Last night HalloweenMovies.com attended the re-launch party for revered Fangoria magazine in Burbank, CA, and with the 114-page issue jam-packed with Halloween goodness, here’s a peek within.
Held at Slashback Video (the celebrated faux indie horror video rental shop art installation created by Ciara Aumentado and Halloween 2018 co-producer Ryan Turek, which is housed within Magnolia Park’s Bearded Lady’s Mystic Museum), the re-launch was hosted by Fangoria’s new publisher Dallas Sonnier and Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobil Jr., and included (among the dozens of attendees) Halloween 2018 executive producer Ryan Freimann and Academy-award winning FX artist and Myers mask sculptor Chris Nelson.
First published in 1979, Fangoria served as essential monthly reading for horror fans worldwide, until its collapse in 2015 due to financial woes. With the assets of Fangoria having subsequently been purchased by Texas-based entertainment company Cinestate, the genre mag has now however returned as a quarterly publication, and it’s first issue is chock full of Haddonfield horror, with no less than seven articles on the series, including set visit coverage to David Gordon Green’s upcoming Halloween.
Additional Myers-centric articles include The Two Shapes Speak (an interview with actors Nick Castle and James Jude Courtney), David Gordon Green: Detour through Haddonfield (an interview with the writer and director), articles titled The Changing Shape and Halloween’s Abandoned Continuity (which delve into the franchise’s various installments and narratives), The Bastard Sons (and Daughters) of Michael Myers (a look at the original film’s impact on the slasher genre) and Lifers: My Myers House, which focuses on North Carolina resident Kenny Caperton’s recreation of the Pasadena, CA home which appeared in John Carpenter’s 1978 classic.
In addition, the magazine’s heavy with images from the latest Halloween, including the exclusive cover photo by Dan Winters.
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Halloween next plays on October 6th at Beyond Fest in Hollywood, CA at the Egyptian Theater as part of ‘Halloween Day’ (along with 1974’s Black Christmas and 1978’s Halloween, with Halloween series producer Malek Akkad in person, and more) before opening wide in theaters on October 19th, 2018 via Universal Pictures.
Co-written by director Green, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, Halloween is produced by Trancas International Films’ Malek Akkad, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Bill Block, with McBride, Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis serving as executive producers, along with Ryan Freimann and John Carpenter, the latter who also serves as the film’s composer.