- 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)
Director Charles Barton’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the first of that famous comedy duo’s encounters with monsters, was released on the 15th of […]
Universal’s 28th, and final, Abbott and Costello film, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, was released on the 23rd of June, 1955. The film […]
British horror film The Abominable Dr Phibes was released on the 18th of May, 1971, and stars Vincent Price and Joseph Cotten. With its […]
Director Roy Del Ruth’s science fiction B-shocker for Associated Producers, The Alligator People, was released on the 3rd of July, 1959. Starring Beverly Garland, […]
The dark comedy classic Arsenic and Old Lace brought Joseph Kesselring’s acclaimed Broadway play to the big screen. Directed by Frank Capra, the movie […]
by Nige Burton The first of the Aurora monster models was Frankenstein, although the kit was, of course, of the Monster. From a sculpture […]
The Beast Must Die was released on 22nd April, 1974, by Amicus. Starring Peter Cushing, Calvin Lockhart, Anton Diffring and Michael Gambon, the film […]
