- 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)
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Dracula AD 1972 (Hammer 1972) – why this much maligned classic is so important
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
Director Charles Barton’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the first of that famous comedy duo’s encounters with monsters, was released on the 15th of […]
The Universal comedy-horror-musical extravaganza Ghost Catchers was released on the 16th of June 1944, providing a vehicle for the vaudeville duo of Ole Olsen […]
The Japanese-American co-production King Kong Escapes was released on the 19th of June, 1968. Made by Japan’s Toho and the US’s Rankin/Bass, and directed […]
Herman Cohen kicked off his successful ‘teenage monster’ films for American International Pictures with 1957’s I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Released on the 29th […]
Roger Corman’s horror movie House of Usher was released on the 22nd of June, 1960. Based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story The […]
Universal’s 28th, and final, Abbott and Costello film, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, was released on the 23rd of June, 1955. The film […]
Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death was released on the 24th of June 1964. The British film stars Vincent Price as Prince […]
