- 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)
An initially reluctant Wes Craven was brought back on board to get the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise back on track after the critical […]
By the mid 1960s, Hammer had reinvented pretty much all of the original Universal monsters; although the age of the sequel was still in […]
In the aftermath of Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), New Line had wedded themselves to the principle that Freddy Krueger was indeed dead, […]
Onslow Ford Stevenson was born in Los Angeles on the 29th of March, 1902. He started work at the Pasadena Community Playhouse in 1926; […]
Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio on the 2nd of August, 1939. Studying English, psychology, philosophy and writing, he moved into the […]
A native of London, John Gilling was born on the 29th of May, 1912. At just 17 years of age he quit his job […]
The descendant of a family of barons, Ingo Clemens Gustav Adolf Freiherr von Wangenheim was born in Wiesbaden, now part of Germany, on the […]
