The Sanctuary Gazette

In Strict Confidence announces The Final Kiss, the electro-industrial band’s new studio album, due on November 20 digitally, on CD and on vinyl. The vinyl will be a limited edition on colored vinyl, with an exclusive bonus track. Pre-orders for the physical editions, as well as a bundle combining all formats with a T-shirt and a tote bag, are open on the band’s store.

The single “Fever” and its video came out on October 16. The video shows a couple facing (super)natural phenomena in a desert, in a near-apocalyptic atmosphere. The visuals draw on founder Dennis Ostermann’s experience as a photographer and filmmaker, and use AI-based retouching. Ostermann hopes the album will be counted among the best records of 2026.

The Final Kiss follows Hate2Love, released in 2018. In between came the album Mechanical Symphony, which reinterprets the band’s songs in orchestral and instrumental versions, the remix collection RMXONE in 2019, a 25th anniversary reissue of Cryogenix in 2021, and then the maxi-single “Blasphemous Rumours” in February 2026, featuring a Depeche Mode cover in three versions.

Laibach released the album Jesus Christ Superstars on 28 October 1996, exactly thirty years to the day before the Orkus article looking back on the record. The industrial band brings together nine tracks on it, all built around religion.

The album mixes original compositions and covers. Among the tracks written by Laibach are “Black Star” and “Kingdom of God”. As for the covers, “Jesus Christ Superstar” comes from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name. “The Cross” was written by Prince, and “God Is God” by the psytrance project Juni Reactor.

The band set itself no genre limits in its choices. According to Orkus, Laibach's distinctive sound and singing style allowed them, as usual, to take full ownership of these compositions from elsewhere. The magazine also invites readers to watch the video for “God Is God” again.

The first issue of Universal Monsters: Bride of Frankenstein Lives was released on October 28, 2026 by Image Comics and Skybound. It opens a four-issue miniseries, with the following issues planned monthly.

Kelly Thompson writes and Mattia De Iulis draws: the two creators reunite after The Cull. The story begins with the Bride waking up, her memory completely gone. Made of stolen flesh and brought back to consciousness, she has to work out where she comes from while surviving in a world that was not ready to see her again. The character comes from James Whale's 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, in which Elsa Lanchester played her.

This first issue runs 32 pages and costs $4.99. It comes with eleven covers, including work by De Iulis, Joshua Middleton, Artgerm, Luana Vecchio, Rosemary Valero O'Connell, Christian Ward, David Talaski and Ryan Sook, plus a blank cover to draw on yourself. The series extends the Universal Monsters comics line from the two publishers, which already included a series devoted to Frankenstein.

Deranged Minds Entertainment has begun work on a feature-length documentary about Danielle Harris, tracing her path from child actor to horror icon. The film is built around her four appearances in the Halloween series: as a child playing Jamie Lloyd in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, then as an adult in Rob Zombie's Halloween and Halloween II.

Destinie Orndoff directs and produces, with Tristan Clay as co-director and producer. The project draws on archival footage, home movies and new interviews with the actress, her family and her collaborators.

The official description says the film will address painful episodes in her life: the death of her father in a car accident that was never explained, the suicides of a former partner and a close friend, a stalker who reportedly followed her for twenty years, and a pregnancy complication that reportedly stopped her heart. These details come from the production materials and have not been independently verified.

The documentary, still untitled, is in post-production.