Imaginator Magazine

This Creature Feature Special Edition is a thick-spined monster of an issue! Just take a look at the creature-tastic contents...PREDATORAward-winning creature designer/creator STEVE WANG talks about designing and building one of the most iconic alien characters ever created for the screen... the original PREDATOR!DRAGONSLAYERSpecial effects & make-up effects titan CHRIS WALAS recounts what it was like helping to bring to life the greatest-looking movie dragon: Vermithrax Pejorative!ALIENActress VERONICA CARTWRIGHT is interviewed about working on the classic genre movies ALIEN, INVASION OF THE BODYSNATCHERS and THE BIRDS!WEREWOLVESA look at the awesome practical creature FX used in WEREWOLVES (2024)!ELDRITCH ENCOUNTERSHorror fiction author, editor and critic RAMSEY CAMPBELL reviews two films made by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society!CREATURE FEATURE REVIEWSReviews of a bunch of monster movies, including BOGIEVILLE, THE MUMMY AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKALS and ALIEN FROM THE ABYSS!THE DEADLY SPAWNJOHN DODS chats about making the gorgeously gooey, triple-headed monster star of THE DEADLY SPAWN (1983)!INTO THE DEEPRichard (Hooper) Dreyfuss is unleashed upon the world in a brand new shark movie: INTO THE DEEP! Action director CHRISTIAN SESMA tells us all about it!BEASTS OF BLOOD ISLANDA dive back into the lurid, tropical, colourful world of Eddie Romero’s Filipino fright flicks!SQUIRMDirector JEFF LIEBERMAN reminisces about his incredibly enjoyable killer bloodworms opus SQUIRM!HORROR QUEENExploitation movie star GERETTA GERETTA chats about starring in RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR (1984) and the insanely kinetic DEMONS (1985) - plus she even reveals what the recipe is for making demonic movie drool!MONSTROUSLY TALENTEDThis interview with mega-gifted concept designer KEN BARTHELMEY includes lots of very impressive concept artworks for such films as THE TOMORROW WAR, GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS and GODZILLA VS. KONG!SHE’LL BLEED YOU DRYMADALINA BELLARIU ION stars as a sultry and sometimes savage vampire in the impressive UK horror movie DRAINED. Here she chats about playing a vampire and playing a werewolf!NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVEThe supremely talented Creature Designer KEITH THOMPSON discusses how he conceptualised the surreal and wonderfully macabre god-monster that appears in the memorable finale of NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE (2021), the movie adaptation of the Adam Nevill novel!THE FLYOscar-winning creature-creator CHRIS WALAS returns with a second interview this issue! Here he talks about the amazing work he did creating Brundlefly for David Cronenberg’s utterly wonderful THE FLY!A VVITCH - GRAPHIC NOVEL UPDATEArtist and writer Russell Fox treats us to another sneak peek at more sumptuous-looking illustrations that’ll be appearing in his upcoming folk horror graphic novel A VVITCH!BONE KEEPERDirector HOWARD J. FORD and creature effects VFX supervisor GIORDANO AITA talk about working together on the monster flick BONE KEEPER. They share with us some ace images of the development of the creature!THE MAN WHO WAS MOLASARActor Michael Carter is asked what it was like to wear the incredibly distinctive and damn cool Molasar muscle suit in THE KEEP. He also speaks about the makeup application process he underwent to become Bib Fortuna in RETURN OF THE JEDI!RADIOACTIVE REVIEWSTo finish off this issue there are a couple of non-monster movie reviews: one for an Italian Mad Max clone and one for a martial arts action flick from Kazakhstan!