RUE MORGUE Issue 228 Jan/Feb 2026

Rue Morgue · 001 Rue Morgue #228 - Intro Full disclosure: I have been super stoked about A Serbian Documentary since Steve Biro told me it was in development a long-ass time ago. Why? Because I fucking love A Serbian Film, and I found myself wishing that I’d been in this position fifteen years ago so I could have put that shit on the cover and celebrated that film for all the reasons that still appear to go unsung. Some horror stories ripen with time, and some material needs room to breathe (or in this case, gag) before we can talk about it with a clear head. Hear me out: I’ve been a horror fan long before I sat in this editor’s chair, and I know it’s impossible to…

THANK YOU for yet another amazing Halloween issue. I particularly enjoyed the material on lost horror films. This made me recall a long-standing hope for the release of a film that I never noticed grace the pages of Rue Morgue. It Came From Trafalgar boasts an all-star cast of horror legends, but was either never actually completed, or never commercially released. Is this film real and, if so, why is it never spoken of? TONY WILLIAMS, VIA EMAIL Hi Tony, It Came From Trafalgar is indeed a real film – one that has only ever screened in 2009 at genre conventions across the U.S. As you note, it has never been released but we would love to see it! Any producers out there listening? -Ed JUST WANTED TO SEND along…

WEIRD STATS & MORBID FACTS ISSUE # 228 The Fly’s iconic tagline, “Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid,” was suggested by producer Mel Brooks while he was discussing audience reactions to the character’s transformation with director David Cronenberg. The Chiodo Brothers based the look of the alien Crites from Critters on the Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes cartoons. Doraphobia is described as an intense fear of touching animal skin or fur. A Minnesota teen, found outside “frozen solid” on a cold winter’s night in 1980, was successfully revived in hospital the next morning despite her pulse dropping to twelve beats per minute. Danny DeVito directed a post-apocalyptic horror film in 2012 called St. Sebastian, starring William Fichtner and Lance Reddick. It was never released, and DeVito has not directed since. In…

It may not be the wildest news to learn that the United States doesn’t have the best reputation in the international community right now, with two particularly noticeable valleys in confidence from 2016 to 2020 and then again since 2024 for some reason. But lest we think of this as a new development, it should be noted that the U.S. has a long history of actively pissing off its neighbours, near and far, with meddling military action and hazardous material spills. In fact, they pulled off both those feats at the turn of the millennium with an incident in Korea that inspired future Oscar-winner Bong Joon Ho to write his breakout film, 2006’s The Host. Audiences may have watched the film’s prologue, with a U.S. contractor dumping formaldehyde into the…

Prior to starring in The Giant Spider Invasion as the lecherous farmer Dan Kester, Easton appeared in films and TV shows during the 1950s, but quickly tired of playing the perennial country bumpkin – a fate the actor had clearly not entirely escaped by the mid-’70s. Resolving to broaden his range by channelling a lifelong interest in speech mechanics gleaned from battling a severe childhood stutter, Easton studied phonetics at University College London in the 1960s. While there, he appeared beside Roger Moore in The Saint and provided voices for Stingray, before returning to America and establishing himself as a Hollywood dialect coach. Earning the moniker “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” his many illustrious students included the likes of Laurence Olivier, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, and Forest Whitaker.…

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