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The Man They Could Not Hang, the science fiction horror-drama which starred Boris Karloff in a role which looks at once backwards and forwards, […]
Targets, Peter Bogdanovich’s taut and thrilling analysis of what it means to be a monster, was released on the 15th of August, 1968, and […]
Glenn Strange was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, near El Paso in Texas (now part of New Mexico) on the 16th of August, […]
Universal’s classic Edgar Allan Poe-inspired horror film, The Raven, was released on the 22nd of July, 1935. Although Bela Lugosi carried the lead role […]
The science-fiction horror thriller, Frankenstein 1970, was released by Allied Artists on the 20th of July, 1958. Starring Boris Karloff as Baron Victor von […]
Elisabeth Johann was born on the 14th of July, 1904 in the village of Deutschbentschek, Austro-Hungary, now Timişoara in Romania. Her father, hussar officer […]
American director and writer Lambert Hillyer was born on the 8th of July, 1889 to character actress Lydia Knott. Hillyer proved to be a […]
