- 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)
The Blood Beast Terror, made by Tony Tenser’s Tigon in 1968, has possibly one of the most peculiar monsters in horror film history – […]
Master Monster Maker (Howard) Roy Ashton was born on the 16th of April, 1909 in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a tenor, and associated for […]
English cinematographer Jack Asher BSC was born on the 29th of March, 1916, in London. Best remembered for his work with Hammer, Asher lent […]
Hammer’s version of The Hound of the Baskervilles was released on 4th May 1959. Based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and […]
Sherlock Holmes mystery The Scarlet Claw – the sixth in the series for Universal – was released on the 26th of May, 1944, and […]
The 13th of June 1892 saw the birth of Philip St John Basil Rathbone, whose name would become synonymous in later years with elegant […]
