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The Man They Could Not Hang, the science fiction horror-drama which starred Boris Karloff in a role which looks at once backwards and forwards, […]
Targets, Peter Bogdanovich’s taut and thrilling analysis of what it means to be a monster, was released on the 15th of August, 1968, and […]
Glenn Strange was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, near El Paso in Texas (now part of New Mexico) on the 16th of August, […]
Freddy vs Jason, the crossover between the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises, received its premiere on the 13th of August, […]
Friday the 13th Part 3, the first of the franchise to feature Jason Voorhees in what would become his signature hockey mask, was released […]
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday opened in cinemas on Friday the 13th of August, 1993, and was the ninth instalment in the […]
Fritz Lang, the director of movies including Metropolis (1926) and M (1931), and widely regarded as the creator of the film noir genre, was […]
