- 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)
- Dracula AD 1972 (Hammer 1972) – why this much maligned classic is so important
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
The dark comedy classic Arsenic and Old Lace brought Joseph Kesselring’s acclaimed Broadway play to the big screen. Directed by Frank Capra, the movie […]
British actress Heather Sears, best known to horror fans for her performance as Christine in Hammer’s 1962 production of Phantom of the Opera, was […]
Horror stalwart Herbert Lom was born Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru in Prague on the 11th of September, 1917 and would go on […]
Actress Martine Beswick, who rose to fame as a model and Bond girl but became a familiar face in the world of horror movies, […]
Universal’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) had proved immensely successful for both the Laemmles and its star, Lon Chaney. Chaney’s grotesque make-up for […]
Film producer Irving Thalberg, who launched countless successful movie careers and helped to shape the movie industry as we know it today, was born […]
Among Boris Karloff’s 1930s plethora of mad doctor films, we find the intriguing little gem, The Man Who Changed His Mind, made by Gainsborough […]
