APRIL 5
BORN
1986 – Anna Sophia Berglund, appears in “The Taker”, “Unlucky Charms”.
1971 – Krista Allen, who starred in “The Final Destination” (2009), “Alien Presence”, “Feast” and more.
1961 – Lisa Zane, appeared in “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare”, “Terrified.”
1956 – Wrestler Diamond Dallas Page has appeared in “Gallowwalkers”, “Zombie Family (TV Series)”, “Driftwood”, “Hood of Horror”, “The Devil’s Rejects”, and many more.
1941 – Michael Moriarty, who starred in many genre films including “Salem’s Lot 2,” “Troll” and Q: The Winged Serpent (1982).
1926 – Roger Corman, king of the B movies, too many film credits to list but here’s some as Actor: “Sharktopus,” “Scream 3”; Director: “The Raven (1963),” “Masque of the Red Death,” “Pit and the Pendulum,” Producer (over 120 credits): Scorpius Gigantus (2006), “Slaughter Studios,” “Sawbones,” “House (1985),” “Piranha (1978),” and “The Evil” and Special Thanks for “Attack of the Giant Leeches.”
1917 – Author Robert Bloch, who penned the novel “Psycho,” and wrote the screenplays for the films “The Cabinet of Calagari,” “Strait-Jacket,” “The Skull,” plus countless TV shows such as “Star Trek” and “Boris Karloff’s Thriller.”
1916 – Gregory Peck who starred in “Cape Fear” and “The Omen.”
1908 – Kurt Neumann, who directed “The Fly,” and “Kronos”.
1908 – Actress Bette Davis, whose genre films included “Whatever Happened To Baby Jane,” “The Nanny,” and “Burnt Offerings.”
1901 – Melvyn Douglas who appeared in “Ghost Story” and “The Changeling.”
1900 – Spencer Tracy who played “Jekyll/Hyde” in the 1941 version of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.”
DIED
2005 – Debralee Scott, who appeared in “The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud” and the TV movie “Deathmoon.”
2001 – Brother Theodore who appeared in “The ‘burbs,” “Nocturna,” and “Horror of the Blood Monsters”.
FILMS RELEASED
Theatre of Blood (1973)
Dead Air (1999)
Scream Queen (2003)
Ancient Evil 2: Guardian of the Underworld (2005)
The Reaping (2007)
Black Devil Doll (2008) – USA (limited)
The Despair (2009)
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APRIL 6
BORN
1983 –Diora Baird, who starred in “Stan Helsing,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” and the 2009 remake of “Night of the Demons,” “30 Days of Night: Dark Days,” and more.
1955 – Michael Rooker who starred in “Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer,” “Slither,” “Hypothermia,” and “The Walking Dead.”
DIED
2019 – Nadja Regin – starred in “The Man Without a Body.”
2015 – James Best, made some genre appearances in “Death Mask”, “The Twilight Zone (TV Series)”, “The Killer Shrews”, “Return of the Killer Shrews.”
2014 – Mickey Rooney, appeared in “Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker”, “Phantom of the Megaplex”, “The Thirsting”.
FILMS RELEASED
The Thing From Another World (1951) – USA
I Vampiri – aka Lust of the Vampire (1957) – Turin
The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1966) – Boston
The Ghost In the Invisible Bikini (1966)
Rasputin the Mad Monk (1966)
The Reptile (1966)
Audrey Rose (1977)
The First Power (1990)
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2001) – Wisconsin Film Festival
Zombie vs. Mardi Gras (2001) – USA
Grindhouse (2007)
Haunted Forest (2007) – Oxford International Film Festival
Denizen (2010)
Malpractice (2010)
ATM (2012) – USA (limited)
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APRIL 7
BORN
1988 – Ed Speleers, appeared in “Howl”, “Love Bite”, “A Lonely Place to Die”, “Witchville”.
1978 – Isaac 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 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
2019 – Mya-Lecia Naylor, starred in “Code Red.”
2019 – Seymour Joseph Cassel, acted in “Double Exposure,” and episode of “Tales From the Darkside (1987)” and “The Twilight Zone (1964.”
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
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
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 New 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2007 – Stuntman Jack Williams, who worked on the film “Billy The Kid vs Dracula.”
2006 – Jerry James, who appeared in “War of the Worlds” (1953), and “Psychic Killer.”
2000 – Larry Linville, 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, portrayed many creatures in “Prophecy”, “Without Warning”, “Predator”, “Misfits of Science (TV Series)”, “Predator 2″ and more.
FILMS RELEASED
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
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
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
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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