AUGUST 8

BORN ON AUGUST 8

1981 – Meagan Good, appeared in “Venom,” “The Unborn,” “One Missed Call,” “The Intruder,” and “Saw V.”

1958 – Harry Crosby, played “Bill” in “Friday the 13th.”

1944 – Brooke Bundy, played “Elaine Parker” in “Nightmare on Elm Street” 3 & 4.

1938 – Connie Stevens, starred in “Two on a Guillotine” and an episode of “Tales from the Darkside.”

1937 – Adam Roarke, appeared in “Frogs”

1930 – Nita Talbot, appeared in “Frightmare,” “Puppet Master II” and “Amityville 1992: It’s About Time.”

1926 – Richard Anderson, starred in “The Night Strangler.”

1922 – Rory Calhoun, played farmer “Vincent Smith” in “Motel Hell.”

1919 – Producer Dino De Laurentiis, whose films include “Army of Darkness,” “King Kong [1976]” and “Hannibal.”

1900 – Robert Siodmak, directed “Son of Dracula,” “Cobra Woman” and “Phantom Lady.”

DIED ON AUGUST 8

2019 – Ernesto Colón Sierra, comic writer and penciler for comics some of which include “Creepy,” “Eerie,” and others.

2019 – Jean-Pierre Mocky, writer for “The Big Scare” and “Litan.”

2013 – Karen Black, appeared in “Ooga Booga,” “House of 1000 Corpses,” “Children of the Night,” “Invaders from Mars,” “Burnt Offerings,” “Trilogy of Terror” and many more.

2004 – Fay Wray, starred in “The Vampire Bat,” “Doctor X,” “Mystery Of The Wax Museum” and the film that made her a star King Kong (1933).

2001 – Robert Jacks, appeared in Scary Movie [1991], he also appeared in, was the composer and soundtrack for “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.”

1988 – Alan Napier, appeared in “The Mole People,” “The Uninvited” and “The Invisible Man Returns.”

1984 – Richard Deacon film credits included “The Birds,” “Invaders From Mars” and “Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy.”

1965 – Shirley Jackson, who wrote the novel “The Haunting of Hill House” on which the film “The Haunting” was based.

FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 8

Hold That Ghost (1941)
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959) – Italy
Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
A Cat in the Brain (1990)
Komodo (2000) – video premiere
My Wife and My Dead Wife (2007)
Blackspot (2008) – Rhode Island International Film Festival

Apostle of Dracula [2012]

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AUGUST 9

BORN ON AUGUST 9

1990 – Bill Skarsgård, starred in “Hemlock Grove – TV Series,” “It [2017]” “It Chapter Two,” “Villains” and “Castle Rock – TV Series.”

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

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

1982 – Kate Siegel, appeared in “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” “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, starred in “Fright Night [1985]” and the TV movie “Here Comes The Munsters.”

1959 – Robert Jacks, appeared in Scary Movie [1991], he also appeared in, was the composer and soundtrack for “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.”

1959 – Ted Prior, appeared in “Killer Workout,” “Sledgehammer,” “Surf Nazis Must Die,” “Possessed by the Night,” “The Last House,” “Night Claws,” “Mutant Species” and “Breath of Hate.”

1957 – Melanie Griffith, starred in “Body Double.”

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

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

1934 – Dick Anthony Williams, appeared in “Grizzly II: The Revenge.”

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

1906 – Robert Surtees, cinematographer in “The Other [1972].”

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

DIED ON AUGUST 9

2020 – Martin Birch, music producer & sound engineer for Deep Purple, Rainbow, Fleetwood Mac, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, and Iron Maiden.

2020 – Rolf Göran Forsmark, appeared in “En Drink med Dracula” and an episode of “Chock.”

2020 – Duane Tatro, composer/stock music for the 1972 TV Movie “When Michael Calls.”

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

2003 – Gregory Hines, starred in “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)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark [2019]

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AUGUST 10

BORN ON AUGUST 10

1990 – Lucas Till, starred in “Wolves,” “Crush,” “The Disappointments Room,” “Kristy,” “The Curse of Downers Grove” and more.

1971 – Justin Theroux, starred in “False Positive.”

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

1965 – Eric Thal, starred in “The Puppet Masters” and “The Shaft.”

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

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

1959 – Rosanna Arquette, appeared in “The Divide,” “Black Rainbow,” “The Dark Secret of Harvest Home” and “Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy.”

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

1918 – Martin Benson, appeared in “Gorgo,” “The Cosmic Monsters” and “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 Cat Creeps.”

1912 – Wilbur Stark, executive producer for “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 “Bride of the Gorilla” and “Curucu, Beast of the Amazon.”

DIED ON AUGUST 10

2020 – Raymond Gilmore Allen, actor in “Fight That Ghost.”

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 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)

Along Came the Devil [2018]

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AUGUST 11

BORN ON AUGUST 11

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

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

1947 – Stuart Gordon, directed “Re-Animator,” “From Beyond,” “Dolls,” “Castle Freak” and “Dagon” just to name a few.

1937 – Anna Massey, appeared in “Peeping Tom,” “Frenzy” and “The Vault of Horror.”

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

DIED ON AUGUST 11

2020 – George Christy, appeared in “Outbreak,” Se7en” and “Predator 2.”

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

2014 – Robin Williams, acclaimed comedian and actor starred in “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 many more.

1988 – Anne Ramsey, appeared in “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

Artik (2019)

Infection (2019)

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AUGUST 12

BORN ON AUGUST 12

1987 – Joshua Sohn, composer for “Grizzly II: The Revenge” and “The Attic.”

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

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

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

1976 – Wednesday 13, appeared in “Bite School” and “Killer Waves 2.”

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

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

1954 – Sam J. Jones, appeared in “Revamped.”

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

1939 – George Hamilton, starred in “Love At First Bite,” “The Power” and the TV movie “The Dead Don’t Die.”

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

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

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

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

1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, screenwriter for “The Bat [1959],” “The Unknown [1927]” and “The Bat Whispers.”

DIED ON AUGUST 12

2020 – Mónica Luiza Miguel, actor in “Hot Snake.”

2014 – Lauren Bacall, appeared in “The Fan” and “Presence of Mind.”

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.

2004 – Peter Woodthorpe, appeared in “The Skull,” “The Evil of Frankenstein” and the TV Movie “The Tale of Sweeney Todd.”

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

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

1982 – Henry Fonda, starred in “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, appeared in “The Vampire,” “Amityville 3D” and the original “Dark Shadows” TV series.

1899 –Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Great Master of Suspense, directed such films as “Psycho,” “The Birds,” “Frenzy,” “North By Northwest,” “Vertigo,” “Rope,” “Strangers on a Train” 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,” “Piranha [1995]” and “Milo.”

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

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

1959 – Stephen Sachs, stuntman for “The Dorm That Dripped Blood.”

1957 – Tony Moran, portrayed “Michael Myers” in “Halloween [1976]” and was also in “Death House,” “Clown Motel: Spirits Arise” and more.

1950 – Jim Wynorski, director of “Chopping Mall,” “The Return of Swamp Thing,” “Transylvania Twist,” “976-Evil II,” “Dinosaur Island,” “Vampirella,” “The Bare Wench Project” and 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 “Blue Sunshine”, and played ‘Granny” in “Addams Family Reunion”.

1924 – Eduardo Fajardo, appeared in “Nightmare City,” “Lisa and the Devil,” “The House of Exorcism,” “Evil Eye,” “Cross of the Devil,” “La Llorona [1960],” “Oasis of the Zombies” and “The Murder Mansion.”

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

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

DIED ON AUGUST 14

2020 – Ash Christian, producer for “Stranger in the House,” “Show Yourself” and “Kindred Spirits.”

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

2012 – Ron Palillo, appeared in “Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI,” “Hellgate” and “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, “The Cat and the Canary [1939],” “The Black Cat [1941]” and “The Invisible Man’s Revenge”.

1984 – J.B. Priestley, 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,” “The Monster Club” and “A Clockwork Orange”.

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

1970 – Steve Darell, appeared in “The Monolith Monsters” and “Tarantula.”

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)

Shark Exorcist [2015]

Show Yourself (2016)

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