- 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)
Louis Francis Cristillo was born in Paterson, New Jersey on the 6th of March, 1906. Though a gifted athlete, he was determined to become […]
Robert Segedy counts down his choices of the greatest Bela Lugosi movies. Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko was born in Lugos, Hungary on October 20, 1882. Lugosi was […]
House of Dracula (1945) was the natural result of the success of the previous year’s monsterthon, House of Frankenstein. Universal were determined to wring […]
by Jamie Jones Lon Chaney Jr was born Creighton Tull Chaney on the 10th of February, 1906 in Oklahoma City. It’s a scene that […]
While official wisdom has it that William Alexander ‘Bud’ Abbott was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey on the 2nd of October, 1895, his […]
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 […]
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 […]
