Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Inside This Issue
The new horror crowds into Issue #172: David Cronenberg’s Scanners, the notorious Maniac, Motel Hell’s smoked delicacies, and The Final Conflict closing the Omen trilogy — with Lily Tomlin shrinking on the cover for comic relief. The issue also marks the passing of Steve McQueen, whose The Blob gave the genre one of its great debuts.
Cover Spotlight
A color still of Lily Tomlin under siege from a toy robot in THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN — the 1981 sci-fi comedy playing the shrinking-person premise for absurdist laughs.
☠ Collector's Notes
The slasher wave hits full force in Issue #172 — Maniac, Motel Hell, early Cronenberg — making it a marker of the genre’s hard turn. The Steve McQueen farewell connects 1980s loss back to 1958’s The Blob.
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