June 7

BORN ON – June 7

1964 – Judie Aronson, has appeared in “Hannibal”, “The Sleeping Car”, “After Midnight” and “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.”

1955 – William Forsythe who appeared in Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” and “The Devil’s Rejects.”

1948 – Pamela Susan Shoop, her role in “Halloween II,” “Empire of the Ants”, “Night Gallery (TV Series).”

1933 – Gary Kent who appeared in “The Thrill Killers,” “Dracula vs. Frankenstein” and “Targets.”

1909 – Jessica Tandy in “The Birds.”

DIED ON – June 7

2019 – Julie Anne Payne, appeared in an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode Graduating Class (1959).”

2019 – Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Director, Producer, Writer, Actor – some of his films include “Who Can Kill a Child,” “The House That Screamed,” “Master of Horror,” “The Phantom of the Opera (19600,” “The Wax Figure,” “Trip Straight to Hell,” “The Man Who Returned From Death,” and so many more.

2019 – Nonnie Griffin, Actress who appeared in “The Believers,” and episodes of TV shows “Bitten,” “Forever Knight,” and “Strange Paradise.”

2019 – Lafayette Galvão, actor in “The Phantom of the Opera (1991).”

2019 – Ryszard Bugajski, Directed episodes of “The Twilight Zone” in the 1980s.

2015 – Christopher Lee, one of the last gentleman of horror; appeared in countless films including “Count Dracula,” “Horror Express,” “The Mummy (1959),” “Dracula: Prince of Darkness,” “The Wicker Man (1973),” “The City of the Dead,” “Psycho Circus,” “Scars of Dracula,” “The House That Dripped Blood,” “The Satanic Rites of Dracula,” and so many more.

2004 – Quorthon, Lead singer of Bathory considered as one of the pioneering figures of extreme metal genres, particularly black metal with the first Bathory album.

2003 – Trevor Goddard, appeared “Hollywood Vampyr”, “The X-Files (TV Series)”, “Deep Rising” and more.

1966 – Dan Duryea, starred in episodes of “The Twilight Zone” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”.

FILMS RELEASED ON – June 7

Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972) – Canada
Dracula II: Ascension (2003)

Hatchetman (2003)
Blood Relic (2005)
Hellraiser: Deader (2005)

The Purge (2013)

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June 8

BORN ON – June 8

1984 – Torrey DeVitto, appeared in “The Vampire Diaries (TV Series)”, “The Rite”, “Killer Movie”, “I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer”, and more.

1981 – Alex Band, appeared in the films “Doctor Mordrid” and “Puppet Master II.”

1977 – Nate Dushku, appeared in “The Zodiac,” “The Alphabet Killer” and “Blood Night.”

1973 – Lexa Doig who starred in “Jason X.”

1966 – Juliana Margulies starred in “Ghost Ship” (2002) and “Snakes on a Plane.”

1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, who wrote, appeared in and produced “Scary Movie 1 & 2.”

1955 – Griffin Dunne who appeared in the films “An American Werewolf In London”.

1945 – Jack Sholder, director and writer of “Alone in the Dark”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge”, “The Hidden”, “The Omen (TV Movie)” “Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies”, “Arachnid”, “12 Days of Terror” and more.

1939 – Bernie Casey who played in “Dr. Black & Mr. Hyde” and appeared in Gargoyles (1972) playing the leader of the Gargoyles.

1931 – Dana Wynter who appeared in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and “The Questor Tapes.”

1923 – Myron Healey who starred in “The Unearthly,” “Varan the Unbelievable” and “The Incredible Melting Man.”

1910 – John W. Campbell who wrote the novel “Who Goes There?” on which the “The Thing From Another World (1951)” and The Thing (1982).

1893 – Ernest B. Schoedsack who produced and directed “King Kong” and “Son of Kong” and directed the films “Mighty Joe Young” and “Dr. Cyclops.”

DIED ON – June 8

2012 – Frank Cady, appeared in “Monster Squad (TV Series)”, “7 Faces of Dr. Lao”, “The Bad Seed”, “When Worlds Collide” and many more.

2006 – Robert Donner, appeared in “The Horror at 37,000 Feet.”

FILMS RELEASED ON – June 8

Eegah (1962) – Atlanta, GA
Ghostbusters (1984)
Gremlins (1984)
May (2002) – Florida & Seattle Film Festivals
Countess Dracula’s Orgy of Blood (2004)

Fangoria: Blood Drive (2004)
Tomb of the Werewolf (2004)
Hostel: Part 2 (2007)

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June 9

BORN ON June 9

1980 – James DeBello, who starred in the films “Ghouls,” and “Cabin Fever.”

1963 – Johnny Depp who in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “The Ninth Gate,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “From Hell,” “Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street”, “Dark Shadows” remake and more.

1961 – Michael J. Fox starred in “The Frighteners,” “Mars Attacks!” and “Teen Wolf.”

1927 – R. Wright Campbell wrote the screenplays for the films “Teenage Caveman,” “The Masque of the Red Death” and “Man of a Thousand Faces.”

1910 – Producer Bernard Woolner, his credits include “Attack of the 50 ft. Woman,” and “Hillbillies In a Haunted House.”

DIED ON June 9

2014 – Rik Mayall, appeared in “An American Werewolf in London”, “Shock Treatment”, “Cold Dark”, “The Legend of Harrow Woods”, “Evil Calls”, “Highway to Hell” and more.

1993 – Peter Coe who appeared in “House of Frankenstein” and “The Mummy’s Curse”.

1990 – James Carreras, the founder of Hammer Films and served as production manager on “The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).”

1985 – Clifford Evans, appeared in Hammer films’ “The Curse of the Werewolf” and “The Kiss of the Vampire.”

FILMS RELEASED ON June 9

The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944) – Los Angeles
Damien: Omen II (1989)
Witchcraft V: Dance With the Devil (1993)
Congo (1995)

American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002)
Zombie Farm (2007) – Another Hole in the Head Genre Film Festival

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June 10

BORN ON June 10

1983 – Leelee Sobieski, appeared in 2006 remake of “The Wicker Man.”

1978 – DJ Qualls, has appeared in “Z Nation (TV Series)”, “Supernatural (TV Series)”, “The Core” and more.

1978 – Shane West, who starred in “Dracula 2000” and “Salem (TV Series).”

1962 – Gina Gershon, who appeared in “Voodoo Dawn,” “Demonlover”.

1955 – Andrew Stevens who appeared in the films “The Fury,” “Massacre at Central High” and the TV movie, “The Werewolf of Woodstock.”

1947 – Actress Yuriko Hishimi appeared in “Godzilla vs. Gigan”.

1941 – Jürgen Prochnow, appeared in “Primeval”, “House of the Dead”, “Dark Asylum”, “Ripper”, “In the Mouth of Madness”, “The Keep”.

1927 – José Luis Merino who directed “Scream of the Demon Lover” and “Beyond the Living Dead.”

1920 – Lou Frizzel who appeared in the films “The Other,” and the TV movie “Duel.”

DIED ON June 10

2019 – Crazy Mohan, Writer for “Devil 2 (2019).”

2019 – Girish Karnad, acted in “Nandhini” and “Chandrika”

2019 – Yuzuru Fujimoto, acted in “Sword for the Truth,” “Judge,” and 2 episodes of “Bleach (2006).”

1996 – Jo Van Fleet, starred in Satan’s School For Girls (1973) and episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Thriller” and “Inner Sanctum”.

1993 – Richard Webb appeared in the films “Hillbillies In the Haunted House,” “Beware the Blob” and the TV movie “The Werewolf of Woodstock”.

1971 – Michael Rennie who starred in the films “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” “Assignment Terror” and “The Lost World”.

1969 – Frank Lawton who appeared in the films “The Devil Doll” and “The Invisible Ray”.

1967 – Spencer Tracy who played the title role in the 1941 version of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”.

FILMS RELEASED ON June 10

The Believers (1987)
Poltergeist III (1988)
Embryo (2001)

High Tension (2003)
Bloodsucking Redneck Vampires (2004)
Rottweiler (2004)
High Tension (2005)
The Slaughter (2006)
Leeds Point (2008) – Hoboken International Film Festival

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June 11

Born On June 11

1988 – Claire Holt, starred in “The Vampire Diaries (TV Series)”, “Messengers 2: The Scarecrow.”

1986 – Shia LaBeouf, who starred in “Disturbia”.

1978 – Joshua Jackson who starred in the films “Shutter” (2008), “Cursed” and “Urban Legend.”

1949 – Sherman Howard, his role of “Bub” from George A. Romero’s “Day of the Dead,” “The Stand (TV Mini-Series)”, “Dark Angel”, “Freddy’s Nightmares (TV Series)”, “Tales from the Darkside (TV Series)” and many more.

1945 – Adrienne Barbeau appeared in “The Fog,” “Creepshow” and “Escape From New York.”

1933 – Gene Wilder, starred in “Haunted Honeymoon” and of course “Young Frankenstein.”

1922 – John Bromfield appeared in the films “Curucu, Beast of the Amazon,” “Manfish” and “Revenge of the Creature.”

1919 – Richard Todd appeared in “House of the Long Shadows,” “Bloodbath” and “Asylum”

1914 – Dudley Manlove who appeared in “Plan Nine From Outer Space” and “Creation of the Humanoids.”

1914 – Gerald Mohr starred in “The Angry Red Planet,” “The Monster and the Girl”.

1909 – Paul Schreibman who produced the American versions of “First Spaceship On Venus” and “Gigantis the Fire Monster.”

Died On This Day In Horror History – June 11

2007 – Mala Powers, who starred in the films “Unknown Terror,” “The Colossus of New York” and “Doomsday Machine”.

2005 – Robert Clarke, who wrote, produced, directed and starred in “The Hideous Sun Demon,” “The Astounding She Monster,” “The Man From Planet X” and “The Body Snatcher”.

2003 – William Marshall, played in “Blacula” and “Scream, Blacula, Scream,” and “Abby”.

1966 – Perennial character actor Wallace Ford, who appeared in the films “The Mummy’s Hand,” Freaks (1932), “The Ape Man” and “The Mummy’s Tomb”.

1956 – Ralph Morgan who appeared in the films “The Monster and the Ape,” “The Creeper” and “Weird Woman”.

Films Released On June 11

The Oblong Box (1969)
Humongous (1982)
Witchcraft IV: the Virgin Heart (1992) – USA video premiere
Jurassic Park (1993)
Open Water (2004) – Waterfront Film Festival
The Stepford Wives (2004)

Ice Road Terror (2011)

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June 12

BORN ON June 12

1989 – Valentina de Angelis, has appeared in “Malibu Horror Story”, “Camp Hell”, “Bereavement.”

1988 – Cody Horn, starred in “Demonic” and “Occupant.”

1985 – Kendra Wilkinson, appeared in “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!”, “Scary Movie 5”, and “Scary Movie 4.”

1974 – Jason Mewes, appeared in “Halloweed”, “Devil’s Tower”, “Zombie Hamlet”, “Vampire Apocalypse”, “Feast”, “Scream 3”, and more.

1964 – Paula Marshall, has appeared in “Full Eclipse”, “Warlock: The Armageddon”, “Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth”.

1953 – Gary Farmer, has appeared in “Sawtooth”, “Route 666”, “Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight”, “The Dark Wind”, “Friday the 13th (TV Series)”, “The Believers”, and many more.

1928 – Bernie Hamilton appeared in “Scream, Blacula Scream.”

1919 – Acting coach Uta Hagen who appeared in the film “The Other.”

1918 – Producer and co-founder of American International Pictures, Samuel Z. Arkoff.

DIED ON June 12

2019 – Sylvia Miles, acted in “The Funhouse,” “The Sentinel,” and “Violent Midnight.”

2019 – Juan José Alonso Millán, writer for “The National Mummy” and an episode of “After the Closed Door (1964)”

2015 – Rick Ducommun, appeared in “Scary Movie”, “Brimstone (TV Series)”, “Ghost in the Machine”, “Gremlins 2: The New Batch”, “Little Monsters” and more.

2014 – Carla Laemmle, appeared in “Phantom of the Opera” and in the original 1931 “Dracula.

2006 – Hugh Latimer, who appeared in “Ghost Ship” (1952) and “The Cosmic Monster”.

2003 – Academy award winning actor, Gregory Peck, who starred in “The Omen,” “Cape Fear” (1962, and appeared in the 1991 version).

FILMS RELEASED ON June 12

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – NYC
Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970)
Predator (1987)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Witchcraft 8: Salem’s Ghost (1996)
Forest of the Dead (2007)
What Really Frightens You (2009)
Doghouse (2009)

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June 13

BORN ON June 13

1978 – Ethan Embry, appeared in “Late Phases”, “The Guest”, “The House Across the Street”, “Vacancy”, “Masters of Horror (TV Series)”, “They”, “Disturbing Behavior”, “The Prophecy II” and more.

1974 – Brande Roderick, appeared in “Hood of Horror” and “Dracula II: Ascension.”

1973 – Kim Sønderholm, appeared in “Cannibal Fog”, “Silverthread”, “Sinister Visions”, “Zombie Ed”, “The Killing Games”, “Blood Fare”, “Supernatural Tales”, “The Horror Vault 3”, and many more too numerous to mention.

1962 – Ally Sheedy who appeared in the films “Man’s Best Friend.”

1951 – Stellan Skarsgård played in “Exorcist: The Beginning.”

1951 – Richard Thomas, starred in “Stephen King’s It”.

1950 – Belinda Bauer, appeared in “Necronomicon: Book of Dead”, “Servants of Twilight”, “RoboCop 2”, “The Hitchhiker (TV Series)” and more.

1943 – Malcolm McDowell starred in “Cat People,” Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” and “Halloween II.”

1919 – Richard Collier appeared in the films “Eve of Destruction,” Pet Sematary (1989) and “Christine.”

1918 – Ben Johnson appeared in Terror Train (1980), “The Swarm,” “The Savage Bees” and “The Town That Dreaded Sundown.”

1915 – Mary Wickes starred in “They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be” episode of “Kolchak, The Night Stalker.”

1900 – Ian Hunter (the actor, not the musician) appeared in the 1941 version of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Doctor Blood’s Coffin.”

1892 – Sir Basil Rathbone starred in “Son of Frankenstein”, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, “Tales of Terror”, he also portrayed the character of “Sherlock Holmes” in many films.

DIED ON June 13

2019 – William Leonard Sean McCann, “The Uncanny,” “The Neighbor,” and episodes of “Friday the 13th: The Series (1989),” “The Hidden Room (1993),” and “Haven (2011).”

2019 – Nobuyuki Ishida, appeared in “Vamp” and “Mirrorman”

2019 – Edith González Fuentes, actress in “Alucarda,” “Cyclone,” “Hell’s Trap,” “The Dead,” “The Quarterer,” and the TV Movie “The Death Motel.”

2005 – Lane Smith, appeared in “Dark Night of the Scarecrow”, and more.

2004 – Robert Lees, who wrote the screenplays for “Abbott & Costello Meet The Invisible Man,” “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein” “Hold That Ghost,” and “The Black Cat” (1941).

1979 – Darla Hood appeared in the film “The Bat” with Vincent Price.

1979 – Barry Shear who directed several TV series including “Night Gallery”.

FILMS RELEASED ON June 13

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
The Children (1980)
Maniac Cop 2 (1991) – USA video premiere
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
The Lost (2006) – Another Hole in the Head Genre Film Festival
The Happening (2008)

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