FEBRUARY 4
BORN ON FEBRUARY 4
1977 – Shedrack Anderson III, actor in “Drive Thru,” “Blood River” and “Grizzly Park.”
1971 – Rob Corddry, actor in “Warm Bodies,” “Hell Baby” and “Shimmer Lake.”
1970 – Gabrielle Anwar, appeared in “Body Snatchers,” “Crazy Eights,” “The Marsh,” “Flying Virus” and “iMurders.”
1960 – Jenette Goldstein, wonderful character actor who has appeared in “Aliens,” “Near Dark,” “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” and “Autopsy.”
1960 – Adrienne King, who played “Alice” in “Friday the 13th [1980]” and “Friday the 13th Part 2 [1981],” “The Butterfly Room,” “Tales of Poe,” “Killer Therapy,” “Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming,” “Psychic Experiment” and more.
1960 – Anders Palm, director for “Unmasked Part 25,” executive producer for “Trench 11,” “The Executioners” and the short “The Last Marriage.”
1959 – Pamelyn Ferdin, actress in “Daughter of the Mind – TV Movie,” “The Mephisto Waltz,” “What’s the Matter with Helen,” “The Toolbox Murders” and an episode of “Night Gallery.”
1957 – Don Davis, composer for “House on Haunted Hill [1999],” “Long Time Dead,” “Valentine” and “Tokyo Ghoul.”
1951 – Patrick Bergin, starred in “Highway to Hell,” “Ghostwood,” “Lawnmower Man 2,” “Shark Week,” the TV movie “The Ripper” and the 2002 TV mini-series, “Dracula” and more.
1948 – Alice Cooper, his music has appeared in such films as “Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives,” “Scream [1996],” “The Faculty” “Halloween [2007],” “Dark Shadows [2012],” and also took a turn as an actor in the films “Monster Dog,” “Prince of Darkness [1987]” and “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare” and others.
Cameo in Prince of Darkness:
1945 – Earl Pomerantz, writer for 2 episodes of the TV series “Amazing Stories” and acted in “Cannibal Girls.”
1940 – George A. Romero, The Godfather of the Dead, “Night of the Living Dead,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Day of the Dead,” “Land of the Dead,” “Diary of the Dead” and “Survival of the Dead,” as well as “The Crazies [1973],” “Season of the Witch” among many others.
1936 – Gary Conway, appeared in “I Was a Teenage Frankenstein,” “How to Make a Monster” and an episode of Circle of Fear.”
1926 – Cliff Wenger, special effects for “The Devil’s Rain,” “Burnt Offerings,” “The Island of Dr. Moreau,” as well as TV Movies “Dark Night of the Scarecrow,” “The Initiation of Sarah,” “Dead of Night” and more.
1918 – Ida Lupino, who appeared in the films “The Devil’s Rain” and “The Food of the Gods.”
1905 – Eddie Foy Jr., appeared in “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “Matinee Theatre.”
DIED ON FEBRUARY 4
2023 – Arnold Schulman, screenwriter for “Matinee Theatre – Episode: Bottom of the River.”
2023 – Eugene Iglesias, appeared in “One Step Beyond – Episode: Blood Flower” and “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour – Episode: The Dark Pool.”
2021 – Raghavendra Kadkol, appeared in “Zapatlela,” “Khilona Bana Khalnayak” and “Zapatlela 2.”
2020 – Gianni Minervini, producer for “The House of the Laughing Windows,” Macabre” and “Revenge of the Dead.”
2020 – Nadia Lutfi, actress in “Where Do You Hide the Sun?”
2020 – José Luis Cuerda Martínez, produced “Thesis” and “The Others [2001].”
2011 – Tura Satana, exotic dancer and actress who appeared in “The Astro-Zombies”, “The Doll Squad” and more.
2007- Barbara McNair, appeared in the films “Paroxismus” and the TV film “Fatal Charm.”
2005 – Ossie Davis who played “Portifoy” in the pilot episode for “Night Gallery,” appeared in the TV mine-series “The Stand” and the starred in the film “Bubba-ho-Tep.”
2003 – Charles Biddle, Sr. who appeared in the film “Terror Train” and “Zombie Nightmare.”
1959 – Una O’Connor, who appeared in the films “The Invisible Man [1933],” “The Bride of Frankenstein” and “The Canterville Ghost.”
1941 – Margaret Mann, appeared in “Frankenstein [1931],” “Mystery of the Wax Museum” and “Life Returns.”
1937 – William Solder, appeared in “King Kong [1933].”
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 4
The Mystery of Edwin Drood [1935]
Visit to a Small Planet [1960]
The Honeymoon Killers [1970]
The Entity [1982] – San Francisco Independent Film Festival
Videodrome [1983]
Scream 3 [2000]
Abomination: The Evil Maker II [2003]
Boogeyman [2005]
Slipstream [2005]
Mad Cowgirl [2006]
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FEBUARY 5
BORN ON FEBRUARY 5
1990 – Charlbi Dean, actress in “Don’t Sleep” and the short “Illusive Fields.”
1986 – Brittany Allen, appeared in “Jigsaw,” “What Keeps You Alive,” “The Prodigy,” “It Stains the Sands Red,” “Dead Before Dawn 3D” and “Still/Born.”
1985 – Paige Howard, appeared in the short “The Smiler.”
1969 – Michael Sheen, appeared in “Mary Reilly,” “Underworld,” “Underworld: Evolution,” “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans,” “Slaughterhouse Rulez,” “Apostle” and more.
1966 – Jonathan Morgan, director/writer for “Pornogothic,” “Crazed,” “Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre,” actor in “Eye of the Beholder,” “Tomi Knockers” and “Vampire’s Kiss.”
1964 – Laura Linney, starred in “Primal Fear,” “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” and “The Mothman Prophecies.”
1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, starred in “Annihilation,” “Possessor,” “Lisey’s Story – TV Series,” “Morgan,” “Single White Female,” “Amityville: The Awakening” and more.
1951 – Massimo Giuliani, voice dubbing for “Torso,” “Play Motel,” “Cannibal Holocaust,” “House on the Edge of the Park,” “Mystère” and “Demons 2.”
1948 – Christopher Guest, appeared in “Little Shop of Horrors” and an episode of “Supernatural.”
1948 – Tom Wilkinson, starred in “The Exorcism of Emily Rose [2005].”
1941 – David Selby, who played “Quentin Collins” on the daytime soap opera “Dark Shadows.”
1940 –Dick Warlock, did stunts in “The Thing [1982],” “Jaws,” “Escape From New York,” “Halloween II [1981],” “Ghost Story,” “Halloween III,” “Christine,” “Friday the 13th: A New Beginning,” “Firestarter,” “Childs Play 2,” “Pumpkinhead” and many more.
1940 – H.R. Giger, artist who designed the “Alien.”
1937 – Robert Totten, director for the TV Movie “Mystery in Dracula’s Castle.”
1906 –John Carradine, actor in “The Bride of Frankenstein,” “House of Dracula,” “House of Frankenstein,” “The Mummy’s Ghost,” “The Howling,” “The Sentinel” and many more.
1897 – Gay Sheridan, appeared in “King Kong [1933].”
DIED ON FEBRUARY 5
2023 – Jusaburō Tsujimura, costume department for “Sweet Home.”
2023 – Mohamed Dhrif, actor in “Siren [2010].”
2023 – T.P. Gajendran, actor in “Chandramukhi.”
2022 – Rubén Fuentes, soundtrack for “La mujer y la bestia – aka The Woman and the Beast” and “The Hell of Frankenstein.”
2022 – Fernando Marías, producer for the short “Sirena Negra – aka Dark Siren” and screenwriter for “Second Name.”
2021 – Christopher Plummer, actor in “The Pyx,” “The Spiral Staircase,” “Dreamscape,” “Vampire in Venice,” “Red Blooded American Girl,” “Wolf,” “Skeletons,” “The Clown at Midnight,” “Dracula 2000,” “Priest” and the TV Movie “Possessed [2000].”
2021 – Ezzat El Alaili, appeared in “The Humans and The Jinns,” “He Returned for Vengeance” and “The Garden of Blood.”
2021 – Isa Bellini, voice dubbing in “Deep Red” and “Tentacles.”
2020 – F.X. Feeney, writer for “Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound.”
2020 – Kirk Douglas, starred in “The Chosen,” “The Fury,” “The Final Countdown,” “Saturn 3,” “Tales from the Crypt: Episode Yellow [1991]” and more.
2020 – Kevin John Conway, “Unmasked,” “The Outer Limits” and “The Funhouse.”
2019 – Peter Hughes who appeared in an episode of “Shades of Darkness [1983]”
2012 – William Hinzman, best known as the “Graveyard Zombie” “Night of the Living Dead [1968],” he also appeared in “The Crazies,” “The Majorettes,” “FleshEater,” “Santa Claws,” “Mimesis,” “Reichsfurer-SS *Special Thanks*” and more.
2007 – David Wiley, actor in “Society,” “Friday the 13th Part 3” and the TV Movie “Warp Speed.”
1995 – Doug McClure, appeared in “Humanoids from the Deep,” “At the Earth’s Core,” “The Land That Time Forgot,” “Satan’s Triangle,” “Twilight Zone – TV Series” and more.
1991 – Dean Jagger, starred in the films “Revolt of the Zombies,” “X-The Unknown” and “Alligator.”
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 5
Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956]
Cherry 2000 [1987]
Slugs [1988]
The Serpent and The Rainbow [1988]
The Vanishing [1993]
Teenage Zombie House Massacre [2000]
House of the Damned [2008]
Killer Pad [2008]
Night of the Loup Garou [2010]
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FEBRUARY 6
BORN ON FEBRUARY 6
1961 – Mark Benninghoffen, appeared in “The Room Next Door.”
1953 – Ruth Cox, actress in “Jennifer,” “The Attic” and the TV Movie “Fantasies.”
1943 – Gayle Hunnicutt, actress in “Voices,” “Fragment of Fear,” “Eye of the Cat,” “The Spiral,” as well as episodes of “Thriller,” “Tales from the Crypt” and “Tales of the Unexpected.”
1922 – Patrick Macnee, starred in “The Howling,” “Waxwork,” “Waxwork 2: Lost In Time,” “Transformations” and many more.
1921 – David Gorcey, actor in “Spooks Run Wild,” “Master Minds,” “The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters” and “Spook Chasers.”
1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, who appeared in the film “Queen of Outer Space.” and played herself in the film “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors.”
1894 – Carroll Clark, art director for “Notorious,” “The Most Dangerous Game,” “Thirteen Women,” “The Monkey’s Paw,” “Gildersleeve’s Ghost,” “King Kong [1933],” “Before Dawn” and “You’ll Find Out.”
DIED ON FEBRUARY 6
2023 – Eugene Lee, production designer for the TV Movie “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [1982].”
2023 – Joe Violanti, actor in “Shadow Creature.”
2022 – George Crumb, composer for “Death Valley Diary” and soundtrack for “The Exorcist.”
2022 – Frank Pesce, actor in “Killer Mish,” “Maniac,” “Maniac Cop,” “Cameron’s Closet,” “Uncle Sam,” “Street and Lace” and more.
2022 – Feng Chang, actor in “The Bride from Hell,” “Devil Crows,” “The Legend of the Living Corpse” and “Nightmarish Highway.”
2022 – Lata Mangeshkar, soundtrack for “Mahal,” “Tower House,” “100 Days” and “Ghost Stories.”
2022 – Predrag Vranešević, composer for “Full Moon Over Belgrade.”
2021 – Harry Fielder, actor in “Quatermass and the Pit,” “Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed,” “Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb,” “The Blood on Satan’s Claw,” “Twins of Evil,” “The Bride,” “Nightbreed” and more.
2021 – Krzysztof Kowalewski, “appeared in “Kill It and Leave This Town.”
2021 – Miyuri Samarasinghe, actress in “Gharasarpa.”
2020 – Raphaël Coleman, actor in “It’s Alive [2009].”
2017 – Roy Forge Smith, production designer for “The Hound of the Baskervilles [1978],” “Funeral Home,” “Curtains,” “The Kiss,” “Warlock,” “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” and the TV Movie “Haunted By Her Past.”
2009 – Philip Carey who appeared in the films “Monster” [1979] and the TV movie “Scream of the Wolf,” and also made appearances on countless TV shows including Boris Karloff’s “Thriller,” and “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.”
2006 – Esther Sandoval, appeared in the film “Creature from The Haunted Sea.”
2005 – Joan Weidman, production manager for “Berserker,” “Cheerleader Camp,” “Night Life” and “Slaughter of the Innocents.”
2002 – Guy Stockwell, appeared in “Burned at The Stake,” “Santa Sangre,” “It’s Alive,” and appeared in TV shows such as “Thriller” and “Land of The Giants.”
1998 – Don Isaacs, sound editor for “The Fly [1958],” “Summer Camp Nightmare” and “Waxwork.”
1996 – Guy Madison, starred in “The Beast from Hollow Mountain.”
1994 – Joseph Cotten, starred in the films “Lady Frankenstein,” “Latitude Zero,” “Screamers,” “The Survivor” and “The Abominable Dr. Phibes.”
1986 – Ray Moyer, set decorator for “King Kong [1933],” “Rear Window” and “Picture Mommy Dead.”
1985 – Stephen Crane, appeared in “Cry of the Werewolf.”
1981 – Gus Robinson, appeared in for “King Kong [1933]” and “Tomorrow at Seven.”
1958 – Dick Tyler Sr., sound department for “The Vampire Bat,” “Condemned to Live,” “The House of Secrets,” “The Vampire’s Ghost” and “Beginning of the End.”
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 6
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave [1968]
Night of the Bloody Apes [1969]
Zardoz [1974]
The Initiation of Sarah [1978] – TV Movie
The Horror Show [1979] – TV Movie
This House Possessed [1981] – TV Movie
Alien Predator [1986]
Dead of Winter [1987]
Netherworld [1992]
Serial Killer [1996]
The Night Flier [1997]
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra [2001]
Repossessed [2002]
Sleepless Nights [2016] – Mexico
Bad Apples [2018]
Incubus [2007]
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FEBRUARY 7
BORN ON FEBRUARY 7
1979 – Cerina Vincent, appeared in “Cabin Fever,” “Murder-Set-Pieces.” “Intermedio,” “It Waits,” “Sasquatch Mountain,” “Freaks of Nature,” “Tales of Halloween,” “Return to House on Haunted Hill” and more.
1978 – Ashton Kutcher, producer of the TV Series “Room 401.”
1975 – Brent Chalem, child actor known for playing “Horace” in “The Monster Squad.”
1960 – Steve Johnson, makeup effects wizard worked on “An American Werewolf in London,” “Night of the Demons,” “Dead Heat,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master,” “The Fog [1980],” ”Species,” “Brainscan” and many more.
1960 – James Spader, who starred in the films “Wolf,” “Stargate” and “Jack’s Back.”
1955 – Miguel Ferrer, appeared in “DeepStar Six,” “The Guardian [1990],” “The Night Flier,” “Hard Ride to Hell,” as well as several TV Series including “Tales from the Crypt,” “Twin Peaks,” “Night Visons,” “The Stand” and more.
1951 – Kim Milford, appeared in “Laserblast,” “Nightmare Noon,” “Song of the Succubus – TV Movie” and an episode of “The Wide World of Mystery.”
1943 – Greydon Clark, directed “Without Warning,” “Uninvited,” “Satan’s Cheerleaders,” “Wacko” and “Dance Macabre.”
1935 – Bonnie Priore, makeup artist for “Season of the Witch,” “The Crazies [1973],” “Creepshow” and “Day of the Dead.”
1931 – Gloria Talbott, starred in “The Cyclops,” “Daughter of Dr. Jekyll” and “I Married a Monster from Outer Space.”
1929 – Alejandro Jodorowsky, director & writer of the film “Santa Sangre.”
1927 – Laurie Johnson, composer for “And Soon the Darkness,” “Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter,” “It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive,” episodes of the TV Series “The Wide World of Mystery” and “Thriller.”
1927 – Juliette Gréco, actress in “Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre.”
1927 – Walter Scott Herndon, art director for “Blacula” and production designer for “The Manitou.”
1916 – Stephen Crane, appeared in “Cry of the Werewolf.”
1915 – Catherine Finn, actress in “The Deadly Bees,” “Torture Garden,” “Journey Into Darkness” and “The Creeping Flesh.”
1904 – Alison Leggatt, actress in “Nevet Take Candy from a Stranger” and “The Day of the Triffids.”
DIED ON FEBRUARY 7
2023 – Robert Crewdson, actor in “Trog,” “The Psychopath,” “Blood Beast from Outer Space,” “Peeping Tom” and One Step Beyond – Episode: The Avengers.”
2023 – Fernando Becerril, actor in “Aztech,” “The Inhabitant,” “The Similars,” “KM 31: Kilómetro 31,” “Ravenous” and the TV Series “The Envoys .”
2022 – Margarita Lozano, actress in “They’re Watching Us.”
2021 – Giuseppe Rotunno, cinematographer for “Spirits of the Dead,” “Toby Dammit,” “Wolf” and “The Stendhal Syndrome.”
2020 – Orson Bean, appeared in episodes of TV Series “Monsters [1990],” “The Wide World of Mystery [1974]” and “The Twilight Zone [1960].”
2020 – Victor Gorelick, Comic Book Letterer for “Sabrina’s Halloween Spoooktacular [1993] #1” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina – Halloween ComicFest Edition [2015] #1.”
2019 – Albert Finney, appeared in “Wolfen,” and an episode of “The Green Man [1990]”
2007 – Fred Mustard Stewart who wrote the novel, “The Mephisto Waltz” and the story for the TV movie “The Norliss Tapes.”
2006 – George Hively, editor for “The Savage Bees,” “Good Against Evil,” “Friday the 13th Part 3” and “Terror Out of the Sky.”
1980 – Katherine Emery, appeared in “The Maze [1953]” and “Isle of the Dead.”
1972 – Ottola Nesmith, appeared in the films “The Wolf Man,” “The Uninvited” and “The Invisible Ghost.”
1968 – Nick Adams, starred in the films “Die, Monster, Die!” with Boris Karloff, and “Frankenstein Conquers the World.”
1952 – Philip G. Epstein, appeared in an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 7
The Monster Walks [1932]
The Ghost Goes West [1935]
The Spiral Staircase [1946]
The Tell-Tale Heart [1960]
The Anniversary [1968]
The Fury of the Wolfman [1972]
Inferno [1980] – Italy & Argentina
Cannibal Holocaust [1980]
Puppet Master II [1990]
Demon Hunter [2005]
Grizzly Park [2008]
Arkham Sanitarium: Soul Eater [2014]
The Ganzfeld Haunting [2014]
Come to Daddy [2019] – Italy
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FEBRUARY 8
BORN ON FEBRUARY 8
1974 – Seth Green, appeared in “Black Friday [2021],” “It [1990],” “Idle Hands,” “Ticks,” “Holidays,” “Wolfman’s Got Nards,” “The Attic Expeditions,” voice in “Krampus,” and the TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and more.
1965 – Mathilda May, played the Naked Space Vampire in “Lifeforce.”
1961 – Vince Neil, soundtrack for “Demons [1985]”and appeared in “Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens.”
1955 – Ethan Phillips, appeared in “Critters,” “The Shadow,” “The Island” and the TV series’ “Werewolf”.
1949 – Brooke Adams, co-starred in “Shockwaves,” the 1978 remake of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and “The Dead Zone.”
1945 – Louis Giambalvo, appeared in “Nightmares,” “Bad Dreams,” “Fade to Black,” episodes of “The Twilight Zone” and “Amazing Stories.”
1944 – Georgianne Walken, casting director for “Session 9,” “The Mothman Prophecies,” “Wendigo” and “Wilderness Survival for Girls.”
1943 – Richard Romanus, actor in The Ghastly Ones,” “Pandemonium” and an episode of the TV Series “Tales from the Darkside.”
1941 – J.D. Feigelson, writer for “Horror High,” “Dark Night of the Scarecrow,” ““Cry for the Strangers,” “Covenant – TV Movie,” “Nightmare on the 13th Floor,” “Red Water” and “Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2.”
1937 – Bill Rebane, director for “Monster a Go-Go,” “The Giant Spider Invasion,” “The Alphabet Incident,” “The Capture of Bigfoot,” “The Demons of Ludlow,” “The Game,” “Blood Harvest” and more.
1932 – John Williams, music, composer & soundtrack for such films as “Jaws,” “Jaws 2,” “Jaws 3D,” “Jaws: The Revenge,” “Jurassic Park,” “It Chapter Two,” “Trick ‘r Treat,” “The Fury” and many more.
1931 – James Dean, appeared in an episode of “Tales of Tomorrow.”
1922 – Audrey Meadows, appeared in an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
1921 – Lana Turner, actress in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941],” “Persecution” and “Witches’ Brew.”
1919 – Jack Hayes, music department for “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Jaws: The Revenge,” “Grizzly,” “Abby,” “Audrey Rose,” “Nightwing,” “The Doctor and the Devils” and “Terror in the Aisles.”
1916 – Gillie Fenwick, appeared in “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” episodes of the TV Series “The Unforseen,” “Purple Playhouse” and “Friday the 13th: The Series.”
1910 – Milton Gunzburg, 3D Supervisor in “House of Wax [1953].”
1904 – Harold E. Knox, associate producer for “The Last Man on Earth.”
1870 – Lon Poff, actor in “Dante’s Inferno,” “The Man Who Laughs” and “Mystery of the Wax Museum.”
DIED ON FEBRUARY 8
2023 – Burt Bacharach, composer for “The Best Horror Cinema of the 21st Century” and “The Blob – title theme [1958].”
2023 – Cody Anthony, actor in “Piranha 3DD”and “Death House.”
2023 – Dennis Lotis, actor in “The City of the Dead.”
2023 – Branka Veselinović, actress in “The Master and Margaret.”
2022 – George Spiro Dibie, cinematographer for 5 episodes of the TV Series “The Wide World of Mystery.”
2021 – Jean-Claude Carrière, screenwriter for “The Diabolical Dr. Z,” “The Monk,” “Leonor,” “Jack the Ripper” and “Night of a 1000 Hours.”
2021 – Shûichirô Moriyama, appeared in “Demon Spies” and the TV Series “Operation Mystery.”
2021 – Rynagh O’Grady, actress in “Dorothy Mills” and “Sins of a Werewolf.”
2020 – Volker Spengler, actor in “Blackest Heart.”
2020 – Paula Alma Kelly, actress in “The Andromeda Strain.”
2020 – Robert Conrad, actor in “Dead Ground.”
2020 – Ronald William McLarty, actor in “The Sentinel.”
2006 – Akira Ifukube, composer who scored many of their “Godzilla” and other monster films including “Godzilla [1954]”, “Rodan”, “The Mysterians”, “King Kong vs. Godzilla”, “Atragon”, “Mothra vs. Godzilla”, “Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster” and literally hundreds more.
1956 – Vera Lewis, appeared in “Night Nurse,” “King Kong [1933],” “The Return of Doctor X” and “the Smiling Ghost.”
1946 – Miles Mander, actor in “Phantom of the Opera [1943],” “The Return of the Vampire” and “the Picture of Dorian Gray.”
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 8
The Beast with Five Fingers [1946]
Dracula [1974] – TV Movie
The Fog [1980]
Alienator [1990]
The Minion [1998]
The Dead Hate the Living! [2000]
The Minion [2000]
Shrooms [2007]
The Cottage [2008] – Glasgow Film Festival
Port Shoot Massacre [2009]
Spiders [2013]
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FEBRUARY 9
BORN ON FEBRUARY 9
1978 – Fede Alvarez, director “Evil Dead [2013],” “Don’t Breathe,” the TV Series “Calls” and producer for “Don’t Breathe 2.”
1974 – Amber Valletta, appeared in “Dead Silence,” “What Lies Beneath” and an episode of “Moonlight.”
1965 – Julie Warner, actress in “Flatliners [1990]” and “The Puppet Masters.”
1955 – Jim J. Bullock, actor in “Full Moon High.”
1952 – Brooke Palance, actress in “Empire of the Ants” and “The Clairvoyant.”
1945 – Mia Farrow, starred in “Rosemary’s Baby,” “See No Evil” “The Omen [2006] and “The Haunting of Julia.”
1942 – Larry Dunn, stunts for “Laserblast,” “Spawn of the Slithis” and “Full Moon High.”
1942 – Marianna Hill, actress in “Black Zoo,” “The Baby,” “Messiah of Evil,” “Death at Love House – TV Movie,” “Schizoid” and “Blood Beach.”
1940 – Giantito Burchiellaro, art director for “Torso” and “The Dead Are Alive!”
1938 – Fred Williams who portrayed “Jonathan Harker” in the 1970 film, “Count Dracula.”
1928 – Frank Frazetta, illustrator unique work included Marvel, DC, EC comics, horror magazines such as “Creepy,” “Eerie,” “Vampirella,” and album and paperback covers.
1917 – Murray De Atley, cinematographer for “Frankenstein Island” and “House of the Black Death.”
1901 – Brian Donlevy, appeared in the films “The Quatermass Xperiment,” “Quatermass 2,” “Gammera” and “Curse of the Fly.”
1886 – Edwin Maxwell, actor in “The Gorilla,” “Mystery of the Wax Museum,” “Night of Terror” and “The 9th Guest.”
DIED ON FEBRUARY 9
2023 – Piero Montanari, composer for “Ghosthouse,” “Le porte dell’inferno – aka The Hell’s Gate” and “Frankenstein 2000.”
2022 – Ian McDonald, soundtrack for episodes of the TV Series “Supernatural” and “The Stand.”
2022 – Owen Moran – aka “Cook da Books”, soundtrack for “The Fear (El Miedo).”
2022 – Super Muñeco, appeared in “Brocéliande.”
2021 – Gerald Feil, cinematographer for “He Knows Your Alone,” “Friday the 13th Part 3” and “Silent Madness.”
2021 – John Hora, cinematographer for “The Howling,” “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” “Gremlins,” “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” as well as appearing in “Burying the Ex.”
2019 – Larry Brand, directed & wrote “Masque of the Red Death [1989],” screenwriter “Halloween: Resurrection.”
1996 – Thomas E. Spalding, cinematographer for “The Blob [1958]” and “Island of Blood.”
1996 – Robin Stille, appeared in “Vampire Knights”, “Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama”, “The Slumber Party Massacre.”
1995 – David Wayne, appeared in “Night Gallery [TV Series]”, “The Andromeda Strain”, “The Twilight Zone [TV Series]” and many more.
1986 – Ben Nye, make-up artist whose film work included “The Alligator People” and “The Fly [1958].”
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 9
The Creeping Flesh [1973]
Murder by Decree [1979]
Lobster Man from Mars [1989]
The Haunting of Morella [1990]
Cyborg Cop [1994]
Loch Ness [1996] [UK & Ireland]
Hannibal [2001]
Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman [2000]
The American Nightmare [2000]
Hannibal Rising [2007]
Bone Eater [2007]
Friday the 13th [2009] – LA premiere
Black Hollow Cage [2017]
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FEBRUARY 10
BORN ON FEBRUARY 10
1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz, appeared in “Shadow in the Cloud,” “The Amityville Horror [2005],” “Wicked Little Things,” “Hallowed Ground,” “The Eye,” “Let Me In,” “Dark Shadows [2012],” “Carrie [2013],” “Suspiria [2018],””The Addams Family [2019],” “Greta” and more.
1994 – Makenzie Vega, appeared in “Saw” and “Fender Bender.”
1991 – Emma Roberts, appeared in “Scream 4,″ “The Blackcoat’s Daughter,” “The Hunt [2020],” “American Horror Story – TV Series”, “Scream Queens – TV Series” and more.
1974 – Elizabeth Banks, starred in “Brightburn,” “Slither,” “The Uninvited [2009]”.
1967 – Laura Dern, starred in the films “Grizzly II: Revenge,” “Blue Velvet,” “Jurassic Park” and “Jurassic Park III.”
1938 – Torsten Wahlund, actor in “Blood Tracks [1985].”
1937 – Ronnie Rondell Jr., stunts for “The Night Stalker,” “Maniac Cop,” “The Seventh Sign,” “They Live,” “Maniac Cop 2,” “The Ambulance,” “Predator 2,” “Vampire in Brooklyn,” “Stigmata,” “End of Days” and more.”
1936 – 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.”
1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, great composer whose film scores include the 1999 versions of “The Haunting,” “The Mummy,” as well as “Alien,” “Poltergeist [1982],” “Hollow Man,” “Gremlins,” “Leviathan,” “The Omen,” “Psycho II,” “Deep Rising,” “Coma,” and many more.
1929 – Hazel Court, appeared in “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Raven [1963],” and “The Curse of Frankenstein.” She also published Hazel Court Horror Queen: An Autobiography [2008].
1916 – Walter Reed, appeared in “Flying Disc Men from Mars” and “How to Make a Monster”.
1906 – Lon Chaney Jr. starred in “The Wolf Man,” The Ghost of Frankenstein,” “The Mummy’s Tomb,” “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,” “Son of Dracula,” “House of Frankenstein,” “House of Dracula,” “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein,” and many, many more.
DIED ON FEBRUARY 10
2022 – Evgenia Brik, actress in “S.S.D.”
2020 – Albert Patrick Jordan, appeared in “The Giant Behemoth,” The Amorous Adventures of a Young Postman,” “In the Devil’s Garden,” “Madhouse [1974” and Lifeforce.”
2019 – Carmen Argenziano, appeared in “When a Stranger Calls,” “Graduation Day,” “The First Power,” “Hellraiser: Inferno,” “The Labyrinth,” and many more.
2008 – Roy Scheider, who starred in the films “Jaws,” “Curse of the Living Corpse,” “Dracula II: The Ascension” and “Dracula III: Legacy.”
2007 – Charles S. Swartz, writer/producer of the films “The Velvet Vampire,” “Terminal Island.”
2006 – David Knapp, appeared in the films “Home A Horror Story” and the TV movie “Something Evil.”
2005 – Chuck Morrell, producer/actor for “Grotesque.”
2001 – Lewis Arquette, appeared in “Scream 2,” “The Horror Show,” “Chopper Chicks in Zombietown,” “Syngenor” and an episode of “Tales from the Crypt” and “FreakyLinks.”
2000 – Jim Varney, starred in “Blood, Friends and Money.”
1996 – Cedric Dawe, art director for “The Day of the Triffids” and 16 episodes of the TV Series “Department S.”
1983 – Eduard Franz, actor in “The Thing from Another World,” “The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake,” “Beauty and the Beast [1962]” and “Twilight Zone: The Movie.”
1932 – Edgar Wallace, the man who created the story of “King Kong,” and wrote the novel “Dead Eyes of London.”
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 10
Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors [1943]
The Uninvited [1944]
Attack of the Crab Monsters/Not of This Earth [1957]
The Night Visitor [1971]
The Bermuda Triangle [1978]
Black Cat [1984]
The Fly II [1989]
Shallow Grave [1994]
Queen of the Damned [2002]
Final Destination 3 [2006]
Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud [2007]
The Lodger [2009]
The Horde [2009] – France, Belgium, Luxemburg
Walled In [2009]
Havenhurst [2016]
Cute Little Buggers [2017]
Haunted 4: Demons [2021] – UK
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