- 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)
Vina Fay Wray was born near Cardston, Alberta on the 15th of September, 1907, to an American mother and English father. Her early life […]
To create a brand new classic monster, especially one which can claim membership of that most holy of grails, being cast in the glorious […]
Born in Jacksonville, Florida on the 24th of October, 1893, Merian Caldwell Cooper decided at an early age that he wanted to be an […]
Maximilian Raoul “Max” Steiner was born on the 10th of May, 1888 in Austria-Hungary. A child prodigy, he conducted his first operetta when he […]
Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack was born on the 8th of June, 1893 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He ran away from home at the age of […]
Writer, researcher and filmmaker Ruth Rose, famous for her role as the screenwriter for King Kong (1933), was born on the 16th of January, […]
Special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen was born Raymond Frederick Harryhausen on the 29th of June, 1920 in Los Angeles, California. With the talents of […]
