May 17
BORN ON MAY 17
1986 – Erin Richards, has appeared in “The Quiet Ones”, “Open Grave”, “Being Human (TV Series).”
1965 – Paige Turco, has appeared in “The Stepfather”, and “American Gothic (TV Series).”
1936 – Dennis Hopper, whose many film appearances include “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2,” “Queen of Blood” and “Blue Velvet.”
1955 – Bill Paxton who starred in and directed “Frailty,” and co-starred the 1998 version of “Mighty Joe Young,” “Aliens” and “Near Dark” just to name a few.
DIED ON MAY 17
2019 – Herman Wouk, actor in “Master of Dark Shadows”
2019 – Luz Kertz, actress “The Second Death”
2019 – Rallapalli, appeared in “Anveshana”
1999 – Henry Jones, appeared in “Arachnophobia”, “Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)”, “Night Gallery (TV Series)”, “Thriller (TV Series)”, “Twilight Zone (TV Series)”, “The Bad Seed” and more.
1983 – Victor Halperin who directed “White Zombie,”.
1954 – Arthur Lucan who portrayed “Old Mother Reiley” in “My Son, the Vampire”.
FILMS RELEASED ON MAY 17
The Cat Creeps (1946)
She-Wolf of London (1946)
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971) – Spain
Blood From the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
Ghost Lake (2005) – USA (DVD premiere)
Zombiez (2005)
Skinwalker: Curse of the Shaman (2005)
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May 18
BORN ON MAY 18
1992 – Spencer Breslin, who appeared in the mini-series “Storm of the Century,” written by Steven King, and co-starred in “The Happening.”
1982 – Emmy Robbin, has appeared in “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (TV Series)”, “Machete Kills”, “Planet Terror”.
1968 – Cynthia Preston, has appeared in “Lost Girl (TV Series)”, “Carrie” remake, “Hannibal (TV Series)”, “The X-Files (TV Series)”, “The Outer Limits (TV Series)”, “Forever Knight (TV Series)”, “Friday’s Curse (TV Series)”, “Prom Night III: The Last Kiss.” and more.
1941 – Miriam Margolyes, appeared in “The Awakening,” “End of Days” and “Ed and His Dead Mother.”
1927 – Yoshio Tsuchiya who appeared in the Toho films “Yog Monster From Space,” “Destroy All Monsters” and “Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah.”
1924 – Priscilla Pointer appeared in “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3,” “Chud II: Bud the Chud” and Carrie (1976).
DIED ON MAY 18
2019 – Jean Beaudin, directed “The Possession of Virginia,” and 2 episodes of “Big Wolf on Campus (2000).”
2019 – Analía Gadé, actress in “Four Nights of the Full Moon,” “Exorcism’s Daughter,” and “Maniac Mansion.”
2004 – Lincoln Kilpatrick, starred in the films “The Omega Man,” “Soylent Green” and “Chosen Survivors”.
1995 – Elisha Cook Jr., film credits included TV movies “Salem’s Lot” and “The Night Stalker” while credits include “House on Haunted Hill (1959),” “Blacula” and “Rosemary’s Baby.”
FILMS RELEASED ON MAY 18
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1958)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Fangs Of The Living Dead (1973)
Teenage Space Vampires (1999) – USA (video premiere)
Hard Ride To Hell (2010)
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May 19
BORN ON MAY 19
1987 – Jayne Wisener, who co-starred in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and “Boogeyman 3.”
1980 – Drew Fuller, who has appeared in the films “Vampire Clan” and “Voodoo Academy.”
1972 – Claudia Karvan, who appeared in the films “Daybreakers” and “Long Weekend (2008).”
1964 – Sean Whalen who appeared in “The People Under the Stairs,” “Idle Hands”, Rob Zombie’s “Halloween II”, “Caesar and Otto’s Paranormal Halloween”, “Constantine (TV Series)”, “Hatchet III” and more.
1948 – Grace Jones who starred in “Vamp”.
1922 – David McLean who appeared in “The Andromeda Strain” and “Kingdom of the Spiders.”
1920 – Renee Asherson who appeared in the films “Day the Earth Caught Fire,” “Theatre of Blood” and “The Others.”
1915 – Composer Irving Getz who did the music scores for the films “Monster On Campus,” “The Alligator People” and “The Incredible Shrinking Man.”
1906 – Bruce Bennett who appeared in the films “The Alligator People,” “The Cosmic Man” and “Before I Hang.”
1904 – Milton Parsons who appeared in “The Monster That Challenged the World,” “Hold That Ghost” and “The Haunted Palace.”
DIED ON MAY 19
2008 – Donald Murphy, who starred in “Frankenstein’s Daughter.
1989 – Robert Webber, has appeared in “Something Is Out There (TV Mini-Series)”, “Don’t Go to Sleep”, “Darkroom (TV Series)”, “The Outer Limits (TV Series)”, “Thriller (TV Series)” and more.
1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of the novel “House of the Seven Gables,”
FILMS RELEASED ON MAY 19
The Leopard Man (1943) – NYC
The Mad Magician (1954)
The Deadly Bees (1967) – NYC
Witchfinder General (1968) – UK
Horror of Snape Island (1972) – NYC
The Premonition (1976) – NYC
Food of the Gods II (1989)
Fright Night II (1989)
Frankenstein’s Bloody Nightmare (2006)
See No Evil (2006)
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May 20
BORN ON MAY 20
1992 – Stephanie Leon, who appeared in “The Black Cat” (2004) and “Hood of Horror.”
1981 – Calico Cooper, daughter of rock star Alice, who appeared in “The Curse of El Charron. & “Junkfood Horrorfest.”
1978 – Mike Flanagan, writer/producer/director of such films as “Absentia”, “Oculus”, “Hush”, “Before I Wake”, “Ouija 2”, and more.
1977 – Matt Czuchry, who appeared in “Eight-Legged Freaks” and in the 2004 remake of “Dark Shadows.”
1975 – Tahmoh Penikett, who starred in “Dollhouse”, “Supernatural (TV Series)” and the film “Trick r Treat.”
1968 – Timothy Olyphant, who starred in the films “Scream 2,” “The Dreamcatcher” and “the 2009 remake of “The Crazies.”
1960 – John Billingsley, who starred on the TV series” “Enterprise,” “True Blood” and “The Others.” He appeared in the film “2012.”
1959 – Bronson Pinchot, starred in the TV movie “The Langoliers”.
1936 – Anthony Zerbe who appeared in the films “The Omega Man,” and “The Dead Zone”.
1927 – David Hedison who played the title role of “The Fly.”
1908 – James Stewart, starred in Alfred Hitchcock thriller “Rear Window.”
DIED ON MAY 20
2019 – Andrew Hall, appeared in “Stormhouse,” and 4 episodes of “Blood Drive (2017)”
2015 – Mary Ellen Trainor, actress who appeared in “Congo”, “Death Becomes Her”, “The Monster Squad”, “Ghostbusters II”, “Tales from the Crypt (TV Series).”
1996 – Jon Pertwee who played in “The House That Dripped Blood” and “Carry On Screaming”.
1989 – Anton Diffring starred in “The Man Who Could Cheat Death” and “Circus of Horrors.”
1989 – Gilda Radner, starred with her husband Gene Wilder in the movie “Haunted Honeymoon” (her last film).
FILMS RELEASED ON MAY 20
Maniac (1963) – UK
The Psychic (1992)
Witchcraft II: The Temptress (1993) – USA (video premiere)
Mosquito (1995) – USA (video premiere)
Dr. Jekyll & Mistress Hyde (2003)
Vampire Vixens (2003)
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005) – USA (limited)
Darkworld (2006) – USA (DVD premiere)
Deadwater – aka Black Ops (2008)
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May 21
BORN ON MAY 21
1974 – Fairuza Balk, who starred in “The Craft” and “The Island of Dr. Moreau.”
1959 – Nick Cassavetes, who appeared in “The Wraith,” “The Class of 1999 II: The Substitute” and “The Astronaut’s Wife.”
1957 – Judge Reinhold, who starred in “The Hollow,” “Pandemonium” and “Gremlins.”
1948 – Jonathan Hyde who appeared in the 1999 remake of “The Mummy,” and “Anaconda”.
1938 – Ross Hagen who appeared in the films “Alienator,” “Dinosaur Island” and “Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold.”
1917 – Raymond Burr who starred in both versions of “Godzilla (1957)” and “Godzilla 1985.” He also starred in “Bride of the Gorilla” and “Rear Window.”
DIED ON MAY 21
2019 – Larry Carroll, Comic Book artist in some issues of “Slayer.”
2014 – Jane Adams, had appeared in “The Brute Man”, “House of Dracula”.
2007 – Italian director Bruno Mattei, work includes “Zombie 3,” “Hell of the Living Dead” and “Zombies: The Beginning,” edited “Count Dracula.”
2000 – Sir John Gielgud who appeared in “Frankenstein: The True Story,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”.
1987 – Alejandro Rey, appeared in the films “The Swarm” and “TerrorVision.”
FILMS RELEASED ON MAY 21
The Vampire’s Ghost (1945)
Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954)
Gigantis the Fire Monster (1959)
The Green Slime (1969) – NYC
Grizzly (1976)
Embryo (1976)
The Road Warrior (1982)
Crawlspace (1986)
Carnosaur (1993)
Terminator Salvation (2009)
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May 22
BORN ON MAY 22
1974 – A.J. Langer, appeared in “Poltergeist: The Legacy (TV Series)”, “Escape from L.A.”, “The People Under the Stairs.”
1972 – Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks, is an American horror author of novels and screenplays for ” The Zombie Survival Guide”, “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” and more.
1940 – Michael Sarrazin, co-starred in “Feardotcom”, “Poltergeist: The Legacy (TV Series)”, “Arrival II”, “The Reincarnation of Peter Proud”, “Frankenstein: The True Story.”
1939 – The late Paul Winfield, appeared in “Dead of Night”, “The Legend of Gator Face”, “Mars Attacks!”, “The Serpent and the Rainbow”, “The Terminator” and many more.
1938 – Richard Benjamin, starred in such films as “Saturday the 14th”, “Love at First Bite”, and more.
1916 – Rupert Davies, has appeared in “The Night Visitor”, “The Oblong Box”, “Curse of the Crimson Altar”, “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave”, “The Conqueror Worm”, “The Brides of Fu Manchu”, and much more.
1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and many of his stories.
DIED ON MAY 22
2019 – Flaminia Jandolo, did Voice Dubbing in “Black Sunday,” “The Long Hair of Death,” The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh,” “Werewolf Woman,” and “Suspiria (1977).”
2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, provided the voice for the narrator in Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride.
1984 – John Marley appeared in “It Lives Again”, “The Car”, “Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)”, “Dead of Night”, “The Dead Are Alive”, “The Outer Limits (TV Series)” and so many more.
FILMS RELEASED ON MAY 22
Svengali (1931)
Psychomania – aka Violent Midnight (1963) – Hartford, CT
Outland (1981)
Boa vs. Python (2004)
Alien³ (1992)
Tormented (2009)
Poltergeist (2015)
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May 23
BORN ON MAY 23
1980 – D.J. Cotrona, starred in “From Dusk Till Dawn (TV Series)” and has appeared in “Venom.”
1973 – Baron Craze, Horror Historian, Horror Journalist, Editor of The Horror Times, Owner of the BC Radio Network (SHOWS: Shredding Metal Beasts; Sinister Death; Hard Rock Madness; Baron’s Crypt), and starred in Swamp Zombies 2 (2018), Cuddlez (2015), and Shock Trailer (2009). In addition, associate producer and starred in Killer Waves 2 (2020); received special thanks on 100 Acres of Hell (2019) and Camp Death III in 2D (2018). A repeated sponsor of the NJ Horror Con and Film Festival.
1969 – Felissa Rose, starring role in the cult film “Sleepaway Camp”, since then, appeared in numerous horror films including “Camp Dread”, Caesar and Otto’s Deadly Xmas and Paranormal Halloween, “The Perfect House”, “Silent Night, Zombie Night”, The Last House (2015), “Satan’s Playground”, “Victor Crowley (2017)”, “2 Jennifer (2016),” “ZK: Elephant’s Graveyard,” “Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film,” “Ugly Sweater Party,” and many more.
1965 – Melissa McBride, best known for playing “Carol” in “The Walking Dead (TV Series)”, also in “The Mist”, “American Gothic (TV Series)”, and “Mutant Species.”
1960 – Linden Ashby, he stars in MTV’s “Teen Wolf (TV Series)”, “Prom Night” (2008), “Hunger” and “Resident Evil: Extinction.”
1961 – Chris & Marty Udvarnoky, who played the twin brothers in the film “The Other.”
1942 – Writer/producer/director/actor, Zalman King, who starred in “Blue Sunshine.”
1933 – Joan Collins, who starred in the films “Empire of the Ants,” “Tales That Witness Madness” and “Tales From the Crypt” (1972).
1910 – Scatman Crothers appeared in the “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” “The Shining,” “Deadly Eyes”.
1896 – Kenneth Strickfaden who did the wonderful electrical effects for “Frankenstein” and “Bride of Frankenstein.”
1890 – Herbert Marshall who appeared in the films “The Fly,” “Gog”.
DIED ON MAY 23
2011 – Tom Hennesy, played “The Gill Man” on land in “Revenge of the Creature.”
2007 – Ichirô Murakoshi who starred in “Space Cruiser Yammato 2” and “”Farewell To Spaceship Yamato.”
1986 – Sterling Hayden, starred in the films “Venom” (1981) and “Deadly Stranger”.
FILMS RELEASED ON MAY 23
Destroy All Monsters (1969)
The Other (1972) – NYC
Stanley (1972) – Los Angeles, CA
The Shining (1980) – Los Angeles & New York City
The Last Horror Film (1984) – USA (video premiere)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
Fatal Exam (1990)
Hot Vampire Nights (2000)
The Era of Vampires (2002)
Hallowed (2005) – USA (DVD premiere)
The Unknown aka Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch (2006) – USA (DVD premiere)
Vampire Noir (2007)
Shock Trailer (2008) – Filmed on this day
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