- 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)
Susan Denberg was born Dietlinde Ortrun Zechner on the 2nd of August, 1944 in Bad Polzin, Germany (now Połczyn-Zdrój, Poland), the eldest of three […]
Charles Philip Latham was born on the 17th of January, 1929. He made his movie debut with an uncredited part in The Dam Busters […]
Michael Denys Gwynn was born in Bath, Somerset on the 30th of November, 1916 and studied in Sussex, serving his country in World War […]
With the lush feel of a modern day musical like Carol Reed’s Oliver! (1968), interacting crossover cultural themes such as Jack the Ripper and […]
1935’s Mystery of the Mary Celeste (or, if you prefer the US title, Phantom Ship) was the second movie from Hammer Film Productions, and […]
Born in Whitechapel, London on the 6th of October, 1907, Philip Martell studied at the Guildhall School of Music. He joined Hammer in 1954 […]
By the mid 1960s, Hammer had reinvented pretty much all of the original Universal monsters; although the age of the sequel was still in […]
