- 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)
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- Dracula AD 1972 (Hammer 1972) – why this much maligned classic is so important
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
Of all Universal’s classic monsters, the Mummy was surely the one treated with the least respect, being mercilessly put out to graft in its […]
Paramount’s slick thriller Murder by the Clock was released on the 21st of July, 1931. Although the film is a tense murder mystery and […]
1935’s Mystery of the Mary Celeste (or, if you prefer the US title, Phantom Ship) was the second movie from Hammer Film Productions, and […]
Universal released Night in Paradise on the 3rd of May, 1946. Directed by Arthur Lubin, the film tells the tale of story-teller Aesop who, […]
With 1942’s Night Monster, Universal created a superb example of the quintessential haunted house movie, and even threw in Bela Lugosi for good measure. […]
by Nige Burton When Night of the Demon hit British cinema screens in 1957, it was part of a double-bill with Nathan Juran’s 20 […]
For all its difficulties and budgetary restrictions, 1984’s A Nightmare on Elm Street had turned out to be something of a dream; while a […]
