The October 1999 issue (Volume 31, Number 8 ) featured a cover story on the X-FILES television show, plus preview articles on DUDLEY DO-RIGHT, ANGEL, LOST SOULS, THE ASTRONAUT’S WIFE, and UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: THE RETURN. Articles from this issue can be accessed under the Archives listing for October 1999.

The contents for this issue are as follows:

3 Sense of Wonder by Frederick S. Clarke

4 Release Schedule

5 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace- analysis by Thomas Doherty Continue Reading »

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LAKE PLACID is the next step in the evolutionary process that led from JAWS to ANACONDA. The unlikely but amusing story has a JURASSIC-size Salt Water Crocodile showing up in an isolated lake not too far from the Easter Coast (having apparently migrated across the Atlantic). Needless to say, in order to keep the horror coming fast and furious, the beast has a metabolism like no retile on Earth, eating almost everything that comes into its path. A band of outsiders come to help the local sheriff capture or kill the monster, but the film never really address the obvious question: Why bother? The area around the lake is inhabited only by one crazy old coot (played by Betty White), who turns out to be feeding the animal cattle, as if it were some kind of oversized pet; so the risk to human life is almost nil, until everyone shows up to hunt the thing down, providing a virtual smorgasbord for the creature. Continue Reading »

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