Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #176 August 1981 cover by Basil Gogos featuring grotesque creature from The Mutation 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #176

Aug-81 • Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

Basil Gogos returns with a creature from The Mutations on Issue #176’s cover, but the issue’s soul is “The Master Monster Maker” — the farewell and career retrospective for Terence Fisher, the director who built Hammer horror’s house style. “Lo Ghoul Boy Makes Good” profiles monster maker James Cummins, Dragonslayer and Excalibur preview the fantasy wave, and the Rodan filmbook concludes.

Cover Spotlight

Basil Gogos paints the creature from THE MUTATIONS — Jack Cardiff's 1974 British horror film about a botanist's experiments in splicing human and plant DNA, with Donald Pleasence as the doctor who should have known better.

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Contents

  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Fan Mail
  • Phantasy Preview Parade
  • Birthday Witches
  • The Master Monster Maker
  • Mindwarp an Infinity of Terror
  • Dragonslayer
  • Rodan the Flying Monster
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No.133
  • Prince Sirki's 30
  • Lo Ghoul Boy Makes Good
  • The Sword of Swords-excalibur
  • Rare Treats
  • The Horrorworld Reporter
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Recurring Departments

  • Graveyard Examiner
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Films Featured

The MutationDragonslayerRodanExcaliburMindwarpAltered States
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Personalities

Terence FisherJames CumminsKaren BlackYul Brynner

☠ Collector's Notes

The Terence Fisher farewell-and-retrospective is required Hammer reading, and a late Gogos creature cover seals Issue #176’s collector case. One of the strongest reference issues of the run’s final stretch.

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FM #176 — August 1981

Basil Gogos paints the creature from THE MUTATIONS — Jack Cardiff's 1974 British horror film about a botanist's experiments in splicing human and plant DNA, with Donald Pleasence as the doctor who should have known better. Inside: The Mutation, Dragonslayer, Rodan, and Excalibur, and Basil Gogos, Terence Fisher, James Cummins, and Karen Black.

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