Famous Monsters of Filmland - Pop-culture Connections

Pop-culture Connections

In April 1981, the punk band The Misfits began using the magazine's distinctive logo font on most albums, T-shirts, and other associated promotional materials. In 1999, The Misfits released an album by the name of Famous Monsters.

Famous Monsters was mentioned by Billy Bob Thornton in an interview with host Jian Ghomeshi on April 8, 2009, on the CBC Radio One program, Q. Thornton, upset by Ghomeshi's mentioning his career in the film industry during the interview with The Boxmasters, became non-responsive before relating a long story of how he read and entered a contest sponsored by FM when he was a boy. A video of this radio interview has been posted on YouTube.

The Sci-Fi Boys, a 2006 documentary by Paul Davids, focuses heavily on Famous Monsters magazine and Forrest J Ackerman. The film features interviews with Ackerman and several of the current top names in the science fiction genre, including Peter Jackson and Rick Baker, who attest to the influence of the magazine and of Ackerman himself.

The Ackermonster Chronicles, a 2012 documentary about Ackerman by Jason Brock, premiered as a "work-in-progress" at the Buffalo International Film Festival in Buffalo NY in October 2011. It features interviews with Ackerman, Ray Bradbury, John Landis, Richard Matheson, Dan O'Bannon and others.