- Aurora Monster Models – turning every boy’s dream into a nightmare!
- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
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- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal 1954)
- Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
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- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
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The great-great-nephew of pioneering scientist Louis Pasteur, Ralph Bates was born in Bristol, England on the 12th of February, 1940. He made a successful […]
Michael Denys Gwynn was born in Bath, Somerset on the 30th of November, 1916 and studied in Sussex, serving his country in World War […]
By the time he made A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, director Wes Craven was no stranger to horror films, having already collaborated […]
The Cat and the Canary is a confident movie. The timing of the clattering window shutter is too perfect, the cinematography too slick, the […]
The third in Universal’s Inner Sanctum movie series, and the follow-up to 1944’s Weird Woman, came with Dead Man’s Eyes later the same year. […]
Thomas Vincent Savini was born on the 3rd of November, 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Inspired by legendary star Lon Chaney, he developed his skills […]
Mary Jeanette Moran, known as Peggy from a young age, was born on the 23rd of October, 1918 in Clinton, Iowa. Moving west with […]
