SEPTEMBER 1

BORN ON SEPTEMBER 1

1975 – Scott Speedman, appeared in “Underworld,” “Underworld: Evolution,” “Out of the Dark,” “Anamorph,” “The Monsters,” “The Strangers” and “The Moth Diaries.”

1946 – Susan Backlinie, appeared in “Day of the Animals” and “Jaws.”

1944 – Beau Starr, appeared in “Masters of Horror – TV Series,” “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers” and “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers.”

1943 – Don Stroud, appeared in “The Amityville Horror [1979],” “Carnosaur 2” and “The Alien Within.”

1929 – Anne Ramsey, appeared in “Deadly Friend,” “The Goonies” and “Doctor Hackenstein.”

1928 – George Maharis, appeared in “Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby”.

1926 – Gene Colan, Comic book artist created “Blade.”

1922 – Yvonne De Carlo, best known as Lily Munster in “The Munsters” and also starred in “The Silent Scream,” “Mirror Mirror,” “Satan’s Cheerleaders,” “American Gothic” and more.

1913 – Christian Nyby, directed “The Thing From Another World” and “Showdown with Rance McGrew” episode of “The Twilight Zone.”

1907 – Nathan Juran, directed “20 Million Miles To Earth,” “The Deadly Mantis,” “The Black Castle” and more.

1898 – Richard Arlen, appeared in “Island of Lost Souls,” “The Lady and the Monster” and “The Crawling Hand.”

DIED ON SEPTEMBER 1

2020 – Boris Klyuyev, appeared in “Blyustiteli poroka – Episode: Pechalnyi sonet [2001].”

2017 – Elizabeth Kemp, starred in “He Knows You’re Alone” and “The Clairvoyant.”

2008 – Michael Pate, starred in “Curse of the Undead,” “Howling III,” “Tower of London [1962] and “The Black Castle”.

2008 –Don LaFontaine, voice over master for “Halloween 4” and episodes of “Beyond Belief: Fact of Fiction.”

1986 – Murray Hamilton, appeared in “Jaws” “Jaws 2,” “Amityville Horror [1979]” and William Castle’s “13 Frightened Girls.”

FILMS RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 1

Isle of the Dead [1945]
Sorry, Wrong Number [1948] – NYC premiere
The Creeper [1948]
Nadja [1995]
The Prophecy [1995]
Altered Species [2001]
The Beast of Bray Road [2005]
The Wicker Man [2006]
Bell Witch: The Movie [2007]

The Levenger Tapes [2013]

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SEPTEMBER 2

BORN ON SEPTEMBER 2

1981 – Gib Gerard, starred in “Desecrated.”

1971 – Shauna Sand, appeared in “Succubus: Hell-Bent,” “Dark Realm – TV Series” and “The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven.”

1968 – Kristen Cloke, appeared in “Black Christmas [2006],” “Willard [2003],” “Final Destination,” “Millennium – TV Series]” and “The X-Files – TV Series.”

1966 – Salma Hayek, starred in “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “The Faculty,” “Tale of Tales” and “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant,”

1964 – Keanu Reeves, starred in “Dracula,” “The Neon Demon,” “The Gift” and “Constantine.”

1946 – Luis Avalos, appeared in “Ghost Fever,” “Criminal Act” and “Wishcraft.”

1940 – Beverly Sanders, appeared in “Magic” and the TV Movie “Look What Happened to Rosemary’s Baby.”

1927 – Francis Matthews, appeared in the Hammer films “Rasputin: The Mad Monk,” “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” and “The Revenge of Frankenstein.”

DIED ON SEPTEMBER 2

2020 – Wanda Seux, actress in “Night Massacre.”

2001 – Troy Donahue, appeared in “The Monolith Monsters,” “Shock ‘Em Dead,” “The Chilling,” “Man of A Thousand Faces,” “Monster on Campus” and the TV Series “Monsters.”

2000 – Curt Siodmak, screenwriter for “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man” and “House of Frankenstein,” as well as creating the legend of “The Wolf Man”.

1964 – Morris Ankrum, appeared in “Giant from the Unknown,” “The Giant Claw” and “Zombies of Mora Tau.”

FILMS RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 2

See No Evil [1971]
The Man Who Haunted Himself [1971] – NYC
Lust for A Vampire [1971]
Deathstalker [1983] – USA – limited
Mortuary [1983]
Nightmares [1983] – NYC
Severed Ties [1992]
13th Child: Legend of The Jersey Devil [2002] – USA – video premiere
Carnival of the Damned [2008]
The Morgue [2008] – USA – DVD premiere
Carriers [2009]

Shark Night 3D [2011]
Apollo 18 [2011]

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SEPTEMBER 3

BORN ON SEPTEMBER 3

1982 – Angus Sutherland, appeared in “Lost Boys: The Tribe.”

1978 – Nichole Hiltz, appeared in “Trailer Park of Terror,” “Alien Autopsy,” “Masters of Horror – TV Series,” “All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer – TV Series” and “May.”

1976 – Ashley Jones, appeared in “Grave Secrets,” “True Blood – TV Series” and “Devil’s Prey.”

1974 – Clare Kramer, appeared in “Tales of Halloween,” “Big Ass Spider!” “Road to Hell,” “The Dead Ones,” “The Thirst,” “The Gravedancers” and more.

1965 – Costas Mandylor, starred in “Hyenas,” “Tales from the Crypt – TV Series,” “Dinocroc,” “Saw III,” “Saw IV,” “Saw V,” “Saw VI,” and “Saw 3D: The Final Chapter.”

1965 – Charlie Sheen, starred in “Scary Movie 3, 4,  & V,″ “The Wraith,” “Grizzly II: Revenge,” and Postmortem.”

1963 – Daniel Myrick, writer and director of “The Blair Witch Project,” “Curse of the Blair Witch – TV Short Documentary],” “An Exploration of the Blair Witch Legend – Video short,” “Solstice,” “The Objective” and “Believers”.

1936 – Eileen Brennan, appeared in TV Movie “The Night That Panicked America,” as well as the films “Jeepers Creepers,” “The Hollow,” “Murder by Death” and episodes of “Tales From the Crypt and “Gravedale Hight.”

1902 – Mantan Moreland, starred in “King of the Zombies,” “The Strange Case of Dr. Rx,” “Revenge of the Zombies” and “Spider Baby.”

1892 – Esdras Hartley, art director for “The Return of Doctor X.”

DIED ON SEPTEMBER 3

2019 – Carol Lynley, appeared in “Howling VI: The Freaks,” “Dark Tower,” “Beware! The Blob,” “The Shuttered Room,” the TV movie “The Night Stalker,” and episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Night Gallery,” “Monsters,” “Thriller” and “The Evil Touch.”

2018 – Jacqueline Pearce, appeared in “The Reptile,” “The Plague of the Zombies,” “Ghostlands,” and episodes of “Shadows” and “Dead of Night.”

2012 – Michael Clarke Duncan, starred in “A Resurrection” and “The Green Mile”.

1998 – William Joyce, starred in “I Eat Your Skin”.

1991 – Frank Capra, director for “Arsenic & Old Lace”.

FILMS RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 3

The Valley of Gwangi [1969] – NYC
Kalifornia [1993]
Martyrs [2008]

Clownado [2019]

Dark Figures [2020]

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SEPTEMBER 4

BORN ON SEPTEMBER 4

1978 – Wes Bentley, appeared in “American Horror Story – TV Series,” “Amnesiac,” “Final Girl,” “Underworld: Awakening,” “Jonah Hex,” “The Tomb,” “P2,” “The Ungodly” and “Ghost Rider.”

1957 – Patricia Tallman, played “Barbara” in the 1990 remake of “Night of the Living Dead” and appeared in “Army of Darkness”.

1943 – Michael Berryman, starred in “The Hills Have Eyes [1977],” “Deadly Blessing,” Mask Maker,”  “The Devil’s Rejects,”  “Necrosis,” “Ed Gein: The Butcher Of Plainfield,” “Shed of the Dead,” “Hell’s Kitty,” “Smothered,” “Cursed Films” and many more.

1928 – Dick York, appeared in several episodes of the “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “The Twilight Zone” TV series and in one of my favorite “Thriller” episodes, “The Incredible Dr. Markesen” with Boris Karloff.

1911 – Reggie Nalder, played the vampire in the TV movie “Salem’s Lot,” and also appeared in “The Dead Don’t Die,” “Dracula’s Dog,” “Crash!” and “Mark of the Devil.”

1911 – Billy Dix, appeared in “Giant from the Unknown” and “She Demons.”

1908 – Edward Dmytryk, directed “The Devil Commands” and “Captive Wild Woman”.

1887 – Roy William Neill, directed “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,” “The Black Room,” “The 9th Guest” and “Black Moon.”

DIED ON SEPTEMBER 4

2014 – Joan Rivers, appeared in “R.L. Stein’s Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Girlfriend?”

1993 – Hervé Villechaize, appeared in “Seizure” and “Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood.”

1991 – Tom Tryon, appeared in “I Married a Monster from Outer Space,” and wrote the novel “The Other” on which the film of the same name was based.

1981 – David Peel, known for his role of “Baron Meinster” in Hammer’s “The Brides of Dracula.” He also appeared in “The Hands of Orlac.”

FILMS RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 4

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla [1952] – NYC

The Crawling Hand [1963] – Hartford, CT

He Knows You’re Alone [1981] – Finland

Curse Of the Wolf [2007]
Unholy [2007]

Sick for Toys [2018]

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