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Universal’s The Strange Case of Doctor Rx was released on 17th April, 1942. Unsure whether it was a thriller or a horror, this lesser-known […]
Hammer’s She, adapted from the novel by H Rider Haggard, was released on 18th April, 1965. Starring Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and […]
The Beast Must Die was released on 22nd April, 1974, by Amicus. Starring Peter Cushing, Calvin Lockhart, Anton Diffring and Michael Gambon, the film […]
House of Wax, starring Vincent Price, and directed by André de Toth, was the first colour 3-D feature from a major American studio, and […]
Hammer’s Vampire Circus, directed by Robert Young, was released in the UK on the 30th of April, 1972. It starred Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters […]
The Curse of Frankenstein, the classic that started the rebirth of the horror film, was released on 2nd May, 1957 by Hammer Film Productions. […]
On 2nd May 1974, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell enjoyed its cinematic release. Directed by Hammer stalwart Terence Fisher, the film featured Peter […]
