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- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
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- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
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The Universal murder-mystery Secret of the Blue Room was released on the 20th of July, 1933. Steadfast Universal stars Lionel Atwill and Gloria Stuart […]
Hammer’s The Shadow of the Cat was released on the 1st of May in 1961. Directed by John Gilling, and starring André Morell and […]
Hammer’s She, adapted from the novel by H Rider Haggard, was released on 18th April, 1965. Starring Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and […]
Universal’s She-Wolf of London was released on the 17th May, 1946. Directed by Jean Yarbrough, it starred June Lockhart and Don Porter and, although […]
Although ostensibly billed as a horror film, Columbia’s 1951 The Son of Dr Jekyll was, in reality, more of a gothic thriller. It was […]
Universal had been keen to make sequels featuring almost all of their classic monsters. Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy and the Wolf Man had all […]
Son of Frankenstein, Universal’s third episode in their Frankenstein series, was the last to feature Boris Karloff and the first to feature Bela Lugosi. […]
