- 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)
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Dracula AD 1972 (Hammer 1972) – why this much maligned classic is so important
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
The Universal murder-mystery Secret of the Blue Room was released on the 20th of July, 1933. Steadfast Universal stars Lionel Atwill and Gloria Stuart […]
Son of Frankenstein, Universal’s third episode in their Frankenstein series, was the last to feature Boris Karloff and the first to feature Bela Lugosi. […]
Lionel Atwill was one of the great horror stars of the 1930s, but his career is too often overshadowed by a sex scandal which […]
Universal’s The Strange Case of Doctor Rx was released on 17th April, 1942. Unsure whether it was a thriller or a horror, this lesser-known […]
The Ritz Brothers horror-comedy The Gorilla was released on the 26th of May, 1939. Lionel Atwill and Bela Lugosi were of course familiar to […]
Mark of the Vampire (also known as Vampires of Prague) was released on the 26th of April 1935, and starred Bela Lugosi, Lionel Barrymore, […]
Vincent Price was born Vincent Leonard Price Junior on the 27th May, 1911 in St Louis, Missouri, the youngest of four children. Having studied […]
