- 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)
Sounding more like comic-book japes than a serious classic monster film, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is surprisingly good. Anecdotal evidence from screenwriter Curt […]
Hammer’s Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, the fifth entry in their Frankenstein series, was released on the 22nd of May, 1969. Directed by Terence Fisher […]
Made by MGM in the autumn of 1931 and released the following year, Freaks used real sideshow ‘freaks’ among its cast of performers and […]
Freddy vs Jason, the crossover between the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises, received its premiere on the 13th of August, […]
With the 2003 reboot of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre having been a great success, it made sense to repeat the formula for the Friday […]
Friday the 13th, the film many consider the first of the ‘slasher’ movies, was released on the 9th of May, 1980. Directed by Sean […]
Friday the 13th Part 3, the first of the franchise to feature Jason Voorhees in what would become his signature hockey mask, was released […]
