Doctor Who's Cybermen Story Imagined As Horror Movie In Fan Poster

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TheDoctor Who Cyberman horror story, “The Haunting of Villa Diodati," has received a professional grade fan poster in the style of Italian horror films. Doctor Who has built up an impressive gallery of monsters and villains over its nearly 60-year history, such as the Daleks and Weeping Angels. Many of these bizarre creatures have terrified the sci-fi series' younger target audience. One of the most enduring and chilling Doctor Who enemies are the Cybermen, humans who have replaced their flesh with synthetic parts, becoming cyborgs hell bent on making all life like them.

One of the most recent stories to feature the metal Doctor Who monsters, “The Haunting of Villa Diodati,” provided a unique twist, featuring a sole, patchwork Cyberman stalking the main cast through a 19th century villa. The Lone Cyberman gate crashed the party at which Mary Shelley would create Frankenstein, often argued to be the first true science fiction novel, with the parallels between the creature from the novel and the Doctor Who villain being very stark. The episode was well received by fans, with many regarding it as a return to form, invoking the fundamental terror of the Cybermen that had been somewhat lost in previous appearances.

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Now, artist Oliver Arkinstall-Jones has crafted a beautiful movie poster that reframes the Doctor Who story through the lens of a classic Italian horror picture. The poster features the central cast of Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor, her companions, and Mary Shelley as they are loomed over by the garish Lone Cyberman outside the Villa Diodati. The title of the episode is written in a huge dramatic font, as per most films in the