- 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)
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Dracula AD 1972 (Hammer 1972) – why this much maligned classic is so important
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
Director Roy Del Ruth’s science fiction B-shocker for Associated Producers, The Alligator People, was released on the 3rd of July, 1959. Starring Beverly Garland, […]
Supremo horror script writer and creator of Professor Bernard Quatermass, Thomas Nigel Kneale, was born in Barrow-in-Furness, England, on the 18th of April, 1922. […]
Michael Henry Carreras, known for his involvement in so many Hammer classics as producer, director or screenwriter, was born on the 21st of December, […]
Bram Stoker was born Abraham Stoker on 8th November, 1847 in Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Although best known for his 1897 gothic […]
Elena Verdugo was born on the 20th of April, 1926. She began her film career at the tender age of five in Cavalier of […]
Born in Jacksonville, Florida on the 24th of October, 1893, Merian Caldwell Cooper decided at an early age that he wanted to be an […]
Lionel Atwill was one of the great horror stars of the 1930s, but his career is too often overshadowed by a sex scandal which […]
