- 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)
Christopher Lee – or, to afford him his proper title, Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ – was born on the 27th May, […]
Dracula’s Daughter, Universal’s first follow-up to their original classic monster success story, was released on the 11th of May, 1936. A sequel to the […]
More Victoria Wood than victorious vampire flick, The Return of the Vampire was also the return of Bela Lugosi. The ageing star had long […]
Universal had been keen to make sequels featuring almost all of their classic monsters. Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy and the Wolf Man had all […]
When Hammer released their production of Horror of Dracula on 8th May, 1958, they redefined not only Bram Stoker’s iconic novel, but also the […]
Bram Stoker was born Abraham Stoker on 8th November, 1847 in Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Although best known for his 1897 gothic […]
Although made in 1921, and released in Berlin on the 4th of March, 1922, F W Murnau’s seminal vampire film, Nosferatu, didn’t see the […]
