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Scottish-born actress Frieda Inescort was born Frieda Wrightman in Edinburgh on the 29th of June, 1901, and from unsettled beginnings, would go on to […]
The Blood Beast Terror, made by Tony Tenser’s Tigon in 1968, has possibly one of the most peculiar monsters in horror film history – […]
Not considered a mainstay of Universal’s prolific horror output of the 1940s, The Mad Ghoul does offer a pleasingly minxish and original yarn, with […]
Anything but the corny romp that its title suggests, The Incredible Shrinking Man is a darkly disturbing, tragic descent into a horrific, lonely inner […]
In the more intimate horror movie circles, the name of Michael Reeves is something of a legend; that this tragic, youthful genius succumbed to […]
British actor Ernest Thesiger was born Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger in London on the 15th of January, 1879, and thanks to three defining performances he […]
By the time The Satanic Rites of Dracula was in production, many had fallen out of love with Hammer’s beloved bloodsucker franchise, not least […]
