Just a quick note here.

I used to read Fangoria for my horror.  I liked it at first, but I got this feeling that there weren't any true film reviews in it and it just seemed to say every movie was fantastic in excessively praising articles.  Plus the writing style made it a chore to get through an entire issue (I like reading cover-to-cover).

So I'd just finished writing that senior thesis, and I was in a Barnes and Noble and saw a magazine with Dakota from Grindhouse on the cover in one of the most striking pictures I'd ever seen.  The magazine had articles about grindhouse's history, tons of interviews with people invovled with the movie and grindhouse in general (Zombie, Rodriguez, H.G. Lewis, William Lustig, etc.)  They were showing a reverence to the past while looking toward the future, which Id NEVER seen in Fangoria (a fact which REALLY didnt help in writing a paper about past movies....).  Then I read the reviews and saw that they actually reviewed recent THEATRICAL FILMS!  I defy people to try and find print reviews in Fangoria of films that have come out that AREN'T part of random pieces of pointlessly praising fluff.  They also reviewed direct-to-dvd films and rereleases of classic horror.  There were even articles on movies from before 1950 which Fangoria wouldnt be caught dead publishing.

Not only that, but there were reviews of books, cds, games and comics/graphic novels; articles on culture and art that related to horro, darker music.  This was Rue Morgue, Canada's premiere horror magazine.  I couldnt get enough and have only missed one issue since then (because no one was selling it oddly....).  It's never been hard to get through the articles even on things I didn't really care about before.

What made me write this post?  Well after about 12 issues, I've decided to get a subscription.  I filled out the info, sent it away.  A couple weeks passed and I actually got a hand-addressed form letter from the magazine (actually signed by the editor-in-chief) thanking me for subscribing to their magazine.  I'm sure being a popular magazine, they get a good number of new subscriptions per month, but doing something like that is really special.  They really care about their audience much like this website cares about its visitors.  And just like I respect this site for that, I respect the magazine for it too.

Anybody else read genre magazines?  Fangoria's more for mainstream wider-release movies, so I have respect for them too, but I worship Rue Morgue.  lol.