July 12, 2020
Director Tod Browning is born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1880. Though he directed dozens of films in various genres, during and after the silent era, he is best known for his work in the 1930s, especially Dracu...
July 11, 2020
Stranger Things premieres at a special screening in Los Angeles in 2016. It debuts on Netflix four days later to critical acclaim and becomes one of the streaming service’s highest viewed series. ...
July 10, 2020
13 Ghosts opens across the U.S. in 1960. The William Castle haunted house horror film is known mostly for one of Castle’s trademark gimmicks to enhance and promote the film. Audiences at the larger theaters cou...
July 9, 2020
Dean Koontz is born in Everett, Penn. in 1945. The best-selling author of more than 100 novels, including Demon Seed, and Phantoms, as well as the Odd Thomas series, the Frankenstein series and Jane Hawk series...
July 8, 2020
The Raven opens across the U.S. in 1935. The horror thriller stars Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff and is the final film in Universal’s 1930’s Edgar Allan Poe trilogy, following Murders in the Rue Morgue and The ...
July 7, 2020
Brides of Dracula opens across the U.K. in 1960. The second in Hammer’s Dracula franchise does not feature Dracula or Christopher Lee, but does feature Peter Cushing again as Van Helsing. The film receives mixe...
July 6, 2020
Janet Leigh is born in Merced, Calif. in 1927. Despite a more than 50-year career in film, TV, radio and the stage, she is best known for Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho. Other roles include The Manchurian Candidate, ...
July 5, 2020
Pruitt Taylor Vince is born in Baton Rouge in 1960. The character actor’s work includes Angel Heart, Jacob’s Ladder, The X-Files, The Walking Dead, True Blood, 13 Sins, The Devil’s Candy, and Stranger Things. ...
July 4, 2020
Charles Dodgson — A.K.A. Lewis Carroll — tells ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her two sisters the first version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland while paddling a boat down the Thames in Oxfordshire, England ...
July 3, 2020
Ken Russell is born in Southampton, England in 1927. The director, despite early acclaim for Women in Love, is known mostly for a career of controversial and provocative films, including The Devils, Altered Sta...