- Aurora Monster Models – turning every boy’s dream into a nightmare!
- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
- Maria Ouspenskaya, the Russian actress who became The Wolf Man’s iconic Gypsy Woman
- Lon Chaney Jr
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal 1954)
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- Ray Harryhausen
- Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
- Ghost of Frankenstein, The (Universal 1942)
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
Susan Denberg was born Dietlinde Ortrun Zechner on the 2nd of August, 1944 in Bad Polzin, Germany (now Połczyn-Zdrój, Poland), the eldest of three […]
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 […]
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 […]
By the early fifties Bud Abbott and Lou Costello had already faced off against the likes of Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster, the Wolf Man […]
Louis Francis Cristillo was born in Paterson, New Jersey on the 6th of March, 1906. Though a gifted athlete, he was determined to become […]
Franz Waxman was born Franz Wachsmann in the southern Polish city of Chorzów on the 24th of December, 1906. In 1930, he wrote the […]
Maximilian Schreck – best known to film fans as Max Schreck – was born on the 6th of September, 1879. Passionate about the theatre […]
