July 26, 2020
The Night of the Hunter premieres in Des Moines, Iowa in 1955. The only film directed by actor Charles Laughton is based on an actual 1932 murder case and stars Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters and Lilian Gish. T...
July 25, 2020
Dressed To Kill opens across the U.S. in 1980. The Brian De Palma homage to Alfred Hitchcock is a critical and popular hit, with Roger Ebert describing it as “an exercise in style, not narrative.” It remains a ...
July 24, 2020
Wolfen opens across the U.S. in 1981. Based on the novel by Whitley Strieber and directed by Michael Wadleigh, the werewolf/detective movie stars Albert Finney, Gregory Hines, and Edward James Olmos. Wolfen is ...
July 23, 2020
Actor and stuntman Chuck Courtney is born in Los Angeles in 1930. He starred as Billy The Kid in Billy The Kid Versus Dracula. He also appeared in Food of the Gods and Pet Sematary. He died in 2000. ...
July 22, 2020
James Whale is born in Dudley, Worcestershire, England in 1889. The director’s career covered multiple genres, but he is an icon for Universal’s classic Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein as well as The...
July 21, 2020
Visual effects artist Paul Blaisdell is born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1927. Blaisdell created and often was the monster in films like The Beast With A Million Eyes, It Conquered The World, and The Day The Wo...
July 20, 2020
The Devil Rides Out opens in the U.K. in 1968. Written by Richard Matheson and directed by Terence Fisher, the film stars Christopher Lee in a rare good-guy role in a Hammer film, where he battles devil worship...
July 19, 2020
Day of the Dead opens across the U.S. in 1985. The third in director George A. Romero’s iconic zombie franchise, the film features a small role by Greg Nicotero, then an assistant to makeup artist Tom Savini, a...
June 18, 2020
Zombie opens across the U.S. in 1980. The film, originally intended to be an Italian sequel to George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, is controversial on its release, but is a hit that develops a cult following and ...
July 17, 2020
Super hero Vampirella appears for the first time in Vampirella #1 in 1969. The creation of writer Forrest J. Ackerman and artist Trina Robbins for Warren Publishing, she is a voluptuous and scantily-clad “ligh...