The Face of Another premieres at the Venice Film Festival in Italy in 1966. The Japanese film about a disfigured...
Cat-Women Of The Moon opens across the U.S. in 1953. One of the string of 3-D films made during the...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame premieres in New York in 1923. The first film version of Victor Hugo’s novel is...
Isle Of The Dead opens across the U.S. in 1945. The unusual Balkan War ghost story stars Boris Karloff. Though...
The song “Mack The Knife” is part of the premiere of the musical The Threepenny Opera at Theater am Schiffbauerdamm...
Author Mary Shelley is born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in London in 1797. Though she wrote several novels during her career,...
William Friedkin is born in Chicago in 1935. The Oscar-winning director’s long career includes The Exorcist, The Guardian, Bug and...
The Haunted Palace premieres in Cincinnati in 1963. Though billed as an Edgar Allan Poe story, the Roger Corman film...
Johnny Eck is born in Baltimore in 1911. The sideshow performer — born without his lower torso — and actor...
War of the Worlds opens across the U.S. in 1953. The sci-fi horror classic directed by Byron Haskin, updates H.G....