July 26, 2021

This Day in Halloween: Director Stanley Kubrick is born in New York City in 1928. / Illustration by Sorprisela Martinez

Director Stanley Kubrick is born in New York City in 1928. The iconic and heavily influential filmmaker is known for a long list of classic movies, with the darkest including A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and his final film, Eyes Wide Shut. He died in 1999, shortly after completion of the film.