Ken Russell is born in Southampton, England in 1927. The director, despite early acclaim for Women in Love, is known mostly for a career of controversial and provocative films, including The Devils, Altered States, Gothic, The Lair of the White Worm and The Fall of the House of Usher. He died in 2011.
This Day in Halloween: Controversial director Ken Russell is born in Southampton, England in 1927. / Illustration by Sorprisela Martinez