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4 Deep Space Nine TERRY FARRELL 8 Star Trek: The Next Generation Denise Crosby
10 Data's Datemate MICHELE SCARABELLI 12 Capt. Picard 'Makes It' So WENDY HUGHES
14 The Captain is 'Engaged' MEREDITH BAER A 'BOLT' FROM THE BLUE
16 The Bride of Frankenstein ELSA LANCHESTER 18 Frankenstein Created Woman Susan Denberg 20 Andy Warhol's Frankenstein Monique VAN VOOREN 23 Andy Warhol's Frankenstein DALILA di LAllARO 26 Andy Warhol's Dracula STEFANIA CASINI DRAC'S BACK 28 Bram Stoker's Dracula Winona Ryder 30 Bram Stoker's Dracula SADIE FROST 34 Bram Stoker's Dracula Monica-bellucci-actor">Monica Bellucci
36 Bram Stoker's Dracula MichaelA BERCU SATELLITE DISHES
38 Land of the Giants DEAnna LUND 40 Space: 1999 CATHERINE SCHELL
42 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Erin Gray
44 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Pamela Hensley
46 Logan's Run HEATHER MENZIES
48 seaQuest DSV Stephanie Beacham HUNGRY FOR BLONDES
50 Torso SUZY KENDALL
52 Evil Fingers Pamela Tiffin
54 Howling VI: The Freaks CAROL LYNLEY
56 Daddy's Gone A-Hunting CAROL WHITE
60 Fade to Black Linda Kerridge PLAYING 'DOCTOR'
62 Dr. Who and the Daleks JENNIE LINDEN
64 Dr. Who's `Ronnana' LALLA WARD
66 Dr. Who's 'Jo Grant' KATY MANNING
67 Blake's Seven's 'Servalan' JACQUELINE PEARCE
68 UFO's 'Lt. Gay Ellis' Gabrielle Drake DOUBLE TROUBLE
70 Pretty Woman Shelley Michelle
74 Indecent Proposal AMY ROCHELLE
76 The Little Mermaid .gHERRI STONER
77 Jurassic Park PATRICIA TALLMAN CULT FIGURES
78 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! TURA SATANA
80 Cry of the Banshee ESSY PERSSON
82 Dr. and Mrs. Jekyll Edwige Fenech
86 Ms. 45 ZOE TAMERLIS NEW BLOOD
88 Bizarre Florence Guerin
92 Naked Obsession Maria FORD
94 Innocent Blood Anne Parillaud
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EDITORIAL
THE SLEUTHSAYER
In the introduction to his Psychotronic Encyclopedia, fantasy film fanatic Michael Weldon explains: "Most of these are considered exploitation films. Some of them were made with such impossibly low budgets that they have never been released through regular channels of distribution.
Many are now considered classics or cult films despite unfavorable critical response or initial box office failure. Critics searching for art condemn most of these features for the very reasons that millions continue to enjoy them: violence, sex, noise, and often mindless escapism." But, as we all know by now, there's no escaping the Sleuth...
Movieline recently traced the spurt of sexuality {so to speak} in genre films
back to the 1950's "when the advent of TV hovered as a threat that might
take audiences away from film-going forever and studio heads fell prey to the
frenzied logic that Bigger would lure audiences back: Bigger budgets, Bigger screens, Bigger locations, Bigger breasts." And we know our readers are accustomed to such largesse...
The boob tube countered this big screen explosion in the '60s by programming as
much lust in space as would fly. "TV executives were on to something,"
an insider recalls. "Give the kids any kind of sci-fi superhero trash...but
lace it with sex and you've snagged the closet viewer: the horny, adult male."
No wonder, then, that the National Air and Space Museum's 1992 Star Trek exhibit
contained an entire wall dedicated to SEXUALITY. "There was a lot of sexuality on Star Trek," an observer noted. "Science fiction has always offered wonderful and zany costuming opportunities." And wonderful opportunities for Sleuth...
In this same column introducing "Women of Fantasy 4" I boasted: "More than half the wondrous women listed above have never before been stripped in Sleuth...nor any other men's magazine!" In this fifth installment, the number of newcomers rises to 83 percent!! Ever upward is our steady course...
Take Us to Warp!
