- Aurora Monster Models – turning every boy’s dream into a nightmare!
- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
- Lon Chaney Jr
- Maria Ouspenskaya, the Russian actress who became The Wolf Man’s iconic Gypsy Woman
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal 1954)
- Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Dracula AD 1972 (Hammer 1972) – why this much maligned classic is so important
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
Charles Philip Latham was born on the 17th of January, 1929. He made his movie debut with an uncredited part in The Dam Busters […]
House on Haunted Hill – the title says it all. No need for subtlety or mystery; before we’ve even watched a frame of the […]
Made by MGM in the autumn of 1931 and released the following year, Freaks used real sideshow ‘freaks’ among its cast of performers and […]
Born on the 16th of February, 1907 in Exeter, England, George Arthur Woodbridge was a popular character actor in a huge number of movies. […]
With the 2003 reboot of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre having been a great success, it made sense to repeat the formula for the Friday […]
Barbara Shelley was born Barbara T Kowin in Marylebone, London on the 13th of February, 1932. She began her career as a model before […]
Writer Samuel Guy Endore was born Samuel Goldstein on the 4th of July, 1900 (some reports say 1901) in Brooklyn, New York. His wildly […]
