![The Blood Beast Terror (Tigon 1968)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Blood-Beast-Terror-The_main-170x120.jpg)
The Blood Beast Terror, made by Tony Tenser’s Tigon in 1968, has possibly one of the most peculiar monsters in horror film history – […]
![Roy Ashton makes up Peter Cushing for Tales from the Crypt (Amicus 1972)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Roy-Ashton-Peter-Cushing-170x120.jpg)
Master Monster Maker (Howard) Roy Ashton was born on the 16th of April, 1909 in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a tenor, and associated for […]
![Jack Asher](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Jack-Asher_main-170x120.jpg)
English cinematographer Jack Asher BSC was born on the 29th of March, 1916, in London. Best remembered for his work with Hammer, Asher lent […]
![The Hound of the Baskervilles (Hammer 1959)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Hound-of-the-Baskervilles-main-170x120.jpg)
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 […]
![The Scarlet Claw (Universal 1944)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Scarlet-Claw-The-main-170x120.jpg)
Sherlock Holmes mystery The Scarlet Claw – the sixth in the series for Universal – was released on the 26th of May, 1944, and […]
![Basil Rathbone](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Basil-Rathbone-biography_main1-170x120.jpg)
The 13th of June 1892 saw the birth of Philip St John Basil Rathbone, whose name would become synonymous in later years with elegant […]