AUGUST 1
BORN ON AUGUST 1
1989 – Devanny Pinn, appeared in “Dead Sea,” “Truth or Dare,” “The Devil’s Nightmare,” “Hold Your Breath,” “The Black Dahlia Haunting,” “Party Bus to Hell,” “Scary Story Slumber Party.” “Dwelling” and more.
1988 – Sasha Jackson, appeared in “China Bigfoot: Legend of the Yeren” and “Night Junkies.”
1979 – Jason Momoa, appeared in “The Bad Batch,” “Debug,” “Pipeline” and “Wolves”.
1973 – Kris Holden-Ried, appeared in “The Returned,” “Underworld: Awakening,” “The Death of Alice Blue” and “Night of the Demons III.”
1964 – Melanie Shatner, appeared in “Syngenor,” “Cthulhu Mansion,” “Bloodstone: Subspecies II” and “Bloodlust: Subspecies III.”
1948 – Armand Mastroianni, director of TV series “Tales from the Darkside [1983-1988],”
Friday the 13th: The Series [1987-1990],” “War of the Worlds [1988-1990],” as well as “Nightmare Café,” “The Clairvoyant,” “Distortions,” “Dante’s Inferno 3D” and more.
1896 – Erle C. Kenton, director of “House of Frankenstein,” “House of Dracula,” “The Ghost of Frankenstein” and “Island of Lost Souls”
1892 – Eddie Parks, appeared in “House of Wax [1953]” and “Inner Sanctum.”
DIED ON AUGUST 1
2022 – Rosa de Castilla, actress in “The Hell of Frankenstein.”
2022 – Paul Eenhoorn, actor in “Eyes in the Dark” and the short “Springtime for Thomas.”
2022 – Hiroshi Ôtake, appeared in 2 episodes of the TV Series “Don Dracula.”
2021 – Gino Renni, appeared in “The Monster Killers in the Mansion of Terror.”
2020 – Wilford Brimley, actor in “Resurrection Mary,” Progeny,” Mutant Species,” “The Thing [1982],” Death Valley” and “China Syndrome.”
2020 – Thomas Philip Pollock, producer for “Ghostbusters [2016],” “Hitchcock [2012],” “Disturbia [2007]” and “The Uninvited [2009].”
2013 – Gail Kobe, appeared in episodes of the TV Series “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” “The Twilight Zone” and “The Outer Limits.”
2009 – Howard Smit, Makeup Department “The Birds” “Marnie” and ”Satan’s School for Girls.”
1998 – Eva Bartok, appeared in “The Gamma People.”
1993 – B.J. Turner, appeared in “Night Angel” and “Scarecrows [1988].”
1980 – Strother Martin appeared in “Sssssss,” “The Brotherhood of Satan” and “Nightwing”.
FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 1
Murders in the Rue Morgue [1914]
The 39 Steps [1935]
Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde [1953]
The Mummy [1959] – Japan
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet [1965]
Destroy All Monsters [1968] – Japan
The Omega Man [1971]
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf [1973] – New York City
Nightmare Circus – aka Terror Circus [1974]
Obsession [1976] – New York City
Killer’s Delight [1978]
The Clonus Horror [1979]
Mutant [1984]
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives [1986]
Ginger Snaps [2000] – Germany [München Fantasy Filmfest]
The Mummy’s Kiss [2003]
Dorm of the Dead [2006]
Horror Grindshow Double Feature [2008]
The Midnight Meat Train [2008]
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AUGUST 2
BORN ON AUGUST 2
1993 – Cassidy Gifford, appeared in “Ten [2017],” “The Gallows” and “Synkhole.”
1977 – Edward Furlong, starred in “Pet Sematary II,” “Terminator 2: Judgement Day,” “Brainscan,” “The Zombie King,” “Arachnoquake,” “Aftermath,” “Night of the Demons [2009]” and more.
1972 – Jacinda Barrett, starred in “The Following – TV Series,” “Urban Legends: Final Cut,” “Millennium – TV Series” and “Campfire Tales.”
1970 – Kevin Smith, director, writer, producer of “Tusk,” “Red State,” and “Holidays.”
1953 – Butch Patrick, starred in “The Munsters – TV Series,” appeared in “Scary Movie,” “Hand of Death” and “Frankenstein vs The Creature of Blood Cove.”
1945 – Joanna Cassidy, appeared in the films “Ghosts of Mars,” “Blade Runner” and “The Grudge 2.”
1944 – Susan Denberg, starred as the creature in Hammer’s “Frankenstein Created Woman.”
1943 – Max Wright, appeared in “The Shadow” and the TV mini-series, “The Stand.”
1939 – Wes Craven, known for “The Last House on the Left,” “The Hills Have Eyes,” “Deadly Blessing,” “Swamp Thing,” “Deadly Friend,” and of course “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “New Nightmare,” “Shocker,” “Scream,” Scream 2,″ “Scream 3” and more.
1932 – Peter O’Toole, appeared in “Creator” and “Phantoms.”
1924 – Bill Lewthwaite, editor for “The Day of the Triffids [1963].”
1914 – Beatrice Straight, appeared in “Poltergeist,” “Wes Craven’s Chiller,” “Inner Sanctum – TV Series,” and more.
1906 – Milton Rosen, provided work in the Music Department for “The Creeper,” “Hold That Ghost,” “Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man,” “The Black Castle,” “Creature from the Black Lagoon,” “Revenge of the Creature,” “Curse of the Undead,” “The Leech Woman,” and also the Soundtracks of The Mad Ghoul [1943] and House of Frankenstein [1944] and many more films.
1899 – Charles Bennett, screenwriter for “The Lost World” and “Curse of the Demon.”
1897 – Lynton Brent, appeared in “The Thirteenth Guest,” “King Kong [1933]” and “Life Returns.”
DIED ON AUGUST 2
2021 – Lilia Aragón, actress in “Poison for the Fairies” and “Morgana.”
2019 – Roberto Bodegas, writer for “Leonor [1975].”
1995 – Al Adamson, Writer/Actor/Producer for “Brain of Blood,” “Horror of the Blood Monsters” and “Dracula vs. Frankenstein.”
1995 – 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.
1976 – Fritz Lang, directed “Metropolis.”
1975 – Jean Yarbrough, directed “The Devil Bat,” “King of the Zombies” and “The She-Wolf of London.”
1952 – J. Farrell MacDonald, actor in “The Ghost Breaker,” “While Paris Sleeps,” “Those Who Dare,” “The Thirteenth Guest,” “The Living Ghost,” “The Ape Man,” “Woman Who Came Back” and “Pillow of Death.”
FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 2
The Eyes of Laura Mars [1978]
Contamination [1980] – Italy
Fright Night [1985]
Phenomena [1985]
Weird Science [1985]
Prime Evil [1988]
Body Parts [1991]
Hollow Man [2000] – Los Angeles – premiere
The Others [2001]
Signs [2002]
The Machine Girl [2008] – Japan
Quarantine 2: Terminal [2011] – USA limited
Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda [2014]
The Meg: The Trench [2023]
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AUGUST 3
BORN ON AUGUST 3
1985 – Max Landis, screenwriter for “Victor Frankenstein,” “Shadow of the Dead,” “Chronicle,” “Fear Itself – TV Series” and “Masters of Horror – TV Series.”
1985 – Georgina Haig, starred in “Road Kill.”
1984 – Emily Baldoni, actress in “Criticsized,” “The Lost Tribe,” “Grizzly Park” and “Killer Pad.”
1979 – Rhoda Jordan, appeared in “The Mummy’s Kiss,” “Rule of 3,” “Death Factory” and “Aquanoids.”
1979 – Evangeline Lilly, appeared in “Little Evil”, “Kingdom Hospital – TV Series” and “Freddy vs. Jason.”
1972 – Melissa Ponzio, appeared in “Teen Wolf – TV Series,” “The Walking Dead – TV Series,” “The Vampire Diaries – TV Series” and more.
1963 – James Hetfield, is the guitarist and vocalist for heavy metal band Metallica.
1959 – John C. McGinley, has appeared in “Stan Against Evil – TV Series,” “The Belko Experiment,” “The Nightmare Room,” “Se7en” and more.
1951 – Mona Houghton, appeared in an episode of “The Twilight Zone [1961].”
1950 – John Landis, director of “An American Werewolf in London,” “Amazon Women on the Moon,” “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” “Schlock”, “Innocent Blood”, and “Michael Jackson: Thriller” video. He has also contributed to the “Masters of Horrors” series.
1940 – Martin Sheen, appeared in “The Final Countdown,” “The Dead Zone,” “Spawn,” “Firestarter [1984],” “The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane,” “The Believers,” as well as episodes of “Tales from the Crypt” and “The Outer Limits.”
1902 – David Buttolph, musical director for “The Gorilla.”
1895 – Leslie I. Carey, sound department on Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein [1948], Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff [1949], Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man [1951]; The Black Castle [1952], It Came from Outer Space [1953] Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1953], Creature from the Black Lagoon [1954], Tarantula [1955] and many more.
DIED ON AUGUST 3
2022 – Mithilesh Chaturvedi, appeared in “Aks” and “Aahat – Episode: Hotel.”
2021 – Jørgen Langhelle, actor in “Whore,” “The Thing [2011],” “Inside the Whore,” “Christmas Blood” and “Valley of Shadows.”
2020 – Billy Goldenberg, composer for the TV Movies “Fear No Evil,” “Ritual of Evil,” “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” “The House Possessed” as well as the soundtrack for “Annabelle Comes Home.”
2020 – Isabelle Weingarten, actress in “The Territory.”
2007 – James T. Callahan, appeared on episodes of the TV series’ “Twilight Zone,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “The Invaders,” and appeared in “Return of the Living Dead III.”
1995 – Ida Lupino, appeared in the films “The Devil’s Rain” and “Food of the Gods”.
1988 – Colin Higgins, writer for the TV Movie “The Devil’s Daughter [1973].”
1983 – Carolyn Jones, who played Morticia on “The Addams Family” TV show and also appeared in the films “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “House of Wax” and “Eaten Alive”.
1960 – Warren Newcombe, special effects for “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941],” “The Mask of Fu Manchu,” “Forbidden Planet” as well as visual effects for “The Picture of Doran Gray [1945]” and “Mark of the Vampire.”
1942 – James Cruze, who played the title role in the 1912 version of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde”.
FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 3
Piranha [1978]
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II [1993]
Rebirth of Mothra [1999] – video premiere
Tale of the Mummy [1999] – Germany [München Fantasy Filmfest]
Cremains [2001]
Bleed [2002]
Mortuary [2005] – Germany [München Fantasy Filmfest]
Wind Chill [2007]
Toxic Shark [2017]
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AUGUST 4
BORN ON AUGUST 4
1981 – Abigail Spencer, appeared in “The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia,” “Jekyll” and “Campfire Stories.”
1976 – David Lewis, appeared in “Lake Placid,” “Child’s Play [2019],” “Halloween Resurrection,” “The Cleanse,” “Evangeline,” “Beyond Loch Ness,” “Shevenge,” “The Curse of Willow Song” and many more.
1960 – Bernard Rose, director of “Candyman [1992],” “Frankenstein [2015],” “sxtape,” and “Snuff-Movie.”
1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, appeared in “Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town,” “Hunters Blood” and “Gray Knight”.
1944 – Richard Belzer, appeared in “The Puppet Masters” and “Species II.”
1923 – Tom Hennesy, stuntman and actor who played the “Gillman” on land in “Revenge of the Creature.”
1918 – Noel Willman, actor in “The Reptile,” “The Kiss of the Vampire” and an episode of the TV Series “Target.”
1918 – Yoshifumi Tajima, starred in the films “Rodan,” “Mothra” and “King Kong vs. Godzilla.”
DIED ON AUGUST 4
2022 – John Michael Herndon, actor in the shorts “They Watch,” “Lanrete,” “Little Reaper” and “Mother.”
2022 – Adriana Roel, actress in “La loba – aka She-Wolf,” “A Woman Possessed” and “Alucarda.”
2020 – Catherine Daisy Coleman, appeared in “Texas Death Trippin’” and “Texas Death Trippin Ax-Tended Cut.”
2020 – Brent Carver, appeared in episodes of the TV Series “The Hidden Room [1991],” “The Twilight Zone [1989],” “War of the Worlds [1989]” and the TV Movie “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
2019 – Stuart M. Rosen, voice director for “Gahan Wilson’s Diner.”
1981 – Melvyn Douglas, starred in “The Old Dark House,” “The Vampire Bat” and “Ghost Story”.
1973 – Sam Katzman, producer for “Spooks Run Wild,” “It Came From Beneath the Sea” and “The Werewolf”.
1973 – Thomas Pratt, editor for “The Walking Dead [1936],” “The Return of Doctor X” and “The Terror.”
1963 – Tom Keene, appeared in “Red Planet Mars” and “Plan 9 From Outer Space”.
1961 – Maurice Tourneur, director for “While Paris Sleeps,” “Carnival of Sinners,” the shorts “Dr. Goudron’s System” and “Figures de cire.”
FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 4
White Zombie [1932]
Yog, Monster from Space – aka Space Amoeba [1971] – New York City
Night of Dark Shadows [1971]
Cannibal Apocalypse – aka Cannibals in the Streets [1980] – Italy
Hollow Man [2000]
Psycho Beach Party [2000] – NY & NJ
Sorum [2001]
Evil Eyes [2004]
Red Eye [2005] – Los Angeles [premiere]
Motor Home Massacre [2005]
Mutant Chronicles [2008] – DVD premiere
Zombie Dearest [2009]
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AUGUST 5
BORN ON AUGUST 5
1970 – James Gunn, screenwriter for “Tromeo & Juliet,” “Scooby Doo,” “Scooby Doo 2,” “Thir13teen Ghosts,” “Dawn of the Dead [2004]” and “Slither.”
1965 – Jeff O’Brien, screenwriter for “Ghost in a Teeny Bikini,” “Famine,” “Insecticidal,” “Attack of the Giant Leeches,” “Prey for the Beast,” “Alien Incursion” and “Bad Building.”
1961 – Tawny Kitaen, starred in “Witchboard”.
1951 – John Jarratt, starred in “Wolf Creek 1 & 2,″ “100 Bloody Acres,” “Shiver,” “Rogue,” “Boar,” “Next of Kin” and more.
1941 – Bob Clark, directed “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things,” “Black Christmas” and “Deathdream.”
1936 – John Saxon, actor in “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Queen Of Blood,” “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Blood Beach,” “The Night Caller From Outer Space,” “Black Christmas [1974]” and more.
1920 – Selma Diamond, actress in “Twilight Zone: The Movie.”
1918 – Tom Drake, appeared in “The Cyclops,” “House of the Black Death” and “The Crackle of Death,” which was a combination of two episodes of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.”
1906 – John Huston, starred in “Tentacles,” “The Visitor” and “The Bermuda Triangle.”
1900 – Sol Murgi, actor in “The Fly [1958],” “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers,” “The Giant Claw,” “The Werewolf,” “The Corpse Vanishes,” “Creature with the Atom Brain,” “Zombies of Mora Tau” and an episode of “The Twilight Zone.”
1850 – Guy de Maupassant, came up with the story for “Diary of a Madman,” “Black Sabbath,” “Violent Blood Bath” and many more.
DIED ON AUGUST 5
2022 – Michael Lang, soundtrack for “The Devil’s Advocate,” “music department/piano/keyboards for “Audrey Rose,” “The Sentinel,” “Gremlins,” “Arachnophobia,” “Constantine,” Empire of the Ants” and more.
2022 – Clu Gulager, actor in “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge,” “The Return of the Living Dead,” “From a Whisper to a Scream,” “Uninvited,” “Puppet Master 5,” “Feast,” “Children of the Corn: Runaway,” “Director’s Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein” and more.
2022 – Cherie Gil, actress in “Devil Woman,” “The 13th Chapter,” “Mana” and “Tía Madré.”
2021 – Reg Gorman, art department for “Inn of the Damned” and appeared in “The Pawn.”
2020 – Gésio Amadeu, appeared in “Phantom of the Opera [1991].”
2019 – Teresa Ha Ping, actress in “Evil Seducers,” “Bloody Parrot,” “Hell Has No Boundary,” “Evil Cat,” “Ghost Lantern,” “House of Invisibles” and many more.
2014 – Marilyn Burns, starred in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [1974],” also appeared in “Sacrament,” “Texas Chainsaw 3D,” “Butcher Boys,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation,” “Eaten Alive” and more.
2000 – Alec Guinness, appeared in “Mute Witness.”
1999 – David Munro, appeared in 2 episodes of the TV series “Out of the Unknown.”
1995 – Clarice Blackburn, who played “Mrs. Johnson” on the daytime nightmare soap opera “Dark Shadows”.
1991 – Oliver Drake, wrote the screenplay for “The Mummy’s Curse.”
1988 – Ralph Meeker, appeared in “The Night Stalker” and “The Dead Don’t Die”
1984 – Richard Burton, starred in “The Medusa Touch,” “Doctor Faustus” and “The Exorcist II: The Heretic”.
FILMS RELEASED ON August 5
13 Ghosts [1960] – New York City
Castle of the Living Dead [1964]
The Beast That Killed Women [1965]
The Murder Mansion [1972] – Italy
Intensity [1997] – TV Movie
Saturday the 14th Strikes Back [1988]
The Blob [1988]
Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later [1998]
Arachnia [2003]
Deep Shock [2003] – TV Movie
Baby Blues [2008]
Shadows Light [2008]
Howl [2015] – Germany – Fantasy Filmfest
Coffin 2 [2017]
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