AUGUST 21

BORN ON AUGUST 21

1992 – RJ Mitte, actor in “The Recall,” “The Unseen,” “House of Last Things” and “Stump.”

1989 – Hayden Panettiere, appeared in “Scream 4”.

1975 – Alicia Witt who appeared in “Urban Legend” and episodes of the TV series “Supernatural,” “The Exorcist,” “Lore,” and “The Walking Dead.”

1967 – Carrie-Anne Moss appeared in “Disturbia,” “The Bye Bye Man,” “Silent Hill: Revelation,” “Frankenstein [2015],” “Fido,” and “Terrified.”

1963 – Richmond Arquette, actor in “Halloween [2007],” “Scream 3,” “The Tripper,” “Rift,” “Mexican Devil” and the TV Movie “Legion.”

1956 – Kim Cattrall, appeared in “Modern Vampires,” “Split Second” and episodes of “Creature” and “The Outer Limits.”

1945 – Patricia McCormak played in “The Bad Seed,” “Bug” and “Saturday the 14th Strikes Back.”

1944 – Peter Weir, director/writer for “The Cars That Ate Paris” and the TV Movie “The Plumber.”

1920 – Earl Rowe played in “The Blob [1958].”

1912 – Paul Landres directed films “The Return of Dracula,” “The Flame Barrier,” and “The Vampire.”

1895 – Marie Blake, who was best known for her role of “Grandmama Addams” in “The Addams Family [TV Series].” She also appeared in “Phantom of the Rue Morgue,” “She Devil,” and countless other films.

DIED ON AUGUST 21

2021 – Masaya Nihei, actor in “Mothra” and “Gorath.”

2021 – Phil Valentine, appeared in “Benedictine the Mad Monk – Episode: Taste the Blood of Dracula.”

2000 – John Hayes, directed “Grave of the Vampire” and “Dream No Evil,”.

1988 – Jerry Warren, produced/wrote/directed the films “Teenage Zombies,” “Manbeast” and “The Incredible Petrified World,” and who Americanized many Mexican horror films.

1987 – Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, composer for “Gorgo [1961],” “The Castle of the Living Dead,” “Queens of Evil,” “Goliath and the Vampires,” “Something Creeping in the Dark” and “Hypnosis.”

1981 – Eddie Byrne, appeared in “Jack the Ripper” [1959], “The Mummy” [1959] and “Island of Terror”.

1958 – Kurt Neumann, directed “The Fly [1958],” “She Devil,” “Secret of the Blue Room,” “Kronos” and writer/treatment for “Dracula’s Daughter,” “The Return of the Vampire” and “She Devil.”

FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 21

The Seventh Victim [1943]
An American Werewolf in London [1981]
Blade [1998]
Carnival of Souls [1998]
Devil in the Flesh [1998] – USA TV premiere
Reptilian aka Reptile [2001] – USA video premiere
The Risen [2004]
Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep [2005]
Rising Dead [2007]
The Minstrel Killer [2009]

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AUGUST 22

BORN ON AUGUST 22

1984 – Katie Stuart, appeared in “Supernatural – TV Series,” “The Outer Limits – TV Series,” “The Returned – TV Series” and the TV Movie “Intensity.”

1979 – Brandon Quintin Adams, appeared in “The Resort,” “Ghost in the Machine” and “The People Under the Stairs.”

1967 – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, appeared in “The Thing [2011]” and “The Mummy Returns.”

1965- Courtney Gains, appeared in “Halloween [2007],” “Candy Corn,” “Mimesis”, “The Funhouse Massacre,” “Hell’s Kitty,” “The ‘Burbs,” “Alien Encounter”, “King Cobra” “Children of the Corn,” and more.

1958 – Colm Feore, appeared in “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” “The Prodigy,” “Highwaymen,” and episodes of “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Outer Limits,” “Lore,” “Friday the 13th: The Series,” and War of the Words.”

1945 – David Chase wrote for the TV series “Kolchak: The Night Stalker,” and the screenplay for the film “Grave of the Vampire”.

1920 – Ray Bradbury, works made into films include “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms,” “Fahrenheit 451,” “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” “It Came from Outer Space” and “The Illustrated Man.”

1916 – Joan Houseman, appeared in an episode of “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour [1963].”

1900 – Jean Yarbrough, directed “The Devil Bat,” “King of the Zombies” and “She-Wolf of London.”

DIED ON AUGUST 22

2021 – Marilyn Eastman, actress in “Night of the Living Dead [1968]” and “Santa Claws.”

2020 – Allan Rich, appeared in “Rise: Blood Hunter” and “The Entity.”

2019 – Morton Tubor, supervising film editor for “The Bees,” editor “Dementia 13,” and sound department “The Unearthly.”

2005 – Romi Koch, starred in “Dead Doll.”

2000 – Toru Tanaka, appeared in “Alligator II: The Mutation” and “Dead Heat.”

1980 – Norman Shelley, starred in “Jack the Ripper – TV Mini-Series,” “Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed,” “The Monkey’s Paw,” “Daughter of Darkness” and more.

1977 – Sebastian Cabot, appeared in “Twice Told Tales” and episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “The Twilight Zone” and “Circle of Fear.”

1991 – Colleen Dewhurst appeared in “The Dead Zone,” “When a Stranger Calls,” and provided the voice of “Satan” in the film “Exorcist III”.

1963 – Perry Ivins, appeared as “Fritz” in “Son of Frankenstein,” “Thriller – TV Series” and “Mystery of the Wax Museum.”

FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 22

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff [1949]

Scream of Fear [1961]

Curse Of the Voodoo aka Voodoo Blood Death [1965]
Night of the Creeps [1986]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [1986]
Mimic [1997]
Forest Of The Damned [2006]
I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer [2006]

Satan’s Playground [2006]
Cthulhu [2007] – USA limited

Victor Crowley [2017] – Los Angeles premiere

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AUGUST 23

BORN ON AUGUST 23

2005 – Brock Peters, Brock Peters, appeared in “Soylent Green.”

2002 – Dennis Fimple, Dennis Fimple, appeared in “House of 1000 Corpses,” “King Kong [1976],” “Bug Buster,” “Creature from Black Lake,” “Fangs,” “The Evictors” and more.

1983 – Ruta Gedmintas, appeared in “The Strain – TV Series,” “Ripper Street – TV Series” and “Prowl.”

1970 – Jay Mohr, appeared in “Cherry Falls,” “Hunter’s Moon” and episodes of the TV Series “Night Visions.”

1929 – Vera Miles, starred in “Psycho [1960],” “Psycho II” and “Brain Waves.”

DIED ON AUGUST 23

2021 – Michael Nader, actor in the TV Movie “Nick Knight.”

2021 – Rosita Quintana, actress in “Demon in the Blood” and “La mansión del terror.”

2020 – Augusto Caminito, screenwriter for “Vampire in Venice” and the TV Series “Seagull Island.”

2020 – Benny Chan, producer for “Hong Kong Show Girls” and presenter for “Fatal Love.”

2020 – Lori Nelson, actress in “Day the World Ended,” “Revenge of the Creature” and “The Naked Monster.”

2019 – Sheila Steafel, appeared in “Quatermass and the Pit” and “Bloodbath at the House of Death.”

2006 – Ed Warren, 1/2 of the husband and wife demonologist team i.e. The Amityville Haunting was based on. He and his wife were portrayed in the blockbuster hits “The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2.”

2005 – Brock Peters, appeared in “Soylent Green,” and “Alligator II: The Mutation”.

2002 – Dennis Fimple, played in “House of 1000 Corpses,” “Fangs,” “King Kong [1976]” and “Creature from Black Lake.”

1975 – Hank Patterson, appeared in “Monster on the Campus”, “Earth vs the Spider”, “Attack of the Puppet People”, “The Amazing Colossal Man”, “Beginning of the End”, “Tarantula” and more.

1966 – Francis X. Bushman, starred in “The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini,”

FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 23

Pit and the Pendulum [1961]

The Horrible Dr. Hitchcock [1962] – Milan

Pieces [1982]

Godzilla [1985]
Teen Wolf [1985]
Warning Sign [1985]
The Island of Dr. Moreau [1996]
Exorcism [2003] – Beverly Hills
Ringu 0: Bâsudei [2005] – USA DVD premiere

You’re Next [2011]

Slaxx [2020] – Fantasia International Film Festival

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AUGUST 24

BORN ON AUGUST 24

1981 – Chad Michael Murray, starred in “Camp Cold Brook,” “The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia”, “House of Wax [2005]” and an episode of “Scream Queens [2015].”

1975 – James D’Arcy, appeared in “Hitchcock,” “In Their Skin,” “Rise: Blood Hunter,” “An American Haunting,” “Exorcist: The Beginning” and more.

1973 – Ele Keats, appeared in “Ouija: Origin of Evil,” “Insidious: Chapter 3,” “Mother [1995]” and “Night Stalker – TV Series.”

1972 – Frank Blake, stuntman in “The Vatican Tapes.”

1961 – Jared Harris, starred in “Poltergeist [2015],” “The Quiet Ones”, “The Ward”, “From Within”, “Resident Evil: Apocalypse” and more.

1960 – Takashi Miike, producer and director of “Masters of Horror – TV Series,” “One Missed Call, “Ichi the Killer,” “Audition” and more.

1963 – Dawna Lee Heising, appeared in “2 Jennifer,” “Ballet of Blood”, “After School Massacre,” “Legend of the Red Reaper,” “Deadly Revisions,” “Paranormal Extremes: Text Messages from the Dead,” “Slink,” “Consumption” and many more.

1957 – Stephen Fry, actor in the TV Series “The Sandman” and the short “Night of the Living Dead [2021].”

1945 – Ronee Blakley, appeared in “A Nightmare on Elm Street [1984],” “A Return to Salem’s Lot”, “Tales from the Darkside – TV Series” and more.

1937 – Connie Mason, appeared in “2000 Maniacs,” “Blood Feast,” and “Black Mamba.”

1935 – Vernon Weddle, appeared in “White Dog” and the TV Movie “Scream of the Wolf.”

1934 – Kenny Baker appeared in “Circus of Horrors” and “Time Bandits.”

1923 – Helena Carter, appeared in the 1953 version of “Invaders from Mars.”

1923 – Joan Chandler, appeared in “How to Make a Monster” and “Rope.”

1909 – Larry Barton, appeared in “Hillbillys in a Haunted House,” “Raiders from Beneath the Sea” and “The Human Duplicators.”

1908 – Helena Grant, appeared in “Werewolf of London” and “The Uninvited.”

1900 – Preston Foster appeared in “Doctor X.”

1897 – Richard Bartell, appeared in “The Phantom of the Opera [1943]” and in “Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man.”

1895 – Victor Halperin, directed “White Zombie” and “Revolt of the Zombies.”

DIED ON AUGUST 24

2021 – Anestis Vlahos, actor in “The Devil’s Men,” “Death Steps in the Dark” and “Raw Trip.”

2021 – Charlie Watts, soundtrack for “Supernatural – Episode: The Man Who Knew Too Much”

and one of the best songs:

2013 – Julie Harris, starred in “The Haunting,” “The Outer Limits – TV Series,” “Lucifer’s Child,” “The Dark Half,” “Tales of the Unexpected – TV Series” and more.

2011 – Jack Hayes, music orchestrator for “Jaws: The Revenge” and “Grizzly.”

1998 – E.G. Marshall appeared in “Creepshow,” and “Two Evil Eyes.”

1949 – Rita Carlyle, appeared in “Vampire Bat” and “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde [1941].”

FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 24

Spook Busters [1946]
Kingdom of the Spiders [1977]

The Uncanny [1977] – Montreal Film Festival
Boogeyman II [1983]
Darkman [1990]
Ghosts of Mars [2001]
Corpses [2004]
Vampz [2004]

Autopsy [2008] – London FrightFest

The Cleaning Lady [2018] – London FrightFest

Halloween Party [2019] – London FrightFest

The Oak Room [2020] – Fantasia Film Festival

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AUGUST 25

BORN ON AUGUST 25

1976 – Alexander Skarsgård, starred in “True Blood – TV Series,” “The Stand – TV Series” and “Hidden.”

1961 – Ally Walker, appeared in “Mischief Night,” “By Appointment Only” as well as “Tales from the Crypt – TV Series” and “Ghosted TV Series”

1958 – Tim Burton, directed “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Ed Wood.”

1949 – John Savage, appeared in “Tales of Halloween,” “Demon Legacy,” “Bermuda Tentacles,” “Bereavement,” “Carnosaur 2” and many more.

1949 – Gene Simmons, appeared in “Runaway,” “Trick or Treat” and “KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park.”

1939 – John Badham, directed “Dracula [1979],” as well as “Supernatural” and “Night Gallery” TV series.

1933 – Tom Skerritt, appeared in “Alien,” “The Devil’s Rain” and “The Dead Zone.”

1917 – Mel Ferrer, appeared in “Blood & Roses,” “City of the Walking Dead” and “The Hands of Orlac.”

1909 – Michael Rennie, starred in “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and “Assignment Terror”.

DIED ON AUGUST 25

2021 – Zdenka Procházková, actress in “Lady Dracula,” “Ferat Vampire” and “Cepel smrti.”

2019 – Gloria Lerma Yatco [aka Mona Lisa], appeared in “The Rites of May.”

2019 – Fernanda Young, writer for “Vade Retro.”

2006 – Joseph Stefano, screenwriter for “Psycho [1960],” “Psycho IV: The Beginning,” “Eye of the Devil” and “The Outer Limits – TV Series.”

2001 – Aaliyah, starred in “Queen of the Damned.”

1963 – Edward L. Cahn, directed “The She Creature,” “Creature with the Atom Brain” and “Invasion of the Saucer Men”.

FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 25

The Disembodied [1957]

From Hell It Came [1957]
The Skull [1965]
Blacula [1972]

The Legend of Boggy Creek [1972]
Burnt Offerings [1976]
Zombie [1979] – Italy

The Living Dead Girl [1982]
Lord of Illusions [1995]
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde [1995]
Nadja [1995] – New York City
Severance [2006]

Red Christmas [2016]

Anyone Home? [2018]

Camp Cold Brook [2018]

The Convent [2018] – London FrightFest

Spiral [2019]

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AUGUST 26

BORN ON AUGUST 26

1991 – Dylan O’Brien, starred in the TV Movie “Teen Wolf: Back to the Pack.”

1980 – Chris Pine, starred in “Carriers.”

1980 – Macaulay Culkin, appeared in “Jacob’s Ladder,” “The Midnight Hour” and an episode of “American Horror Story [2021].}

1974 – Meredith Eaton, starred in “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones” and “Paranormal Activity 3.”

1960 – Ola Ray, appeared in “Michael Jackson: Thriller” also in “The Night Stalker.”

1941 – Akiko Wakabayashi, appeared in “King Kong vs. Godzilla,” “Ghidrah, the Three Headed Monster”.

1939 – Yvette Vickers starred in “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,” “Attack of the Giant Leeches” and the TV movie “The Dead Don’t Die.”

1937 – Don Bowman, appeared in “Hillbillys in a Haunted House.”

1931 – John F. Kearney, actor in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” “Dr. Jekyll’s Dungeon of Death” and “Laboratory Conditions.”

1909 – Jim Davis, appeared in “Frankenstein vs. Dracula,” “Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter” and “Monster from Green Hell.”

DIED ON AUGUST 26

2021 – Sompote Sands, director of “Tah Tien,” “Crocodile,” “Kraithong,” “Phra Rot-Meri,” “Kraithong 2” and “Magic Lizard.”

2020 – Joseph Ruby, screenwriter for many of the Scooby Doo animated films & “Rumpelstiltskin.”

2019 – Charles Raymond Henwood ONZM, appeared in “Under ConTROL, and episodes of “Helmut Krauss” and “The Ray Bradbury Theatre.”

1994 – Norman Warwick, director of photography for “Torture Garden,” “The Abominable Dr. Phibes,” “Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde,” “Tales from the Crypt,” “The Creeping Flesh,” “Son of Dracula,” “Tales That Witness Madness,” “The Godsend,” “The Doctor and the Devils” and 4 episodes of “Hammer House of Horror.”

1986 – Ted Knight, appeared at the end of the film “Psycho” as one of the officers guarding “Norman Bates”.

1930 – Lon Chaney Sr., starred in “Man of a Thousand Faces,” “The Phantom of the Opera [1925],” “London After Midnight,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1923],” “The Monster [1925],” and more.

FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 26

War of the Worlds [1953]
The Abominable Snowman [1957] – UK
Strip Nude for Your Killer [1975]
Natural Born Killers [1994]
The Cave [2005]
Vampire Diary [2007] – USA DVD premiere
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark [2010]

Don’t Breathe [2016]

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AUGUST 27

BORN ON AUGUST 27

1988 – Alexa PenaVega, appeared in “Repo! The Genetic Opera,” “The Remaining,” “Abandoned Mine,” “The Devil’s Carnival” and “Mother’s Day [2010].”

1985 – Kayla Ewell, appeared in “The Vampire Diaries – TV Series” and “The Demented.”

1962 – Dean Devlin, produced “Independence Day,” “Stargate” and the American version of “Godzilla [1998].”

1955 – Diana Scarwid, appeared in “Mommie Dearest,” “What Lies Beneath,” “Strange Invaders” and “Psycho III.”

1953 – Peter Stormare, appeared in “Dark Summer,” “Clown,” “Bad Milo,” “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters,” “Dylan Dog: Dead of Night,” “2001 Maniacs,” “Constantine”  and many more.

1950 – Charles Fleischer, appeared in “Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight,” “A Nightmare On Elm Street [1984],” “Deadly Friend” and “Zodiac.”

1947 – Barbara Bach, appeared in “Black Belly of the Tarantula,” “Screamers” and “Humanoid.”

1925 – Herman Cohen, producer for “Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla,” “Berserk,” “Blood of Dracula,” “Craze,” “Konga,” “I Was a Teenage Frankenstein,” “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” “Trog” and more.

1911 – Johnny Eck known in the sideshow circuit as “The Half Boy,” and appeared in Tod Browning’s “Freaks.”

1896 – Morris Ankrum, appeared in “Invaders from Mars” and “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers.”

DIED ON AUGUST 27

2021 – Juana Ginzo, actress in “Presence of Mind” and voice dubbing for “Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.”

2020 – Peter Licassi, actor in “Killer Klowns from Outer Space.”

2004 – Larry McCormick, appeared in “Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines” and in the TV movie “The Case Of The Hillside Stranglers.”

2000 – Ulrike Butz, actress in “The Devil’s Plaything.”

1996 – Akiji Kobayashi, appeared in “Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah,” the 1992 version of “Godzilla vs. Mothra” and “Gamera 2: The Advent of Legion”.

FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 27

Doctor X [1932]
Phantom of the Opera [1943]
The Earth Dies Screaming [1965] – Bismarck, ND
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death [1971]

The Incubus [1982]
Needful Things [1993]
The 13th Warrior [1999]
The Astronaut’s Wife [1999]
Anacondas: The Hunt for The Blood Orchid [2004]
Suspect Zero [2004]
The Last Exorcism [2010]

Lycanimator [2018]

Open 24 Hours [2018] – London FrightFest

Big Top Evil [2019]

Killer Movie: Director’s Cut [2021]

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