DECEMBER 10
BORN ON DECEMBER 10
1983 – Xavier Samuel, actor in “The Loved Ones,” “Bait,” “Frankenstein [2015],” “Road Kill,” “Dream Life – TV Movie” and the short “Urban Migration.”
1977 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, appeared in “The Passage,” “The Crow: Wicked Prayer,” “Wrong Turn [2003],” “PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal – TV Series,” “Forever Knight – TV Series” and more.
1974 – Monique Dupree, appeared in “Zombthology,” “Caeser and Otto’s Paranormal Halloween,” “Bikini Bloodbath Christmas,” “The Horror Vault 3,” “No Strings 2: Playtime in Hell,” “Sheriff Tom Vs. The Zombies” and many more.
1970 – Matthew Jason Walsh, screenwriter for “The Killer Eye,” “Prison of the Dead,” “Deep Freeze,” “Young Blood, Fresh Meat,” “Witchouse,” “Final Stab,” “Voodoo Academy,” “The Sandman” and more.
1969 – Stephen Billington, starred in “Resident Evil” and “Dracula II: The Ascension.”
1965 – Stephanie Morgenstern, appeared in the TV Series “Forever Knight,” “Tales from the Cryptkeeper” and “Friday the 13th: The Series.”
1960 – Kenneth Branagh, writer/director/producer/actor whose work includes the 1994 version of “Frankenstein,” and “Dead Again.”
1958 – John J. York, starred in “Werewolf – TV Series” as cursed “Eric Cord.”
1958 – Eva Robins appeared in the film “Tenebrae”.
1957 – Michael Clarke Duncan, starred in “The Green Mile.”
1944 – Tisha Sterling, actress in “Burned at the Stake” as well as an episode each of “The Wide World of Mystery,” “Night Gallery” and “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.”
1933 – Mako, appeared in “Robocop 3.”
1928 – Bill ‘Chilly Billy’ Cardille, appeared in “Night of the Living Dead [1968],” “Day of the Dead,” “Night of the Living Dead [1990],” and “Living Dead [2012].”
1928 – John Colicos, appeared in “The Hitchhiker – TV Series,” “Phobia” and “The Changeling”.
1926 – Jean Byron, appeared in “Invisible Invaders” and “The Magnetic Monsters”.
1916 – Anne Gwynne, starred in “House of Frankenstein” and “Teenage Monster.”
1889 – Ray Collins, appeared in the episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Conversation Over a Corpse.”
DIED ON DECEMBER 10
2022 – Sona Valentová, actress in “Witchhammer.”
2021 – Michael Nesmith, actor/soundtrack for “The Monkees – Episode: I Was a Teenage Monster.”
2020 – Tom Lister Jr., appeared in “Slasher Party,” “Midnight [1989],” Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies,” “Soulkeeper,” “Santa’s Slay,” “Dracula 3000,” “Hellborn,” “Vegas Vampires” and many more.
2019 – Philip Anthony McKeon, appeared in “Ghoulies IV,” “Sandman,” “976-EVIL,” “Return to Horror High” and an episode of “Amazing Stories.”
1987 – Denis Sanders, director for “Invasion of the Bee Girls.”
1986 – Susan Cabot, appeared in “War of the Satellites,” “The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent” and played the title role in “The Wasp Woman”.
1978 – Edward D. Wood Jr., director of “Bride of the Monster,” “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” “Night of the Ghouls” and more.
1972 – James H. Nicholson, Co-founder of American International Pictures and producer of “It Conquered the World,” “War of the Colossal Beast,” “Pit and the Pendulum” and more.
FILMS RELEASED ON DECEMBER 10
Satan [1912]
She Killed in Ecstasy [1971]
Don’t Go To Sleep [1982] – TV Movie
The Green Mile [1999]
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DECEMBER 11
BORN ON DECEMBER 11
1988 – Ashley Hinshaw, appeared in “The Pyramid” and “True Blood – TV Series.”
1979 – Rider Strong, appeared in “Darkening Sky,” “Cabin Fever,” “Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever,” “Borderland,” “Pulse 3” and “Tooth and Nail.”
1958 – Nikki Sixx, worked on the soundtrack for “Hellboy [2019],” “Demons [1985],” “The Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Rock ‘n Roll Musical,” “Halloween ’87” and “Idle Hands.”
1953 – Bess Armstrong, appeared in “Jaws 3D,” “Jekyll & Hyde…Together Again” and in the “What’s Cookin’” episode of “Tales From the Crypt.”
1949 – Teri Garr, starred in “Young Frankenstein.”
1944 – Lynda Day George, starred in the films “Mortuary,” “Beyond Evil” and “Pieces.”
1942 – Donna Mills, starred in “Play Misty for Me,” “Cursed Part 3” and the TV movie “Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby.”
1935 – Ron Carey, appeared in “High Anxiety.”
1922 – Maila Nurmi, best known as Vampira, the horror hostess, appeared in “Plan 9 from Outer Space” and her series “The Vampira Show.”
1919 – Marie Windsor, starred in “Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy,” “Chamber of Horrors” and the TV movie “Salem’s Lot.”
1914 – Robert Ayres, appeared in “Cat Girl” and “First Man Into Space.”
1912 – Carlo Ponti, producer for “Oasis of Fear,” “Torso,” “Flesh for Frankenstein,” “Blood for Dracula” and “Killer Fish.”
1911 – Val Guest, writer/producer/director whose films included “The Quatermass Experiment,” “The Abominable Snowman” and “The Day the Earth Caught Fire.”
1902 – Reginald Le Borg, directed the films “The Black Sleep,” “The Mummy’s Ghost” and “Voodoo Island.”
1874 – Paul Wegener, starred in “The Golem,” “The Student of Prague,” “A Daughter of Destiny, “The Magician,” “The Living Dead” and more.
DIED ON DECEMBER 11
2022 – Angelo Badalamenti, composer for “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors,” “Cabin Fever [2002],” “Dark Water,” “Dominion” and “The Wicker Man [2006].”
2022 – John Aler, actor in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert [2001].”
2022 – Neal Jimenez, writer for “Hideaway [1995].”
2021 – Anne Rice, author & screenwriter for “Queen of the Damned,” “Interview with the Vampire,” author for “The Vampire Lestat,“ ”The Mummy,” “The Witching Hour,” “Memnoch of the Devil,” “The Vampire Armand” and many more.
2021 – Jack Hedley, actor in “Witchcraft,” “The New York Ripper” as well as episodes of “Journey to the Unknown,” “Out of the Unknown,” “The Frighteners” and “The Wide World of Mystery.”
2021 – Jalal Pishvaian, actor in “The Strike,” “Delirium” and “The Bondwoman.”
2020 – Carlos Calvo, appeared in the TV Series “Dracula.”
2012 – Charles Young, appeared in “Grizzly II: Revenge” and an episode of the series “Freddy’s Nightmares.”
2007 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, starred in “The Grave.”
2002 – Charles Gunning, appeared in “The Haunting [1999]” “Horror Hayride,” “Caged Fear,” “Scary Movie” and more.
2000 – Don Devlin, appeared in “Anatomy of a Psycho” and “Blood of Dracula”.
1984 – George Waggner, directed “The Wolf Man,” “Man Made Monster,” “Horror Island” and more.
FILMS RELEASED ON DECEMBER 11
Nightmare City [1980] – Italy
Dawn of the Mummy [1981]
The Dentist II [1998]
Bikini Bloodbath [2006]
Hack! [2007]
Malignant [2013] – Another Hole In the Head Film Festival
Surrounded [2018] – TV Movie (Blu-ray/DVD premiere)
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DECEMBER 12
BORN ON DECEMBER 12
1975 – Mayim Bialik, appeared in “Pumpkinhead” as well as episodes of the TV Series “Aaahh!!! Real Monsters,” “The Hidden Room” and “Extreme Ghostbusters.”
1974 – Jason Collins, make-up and special effects for “From Dusk Till Dawn 2 & 3,” “Ghosts of Mars,” “Bubba Ho-Tep” “I Spit on Your Grave [2010],” “Velvet Buzzsaw,” “Tales of Halloween,” “Night Train,” “At Devil’s Door,” “Zombie Day Apocalypse” and many more.
1970 – Mädchen Amick, appeared in “Priest,” “Sleepwalkers,” “The Borrower” as well as episodes of “Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces,” “American Horror Story,” “Beauty and the Beast” and more.
1970 – Jennifer Connelly, starred in “Phenomena,” “Dark Water” and the remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”
1967 – Anne Bobby, starred in Clive Barker’s “Nightbreed,” “In Fear Of – TV Series” and “The Hanover House.”
1956 – Ana Alicia, played “Nurse Janet” in “Halloween II”.
1952 – Sarah Douglas who starred in “Return of the Living Dead III”.
1949 – Bill Nighy, appeared in “I, Frankenstein,” “Underworld,” “Underworld: Evolution,” “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans,” “Shaun of the Dead,” “The Phantom of the Opera [1989]” and more.
1947 – Wings Hauser, starred in “Night Shadows,” “The Carpenter” and “Tales from the Hood.”
1944 – Kenneth Cranham, starred in “Hellbound: Hellraiser II” also appeared in “Tale of a Vampire,” “Old Dracula” and more.
1943 – Gianni Russo, starred in “Laserblast.”
1930 –Gordon Hessler, writer/director whose work includes “The Oblong Box,” the “Spanish Moss Murders” episode of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker,” “Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park” and more.
2000 – William L. McCaughey, sound/re-recording mixer for “Deathmaster,” “King Kong [1976],” “Audrey Rose,” “Demon Seed [1977],” “Nightkill,” “Dead & Buried,” “Wacko,” “Friday the 13th Part 3,” “The Phantom of the Opera [1983],” “Return of the Living Dead II” and “Highway to Hell.”
1927 – Honor Blackman, appeared in “To the Devil a Daughter” and “Tale of the Mummy”.
1915 – Frank Sinatra, soundtrack for “Black Christmas [2006],” “Arachnophobia,” “Innocent Blood,” Hollyweird – TV Movie,” “Sauce” and more.
Music in Innocent Blood:
1900 – Eddie Parker, did the stunts for “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,” “House of Dracula,” “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein” and “Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy.”
1893 – Edward G. Robinson, appeared in “Soylent Green.”
DIED ON DECEMBER 12
2022 – Gajirô Satô, actor in “Nuns That Bite.”
2022 – Stuart Margolin, appeared in the TV Movie “The California Kid” as well as episodes of “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” “The Ray Bradbury Theater” and “Strange Frequency.”
2022 – Wolfgang Ziffer, voice actor for “Jack the Ripper [1976]” and “Vampires in Havana.”
2021 – Kenneth Danziger, actor in “Warlock,” episodes of the TV Series “The Twilight Zone,” “Monsters” and “Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.”
2020 – Mick Innes, appeared in “No Joke Ricky,” “Caretaker,” “Housebound” and “The Socks.”
2019 – Daniel Louis Aiello Jr., produced “UnConventional” and appeared in “Jacob’s Ladder,” “The Stuff” and an episode of “Tales from the Darkside [1984].”
2009 – Val Avery, appeared in episodes of the TV series’ “The Munsters,” “Friday the 13th,” He also appeared in the films “Too Scared to Scream” and “Amityville Horror [1979].”
2008 – Van Johnson, starred in the film “Killer Crocodile”.
2006 – Peter Boyle who played “The Monster” in “Young Frankenstein” and appeared in the film “Species II”.
2005 – Annette Stroyberg, starred in “Blood and Roses.”
1978 – Fay Compton, who appeared in the 1963 version of “The Haunting”.
1976 – Jack Cassidy, appeared in the TV movie “The Phantom of Hollywood”.
1970 – Carolyn Craig, starred in “The House On Haunted Hill.”
FILMS RELEASED ON DECEMBER 12
The Wolf Man [1941]
Frankenstein ’80 [1972]
The Class of Nuke ‘Em High [1986]
Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth [1992]
Mutant Species [1995] – USA – video premiere
Scream 2 [1997]
Rebirth of Mothra III [1998]
A Dead Calling [2006]
The Day the Earth Stood Still [2008]
Devil’s Trail [2017]
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DECEMBER 13
BORN ON DECEMBER 13
1985 – Laurence Leboeuf, appeared in “The Secret,” “Mother!” and “Being Human – TV Series.”
1981 – Amy Lee, lead singer of the band “Evanescence.” Their music has been used in the film “Underworld: The Awakening.”
1959 – Johnny Whitaker, appeared in “Mystery in Dracula’s Castle” and the TV movie “Something Evil.”
1958 – Lynn-Holly Johnson, appeared in “Watcher in the Woods,” and “Alien Predator”.
1957 – Steve Buscemi, actor in “The Dead Don’t’ Die,” “Tales from the Darkside: The Movie,” “Heart of Midnight,” “Ed and His Dead Mother,” “Film House Fever,” voice actor for “Hotel Transylvania,” “Hotel Transylvania 2,” “Hotel Transylvania 3,” “Hotel Transylvania 4,”Igor” and “Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?”
1934 – Richard D. Zanuck, producer whose films include “Jaws,” “Sssssss,” and “Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”
1929 – Christopher Plummer, starred in “Wolf,” and “Dracula 2000”.
1915 – Curd Jürgens, appeared in “The Mephisto Waltz,” “The Vault of Horror,” “The Sleep of Death” and “Hexen.”
1892 – Harry Strang, film appearances included “The Mysterious Dr. Satan,” The Face Behind the Mask” and “Mighty Joe Young.
DIED ON DECEMBER 13
2022 – Kim Simmonds – member of Savoy Brown, soundtrack/writer for “The Vagrant [1992] – Kings of Boogie.”
2022 – Stephen “tWitch” Boss, appeared in “Ghostbusters [2016].”
2022 – Alejandro Luna, production designer for “Santa Sangre.”
2020 – Mitsuyo Asaka, appeared in “Uneasy Encounters.”
2007 – Floyd ‘Red Crow’ Westerman, appeared in “The X-Files – TV Series,” “Millennium – TV Series” and “Poltergeist: The Legacy – TV Series.”
2006 – Keith Larsen, directed “Night of the Witches.”
1999 – Maury Gertsman, cinematographer for “Werewolf of London.”“The Jungle Captive,” “Strange Confession,” “House of Horrors,” “She-Wolf of London,” “The Brute Man,” “The Creature Walks Among Us,” “How to Make a Monster,” “The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake” and “Invisible Invaders.”
1998 – Ariadne Welter, actress in “The Vampire’s Coffin,” “The Devil’s Hand,” “The Brainiac,” “100 Cries of Terror,” “The Panther Women,” “Suicidal Revenge” and more.
1979 – Jon Hall, starred in “The Invisible Man’s Revenge” and “Beach Girls and the Monster,” as well as directed “The Navy vs. the Night Monsters.”
FILMS RELEASED ON DECEMBER 13
The Werewolf [1913]
The Devil Bat [1940]
Maniac Cop 2 [1990]
Mars Attacks! [1996]
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. [2003]
King of the Lost World [2005]
Automatons [2006]
Neverlake [2013] – Courmayeur Film Festival
The Devil Lives Here [2015]
After She Wakes [2019]
Black Christmas [2019]
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DECEMBER 14
BORN ON DECEMBER 14
1988 – Vanessa Hudgens, appeared in “Freaks of Nature” and producer for “#15SecondScare.”
1979 – Sophie Monk, appeared in “Life Blood,” “The Hills Run Red,” “Blood Feast” and “Monster!”
1975 – KaDee Strickland, appeared in “The Grudge,” “Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid,” “The Stepford Wives” and “The Sixth Sense.”
1975 – Marysia Kay, actress in “Forest of the Damned,” “When Evil Calls,” “Zombie Women of Satan,” “Colour from the Dark,” “Karl the Butcher vs Axe,” “The Scar Crow” and more.
1965 – Ted Raimi appeared in “Drag Me To Hell,” “Army of Darkness,” ‘The Midnight Meat Train” and “Shocker.”
1962 –Ginger Lynn Allen, appeared in “Samhain” and “The Devil’s Reject’s.”
1956 – William J. Males, makeup artist/line producer for “Necromancer.”
1953 – Wade Davis, wrote the novel “The Serpent and the Rainbow” which was turned into a movie in 1988.
1949 – Dee Wallace, starred in “The Hills Have Eyes,” “Stepford Wives [1975],” “The Howling,” “The Frighteners,” “Cujo”, “Red Christmas,” “Halloween [2007],” “ZK: Elephant’s Graveyard,”
“Haunting of Cellblock 11,” and many more.
1946 – Patty Duke appeared in “The 4D Man,” “Amityville; The Evil Escapes” and “The Swarm.”
1943 – Alan Ormsby, writer/director/makeup for the films “Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things,” “Cat People,” “Popcorn,” “Not Quite Human” and more.
1938 – Janette Scott, starred in “Day of the Triffids,” “The Old Dark House” and “Crack in the World.” She is mentioned in the opening title song of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
1935 – Lee Remick, starred in “Experiment in Terror” and “The Omen.”
1935 – Lewis Arquette, appeared in “Scream 2,” “The Horror Show,” “Chopper Chicks in Zombietown” as well as episodes of the following TV Series “FreakyLins,” “Gravedale High” and “Tales from the Crypt.”
1919 – Samuel Newman, screenwriter for “Invisible Invaders” and “The Giant Claw.”
1918 – Norman Stevans, appeared in “House of Wax [1953],” “The She-Creature,” “I Was a Teenage Frankenstein,” “War of the Satellites,” “X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes,” “The Swarm” and more.
1917 – Elyse Knox, starred in “The Mummy’s Tomb.”
1916 – Norman Stevans, appeared in “House of Wax [1953],” “The She-Creature,” “I Was a Teenage Frankenstein,” “War of the Satellites,” “X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes,” “The Swarm” and more.
1916 – Shirley Jackson, wrote the novels “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Lottery.”
DIED ON DECEMBER 14
2022 – Christopher Tucker, make-up department for “Old Dracula,” “The Company of Wolves,” “The Comic [1985],” “The Passage” and “She Wolf of London [1990-1991] – TV Series – 11 episodes.”
2021 – Kevin Billington, director for “Voices.”
2020 – Piotr Machalica, appeared in “Medium,” “Labirynt” and “Szamanka.”
2020 – Hanna Stankówna, actress in “The Third Part of the Night” and the TV Short “System.”
2019 – Chuy Bravo, appeared in “The One: Horror – Cupido, Divinitas [2017].”
2016 – Colin M. Brewer, executive producer for “The Keep [1983],” production manager for “Tam Lin” assistant unit director for “Frenzy” and “Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?”
2016 – Bernard Fox, actor in “The House of the Dead,” “Arnold,” “The Hound of the Baskervilles [1972] – TV Movie” and an episode of the TV Series “Night Gallery.”
2013 – Peter O’Toole, starred in “Phantoms,” “Highway to Hell,” “High Spirits” and many more.
2011 – Don Sharp, writer/director of “What Waits Below,” “Hammer House of Horror – TV Series,” “Rasputin: The Mad Monk,” “Curse of the Fly,” “The Kiss of the Vampire” and more.
2009 – Conard Fowkes, played Frank Garner in early episodes of “Dark Shadows”.
2006 – Ralph Miller, appeared in “Outbreak” and the 1995 version of “Village of the Damned”.
1998 – Norman Fell, appeared in “Transylvania 6-5000,” “C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud” and in numerous TV series such as “The Invaders,” and “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.”
1993 – Myrna Loy, screen legend who starred in the TV movie “Ants!” “Thirteen Women” and “The Mask of Fu Manchu.”
1964 – William Bendix, appeared “Lifeboat [1944]” and an episode of “Lights Out.”
1945 – Forrester Harvey, actor in “Kongo,” “The Invisible Man [1933],” “Mystery of Edwin Drood,” “The Invisible Man Returns,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941],” “The Wolf Man,” “The Mysterious Doctor” and “The Lodger [1944].”
FILMS RELEASED ON DECEMBER 14
Pillow of Death [1945]
Starman [1984]
Hide and Go Shriek [1988] – Australia (video premiere)
Edward Scissorhands [1990]
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah [1991]
Rebirth of Mothra [1996]
King Kong [2005]
I Am Legend [2007]
Shark in Venice [2008] – TV Movie
Bigfoot County [2012]
Creeps: A Tale of Murder and Mayhem [2013]
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DECEMBER 15
BORN ON DECEMBER 15
1984 – Amy Holt, appeared in “Sharkansas Women’s Prison Massacre,” “Dinocroc vs. Supergator” and “Girls Gone Psycho.”
1983 – Camilla Luddington, appeared in “The Pact II” and “True Blood – TV Series.”
1981 – Brendan Fletcher, appeared in “R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour – TV Series,” “Altergeist,” “Leprechaun: Origins,” “13 Eerie,” “BloodRayne: The Third Reich,” “Freddy vs. Jason” and many more.
1972 – Stuart Townsend, who played “LeStat” in “Queen of the Damned,” and the new “Kolchak” in the short-lived series “The Night Stalker.”
1963 – Ellie Cornell, appeared in “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers,” “Halloween 5,” “House of the Dead,” “House of the Dead 2,” “All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos,” “The Thirst,” “Femme Fatales – TV Series” and more.
1960 – Walter Werzowa, composer for “Hellraiser: Inferno,” “Cherry Falls,” “Mimic 2,” “The Hunted” and “American Mummy.”
1949 – David Niven Jr., produced the film “Psycho Cop Returns.”
1942 – Kerry Magness, producer/writer for “Night of the Cobra Woman,” camera department for “The Silent Scream” and “An Eye for an Eye.”
1936 – Joe D’Amato, directed “Buried Alive,” “The Grim Reaper” and “Troll 2.”
DIED ON DECEMBER 15
2022 – Michael Reed, director of photography for “The Gorgon,” “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” and “Rasputin: The Mad Monk.”
2022 – James J. Murakami, art director for “The Relic.”
2021 – Bridget Hanley, actress in “Circle of Fear – Episode: Legion of Demons.”
2020 – Caroline Cellier, appeared in “Transit.”
2019 – Nicholas Victor Leslie Henson, appeared in “Witchfinder General,” “Psychomania,” “Truth or Die” and episodes of TV Series “The Green Man” and “Seagull Island.”
2013 – Joan Fontaine, starred in the Hammer film “The Witches”.
2012 – Bernadette Milnes, appeared in episodes of the TV Series “She-Wolf of London” and “The Quatermass Experiment.”
2010 – Jean Rollin, directed “The Rape of the Vampire,” “The Nude Vampire,” “Requiem for a Vampire,” “The Shiver of the Vampires,” “Zombie Lake,” “The Living Dead Girl” and many more.
2003 –Edward Montagne, director/producer whose films include “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” and the TV movie “The Munsters’ Revenge”.
1991 – James Whitworth, starred as “Jupiter” in Wes Craven’s “The Hills Have Eyes” and “The Hills Have Eyes Part II”.
1962 – Charles Laughton, starred in “Island of Lost Souls,” “The Strange Door” and “The Old Dark House” alongside Boris Karloff.
FILMS RELEASED ON DECEMBER 15
Killer Ape [1953]
Frankenstein’s Daughter [1958]
The Innocents [1961]
Gamera the Invincible [1966]
Young Frankenstein [1974]
Ghost Story [1981]
The Corpse Grinders 2 [2000]
Something to Scream About [2003] – Kenosha, WI (premiere)
Mental Scars [2009]
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DECEMBER 16
BORN ON DECEMBER 16
1991 – Lenita Lane, actress in “Murder by the Clock,” “The Mad Magician” and “The Bat [1959].”
1967 – Miranda Otto, appeared in “I, Frankenstein,” “The Silence,” “What Lies Beneath,” “Annabelle: Creation,” “The 13th Floor” and more.
1961 – Shane Black, appeared in “Predator,” “Night of the Creeps,” “Wolfman’s Got Nards,” “Dead Heat” and wrote the screenplay for “The Monster Squad.”
1955 – Xander Berkeley, appeared in “The Dark and the Wicked,” “The Guardian [1990],” “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” “Candyman [1992],” “The X-Files – TV Series,” “Wolf Lake – TV Series,” “Being Human – TV Series,” “Salem – TV Series” and many more.
1947 – Ben Cross, appeared in “Exorcist; The Beginning,” “Wicked Little Things,” “Species: The Awakening,” starred as “Barnabas Collins” in the 1990 TV remake of the series “Dark Shadows”.
DIED ON DECEMBER 16
2022 – Doreen Brownstone, actress in “Silent Night [2012]” as well as episodes of the TV Series “Todd and the Book of Pure Evil” and “Channel Zero.”
2022 – Hans Peter Hallwachs, actor in “A Demon in My View.”
2021 – Doug Robinson, stuntman in “The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll,” “An American Werewolf in London,” “The Keep,” “Lifeforce” and “Nightbreed.”
2021 – Derrick Wyatt, animation department for the TV Series “Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.”
2020 – Emil Cadkin, soundtrack for “Night of the Living Dead [1968],” “Paranormal Activity 4,” “Frankenweenie” and composer for “The Killer Shrews.
2011 – Nicol Williamson, appeared in “The Exorcist III.”
2010 – Angela Clarke, actress in “House of Wax [1953],” “Nightmare Honeymoon” and an episode in the TV Show “The Outer Limits.”
2008 – Sam Bottoms, appeared in “The X-Files – TV Series,” “Project Shadowchaser III,” “Dolly Dearest” and “Up from the Depths.”
1993 – Moses Gunn, appeared in “Firestarter” and “Amityville II: The Possession.”
1989 – Lee Van Cleef, appeared in the films “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms,” “It Conquered the World” and “Escape From New York.”
1989 – Silvana Mangano, appeared in “Slugs [1988].”
1962 – Lew Landers directed “Return of the Vampire,” the 1935 version of “The Raven” with Karloff and Lugosi, as well as “The Mask of Diijon.”
1955 – Horace McCoy, script assistant for “King Kong [1933].”
FILMS RELEASED ON DECEMBER 16
The Mummy [1959]
Son of Godzilla [1967]
The Keep [1983]
Grandmother’s House [1988]
Godzilla vs. Biollante [1989]
Hellmaster [1992]
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus [2000]
HogMaul: The Legend of Abrams County [2013]
Hotel Inferno [2013]
Dead of Night [2015]
Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini [2015]
Deformed Monsters [2017]
Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savani [2015]
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