. Lovecraft circle writer and the man behind Psycho. Other inductees were stop-motion animation genius Jim Danforth, Superman creators Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster, The Robe's Caligula and TV's Dr. Shrinker Jay Robinson, and director George Pal of War of the Worlds fame.

• Now Kentucky Fried Movie! - Pictures of Rick Baker's impressive gorilla costume from the new John Landis comedy The Kentucky Fried Movie.

• The Black Cat - Second part of a two-part filmbook for the 1934 Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff horror film The Black Cat.

• Caligula meets Dracula - by Eric L. Hoffman - A look at the career of actor Jay Robinson, from his early days on the stage with Boris Karloff in 'The Shop at Sly Corner' to his famous portrayal of the mad Roman emperor Caligula in The Robe and Demetrius and the Gladiators to his most recent exploit, appearing as the evil mad scientist Dr. Shrinker on the Sid & Marty Kroft series Dr. Shrinker. It is reported that Jay Robinson will be appearing alongside Vincent Price in a third Dr. Phibes film.