Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #143 May 1978 cover featuring colorful space monster from independent horror The Alien Factor 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #143

May-78 • Photograph
Inside This Issue

What did the masters make of Spielberg? “Close Encounters of Several Kinds” gathers Ray Bradbury, Steven Spielberg, and others on the year’s great UFO epic in Issue #143. A Mummy filmbook keeps Karloff close, Don Dohler’s independent The Alien Factor gets an early look, and “The House in the Twilight Zone” continues the tour of the new Ackermansion.

Cover Spotlight

A hand-colored image of a space creature from THE ALIEN FACTOR — Don Dohler's 1978 Baltimore-shot low-budgeter, the kind of independently made monster movie FM always had time for.

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Contents

  • Logan's Fun
  • Close Encounters of Several Kinds
  • The Mummy
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No.104
  • The Alien Factor
  • R Is for Revenge
  • Of Wars and Awards
  • The House in the Twilight Zone
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
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Films Featured

The Alien FactorThe Mummy (1932)Beneath the Planet of the ApesClose Encounters of the Third Kind
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Personalities

Ray BradburySteven Spielberg
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Bylines & Contributors

Jeff DeFeoPaul Linden

☠ Collector's Notes

Issue #143’s draw for collectors is the conversation: Bradbury, Spielberg, and company talking Close Encounters in the moment. The Ackermansion series continues — catnip for fans of FM’s own mythology.

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FM #143 — May 1978

A hand-colored image of a space creature from THE ALIEN FACTOR — Don Dohler's 1978 Baltimore-shot low-budgeter, the kind of independently made monster movie FM always had time for. Inside: The Alien Factor, The Mummy (1932), Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Ray Bradbury, Steven Spielberg, Jeff DeFeo, and Paul Linden.

Tell us the first monster from this one that lived in your head rent-free. ⬇️

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