Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #164 June 1980 cover featuring blue-tinted still of Kirk Douglas attacked by robot in Saturn 3 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #164

Jun-80 Photograph
Inside This Issue

Stephen King sits for an interview in Issue #164 — horror’s new master in the magazine’s pages — while Saturn 3 takes the cover with its rogue robot. “They’re Living Dolls” surveys manikins of menace, the Italian space-opera echo The Humanoid gets a look, and the “Futuria Fantasia Film Forecast” glimpses what’s coming — The Howling, Alligator, and a young David Cronenberg’s Scanners among them.

Cover Spotlight

A blue-tinted still of Kirk Douglas under attack from the deranged robot Hector in SATURN 3 — the 1980 British sci-fi thriller, atmospheric and unsettling in its better moments.

Contents

  • Ghoulden Awardees
  • Futuria Fantasia Film Forecast
  • Saturn 3
  • They're Living Dolls - Manikins of Menace
  • The Humanoid
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No.122
  • Horrorwood Reporter
  • Stephen King Interview

Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
  • Graveyard Examiner

☠ Collector's Notes

Issue #164 quietly previews horror’s next five years — Scanners, The Howling, Alligator — and carries a Stephen King interview for good measure. More forward-looking than its Saturn 3 cover suggests.

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FM #164 — June 1980

A blue-tinted still of Kirk Douglas under attack from the deranged robot Hector in SATURN 3 — the 1980 British sci-fi thriller, atmospheric and unsettling in its better moments. Inside: Saturn 3, The Humanoid, Curse of the Crimson Altar, and The Mask, and Kirk Douglas, Stephen King, Basil Rathbone, and Peter Lorre.

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