“The Purple People Eater” reaches number one on the Billboard charts in 1958 and remains there until July 10. The...
Ernest B. Schoedsack is born in Council Bluffs Iowa in 1893. The director’s work includes King Kong, Son of Kong,...
Taste the Blood of Dracula opens across the U.S. in 1970. The fifth film in Hammer films’ Dracula series and...
Actor Robert Englund is born in Glendale, California in 1947. The classically trained actor’s career includes stage, film and TV...
It Came From Outer Space opens across the U.S. in 1953. One of the string of 3D films made during...
The Hands of Orlac opens across the U.S. in 1928. The Austrian silent horror film stars Conrad Veidt and is...
Nosferatu is released in the United States in 1929, seven years after a legally tricky release in Germany. The silent...
Henry G. Saperstein is born in Chicago in 1918. As a producer, he brought the English-language versions of the Japanese...
The Prisoner premieres on CBS in 1968. The pioneering, surreal, Kafka-esque limited series is co-created by star Patrick McGoohan, who...
The Black Raven opens across the U.S. in 1943. The George Zucco starring whodunit is “poverty row” B-movie directed by...