- 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)
Bedlam, the last in the series of Val Lewton’s stylish horror films for RKO, and the producer’s last collaboration with Boris Karloff, was released […]
The Cat and the Canary is a confident movie. The timing of the clattering window shutter is too perfect, the cinematography too slick, the […]
Horror Island, released by Universal in 1941, makes the absolute most of its co-stars Dick Foran and Peggy Moran. Known for sparking off one […]
Universal’s often-overlooked The House of Fear was released on the 30th of June, 1939. A marvellous little hour and five minutes’ romp, it tells […]
Roger Corman’s horror movie House of Usher was released on the 22nd of June, 1960. Based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story The […]
House of Wax, starring Vincent Price, and directed by André de Toth, was the first colour 3-D feature from a major American studio, 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 […]
