MARCH 20

BORN ON MARCH 20

1983 – Michael Cassidy, appeared in “Hypochondriac,” “Army of the Dead,” “Night of the Living Deb” and an episode of “Into the Dark.”

1979 – Bianca Lawson, also appeared in episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and in the films “Supergator,” “Big Monster on Campus” and “Dead & Breakfast.”

1973 – Jane March, appeared in “Jack the Giant Killer,” “Stalker,” “Dark Realm – TV Series,” “Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula” and more.

1971 – Liam Waite, appeared in “Ghosts of Mars” and the TV Movie “Vampire Bats.”

1970 – Michael Rapaport, appeared in “Deep Blue Sea,” “Kiss of the Damned” and an episode of “Night Visions.”

1967 – Marc Warren, appeared in “Hellraiser: Deader,” “Dracula – TV Movie” and an episode of “Twisted Tales.”

1964 – Stephen Sommers, wrote and directed “The Mummy [1999],” “The Mummy Returns,” “Deep Rising,” “Old Thomas,” produced “Van Helsing,” and the series “The Mummy.”

1963 – David Thewlis, appeared in “The Omen [2006]” and “The Island of Dr. Moreau [1996].”

1958 – Holly Hunter, appeared in the films “Copycat,” “Lost Souls” and “The Burning.”

1957 – Theresa Russell, appeared in “Tenebrae,” “The Grotesque” and “Earth vs. the Spider [2001]”.

1950 – William Hurt, starred in the films “Altered States” and “Frankenstein” TV mini-series.

1950 – Tom Towles, starred in “Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer,” “Night of the Living Dead [1990],” and “The Devil’s Rejects.”

1947 – Richard Dyszel, appeared in “The Alien Factor,” “Nightbeast,” “The Galaxy Invader,” “Cremains” and “Crawler.”

1935 – Ted Bessell, starred in “Scream, Pretty Peggy.”

1931 – Hal Linden, did the voice characterizations for the American versions of “Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster” and “Destroy All Monsters.”

1922 – Jack Kruschen, appeared in “The Angry Red Planet,” “Satan’s Cheerleaders” as well as episodes of TV Series “Target,” “Darkroom” and “The Wide World of Mystery.”

1914 – Wendell Corey, appeared in “Rear Window,” “Women of the Prehistoric Planet” and “The Astro-Zombies.”

1913 – Judith Evelyn, appeared in “Rear Window” and “The Tingler.”

1908 – Michael Redgrave, appeared in the films “The Innocents,” “Dead of Night,” “Goodbye Gemini” and “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde [1973].”

DIED ON MARCH 20

2021 – Robert Gard, appeared in the TV Movie “The Turn of the Screw: Britten.”

2021 – Mohamed Ismaïl, producer for the short “The Shadow.”

2020 – Kenny Rogers, did soundtracks for some of the episodes of “Supernatural,” “Stranger Things,” and “Nightwing.”

2013 – James Herbert, author who wrote such novels as “Haunted”, “Fluke”, “Deadly Eyes,” and “The Fog” [no relation to the movie from 1980], and one of his stories adapted into The Survivor [1981], among others.

2007 – John P. Ryan, starred in “It’s Alive” and “It Lives Again,” and appeared “The Class Of 1999.”

1992 – Georges Delerue, composer for “Fantômas” and “The Legend of Doom House – aka Malpertuis.”

1976 – Michael Goodliffe, appeared in “Peeping Tom,” “To the Devil a Daughter” and “The Gorgon.”

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 20

Two Thousand Maniacs [1964]
The Final Conflict [1981]

Stripped to Kill [1987]
Basic Instinct [1992]

Body Puzzle [1992]
Shadows and Fog [1992]

Rumpelstiltskin [1996] – Japan
Silver Scream [2003]

Lesbian Vampire Killers [2009]
Sewer Chewer [2010]

Spring [2014]

Exeter [2015] – Phoenix International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival

Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight [2020] – Poland

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MARCH 21

BORN ON MARCH 21

1963 –Jill Schoelen, starred in “The Stepfather [1987],” “Curse II: The Bite,” “Cutting Class,” “The Phantom of the Opera [1989],” “Popcorn” and “When a Stranger Calls Back.”

1962 – Matthew Broderick, who starred in “Godzilla [1998],” “The Stepford Wives [2004],” and the TV Series “Daybreak.”

1961 – Kassie Wesley DePaiva, known for starring in “Evil Dead II” and “We Are What We Are.”

1958 – Brad Hall, appeared in “Troll” and “The Guardian [1990].”

1958 – Gary Oldman, starred in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula [1992],” “The Unborn,” “Red Riding Hood,” “Mary” and more.

1946 –Timothy Dalton, starred in “The Doctor and the Devils,” “Possessed [2000]” and the TV Show “Penny Dreadful.”

DIED ON MARCH 21

2012 – Robert Fuest, director of “And Soon the Darkness,” “The Abominable Dr. Phibes,” “Dr. Phibes Rises Again,” “The Last Days of Man on Earth,” “The Devil’s Rain” and “Revenge of the Stepford Wives.”

2009 – John Franklyn-Robbins, appeared in “Asylum,” “Dracula A.D. 1972,″ “Dr. Jekyll & Ms. Hyde” “The Woman in Black.”

2001 – Anthony Steele, appeared in “The Monster Club” and the TV series “Tales from The Darkside”.

1995 – Robert Urquhart, starred in “The Curse of Frankenstein”.

1994 – Macdonald Carey, appeared TV shows “The Outer Limits,” “Thriller” and the film “It’s Alive 3: Island of The Alive.”

1992 – John Ireland, appeared in “The Incubus,” “Sundown: The Vampire Retreat,” “I Saw What You Did,” “Satan’s Cheerleaders,” “Waxwork II: Lost in Time,” “The House of Seven Corpses” and more.

1985 – Michael Redgrave, appeared in the films “The Innocents,” “Dead of Night,” “Goodbye Gemini” and “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde [1973].”

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 21

Le Golem [1937]
Gorath [1962] – Japan

Die! Die! My Darling! aka Fanatic [1965]

Gamera vs. Monster X [1970]

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla [1974] – Japan
Chopping Mall [1986]
Dreamcatcher [2003]
Shutter [2008]

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MARCH 22

BORN ON MARCH 22

1988 – Tania Raymonde, appeared in “Chillerama”, “Death Valley – TV Series,” “Texas Chainsaw [2013],” “Deep Blue Sea 3,”

1980 – Kandyse McClure, appeared in the “Children of the Corn [2009],” “Mother’s Day [2010],” “Carrie [2002],” “Return to Cabin by the Lake,” and TV Series “Hemlock Grove,” “The Twilight Zone” and “Ghost Wars.”

1976 – Reese Witherspoon, starred in “American Psycho.”

1955 – Lena Olin, appeared in the films “Queen of the Damned,” “The Ninth Gate” and “Darkness.”

1938 – Michael Westmore provided makeup for films and TV shows such as “The Munsters,” “Trilogy of Terror,” “Psycho III” and so many more.

1937 – Angelo Badalamenti, composed scores for “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors,” “The Wicker Man,” “Dark Water,” “The Wicker Man [2006],” “Cabin Fever” and more.

1931 – William Shatner, starred in “Kingdom of the Spiders,” “The Devil’s Rain,” “American Psycho 2,” “A Christmas Horror Story,” “Visiting Hours,” “Incubus,” “Impulse,” “The Hound of Baskervilles [1972] and more.

1927 – Karl Hardman, starred in “Night of the Living Dead”, “Santa Claws.”

1917 – Virginia Grey, appeared in “House of Horrors,” “Unknown Island” and “The Black Zoo.”

1912 – Karl Malden, starred in “Phantom of the Rue Morgue”.

DIED ON MARCH 22

2021 – Susana Canales, appeared in “Estudio 3 [1963–1965] – TV Series.”

2020 – Ernst Zorin, appeared in “12 Kilometers” and “Are We Not Cats.”

2007 – Bradley Lavelle, appeared in “Hellbound: Hellraiser II”.

1994 – Walter Lantz, created the opening animation for the film “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.”

1992 – Melissa Stribling, appeared in “Ghost Ship [1952],” “Horror of Dracula,” “Journey into Darkness”, “Crucible of Terror.”

1991 – Gloria Holden, starred in “Dracula’s Daughter.”

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 22

The Spider Woman Strikes Back [1945]
Konga [1961] – Boston

Inseminoid [1981] – UK
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning [1985]

Bloodmoon [1990]
Diabolique [1996]
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV [2002] – Philadelphia
Blade II [2002]

Ouija Death Trap [2014]

Scare Me [2020]

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MARCH 23

BORN ON MARCH 23

1973 – Chad Ferrin, director/writer/producer for “Night Caller,” “The Deep Ones,” “Someone’s Knocking at the Door,” “The Ghouls,” “Parasites,” “Unspeakable,” editor for “Exorcism at 60,000 Feet,” and more.

1968 – Zak Penn, screenwriter for “Suspect Zero” and “Incident at Loch Ness.”

1966 – Marin Hinkle, starred in “The Haunting of Molly Hartley” and “Quarantine.”

1965 – Richard Grieco, appeared in “Attack of the Unknown,” “The Demolitionist,” “Samhain,” “The Gardener,” “Art of the Dead” and more.

1963 – Larry Fessenden, appeared in “The Dead Don’t Die,” “The Innkeepers,” “We Are Still Here,” “The Strain – TV Series,” “Late Phases,” “Ritual,” “Jug Face,” “The Battery”, “You’re Next,” “Stake Land,” “Session 9,” “The Mind’s Eye” and more.

1963 – Lori Petty, appeared in “Route 666,” “Tank Girl” and the TV series’ “Brimstone”.

1962 – Jenny Wright, co-starred in “The Lawnmower Man,” “I, Madman” and “The Dark.”

1957 – Amanda Plummer, appeared in “The Prophecy” and “Mimic: Sentinel.”

1919 – Kenneth Tobey, starred in “The Thing From Another World” ” “It Came from Beneath the Sea,” “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms,” “The Howling,” “Gremlins” and more.

1916 – Grant Richards, starred in “The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake.”

1904 – Joan Crawford, starred “Trog,” “Strait-Jacket” and “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.”

1893 – Cedric Gibbons, art director for “Freaks,” “The Picture of Doran Gray,” “The Devil Doll,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941],” “Mark of the Vampire,” “Mad Love” and more.

DIED ON MARCH 23

2021 – George Segal, appeared in “The Terminal Man,” and episodes of TV Series “The Alfred Hitchcock House,” “Aaaah!!! Real Monsters” and “Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.”

2021 – Anne Kerylen, appeared in “La brigade des maléfices – AKA “The Evil Brigade” – TV Series.

2020 – Niko Nitai, appeared in “Hellbound.”

2020 – Alfio Contini, cinematographer for “Flavia, the Heretic” and “Damned in Venice,”

2020 – David Collings, appeared in various TV Series including “Out of the Unknown,” Mystery and the Imagination” and “Devil Man.”

2020 – Lucia Bosè, appeared in “Nocturne 29,” “Something Creeping in the Dark,” “Arcana” and “The Legend of Blood Castle.”

2019 – Larry Cohen, director, producer, writer for “Q” “Full Moon High,” “The Ambulance,” “It Lives Again,” starred as himself in “King Cohen,” plus many other films not listed he was involved in.

2019 – Denise DuBarry Hay, appeared in “Monster in the Closet” and TV movie “The Darker Side of Terror.”

2014 – Dave Brockie, lead singer of the heavy metal band “GWAR.” He also appeared in “Holliston [TV Series],” “I Spill Your Guts,” ombi“Empire Records” and more.

1987 – Keith Richards, appeared in the films “When Worlds Collide,” the serial “The Invisible Monster” and “The Snow Creature.”

1964 – Peter Lorre, appeared in “The Beast with Five Fingers,” “Tales of Terror,” “The Raven [1963],” “Mad Love,” “The Comedy of Terrors,” “The Face Behind the Mask” and more.

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 23

Anguish [1987] – Madrid

An Ordinary Killer [2003] – USA [East Lansing Film Festival]
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla [2004] – USA

Sorceress II: The Temptress [2004] – USA [DVD premiere]
The Hills Have Eyes II [2007]

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MARCH 24

BORN ON MARCH 24

1977 – Jessica Chastain, has appeared in “It Chapter Two,” “Dark Shadows – TV Movie,” “Mama,” “Touch of Evil.” and “Crimson Peak.”

1974 – Alyson Hannigan, appeared in “You Might be the Killer.”

1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, who appeared in “Poltergeist III,” “Hansel & Gretel Get Baked” and the TV Movie “The House Next Door.”

1955 – Kim Johnston Ulrich, appeared in “Werewolf – TV Series,” “Spellcaster,” “Monsters – TV Series,” “Rumpelstiltskin” and “Supernatural – TV Series.”

1954 – Robert Carradine, appeared in “Ghosts of Mars,” “Orca,” “Lycanthrope,” “Body Bags,” “The Tommyknockers,” “Escape From L.A,” “Tooth and Nail” And more.

1949 – Tabitha King, appeared in “Maximum Overdrive” and writer for an episode of the TV Series “Kingdom Hospital.”

1944 – R. Lee Ermey, appeared in “Willard [2003],” “The Frighteners,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [2003],” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning,” “Body Snatchers,” “Hexed” and more.

1933 – William Smith, appeared in “Crowhaven Farm,” “The Boneyard Collection,” “Zombiegeddon,” “Body Shop,” “The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula,” “Interview with a Zombie,” “Uncle Sam,” “Feast,” “Maniac Cop” and many more.

1930 – Steve McQueen, starred in the original version of “The Blob.”

1923 – Murray Hamilton, appeared in “Jaws,” “The Amityville Horror [1979]” and “Too Scared to Scream.”

1904 – Martin Kosleck, appeared in “The Flesh Eaters,” “She-Wolf of London” and “House of Horrors.”

DIED ON MARCH 24

2021 – Jessica Walter, actress in “Ghost in the Machine,” “Temptress” “Home for the Holidays – TV Movie,” “Vampire [1979] – TV Movie” and more.

2021 – Craig muMs Grant, appeared in “Dark Water” and the short “Rhyme Animal.”

2020 – Juan Padrón, appeared in “Vampires in Havana!”

2020 – Stuart Gordon, directed “Re-Animator,” “From Beyond,” “Dolls,” produced “Progeny,” writer for “The Dentist,” “Body Snatchers [1993],” appeared in “Tales of Halloween “Chasity Bites” and directed, produced, and wrote many more.

2020 – William Dufris, appeared in “Judge,” “X [1996]” and episodes of “Genocyber.”

2019 – Noah Keen, appeared in an episode of “The Twilight Zone [1961]”

2019 – Julie Lockwood, appeared in an episode of “Out of the Unknown [1969]”

2019 – Joseph Pilato, acted in “The Chair [2016],” “Dawn of the Dead [1978],” “Day of the Dead [1985],” “The Ghouls [2003],” “Bloodbath [2009]” and many more.

2010 – Robert Culp, appeared in the TV movies “Santa’s Slay” “The Chill Factor” and the film “Silent Night, Deadly Night 3”.

2004 – Richard Leech, appeared in “Curse of the Devil”.

1984 – Sam Jaffe, appeared in “The Dunwich Horror,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and the TV pilot for “Night Gallery.”

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 24

The Human Monster [1940] – filmed in 1939 as The Dark Eyes of London
Eating Raoul [1982]

Dolores Claiborne [1995]
A Chronicle of Corpses [2000]
Stay Alive [2006]

Perkins’ 14 [2009]

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MARCH 25

BORN ON MARCH 25

1989 – Aly Michalka, appeared in the TV Series “iZombie.”

1984 – Katharine McPhee, starred in “Shark Night 3D.”

1975 – Christoph H. Nuehlen, producer for “House of the Dead.”

1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker, appeared in “Mars Attacks!”

1948 – Bonnie Bedelia, starred in “Needful Things” and TV mini-series, “Salem’s Lot [1979].”

1942 – Richard O’Brien, writer/composer, and star of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” He also appeared in “Shock Treatment” and “Elvira’s Haunted Hills.”

1938 – Hoyt Axton, starred in “Gremlins,” “Buried Alive [1990],” “King Cobra,” “Retribution,” and his music was on the soundtrack for “Zombieland: Double Tap.”

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1922 – Bruno VeSota, starred in “Attack of the Mayan Mummy” and “The Devil’s Hand.”

1920 – Patrick Troughton,  appeared in “The Phantom of the Opera [1962]” “The Gorgon,” “Scars of Dracula,” “Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell” and “The Omen.”

DIED ON MARCH 25

2021 – Robert Rodan, appeared in the TV Series “Dark Shadows” as Adam.

2020 – Detto Mariano, composer for “Miami Golem.”

2020 – Mark Blum, appeared in the video game “Alan Wake.”

1998 – Daniel Massey, appeared in “The Cat and the Canary,” “The Vault of Horror,” “Shadows of Fear – TV Series” and more.

1989 – Reginald Le Borg, directed “The Black Sleep,” “The Mummy’s Ghost” and “Voodoo Island”.

1969 – Alan Mowbray, appeared in “The Phantom of 42nd Street,” “Terror by Night” and “Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff.”

1956 – Robert Newton, appeared in “The Hidden Room,” “Haunted Honeymoon” and more.

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 25

The Indestructible Man [1956]
World Without End [1956]

The X from Outer Space [1967] – Japan

Destroyer [1988]

Hack-O-Lantern [1988]

Destroyer [1989]
Cheerleader Massacre [2003]
Mortuary [2005]
April Fool’s Day [2008]
Shrooms [2008] – USA DVD premiere

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MARCH 26

BORN ON MARCH 26

1991 – Brittney Wilson, has appeared in “Scar,” “R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour – TV Series,” “Bates Motel – TV Series,” “Scarecrow” and “Way of the Wicked.”

1984 – Sara Jean Underwood, appeared in “The Telling” and “Deadly Weekend.”

1982 – Joe Anderson starred in “The Reckoning,” “The Ruins,” “Creep” “The Crazies [2010]” and a few TV Series “Hannibal,” “The River” and “Afterlife.”

1976 – Amy Smart, starred in the films “Starship Troopers,” “Hangman,” “Strangeland,” “The Visitant,” “Campfire Tales,” “Patient Seven,” “The Keeping Hours, “Flight 7500” and “Mirrors.”

1961 – Billy Warlock, appeared in “Halloween II [1981],” “Society,” “Steel Sharks” and “The Thing Below.”

1934 – Alan Arkin, appeared in “Full Moon Hight.”

1931 – Leonard Nimoy, appeared in “Them!” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1978],” “The Brain Eaters” and “Zombies of the Stratosphere.”

1919 – Strother Martin, appeared in “Sssssss,” “The Brotherhood of Satan” and “The Magnetic Monster.”

1917 – Ed Peck, appeared in TV Series including “The Munsters,” “Tales of Tomorrow” and “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.”

DIED ON MARCH 26

2020 – Hamish Wilson, appeared in “The Elementa” and “The Wicker Tree.”

2020 – Sethuraman, actor in “50/50.” “Vampire Journals,” “Blessed” and the TV Movie “Mammoth.”

2020 – Menggie Cobarrubias, appeared in “The Wedding Curse,” Scaregivers,” “Chain Mail,” “Eerie” and more.

2020 – Constantin Draganescu, appeared in “Dark Angel: The Ascent,” Mammoth – TV Movie,” “Blessed” and “Vampire Journals.”

2019 – Bronco McLoughlin, did Stunts in “Creatures the World Forgot,” “The Wicker Man [1973],” “Hellbound: Hellraiser II,” “Nightbreed,” and “The Tale of Sweeney Todd [TV Movie].”

2002 – Louis M. Heyward, produced “The Abominable Dr. Phibes,” “Dr. Phibes Rises Again” and “Cry of the Banshee”.

1987 -Walter Abel, appeared in “Silent Night, Bloody Night” and “The Human Duplicators.”

1982 – Sam Kydd, appeared in “The Quatermass Xperiment,” “The Hound of the Baskervilles” and “Island of Terror.”

FILMS RELEASED ON MARCH 26

Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine [1974]
Hear No Evil [1993]
Unseen Evil [2001]
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed [2004]
Scream of the Banshee [2011]

Zoombies 2 [2019]

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