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.

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