- 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)
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
- Dracula AD 1972 (Hammer 1972) – why this much maligned classic is so important
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Them! (Warner Brothers 1954)
by Nige Burton The first of the Aurora monster models was Frankenstein, although the kit was, of course, of the Monster. From a sculpture […]
Hammer’s gloriously restored 1958 classic gets a red-carpet London premiere – complete with footage British audiences have never seen. Nige Burton joins Hammer royalty […]
The first serialised part of the novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, which would become The Phantom of the Opera, was published in Le Gaulois […]
The first serialised part of the novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, which would become The Phantom of the Opera, was published in Le Gaulois […]
The new Hammer, under the stewardship of John Gore, a twenty-time Tony-winning and Emmy-nominated British entertainment producer known for his live theatre company the […]
Robert Segedy offers a retrospective on the English horror star’s greatest achievements. The man born William Henry Pratt on November 23, 1887 in Camberwell, […]
Robert Segedy counts down his choices of the greatest Bela Lugosi movies. Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko was born in Lugos, Hungary on October 20, 1882. Lugosi was […]