SEPTEMBER 19
BORN ON SEPTEMBER 19
1989 – Lorenza Izzo, appeared in “Holidays,” “Lab Coats: Life After the Zombie Apocalypse – TV Short,” “Knock Knock,” “The Stranger,” “The Green Inferno,” “Hemlock Grove – TV Series,” “Aftershock” and more.
1988 – Katrina Bowden, appeared in “Great White,” “Nurse,” “Scary Movie 5,” “Hold Your Breath,” “Piranha 3DD” and “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.”
1987 – Danielle Panabaker, appeared in “Friday the 13th [2009],” “The Crazies [2010],” “Piranha 3DD,” “Girls Against Boys,” and “The Ward.”
1984 – Kevin Zegers, appeared in “Specimen,” “Wrong Turn” and “Dawn of the Dead [2004].”
1964 – Kim Richards, starred in “The Car” and the TV movie “Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell.”
1948 – Jeremy Irons, appeared in the film “Dead Ringers”.
1942 – David Hess, appeared in “Ulli Lommel’s Zodiac Killer,” “Zombie Nation,” “Swamp Thing,” “House on the Edge of the Park” and “The Last House on the Left.”
1933 – David McCallum, played the title role in the 70’s TV series, “The Invisible Man.”
1908 – Tetsu Nakamura, appeared in “Yog, Monster from Space,” “Atragon” and “Mothra.”
DIED ON SEPTEMBER 19
2020 – Yôsuke Saitô, actor in “The Scissors Massacre,” “Love Ghost” and more.
2000 – Gloria Talbott, starred in “The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll,” “The Cyclops” and “I Married a Monster from Outer Space”.
1986 – B. Jonathan Ringkamp, screenwriter for “The Clairvoyant.”
FILMS RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 19
Satan’s School for Girls [1973]
Blue Velvet [1986] – limited
Wishmaster [1997]
Demon Hunters [1999]
Bubba Ho-Tep [2003] – USA limited
Underworld [2003]
Cold Creek Manor [2003]
Deadgirl [2008] – Austin Fantastic Fest
Zombie Strippers! [2008]
Open Graves [2009] – TV premiere
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead [2014] – Fantastic Fest
Evil Nature [2018]
Bride of the Werewolf [2019]
The Cleansing Hour [2019] – Fantastic Fest
The Deep Ones [2020]
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SEPTEMBER 20
BORN ON SEPTEMBER 20
1991 – Spencer Locke, appeared in “Resident Evil: Extinction,” “Resident Evil: Afterlife,” “Insidious: The Last Key,” “Monster House” and more.
1977 – Jon Bernthal, best known for playing “Shane Walsh” on “The Walking Dead – TV Series.”
1975 – Asia Argento, appeared in “Trauma,” “The Church,” “Demons 2,” “Dracula 3D,” “The Phantom of the Opera [1998],” “Land of the Dead” and more.
1965 – Robert Rusler, appeared in “Blood Feast [2016],” “Tales of Halloween,” “Amityville: A New Generation,” “Sometimes They Come Back,” “Vamp,” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge.”
1956 – Gary Cole, starred in the TV series “American Gothic” also appeared in “The Ring 2” and other films.
1954 – Brinke Stevens, starred in “Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama,” “Teenage Exorcist” [which she co-wrote], “Head Cases: Serial Killers in the Delaware Valley,” “Caesar & Otto’s Paranormal Halloween,” “Caesar & Otto’s Deadly Xmas,” “Vampires vs Zombies,” and “Night of Something Strange,” “Bryan Loves You” and many more.
1940 – William Finley, appeared in “Masters of Horror – TV Series,” “Tales from the Crypt – TV Series,” “Night Terrors,” “Silent Rage,” “The Funhouse,” “The Fury,” “Eaten Alive,” “Phantom of the Paradise,” “Sisters” and others.
1925 – James Bernard, soundtrack for “The Damned,” “The Living Corpse,” composer for “Nosferatu [1922],” “Horror of Dracula,” “Scars of Dracula,” “The Hound of Baskervilles,” “Dracula: Prince of Darkness [1966],” “The Gorgon” and many more.
1914 – Glen Robinson, special effects for “King Kong [1976],” “Demon Seed [1977],” “Amityville II: The Possession” and “Island Claws.”
1912 – Don Shelton, appeared in “Invasion of the Saucer Men” and “Them!”
DIED ON SEPTEMBER 20
2020 – Michael Chapman, directed “Annihilator,” cinematographer for “The Howling,” “The Lost Boys” and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1978].”
2020 – Takashi Fujiki, appeared in “Kamen Rider Amazons: Reincarnation,” Kamen Rider Amazons: Awakening,” Shin Godzilla” and “Terror in the Streets.”
2020 – Alan Tomkins, art department for “Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles [1994], “Tam Lin [1970],” art director for “Lifeforce [1985]” and “The Keep [1983].”
2019 – Jan Merlin, appeared in “Them!,” “The Twilight People,” TV Movies “Covenant,” “Buried Alive” and episodes of “Matinee Theatre.”
2008 – Patricia Place, appeared in “Scanner Cop II” and “House of the Dead 2.”
2007 – Eleanor Beecroft, appeared in “Funeral Home” and the 1961 3D film “The Mask,”
1993 – Zita Johann, actress in “The Mummy [1932]” and “Raiders of the Living Dead.”
1973 – Glenn Strange, who played the Frankenstein monster in such Universal classics as “House of Frankenstein,” “House of Dracula” and “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein”.
FILMS RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 20
The Mummy’s Hand [1940]
Cellar Dweller [1988]
Living Dead Girl [2003]
Jack O’Lantern [2004] – DVD premiere
Attack of the Slime People [2008]
The Virgin Murders [2009]
Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 [2011]
Villains [2019]
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SEPTEMBER 21
BORN ON SEPTEMBER 21
1990 – Christian Serratos, appeared in “The Walking Dead – TV Series” and “Flight 7500.”
1983 – Maggie Grace, starred in “The Fog [2005]” and episodes of the TV Series “Fear the Walking Dead.”
1980 – Autumn Reeser, appeared in “The Legend of La Llorona,” “The Whispers – TV Series,” “Lost Boys: The Tribe,” “Dead Trigger,” and “Nature of the Beast – TV Movie.”
1971 – Luke Wilson, starred in “Vacancy” and appeared in “Scream 2,” “Soul Survivors” and “Zombieland: Double Tap.”
1965 – David Wenham, appeared in “Nekrotronic” and “Van Helsing: The London Assignment.”
1961 – Nancy Travis, appeared in “The Vanishing,” and the TV mini-series “Stephen King’s Rose Red.”
1947 – Stephen King, Master of Horror, whose novels and short stories are way too extensive to list here was also born on this date. Beside writing, he directed “Maximum Overdrive” and appeared in “Creepshow 2” and “Diary of the Dead. “The Shining,” “Carrie” and “Christine” were made into movies.
1947 – Nick Castle appeared as The Shape in “Halloween” and as The Alien in “Dark Star.” He co-wrote the screenplays for “Escape From New York,” “Escape from L.A.” and also directed “The Last Starfighter.”
1945 – Jerry Bruckheimer, Producer whose credits include such films as “Cat People [1982]” and “Deliver Us from Evil.”
1945 – Tariq Anwar, editor for “Curve,” “Crucible of Terror” and “Beware My Brethren.”
1931 – Larry Hagman, directed and appeared in “Son of the Blob.”
1930 – Dawn Addams, appeared in “The Vampire Lovers,” “Vault of Horror” and “The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll.”
1924 – Gail Russell, appeared in “The Uninvited [1944].”
1911 – Chuck Jones, directed “Gremlins: The New Batch” and appeared in “Gremlins.”
1894 – James Ashmore Creelman, writer for “King Kong [1933],” “King Kong [1976],” “The Most Dangerous Game” and “The Last Performance.”
1866 – H.G. Wells, writer who is best known for “War of the Worlds.”
DIED ON SEPTEMBER 21
2020 – Michael Lonsdale, actor in “Successive Slidings of Pleasure.”
2019 – Sid Haig, appeared in “Blood Bath,” “Beware! The Blob,” “Galaxy of Terror,” “House of 1000 Corpses,” “The Devil’s Rejects,” “Halloween [2007],” “The Inflicted,” “Bone Tomahawk,” “3 From Hell,” “Hanukkah” and many more.
2019 – Aron Eisenberg, appeared in “The Horror Show,” “Playroom,” “Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge,” and the TV Movie “Amityville: The Evils Escapes.”
2019 – Jack Donner, appeared in “Hand of Death,” “Retro Puppet Master,” “Demon Under Glass,” “Plot 7,” “Brotherhood of Blood,” “Farm House,” “Night of Templar,” the pilot episode of “Fear the Walking Dead” and many more films.
2019 – Carmelo Chionglo, production designer for “The Rites of May” and “Wake Up, Maruja.”
2009 – Robert Ginty, starred in “The Exterminator”, “Exterminator 2”, “Madhouse”, “Maniac Killer”, “The Alchemist”, and more.
2007 – Alice Ghostley appeared in “Blue Sunshine” and played ‘Granny” in “Addams Family Reunion.”
2003 – Pamela Gordon, appeared in “Poltergeist II: The Other Side” and “Blood Stone: Subspecies II”.
2000 – R. Wright Campbell, wrote the screenplays for “The Masque of the Red Death” and “Man of a Thousand Faces”.
1991 – Angelo Rossitto, appeared in “Freaks” and “Dracula vs. Frankenstein”.
FILMS RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 21
Wolfman [1979] – Mandan, ND
The Company of Wolves [1984]
Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter [1994]
Vampiyaz [2004]
Days of Darkness [2007]
Resident Evil: Extinction [2007]
Alien Raiders [2008]
House at the End of the Street [2012]
The Dead Center [2018]
The Mortuary Collection [2019] – Fantastic Fest
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SEPTEMBER 22
BORN ON SEPTEMBER 22
1987 – Tom Felton, appeared in episodes of “Origin,” “as well as The Apparition,” “Night Wolf,” and “The Disappeared.”
1985 – Erin Marie Hogan, appeared in “House of Manson,” “Axeman at Cutter’s Creek,” “Hold Your Breath,” “The Theatre Bizarre,” “2 Jennifer,” “Paranormal Entity” and more.
1982 – Billie Piper, appeared in “Penny Dreadful – TV Series” and “Spirit Trap.
1981 – Mandy Kane, appeared in “Dead Country.”
1979 – MyAnna Buring, appeared in “Hyena,” “Kill List,” “The Descent,” “The Descent: Part 2,” “Devil’s Playground,” “Vampire Killers,” “Red Mist,” “Doomsday,” “Grindhouse,” “The Omen [2006]” and more.
1978 – Daniella Alonso, starred in “The Collector” and “Wrong Turn 2: Dead End.”
1964 – Bonnie Hunt, starred in “The Green Mile.”
1952 – Paul Le Mat, starred in “Strange Invaders” and “The Puppet Master.”
1909 – Harry Thomas, make-up artist who worked on “Glen or Glenda,” “Plan 9,” “The Neanderthal Man,” “From Hell It Came,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Frankenstein’s Daughter,” and many more.
1902 – John Houseman, appeared in “The Fog” and “Ghost Story.”
1985 – Erich von Stroheim, appeared in “Lady and the Monster,” “The Crime of Doctor Crespi,” “Mandragore” and wrote the screenplay for “The Devil-Doll.”
DIED ON SEPTEMBER 22
2007 – Karl Hardman appeared in “Night of the Living Dead [1968]” and “Santa Claws.”
2006 – Edward Albert, starred in “Galaxy of Terror,” “The House Where Evil Dwells” and more.
2005 – Teisho Arikawa, visual effects for “War of the Gargantuas,” “Gigantis The Fire Monster” and “King Kong vs Godzilla”.
2005 – Joseph Wolf, producer for “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Children of The Living Dead” and “Halloween II & III”.
1999 – George C. Scott, starred in “The Exorcist III,” “Firestarter” and “The Changeling”.
1987 – Dan Rowan, appeared in “The Maltese Bippy.”
1958 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, screenwriter for “The Bat Whispers” and “The Bat.”
FILMS RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 22
Tormented [1960]
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster [1965]
Ghoulies II [1987] – UK
Se7en [1995]
Addams Family Reunion [1998]
Campfire Tales [1998] – video premiere
The Exorcist [2000] – re-stored version
Urban Legends: Final Cut [2000]
Feast [2005] – limited
The Devil’s Chair [2007]
Book of Blood [2009] – DVD premiere
Edges of Darkness [2008]
Strange Nature [2015]
The Sentinel [1977] – Released on Blu-ray in 2015 on this date
Werewolf Rising [2014] – UK
Garden Party Massacre [2017]
Red Summer [2017]
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SEPTEMBER 23
BORN ON SEPTEMBER 23
1975 – Jaime Bergman appeared in “Dark Wolf” and “Boa vs Python.”
1963 – Alex Proyas, directed “The Crow.”
1961 – Chi McBride, starred in “The Frighteners”.
1959 – Jason Alexander, movie debut in the film “The Burning” and also appeared in “Jacob’s Ladder.”
1956 – Maren Jensen, starred in “Deadly Blessing” and “The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries – TV Series.”
1920 – Mickey Rooney, appeared in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [2017],” “Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker,” “The Intruder,” “The Thirsting,” as well as episodes of “Night Gallery” and “The Twilight Zone.”
1894 – Walter Pidgeon, played “Morbius” in “Forbidden Planet.”.
DIED ON SEPTEMBER 23
2020 – Juliette Gréco, actress in “Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre.”
1998 – Mary Frann, appeared in “Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction – TV Series,” “Deadly Nightmares – TV Series,” aka “The Hitchhiker,” “Darkroom – TV Series” and more.
1994 – Robert Bloch, Author, wrote the novels “Psycho,” “Thriller,” “Night Gallery,” “Monsters” and “Tales from the Darkside.” His film screenplays include “The Night Walker,” “The Cabinet of Calagari” and “The House That Dripped Blood.” Of course, we all know that “Psycho” was made into a movie in 1960.
1993 – William Cort appeared in “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark”.
1975 – Ian Hunter, appeared in “Doctor Blood’s Coffin” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
FILMS RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 23
Dead Ringers [1988]
Mikey [1992] – video premiere
Hide and Creep [2004]
Corpse Bride [2005]
Screech of The Decapitated [2005] – Shockerfest International Film Festival]
The Living and The Dead [2006]
Feral [2017]
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SEPTEMBER 24
BORN ON SEPTEMBER 24
1987 – Brit Morgan, appeared in “Friend Request”, “The Frozen”, “True Blood [TV Series].”
1984 – Jessica Lucas, starred in “Cloverfield” and “The Covenant.”
1974 – Jackie Sandler, provided the voice in “Hotel Transylvania.”
1974 – Shirly Brener, appeared in “The Dunwhich Horror – TV Movie,” “30 Days to Die,” “Stitch,” “Tail Sting,” “Petrified” and the TV Series “Chronicles of the Dead.”
1969 – Jeffery Scott Lando, directed “ Decoys 2: Alien Seduction,” “House of Bones,” “Ghostquake,” “Goblin,” “Roboshark,” “Thirst,” “Boogeyman” and more.
1969 – Megan Ward, starred in “Trancers II,” “Trancers III” and “Amityville 1992: It’s About Time.”
1966 – Kelly Jo Minter, appeared in “The People Under the Stairs”, “Popcorn”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child”, and “The Lost Boys.”
1961 – John Logan, producer for “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “Bats” and the TV Series “Penny Dreadful.”
1958 – Kevin Sorbo, actor in “Sorority Party Massacre,” “Piranha Sharks,” “Julie X,” “Never Cry Werewolf” and more.
1923 – Gordon Urquhart, wrote the screenplay for “The Brain Eaters.”
1923 – Louis Edmonds, played “Roger Collins” on the original “Dark Shadows” soap opera.
1922 –Bert I. Gordon, producer/director/special effects films credits include “The Amazing Colossal Man,” “Attack of the Puppet People” and “Earth vs. the Spider.”
1917 – Abel Salazar, starred in “The Brainiac,” “The Vampire” and “The Vampire’s Coffin.”
1906 – Victor Wong played in “King Kong” and “Son of Kong.”
DIED ON SEPTEMBER 24
1995 – Tom McBride, appeared in “Friday the 13th Part 2 [1981].”
1979 – Carl Laemmle Jr., produced “Dracula [1931],” “Frankenstein [1931],” “The Bride of Frankenstein,” “The Mummy,” and more.
1976 – Bruno VeSota, appeared in “Attack of the Mayan Mummy” and “The Haunted Palace”.
1948 – Warren William, starred in “The Wolf Man [1941].”
1939 – Carl Laemmle, produced “The Phantom of the Opera [1925],” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1923]” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1913].”
FILMS RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 24
Amityville II: The Possession [1982]
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1986]
The Good Son [1993]
Warlock: The Armageddon [1993]
Spiders II: Breeding Ground [2002] – video premiere
Vampires: Los Muertos [2002] – video premiere
The Forgotten [2004]
Shaun Of The Dead [2004]
Rare Exports [2010]
Wendigo: Bound by Blood [2010]
Woe [2020]
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SEPTEMBER 25
BORN ON SEPTEMBER 25
1994 – Piper Anderson-Klotz, art department for some episodes of “The X-Files.”
1978 – Rossif Sutherland, appeared in “Possessor,” “The Retreat,” “Trench 11,” “Hellions,” “Dead Before Dawn 3D,” and 3 episodes of “Haven.”
1977 – Clea DuVall, starred in “The Grudge,” “Ghosts of Mars” and “The Faculty.”
1973 – Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, appeared in “House on Haunted Hill [1999]” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, starred in “The Haunting [1999]”.
1968 – Will Smith, starred in “I Am Legend”.
1961 – Heather Locklear, starred in “The Return of the Swamp Thing” and “Firestarter.”
1958 – Michael Madsen, starred in “Species I & II,” “Ligeia,” and “Scary Movie 4.”
1952 – Christopher Reeve, starred in “Village of the Damned [1995]”.
1931 – Peter Woodthorpe, appeared in “The Evil of Frankenstein,” “The Skull” and “The Tale of Sweeney Todd.”
1926 – Aldo Ray, appeared in “The Psychic Killer,” “The Bog” and “The Haunted.”
DIED ON SEPTEMBER 25
2019 – Linda Porter, appeared in “Mercy,” and episodes of “Good vs. Evil,” and “American Horror Story.”
2002 – Maurice Manson, appeared in “The Creature Walks Among Us,” “The Undead” and many episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” and “The Munsters.”
1984 – Walter Pidgeon, starred as “Dr. Morbius” in “Forbidden Planet.”
FILMS RELEAED ON SEPTEMBER 25
Rope [1948]
Dementia 13 [1963] – Los Angeles
The Mutations [1974]
Innocent Blood [1992]
Urban Legend [1998]
Dead Creatures [2001]
My Stuffed Animal is a Monster [2009]
Pandorum [2009]
The Green Inferno [2013]
Another WolfCop [2017]
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