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October 31, 2005
Issue 445
Vol. 11, No. 44

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COVER ART Featured Artist:
Maciej "Monastyr" Blazejczyk

INTERVIEW

 Famed directors Joe Dante and John Landis make their nightmares real in the mini-movie anthology series Masters of Horror, while Peter Straub invites readers to sleep with ghosts In the Night Room.


EXCESSIVE CANDOUR

 Critic John Clute comes down with a bad case of "Prometheus Emphysema" after visiting the future of Hal Duncan's Vellum.

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Peter Jackson prepares to release a three-hour King Kong, Darren Aronofsky dreams up an episode of Lost, Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball digs up a Southern Vampire, Rockne O'Bannon uses his Farscape experience to join The Cult, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Gina Gershon predicts destruction in Category 7: The End of the World, Haley Joel Osment races mechas in IGPX, Amanda Tapping takes command on the Stargate SG-1 season-eight DVD, and Hye-jin Shim gives birth to terror on the Acacia DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 Octavia Butler visits with an amnesiac vampire in Fledgling, while Brian Aldiss celebrates the highlights of a 50-year career in Cultural Breaks.
GAMES
 Save Earth by spearheading an assault against a cybernetic race of necrotic flesh-hunting aliens in the first-person shooter Quake 4.
ANIME
 Legends warn that children who play hide and seek at night risk being carried off by demons, but that only encourages the kids of Kakurenbo.
SOUND SPACE
 Since the film Batman Begins established a new direction for the superhero franchise, the score set out for new territory as well.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Brevity is the soul of wit at Four Word Film Review, which features more than 15,000 pithy reviews, each one of them exactly as described in the site's name.
LETTERS
 Readers long for less-evil aliens, give screenwriting advice to the creators of Lost, stand up for the printed word, and much more.

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