- 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)
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 […]
American drive-in shocker How to Make a Monster was released on the 1st of July, 1958. Capitalising on the success of I Was a […]
The Val Lewton RKO shocker, I Walked with a Zombie, was released on the 30th of April, 1943. Directed by Jacques Tourneur, it was […]
Herman Cohen kicked off his successful ‘teenage monster’ films for American International Pictures with 1957’s I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Released on the 29th […]
With 1971’s I, Monster, Amicus opted for a full-length single narrative feature rather than their usual horror vignette approach. Milton Subotsky’s screenplay is probably […]
Anything but the corny romp that its title suggests, The Incredible Shrinking Man is a darkly disturbing, tragic descent into a horrific, lonely inner […]
