Jan. 8, 2024

This Day in Halloween: Mexican horror movie producer/importer K. Gordon Murray is born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1922. / Illustration by Caitlin Navo

K. Gordon Murray is born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1922. As a producer he brought the Mexican films — also known as “Mexploitation” —  The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy, Sampson (El Santo) vs. The Vampire Women, and The Vampire’s Coffin to the U.S. He died in 1979.