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On this day in horror…
1930. Jesus Franco is born. More commonly known as Jess and noted for his near-pornographic horror work, writer, director and actor Franco has contributed to the genre such works as: Vampyros Lesbos, Bloody Moon, Devil Hunter, The Bloody Judge, A Virgin Among the Living Dead, Oasis of the Zombies, Necronomicon and [...]
On this day in horror…
1922. British author Kingsley Amis is born. Noted for his novels, poetry and critique of other works, Amis contributed to the genre through his work The Green Man which was adapated for the small screen in a BAFTA winning three-parter starring Albert Finney.
1960. Ricco Ross is born. Ross has featured in [...]
On this day in horror…
1934 sees the birth of English actor Brian Glover, who has starred in genre films such as: Alien 3, An American Werewolf in London, The Company of Wolves and made for TV movie Snow White: A Tale of Terror alongside Sigourney Weaver and Sam Neill. While attending university, Glover worked as [...]
On this day in horror…
1936 sees the birth of screen siren Ursula Andress. Perhaps most famous for her role as Honey Ryder in Dr No, her most notable contribution to the horror genre came when she starred in Sergio Martino’s controversial “video nasty” The Mountain of the Cannibal God alongside Stacy Keach; a film which [...]
On this day in horror…
1948. Ken Foree is born. Foree starred in genre films: Dawn of the Dead (1978), Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, The Devil’s Rejects, Zone of the Dead; and Dawn of the Dead (2004). Foree will also be seen in the upcoming Rob Zombie flick, The Lords of Salem.
1956 sees the birth [...]
The Seventies saw a shift in the movies coming from Italy. We had already seen that the Italians had no aversion to onscreen nudie scenes and brutal violence with exploitation films being all the rage. Directors like Mario Bava had already started the decade by dropping mega violent films like Bay of Blood/Twitch of The [...]
