APRIL 7
BORN ON APRIL 7
1988 – Ed Speleers, appeared in “Howl”, “Love Bite”, “A Lonely Place to Die”, “Witchville”.
1978 – Issac Meisenheimer who appeared in and assistant director of the 2008 remake of “Day of the Dead.”
1946 – The makeup effects legend Stan Winston, for such films as “Terminator”, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”, “Interview with the Vampire”, “Aliens”, “Predator”, “The Monster Squad”, “Leviathan”, “Congo”, “The Relic” and many many more.
1939 – Francis Ford Coppla, who directed the films “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” “Dementia 13,” and “The Terror.”
1934 – Ian Richardson who appeared in “From Hell,” “Dark City,” and in the TV version of “Hound of the Baskervilles.”
1933 – Wayne Rogers appeared in the film “Chamber of Horrors,” and he co-wrote the screenplay for and was executive producer of “The Astro Zombies.”
1917 – R. G. Armstrong, who was in the “Friday the 13th” TV series, as well as appearing in films such as “The Car,” “Devil Dog; The Hound Of Hell,” and “Predator.”
1915 – Stanley Adams, appeared in “The Night Stalker” and “The Norliss Tapes,” “The Devil’s Platform” episode of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” TV series.
DIED ON APRIL 7
2015 – Geoffrey Lewis, a wonderful character actor who appeared in “The Haunted World of El Superbeasto”, “Wicked Little Things”, “The Devil’s Rejects”, “Song of the Vampire”, “The X-Files (TV Series)”, “Trilogy of Terror II”, “Night of the Comet”, “Salem’s Lot” and so many more.
2002 – John Agar, film credits include “Revenge Of The Creature,” “Tarantula,” “Invisible Invaders” and in two rare instances where he played the villains, “The Brain From Planet Arous” and “The Hand Of Death.”
2001 – Beatrice Straight, starred in the films “Poltergeist” and the TV movies “The Dain Curse” and “Wes Craven’s Chiller”.
1983 – Kenyon Hopkins who composed “Shock” and “Panic, Son of Shock.”
1972 – Victor Wong who portrayed “Charlie the Cook” in both “King Kong” and “Son of Kong”.
FILMS RELEASED ON APRIL 7
Seven Footprints To Satan (1929)
King Kong (1933)
Peeping Tom (1960) – London
Blood and Black Lace (1965)
Succubus (1969)
Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1974) – UK
Dead Calm (1989)
Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker! (2001)
The Amityville Horror (2005) Hollywood premiere
Kaw (2007)
Cold Earth (2009)
Bled (2009)
Disturbed (2009)
Murder Is Like Sex (2009)
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APRIL 8
BORN ON APRIL 8
1981 – Taylor Kitsch who appeared in the films “The Covenant,” “Snakes on a Plane”.
1980 – Katee Sackhoff, who appeared in the films “Halloween: Resurrection”, “White Noise 2: The Light”, “Riddick”, and “Oculus.”
1973 – Emma Caulfield starred in the film “Darkness Falls.”
1968 – Patricia Arquette starred in the films “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors” and “Stigmata.”
1960 – John Schneider, a rising star in horror films “Conjurer,” “Ogre,” “Lake Placid 2,″ “Return of the Killer Shrews”, “Snow Beast (2011)”, and “Super Shark.”
1957 – Pamela Gordon who appeared in “Poltergeist II,” as well as “Subspecies II” and “III.”
1955 – Kane Hodder, starred in the films “Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield,” Smothered (2016), Old 37 (2015), Muck (2015), “Hatchet,” “Hatchet II”, “Project: Metalbeast”, Friday the 13th Part VII: The Blood (1988), and many more.
1946 – Tim Thomerson, who starred in the “Trancers” films and as “Dollman.”
1931 – John Gavin who co-starred in “Psycho (1960)”
1923 – Edward Mulhare, who starred in the TV series “The Ghost & Mrs. Muir,” as well as films such as “Eye of the Devil” .
1921 – Alfie Bass in the film “The Fearless Vampire Killers.”
DIED ON APRIL 8
2013 – Richard Brooker, he portrayed “Jason Voorhees” in “Friday the 13th Part III” and appeared in “Deathstalker.”
1996 – León Klimovsky, writer and director of Spanish films as “The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman”, “Doctor Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo”, “Vengeance of the Zombies”, “Night of the Walking Dead”, “The People Who Own the Dark”.
1996 – Ben Johnson who appeared “The Town That Dreaded Sundown,” the original “Mighty Joe Young” and Terror Train (1980).
FILMS RELEASED ON APRIL 8
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Rabid (1977)
Demon Seed (1977) – NYC
Bad Dreams (1988)
976-Evil II (1992) – Germany
Leprechaun 2 (1994)
Evil Obsession (1997)
Day of the Dead (2008)
The Dark Lurking (2009) – Australia
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APRIL 9
BORN ON APRIL 9
1974 – Jenna Jameson, who starred in “Zombie Strippers.”
1959 – Fred Dekker, whose films include “The Monster Squad,” “Night of the Creeps” and Robocop 3.”
DIED ON APRIL 9
2009 – Lee Madden, who directed the films “Night Creature” and “Ghost Fever.”
1996 – Paul Leder, the director of “A*P*E*” and “I Dismember Mama.”
FILMS RELEASED ON APRIL 9
House of Wax (1953) – NYC
The Mephisto Waltz (1971) – USA
Family Plot (1976)
Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)
The Back Lot Murders (2002)
Shaun of the Dead (2004) – UK & Ireland
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APRIL 10
BORN ON APRIL 10
1992 – Daisy Ridley starred in “Scrawl.”
1988 – Haley Joe Osment, who starred in “The Sixth Sense.”
1983 – Jamie Chung, who starred in “Sorority Row” and “Sucker Punch (2011).”
1968 – Orlando Jones, starred on “Sleepy Hollow (TV Series)”, “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant”, “Primeval”, “The Time Machine”, “Evolution” and “From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter.”
1958 – Robert R. Shafer, appeared in “Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves”, “Zombeavers”, “The Temple”, “Super shark”, “Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus”, “Maneater”, “Monster Man”, “Psycho Cop”, “Psycho Cop Returns.” and more.
1954 – Peter MacNicol who appeared in “Ghostbusters II,” “Dragonslayer,” and “Dracula: Dead and Loving It.”
1929 – Max Von Sydow starred more than just the one legendary horror film The Exorcist; also did The Wolfman (2010), “Sleepless”, “Needful Things”, “Dreamscape”, “The Night Visitor” and “Hour of the Wolf (1968).
1921 – Chuck Connors appeared in “Tourist Trap” and in “Werewolf (TV Series).”
DIED ON APRIL 10
2007 – Stuntman Jack Williams, who worked on the films “Wild Wild West,” “Billy The Kid vs Dracula,” ” Beneath The Planet of the Apes” and “The Omega Man,” passed away at the age of 85.
2006 – Jerry James, who appeared in “War of the Worlds” (1953), “Psychic Killer” and “Houdini,” passed away at the age of 95.
2000 – Larry Linville, best known for his portrayal of “Major Frank Burns” on “M*A*S*H.” He also appeared in “Rod Serling’s Night Gallery (TV Series)”, “The Night Stalker (TV Movie)”, “Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)”, “C.H.U.D. II – Bud the Chud.”
1991 – Kevin Peter Hall, the 7′ 2″ actor portrayed many creatures in films such as “Prophecy”, “Without Warning”, “Harry and the Hendersons”, “Predator”, “Misfits of Science (TV Series)”, “Predator 2″ and more. He passed away at the young age of 35 from AIDS through a blood transfusion.
FILMS RELEASED ON APRIL 10
Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972) – Spain
The Howling (1981)
Knightriders (1981)
Night of the Werewolf aka “The Craving” (1981) – Barcelona
Gothic (1987) – USA
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)
Sleepwalkers (1992)
Species II (1998)
Dr. Horror’s Erotic House of Idiots (2004)
Toolbox Murders (2004) – Philadelphia International Film Festival
Abominable (2006)
Skin Crawl (2007)
Vampiress: Lady of the Night (2010)
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APRIL 11
BORN ON APRIL 11
1987 – Stephanie Danielson, appeared in “Muck”, “Paranormal Whacktivity”, “Long Live the Dead”, “Celebrity Ghost Stories” and more.
1973 – Jennifer Esposito appeared in “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” and “Dracula 2000.”
1969 – Simon Reynolds, appeared in “Saw IV,” “Gate II: Trespassers” and “Dark Water.”
1930 – Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan and a technical adviser as well as an actor in “The Devil’s Rain.”
1916 – Howard W. Koch, producer/director of films such as “Frankenstein 1970,” “The Pharaoh’s Curse,” and “The Black Sleep.”
1895 – Gustav Von Wangenheim, who starred in the 1922 version of “Nosferatu.”
DIED ON APRIL 11
2013 – Jonathan Winters who work on “Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (TV Series)”, “The Shadow”, “Little Dracula (TV Series)”, “Gravedale High (TV Series)”, “Twilight Zone (TV Series)” and more.
2009 – Marilyn Chambers, who appeared in “Rabid”.
2005 – John Bennett, who appeared in “Curse of the Werewolf”.
1996 – Wanda McKay, who co-starred in the films “Voodoo Man,” “Bowery At Midnight” and “The Monster Maker”.
1987 – Kent Taylor his many film appearances included, “The Crawling Hand,” and “Brain of Blood.”
FILMS RELEASED ON APRIL 11
The Toxic Avenger (1986) – USA
Critters (1986)
Anaconda (1997)
The House That Screamed (2000)
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
The Last Horror Movie (2003) – Philadelphia International Film Festival
Tales of Terror From Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie (2006) – USA
Prom Night (2008)
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APRIL 12
BORN ON APRIL 12
1994 – Saoirse Ronan, appeared in “Lost River”, “The Host” and “Byzantium.”
1974 – Marley Shelton, who played as “Victoria Winters” on the short-lived remake of “Dark Shadows,.” and in “Planet Terror” and “Death Proof.”
1971 – Shannen Doherty, starred in the remake of “Satan’s School For Girls,” and as the original host of the Syfy channel series “Scare Tactics.”
1971 – Nicholas Brendon, who starred in the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV series, in the films “Demon Island” and “Psycho Beach Party.”
1951 – Tom Noonan who appeared in “House of the Devil,” “The Wolfen,” “Eight Legged Freaks,” “Robocop 2,” and in “The Monster Squad.”
1936 – Charles Napier appearances included “Deep Space,” “Silence of the Lambs,” “Body Bags” and “Dinocroc.”
DIED ON APRIL 12
2010 – Peter Haskell, appeared in “Robot Wars”, “Child’s Play 2&3”, “The Outer Limits (TV Series)” and more.
2009 – Fumio Tanaka, who produced the films “Godzilla 1985,” “Yog, Monster From Space” and “Evil of Dracula.”
2007 – Robert Miles who appeared in “Snake Island,” and performed the stunts in the films “The Slime People” and “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.”
2003 – Sydney Lassick, who appeared in Carrie (1976), as well as “An American Vampire Story,” and “Future Shock,” “Curse II: The Bite,” “Lady in White,” “Silent Madness,” “Pandemonium,” “Alligator,” and “The Unseen.”
2001 – Richard Shores, who co-starred in the TV movie “Mystery in Dracula’s Castle” and in episodes of “The Twilight Zone” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”.
FILMS RELEASED ON APRIL 12
Dr. Cyclops (1940)
Black Friday (1940)
Dead Men Walk (1943)
Cape Fear (1962) – Miami
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) – West Germany
Cat’s Eye (1985)
Class of Nuke ‘Em High II: Subhumaniod Meltdown (1991)
Frailty (2002) – USA
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APRIL 13
BORN ON APRIL 13
1981 – Courtney Peldon, appeared in “Skin Walker”, “Mortuary”, “InAlienable”, “Road to Hell.”
1976 – Jonathan Brandis, who starred in the TV movie “Stephen King’s It,” and the film “Stepfather II.”
1952 – Erick Avari, who starred in the 1999 remake of “The Mummy,” and Flight of the Living Dead (2007).”
1950 – William Sadler, who appeared in the films “The Green Mile,” “Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight,” “Disturbing Behavior” and “The Mist.”
1950 – Ron Perlman, appeared in the films “Sleepwalkers,” “Blade II,” “Alien: Resurrection” and the title roll of “Hellboy” and many more.
1927 – Mari Blanchard, who starred in the films “Abbott & Costello Go to Mars,” “She Devil” and “Twice Told Tales.”
1919 – Howard Keel, who starred in the film “Day of the Triffids.”
DIED ON APRIL 13
2012 – Jonathan Frid, best known for “Barnabus Collins” from “Dark Shadows (TV Series),” appeared in “House of Dark Shadows” and “The Devil’s Daughter.”
2007 – Gail Ingram, who wrote for the TV series “Tales of Tomorrow.”
2006- Edward Corbett, who appeared in “The Dark,” “976-EVIL” and “Village of the Damned” (1995).
1997 – William Mishkin, who produced, “The Rats Are Coming, The Werewolves Are Here,” “The Bloodthirsty Butchers” and “The Man With Two Heads.”
1995 – Bill Thurman, who appeared in “The Eye Creatures” and “Zontar: The Thing From Venus”.
FILMS RELEASED ON APRIL 13
Experiment in Terror (1962) – NYC
Love At First Bite (1979) NYC
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Happy Hell Night (1992)
The Curse of the Komodo (2004) – USA DVD premiere
Ginger Snaps: Unleashed (2004) – USA video premiere
Vampires vs Zombies – aka “Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire” (2004)
Disturbia (2007)
Haunted Airplane (2009)
The Final Storm (2010) – USA DVD premiere
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