- 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)
The 7th of June 1962 saw the initial release of Hammer’s smuggling adventure Captain Clegg (named Night Creatures in the USA), which appeared as […]
The Cat and the Canary is a confident movie. The timing of the clattering window shutter is too perfect, the cinematography too slick, the […]
The classic English mystery thriller The Ghost Train was released on 3rd May 1941. Based on the play by Arnold Ridley, and directed by […]
The Ghoul was something of a working holiday for the busy Boris Karloff. Fresh from his new found fame and success at Universal, he […]
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 on Haunted Hill – the title says it all. No need for subtlety or mystery; before we’ve even watched a frame of the […]
Mark of the Vampire (also known as Vampires of Prague) was released on the 26th of April 1935, and starred Bela Lugosi, Lionel Barrymore, […]
