RUE MORGUE

Twenty-eight years into its reign, Rue Morgue continues to map the fault lines of fear — and Issue #229 listens closer than ever before. On stands March 1 and available now in the Rue Morgue Shoppe, this new edition turns its ear toward the evolving language of horror. The Scariest Film You’ve Ever Heard At the heart of RM#229 is Undertone, a nerve-shredding found-footage thriller that weaponizes sound rather than spectacle. Explored in our HOMEGROWN HORROR feature, the film announces the arrival of a chilling new voice within Canada’s rapidly expanding independent scene — proof that terror doesn’t always need to be seen to be felt. We also spotlight a rising generation of Canadian filmmakers pushing horror into unpredictable territory with Dream Eater, Sweetness, Hangashore, The Land of Nod and The Curse of Ghost Island. Together, they signal that Canada’s horror renaissance is not a passing moment but a movement gathering force. Darkwave’s Vanguard Sound reverberates again in our spotlight on TRAITRS, the Toronto darkwave duo channeling horror cinema, religious unease and psychological dread into a modern sonic identity. Beyond the spotlight, we trace the quieter currents shaping today’s underground darkwave landscape – where atmosphere is everything and nostalgia becomes something stranger and more dangerous. Worshiping Cthulhu In THE GREAT GOD CTHULHU, we examine how H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic creation escaped pulp fiction to take on a life of its own. For some, the mythos remains fiction; for others, it borders on belief. This feature explores the uneasy overlap between Lovecraft’s imagined cult and the real-world movements that grew in its shadow. Bleed Like It’s 1974 Grindhouse roars back in DOLLY, Rod Blackhurst’s resurrection of the feral spirit of ’70s slasher cinema through 16mm grit, practical gore and a fiercely outsider ethos. A reminder that horror’s past continues to mutate into something new – and often more vicious. Also Inside Issue #229 digs deeper with Salem’s Lot resurrected in 4K, Mia Ballard on Shy Girl, a descent into The Silent Scream (1979), and a guide to building your ultimate horror curriculum — alongside new film, comics, music and game coverage spanning the breadth of contemporary genre culture. All this and the latest film, book, comic book, music, game and toy releases!

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND

RUE MORGUE

POST-MORTEM

THE CORONER’S REPORT • WEIRD STATS & MORBID FACTS

BETWEEN A CAR AND A HARD PLACE

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO… • Cristina Galbó, “Teresa Garan” from The House That Screamed (1969)

NEEDFUL THINGS

HANDMADE HORRORS • DECORATIVE HEART ACCESSORIES BY IRA MORGAN FX

CRYPTIC COLLECTIBLES

HOMEGROWN HORROR • A NERVE-SHREDDING FOUND-FOOTAGE THRILLER BUILT AROUND SOUND, UNDERTONE SIGNALS THE ARRIVAL OF A TERRIFYING NEW VOICE IN CANADA’S BOOMING INDEPENDENT HORROR SCENE

NIGHTMARES CAUGHT ON GAMERA • LOW ON BUDGET BUT HIGH ON FRIGHTS, DREAM EATER IS THE CANADIAN INDIE HORROR HIT THAT PROVES FOUND FOOTAGE STILL HAS TEETH

SLASHERS & SPIRITS

FANDOM GONE FERAL • RISING CANADIAN FILMMAKER EMMA HIGGINS DELIVERS A TENSE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR TALE ABOUT TEENAGE DEVOTION GONE DANGEROUSLY WRONG IN HER STRIKING FEATURE DEBUT

BEYOND SKINAMARINK

ATLANTIC HORROR • AN ICY TALE OF SEASIDE FATE AND RETRIBUTION, JUSTIN OAKEY’S HANGASHORE IS A BEACON FROM THE PROVINCE OF FOG AND MIST

RITES OF POSSESSION • PART POST-PUNK, PART DARKWAVE, TRAITRS REPRESENTS A MODERN STRAIN OF MUSIC ROOTED IN HORROR CINEMA, RELIGIOUS UNEASE, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DREAD

RITUAL NOISE THE QUIET HORROR OF MODERN DARKWAVE • TRAITRS STANDS AT THE FOREFRONT OF A LONG-RUNNING GLOBAL DARKWAVE RESURGENCE, A LINEAGE THAT HAS SPENT THE PAST 25 YEARS TRANSLATING EXISTENTIAL DREAD INTO STARK, MODERN SOUNDS

THE GREAT GOD CTHULHU • THE...