Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #159 November 1979 cover featuring intense Alien xenomorph attack scene with Veronica Cartwright screaming 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #159

Nov-79 • Photograph
Inside This Issue

The scream heard across 1979: Issue #159 keeps Alien front and center with a cover still and “Alien Viewpoints,” a roundup of what the critics made of it. Then comes the tonal whiplash FM did best — a Muppet Movie preview, and H.G. Wells chasing Jack the Ripper through Time After Time.

Cover Spotlight

A color still from ALIEN of the creature attacking Veronica Cartwright — one of cinema's most terrifying attack sequences, frozen in a single image.

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Contents

  • Wax Enthusiastic
  • Fantasy Film Flood Previews
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
  • Graveyard Examiner
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Films Featured

AlienThe Muppet MovieTime After TimeStar WarsThe Zombies of Mora Tau
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Personalities

Veronica CartwrightCarrie FisherMark HamillBela LugosiElsa LanchesterMax Fleischer

☠ Collector's Notes

The Alien arc continues, and Issue #159’s critical-reaction roundup reads today like 1979 figuring out, in real time, what had just hit it. The Muppet preview is the run’s gentlest tonal swerve.

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FM #159 — November 1979

A color still from ALIEN of the creature attacking Veronica Cartwright — one of cinema's most terrifying attack sequences, frozen in a single image. Inside: Alien, The Muppet Movie, Time After Time, and Star Wars, and Veronica Cartwright, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and Bela Lugosi.

Rip the cellophane off this one in the replies — favorite moments, worst nightmares, cover love, all welcome. ⬇️

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