The horror classic Carrie is one of 25 titles joining the National Film Registry for 2022, the Library of Congress...
Scream opens across the U.S. in 1996. Wes Craven’s slasher satire based on the real-life Gainesville Ripper is a hit,...
A Christmas Carol is published in 1843. Originally titled A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas,...
Steven Spielberg is born in Cincinnati in 1946. The highest-grossing filmmaker in history and probably the most famous living director,...
Bill Pullman is born in Hornell, NY in 1953. The stage, film and TV actor includes Independence Day, The Serpent...
Hammer Studios’ The Mummy opens in the U.S. in 1959. The iconic British studio’s version of the monster movie borrows...
Young Frankenstein is released in 1974. Writer/director Mel Brooks’ spoof of Universal’s Frankenstein movies is the first Hollywood film to...
Edward Scissorhands opens across the the U.S. in 1990. Based on sketches from director Tim Burton’s youth, and originally intended...
Harry Strang in born in Clifton, Virginia in 1892. The actor played mostly uncredited bit roles in more than 500...
The Wolf Man opens across the U.S. in 1941. The Universal horror classic stars Lon Chaney Jr. and Claude Rains...