- 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)
The British horror films of what would come to be regarded as Hollywood’s Golden Age were vastly removed from the staple literary monsters being […]
Tales From the Crypt, made by Amicus in 1972, is probably one of the finest of the episodic anthologies for which they pretty much […]
Targets, Peter Bogdanovich’s taut and thrilling analysis of what it means to be a monster, was released on the 15th of August, 1968, and […]
Roger Corman’s The Terror, starring Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson, was released on the 17th of June, 1963. A low budget shocker in more ways […]
Sherlock Holmes mystery The Woman in Green was released on the 27th of July, 1945, directed by Roy William Neill and starring Basil Rathbone […]
Cult classic shocker The Tingler was released by Columbia Pictures on the 29th of July, 1959, allowing Vincent Price to further cement his reputation […]
