August 9

BORN ON August 9

1990 – Bill Skarsgård, has starred in “Hemlock Grove (TV Series)” and the “It” remake.

1990 – Adelaide Kane, appeared in Blood Punch (2014), “Teen Wolf (TV Series),” “The Purge,“ and “Donner Pass.”

1985 – Anna Kendrick, ”The Voices,” “Life After Beth,” an episode of “Fear Itself.”

1982 – Kate Siegel, appeared in “Ouija: Origin of Evil,” “Hush,” “Demon Legacy,” “Oculus,” “The Curse of the Black Dahlia,” episodes of “The Haunting of Hill House” and more.

1976 – Rhona Mitra, appeared in “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans,” “Doomsday,” “The Number 23,″ “Skinwalkers,” “Hollow Man” and episodes of “The Strain.”

1968 – Gillian Anderson, starred in “The X-Files (TV Series)”, “The X Files” feature film, and “The X Files: I Want to Believe” as well as episodes of “Hannibal.”

1963 – Paul Bunnell, writer/director of “That Little Monster,” “Terrifying Tales” and “The Ghastly Love of Johnny X.”

1959 – Amanda Bearse, played “Amy” in the film “Fright Night” and in the 1995 TV movie “Here Comes The Munsters.”

1957 – Melanie Griffith, starred in Body Double (1984).

1944 – Sam Elliot, who has starred in the films “Frogs,” “The Legacy,” and “Ghost Rider.”

1927 – Robert Shaw, who starred in “Jaws” and “A Reflection of Fear.”

1918 – Robert Aldrich, directed “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.”

1903 – Tom Tyler, played “Kharis” in “The Mummy’s Hand”.

DIED ON August 9

2007 – Matthew McGrory, played in “House of 1000 Corpses,” “The Devil’s Rejects,” and “The Dead Hate The Living.”

2003 – Gregory Hines starred in the films “Eve Of Destruction” and “Wolfen.”

1969 – Sharon Tate, starred in “The Fearless Vampire Killers,” and “Eye of the Devil.”

FILMS RELEASED ON August 9

The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
The Bat (1959)
A Taste of Blood (1967)
Majin – aka Daimajin (1968)
Anthropophagus (1980)
The Abyss (1989)
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Vampire Assassin (2005)

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August 10

BORN ON August 10

1965 – Claudia Christian, appeared in “Grimm (TV Series),” “The Haunting of Hell House,” “Mom (1991),” “Hexed,” “Maniac Cop 2,” “The Hidden” and the TV movie “Strays.”

1964 – Beverly Randolph, will forever be known for playing “Tina” in “The Return of the Living Dead.”

1960 – Antonio Banderas, starred in the films “Interview With a Vampire,” and “The Skin I Live In.“

1939 – Kate O’Mara, appeared in the Hammer films “The Horror of Frankenstein”, “The Vampire Lovers” and “Night Creatures.”

1918 – Martin Benson, appeared in the films “Gorgo,” “The Cosmic Monsters,” “The Omen”.

1914 – Jeff Corey, appeared in “The Boston Strangler” “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,” “Lady in a Cage,” “The Lottery,” “Something Evil,” and episodes of “Night Gallery,” and others.

1913 – Noah Beery Jr. appeared in the films “The Cat Creeps.”

1912 – Wilbur Stark, executive producer “The Thing” (1982) and “Vampire Circus.”

1910 – Mae Clarke, who portrayed “Elizabeth” in the original version of “Frankenstein.”

1908 – Alexander D’Arcy, appeared in “Horrors of Spider Island” and “Blood of Dracula’s Castle.”

1902 – Curt Siodmak, created the legend of the “Wolf Man.” His screenplays include “The Invisible Man Returns,” “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,” “Son of Dracula,” “Creature With the Atom Brain” & “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers.” He also directed the films “Bride of the Gorilla,” “Curucu, Beast of the Amazon.”

DIED ON August 10

2019 – Freda Dowie, appeared in “The Omen (1976),” “The Monk,” and “Fragile.”

2019 – Piero Tosi, worked in the costume department for “Spirits of the Dead.”

2012 –Carlo Rambaldi, Italian Special makeup effects legend worked on “Silver Bullet”, “Alien”,  King Kong (1976) “Deep Red” and many more.

2008 – Isaac Hayes appeared in “Return to Sleepaway Camp”, “Uncle Sam”, “Soul Survivors”, “Escape from New York” and more.

1979 – Dick Foran appeared in “The Mummy’s Hand” and “The Mummy’s Tomb”

1976 – Ray “Crash” Corrigan, appeared in “The Ape,” “It, the Terror From Beyond Space” and “The Zombies of Mora Tau”.

FILMS RELEASED ON August 10

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929)
Dinosaurus! (1960)
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1976) – New York City
Prophecy (1979) – North Dakota
Flatliners (1990)
King Cobra (1999) – video premiere
The Others (2001)
Session 9 (2001) – limited
Blade of Death (2004)
Skinwalkers (2006)
Fraid (2009)

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August 11

BORN ON August 11

1983 – Chris Hemsworth appeared in “The Cabin in the Woods”.

1965 – Embeth Davidtz, appeared in “Thir13en Ghosts”, “Fallen”, “Army of Darkness” and “Mutator.”

1947 – Stuart Gordon whose film credits include “Re-Animator,” “From Beyond,” “Castle Freak” and “Dagon” just to name a few.

1937 – Anna Massey, film appearances include “Peeping Tom,” “Frenzy” and “The Vault of Horror.”

1922 – Composer Ron Grainer, themes for “Tales of the Unexpected” and the score for the film “The Omega Man.”

1905 – Georges Rigaud who appeared in “Eye of the Devil,” “Santo vs. Dr. Death” and “Horror Express.”

DIED ON August 11

2019 – Barbara March, actress in the TV Movie “Blood Ties.”

2014 – Robin Williams, acclaimed comedian and actor starred in the thrillers “Insomnia” and “One Hour Photo”.

1994 – Peter Cushing thrilled us in “The Mummy (1959),” “The Hound of Baskervilles (1959),” “House of Long Shadows,” “The Satanic Rites of Dracula,” “Horror of Dracula,” “Horror Express,” “Dracula A.D. 1972,” “Island of Terror,” “The House That Dripped Blood,” and so many more.

1988 – Anne Ramsey who appeared in the films “Deadly Friend,” “Class Reunion,” “Meet the Hollowheads,” and “Doctor Hackenstein.”

1975 – Howard Wendell appeared in “The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake”.

1973 – Peggie Castle appeared in “Beginning of the End” and “Back From the Dead”.

FILMS RELEASED ON August 11

King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) – Japan
Attack of the Mushroom People – aka Matango (1963)
Dogora The Space Monster (1964)
Beast of Morocco (1968)
City of the Living Dead (1980) – Italy
A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
Pulse (2006)
Splatter Disco (2007)
Vampire Black: Trail of the Dead (2008)
The Last Resort (2009) – DVD premiere

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August 12

BORN ON August 12

1986 – Elise Avellan, has appeared in “The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond”, “Planet Terror”, and “Death Proof.”

1985 – Jade Tailor, has appeared in “Cam2Cam”, “True Blood (TV Series)”, “Dark Reel”, “Crimson”, “You’re So Dead.”

1981 – Natalie Mendoza, starred in “The Descent”, “The Descent: Part 2”, “Surviving Evil”, and “BeastMaster (TV Series).”

1972 – Rebecca Gayheart who appeared in the films “Urban Legend,” “Scream 2,” “From Dusk Til Dawn 3,” “Santa’s Slay” and the Showtime series “Dead Like Me.”

1956 – Bruce Greenwood, who appeared in the films “Disturbing Behavior,” “Gerald’s Game,” “Below” and “Doctor Sleep.”

1954 – Sam J. Jones appeared in the film “Revamped.”

1950 – Jim Beaver, has starred in “Supernatural (TV Series)”, “Crimson Peak”, “Tremors (TV Series)”, “The X-Files (TV Series)”, and much more.

1939 – George Hamilton, who played “Count Dracula” in “Love At First Bite” (1979) and starred in the film “The Power” and the TV movie “The Dead Don’t Die.”

1931 – William Goldman who wrote the screenplays for the films “The Stepford Wives,” “Magic,” “Dreamcatcher,” and “Misery.”

1928 – Dan Curtis who produced the original and 1990 versions of the TV series “Dark Shadows” and such films as “The Night Stalker,” “The Night Strangler” and “Trilogy of Terror.”

1898 – Oskar Homolka, who appeared in the films “The Invisible Woman,” “Mr. Sardonicus” and the 1968 TV version of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.”

1893 – Howard Smith who appeared in “I Bury the  Living.”

DIED ON August 12

2007 – Aida Young, produced many Hammer films including “Hands of the Ripper”, “Scars of Dracula”, “Taste the Blood of Dracula”, “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave”, “One Million Years B.C.” and more.

2000 – Loretta Young, who appeared in “Seven Footprints To Satan.”

1999 – Ross Eliot, who appeared in “Tarantula,” “Monster on Campus” and “The Indestructible Man.”

1982 – Henry Fonda, who starred in the films “The Swarm,” and “Tentacles.”

FILMS RELEASED ON August 12

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1941) – New York City
Back From the Dead (1957)
The Unknown Terror (1957)
Black Sunday (1960) – Italy
The Pit And The Pendulum (1961)
Suspiria (1977)
Funeral Home (1980)
Cujo (1983)
Mindwarp (1992) – video premiere
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Final Destination 5 (2011)

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August 13

Born On August 13

1983 – Sebastian Stan, appeared in “The Covenant” and “The Apparition.”

1972 – Crystal Allen, appeared in “Ghost Storm,” “Anacondas: Trail of Blood” and “Anaconda III.”

1920 – Neville Brand appeared in “The Psychic Killer,” “Eaten Alive” and the TV movie “Killdozer.”

1909 – John Beal, played in “The Vampire,” and also appeared in “Amityville 3D” and the original “Dark Shadows” TV series.

1899 –Alfred Hitchcock, Great Master of Suspense, he directed such films as “Psycho”, “The Birds”, “Frenzy”, “North By Northwest”, “Vertigo,” Rope (1948), Strangers on a Train (1951) and many more.

Died On August 13

2019 – Lily Leung Shun-Yin, appeared in “Fatal Obsession.”

1999 – Charles Macaulay appeared in “The House of Seven Corpses,” “The Twilight People” and “Blacula”.

1986 – Helen Mack appeared in “Son of Kong”.

1984 – Alberto Lupo appeared in “The Atom Age Vampire”.

1946 – H.G. Wells author of such classic novels as “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, “The Invisible Man”, “The Shape of Things to Come”, “The Time Machine”, “The War of the Worlds”, “The Food of the Gods”, “Empire of the Ants”, all of which have been adapted into films, some of them multiple times.

Films Released On August 13

Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) – New York City premiere
Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967)
The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
Futureworld (1976)
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Braindead aka Dead Alive (1992) – New Zealand
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Terror Toons (2002)
Alien vs Predator (2004)
Gozu (2004) – Los Angeles

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August 14

BORN ON August 14

1983 – Mila Kunis starred in “American Psycho II: All American Girl”.

1968 – Ben Bass, appeared in “Night Visions (TV Series)”, “The Hunger (TV Series)”, “Bride of Chucky” and “Forever Knight (TV Series).”

1966 – Halle Berry, played in “Gothika”, “The Call”, “Dark Tide.”

1957 – Tony Moran portrayed “Michael Myers” in the original “Halloween” also was in “Death House” and more.

1950 – Jim Wynorski some of his films are “Chopping Mall”, “Transylvania Twist”, “976-Evil II”, “Dinosaur Island”, “Vampirella”, “The Bare Wench Project”, and so many more.

1946 – Antonio Fargas, appeared in the “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” TV series and the films “Firestarter” and “Howling VI.”

1926 – Alice Ghostley appeared in the film “Blue Sunshine”, and played ‘Granny” in “Addams Family Reunion”.

1920 – Nehemiah Persoff appeared in the films “The Power,” “The Psychic Killer” and in the 1973 TV movie “Dracula.”

1901 – George Worthing Yates, who wrote the screenplays for the films “Attack of the Puppet People,” “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” and “Them!

DIED ON August 14

2014 – Madeleine Collinson, appeared “Twins of Evil.”

2012 – Ron Palillo, appeared in “Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI”, “Hellgate”, “Trees 2: The Root of All Evil.”

1987 – Sydney Bromley appeared in “Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell,” “Prehistoric Women” and “An American Werewolf In London”.

1985 – Gale Sondergaard appeared in the 1939 version of “The Cat and the Canary,” the 1941 version of “The Black Cat” and “The Invisible Man’s Revenge”.

1984 – J.B. Priestley who wrote the novel “Benighted” on which the film “The Old Dark House” is based.

1982 – Patrick Magee appeared in “Tales From the Crypt,” “Asylum,” “Dementia 13,″ The Masque of the Red Death (1964), The Monster Club (1981) and “A Clockwork Orange”.

1972 – Eddie Carmel played in “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die”.

1970 – Steve Darell appeared in “The Monolith Monsters” and “Tarantula” (1955)

FILMS RELEASED ON August 14

Witchfinder General (1968) – New York City
Deadly Blessing (1981)
The House by the Cemetery (1981)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Single White Female 1992
Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1996)

Vengeance of the Dead (2001)
Unearthed (2004)
Bikini Girls on Ice (2009)
District 9 (2009)
Psychopath (2009)
Grace (2009) – USA limited
Raven (2009) – Los Angeles
The Id Proxy (2009)

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August 15

BORN ON August 15

1990 – Jennifer Lawrence, starred in “House at the End of the Street” and “The Devil You Know”.

1985 – Emily Kinney, starred in “The Walking Dead (TV Series)” and “The Following (TV Series).”

1974 – Natasha Henstridge who starred in the films “Species,” “Species II,” “Species III” and “Ghosts of Mars.”

1972 – Ben Affleck appeared in “Phantoms,” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.

1970 – Anthony Anderson, appeared in “Scary Movie 3 & 4″ and “Urban Legends: Final Cut.”

1950 – Gaylen Ross, in “Dawn of the Dead (1978),” “Madman” and “Creepshow.”

1936 – Pat Priest who played “Marilyn Munster” on the series “The Munsters,” and appeared in the film “The Incredible Two Headed Transplant.”

1933 – Lori Nelson who starred in “Revenge of the Creature,” “The Day the World Ended” and “The Naked Monster.”

1929 – Gordon Russell who wrote for the original “Dark Shadows” and wrote the screenplay for “House of Dark Shadows.”

1919 –  Huntz Hall filmed “Spooks Run Wild” and “Ghosts On the Loose.”

1903 – Charles Gemora, who in “I Married a Monster From Outer Space,” the 1932 version of “Murders In the Rue Morgue” and “War of the Worlds.”

DIED ON August 15

2013 – Lisa Robin Kelly, appeared in “Poltergeist: The Legacy (TV Series)”, “Amityville: Dollhouse”, “The X-Files (TV Series)”, and “Terror in the Shadows.”

2007 – Anthony Carras, producer of the films “Comedy of Terrors,” “Ghost in the Invisible Bikini”.

1996 – Joe Seneca, appeared in “Friday the 13th (TV Series) and “The Blob” remake.

1988 – Ronald Stein who composed for “Spider Baby” and “The Haunted Palace.”

1979 – William Schramm who appeared in “Dracula’s Daughter”.

FILMS RELEASED ON August 15

The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Targets (1968)
Manhunter (1986)
The Fly (1986)
Event Horizon (1997)
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
Freddy vs Jason (2003)
Mutation (2006)
Snakes on a Train (2006)
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007) – USA limited
Mirrors (2008)

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