September 22
Born on September 22
1987 – Tom Felton, who plays “Draco Malfoy” in the “Harry Potter” films.
1985 – Erin Marie Hogan, has appeared in “House of Manson”, “Axeman at Cutter’s Creek”, “Hold Your Breath”, “The Theatre Bizarre”, “Paranormal Entity”, and more.
1984 – MyAnna Buring, appeared in the films “Devil’s Playground,” “The Decent: Part 2,” “Vampire Killers”.
1982 – Billie Piper, who appeared in “Penny Dreadful (TV Series)”, “Spirit Trap.
1979 – MyAnna Buring, has appeared in “Hyena”, “Kill List”, “The Descent”, “The Descent: Part 2”, “Devil’s Playground”, “Vampire Killers”, “Red Mist”, “Doomsday”, “Grindhouse”, “The Omen” remake, and more.
1978 – Daniella Alonso, co-starred in “The Collector” and “Wrong Turn 2: Dead End.”
1964 – Bonnie Hunt co-starred in the films “The Green Mile,” and “Monsters Inc.” (in voice only).
1952 – Paul Le Mat starred in “Strange Invaders” and “The Puppet Master.”
1909 – Make-up artist Harry Thomas, who worked on many of Ed Wood’s films including “Glen or Glenda” and “Plan 9.” His “non-Wood” films include “The Neanderthal Man” and “From Hell It Came.”
1902 – John Houseman appeared in “The Fog” and “Ghost Story.”
1985 – Erich von Stroheim appeared in the films “Lady and the Monster” and “The Mask of Diijon.”
Died on September 22
2007 –Karl Hardman played in “Night of the Living Dead, and starred in the film “Santa Claws,”.
2006 – Edward Albert, who starred in the films “Galaxy Of Terror,” “When Time Ran Out” and “The House Where Evil Dwells”.
2005 – Teisho Arikawa, who did the visual effects for the films “War of the Gargantuas,” “Gigantis The Fire Monster” and “King Kong vs Godzilla”.
2005 – Joseph Wolf produced the films “A Nightmare On Elm Street,” “Children Of The Living Dead” and “Halloween II & III”.
1999 – George C. Scott starred in “The Exorcist III,” “Firestarter” and “The Changeling”.
1987 – Dan Rowan played in the film “The Maltese Bippy.”
Films Released on September 22
Tormented (1960)
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)
Ghoulies II (1987) – UK
Se7en (1995)
Addams Family Reunion (1998)
Campfire Tales (1998) – video premiere
The Exorcist (2000) – re-stored version
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Feast (2005) – limited
The Devil’s Chair (2007)
Book of Blood (2008) – DVD premiere
Edges of Darkness (2008)
Strange Nature (2015)
The Sentinel (1977) – Released on Blu-ray in 2015 on this date
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September 23
Born on September 23
1975 – Jaime Bergman appeared in the films “Dark Wolf” and “Boa vs Python.”
1963 – Alex Proyas, director of such films as “Knowing”, “The Crow” and more.
1961 – Chi McBride who co-starred in the film “The Frighteners”.
1959 – Jason Alexander, movie debut in the film “The Burning” and also appeared in “Jacob’s Ladder.”
1956 – Maren Jensen, starred in “Deadly Blessing”, “The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series).”
1917 – El Santo a.k.a. Rodolfo Guzman Huerta, facing just about every monster imaginable in his celluloid career.
1894 – Walter Pidgeon who played “Morbius” in the film “Forbidden Planet.”.
Died on September 23
1998 – Mary Frann, appeared in “Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (TV Series)”, “Deadly Nightmares (TV Series)” aka “The Hitchhiker”, “Darkroom (TV Series)” and more.
1994 – Author Robert Bloch who wrote the novel “Psycho,” “Thriller,” “Night Gallery,” “Monsters” and “Tales From the Darkside.” His film screenplays include “The Night Walker,” “The Cabinet of Calagari” and “The House That Dripped Blood.”
1993 – William Cort appeared in “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark”.
1975 – Ian Hunter, appeared in “Doctor Blood’s Coffin”, and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to name only a few.
Films Released on September 23
Dead Ringers (1988)
Mikey (1992) – video premiere
Hide and Creep (2004)
Corpse Bride (2005)
Screech Of The Decapitated (2005) – Shockerfest International Film Festival)
The Living And The Dead (2006)
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September 24
Born on September 24
1987 – Brit Morgan, has played in “Friend Request”, “The Frozen”, “True Blood (TV Series).”
1984 – Jessica Lucas, who starred in “Cloverfield” and “The Covenant.”
1969 – Megan Ward who starred in “Trancers II,” “Trancers III” and “Amityville 1992: It’s About Time.”
1966 – Kelly Jo Minter, appeared in “The People Under the Stairs”, “Popcorn”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child”, “The Lost Boys.”
1958 – Kevin Sorbo starred in “Never Cry Werewolf.”
1923 – Gordon Urquhart, who wrote the screenplay for the film “The Brain Eaters.”
1923 – Louis Edmonds played “Roger Collins” on the original “Dark Shadows” soap opera.
1922 – Producer/director/special effects man Bert I. Gordon film credits include “The Amazing Colossal Man,” “Attack of the Puppet People” and “Earth vs. the Spider.”
1917 – Abel Salazar, starred in “The Brainiac,” “The Vampire” and “The Vampire’s Coffin.”
1906 – Victor Wong played in “King Kong” and “Son of Kong.”
Died on September 24
1995 – Tom McBride who played in “Friday the 13th Part 2”.
1939/1979 – Father and son Carl Laemmle and Carl Laemmle Jr., both passed away on the same date. Dad passed away at the age of 72, and Jr. at the age of 71. Laemmle Sr. created Universal Pictures.
1976 – Bruno VeSota appeared in “Attack of the Mayan Mummy” and “The Haunted Palace”.
Films Released on September 24
Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
The Good Son (1993)
Warlock: The Armageddon (1993)
Spiders II: Breeding Ground (2002) – video premiere
Vampires: Los Muertos (2002) – video premiere
The Forgotten (2004)
Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
Wendigo: Bound by Blood (2010)
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September 25
Born on September 25
1977 – Clea DuVall, starred in “The Grudge,” “Ghosts of Mars” and “The Faculty.”
1973 – Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, appeared in “House on Haunted Hill” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, who starred in the 1999 version of “The Haunting”.
1968 – Will Smith starred in “I Am Legend”.
1961 – Heather Locklear who co-starred in “The Return of the Swamp Thing” and “Firestarter.”
1958 – Michael Madsen starred in the films “Species I & II,” “Ligeia,” and “Scary Movie 4.”
1952 – Christopher Reeve the 1995 remake of “Village of the Damned”.
1926 – Aldo Ray who appeared in the films “The Psychic Killer,” “The Bog” and “The Haunted.”
Died on September 25
2002 – Maurice Manson, appeared in the films “The Creature Walks Among Us,” “The Undead” and many episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” and “The Munsters.”
1984 – Walter Pidgeon, who starred as “Dr. Morbius” in “Forbidden Planet.”
Films Released on September 25
Dementia 13 (1963) – Los Angeles
The Mutations (1974)
Innocent Blood (1992)
Urban Legend (1998)
Dead Creatures (2001)
My Stuffed Animal is a Monster (2009)
Pandorum (2009)
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September 26
Born on September 26
1970- Sheri Moon Zombie, starred in “House of 1000 Corpses,” “The Devil’s Rejects,” “Halloween”, “Halloween II” and “The Lords of Salem”.
1969 – David Slade, who directed “Hard Candy,” “30 Days of Night”.
1963 – Lysette Anthony starred in the films “Trilogy of Terror II,” “Dracula Dead and Loving It” and played Angelique in the 1991 version of “Dark Shadows.”
1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson starred in the film “Happy Birthday To Me.”
1956 – Linda Hamilton starred in the films “Terminator I & II,” “Children of the Corn”.
1944 – Victoria Vetri (sometimes billed as Angela Dorian) who appeared in the films “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth,” “Invasion of the Bee Girls” and “Rosemary’s Baby.”
1941 – Martine Beswick, who starred in the films “One Million Years B.C.,” “Prehistoric Women” and “Dr. Jeykll & Sister Hyde.”
1933 – Donna Douglas guest appearances on many TV shows including “Thriller,” “Night Gallery” and “The Twilight Zone.”
1932 – Joyce Jameson appeared in the films “Tales of Terror,” “Comedy of Terrors” and “Son of Dr. Jekyll.”
1927 – Patrick O’Neal, who starred in “The Stuff,” “Silent Night, Bloody Night” and “Chamber of Horrors.”
1918 – Horror Host, recording artist, The Cool Ghoul himself, Zacherley a.k.a. John Zacherle.
Died on September 26
2010 – Gloria Stuart, starred in “The Old Dark House” and “The Invisible Man”.
2008 – Paul Newman, starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Torn Curtain”.
2008 – Cirio H. Santiago, who produced/directed the films “The Vampire People,” “Vampire Hookers,” “She Devils In Chains” and “Demon of Paradise”.
1981 – Ray Kellog, who directed the films “The Giant Gila Monster” and “The Killer Shrews”.
Films Released on September 26
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) – London premiere
Carnival of Souls (1962) – Lawrence, KS – premiere
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – Los Angeles
Without Warning (1980) – New York City
Phobia (1980) – Canada
House of Carnage (2006)
Lycan (2017)
The First Date (2017)
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September 27
Born on September 27
1995 – Lina Leandersson, who starred in “Let the Right One In.”
1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow, who starred in “Se7en”.
1968 – Charlie Spradling, actress who appeared in “To Sleep with a Vampire”, “Bad Channels”, “Puppet Master II”, “Mirror”, “Meridian”, “Twice Dead”, “The Blob.”
1968 – Patrick Muldoon, appeared in the films “Stigmata” and “Starship Troopers.”
1947 – Meat Loaf, who played “Eddie” in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “BloodRayne.”
1934 – Wilford Brimley appeared in the 1982 version of “The Thing,” and “Mutant Species.”
1921 – Writer/producer Milton Subotsky, whose film credits include “Horror Hotel,” “Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors” and “Tales From the Crypt.”
Died on September 27
2013 – Jay Robinson, had appeared in “Skeeter”, “Ghost Ship”, “Dracula”, “Transylvania Twist”, “Nightmare Honeymoon.”
2012 – Herbert Lom appeared in “Asylum”, “Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “Dorian Gray”, “Count Dracula”, “Mark of the Devil”, “ “The Phantom of the Opera”, “Mysterious Island” and many more.
2003 – Donald O’Connor made appearances on “Tales From The Crypt.”
2003 – Fay Helm, who appeared in “Calling Dr. Death,” “Captive Wild Woman” and “Night Monster”.
Films Released on September 27
The Frozen Dead (1967) – Boston – premiere
C.H.U.D. II: Bud The Chud 1989
The Bunker (2001)
Flesh For the Beast (2003)
Lust For Dracula (2004)
Exorcism (2005) – DVD premiere
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September 28
Born on September 28
1992 – Keir Gilchrist, who has appeared in “Tales of Halloween”, “Dark Summer”, “It Follows”, and “Dead Silence.”
1968 – Naomi Watts, starred in the 2005 remake of “King Kong,” “The Ring 1 & 2,” and “Mulholland Dr.”
1967 – Mira Sorvino starred in the film “Mimic”, “Falling Skies (TV Series).”
1952 – Sylvia Kristel, starred in “Dracula’s Widow.”
1950 – John Sayles, who wrote the screenplays for such films as “Alligator,” “The Howling”.
1947 – Michael Flynn, has appeared in “The Cell 2”, “Halloweentown High”, “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers”, “Werewolf (TV Series)”, and more.
1947 – Jeffery Jones, who appeared in “Sleepy Hollow,” “Ed Wood” and “Beetlejuice.”
1946 – Fiona Lewis, who appeared in the films “The Fury,” “Dr. Phibes Rises Again” and “Strange Invaders.”
1934 – Janet Munro, appeared in “The Crawling Eye.”
Died on September 28
2007 – Charles B. Griffith. who wrote the screenplays for the original versions of “Not of This Earth,” “It Conquered the World” and “A Bucket of Blood,” his other screenplays included “Death Race 2000,” “Beast From Haunted Cave” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters.”
1973 – Mantan Moreland who appeared in the films “Zombies on Broadway,” “Spiderbaby” and “Revenge of the Zombies”.
Films Released on September 28
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) – Los Angeles
Dracula A.D. (1972) – UK
Eraserhead (1977) – New York City premiere
Impulse (1984)
I Come In Peace – aka “Dark Angel” (1990)
Ed Wood (1994) – USA limited
Vampire Hunter D (2001)
Hollywood Vampyr (2002) – Firelight Shocks Film Festival
Abominable (2006) – Austin Fantastic Fest
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September 29
Born on September 29
1970 – Natasha Gregson Wagner, who appeared in the films “Vampires: Los Muertos,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Urban Legend.”
1969 – Erika Eleniak, appeared in “Bordello of Blood,” “E.T.,” the 1988 remake of “The Blob” and “Dracula 3000.”
1968 – Luke Goss, appeared in “Hellboy II,” “Unearthed” and “Blade II.” He also played “The Creature” in the 2004 TV mini-series version of “Frankenstein.”
1962 – Tom Sizemore who starred in the films “Red Planet,” “The Relic,” “Dreamcatcher” and “Strange Days.”
1955 – Ken Weatherwax who played “Pugsley” in the original “Addams Family” TV series.
1945 – Reggie Bannister, who has starred in “Phantasm,” “Phantasm II,” “Phantasm III,” “Phantasm IV” and “Bubba Ho-Tep.”
1942 – Ian McShane, appeared in “American Horror Story (TV Series)”, “Death Race”, “Too Scared to Scream”, “Journey Into Fear”, and many more.
1942 – Madeline Kahn who appeared in “Young Frankenstein”.
1939 – Larry Linville, appeared in the TV movie “The Night Stalker,” the “Chopper” episode of “Kolchak; The Night Stalker” and in the film “C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud.”
1931 – Anita Ekberg, who appeared in “Abbott & Costello Go To Mars,” “Screaming Mimi” and in the title role of “Malenka, the Vampire”
1924 – Steve Forrest who appeared in “Phantom of the Rue Morgue”.
1920 – Nick Raymond, who appeared in the films “Tomb of the Undead,” “Bigfoot” and “The Sinister Urge”
1918 – Gil Herman who appeared in “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and “Invaders From Mars”.
1915 – Anne Nagel who appeared in “Man Made Monster,” “Black Friday” and “The Mad Doctor of Market Street”
Died on September 29
2010 – Tony Curtis appeared in “The Mummy Lives”, “Lobster Man from Mars”, “Brainwaves”, “The Manitou”, and a few more.
2007 – Lois Maxwell, appeared in the 1963 version of “The Haunting.”
2006 – George Lee, who appeared in the films “Dracula Sucks,” “Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth”.
1988 – Charles Addams, creator of “The Addams Family”.
Films Released on September 29
The Black Torment (1965) – Fargo, ND
King of Kong Island (1968)
Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972)
Terror of the Living Dead – “The Hanging Woman? (1975)
Burnt Offerings (1976) – New York City
Thirst (1979)
Amityville: A New Generation (1993)
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Jack Frost (1997) – Germany
Fist of the Vampire (2007)
Haunting of Winchester House (2009)
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September 30
Born on September 30
1985 – Greyston Holt, appeared in “See No Evil 2”, “Supernatural (TV Series)”, “Bitten (TV Series)”, “Lost Boys: The Tribe.”
1982 – Lacey Chabert, starred in the 2006 remake of “Black Christmas” along with “Ghost of Goodnight Lane”, “Sanitarium”, “Thirst” and more.
1964 – Monica Bellucci, who appeared in the 1992 version of “Dracula,” “Brotherhood of the Wolf”.
1961 – Eric Stoltz who starred in the films “The Fly II,” “Anaconda” and “The Prophecy” (1995).
1950 – Victoria Tennant, who appeared in “The Legend of the Mummy,” “Horror Planet” and “Flowers in the Attic”.
1946 – Dan O’Bannon who wrote the screenplays for the films “Alien,” “Return of the Living Dead,” (which he also directed), “Total Recall” and “Dead and Buried.”
1943 – Ian Ogilvy, who appeared in the films “And Now the Screaming Starts,” “From Beyond the Grave” and “The Conqueror Worm”
1931 – Angie Dickinson who starred in the TV movie “The Norliss Tapes” and in the film “Dressed To Kill.”
1921 – Deborah Kerr who starred in the films “The Innocents” and “Eye of the Devil.”
1904 – Frank Lawton who appeared in the films “Devil Doll” and “The Invisible Ray.”.
1887 – Lil Dagover who starred as “Jane” in “The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari.”
Died on September 30
2013 – Sir Anthony Hinds, writer/producer of many Hammer films including “The Evil of Frankenstein”, “The Kiss of the Vampire”, “The Curse of the Werewolf”, “The Brides of Dracula”, “Horror of Dracula”, “The Curse of Frankenstein” and many more.
2012 – Turhan Bey appeared in “The Amazing Mr. X”, “The Mad Ghoul”, “The Mummy’s Tomb”, “Destination Unknown.”
1976 – Mary Ford who appeared in the film “Queen of Outer Space”.
1972 – Producer/writer/director Edgar G. Ulmer, whose credits include “The Black Cat” (1934), “Daughter of Dr. Jekyll” and “The Man From Planet X”.
Films Released on September 30
The Ape (1940)
Donovan’s Brain (1953)
Brainstorm (1983)
Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark (1988)
Meridian (1992) – video premiere
Evil Unleashed (2003)
Zombie Hunters( 2007)
Pulse 2: Afterlife (2008)
Rest Stop: Don’t Look Back (2008)
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010) – USA limited
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