- 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)
Maria Ouspenskaya, the willowy Eastern European actress who never weighed more than 90lb all her life, created one of the most satisfying characters in […]
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan was released on the 28th of July, 1989. Directed by Rob Hedden, it was unsurprisingly the […]
Sherlock Holmes mystery The Woman in Green was released on the 27th of July, 1945, directed by Roy William Neill and starring Basil Rathbone […]
American stage, film, television and voice-over actress Virginia Christine was born Virginia Christine Ricketts on the 5th of March, 1920, in the small Iowa […]
Sci-fi horror movie The Fly was released by 20th Century Fox on the 16th of July 1958. Starring David Hedison (who would later find […]
Daniel Radcliffe, English star of the hugely successful Harry Potter film franchise, and Hammer’s 2012 remake of The Woman in Black, was born Daniel […]
Return of the Ape Man was released by Monogram on the 17th of July, 1944. Starring Bela Lugosi and John Carradine, the film also […]
