This Day in Halloween: Gore and sexploitation writer/director Andy Milligan is born in St. Paul, Minn. in 1929. / Illustration by Caitlin Navo

Jan. 31, 2024

Andy Milligan is born in St. Paul, Minn. in 1929. The writer/director and costume designer made a string of low budget, but envelope-pushing gory horror and sexploitation films in the 1960s and 1970s including The Ghastly Ones, Bloodthirsty Butchers, and The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! He died in 1991. 

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