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On the 18th of May 1967, The Mummy’s Shroud was released as a double-bill with Frankenstein Created Woman. Written and directed by John Gilling, […]
British horror film The Abominable Dr Phibes was released on the 18th of May, 1971, and stars Vincent Price and Joseph Cotten. With its […]
The Damned, a Hammer science fiction thriller based on the H L Lawrence novel The Children of Light, was released on 19th May, 1963 […]
Hammer’s Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, the fifth entry in their Frankenstein series, was released on the 22nd of May, 1969. Directed by Terence Fisher […]
Hammer’s success with The Quatermass Experiment in 1955 naturally inspired them to commission a sequel, this being Quatermass 2, which was released on 24th […]
by Nige Burton The Val Lewton RKO psychological horror pictures of the 1940s tend to be universally regarded as some of the finer entries […]
The Ritz Brothers horror-comedy The Gorilla was released on the 26th of May, 1939. Lionel Atwill and Bela Lugosi were of course familiar to […]
