- 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)
Robert Segedy offers a retrospective on the English horror star’s greatest achievements. The man born William Henry Pratt on November 23, 1887 in Camberwell, […]
John P Fulton was born on the 4th of November, 1902 in Beatrice, Nebraska. Starting his cinematic life as an assistant cameraman, he secured […]
By 1940, over at Universal sequels were all the rage. The Mummy’s Hand went into production on the back of successful follow-ups to their […]
The resounding success of both Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931) was a natural catalyst to encourage Junior Laemmle to invoke another prime time monster. […]
The Ghoul was something of a working holiday for the busy Boris Karloff. Fresh from his new found fame and success at Universal, he […]
Hammer’s 1959 retelling of The Mummy took inspiration from the Universal movies which had gone before, but added a visceral new horror to its […]
Elisabeth Johann was born on the 14th of July, 1904 in the village of Deutschbentschek, Austro-Hungary, now Timişoara in Romania. Her father, hussar officer […]
