- Aurora Monster Models – turning every boy’s dream into a nightmare!
- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
- Maria Ouspenskaya, the Russian actress who became The Wolf Man’s iconic Gypsy Woman
- Lon Chaney Jr
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal 1954)
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- Ray Harryhausen
- Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
- Ghost of Frankenstein, The (Universal 1942)
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
Not considered a mainstay of Universal’s prolific horror output of the 1940s, The Mad Ghoul does offer a pleasingly minxish and original yarn, with […]
by Nige Burton To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the true beginning of the horror film, Universal commissioned a new monster. Desperate to find […]
After the budgetary extravagances of Son of Frankenstein (1939), the new brooms at Universal were determined to play it safe henceforth, despite that film […]
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 […]
Based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s story The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, Sherlock Holmes mystery The Pearl of Death was the ninth outing for […]
Evelyn Ankers, star of numerous horror movies throughout the 1940s, was born in Valparaiso, Chile on the 17th of August, 1918, to English parents. […]
