- 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)
The Universal comedy-horror-musical extravaganza Ghost Catchers was released on the 16th of June 1944, providing a vehicle for the vaudeville duo of Ole Olsen […]
After the budgetary extravagances of Son of Frankenstein (1939), the new brooms at Universal were determined to play it safe henceforth, despite that film […]
The classic English mystery thriller The Ghost Train was released on 3rd May 1941. Based on the play by Arnold Ridley, and directed by […]
The Ghoul was something of a working holiday for the busy Boris Karloff. Fresh from his new found fame and success at Universal, he […]
Godzilla, to me, has always been one of those surprising monsters. Not part of what is considered the original horror classics per se, this […]
To create a brand new classic monster, especially one which can claim membership of that most holy of grails, being cast in the glorious […]
Hammer studios turned to Greek mythology to find the source for The Gorgon. In the small German village of Vandorf, authorities are puzzled by […]
