- 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)
Universal’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) had proved immensely successful for both the Laemmles and its star, Lon Chaney. Chaney’s grotesque make-up for […]
By the mid 1960s, Hammer had reinvented pretty much all of the original Universal monsters; although the age of the sequel was still in […]
Ed Wood’s sci-fi horror film Plan 9 from Outer Space was released by Reynolds Pictures on the 22nd of July, 1959 and took immediate […]
Hammer’s success with The Quatermass Experiment in 1955 naturally inspired them to commission a sequel, this being Quatermass 2, which was released on 24th […]
Universal’s classic Edgar Allan Poe-inspired horror film, The Raven, was released on the 22nd of July, 1935. Although Bela Lugosi carried the lead role […]
In John Gilling’s atmospheric 1966 thriller The Reptile, a small village in Cornwall is suffering from an outbreak of mysterious deaths that are simply […]
Return of the Ape Man was released by Monogram on the 17th of July, 1944. Starring Bela Lugosi and John Carradine, the film also […]
