- 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)
Horror Island, released by Universal in 1941, makes the absolute most of its co-stars Dick Foran and Peggy Moran. Known for sparking off one […]
When Hammer released their production of Horror of Dracula on 8th May, 1958, they redefined not only Bram Stoker’s iconic novel, but also the […]
The Horror of Frankenstein was released on the 8th of October 1970 as a double-bill with Scars of Dracula. With previous Baron Peter Cushing […]
Hammer’s version of The Hound of the Baskervilles was released on 4th May 1959. Based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and […]
House of Dracula (1945) was the natural result of the success of the previous year’s monsterthon, House of Frankenstein. Universal were determined to wring […]
Universal’s often-overlooked The House of Fear was released on the 30th of June, 1939. A marvellous little hour and five minutes’ romp, it tells […]
House of Frankenstein expanded the successful formula of its predecessor, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), sufficiently to include no less than five ‘monsters’. […]
