March 15
BORN ON MARCH 15
1985 – Kellan Lutz, appeared in “Prom Night” (2008) and “A Nightmare on Elm Street [remake].”
1979 – Pollyanna McIntosh, appeared in “Tales of Halloween”, “The Blood Lands”, “Let Us Prey” “The Woman”, “Offspring”, and more.
1963 –Greg Nicotero, executive producer and head of makeup FX for “The Walking Dead”.
1959 –Renny Harlin, director/writer/producer whose films include “Exorcist: The Beginning,” “The Covenant,” “Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master” and “Deep Blue Sea.”
1957 – Sergio Stivaletti, Italian makeup FX artist who worked on “Phenomena”, “Demons”, “Cemetery Man”, “Demons 2″, “Opera”, “The Church”, and many more.
1955 –Dee Snider was writer/producer/composer and star of the film “Strangeland.”
1954 – Craig Wasson, who starred in the films “Ghost Story,” “Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors” and “Body Double.”.
1943 –David Cronenberg, film credits include “Rabid,” “The Dead Zone,” “Scanners” and The Fly (1986).
DIED ON MARCH 15
2009 – Ron Silver, who co-starred in the films “Silent Rage,” “The Entity”.
2007 – Alice Backes starred in TV series “The Munsters,” “Boris Karloff’s Thriller” and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.”
2007 – Stuart Roseneberg, who directed the 1979 version of “The Amityville Horror”.
2004 – Chuck Niles, who appeared in the films, “Invisible Invaders,” “Face of the Screaming Werewolf” and “Nightmare Circus”.
1984 – Kay Harding, appeared in “The Mummy’s Curse”, “Ghost Catchers”, “The Scarlet Claw” and “Weird Woman.”
FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 15
Terror of the Tongs (1961)
Gamera vs Gyaos (1967)
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989)
Robot Carnival (1991) – NYC & San Francisco
Resident Evil (2002)
Dead Birds (2005) – South by Southwest Film Festival
Wolfsbayne (2005)
Bitten (2008) – USA (TV premiere)
Only Go There At Night (2008) – USA (DVD premiere)
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March 16
BORN ON MARCH 16
1986 – Alexandra Daddario, has appeared in “Bereavement”, “Texas Chainsaw 3D”, “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”, “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters”, “American Horror Story (TV Series)” and more.
1981 – Joe Egender starred in the films “April Fool’s Day” (2008) and “The Hamiltons.”
1975 – Sienna Guillory, starred in “Resident Evil “Apocalypse.”
1971 – Alan Tudyk, appeared in “V (TV Series)”, “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil”.
1964 – Gore Verbinski, who directed “The Ring”.
1961 – Comic artist and owner of McFarlane toys, Todd McFarlane.
1952 – Irwin Keyes, appeared in “The Exterminator”, “Frankenstein General Hospital”, “Disturbed”, “Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)”, “Asylum”, “House of 1000 Corpses”, “Horror High”, “Dahmer vs. Gacy” and many more.
1950 – Kate Nelligan, appeared in Dracula (1979), “Wolf,” “Fatal Instinct” and “Premonition.”
1949 – Erik Estrada, appeared in “Chupacabra vs. the Alamo”, “King Cobra”, “Alien Seed”, “Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)” and more.
1949 – Joseph Pilato, starred in Day of the Dead (1985), “Wishmaster,” “The Ghouls” and “Alienator.”
1930 – Masaya Takahashi, appeared in “Goke, the Body Snatcher From Hell” and “Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: The Giant Monsters’ General Offensive.”
1926 – Jerry Lewis, starred in “Scared Stiff”.
1920 – Leo McKern, starred in “X-The Unknown,” “The Day the Earth Caught Fire,” “Damien: The Omen II”.
1916 – Mercedes McCambridge, provided the voice of the demon “Pazuzu” in the film “The Exorcist.”
DIED ON MARCH 16
2019 – Larry DiTillio, Writer for various episodes of “Deadly Nightmares,” and “The Hidden Room.”
2019 – Richard Erdman, appeared in episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Matinee Theatre,” and “The Twilight Zone.”
2019 – Tom Hatten, appeared in “I Saw What You Did,” and episodes of “Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.”
2007 – Cletus Anderson, production designer and special effects man for the films “Creepshow,” “Day Of The Dead,” and Night of the Living Dead (1990).
2005 – Anthony George, who played “Burke Devlin” and “Jeremiah Collins” on “Dark Shadows”.
1984 – Shug Fisher, appeared in “The Ghost of Cypress Swamp”, “Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)”, “The Giant Gila Monster.”
FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 16
The Monster (1925)
The House of Fear (1945)
The Crazies (1973)
Vault of Horror (1973) – NYC
Tourist Trap (1979)
From Dusk Til Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
Ravenous (1999) – USA (premiere)
Fido (2006)
Dead Silence (2007)
Premonition (2007)
S.A.R.S (2010)
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) – USA (limited)
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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
2019 – Kenneth Bald, Comic Book Artist for “Dark Shadows (1996),” “Haunted Love #1,” and many others
2019 – Norman Hollyn, Editor for “Quicksilver Highway,” “Under Wraps,” and “Jack in the Box.”
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 (1954) “It Came From Outer Space (1953),” “The Incredible Shrinking Man” and Tarantula (1955).
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 (1983).
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
2019 – John Carl Buechler, Directed “Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood,” “Troll,” “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” “Deep Freeze,” “The Eden Formula (TV Movie),” “Saurian (TV Movie),” and acted in many others.
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
2019 – Clinton Greyn, appeared in an episode of “Department S”
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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