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Hammer Films, the studio behind the iconic 1958 movie Horror of Dracula starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, is releasing a 4K remastered version of the film this October. That version, however, will also include footage never seen in the U.S. or the U.K. when the film was first released (Japan at the time received the original director’s cut, which includes those cut scenes).

We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Rooted, a new horror novel by Leopoldo Goût, out from Tor Nightfire on September 15th. There’s nothing wrong with Aurora. A successful art lawyer, she has returned to Mexico to celebrate a recent campaign for the repatriation of stolen artifacts—in particular a mysterious statue of an Aztec god, The Flayed One. But Mexico City isn’t as she remembered. Nothing is. Elements of her past hint at darkness and power, and reality begins to crack and warp the streets.

The road to Coyote vs. Acme has been a shockingly windy and lengthy one: based off a 1990 New Yorker story with the same premise, the thought has been percolating for a long while, and in production of some type for nearly a decade. James Gunn conceptualized the current iteration with Jeremy Slater, Slater wrote the script, then it was passed off to Chris MacKay and the Silbermans for more retooling, then agains until we arrived at the direction and writing combo of Dave Green and Samy Burch.

Moderately hot on the heels of the announcement of Netflix’s peculiar Roald Dahl reality series, The Golden Ticket, comes news of the streamer’s next Dahl project. Danny Brocklehurst (Fool Me Once) has been hired to write a six-part series that, according to Deadline, “will chart a course through some of Dahl’s vignettes.” The logline says only, “Brocklehurst weaves a deliciously twisted tale through Roald Dahl’s iconic short stories.

“Anyone who imagines a different reality is helping everyone else to see our power to act, and to make changes.” —Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders Growing up as a queer person in Indonesia meant continually starving for representation.

Hello dear readers! Last week I said we’d be covering chapters ten and eleven of Towers of Midnight, but I’ve had a thought in my head the past few weeks that will not leave me alone, so here we are with an essay on the similarities between Perrin from our beloved The Wheel of Time and Logan from the X-Men. X-Men ‘97, specifically. The Wolfbrother and the Wolverine. Catchy, right?

Everyone loves a good fairy tale. Whether grotesque, ethereal, or introduced by the great Shelley Duvall, there’s something timeless about a fantasy with all the trappings—rebellious princesses, wild magic, strange creatures, daring adventures, terrifying dragons, evil stepmothers—it’s something we all know by heart, and yet it’s always exciting, feeling both brand-new and well-loved at the same time.

The opening for X-Men ’97 had to thread a difficult needle: It needed to pay homage to a well-known and well-loved theme that fans of certain age have strong feelings about, while also bringing a new take on the material. The Newton Brothers, who score the animated series, took the job seriously. The duo, non-brothers John Andrew Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart, scored 10 or 11 versions of the tune, each with a different angle.

We’re out of sequence, but in the same year as the previous episode. This time around? We get to find out how John was approached for his shiny new gig. Recap Image: John Johnson/HBO Max John falls many stories through an abandoned shopping mall onto a pile of mattresses. There’s an arrow pointing upstairs, and he eventually makes his way into a backroom office where Lianna (Laura Linney) awaits. She tells John to have a seat and wait, then leaves.

The great Tim Curry passed away on August 25th at the age of 80. His larger-than-life persona—switching effortlessly between nefarious and gregarious—was an utterly infectious exuberance that gave multiple generations of queer folks, theater kids, animation nerds, and other devoted fans a solace and sense of belonging that is rare, and incredibly special.