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Cinefantastique is an American , , and film magazine.


History
The magazine originally started as a mimeographed in 1967, then relaunched as a glossy, quarterly in 1970 by / Frederick S. Clarke. Intended as a serious critical/review journal of the , the magazine immediately set itself apart from competitors like Famous Monsters of Filmland and The Monster Times due to its stock and use of full color interior . Cinefantastique's articles and reviews emphasized an intelligent, near-scholarly approach, a then-unusual slant for such a genre-specific magazine. Advertisements were few, consisting mostly of other titles and materials by the publisher.

The magazine quickly came to be known for its lengthy, information-filled "" articles devoted to the full details of such classic films as 1951's The Day the Earth Stood Still, 's War of the Worlds, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and Planet of the Apes. Based on the popularity of these articles, Cinefantastique began producing huge double-issues centering on comprehensive "Making-Of" looks at such movies as Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, , Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, , and The Thing. The magazine also devoted multiple yearly issues to films and , and . Many of the articles have since become accepted as the definitive source of production information regarding these and other genre titles.

The magazine was responsible for introducing the work of several writers who have continued to produce important work in the film field, including Don Shay, Bill Warren, , , , Steven Rubin, Dan Scapperotti, Dale Winogura, , Paul M. Sammon (who authored the double issue and later turned it into an extensive book called Future Noir), Dan Fiebiger, and Alan Jones.

On October 17, 2000, due to complications from long-time clinical depression, Clarke committed at the age of 51. Editorship was briefly assumed by long-time contributor Dan Persons, until rights to the continuing publication of Cinefantastique were acquired by Mark A. Altman's Mindfire Entertainment, who formally renamed the magazine CFQ.

In November 2006, CFQ editor Jeff Bond announced that the magazine would be "going on hiatus into 2007", promising that in the near future it would return "on an irregular basis for in-depth spotlights & special issues". The magazine was succeeded by , with Bond at the helm.

Cinefantastique relaunched as a in August 2007, called Cinefantastique Online, under the supervision of the magazine's former West Coast Editor, Steve Biodrowski.

In 2009, Cinefantastique was purchased by and became a wholly owned trademark of Fourth Castle Micromedia, a New York–based company owned by genre marketing veteran Joe Sena. Fourth Castle is known for their EMCE Toys brand, whose first lines of "Retro Cloth" 8" action figures were reproductions of classic .

Fourth Castle produced a one-shot, Cinefantastique Presents The Ultimate Guide To Zombies in 2012. The magazine was slated for relaunch in 2015 (but never did), and Biodrowski continued to run Cinefantastique Online while Dan Persons produced for the publication until mid-2020, the date of the last new article at Cinefantastique Online.


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