- 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)
Made by MGM in the autumn of 1931 and released the following year, Freaks used real sideshow ‘freaks’ among its cast of performers and […]
Dracula’s Daughter, Universal’s first follow-up to their original classic monster success story, was released on the 11th of May, 1936. A sequel to the […]
In the first speaking role of his second career, Boris Karloff hissily lisped his way through the title role of MGM’s The Mask of […]
Film producer Irving Thalberg, who launched countless successful movie careers and helped to shape the movie industry as we know it today, was born […]
In the golden age of horror, MGM liked to think they ran a close second to Universal, although many of their features were criticised […]
John Eckhardt Jr, known simply as Johnny Eck, and his twin brother Robert were born on the 27th of August, 1911 in Baltimore, Maryland. […]
The Devil Doll, released on the 10th of July, 1936, was both MGM’s and Tod Browning’s last horror film and, as such, was a […]
