Mad Movies

Mad Movies

Editor	Fausto Fasulo
Categories	Film
Frequency	11 issues a year
Founded	1972
Company	Custom Publishing
Country	France
Based in	Paris, France
Language	French
Website	mad-movies.com
ISSN	0338-6791

Mad Movies is a French magazine created in 1972 by Jean-Pierre Putters, dedicated to fantastic and science-fiction cinema.^[1]

Mad Movies started as a fanzine and put out 21 issues between 1972 and 1981.^[1]

In 1979, Putters opened Movies 2000, a film bookstore that became a hotspot for Paris' horror fandom and fanzine trading community.^[2]

From number 22 (February 1982), Mad Movies became a quarterly newsstand publication.^[1] That first widely distributed issue featured a cover story about Italian director Lucio Fulci, which coined the term "Poet of the Macabre" (French: Poête du macabre), an Edgar Allan Poe-inspired nickname that has become one of the director's signatures.^[3][4]

The magazine became bimonthly in 1984.^[5] Between 1986 and 2001, it was published alternately with a spinoff called Impact.^[5] In 2001, following the sale of both magazines by Putters, new ownership merged Impact into Mad Movies, the latter thus becoming a monthly title.^[5]

Impact was a bimonthly spinoff of Mad Movies, with a focus on action films and the more action-oriented fantastic films. Its first run lasted from January 1986 to January 2001.^[6]

The title was reintroduced in January 2009,^[6] first as a booklet bundled monthly with Mad Movies,^[7] then as a standalone bimonthly akin to its original incarnation.^[8] It was discontinued again after the October 2011 issue.^[8] Following Impact's demise, some Mad Movies special issues devoted to the action genre have been branded as Collection Impact.^[9]

The magazine published another bimonthly spinoff dedicated to Asian cinema, called Mad Asia, which ran between 2005 and 2007.^[10]

Following his departure from Mad Movies, Jean-Pierre Putters co-founded Metaluna. The Metaluna brand, which took its name from a fictional planet in This Island Earth, encompassed a short-lived magazine dedicated to b-movies,^[11] a film production house active between 2007 and 2017,^[12] as well as a store (which replaced Movies 2000).^[2]
Among Metaluna's productions was Among The Living^[13] from directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, the latter a former Mad Movies writer.^[14] As of 2021, the store still exists under different ownership.^[15]

In the 1980s, Mad Movies organized an 8mm film festival, held at various Parisian theaters.^[16]
Between 2003 and 2013, the magazine sponsored a special Mad Movies prize at the Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival. At its inception, it was part of the festival's Asian cinema competition. Later worldwide films became eligible.^[17]
Mad Movies has been a founding partner of the Paris International Fantastic Film Festival (PIFFF), established in 2011.^[18]

• L'Écran fantastique
• Gasper, J. (2023). Michele Morrone's stay at the Four Seasons for "365 Days" premiere. *Entertainment Weekly*. https://www.entertainmentweekly.com/michele-morrone-four-seasons

• Dickinson, P. (1997). The final days of Michael Hutchence. *The Sydney Morning Herald*. https://www.smh.com.au/final-days-michael-hutchence

• Helena Christensen and Michael Hutchence's Relationship Revisited." *Celebrity News Daily*, Harry Ebert, 15 Oct. 2023, https://www.celebritynewsdaily.com/helena-michael-relationship.