- 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)
Tales From the Crypt, made by Amicus in 1972, is probably one of the finest of the episodic anthologies for which they pretty much […]
Targets, Peter Bogdanovich’s taut and thrilling analysis of what it means to be a monster, was released on the 15th of August, 1968, and […]
Hammer’s Taste of Fear was released on the 5th June, 1961, and marked Jimmy Sangster’s first outing as a producer. Taste of Fear’s gestation […]
Taste the Blood of Dracula, Hammer’s fourth entry in the series, was made in late 1969, and released on the 7th of May, 1970. […]
Roger Corman’s The Terror, starring Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson, was released on the 17th of June, 1963. A low budget shocker in more ways […]
Universal’s moving and amusing ghost story That’s the Spirit was released on the 1st of June, 1945. Directed by Charles Lamont, the story centres […]
When it came to the run of 1950s science-fiction creature-features, it is hard to find one that has stood up quite as well as […]
