- 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)
Hammer’s third entry proper in their Dracula saga came on the back of their Queen’s Award to Industry. James Carreras had sold the package […]
Universal had been keen to make sequels featuring almost all of their classic monsters. Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy and the Wolf Man had all […]
In the first speaking role of his second career, Boris Karloff hissily lisped his way through the title role of MGM’s The Mask of […]
Universal had enjoyed huge success with The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925), both starring Lon Chaney, and […]
To create a brand new classic monster, especially one which can claim membership of that most holy of grails, being cast in the glorious […]
Although ostensibly billed as a horror film, Columbia’s 1951 The Son of Dr Jekyll was, in reality, more of a gothic thriller. It was […]
With the unprecedented success of 1978’s indie shocker Halloween, executive producer Moustapha Akkad naturally wanted more. A reasonably reluctant John Carpenter and Debra Hill […]
