FEBRUARY 13

BORN ON FEBRUARY 13

1979 – Mena Suvarim, starred “Day of The Dead [2008],” “What Lies Below,” “The Rage: Carrie 2,” “Don’t Blink,” “Apparition,” episodes of the TV Series “South of Hell” and “American Horror Story [2011.”

1968 – Kelly Hu, has appeared in “Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan,” “Dark Shadows [2005],” “Devil’s Den,” “Farm House,” “Succubus: Hell-Bent” and the TV Series “The Vampire Diaries.”

1964 – Mark Patton, starred in “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge,” “Family Possessions,” and “Amityville Clownhouse.”

1961 – Henry Rollins, appeared in “Feast,” “The Devil’s Tomb,” “Suck,” “Wrong Turn 2: Dead End” and episodes of the TV Series “Night Visions.”

1951 – David Naughton, starred in “An American Werewolf in London,” and appeared in “Body Bags,” “Big Bad Wolf,” “Steel and Lace,” “Ice Cream Man,” “A Crack in the Floor,” “Mirror Mirror 3: The Voyeur,” “The Sleeping Car,” “Amityville: A New Generation” and more.

1948 – Kitten Natividad, appeared in Fred Olen Ray’s “The Tomb” and “Zombie Ninja Gangbangers.”

1946 – Joe Estevez, appeared in “Soultaker,” “Werewolf,” “Blood Slaves of the Vampire Wolf,” “Silent Scream,” “Caesar & Otto’s Deadly Xmas,” “Hell Asylum” and many more.

1944 – Bo Svenson, appeared in the films “Curse II: The Bite,” “Beyond the Door III,” “Raising Jeffery Dahmer” and played the monster in the 1973 TV version of “Frankenstein.”

1942 – Carol Lynley, appeared in “Howling VI: The Freaks,” “The Shuttered Room” and the TV movie “The Night Stalker.”

1938 – Oliver Reed, starred in “Curse of the Werewolf,” “Burnt Offerings” and “The Brood.”

1933 – Kim Novak, appeared “Vertigo,” “Massacre at Blood Bath Drive-in,” “Tales That Witness Madness” “Satan’s Triangle”

1932 – Barbara Shelley, appeared in “Five Million Years to Earth,” “Rasputin: The Mad Monk,” “Dracula: Prince of Darkness,” “The Secret of Blood Island,” “The Gorgon,” “Village of the Damned,” “Blood of the Vampire” and many more.

1932 – Susan Oliver made appearances on the TV shows “Ghost Story” and “Freddy’s Nightmare.”

DIED ON FEBRUARY 13

2021 – Masashige Narusawa, screenwriter for “Curse of Blood.”

2020 – Yoshisada Sakaguchi, dubbing for characters in “Shutter Island,” “The Nightmare Room,” “Goosebumps,” and “Christine [1990].”

1994 – Martin Balsam, who played “Detective Arbogast” in the original “Psycho”.

1980 – David Janssen starred in the TV movie “Moon of the Wolf,” as well as the films “Cult of the Cobra,” and “Marooned”.

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 13

Scream & Scream Again [1970]
Sphere [1998]
Dead Birds [2004]
Devil’s Den [2006]
Friday the 13th [2009]

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FEBRUARY 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day

BORN ON FEBRUARY 14

1992 – Freddie Highmore, starred in the TV Series “Bates Motel.”

1980 – Mindy Robinson, appeared in “The Haunting of Whaley House,” “Killjoy Goes to Hell,” “V/H/S/2,″ “The Impaler,” “After School Massacre,” “A Blood Story” and more.

1978 – Danai Gurira, known for portraying “Michonne” on “The Walking Dead – TV Series.”

1976 – Erica Leerhsen, starred in “Wrong Turn 2: Dead End,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [2003]” and “Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.”

1971 – Noriko Sakai, starred in “Premonition [2004]” and “Ju-on: The Grudge 2.”

1970 – Simon Pegg, starred in “Shaun of the Dead,” “Land of the Dead,” “Grindhouse,” “Diary of the Dead,” “Slaughterhouse Rulez,” “A Fantastic Fear of Everything,” “The World’s End” and more.

1964 – Zach Galligan, who starred in the films “Gremlins”, “Gremlins 2”, “Waxwork,” “Infested” and “Nightbeasts.”

1960 – Meg Tilly, starred in the films “Psycho II,” “One Dark Night” and Body Snatchers [1993].

1952 – Jim Hanson, produced the films “Witchcraft II: The Temptress,” “Doctor Hackenstein” and “Witchery.”

1946 – Gregory Hines, co-starred in the films “The Wolfen” and “Eve of Destruction.”

1942 – Andrew Robinson, starred in “Hellraiser,” “Child’s Play 3″ and “Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings.”

1936 – Andrew Prine, appeared in “The Town That Dreaded Sundown,” “Simon, King of the Witches,” “Crypt of the Living Dead” and “Sutures,” and “Grizzly.”

1929 – Vic Morrow, appeared in the films “Twilight Zone: The Movie” and “Humanoids from the Deep”.

1910 – Frances Dade, portrayed “Lucy” in the original 1931 version of “Dracula.”

1902 – Stuntman Ray “Crash” Corrigan, who played the title role of “The Ape,” “It, the Terror from Beyond Space” and appeared in “The Zombies of Mora Tau.”

DIED DON FEBRUARY 14

2020 – Lynn Cohen, starred in “The Vigil.”

2015 – Louis Jourdan, appeared in “Swamp Thing” and “Return of the Swamp Thing”, he also starred as “Dracula” in the great BBC version of “Count Dracula – TV Movie.”

2007 – Lee Patterson, who appeared in “Jack the Ripper [1959].”

1998 – Michael Anthony, starred in “The Night of the Strangler.”

1992 – Angelique Pettyjohn, appeared in “Biohazard,” “Mad Doctor of Blood Island” “The Phantom Planet” and more.

1971 – Seth Holt, director of “Scream of Fear”, “The Nanny”, “Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb”.

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 14

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog [1927]

Dracula [1931]
The Mad Doctor [1941]

House on Haunted Hill [1959]
The Day Mars Invaded Earth [1963]
The Shuttered Room [1968]
TerrorVision [1986]
The Silence Of The Lambs [1991]
Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil [1991]

One Hour Photo [2002] – Turkey
Skinned Deep [2004]
The Horror Seasons [2005]
The Ghosts of Crowley Hall [2008]
The Spiderwick Chronicles [2008]

Girl House [2014]

Freshwater [2016]

VFW (2019)

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FEBRUARY 15

BORN ON FEBRUARY 15

1988 – Jessica De Gouw, appeared in “Gretel & Hansel,” “The Rezort” and the TV Series “Dracula.”

1988 – Tara Holt, appeared in “Victim” and the TV Series “American Horror Story.”

1971 – Reneé O’Connor, appeared in the films “Darkman II: The Return of Durant” and “Boogeyman 2.”

1968 – Vivian Schilling, appeared in “Future Shock,” “Project Eliminator,” “Soultaker,” “Terror Eyes” and more.

1931 – Claire Bloom, starred in “The Haunting [1963]” and “The Illustrated Man.”

1914 – Kevin McCarthy, starred in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956],” and also appeared in “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” “Piranha” and “The Howling.”

1899 – Gale Sondergaard, starred in “The Cat and the Canary [1939],” “The Black Cat [1941]” and “The Invisible Man’s Revenge.”

1882 – John Barrymore, starred in “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde [1920],” “Svengali,” “The Invisible Woman,” “The Mad Genius” and more.

DIED ON FEBRUARY 15

2021 – Steuart Bedford, music conductor in “The Turn of the Screw – TV Movie.”

2021 – Sandro Dori, appeared in “Darker Than Night.”

2021 – Andreas Teuber, appeared in “Doctor Faustus.”

2020 – Vatroslav Mimica, writer for “Muha.”

2012 – Elyse Knox, starred in “The Mummy’s Tomb.”

1990 – Jack Fletcher, appeared in “Elvira: Mistress of The Dark.”

1973 – Tim Holt, starred in “The Monster That Challenged the World”.

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 15

Phantom Lady [1944] – Finland

Fog Island [1945]
Saturn 3 [1980]

The Wild Beasts [1984] – Italy
Deadly Species [2002]
Wendigo [2002]
Hallowed [2005]
Chill [2007]
Diary of the Dead [2007] – Canada

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FEBRUARY 16

BORN ON FEBRUARY 16

1989 – Elizabeth Olsen, appeared in “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” “Silent House” and “Red Lights”.

1961 – Eric Red, writer/director worked on “Body Parts,” “Bad Moon,” “The Hitcher,” “Near Dark,” “Undertow,” “100 Feet” and more.

1958 – Lisa Loring, who played the original “Wednesday Addams” in the “The Addams Family” and also appeared in the film “Blood Frenzy.”

1952 – Jonathan Stark, appeared in “Fright Night [1985]” and “House II: The Second Story.”

1950 – William Katt, starred in “Carrie [1976],” “House,” “House IV,” “Alien vs Hunter,” “Mirrors 2″ and “Paranormal Movie”.

1930 – Ricou Browning, portrayed everyone’s favorite “Gillman,” “The Creature From the Black Lagoon,” [in the underwater scenes].

1926 – John Schlesinger, director for “The Believers [1987],” “The Tale of Sweeney Todd – TV Movie” and “The Starfish.”

1901 – Chester Morris, appeared in the films “The Bat Whispers” and “The She Creature.”

DIED ON FEBRUARY 16

2021 – Harry V. Bring, assistant director for “The New Kids” and producer for “The X-Files – TV Series.”

2020 – Jerzy Gruza, directed the TV short “Mistrz tanca.”

2020 – Kellye Nakahara, appeared in “Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Episode: The Trevi Collection [1975].”

2020 – Frances Cuka, appeared in “The Watcher in the Woods,” “Afraid of the Dark,” “Snow White: A Tale of Terror” and an episode of the TV Series “Hammer House of Horror [1980].”

2019 – Bruno Ganz, appeared in “Nosferatu the Vampyre,” and “The House That Jack Built.”

2012 – Dick Anthony Williams, appeared in “Grizzly II: The Revenge.”

2011 – Len Lesser, appeared in “The Werewolf Reborn!” “Sorority Girls and the Creature from Hell,” “Kolchak: The Night Stalker – TV Series,” “Slither,” “Death Wish,” “The Munsters – TV Series,” “The Outer Limits – TV Series” and many others.

2010 – John Chandler, appeared in “Carnosaur 2,” “Phantasm 3″ and the TV movie “Moon of the Wolf”.

2010 – Jim Harmon, science fiction writer and west coast editor for the Marvel monster magazine “Monsters of the Movies,” he also wrote the screenplay for the film “The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters.”

2005 – Nicole DeHuff, starred in “Suspect Zero.”

1979 – Louise Allbritton, starred in “Son of Dracula” and 2 episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 16

The Canary Murder Case [1929]
The Shadow Returns [1946]
Five Million Miles to Earth [1967]
Bloodlust: Subspecies III [1994]
Murdercycle [1999]
Blue Lake Massacre [2007]
Ghost Rider [2007]
Freeway Killer [2010]

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FEBRUARY 17

BORN ON FEBRUARY 17

1981 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, starred in “Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later,” “Knives Out” episodes of the TV Series “Dark Shadows [1991] and “The Outer Limits.”

1981 – Paris Hilton, appeared “House of Wax [2005]” and “Repo! The Genetic Opera.”

1980 – Jason Ritter, starred in “Freddy vs Jason” and “The Labryinth.”

1974 – Jerry O’Connell, starred in “Scream 2,” “Room 6,″ “Wish Upon,” “Piranha 3D”, “Satanic,” “Mockingbird Lane,” “Scary Movie V,” and “Deep Murder.”

1971 – Denise Richards, appeared in “Scary Movie 3,” “The Toybox,” “Tammy and the T-Rex,” “Starship Troopers” and “Valentine.”

1970 – Dominic Purcell, appeared in “Blade: Trinity,” “The Gravedancers,” “Primeval”, “Blood Creek” and “The Ganzfeld Haunting”.

1965 – Jonathan Breck, who played “The Creeper” in “Jeepers Creepers 1 & 2.”

1965 – Michael Bay, produced “A Quiet Place,” “A Quiet Place Part II,” “The Purge,” “Ouija: Origin of Evil,” “Friday the 13th [2009],” “A Nightmare on Elm Street [2010]” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [2003]” “The Purge – TV Series” and many more.

1962 – Lou Diamond Phillips, starred in “The First Power,” “Bats,” “Wolf Lake – TV Series,” “Red Water” and “Sanitarium”.

1961 – Tuesday Knight, actress in “A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master,” “New Nightmare,” “The Amityville Moon,” “The Bloody Man” and more.

1954 – Don Coscarelli, wrote the screenplays for the “Phantasm” films including “Phantasm: Ravager,” “The Beastmaster” and “Bubba Ho-tep.”

1949 – Don Scardino, starred in “Squirm” and “He Knows You’re Alone.”

1934 – Alan Bates, appeared in the films “Mister Frost” and “The Mothman Prophecies.”

1925 – Hal Holbrook, who has starred in the films “Rituals,” “The Fog,” “Creepshow” and “The Unholy.”

1923 – Jun Fukuda, directed “Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster,” “Son of Godzilla” and “Godzilla vs. Gigan.”

1907 – Buster Crabbe, appeared in Fred Olen Ray’s “The Alien Dead.”

1890 – Jack Dawn, make-up for the films “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941]” and “Mark of the Vampire.”

DIED ON FEBRUARY 17

2021 – Françoise Cactus, actress in “Dawn of the Dorks” and worked on the soundtrack for “The Good Neighbor.”

2021 – Martha Stewart, appeared in an episode of the TV Series “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.”

2020 – Sonja Ziemann, actress in “Spuk im Schloß.”

2020 – Jeannette Dubois, soundtrack for “Basic Instinct,” and “The X-Files: I Want to Believe.”

2019 – Ethel Ennis, Soundtrack “Mad Monster Party?” and “Boltneck.”

2007 – Jay Jensen, appeared in the films “Mission Mars” and “Werewolves on Wheels”.

2005 – Dan O’Herlihy, appeared in “Invasion USA,” “The Cabinet of Caligari” and “Halloween III.”

2003 – Peter Schrum, appeared in “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” and “Demonic Toys,”.

1990 – Marc Clement, appeared in “Mutant” and “King Kong Lives”.

1986 – Paul Stewart, appeared in the TV Series “Inner Sanctum” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”

1970 – Alfred Newman, worked on the soundtrack for “She Devil” and composer for “The Lodger” and “The Gorilla.”

1968 – Donald Wolfit, starred in “Blood of the Vampire,” “The Hands of Orlac” and the TV show “The Ghost Squad,”.

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 17

Seven Footprints to Satan [1929]
Mystery of the Wax Museum [1933]
House on Haunted Hill [1959]
Jack the Ripper [1959]

The Cosmic Man [1959]

The Gorgon [1964]

Baron Blood [1972] – Germany
Alien Raiders [2009]
American Scary [2009]
Feast III: The Happy Finish [2009]
Screamers: The Hunting [2009]
The Midnight Meat Train [2009]
The Last Battleground [2010]

Altar [2014]

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FEBRUARY 18

BORN ON FEBRUARY 18

1978 – Michael Howard, appeared in “60 Seconds 2 Die,” One Last Sunset Redux” and “Epiphany Road.”

1968 – Molly Ringwald, starred in the TV mini-series “The Stand” and the film “Office Killer.”

1962 – Julie Strain, appeared in “Witchcraft IV: The Virgin Heart,” “The Unnamable II” and “The Bare Wench Project.”

1957 – Vanna White, appeared in “Graduation Day” and the TV Movie “Midnight Offerings.”

1954 – John Travolta, starred in “Carrie [1976]” and “The Devil’s Rain”

1925 – George Kennedy, appeared in “Strait-Jacket,” “Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte,” “Death Ship,” “Creepshow 2,″ “Demonwarp,” “The Terror Within” and many more.

1919 – Jack Palance, starred in “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,” and “Dracula [1974],” “Craze,” “Man in the Attic,” “Without Warning,” “Torture Garden,” and “Alone in the Dark

1908 – Angelo Rossitto, appeared in the “Freaks,” “From a Whisper to a Scream,” “Dracula vs. Frankenstein” and more.

DIED ON FEBRUARY 18

2021 – Alan Curtis, appeared in “The Flesh and the Blood Show.”

2021 – Mark Morales aka Prince Markie Dee, actor/soundtrack for “Fat Boys: Are You Ready for Freddy.”

2020 – Ashraf Sinclair, actor in “The Real Pocong,” “Baby Occult: Baby Tumbal Baby Die and “Setan Munafik.”

2020 – Tapas Paul, appeared in “Nishi Trishna.”

2020 – Flavio Bucci, appeared in “Last Stop on the Night Train,” “Suspiria [1977]” and an episode of “Frankenstein’s Aunt [1987].”

2020 – Kishori Ballal, actress in “Aakramana” and “Naani.”

2019 – O’Neal Compton, appeared in “Diabolique [1996]”

2002 – Jack Lambert, appeared in several TV shows of “Boris Karloff’s Thriller” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,”.

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 18

The Magnetic Monster [1953]
The Ghost [1963]
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin [1971] – Rome, Italy

Amityville: Dollhouse [1996]
Pitch Black [2000]
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp [2003]
Constantine [2005]
Dark Remains [2005] – Nevermore Film Festival
Demon Resurrection [2008]

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FEBRUARY 19

BORN ON FEBRUARY 19

1993 – Victoria Justice, appeared in “Fun Size”, “The Garden,” “The Boy Who Cried Werewolf – TV Movie” and “50 States of Fright – TV Series.”

1985 – Arielle Kebbel, starred in “Vampires Suck,” “The Grudge 2″ and “The Uninvited” [2009].

1985 – Haylie Duff, appeared in “The Sandman,” “Backwoods – TV Movie,” “Fear Island – TV Movie,” “The Lost Episode,” “Nightmare,” “Desecrated” and more.

1967 – Benicio Del Toro, who played the title role in the 2010 remake of “The Wolf Man”.

1955 – Jeff Daniels, starred in “Arachnophobia” and “Chasing Sleep.”

1951 – Stephen Nichols, has appeared in “House” and “Witchboard”.

1944 – Donald Glut, directed “The Vampire Hunters Club,” wrote and directed “Dinosaur Valley Girls”, “Mummy’s Kiss and Tales of Frankenstein [2018].”

1924 – Lee Marvin, appeared in 2 episodes of “The Twilight Zone.”

1893 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, appeared in “The Invisible Man Returns,” “The Ghost of Frankenstein” and the 1939 version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

DIED ON FEBRUARY 19

2020 – José Mojica Marins, director, writer, producer, actor – some of his films include “Awakening of the Beast,” At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul,” “Hellish Flesh,” “The Secret of the Mummy,” “The Killer Lasagna” and many more.

2020 – Bob Cobert, composer for TV Movie “The Night Stalker,” “The Norliss Tapes,” “Trilogy of Terror,” “Night of Dark Shadows,” “Burnt Offerings,” TV Series “Dark Shadows [1966-1971],” Soundtrack “Dark Shadows [2012]” and many more.

 

2020 – Nelly Beatriz Bonnet, appeared in “The Phantom of the Opera [1960–] – A 9 Part Series” and “Masterworks of Terror [1959]”

2007 – Janet Blair, starred in the film “Burn, Witch Burn”.

2006 – James Hardiman, penned the novel “The House Where Evil Dwells”.

1990 – Michael Powell, directed the cult film “Peeping Tom” and “The Tales of Hoffmann.”

1956 – Tod Slaughter, who portrayed “Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” in the 30’s and 40’s.

FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 19

Mark of the Devil [1970] – Germany
Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks [1974] – Italy
Army of Darkness [1992]
The Ghosts of Edendale [2003]
Dead Things [2005]
Black Water [2007]
Catacombs [2007]
Attack of the Vegan Zombies! [2010]
Shutter Island [2010]

The Witch [2015]

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