June 14

BORN ON June 14

1989 – Lucy Hale, appeared in “Scream 4″ and “Fear Island.”

1987 – Jordan Hayes, appeared in “House at the End of the Street”, “Exit Humanity”, “Hidden 3D.”

1978 – Diablo Cody who wrote the screenplay for and produced the film “Jennifer’s Body.”

1954 – Will Patton, starred in “Falling Skies (TV Series)”, “The Fourth Kind”, “The Punisher”, “The Mothman Prophecies”, “The Puppet Masters”, and many more.

1924 – Larry Vincent, portraying Los Angeles Horror Host “Seymour, the Master of the Macabre and the Epitome of Evil,” appeared in “The Incredible Two Headed Transplant,” “The Witchmaster” and “Dr Death: Seeker of Souls.”

1921 – Gene Barry who appeared in “The 27th Day” “The War of the Worlds (1953)” and “War of the Worlds” (2005) remake.

1910 – Takeo Murata who wrote the screenplays for “Godzilla (1954)” “Godzilla Raids Again” and “Rodan.”

DIED ON June 14

2019 – Maurice Bénichou, actor in “Time of the Wolf.”

2014 – Francis Matthews, appeared in “Do Not Disturb”, “Rasputin: The Mad Monk”, “Dracula: Prince of Darkness”, “Corridors of Blood”, “The Revenge of Frankenstein.”

2008 – Alan Wells appeared in ‘Beginning of the End,” “The Cosmic Man” and “Cape Fear” (1962).

2004 – Max Rosenberg, produced the films “Tales From The Crypt” (1972), “Madhouse,” “The Incredible Melting Man” and “Cat People” (1982).

2002 – Albert Band, produced and directed such films as “I Bury the Living,” “Mansion of the Doomed”.

1997 – Richard Jaeckel appeared in “The Green Slime,” “Latitude Zero” and “The Dark”.

1981 – Jimmy Cross, appeared in “Night Gallery (TV Series)”, “The Munsters (TV Series)”, “Day of the Nightmare”, ”The Addams Family (TV Series)”, “The Amazing Colossal Man”, “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers”, and more.

FILMS RELEASED ON June 14

The Tell-Tale Heart – aka “Bucket of Blood” (1934)

The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)

Anatomy Of A Psycho (1961)

The Stuff (1985)

Deep in the Woods (2000)

The Crow: Salvation (2000)

Scooby Doo (2002)

Piñata: Survival Island (2002)

Cthulhu (2007)

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June 15

BORN ON June 15

1971 – Jake Busey, appeared in “Starship Troopers,” “Identity,” “Hitchhiker II: I’ve Been Waiting” and “The Frighteners.”

1964 – Courtney Cox, played in the “Scream (1996),” “Scream 2”, “Scream 3”, and “Scream 4”,

1956 – Robin Curtis appeared in “Ghost Story” “Hexed,” “Dark Breed,” and “The Unborn II.”

1949 – Rick Rosenthal, producer and director of “Halloween II”, “Halloween: Resurrection”, “The Birds II: Land’s Fall,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series),” also appeared in “Lost After Dark,” and more.

1949 – Jim Varney appeared in “Blood, Friends, and Money.”

1947 – Richard P. Rubinstein produced many films including “Dawn of the Dead,” “Creepshow” and Pet Sematary (1989).

1929 – Herschell Gordon Lewis directed “Blood Feast”, “Two Thousand Maniacs!”, “Color Me Blood Red”, “The Gruesome Twosome”, “The Wizard of Gore”, “The Gore Girls” and “Herschell Gordon Lewis’ BloodMania.”

DIED ON June 15

2019 – Beatriz Salomón, actress in “Galaxy of Terror.”

2014 – Casey Kasem, provided the voice for the voice of “Shaggy” in many “Scooby-Doo” adventures.

2008 – Stan Winston, films include “Aliens,” Gargoyles (1972), “Jurassic Park III” and the “Terminator” movies.

2003 – Philip Stone, had appeared in “The Shining”, The Phantom of the Opera (TV Movie)”, “Voyage of the Damned”, “Thriller (TV Series)” and many more.

2003 – Hume Cronyn, starred in the 1943 version of “Phantom Of The Opera,” .

1995 – Charles Bennett who wrote the screenplay for the film “Curse of the Demon”.

FILMS RELEASED ON June 15

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Beast With A Million Eyes (1955)

The Island Earth (1955)
Creature of the Walking Dead (1965)
Munster Go Home (1966) – NYC
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Tentacles (1977)

Prophecy (1979) – NYC
The Driller Killer (1979)
Honeymoon Horror (1981)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Autopsy: A Love Story (2002)
Woods of Evil (2005)
His Will Be Done (2009)
Women’s Studies (2010)

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June 16

BORN ON June 16

1987 – Kelly Blatz, appeared in the 2008 remake of “Prom Night,” “From Within”.

1962 – Arnold Vosloo, played in the 1999 remake of “The Mummy” and “The Mummy Returns,” and as “Darkman” in “Darkman II & III.”

1955 – Laurie Metcalf played in “Scream 2.”

1951 – Sonia Braga starred in “From Dusk Til Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter” and in the “Tales From the Crypt” episode “This’ll Kill Ya.”

1942 – Suzan Farmer, known for “Thriller (TV Series)”, “Rasputin: The Mad Monk”, “Dracula: Prince of Darkness”, “Monster of Terror”, “The Crimson Blade”, and more.

1938 – Charles B. Pierce, writer and director of “The Legend of Boggy Creek” and “The Town That Dreaded Sundown”, “The Evictors”, “Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues.”

1924 – Faith Domergue appeared in “This Island Earth,” “It Came From Beneath the Sea” and “The Atomic Man.”

1910 – Ilona Massey who played “Countess Elsa Frankenstein” in “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man” and appeared in the film “Invisible Agent.”

1907 – Jack Albertson appeared in “Dead and Buried,” “Man of a Thousand Faces” as well as episodes of “Twilight Zone” and “Night Gallery.”

DIED ON June 16

2019 – Adam Litovitz, received Special Thanks for “Antiviral.”

2012 – Susan Tyrrell, appeared in “Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)”, “Rockula”, “The Offspring”, “Deadly Nightmares (TV Series)”, and many more.

2006 – Arthur Franz, who starred in the films “Monster on Campus,” “Invaders from Mars”.

1938 – Robert Wiene who directed the 1924 version of “The Hands of Orlac” and “The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari”.

FILMS RELEASED ON June 16

Ghost Catchers (1944)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Psycho (1960) – NYC premiere

Lake of Dracula (1971) – Japan
Jaws 2 (1978)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

Vampire’s Kiss (1988)
Ghostbusters II (1989)
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992) – video premiere
The Mutilation Man (1998)
Platoon of the Dead (2009) – DVD premiere
Terror At Blood Fart Lake (2009)

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June 17

BORN ON June 17

1976 – Heather Mazur, actress in the 1990 remake of “Night of the Living Dead,” and also in “Darkness Rising (2017).”

1975 – Joshua Leonard starred in “The Blair Witch Project,” “Hatchet,” and “Madhouse.” He also had a small part in “Prom Night (2008).

1967 – Tori Welles appeared in “Ice Cream Man” and “Les Vampyre.”

1966 – Jason Patric starred in “The Lost Boys,” and “Frankenstein Unbound.”

1960 – Thomas Haden Church, starred in “Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight”.

1927 – Comic artist Wally Wood (who created the “Mars Attacks!” trading card series).

1927 – Italian goremeister Lucio Fulci, known for “A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971).” “Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972)” “Zombie (1979),” “City of the Living Dead (1980),” “The Beyond (1981),” “The House by the Cemetery (1981),” “Manhattan Baby (1982),” “The Wax Mask (1997),”   and many more.

1918 – Duncan Lamont who appeared in “Frankenstein Created Woman,” “Quatermass and the Pit” and “The Evil of Frankenstein.”

1904 – Ralph Bellamy appeared in “The Wolf Man” “Ghost of Frankenstein” and “Rosemary’s Baby (1968).”

 DIED ON June 17

1984 – Nobuo Nakagawa who directed the films “The Vampire Moth,” “The Ghost of Kasane” and “Black Cat Mansion.”

1978 – Robert Williams who appeared in “The Bat” “This Island Earth” and “Revenge of the Creature”.

1936 – Henry B. Walthall appeared in the films “London After Midnight,” “The Devil-Doll” and “The Whispering Shadow”.

FILMS RELEASED ON June 17

Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Quatermass 2 (1957) – UK
The Terror (1963) – Buffalo, NY
The Horror of Frankenstein (1971)
The Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
House of the Long Shadows (1983) – UK
Waxwork (1988)
Wolf (1994)

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June 18

BORN ON June 18

1980 – David Giuntoli, the star of the NBC show “Grimm (TV Series).”

1979 – Kristina Klebe, appeared in “Tales of Halloween”, “Slay Belles”, “The Devil’s Carnival: Alleluia!”, “Nymph”, “Proxy”, “Chillerama”, “Zone of the Dead”, “Halloween” and more.

1975 – Patrick Melton, who co-wrote the screenplay for “Feast,” “Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds” and “Saw IV & V.”

1965 – Kim Dickens, starred in “Fear the Walking Dead (TV Series)”, “Hollow Man”, “The Gift,” and more.

1955 – Kevin Burns executive producer of such documentaries as “Monstermania,” “The Omen Legacy’.

1955 – Steve Miner who directed “Friday The 13th” parts 2 & III, “Lake Placid,” and the 2008 remake of “Day of the Dead.”

1952 – Comedienne Carol Kane, who starred in “When A Stranger Calls,” “Addams Family Values” and “When A Stranger Calls Back.”

1917 – Richard Boone who starred in “I Bury the Living” and “The Last Dinosaur.”

1910 – Dick Foran who starred in “The Mummy’s Hand,” “The Mummy’s Tomb”.

1910 – E.G. Marshall who appeared in the films “Creepshow,” “Superman II” and “Two Evil Eyes.”

DIED ON June 18

2007 – Vincent Sherman, who directed “The Return of Dr. X”.

2006 – Richard Stahl, appeared in “Beware The Blob!,” and “Terminal Island”.

2004 – Writer/producer/actor George “Buck” Flowers, appearances in “The Fog” (1980) and “Body Bags.”

1980 – Terence Fisher who directed “The Curse of Frankenstein,” “Horror of Dracula” and “Curse of the Werewolf”.

1973 – Roger Delgado played in “The Mummy’s Shroud” and “The First Man Into Space”.

FILMS RELEASED ON June 18

House of Usher (1960) – Palm Springs, CA – premiere
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) – UK
The Mummy’s Shroud (1967) – UK
Eye of the Cat (1969) – NYC
Willard (1971) – NYC
Food of the Gods (1976)
Haunted (1995)
Psycho Beach Party (2000) – San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Lake Mungo (2008) – Sydney Film Festival
Nightfall (2009)
Bitter Feast (2010)
Dark Souls (2010) – South Side Film Festival
Zombie Beach (2010) – Urban Suburban Film Festival

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June 19

BORN ON June 19

1974 – Jennifer Siebel, appeared in “April Fool’s Day” and “Dinocroc.”

1972 – Robin Tunney, starred in “The Zodiac” (2005), “End of Days” and “The Craft.”

1967 – Mia Sara, who starred in “Time Cop”, “Daughter of Darkness” and “The Maddening.”

1965 – Sadie Frost, in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”, “Crimetime,” “Presence of Mind,” and “Beyond the Rave.”

1950 – Daria Nicolodi, starred in “Deep Red” wrote and starred in “Suspiria”, “Beyond the Door II”, “Inferno”, “Tenebre”, “Phenomena”, “Opera” and “Mother of Tears”.

1920 – David Peel played in “Brides of Dracula” and appeared in “The Hands of Orlac.”

1920 – Anthony Sagar appeared in “X the Unknown,” “Jack the Ripper” and “Carry On Screaming.”

1919 – Louis Jourdan played in the 1977 BBC TV movie “Count Dracula” and appeared in the films “Swamp Thing” and “The Return of Swamp Thing.”

1914 – Harry Lauter appeared in “It Came From Beneath the Sea,” “Creature With the Atom Brain,” and “The Werewolf.”

DIED ON June 19

2019 – Peter Allan Fields, writer for the TV episode of “Darkroom: Guillotine (1982),” and “Darkroom: A Quiet Funeral (1981).”

2016 – Anton Yelchin, appeared in “Fright Night (2011)”, “Terminator Salvation”, “Odd Thomas”, “Only Lovers Left Alive”, “Burying the Ex”, Green Room (2015) and so much more.

2012 – Richard Lynch, portrayals in “God Told Me To”, “Bad Dreams”, “Alligator II: The Mutation”, “Rob Zombie’s Halloween”, “Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem” and the TV film “Vampire”.

1997 – Mark Patrick Carducci wrote the screen plays for “Neon Maniacs,” “Pumpkinhead” and was writer/director/producer of “Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The Plan 9 Companion”.

FILMS RELEASED ON June 19

The Golem (1921)
Them! (1954)
I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957)
King Kong Escapes (1968)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980) – West Germany
The X-Files (1998)
Exorcist Chronicles (2007)
The Tomb (2007)

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June 20

BORN ON June 20

1971 – Josh Lucas, starred in “Session 9″ and “American Psycho,” and “Tell Tale.”

1968 –Robert Rodriguez directed the films “From Dusk Til Dawn,” “The Faculty,” “Sin City” and the “Planet Terror” half of the “Grindhouse” double feature.

1967 – Nicole Kidman starred in “The Others,” “The Stepford Wives” (2004), “The Invasion”.

1952 – John Goodman, played in “Arachnophobia” and “C.H.U.D.”

1947 – Candy Clark appeared in the 1988 version of “The Blob,” “Zodiac” (2007), “Amityville 3D” and played “Buffy’s Mom” in the film version of “Buffy The Vampire Slayer.”

1933 – Brett Halsey starred in “Return of the Fly,” and appeared in “Revenge of the Creature” and “Twice Told Tales.”

1931 – Martin Landau starred in “Without Warning” and “Ed Wood,” for which he received an Oscar for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi.

1919 – Bruce Gordon appeared in “Curse of the Undead,” “Tower of London” and “Piranha.”

1909 – Robb White, wrote screenplays for included “Macabre,” “The Tingler,” House On Haunted Hill (1959), 13 Ghosts (1960), “Homicidal,” and the story for House on Haunted Hill (1999) and Thir13en Ghosts (2001) and with his characters the creation of Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007).

DIED ON June 20

2019 – Eduardo Verchez Garcia, actor in “Blood of the Vampires,” “Devil Woman,” “Beast of Blood,” “Living Dead,” “The Twilight People,” “Predictive Blood,” “The Devil’s Daughter,” and many more.

2019 – William Roderick Collins, appeared in “Howling III.”

1986 – Tim Herbert, who appeared in “The Boston Strangler” and “Duel”.

1984 – Estelle Winwood, starred in the films “The Cabinet of Calagari”.

1978 – Mark Robson, who directed “Isle Of The Dead,” “The 7th Victim” and “Bedlam”.

FILMS RELEASED ON June 20

The Invasion of the Vampires (1963) – Mexico

Jaws (1975)

Girls Nite Out aka “The Scaremaker” (1982)
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1997) – Chicago, IL
Demon Under Glass (2002)

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