Danny Elfman is born in Los Angeles in 1953. The one-time leader of L.A. new wave band Oingo Boingo has...
Zelda Rubinstein is born in Pittsburgh in 1933. After years as a lab technician in a blood bank, her second...
Killer Klowns From Outer Space opens across the U.S. in 1988. The absurdist horror comedy is a small hit with...
Peter Cushing is born in Kenley, England in 1913. The actor’s 60-year career spans more than 100 films, as well...
Alien opens exclusively at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles in 1979. The movie plays around the clock for its...
George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead premieres in Los Angeles in 1978. The second in Romero’s Living Dead zombie series...
The Shining premieres in Los Angeles in 1980. Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic, based on Stephen King’s book, stars Jack Nicholson...
Dracula opens across the U.K. in 1958. The first in Hammer’s Dracula series was renamed The Horror of Dracula in...
Jimmy Spicer’s “Adventures of Super Rhyme” is released by Dazz Records in 1980, marking arguably the first known appearance of...
The Psychopath opens in the U.S. in 1966. The British horror-mystery, directed by Freddie Francis and written by Robert Bloch,...