- 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)
There have been many adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ for both stage and screen, […]
Douglas Walton was born John Douglas Duder in Toronto, Canada on the 16th of October, 1910. Percy Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron […]
Ellen Miriam Hopkins was born in Savannah, Georgia on the 18th of October, 1902. Her childhood experiences as a choirgirl provided training of a […]
Born on the 27th of June, 1884 in Cork, Ireland, Forrester Harvey frequently played comedic supporting roles such as innkeepers or barkeepers. He is […]
Universal’s first full moon foray into the world of the luckless lycanthrope came with their Werewolf of London, released on the 3rd of June, […]
Although ostensibly billed as a horror film, Columbia’s 1951 The Son of Dr Jekyll was, in reality, more of a gothic thriller. It was […]
With 1971’s I, Monster, Amicus opted for a full-length single narrative feature rather than their usual horror vignette approach. Milton Subotsky’s screenplay is probably […]
