Saturday, June 6, 2020

IMAGI-MOVIES VAMPIRE SPECIAL (PART 1)


IMAGI-MOVIES
Vol. 2 No. 3 (Whole number 6)
Winter 1994
Publisher: Frederick S. Clarke
Editor: Steve Biodrowski
Cover: Florina Kendrick in unused makeup by Michele Burke for Coppola's Dracula
Pages: 64
Cover price: $5.50

I haven't done much in the way of vampires lately, so here's a special "Vampires" issue of Frederick S. Clarke's IMAGI-MOVIES. A companion 'zine to both CINEFANTASTIQUE and FEMME FATALES, IM was focused primarily on newer films.

This issue highlights the then soon-to-be-released BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Other material covered is Kenneth Branagh's stink bomb, MARY SHELLY'S FRANKENSTEIN,  a commentary on modern vampires by film historians Leonard Wolf and David J. Skal, a discussion of casting Tom Cruise as Lestat (not as bad as everyone thought), interviews with vampire story writers Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Suzy McKee Charnas, and my favorite -- a cool retrospective of vampire movies from South of the Border. Packed full of other stuff, like reviews, too. An issue you can (heh! heh!) sink your teeth into!



























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