JULY 23
BORN ON JULY 23
1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, starred in “The Woman in Black” and “Victor Frankenstein.”
1982 – Tom Mison, starred as “Ichabod Crane” on “Sleepy Hollow – TV Series.”
1978 – Pearry Reginald Teo, director/producer/writer for “The Assen,” “The Curse of the Sleeping Beauty,” “Ghosthunters [2016,” “Necromentia,” “The Evil Inside” and more.
1973 – Kathryn Hahn, appeared in “The Visit” and voiceover in “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation.”
1961 – Woody Harrelson, starred in “Natural Born Killers,” “Zombieland,” “Zombieland: Double Tap,” and the TV movie “Bay Coven.”
1953 – Lydia Cornell, appeared in “Bloodtide” and an episode of the TV Series “Monsters.”
1930 – Chuck Courtney, appeared in “Pet Sematary [1989],” “Food of the Gods” and “Billy the Kid vs. Dracula.”
1938 – Juliet Anderson, starred in “The Beast That Killed Women” and “Tattoo Vampire.”
1938 – Ronny Cox, appeared in “The Car,” “Robocop” and “The Beast Within.”
1922 – Sydney Lassick, appeared in “Carrie [1976],” “Alligator,” “Lade In White,” “Pandemonium,” “Silent Madness,” “The Unseen” and more.
1919 – Don Isaacs, sound editor for “The Fly [1958],” “Summer Camp Nightmare” and “Waxwork.”
1888 – James Donlan, appeared in “Thirteen Women” and “Mystery of the Wax Museum.”
DIED ON JULY 23
2022 – Jered Barclay, actor in “War of the Satellites,” “Howling VI: Freaks,” “Matinee Theatre – Episode: The Suicide Club” and 3 episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
2022 – Boy Alano, actor in “Mga bata ng lagim – aka Children of Horror” and #ParangNormal Activity – Episode: Lolo Boys.”
2022 – Diane Hegarty, Co-Founder of the Church of Satan, editor of “Many of Anton LaVey’s Books” and made an appearance in “Stock footage of obscure 1970s occult horror films.”
2021 – Jean-Yves Lafesse, appeared in “Baby Blood.”
2021 – Mike Mitchell, actor in “The Planet,” “Apocalypse Z” and “Dark Highlands.”
2020 – Jacqueline Scott, appeared in “Empire of the Ants,” Macabre,” episodes of TV Series “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” “The Outer Limits,” “The Twilight Zone” and “Matinee Theater.”
2019 – Gabe Khouth, appeared in “It [1990],” “Home Invasion,” and TV Episodes of “Millennium,” “Supernatural,” and “iZombie.”
2019 – Danny Keogh, actor in “The Mangler,” “From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter,” “Ed Gein,” “Slash,” “Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell,” and TV episodes of “Domination,” “Blood Drive,” and more.
2002 – Leo McKern, starred in “X-The Unknown” and “Damien: The Omen II.”
1997 – David Warbeck, appeared in “Razor Blade Smile,” “Fatal Frames,” “The Beyond,” “The Black Cat” and “Twins of Evil.”
1994 – Hans Salter, wonderful composer for “Creature from the Black Lagoon,” “The Wolf Man,” “The Incredible Shrinking Man, “The Island Earth,” “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,” “House of Frankenstein,” “Hold That Ghost,” and also worked on the soundtrack for “Happy Death Day 2U.”
1982 – Vic Morrow, appeared in “Humanoids from the Deep,” “Message from Space” and “Twilight Zone: The Movie.”
1978 – Charles Horvath, appeared in “The Thing That Wouldn’t Die” and “The Man of a Thousand Faces.”
1965 – G. Raymond Nye, appeared in “King Kong [1933].”
1948 – D.W. Griffith, director/writer/producer for “One Exciting Night” and “The Avenging Conscience: or ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JULY 23
The Haunting [1999]
Dagon [2002] – video premiere
Trancers 6 [2002]
Impetigore [2019]
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JULY 24
BORN ON JULY 24
1982 – Trevor Matthews, has played in “Girl House”, “The Shrine”, “Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer”, “Teen Massacre.”
1979 – Rose Byrne, has starred in “Insidious,” “Insidious: Chapter 2,” “Insidious: The Last Key,” “Just Buried,” and “28 Weeks Later.”
1970 – Jennifer Lopez who starred in “Anaconda,” “The Boy Next Door” and “The Cell.”
1965 – Doug Liman, executive producer for “The Killing Floor,” “Cry Wolf” and 10 episodes of the TV Series “Nightflyers.”
1965 – Kadeem Hardison, appeared in “Vampire in Brooklyn,” “Cult – TV Series,” “Def by Temptation,” “Escapee,” “B.C. Butcher,” “Ashes” and the TV Movie “Run for Your Life.”
1959 – David Alan Graf, appeared in “Witchcraft 7″ and “Witchcraft XI.”
1952 – Gus Van Sant, directed the 1998 version of “Psycho.”
1942 – Chris Sarandon, appeared in “The Sentinel,” “Fright Night [1985],” “Whispers [1990],” “Child’s Play” and more
1925 – John McMamara, appeared in “From Hell It Came,” “The Return of Dracula” and “War of the Colossal Beast.”
DIED ON JULY 24
2022 – David Warner, actor in “From Beyond the Grave, “The Omen,” “Waxwork,” “Grave Secrets,” “Pulse Pounders,” “Body Bags – TV Movie,” “Necronomicon: Book of Dead,” “Ice Cream Man,” “Scream 2,” “Ice Cream Man,” “Sweeney Todd [2006] – TV Movie,” “Nightwing,” “The Company of Wolves” and more.
2022 – Carla Cassola, actress in “Demonia,” “The Sect,” “The Torturer,” “Into the Labryinth,” “Letto numero 6” and the TV Movie “The House of Clocks.”
2021 – Alfie Scopp, actor in “The Mask [1961].”
2019 – Nam Gi-Nam, Directed “Three Evil Spirits,” “Night Fairy,” “The Cemetery Under the Moon,” and others.
2019 – Sergio Di Giulio, appeared in “Zombie” and “Versipellis.”
2012 – Sherman Hemsley, appeared in “The Twilight Zone – TV Series,” “Love at First Bite” and more.
2002 – Robert Easter, screenwriter for “The Toolbox Murders.”
1997 – Brian Glover, appeared in “Alien 3,” “Snow White: A Tale of Terror” and “An America Werewolf in London.”
1985 – Eddie Parks, appeared in “House of Wax [1953]” and “Inner Sanctum.”
1982 – Everett Alton Brown, sound department for “Mystery of the Wax Museum” and “The Hidden Hand.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JULY 24
Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster [1971]
Wolfen [1981]
Afraid of the Dark [1991] – New York City
Disturbing Behavior [1998]
Demonicus [2001] – video premiere
Blood Sucking Babes from Burbank [2006] – DVD premiere
The Crate [2007]
100 Feet [2008] – South Korea
Crawler [2009]
Mutilation Mile [2009]
Orphan [2009]
The Sphere of the Lycanthrope [2009]
The House That Drips Blood on Alex [2010] – Fantasia Film Festival
Dark Was the Night [2014]
The Vatican Tapes [2015]
Pledge [2018]
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JULY 25
BORN ON JULY 25
1987 – Michael Welch, appeared in “Z Nation – TV Series,” “Day of the Dead [2008],” “All the Boys Love Mandy Lane,” “Hansel & Gretel Get Baked,” “The Final Wish,” “The Demented” and more.
1985 – Ashley Bell, appears in “Carnage Park,” “The Last Exorcism,” “The Last Exorcism Part II,” “Witch Hunt,” “Voices,” “The Day,” “Psychopaths” and more.
1985 – Shantel VanSanten, appeared in “Something Wicked” and “The Final Destination.”
1973 – David Denman, appeared in “Brightburn,” “The Gift,” “Shutter,” “When a Stranger Calls,” “Outcast – TV Series,” “Night Stalker – TV Series,” “The X-Files TV Series” and more.
1968 – Michael Karen, director for “Falshback” and the TV Movie “Killer Bees.”
1965 – Illeana Douglas, appeared in the films “Otis,” and “Stir of Echoes”.
1943 – Irwin Yablans, executive producer for the first three “Halloween” films, “Hell Night” and “Fade to Black.”
1933 – George Dickerson, actor in “Psycho II” and “Terrifying Tales.”
1929 – Al Adamson, Actor/producer/director whose credits included “Horror of the Blood Monsters,” “Dracula vs. Frankenstein” and “Blood of Ghastly Horror.”
1921 – Kevin Stoney, appeared in “The Shadow of the Cat,” “The Blood Beast Terror,” as well as episodes of “Out of the Unknown” and “Hammer House of Horror.”
1910 – Gil Galvano, appeared in “The Toolbox Murders [1978].”
1905 – Red Turner, art department/props for “House of Wax [1953].”
DIED ON JULY 25
2022 – Paul Sorvino, actor in “Bad Impulse,” “The Stuff,” “Repo! The Genetic Opera,” “Jersey Shore Shark Attack,” “Chiller – TV Movie,” “The Devil’s Carnival,” “Sicilian Vampire,” “The Hybrids Family” and “Alleluia! The Devil’s Carnival.”
2022 – Jennifer Bartlett, actress in “Another Son of Sam.”
2022 – Geir Børresen, actor in “Noe helt annet – aka Something Else” and the TV Series “Horror Bizarre.”
2022 – Yôko Shimada, actress in “The Inugami Family,” “Village of Eight Gravestones” and “Dear heart: Furuete nemure.”
2022 – Camelia Zorlescu, actress in “Bloodlust: Subspecies III” and “Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm.”
2020 – John Saxon, actor in “A Nightmare on Elm Street [1984],” “Black Christmas [1974],” “Queen of Blood [1966],” “Blood Beach,” “Death House,” “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Hellmaster,” “The Arrival,” “Beyond Evil,” “The Evil Eye,” “Cannibals in the Streets” and many more.
2020 – Božena Böhmová, appeared in the TV Movie “Hrabe Drakula.”
2020 – Turíbio Ruiz, appeared in “The Hour of Fear” and “Horas Fatais.”
2005 – Ford Rainey, appeared in a “Halloween II [1981],” “A Howling in the Woods,” “Night Gallery – TV Series,” “The Outer Limits – TV Series” and many more.
2003 – John Schlesinger, directed the films “The Believers.”
2003 – Michael Mundell, actor in “the Blood Beast Terror” and “Tam Lin.”
2000 – Don Weis, director for TV shows “Kolchak: The Night Stalker,” “Freddy’s Nightmares” and the TV film “The Munster’s Revenge.”
1996 – Howard Vernon, actor in “The Awful Dr. Orlof,” “The Diabolical Dr. Z,” “Only a Coffin,” “Succubus,” “The Blood Rose,” “The Invisible Dead,” “Daughter of Dracula,” “Zombie Lake,” “Howl of the Devil” and more.
1988 – Judith Barsi, actress in “Jaws: The Revenge.”
1984 – Akihiko Hirata, appeared in “Godzilla [1954],” “Godzilla, King of the Monsters! [1956],” “Rodan,” “The Mysterians,” “The H-Man,” “Daikaijû Baran,” “Mothra,” “Gorath,” “King Kong vs. Godzilla,” “Atragon,” “Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster,” “Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster,” “Son of Godzilla” and many more.
1979 – Virginia Brissac, actress in “Black Friday [1940],” “The Ghost Breakers,” “The Mummy’s Tomb” and “Phantom of the Rue Morgue.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JULY 25
Haunted Honeymoon [1986]
Maximum Overdrive [1986]
Last Gasp [1995]
Beyond Re-Animator [2003]
The X Files: I Want to Believe [2008]
GoatSucker [2009] – Madisonville, KY
Lavalantula [2015] – TV Movie
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JULY 26
BORN ON JULY 26
1993 – Elizabeth Gillies, starred in “Animal [2014].”
1973 – Kate Beckinsale, starred in “Underworld,” “Underworld: Evolution,” “Underworld Awakening”, “Vacancy” and “Van Helsing.”
1964 – Sandra Bullock, starred in “Bird Box” and “The Vanishing.”
1959 – Kevin Spacey, starred in “Se7en”.
1950 – Susan George, appeared in “The Sorcerers” and “The House Where Evil Dwells.”
1945 – Helen Mirren, starred in “Winchester” and appeared in episodes of “Thriller,” “The Twilight Zone” and “The Hidden Room.”
1944 – Celeste Yarnall, appeared in “The Velvet Vampire.”
1929 – David Wiley, actor in “Society,” “Friday the 13th Part 3” and the TV Movie “Warp Speed.”
1928 – Edward Mannix, voice dubbing for “Pieces,” “Manhattan Baby,” “The House by the Cemetery,” “Zombie,” “Cannibal Ferox,” “Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror,” “Nightmare City,” “Zombie Holocaust,” “Inferno,” “Lady Frankenstein,” “Cannibal Holocaust,” “The Church,” “The New York Ripper” and many more.
1928 – Stanley Kubrick, directed “The Shining,” “A Clockwork Orange” and others.
1926 – James Best, appeared in “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” and “The Killer Shrews.”
1922 – Anna Berger, appeared in “Lost Souls.”
1922 – Jason Robards, appeared in “Something Wicked This Way Comes”.
DIED ON JULY 26
2022 – Akira Ishihama, actor in “Day-Dream” and “The Snow Woman.”
2021 – Rick Aiello, appeared in “Silent Madness,” “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me,” “Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces,” an episode of “Tales from the Crypt” and did the voice for the video game “Manhunt.”
2021 – Gogó Rojo, actress in “The Hand of a Dead Man.”
2021 – David Von Ancken, director/producer for “Awakening,” several TV Series “The Vampire Diaries,” “The Following,” “Salem,” “Ghost Wars,” “The Purge” and “The Order.”
2020 – Olivia de Havilland, actress in “Lady in a Cage,” The Screaming Woman” and “The Swarm.”
2019 – Russi Taylor, did voices in “Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School” and “Mickey’s House of Villains.”
2012 – Mary Tamm, appeared in “Doghouse,” “Twisted Tales – TV Series,” and “Tales That Witness Madness.”
2009 – Clayton Hill, appeared in “Hellraiser III” and “Sweater Zombie” “Dawn of the Dead [1978].”
2007 – John Normington, appeared in “The Monster Club” and episodes of “The Frighteners” and “The Protectors.”
1992 – Janet Key, actress in “The Vampire Lovers,” “Dracula A.D.,” “And Now The Screaming Starts!,” “Sharon’s Baby,” as well as episodes of “Worlds Beyond,” “Thriller” and “Department S.”
1979 – Virginia Brissac, actress in “Black Friday [1940],” “The Ghost Breakers,” “The Mummy’s Tomb” and “Phantom of the Rue Morgue.”
1978 – Kenneth Benda, actor in “Scream and Scream Again,” “Bizarre” and “Horror Hospital.”
1960 – Cedric Gibbons, art director for “Freaks,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941],” “Mad Love [1935],” “Mark of the Vampire,” “The Mask of Manchu,” “The Devil Doll” and more.
FILMS RELEASED ON JULY 26
The Night Evelyn Came Out of Her Grave [1972] – New York City
Night of the Seagulls [1975]
The Hazing [2005]
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JULY 27
BORN ON JULY 27
1985 – Lou Taylor Pucci, has appeared in “Ava’s Possessions,” “Spring,” “Evil Dead [2013],” “Jack & Diane,” “Carriers,” episodes of “American Horror Story [2011]” and more.
1982 – Cascy Beddow appeared in the TV movie version of “Carrie” and played a young “Shaggy” in “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed,” and “Blade: Trinity.”
1977 – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, starred in “Dracula – TV Series,” “6 Souls,” “Killer Tongue” and “Octane.”
1977 – Richard Cambridge, appeared in “Forest of the Damned” and “Idol of Evil.”
1972 – Takashi Shimizu, director of “Ju-on: The Curse,” “Ju-on: The Curse 2,” “Tomie: Re-birth,” “Ju-on: The Grudge,” “Ju-On: The Grudge 2,” “Marebito,” “The Grudge,” “The Grudge 2,” “Reincarnation” and more.
1968 – Cliff Curtis, starred in “Fear the Walking Dead – TV Series,” appeared in “Virus,” “Deep Rising,” “Doctor Sleep,” “The Meg and more.
1963 – Donnie Yen, appeared in “Blade II” and “666 Devil Reincarnates.”
1961 – Paul Townsend, producer/writer/actor for the short “Call Me Bill.”
1961 – Rebecca Staab, played “Daphne Collins” in the 1991 TV version of “Dark Shadows”.
1949 – Susan Gordon, appeared in “Attack of the Puppet People,” “Tormented” and “Picture Mommy Dead.”
1944 – Isabelle De Funès, actress in “Baby Yaga.”
1930 – Tadao Takashima, appeared in the Toho films “Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II,” “Son of Godzilla,” King Kong vs. Godzilla” and “Frankenstein Conquers the World.”
1916 – Keenan Wynn, starred in “The Devil’s Rain,” “Piranha,” “Orca,” and episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Kolchak: The Night Stalker,” and “Tales From the Darkside.”
1911 – Lupita Tovar, appeared in “The Cat Creeps [1930]” and the 1931 Spanish version of “Dracula.”
1903 – Stanley Fleischer, art director for “Secret of the Blue Room,” “The Hidden Hand,” “The Beast with Five Fingers,” “House of Wax [1953]” and “Them!”
DIED ON JULY 27
2022 – Bernard Cribbins, actor in “Frenzy,” “A Fantastic Fear of Everything” and “Tales of the Unexpected – Episode: The Memory Man.”
2022 – Tony Dow, directed 5 episodes of the TV Series “Swamp Thing,” appeared in episodes of “Freddy’s Nightmares,” “Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction” and “Suspense.”
2022 – Burt Metcalfe, appeared in “The Twilight Zone – Episode: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” and “The Outer Limits – Episode: The Galaxy Being.”
2021 – Orlando Drummond, appeared in “A Werewolf in the Amazon” and “O Macabre Sarcophagus.”
2021 – Saginaw Grant, appeared in “Legend of the Phantom Rider,” “It Waits,” “Maneater,” “Wind Walkers” and more.
2021 – Orestes Ojeda, appeared in “Mystical Rose,” “Aswang,” “Bangis,” “Roman Sacred: Blade in the Dark,” “Gunman” and “Sanib.”
2021 – Jean-François Stévenin, actor in “Wacko” and “Brotherhood of the Wolf.”
2021 – Gérard Zingg, director/writer for “Yeti, The Wild Man.”
2020 – Beckie Mullen, appeared in the TV Movie “Cast a Deadly Spell.”
2020 – Gianrico Tedeschi, appeared in “Frankenstein: Italian Style.”
2012 – Norman Alden, appeared in “Aaahh!!! Real Monsters – TV Series,” “Ed Wood,” “They Live” and “Ben.”
2012 – R.G. Armstrong, appeared in “Warlock: The Armageddon,” “Predator,” “Children of the Corn,” “The Beast Within,” “Evilspeak,” “The Car” and more.
2011 – Raymond Young, appeared in “The Flesh and Blood Show,” “The House That Vanished” as well as episodes of the TV Series “Journey to the Unknown” and “Department S.”
2007 – William Tuttle, makeup effects artist on “Love at First Bite,” “The Fury,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Forbidden Planet” and many more.
2003 – Bob Hope who starred in the 1939 version of “The Cat and the Canary” and in “The Ghost Breakers.”
2000 – Francisco de Castro, producer for “Satan’s Five Warnings.”
1984 – James Mason, appeared in the TV movies “Frankenstein: The True Story” and “Salem’s Lot.”
1979 – Joseph Del Nostro Jr., appeared in “Diary of a Madman.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JULY 27
Mighty Joe Young [1949] – New York City
Spirits of the Dead [1968]
The Amityville Horror [1979]
Evil Altar [1989]
After Death [1989]
Scanner Cop [1994] – video premiere
Halloween H2O [1998] – premiere
The Host [2006] – South Korea
Dark Mirror [2007]
The Row [2018] – Taormina Film Festival
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JULY 28
BORN ON JULY 28
1993 – Hannah Lochner, appeared in “Dawn of the Dead [2004],” “The Devil’s Mercy,” “The Gathering,” “Salem Witch Trials” and more.
1986 – Nolan Gerard Funk, appeared in “Truth or Dare,” “House at the End of the Street,” “The Long Night,” “Deadgirl,” “Bereavement,” “Hollow Man II,” “Ghost Light” and an episode of the TV Series “Supernatural.”
1985 – Dustin Milligan, appeared in “Final Destination 3,” “Shark Night,” “Demonic,” “The Messengers,” “Slither” and more.
1982 – Eliza Swenson, appeared in “The Penny Dreadful Picture Show,” “Legend of the Red Reaper,” “The Dunwich Horror,” “Dracula’s Curse,” “Satanic,” “The Beast of Bray Road,” “Frankenstein Reborn,” “The Haunting of Alice D,” and also worked on the music for the Sharknado Films, “D-Railed,” “5 Headed Shark,” “Alien Predator,” “Lavalantula” and more.
1969 – Alexis Arquette, appeared in “Bride of Chucky,” “Sometimes They Come Back…Again,” “Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror,” “Grey Knight” and “Jack Be Nimble.”
1954 – Bruce Abbott, starred in “Re-Animator,” “Bride of the Re-Animator” and “Beyond the Re-Animator.”
1939 – Charles Cyphers, appeared in “Halloween [1978],” “Halloween II [1981],” “The Fog [1980],” “Assault on Precinct 13 [1976]″ and many more.
1936 – Ted Swanson, production manager for “Island Claws,” TV Movies “The Presence,” “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” first assistant unit director for “Jaws: The Revenge” and producer for the TV Movie “The Tale of Sweeney Todd [1997].”
1916 – Laird Cregar, starred as “Jack the Ripper” in the film “The Lodger” and appeared in the film “Hangover Square.”
1914 – Carmen Dragon, composed the score for the original film version of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”
1912 – George Cisar, appeared in “The Giant Claw,” “Attack of the Giant Leeches,” “The Werewolf,” “Billy the Kid Versus Dracula” and an episode of “The Addams Family.”
1911 – Ann Doran, appeared in “The Werewolf of Woodstock” “It: The Terror from Beyond Space,” “The Man Who Turned to Stone” and “The Indestructible Man.”
1892 – Joe E. Brown, appeared in the film “Comedy of Terrors.”
DIED ON JULY 28
2022 – Ron Zimmerman, production assistant for “Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter” and “Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.”
2021 – Dusty Hill, lead singer for ZZ Top, soundtrack for “The Stand – Episode: The Plague” and “From Dusk Till Dawn.”
2021 – Clive Scott, appeared in “Red Water” and 2 episodes of the TV Series “Tales of Mystery and Imagination.”
2019 – Eduardo Gómez, appeared in “Common Wealth.”
2019 – George Hilton, appeared in “The Sweet Body of Deborah,” “The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh,” and “All the Colors of the Dark.”
2019 – Yû Shimaka, appeared in “Bio Hunter” and an episode of “Berserk [1998].”
2019 – Ruth de Souza, actress in “Good Manners.”
2013 – Eileen Brennan, appeared in “Jeepers Creepers,” “The Hollow,” “Tales from the Crypt – TV Series” and more.
1997 – Rosalie Crutchley, actress in “The Gamma People,” “The Haunting [1963],” “Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb,” “The House in Nightmare Park,” “And Now the Screaming Starts,” “The Keep” and “Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?”
1996 – Bryant Haliday, starred in “The Projected Man” and appeared in the films “Tower of Evil” and “Curse of the Voodoo”.
1985 – Grant Williams, starred in “The Incredible Shrinking Man” and also appeared in “The Monolith Monsters” and “Brain of Blood”.
FILMS RELEASED ON JULY 28
The Cyclops [1957]
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll [1957]
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [1989]
Deep Blue Sea [1999]
The St. Francisville Experiment [2000] – NM & CA
Dark Fantasy [2005]
Dead Wood [2007] – Rough Cut premiere
Shark Season [2020]
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JULY 29
BORN ON JULY 29
1987 – Genesis Rodriguez, starred in “Tusk” and “Delirium.”
1980 – Rachel Miner, appeared in “In Their Skin,” “51,” ”Hide,” “Tooth and Nail,” “Penny Dreadful” “Supernatural – TV Series” and more.
1973 – Stephen Dorff, appeared in films “Leatherface,” “Feardotcom,” “Jackals,” “Botched,” “The Gate,” “Alone In The Dark” and “Blade.”
1972 – Angela Kerecz, appeared in “Shark Exorcist,” “Dante’s Hell” and episodes of the TV Series “The Vampire Diaries.”
1963 – Alexandra Paul, starred in John Carpenter’s “Christine” and also appeared “House of the Damned,” “Piranha – TV Movie” and more.
1962 – Kevin Spirtas, appeared in “Horror High,” “Embrace the Darkness,” “Bloodstone: Subspecies II,” “Bloodlust: Subspecies III,” “Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm,” “Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood,” “The Hills Have Eyes Part II” and more.
1949 – Leslie Easterbrook, appeared in “The Devil’s Rejects,” Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” and “Dismembered.”
1941 – David Warner, actor in “From Beyond the Grave, “The Omen,” “Waxwork,” “Grave Secrets,” “Pulse Pounders,” “Body Bags – TV Movie,” “Necronomicon: Book of Dead,” “Ice Cream Man,” “Scream 2,” “Ice Cream Man,” “Sweeney Todd [2006] – TV Movie,” “Nightwing,” “The Company of Wolves” and more.
1930 – Georg Fenady, director for “Terror in the Wax Museum” and Arnold.”
1923 – Gordon Mitchell, appeared in “Evil Spawn,” “Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks” and “Frankenstein 80.”
1921 – Richard Egan, appeared in the film “Gog.”
1918 – Don Ingalls, writer for the TV Movie “The Initiation of Sarah.”
1876 – Maria Ouspenskaya, appeared in “The Wolf Man” and “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.”
DIED ON JULY 29
2005 – Michael Stone, assistant camera operator for “The Hunger [1983],” “Tourist Trap,” “Laserblast,” “End of the World” and “Crash!”
2001 – Alex Nicol, appeared in TV in episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” The Outer Limits” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
1983 – David Niven, appeared in “Eye of the Devil,” “Old Dracula” and “Murder by Death.”
1983 – Raymond Massey, appeared in “The Old Dark House [1932]” and “Things to Come.”
1939 – Monte Vandergrift, appeared in “King Kong [1933],” “Mad Love” and “The Phantom Creeps.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JULY 29
A Scream in the Night [1935]
The Amazing Mr. X [1948]
The War of the Worlds [1953]
The Island Earth [1955] – Finland
The Tingler [1959]
Castle of Blood [1964] – Los Angeles
The War of the Gargantuas [1966]
Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror [1968] – Spain
Godzilla vs Monster Zero [1970]
Monkey Shines [1988]
Empire of the Ants [1977] – NYC
Zombi 3 [1988]
Signs [2002] – New York City premiere
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat [2003]
Twisted Souls [2003]
Viral [2016]
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JULY 30
BORN ON JULY 30
1990 – Teddy Ray, actor in “Ciaran the Demon Hunter.”
1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, starred in “He’s Out There,” “Gone” and “I, Frankenstein.”
1977 – Jaime Pressly, who starred in “Survival Island,” “Finders Keepers” and “Cruel World.”
1977 – Christopher Ray, directed “2-Headed Shark Attack,” “3-Headed Shark Attack,” “Mega Shark vs. Crocosarus,” “Minutes to Midnight” and also appeared in “Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers,” “Camel Spiders,” “Biohazard,” “Hybrid,” “The Brain Leeches” and more.
1974 – Hilary Swank, appeared in the films “Sometimes They Come Back…Again” and starred in “The Reaping.”
1969 – Simon Baker, starred in “Land of the Dead” and “The Ring 2.”
1965 – Seana Ryan, actress in “Embrace of the Vampire,” “The Bare Wench Project 3: Nymphs of Mystery Mountain” and “Bare Wench Project: Uncensored.”
1964 – Vivica A. Fox, appeared in the film “Idle Hands”.
1963 – Lisa Kudrow, appeared in “The Unknown.”
1963 – Monique Gabrielle, appeared in “Return of the Swamp Thing,” “Evil Toons” and “976-Evil 2: The Astral Factor.”
1961 – Laurence Fishburne, starred in “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors,” “The Colony,” “Event Horizon” and episodes of the TV Show “Hannibal.”
1948 – Carel Struycken, played “Lurch” in the new version of the “Addams Family” movies and appeared in the film “Vampire Hunters Club.”
1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, starred in “The Running Man,” Total Recall,” “The Terminator”, “Predator,” and “Maggie”.
1947 – William Atherton, appeared in “Ghostbusters,” “Grim Prairie Tales” and “The Crow: Salvation.”
1939 –Peter Bogdanovich, whose only film credit includes “Targets” [w/Boris Karloff].
1933 – Ben Piazza, appeared in “Nightwing” as well as episodes of the TV Series “Scene of the Crime” and “The Twilight Zone.”
1931 – Bruno Mattei, director of “Hell of the Living Dead”, “Rats: Night of Terror,” “Zombi 3,” “Mondo Cannibal,” “In the Land of the Cannibals,” “Zombies: The Beginning” and “Island of the Living Dead”.
1927 – Victor Wong, appeared in “Tremors” and “Prince of Darkness.”
1927 – Richard Johnson, appeared in “Zombie,” “The Haunting [1963],” “Beyond the Door” and “The Monster Club.”
1882 – Holmes Herbert, actor in “The Terror,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1931],” “Mystery of the Wax Museum,” “The Invisible Man [1933],” “Mark of the Vampire,” “The Ghost of Frankenstein,” “Calling Dr. Death,” “The Mummy’s Curse” and more.
DIED ON JULY 30
2022 – Nichelle Nichols, actress in “The Supernaturals,” “The Torturer,” “Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster,” “Sharknado 5: Global Swarming,” “American Nightmares” and “Good vs Evil – Episode: Renunciation.”
2022 – Pat Carroll, voice actress in “Mickey’s House of Villains.”
2021 – Jay Pickett, actor in “Rush Week,” “Eve of Destruction,” “Rumpelstiltskin,” “Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas,” the short “A Chance Encounter” and the TV Movie “Inspired to Kill.”
2020 – Anil Murali, appeared in “Kerala Café” and “Shadow.”
2019 – Ratna Verman Shetty, art director for “Hotel.”
2015 – Roddy Piper, appeared in “They Live,” “The Chair,” “Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies,” “Terminal Rush” and many more.
2014 – Dick Smith, makeup effects legend who worked on “The Alligator People,” “Dark Shadows – TV Series,” “The Exorcist,” “The Sentinel,” “Altered States,” “Scanners,” “Ghost Story,” “Poltergeist III,” “House on Haunted Hill [1999],” “Monsters – TV Series” and many more.
2014 – Dennis Lipscomb, appeared in “The First Power,” “Eyes of Fire,” “Retribution” and “The Force.”
2010 – Drummond Riddell, second assistant director for “Frenzy” and “The Blood Beast Terror.”
2008 – Nathan Kaproff, music department for “House of Usher,” “King Kong [1976],” “Empire of the Ants,” “The Fury,” “Wolfen,” “Friday the 13th Part 3” and “Predator.”
2007 – Ingmar Bergman, director of “Hour of the Wolf”.
2003 – Guido Crepax, writer/actor for “Baby Yaga [1973].”
1980 – Charles McGraw, starred in the TV movie, “The Night Stalker.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JULY 30
Ghosts On the Loose [1943]
Mothra [1961] – Japan
I Saw What You Did [1965] – Portugal
Willard [1971]
Squirm [1976]
Alligator [1980] – Mexico
The Blair Witch Project [1999]
Monster Man [2003] – Munchen Fantasy Filmfest – Germany
The Village [2004]
The Dead Matter [2010] – DVD premiere
The Demented [2013] – DVD premiere
Host [2020] – UK
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JULY 31
BORN ON JULY 31
1989 – Alexis Knapp, appeared in “Phobias,” “Grace: The Possession,” “The Anomaly,” “The Dorm” and “Vamp U.”
1965 – Julian Richards, is a writer and director of “Deathcomber,” “Darklands,” “Summer Scars,” “The Last Horror Movie,” and “Shiver.”
1962 – Wesley Snipes, starred in “Blade” films, “The Recall,” “The Demolition Man” “Gallowwalkers” and more.
1956 – Michael Biehn, starred in “The Terminator,” “Aliens,” “Planet Terror,” “Bereavement,” “The Divide,” “The Victim,” “Grindhouse,” “The Night Visitor” and more.
1942 – Judy Wilson, script supervisor for “New Year’s Evil” and “Vampire Hookers.”
1935 – Geoffrey Lewis, appeared in the TV movies “Moon of the Wolf” and “Salem’s Lot” as well as films “Wicked Little Things” and “The Devil’s Rejects.”
1914 – Mario Bava, director of “Lust of the Vampire,” “The House of Exorcism,” “Baron Blood,” “Planet of the Vampires,” “Black Sunday,” “Black Sabbath,” and many more.
1912 – Joe Austin, appeared in the TV Movie “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” episodes of the TV Series “The Unforeseen” and “Strange Paradise.”
1902 – Robert Griffin, appeared in “Monster from Green Hell,” “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” and the 1968 TV movie, “Jack the Ripper.”
1895 – Mack Stengler, cinematographer/director of photography for “King of the Zombies,” “The Living Ghost,” “The Ape Man” and “Revenge of the Zombies.”
DIED ON JULY 31
2023 – Angus Cloud, starred in “Abigail [2024].”
2021 – Jerzy Matuszkiewicz, composer for “Return of the She-Wolf.”
2019 – Harold Prince, director for the 1982 TV movie “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”
2017 – Henry Richardson, editor for “The Crawling Eye,” “Countess Dracula,” “Tower of Evil,” “Legend of the Werewolf,” “The Ghoul [1975]” and “Curtains.”
2013 – Michael Ansara, appeared in “The Manitou”, “Day of the Animals,” “It’s Alive” and “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.”
2009 – Harry Alan Towers, producer of “Count Dracula,” “Edge of Sanity,” “The Black Cat [1981],” “The Mangler, ”Buried Alive,” “The Mummy Lives” and many more.
2004 – Virginia Grey, starred in “The Black Zoo,” “Unknown Island” and “Target Earth.”
1993 – Lénore Aubert, appeared in “The Catman of Paris,” “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein” and “Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer: Boris Karloff.”
1987 – Joseph E. Levine, who was responsible for bringing “Godzilla: King of the Monsters [1956]” to America, and also produced the film “Mad Monster Party.”
1980 – Bobby Van, appeared in “The Navy vs. the Night Monsters” and “The Doomsday Machine,”
FILMS RELEASED ON JULY 31
Beyond the Door [1974]
The Lost Boys [1987]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer [1992]
Death Becomes Her [1992]
Out For Blood [2004] – TV premiere
Indestructible [2009]
The Collector [2009]
The Haunting of Whaley House [2012]
Antisoucial [2013]
Dead Walkers: Rise of the 4th Reich [2013]
Primal Rage [2018]
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