FEBRUARY 6

BORN ON FEBRUARY 6

1922 – Patrick Macnee, appeared in the films “Waxwork,” “The Howling” and “Lobster Man from Mars.”

1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, who appeared in the film “Queen of Outer Space.” and played herself in the film “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors.”

DIED ON FEBRUARY 6

2021 – Harry Fielder, actor in “Quatermass and the Pit,” “Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed,” “Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb,” “The Blood on Satan’s Claw,” “Twins of Evil,” “The Bride,” “Nightbreed” and more.

2021 – Krzysztof Kowalewski, “appeared in “Kill It and Leave This Town.”

2021 – Miyuri Samarasinghe, actress in “Gharasarpa.”

2020 – Raphaël Coleman, actor in “It’s Alive [2009].”

2009 – Philip Carey who appeared in the films “Monster” [1979] and the TV movie “Scream of the Wolf,” and also made appearances on countless TV shows including Boris Karloff’s “Thriller,” and “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.”

2006 – Esther Sandoval, appeared in the film “Creature from The Haunted Sea.”

2002 – Guy Stockwell, who appeared in the films “Burned at The Stake,” “Santa Sangre,” “It’s Alive,” and appeared in TV shows such as “Thriller” and “Land of The Giants”.

1996 – Guy Madison, starred in “The Beast from Hollow Mountain.”

1994 – Joseph Cotten, starred in the films “Lady Frankenstein,” “Latitude Zero,” “Screamers,” “The Survivor” and “The Abominable Dr. Phibes.”

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 6

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave [1968]
Zardoz [1974]

This House Possessed [1981] – TV Movie
Alien Predator [1986]
Dead of Winter [1987]
Netherworld [1992]
Serial Killer [1996]
The Night Flier [1997]

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra [2001]
Repossessed [2002]

Sleepless Nights [2016]

Bad Apples [2018]
Incubus [2007]

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FEBRUARY 7

BORN ON FEBRUARY 7

1979 – Cerina Vincent, appeared in “Cabin Fever,” “Murder-Set-Pieces.” “Intermedio,” “It Waits,” “Sasquatch Mountain,” “Freaks of Nature,” “Tales of Halloween,” “Return to House on Haunted Hill” and more.

1978 – Ashton Kutcher, producer of the TV Series “Room 401.”

1975 – Brent Chalem, child actor known for playing “Horace” in “The Monster Squad.”

1960 – Steve Johnson, makeup effects wizard  worked on “An American Werewolf in London,” “Night of the Demons,” “Dead Heat,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master,” “The Fog [1980],” ”Species,” “Brainscan” and many more.

1960 – James Spader, who starred in the films “Wolf,” “Stargate” and “Jack’s Back.”

1955 – Miguel Ferrer, appeared in “DeepStar Six,” “The Guardian [1990],” “The Night Flier,” “Hard Ride to Hell,” as well as several TV Series including “Tales from the Crypt,” “Twin Peaks,” “Night Visons,” “The Stand” and more.

1951 – Kim Milford, appeared in “Laserblast,” “Nightmare Noon,” “Song of the Succubus – TV Movie” and an episode of “The Wide World of Mystery.”

1943 – Greydon Clark, directed “Without Warning,” “Uninvited,” “Satan’s Cheerleaders,” “Wacko” and “Dance Macabre.”

1931 – Gloria Talbott, starred in “The Cyclops,” “Daughter of Dr. Jekyll” and “I Married a Monster from Outer Space.”

1929 – Alejandro Jodorowsky, director & writer of the film “Santa Sangre.”

DIED ON FEBRUARY 7

2021 – Giuseppe Rotunno, cinematographer for “Spirits of the Dead,” “Toby Dammit,” “Wolf” and “The Stendhal Syndrome.”

2020 – Orson Bean, appeared in episodes of TV Series “Monsters [1990],” “The Wide World of Mystery [1974]” and “The Twilight Zone [1960].”

2020 – Victor Gorelick, Comic Book Letterer for “Sabrina’s Halloween Spoooktacular [1993] #1” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina – Halloween ComicFest Edition [2015] #1.”

2019 – Albert Finney, appeared in “Wolfen,” and an episode of “The Green Man [1990]”

2007 – Fred Mustard Stewart who wrote the novel, “The Mephisto Waltz” and the story for the TV movie “The Norliss Tapes.”

1980 – Katherine Emery, appeared in “The Maze [1953]” and “Isle of the Dead.”

1972 – Ottola Nesmith, appeared in the films “The Wolf Man,” “The Uninvited” and “The Invisible Ghost.”

1968 – Nick Adams, starred in the films “Die, Monster, Die!” with Boris Karloff, and “Frankenstein Conquers the World.”

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 7

The Monster Walks [1932]
The Ghost Goes West [1935]

The Spiral Staircase [1946]
The Tell-Tale Heart [1960]
The Anniversary [1968]
The Fury of the Wolfman [1972]
Inferno [1980] – Italy & Argentina
Cannibal Holocaust [1980]
Puppet Master II [1990]
Demon Hunter [2005]
Grizzly Park [2008]

Come to Daddy [2019]

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FEBRUARY 8

BORN ON FEBRUARY 8

1974 – Seth Green, appeared in “Black Friday [2021],” “It [1990],” “Idle Hands,” “Ticks,” “Holidays,” “Wolfman’s Got Nards,” “The Attic Expeditions,” voice in “Krampus,” and the TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and more.

1965 – Mathilda May, played the Naked Space Vampire in “Lifeforce.”

1961 – Vince Neil, soundtrack for “Demons [1985]”and appeared in “Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens.”

1955 – Ethan Phillips, appeared in “Critters,” “The Shadow,” “The Island” and the TV series’ “Werewolf”.

1949 – Brooke Adams, co-starred in “Shockwaves,” the 1978 remake of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and “The Dead Zone.”

1944 – Georgianne Walken, casting director for “Session 9,” “The Mothman Prophecies,” “Wendigo” and “Wilderness Survival for Girls.”

1932 – John Williams, music, composer & soundtrack for such films as “Jaws,” “Jaws 2,” “Jaws 3D,” “Jaws: The Revenge,” “Jurassic Park,” “It Chapter Two,” “Trick ‘r Treat,” “The Fury”  and many more.

1931 – James Dean, appeared in an episode of “Tales of Tomorrow.”

1919 – Jack Hayes, music department for “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Jaws: The Revenge,” “Grizzly,” “Abby,” “Audrey Rose,” “Nightwing,” “The Doctor and the Devils” and “Terror in the Aisles.”

DIED ON FEBRUARY 8

2021 – Jean-Claude Carrière, screenwriter for “The Diabolical Dr. Z,” “The Monk,” “Leonor,” “Jack the Ripper” and “Night of a 1000 Hours.”

2021 – Shûichirô Moriyama, appeared in “Demon Spies” and the TV Series “Operation Mystery.”

2021 – Rynagh O’Grady, actress in “Dorothy Mills” and “Sins of a Werewolf.”

2020 – Volker Spengler, actor in “Blackest Heart.”

2020 – Paula Alma Kelly, actress in “The Andromeda Strain.”

2020 – Robert Conrad, actor in “Dead Ground.”

2020 – Ronald William McLarty, actor in “The Sentinel.”

2006 – Akira Ifukube, composer who scored many of their “Godzilla” and other monster films including “Godzilla [1954]”, “Rodan”, “The Mysterians”, “King Kong vs. Godzilla”, “Atragon”, “Mothra vs. Godzilla”, “Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster” and literally hundreds more.

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 8

The Beast with Five Fingers [1946]
The Fog [1980]
Alienator [1990]

The Minion [2000] – TV Premier
Shrooms [2007]

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FEBRUARY 9

BORN ON FEBRUARY 9

1978 – Fede Alvarez, director “Evil Dead [2013],” “Don’t Breathe,” the TV Series “Calls” and producer for “Don’t Breath 2.”

1974 – Amber Valletta, appeared in “Dead Silence,” “What Lies Beneath” and an episode of “Moonlight.”

1965 – Julie Warner, actress in “Flatliners [1990]” and “The Puppet Masters.”

1945 – Mia Farrow, starred in “Rosemary’s Baby,” “See No Evil” “The Omen [2006] and “The Haunting of Julia.”

1938 – Fred Williams who portrayed “Jonathan Harker” in the 1970 film, “Count Dracula.”

1928 – Frank Frazetta, illustrator unique work included Marvel, DC, EC comics, horror magazines such as “Creepy,” “Eerie,” “Vampirella,” and album and paperback covers.

1917 – Murray De Atley, cinematographer for “Frankenstein Island” and “House of the Black Death.”

1901 – Brian Donlevy, appeared in the films “The Quatermass Xperiment,” “Quatermass 2,” “Gammera” and “Curse of the Fly.”

DIED ON FEBRUARY 9

2021 – John Hora, cinematographer for “The Howling,” “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” “Gremlins,” “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” as well as appearing in “Burying the Ex.”

2019 – Larry Brand, directed & wrote “Masque of the Red Death [1989],” screenwriter “Halloween: Resurrection.”

1996 – Thomas E. Spalding, cinematographer for “The Blob [1958]” and “Island of Blood.”

1996 – Robin Stille, appeared in “Vampire Knights”, “Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama”, “The Slumber Party Massacre.”

1995 – David Wayne, appeared in “Night Gallery [TV Series]”, “The Andromeda Strain”, “The Twilight Zone [TV Series]” and many more.

1986 – Ben Nye, make-up artist whose film work included “The Alligator People” and “The Fly [1958].”

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 9

The Creeping Flesh [1973]
Murder by Decree [1979]
Lobster Man from Mars [1989]
The Haunting of Morella [1990]
Cyborg Cop [1994]
Loch Ness [1996] [UK & Ireland]
Hannibal [2001]

Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman [2000]
The American Nightmare [2000]
Hannibal Rising [2007]
Bone Eater [2007]
Friday the 13th [2009] – LA premiere

Black Hollow Cage [2017]

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FEBRUARY 10

BORN ON FEBRUARY 10

1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz, appeared in “Shadow in the Cloud,” “The Amityville Horror [2005],” “Wicked Little Things,” “Hallowed Ground,” “The Eye,” “Let Me In,” “Dark Shadows [2012],” “Carrie [2013],” “Suspiria [2018],””The Addams Family [2019],” “Greta” and more.

1994 – Makenzie Vega, appeared in “Saw” and “Fender Bender.”

1991 – Emma Roberts, appeared in “Scream 4,″ “The Blackcoat’s Daughter,” “The Hunt [2020],” “American Horror Story – TV Series”, “Scream Queens – TV Series” and more.

1974 – Elizabeth Banks, starred in “Brightburn,” “Slither,” “The Uninvited [2009]”.

1967 – Laura Dern, starred in the films “Grizzly II: Revenge,” “Blue Velvet,” “Jurassic Park” and “Jurassic Park III.”

1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, composer who has scored such films as “The Omen” and “Alien.” He also worked on the TV series’ “Thriller” and “The Twilight Zone.”

1929 – Hazel Court, appeared in “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Raven [1963],” and “The Curse of Frankenstein.” She also published Hazel Court Horror Queen: An Autobiography [2008].

1906 – Lon Chaney Jr. starred in “The Wolf Man,” The Ghost of Frankenstein,” “The Mummy’s Tomb,” “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,” “Son of Dracula,” “House of Frankenstein,” “House of Dracula,” “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein,” and many, many more.

DIED ON FEBRUARY 10

2020 – Albert Patrick Jordan, appeared in “The Giant Behemoth,” The Amorous Adventures of a Young Postman,” “In the Devil’s Garden,” “Madhouse [1974” and Lifeforce.”

2019 – Carmen Argenziano, appeared in “When a Stranger Calls,” “Graduation Day,” “The First Power,” “Hellraiser: Inferno,” “The Labyrinth,” and many more.

2008 – Roy Scheider, who starred in the films “Jaws,” “Curse of the Living Corpse,” “Dracula II: The Ascension” and “Dracula III: Legacy”.

2007 – Charles S. Swartz, writer/producer of the films “The Velvet Vampire,” “Terminal Island”.

2006 – David Knapp, appeared in the films “Home A Horror Story” and the TV movie “Something Evil”.

2001 – Lewis Arquette, appeared in “Scream 2,” “The Horror Show,” “Chopper Chicks in Zombietown,” “Syngenor” and an episode of “Tales from the Crypt” and “FreakyLinks.”

2000 – Jim Varney, starred in “Blood, Friends and Money.”

1932 – Edgar Wallace, the man who created the story of “King Kong,” and wrote the novel “Dead Eyes of London”.

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 10

Attack of the Crab Monsters/Not of This Earth [1957]
The Night Visitor [1971]
Black Cat 1984
The Fly II [1989]
Shallow Grave [1994]
Queen of the Damned [2002]
Final Destination 3 [2006]
Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud [2007]
The Lodger [2009]
The Horde [2009] – France, Belgium, Luxemburg

Havenhurst [2016]

Cute Little Buggers [2017]

Haunted 4: Demons [2021] – UK

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FEBRUARY 11

BORN ON FEBRUARY 11

1992 – Taylor Lautner, appeared in the TV Series “Scream Queens.”

1985 – Sarah Butler, appeared in “I Spit on Your Grave [2010],” “I Spit on Your Grave: Vengeance is Mine,” “All Light Will End,” “Flu Bird Horror” and “The Demented.”

1982 – Natalie Dormer, stars in “The Forest,” “Poe,” “Patient Zero” and the TV Series “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.”

1976 – Alexandra Neldel, starred in “Flashback.”

1969 – Jennifer Aniston, starred in the film “Leprechaun.”

1962 – Diane Franklin, appeared in “Amityville II: The Possession”, and “TerrorVision.”

1961 – Carey Lowell, starred in “The Guardian [1990].”

1940 – Bobby “Boris” Pickett, The creator of the “Monster Mash.”

1926 – Leslie Nielsen, starred in “Day of the Animals, “Prom Night [1980],” “Dracula: Dead and Loving It,” “Repossessed,” “Creepshow,” “Forbidden Planet,” episodes of the TV Series “Tales of Tomorrow,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Lights Out,” “Night Gallery” and more.

1847 – Thomas A. Edison, inventor whose film company was the first to commit the story of “Frankenstein” to celluloid.

DIED ON FEBRUARY 11

2020 – Joseph Vilsmaier, cinematographer for the German TV Series” Gespenstergeschichten.”

2010 – Caroline McWilliams, appeared in “The Aliens Are Coming.”

2006 – Peter Benchley, author – the man who terrified a generation of beach goers who penned the novels “Jaws,” “The Beast,” “The Deep” and Creature,” all of which were made into films.

2006 – Del Courtney, appeared in “The Hideous Sun Demon” and “It Came From Beneath The Sea”.

2004 – Hugh Cecil, appeared in “Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

2002 – Barry Foster, appeared in the films “Twisted Nerve” and “Frenzy.”

2000 – Roger Vadim, directed the film, “Spirits of the Dead.”

1994 – Sorrell Booke, appeared in the films “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Devil Times Five.”

1982 – Takashi Shimura, appeared in “Godzilla [1954],” “Godzilla Raids Again,” “The Mysterians,” “Mothra,” “Gorath,” “Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster,” “Kwaidan,” “Frankenstein Conquers the World” and many more.

1976 – Lee J. Cobb, appeared in “The Exorcist [1973]” and “Gorilla at Large.”

1969 – Michael Reeves, director of “Castle of the Living Dead,” “She Beast,” “The Sorcerers” and “Witchfinder General.”

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 11

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed [1969]
The Last Dinosaur [1977]

The Sentinel [1977]
My Bloody Valentine [1981]
Sphinx [1981]
House of the Dead 2 [2006]

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FEBRUARY 12

BORN ON FEBRUARY 12

1980 – Christina Ricci, starred in “Addams Family,” “Sleepy Hollow,” “After.Life,” “The Gathering,” “Bless the Child,” “Cursed,” the TV Series “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles” and more.

1969 – Darren Aronofsky, director & writer for “Mother!” and “Pi.”

1968 – Josh Brolin, starred in the films “Mimic,” “The Hollow Man” and “Planet Terror,”.

1965 – Christine Elise, appeared in “Child’s Play 2″ and “Body Snatchers [1993].”

1955 – Fraser C. Heston, directed “Needful Things” and an episode of “Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater.”

1952 – Simon MacCorkindale, appeared in the TV series’ “Quatermass,” “Manimal” and the film “Jaws 3D.”

1950 – Michael Ironside, appeared in “Scanners,” “Visiting Hours,” “Starship Troopers”, “Terminator Salvation,” “The Harrowing [2017],” “Prom Night II,” “Lake Placid 3,””The Shaft,” “Knuckleball“ and many more.

1940 – Richard Lynch, starred in “Bad Dreams,” “Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge,” “Corpses Are Forever,” Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” and “Mil Mascaras vs the Aztec Mummy.”

1940 – Ralph Bates, starred in the Hammer classics, “Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde,” “Taste the Blood of Dracula” and “The Horror of Frankenstein.”

1919 – Forrest Tucker, starred in “The Crawling Eye,” “The Abominable Snowman” and “The Cosmic Monsters.”

1899 – Edward L. Cahn, directed “It, the Terror from Beyond Space,” “The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake” and “Invisible Invaders.”

1898 – Wallace Ford, who appeared in “Freaks,” “The Mummy’s Hand” and “The Ape Man.”

DIED ON FEBRUARY 12

2021 – Marcia Diamond, appeared in “The Reincarnate,” “Black Christmas [1974],” “Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile” and an episode of “My Babysitter’s a Vampire.”

2021 – Milford Graves, music department for “Lord Shango.”

2021 – Christopher Pennock, appeared in the TV Series “Dark Shadows,” “Night of Dark Shadows,” “The Night-Time Winds” and the TV Short “A Poem of Poe.”

2021 – Lynn Stalmaster, casting director for “Lady in a Cage,” “Audrey Rose,” Damien: Omen II,” “The Fury,” “Nightwing,” “Prophecy” and many more.

2020 – Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon, did stunts for “They Live,” “Maniac Cop 2,” “976-Evil II,” “The Relic,” “Ghosts of Mars,” “Phantoms,” “Friday the 13th [2009]” and more.

2004 – Ken Johnson, music editor for “The Funhouse [1981],” “Transylvania 5-5000,” “Waxwork,” “Grizzly,” “The Unholy,” “Island Claws” and more.

2000 – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, who wrote the song “I Put a Spell on You,” as the opening for his stage act, he would often rise from a coffin.

2000 – Charles Schulz, creator of the “Peanuts” gang and who gave us that wonderful holiday show “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”.

1970 – Guy Endore, novelist, and screenwriter in Hollywood. He wrote the seminal novel “The Werewolf of Paris” which was later adapted in the Hammer film “The Curse of the Werewolf.” He also wrote the screenplays for “Mark of the Vampire,” “The Raven,” “Mad Love” and “The Devil-Doll.”

1952 – Enrique Jardiel Poncela, screenwriter for “Os 5 Avisos de Satanás – aka – Satan’s 5 Warnings.”

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 12

Reflection of Fear [1972]

The Hound of Baskervilles [1972] – TV Movie
The Stepford Wives [1975]
The Beast Within [1982]
Dead Alive [1993]
The Temp [1993]
My Favorite Martian [1999]
Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker [2001] – Frightvision Convention
Messengers [2004]
The Wolfman [2010]

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