MARCH 17

BORN ON MARCH 17

1986 – Olesya Rulin, has appeared in “Eye Candy (TV Series)”, “Vampire Chicks with Chainsaws”, “Urban Legends: Bloody Mary”, “Halloweentown High.”

1976 – Brittany Daniel who appeared in “Club Dread” and “The Hamiltons.”

1975 – Gina Holden who appeared in “Final Destination 3,” “Aliens vs Predators: Requiem” and starred in the TV series “Blood Ties.”

1973 – Ashley Lynn Caputo, has appeared in “Death-Scort Service”, “Slasher Weekend”, “American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore”, “Amerikan Holokaust”, “Joe Vampire.”

1964 – Rob Lowe, who starred in “Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming,” the TV mini-series “The Stand” and the 2004 TV mini-series version of “Salem’s Lot.”

1957 – Laurene Landon, appeared in “Full Moon High”, “The Stuff”, “It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive”, “Maniac Cop”, “Maniac Cop 2″, “Masters of Horror (TV Series).”

1955 – Gary Sinise, co-starred in the TV mini-series “The Stand” and the films “Mission to Mars,” “Jack the Bear,” “The Green Mile” and “The Forgotten.”

1954 – Lesley-Anne Down, who appeared in “Countess Dracula,” “From Beyond the Grave” and “The 13th Child: Legend of the Jersey Devil.”

1951 – Kurt Russell, who starred in the films “Escape From New York,” “Escape From L.A.,” “Stargate,” The Thing (1982), Bone Tomahawk, and “Death Proof.”

1923 – Eiji Funakoshi, who appeared in the films “Gamera” and “Gamera vs. Gurion.”

 

DIED ON MARCH 17

2011 – Michael Gough, a character actor who appeared in “Horror of Dracula”, “Horrors of the Black Museum”, “Konga”, “The Phantom of the Opera”, “Black Zoo”, “Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors”, “The Skull” and many more.

2007 – Director Freddie Francis, who directed the films “Dr. Terror’s House Of Horrors,” The Evil Of Frankenstein,” Tales from The Crypt (1972).

1993 – Skip Young, who appeared in the 1957 version of “Earth vs. the Spider” and “Lobster Man from Mars”.

1992 – Jack Arnold, director of the films “The Creature From the Black Lagoon,” “It Came From Outer Space,” “The Incredible Shrinking Man” and “Tarantula”.

1989 – Merritt Butrick, who appeared in “Death Spa”, “From the Dead of Night”, “Fright Night Part 2”.

 

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 17

Mystery of the White Room (1939)
Blood Legacy (1971)
Blood and Lace (1971) – NYC (premiere)
Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) – Japan
Flesh For Frankenstein (1974)
Leviathan (1989)
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)
The Exorcist (1973) – 2000 re-release
Final Destination (2000)
The Zodiac (2005) – USA (limited)
Alien Presence (2009)

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MARCH 18

BORN ON MARCH 18

1989 – Lily Collins, appeared in “Priest”, “Mirror”, “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones”, and “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.”

1980 – Sophia Myles, who appeared in the films “From Hell,” “Underworld” and “Underworld: Evolution.”

1950 – Brad Dourif, starred in such films as “The Exorcist III,” “Alien: Resurrection,” “Pulse” and Rob Zombie’s “Halloween,” Wildling (2018) and The Control Group, among many others.

1945 -Susan Tyrrell, who appeared in the films “Night Warning,” “The Offspring” and “Rockula.”

1938 – Carl Gottlieb, wrote the screenplay for the films “Jaws”, “Jaws 2″, and “Jaws 3-D.”

1926 – Peter Graves, starred in the films “Killers From Space,” “It Conquered the World” and “Beginning of the End,” and House on Haunted Hill (1999).

 

DIED ON MARCH 18

2010 – Fess Parker, a bit part in the 1954 sci-fi classic “Them!.”

2009 – Natasha Richardson, portrayed Mary Shelly in the film “Gothic.”

2002 – Denis Forest, who appeared in the TV mini-series “Storm of the Century,” and episodes of the TV shows “The X-Files,” “War of The Worlds” and “Friday the 13th, the series”.

1970 – William Beaudine, who directed the films “Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla,” “The Ape Man,” “Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter” and “Billy the Kid vs. Dracula.”

 

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 18

Frankenstein (1910)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920) – NYC (premiere)
The Flesh Eaters (1964)
Werewolf Woman (1976) – Italy
Mother’s Boys (1994)
Bloodthirst: Legend of the Chupacabras (2003)
The Ring Two (2005)
The Deaths of Ian Stone (2008) – USA & Canada (DVD premiere)
Unearthed (2008) – USA (DVD premiere)
War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008)
Laid to Rest (2009)

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MARCH 19

BORN ON MARCH 19

1976 – Rachel Blanchard, who appeared in the films “Snakes on a Plane,” “The Rage: Carrie 2″ and the 1988 TV series “War of the Worlds.”

1964 – Jake Weber, who starred in the 2004 remake of “Dawn of the Dead,” “The Haunting of Molly Hartley,” “The Cell,” and on the TV series “American Gothic.”

1955 – Bruce Willis, who starred in “The Sixth Sense” and “Planet Terror.”

1947 – Glenn Close who starred in the films “Mars Attacks!” “Fatal Attraction” and the remake of “The Stepford Wives.”

1936 – Ursula Andress, appeared in the movies “The 10th Victim,” “Slave of the Cannibal God”.

1928 – Patrick McGoohan. He starred in the films “The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh”, “Scanners” and “The Phantom.”

1914 – Fred Clark, who starred in “The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb,” “Zotz” and “Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.”

1909 – Louis Hayward, who played the title role of “The Son of Dr. Jekyll” and “Terror in the Wax Museum.”

1907 – Kent Smith who starred in the original “Cat people,” “Curse of the Cat People” and TV series such as “The Outer limits” and “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.”

1885 – Tod Slaughter, who in 1936, was the first to bring the character of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” to life.

 

DIED ON MARCH 19

2009 – Harry Harris, who directed episodes of several TV shows including “Lost in Space,” “Land of the Giants,” “The Man From Atlantis” and “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,”.

2007 – Calvert DeForest, appeared in “My Demon Lover” and “Freaked.”

1998 – Taggart Casey, appeared in “The Navy vs. the Night Monsters” and “It Conquered the World.”

1992 – Cesare Danova, appeared in “Tentacles”, “Night Gallery (TV Series)”, “Chamber of Horrors” and more.

1989 – Charles Lamb, who has appeared in the films “Jack the Ripper,” “Curse of the Werewolf” and “Quatermass and the Pit”.

1985 – Anthony Nelson Keys, who produced the Hammer films “Curse of Frankenstein,” “Horror of Dracula,” “The Mummy” and “Curse of the Werewolf”.

1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, penned the novels “The Land That Time Forgot,” “The People That Time Forgot” and “At the Earth’s Core.”

 

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 19

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921)
The Void (2001) – USA (video premiere)
Urban Nightmare (2003)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Repo Men (2010)

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MARCH 20

BORN ON MARCH 20

1970 – Michael Rapaport, who appeared in the films “The 6th Day”, “Deep Blue Sea” and “Kiss of the Damned.”

1979 – Bianca Lawson, also appeared in episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and in the films “Supergator,” “Big Monster on Campus” and “Dead & Breakfast.”

1973 – Jane March, appeared in “Jack the Giant Killer”, “Grimm’s Snow White”, “Stalker”, “Dark Realm (TV Series)”, “Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula” and more.

1964 – Stephen Sommers, who wrote and directed the remake of “The Mummy,” “The Mummy Returns,” “Van Helsing”.

1963 – David Thewlis, appeared in The Omen (2006) and the 1996 version of “The Island of Dr. Moreau.”

1958 – Holly Hunter who appeared in the films “Copycat” and “The Burning.”

1957 – Theresa Russell, who appeared in the films “Black Widow,” “The Grotesque,” the 2001 version of “Earth vs. the Spider”.

1950 – William Hurt, who starred in the films “Altered States,” and “Frankenstein” TV mini-series.

1950 – Tom Towles, starred in “Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer,” “Night of the Living Dead (1990),” and “The Devil’s Rejects.”

1947 – Richard Dyszel, who appeared in the films “The Alien Factor,” “Nightbeast,” “The Galaxy Invader,” “Cremains” and “Crawler.”

1935 – Ted Bessell, starred in the very chilling TV movie “Scream, Pretty Peggy.”

1931 – Hal Linden, did the voice characterizations for the American versions of “Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster” and “Destroy All Monsters.”

1914 – Wendell Corey, who appeared in the films “Rear Window,” “Women of the Prehistoric Planet” and “The Astro-Zombies.”

1913 – Judith Evelyn, who appeared in the films “Rear Window” and “The Tingler.”

1908 – Michael Redgrave, appeared in the films “Dead of Night,” “1984” and “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1973).”

 

DIED ON MARCH 20

2013 – Author James Herbert. He wrote such novels as “Haunted”, “Fluke”, “Deadly Eyes,” and “The Fog” [no relation to the movie from 1980], and one of his stories adapted into The Survivor (1981), among others.

2007 – John P. Ryan, who played ‘Mr. Davis” in the films “It’s Alive” and “It Lives Again,” passed away at the age of 70. He also appeared in the film “The Class Of 1999.”

 

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 20

Two Thousand Maniacs (1964)
The Final Conflict (1981)

Stripped to Kill (1987)
Basic Instinct (1992)

Body Puzzle (1992)
Shadows and Fog (1992)

Rumpelstiltskin (1996) – Japan
Silver Scream (2003)

Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)
Sewer Chewer (2010)

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MARCH 21

BORN ON MARCH 21

1963 –Jill Schoelen, who starred in such films as “The Stepfather”, “Curse II: The Bite”, “Cutting Class”, “The Phantom of the Opera”, “Popcorn”, “When a Stranger Calls Back” and more.

1962 – Matthew Broderick, who starred in Godzilla (1998) and “The Stepford Wives.”

1961 – Kassie Wesley DePaiva, known for starring in “Evil Dead II” and “We Are What We Are.”

1958 – Gary Oldman, starred as Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), and “RoboCop” remake.

1946 –Timothy Dalton starred in “The Doctor and the Devils”.

 

DIED ON MARCH 21

2012 – Robert Fuest, director of such films as “And Soon the Darkness”, “The Abominable Dr. Phibes”, “Dr. Phibes Rises Again”, “The Last Days of Man on Earth”, “The Devil’s Rain”, and “Revenge of the Stepford Wives.”

2009 – John Franklyn-Robbins, who appeared in the films “Asylum,” “Dracula A.D. 1972″ and “Dr. Jekyll & Ms. Hyde,” passed away at the age of 84.

2001 – Anthony Steele, who appeared in “The Monster Club” and the TV series “Tales From The Darkside”.

1995 – Robert Urquhart, who played “Paul Krempe” in the film “The Curse of Frankenstein”.

1994 – Macdonald Carey, appeared on many TV shows like “The Outer Limits,” “Thriller” and the film “It’s Alive 3: Island Of The Alive.”

1985 – Michael Redgrave, father of Lynn and Vanessa, who appeared in the films “Dead of Night,” “1984” and the 1973 TV movie “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.”

 

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 21

Le Golem (1937)
Flash Gordon’s Trip To Mars (1938)

Gorath (1962) – Japan

Die! Die! My Darling! aka Fanatic (1965)

Gamera vs. Monster X (1970)

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) – Japan
Chopping Mall (1986)
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Shutter (2008)

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MARCH 22

BORN ON MARCH 22

1988 – Tania Raymonde, has appeared in “Chillerama”, “Death Valley (TV Series)”, and “Texas Chainsaw 3D.”

1980 – Kandyse McClure, appeared in the 2009 TV version of “Children of the Corn.”

1976 – Reese Witherspoon, who starred in “American Psycho.” “Fear”.

1955 – Lena Olin, who appeared in the films “Queen of the Damned,” “The Ninth Gate” and “Darkness.”

1938 – Michael Westmore provided makeup for films and TV shows such as “The Munsters (TV Series)”, “Trilogy of Terror”, “Psycho III”, and so many more.

1937 – Composer Angelo Badalamenti, composed scores for “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors,” “The Wicker Man,” and “Dark Water”.

1931 – William Shatner starred in “Kingdom of the Spiders,” “The Devil’s Rain” and “American Psycho 2.”

1927 – Karl Hardman starred in “Night of the Living Dead”, “Santa Claws.”

1917 – Virginia Grey, who appeared in the films “House of Horrors,” “Unknown Island” and “The Black Zoo.”

1912 – Karl Malden, starred in “Phantom of the Rue Morgue”.

 

DIED ON MARCH 22

2007 – Bradley Lavelle, who appeared in “Hellbound: HellRaiser II”.

1994 –Everyman Walter Lantz, created the opening animation for the film “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.”

1992 – Melissa Stribling, appeared in “Ghost Ship”, “Horror of Dracula”, “Journey Into Darkness”, “Crucible of Terror.” She passed away at the age of 64.

1991 – Gloria Holden, who played the title role of “Dracula’s Daughter,” passed away at the age of 82.

 

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 22

The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1945)
Konga (1961) – Boston

Inseminoid (1981) – UK
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

Bloodmoon (1990)
Diabolique (1996)
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2002) – Philadelphia
Blade II (2002)

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MARCH 23

BORN ON MARCH 23

1966 – Marin Hinkle, who co-starred in the films “Frequency,” “The Haunting of Molley Hartley” and “Quarantine.”

1965 – Richard Grieco, appeared in the films “Samhain,” “The Gardener,” “The Demolitionist”.

1963 – Larry Fessenden, appeared in “Pod”, “We Are Still Here”, “The Strain (TV Series)”, “Late Phases”, “Ritual”, “Jug Face”, “The Battery”, “You’re Next”, “Stake Land”, “Session 9” and more.

1963 – Lori Petty, who appeared in the films “Route 666,” “Tank Girl” and the TV series’ “Brimstone”.

1962 – Jenny Wright, co-starred in “The Lawnmower Man,” “I, Madman” and “The Dark.”

1957 – Amanda Plummer, who appeared in,” “Needful Things,” “The Prophecy” & “Mimic: Sentinel.”

1919 – Kenneth Tobey, who starred in many horror and sci-fi films including “The Thing From Another World” and “It Came from Beneath the Sea.”

1916 – Grant Richards, who starred in the film “The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake.”

1904 – Joan Crawford, who starred “Trog,” “Strait-Jacket” and “Whatever Happened To Baby Jane.”

 

DIED ON MARCH 23

2014 – Dave Brockie, lead singer of the heavy metal band “GWAR.” He also appeared in “Holliston (TV Series)”, “I Spill Your Guts”, “Empire Records” and more.

1987 – Keith Richards, who appeared in the films “When Worlds Collide,” the serial “The Invisible Monster” and “The Snow Creature,” passed away at the age of 71.”

1964 – Peter Lorre, appeared in “The Beast with Five Fingers”, “Tales of Terror”, and “The Raven”.

 

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 23

Anguish (1987) – Madrid

An Ordinary Killer (2003) – USA (East Lansing Film Festival)
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2004) – USA (video premiere)
Sorceress II: The Temptress (2004) – USA (DVD premiere)
The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)