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1964 sees the birth of Stephen Geoffreys. Geoffreys crops up in horror movies regularly, featuring in: Fright Night (1985), 976-EVIL, Bite Marks, Mr Hush and The Chair. The least said about his mid 90′s foray into pornography, the better…
1958. Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis is born. Curtis has starred in genre [...]
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1931 sees the release of James Whales’ Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff as The Monster.
1937. Horror legend Ingrid Pitt is born. Pitt has starred in a numerous genre flicks including: The Wicker Man, Countess Dracula, The Vampire Lovers, Minotaur, The Asylum, Underworld (1985) and The House that dripped Blood.
2003. Gothika starring Halle [...]
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1932. Richard Dawson is born. Dawson has featured in Munster, Go Home! an episode of the original series of The Outer Limits but is probably best known to genre (and Arnie) fans as Killian from The Running Man.
1948. Richard Masur is born. Masur has starred in genre flicks: John Carpenter’s The [...]
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1962. Jodie Foster is born. Foster played FBI Agent Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs. Fun Foster Fact: As an eight year old, Foster provided the voice for Pugsley in the 1973 animated series of The Addams Family.
1966. Jason Scott Lee is born. Lee starred in Tale of the [...]
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1941. David Hemmings is born. Hemmings starred in horror movies Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1980), Thirst, Eye of the Devil and Dario Argento’s Deep Red.
1987. Angelina Armani is born. Armani has successfully made the transition from “adult entertainer” to horror starlet, having starred in Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2, Bloodstruck [...]
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1944. Roberta Collins is born. Collins starred in numerous 70′s exploitation films and a number of horror flicks including Tobe Hooper’s Death Trap and Sweet Kill.
1974 sees the birth of Aldo Gonzalez who has starred in genre films: Hyenas, The Dead One and Ashes.
1975. Diane Neal is born. Neal’s contribution to [...]
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1958. Marg Helgenberger is born. Probably best known to contemporary audiences for her role in CSI, Helgenberger has starred in genre flicks Mr Brooks, Species, Species II and The Tommyknockers.
1984. Night of the Comet gets its US theatrical release.
1990 sees the US theatrical release of Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4.
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1939 sees the birth of Yaphet Kotto. Kotto has starred in Alien and Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare.
1963. Kevin J. O’Connor is born. O’Connor has starred in Deep Rising, Lord of Illusions and Flight of the Living Dead.
1988. Zena Grey is born. Grey featured in Wes Craven’s dreadful My Soul To Take.
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An obscure scream queen special today…
1922. Actress and pin-up Veronica Lake is born. Lake’s contributions to the genre were sparse, starring in comedy horror I married a Witch and Flesh Feast.
1976. Felicity Mason is born. Mason starred in Aussie horror comedy Undead.
1978. Delphine Chaneac is born. Chaneac starred in Splice as [...]
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1933 sees the release of The Invisible Man, based on the story by H.G.Wells and starring Claude Rains.
1969. Scottish actor Gerard Butler is born. Not known primarily for his horror roles, Butler has starred in Dracula 2001, Reign of Fire and Tale of the Mummy.
1992. Francis Ford Coppolla’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula gets [...]