The Darkside – Issue 229 – April 2022
English | 70 pages | pdf | 73.23 MB

100 years ago Max Schreck’s scary Count Orlok ascended a spooky, shadowy staircase and stretched out his claw-like hand to bedevil the awaiting Ellen Hutter in F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. As this horror classic awaits its well-deserved birthday card from the Queen we examine it in our latest issue and learn how an influential masterpiece of cinema was supposed to have had all of its copies destroyed after Bram Stoker’s widow sued the makers for plagiarism of her husband’s Dracula!
The Evil Dead is one of the most inventive and dynamic horror films of the 1980s. Join us as we look at how the film was financed in the first place and how UK audiences played a big part in establishing it as a worldwide success. Another bloodthirsty horror favourite spins your way in Blades of Gory, a fun interview with Jim Krut, who played the ‘helicopter zombie’ in George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead and got a short back and sides for being such a silly Billy!
The world of horror lost one of its most beautiful heroines recently with the passing of Veronica Carlson, who appeared opposite both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in Hammer horrors like Dracula Has Risen from the Grave and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. Dark Side magazine Editor Allan Bryce pays tribute to her in a heartfelt look back at her all-too-short career.
Next, it’s “Spot the werewolf’ time as we interview Paul Annett, director of the popular Amicus movie The Beast Must Die (1974).
Then we check out the Mad Doctor roles of the legendary Boris Karloff, who always seemed to be working in the lab late one night. And FrightFest legend Alan Jones brings us an up-to-datereport on the brand new hit Italian movie Diabolik, chronicling the adventures of the master thief of the title, first played on screen by John Phillip Law in the 1960s.
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