AUGUST 11
BORN ON AUGUST 11
1983 – Chris Hemsworth, starred in “The Cabin in the Woods.”
1972 – Dean Zanuck, producer for “Tontine,” “Dead Lawyers – TV Movie,” production executive for “Dark Shadows [2012]” and “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [2007].”
1969 – Jonathan Slavin, actor in the TV Movie “Backwoods” and episodes of the TV Series “Santa Clarita Diet.”
1965 – Embeth Davidtz, appeared in “Thir13en Ghosts,” “Fallen,” “Army of Darkness” and “Mutator.”
1965 – Viola Davis, appeared in the short film “Touch of Evil.”
1954 – Terry Porter, re-recording mixer for “Friday the 13th: Part 3,” “Time Walker,” “Mausoleum” “Silent Night, Dealy Night,” “Prince of Darkness,” “Bad Dreams,” “Leviathan,” “Arachnophobia,” “The Haunted Mansion [2003],” “World War Z” and more.
1947 – Stuart Gordon, directed “Re-Animator,” “From Beyond,” “Dolls,” “Castle Freak” and “Dagon” just to name a few.
1946 – Duncan Preston, appeared in “Howl” as well as episodes of “Shades of Darkness” and “Thriller.”
1946 – Pradip Mukherjee, actor in “Bhoot Chaturdashi – aka The Night of the Ancestors.”
1937 – Anna Massey, appeared in “Peeping Tom,” “Frenzy” and “The Vault of Horror.”
1905 – Georges Rigaud, appeared in “Eye of the Devil,” “Santo vs. Dr. Death” and “Horror Express.”
1901 – Lyle B. Reifsnider, set decorator for “House of Wax [1953]” and “Devil’s Partner.”
DIED ON AUGUST 11
2023 – Darren Kent, actor in “The Little Stranger,” “The Outer Darkness,” “Infected,” “Community,’ “Asylum Blackout,” “Mirrors” and more.
2022 – Anne Heche, actress in “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Psycho [1998],” “Volcano,” “Suffering Man’s Charity,” “Nothing Left to Fear,” “Armed Response,” “My Friend Dahmer” and “The Vanished.”
2022 – Darius Campbell, producer for “House Red.”
2022 – Manuel Ojeda, actor in “The Man in White,” “Perversión,” “Outside the Law” and “Asesina.”
2021 – Paulo José, actor in the TV Series “Vamp.”
2021 – Peter Fleischmann, director, producer, writer for “Die Hamburger Krankheit.”
2020 – George Christy, appeared in “Outbreak,” Se7en” and “Predator 2.”
2019 – Barbara March, actress in the TV Movie “Blood Ties.”
2017 – Sandy Berman, sound effects for “Cataclysm,” “The House on Sorority Row,” “Sweet Sixteen,” “Jaws 3D,” “Strange Invaders” and “Fatal Games.”
2014 – Robin Williams, acclaimed comedian and actor starred in “Insomnia” and “One Hour Photo.”
1994 – Peter Cushing, thrilled us in “The Mummy [1959],” “Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors,” “The Hound of Baskervilles [1959],” “House of Long Shadows,” “The Satanic Rites of Dracula,” “The Abominable Snowman,” “Horror of Dracula,” “Horror Express,” “Dracula A.D. 1972,” “Horror Express,” “Island of Terror,” “The House That Dripped Blood,” and many more.
1993 – Philip Martell, music department for “The Evil of Frankenstein,” “The Horror of It All,’ “The Earth Dies Screaming,” “Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors,” “Dracula: Prince of Darkness,” “The Plague of the Zombies,” “Quartermass and the Pit,” “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave,” “The Oblong Box,” “Countess Dracula,” “Hands of the Ripper,” “Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter” and many more.
1988 – Anne Ramsey, appeared in “Deadly Friend,” “Class Reunion,” “Meet the Hollowheads,” and “Doctor Hackenstein.”
1982 – Folmar Blangsted, editor for “The Other,” “Face of Darkness,” TV Movies “The Night Strangler” and “All the Kind Strangers.”
1975 – Howard Wendell, appeared in “The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake”.
1973 – Peggie Castle appeared in “Beginning of the End” and “Back from the Dead”.
FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 11
King Kong vs. Godzilla [1962] – Japan
Attack of the Mushroom People – aka Matango [1963] – Japan
Dogora The Space Monster [1964]
Beast of Morocco [1968]
Mardi Gras Massacre [1978]
City of the Living Dead [1980] – Italy
A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child [1989]
Pulse [2006]
Splatter Disco [2007]
Vampire Black: Trail of the Dead [2008]
The Last Resort [2009] – DVD premiere
Artik [2019]
Infection [2019]
Last Voyage of the Demeter [2023]
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AUGUST 12
BORN ON AUGUST 12
1987 – Joshua Sohn, composer for “Grizzly II: The Revenge” and “The Attic.”
1986 – Elise Avellan, appeared in “The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond,” “Grindhouse,” “Planet Terror” and “Death Proof.”
1985 – Jade Tailor, appeared in “Cam2Cam,” “True Blood – TV Series,” “Dark Reel,” “Crimson” and “You’re So Dead.”
1981 – Natalie Mendoza, starred in “The Descent,” “The Descent: Part 2,” “Blood Drive – TV Series” and “Surviving Evil.”
1976 – Wednesday 13, appeared in “Bite School” and “Killer Waves 2.”
1972 – Rebecca Gayheart, appeared in “Urban Legend,” “Scream 2,” “From Dusk Till Dawn 3,” “Santa’s Slay” and the Showtime series “Dead Like Me.”
1964 – David Bear, second assistant director for “Mutant Vampire Zombies from the ‘Hood!” Guardian [2009],” “Elevator [2012]” and appeared in “Zombie Strippers!”
1958 – Rit Wallis, editor for “My Bloody Valentine [1981]” and “The Gate [1987].”
1956 – Bruce Greenwood, appeared in “Disturbing Behavior,” “Gerald’s Game,” “Below” and “Doctor Sleep.”
1954 – Sam J. Jones, appeared in “Revamped.”
1950 – Jim Beaver, starred in several TV Series “Supernatural,” “Crimson Peak”, “Tremors,” “The X-Files” and much more.
1942 – Howard R. Cohen, writer/director whose credits include “Saturday the 14th” and “The Vampire Hookers”.
1939 – George Hamilton, starred in “Love At First Bite,” “The Power” and the TV movie “The Dead Don’t Die.”
1936 – Elizabeth Shepherd, actress in “The Tomb of Ligeia,” “Damien: Omen II,” “The Spreading Ground,” as well as episodes of “Tales from the Cryptkeeper,” “Poltergeist: The Legacy” and “The Hidden Room.”
1931 – William Goldman who wrote the screenplays for “The Stepford Wives,” “Magic,” “Dreamcatcher,” and “Misery.”
1928 – Dan Curtis, produced the original and 1990 versions of the TV series “Dark Shadows” and films “The Night Stalker,” “The Night Strangler” and “Trilogy of Terror.”
1922 – Fulton Mackay, appeared in “Nothing But the Night,” “Sleepwalker,” episodes of “Out of the Unknown” and “Tales of the Unexpected.”
1904 – Edward Ashley, appeared in “Waxworks.”
1898 – Eddie Hart, appeared in “King Kong [1933]” and “Air Hawks.”
1898 – Oskar Homolka, appeared in “The Invisible Woman,” “Mr. Sardonicus” and the 1968 TV version of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.”
1893 – Howard Smith, appeared in “I Bury the Living.”
1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, director/producer for “The Ghost Breaker.”
1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, screenwriter for “The Bat [1959],” “The Unknown [1927]” and “The Bat Whispers.”
DIED ON AUGUST 12
2022 – Teddy Ray, actor in “Ciaran the Demon Hunter.”
2021 – Tarcísio Meira, actor in “O Beijo do Vampiro – aka The Vampire Kiss.”
2020 – Mónica Luiza Miguel, actor in “Hot Snake.”
2014 – Lauren Bacall, actress in “The Fan” and “Presence of Mind.”
2007 – Aida Young, produced many Hammer films including “Hands of the Ripper”, “Scars of Dracula”, “Taste the Blood of Dracula”, “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave”, “One Million Years B.C.” and more.
2004 – Peter Woodthorpe, appeared in “The Skull,” “The Evil of Frankenstein” and the TV Movie “The Tale of Sweeney Todd.”
2000 – Loretta Young, appeared in “Seven Footprints to Satan.”
1999 – Ross Elliott, actor in “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms,” “Tarantula,” “Indestructible Man,” “Monster on the Campus,” “The Crawling Hand,” “Crowhaven Farm,” “Act of Vengeance” and more.
1982 – Henry Fonda, starred in “The Boston Strangler,” “Tentacles” and “The Swarm.”
1917 – Ross Elliott, actor in “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms,” “Tarantula,” “Indestructible Man,” “Monster on the Campus,” “The Crawling Hand,” “Crowhaven Farm,” “Act of Vengeance” and more.
1982 – Henry Fonda, starred in “The Swarm,” and “Tentacles.”
FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 12
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde [1941]
Phantom of the Opera [1943] – Los Angeles
Back From the Dead [1957]
The Unknown Terror [1957]
Black Sunday [1960] – Italy
The Pit And The Pendulum [1961]
Suspiria [1977]
Funeral Home [1980]
Manhattan Baby [1982]
Cujo [1983]
Mindwarp [1992] – video premiere
The Skeleton Key [2005]
Final Destination 5 [2011]
Shark Waters [2022]
Blind Waters [2023] – internet
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AUGUST 13
BORN ON AUGUST 13
1983 – Sebastian Stan, appeared in “The Covenant” and “The Apparition.”
1972 – Crystal Allen, appeared in “Ghost Storm,” “Anacondas: Trail of Blood” and “Anaconda III.”
1952 – Brandon Smith, actor in “Dark Angel,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Maidenhead,” “Spirit Camp,” “Jeepers Creepers III” and an episode of the TV Series “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series.”
1952 – Prathap Pothen, actor in “Ezra [2017].”
1950 – Katsumi Yanagijima, director of photography for “The Grudge 2” and “Shutter.”
1941 – Allen S. Epstein, producer for the TV Movies “Dying Room Only,” “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” “I, Desire” and the TV Mini-Series “It.”
1935 – Abe Polsky, producer/writer for “The Baby [1973].”
1920 – Neville Brand, appeared in “The Psychic Killer,” “Eaten Alive” and the TV movie “Killdozer.”
1909 – John Beal, appeared in “The Vampire,” “Amityville 3D” and the original “Dark Shadows” TV series.
1899 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Great Master of Suspense, directed such films as “Psycho,” “The Birds,” “Frenzy,” “North By Northwest,” “Rear Window,” “Vertigo,” “Rope,” “Strangers on a Train” and many more.
DIED ON AUGUST 13
2022 – Denise Dowse, actress in “Killer Rats,” “The Call,” “A Cloud So High” and “The X-Files – Episode: Plus One.”
2022 – Robyn Griggs, actress in “Minds of Terror,” “Zombiegeddon,” “Dead Clowns,” “Final Curtain,” “Slashers Gone Wild,” “The Absence of Light,” “Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation,” “Hellweek” and more.”
2020 – Giancarlo Ferrando, cinematographer for “Troll 2,” “House of Lost Souls,” “American Rickshaw,” “Devil Fish,” “The Great Alligator,” “Slave of the Cannibal God,” “Torso,” “All the Colors of the Dark” and more.”
2019 – Lily Leung Shun-Yin, appeared in “Fatal Obsession.”
2004 – Martin Becker, special effects for “Friday the 13th Part 3,” “Friday the 13th The Final Chapter,” “Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives,” “Friday the 13th the New Blood,” “Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan,” “April Fool’s Day [1986],” “A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master” and “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare.”
1999 – Charles Macaulay appeared in “The House of Seven Corpses,” “The Twilight People” and “Blacula”.
1986 – Helen Mack, appeared in “Son of Kong”.
1984 – Alberto Lupo, appeared in “The Atom Age Vampire”.
1948 – Edwin Maxwell, actor in “The Gorilla,” “Mystery of the Wax Museum,” “Night of Terror” and “The 9th Guest.”
1946 – H.G. Wells, author of such classic novels as “The Island of Dr. Moreau,” “The Invisible Man,” “The Shape of Things to Come,” “The Time Machine,” “The War of the Worlds,” “The Food of the Gods,” “Empire of the Ants,” all of which have been adapted into films, some of them multiple times.
FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 13
Man of a Thousand Faces [1957] – New York City premiere
Yongary, Monster from the Deep [1967]
Targets [1968]
The Land That Time Forgot [1975]
Futureworld [1976]
Friday the 13th Part III [1982]
Braindead aka Dead Alive [1992] – New Zealand
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday [1993]
Terror Toons [2002]
Freddy vs. Jason [2003] – premiere
Operation: Nazi Zombies [2003] – TV Movie
Alien vs Predator [2004]
Gozu [2004] – Los Angeles
Case 39 [2009] – New Zealand
Sinister Visons [2013] – Doylestown, PA – premiere
Megalodon [2018] – TV Movie
Swim [2021] – internet
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AUGUST 14
BORN ON AUGUST 14
1983 – Mila Kunis, starred in “American Psycho II: All American Girl,” “Piranha [1995]” and “Milo.”
1968 – Ben Bass, appeared in “Night Visions – TV Series,” “The Hunger – TV Series,” “Bride of Chucky” and “Forever Knight – TV Series.”
1966 – Halle Berry, starred in “Gothika,” “The Call” and “Dark Tide.”
1960 – Lucinda Dickey, actress in “Cheerleader Camp.”
1959 – Stephen Sachs, stuntman for “The Dorm That Dripped Blood.”
1957 – Tony Moran, portrayed “Michael Myers” in “Halloween [1978]” and was also in “Death House,” “Clown Motel: Spirits Arise” and more.
1950 – Jim Wynorski, director of “Chopping Mall,” “The Return of Swamp Thing,” “Transylvania Twist,” “976-Evil II,” “Dinosaur Island,” “Vampirella,” “The Bare Wench Project” and many more.
1946 – Antonio Fargas, appeared in the “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” TV Series and the films “Firestarter” and “Howling VI.”
1926 – Alice Ghostley, appeared in “Blue Sunshine”, and played ‘Granny” in “Addams Family Reunion.”
1924 – Eduardo Fajardo, appeared in “Nightmare City,” “Lisa and the Devil,” “The House of Exorcism,” “Evil Eye,” “Cross of the Devil,” “La Llorona [1960],” “Oasis of the Zombies” and “The Murder Mansion.”
1923 – George Sawaya, actor in “The Black Sheep,” “Hands of a Stanger,” “Diary of a Madman,” “Moon of the Wolf,” “The Devil’s Rain,” “Embryo,” “Curse of the Faceless Man” and an episode of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.”
1920 – Nehemiah Persoff, appeared in “The Power,” “The Psychic Killer” and in the 1973 TV movie “Dracula.”
1909 – Joan Ingram, appeared in “The Blood Beast Terror [1968].”
1909 – Angela Clarke, actress in “House of Wax [1953],” “Nightmare Honeymoon” and an episode in the TV Show “The Outer Limits.”
1906 – Irving Lande, casting director for “Willard [1971],” “Ben,” “Terror in the Wax Museum,” “Arnold” and “The Reincarnation of Peter Proud.”
1903 – Joan Ingram, appeared in “The Blood Beast Terror [1968].”
1901 – George Worthing Yates, screenwriter for “Attack of the Puppet People,” “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” and “Them!”
1901 – J. Peverell Marley, cinematographer for “The Hound of the Baskervilles [1939],” “House of Wax [1953]” and “Phantom of the Rue Morgue [1954].”
DIED ON AUGUST 14
2023 – Mark Kemble, actor in “The Arrival,” “Netherworld” and “Forget Me Not.”
2023 – Matyelok Gibbs, actress in “Crimetime” and “Fragile.”
2022 – Marshall Napier, actor in “Little Monsters [2019],” “The Clinic,” “13 Gantry Row – TV Movie,” “Panic at Rock Island – TV Movie” and the TV Series “The Beast.”
2021 – Francis Mossman, actor in “The Richmond Family Massacre.”
2020 – Ash Christian, producer for “Stranger in the House,” “Show Yourself” and “Kindred Spirits.”
2014 – Madeleine Collinson, appeared “Twins of Evil.”
2012 – Ron Palillo, appeared in “Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI,” “Hellgate” and “Trees 2: The Root of All Evil.”
1987 – Sydney Bromley, appeared in “Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell,” “Prehistoric Women” and “An American Werewolf in London”.
1985 – Gale Sondergaard, “The Cat and the Canary [1939],” “The Black Cat [1941]” and “The Invisible Man’s Revenge”.
1984 – J.B. Priestley, wrote the novel “Benighted” on which the film “The Old Dark House” is based.
1982 – Patrick Magee appeared in “Tales From the Crypt,” “Asylum,” “Dementia 13,″ “The Masque of the Red Death,” “The Monster Club” and “A Clockwork Orange”.
1972 – Eddie Carmel, starred in “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die”.
1970 – Steve Darell, appeared in “The Monolith Monsters” and “Tarantula.”
FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 14
It! The Terror from Beyond Space [1958] – New York City – premiere
Witchfinder General [1968] – New York City
Deadly Blessing [1981]
The House by the Cemetery [1981]
The Monster Squad [1987]
Single White Female 1992
Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1996]
Vengeance of the Dead [2001]
Unearthed [2004]
Bikini Girls on Ice [2009] – Fright Night Film Festival
District 9 [2009]
Psychopath [2009]
Grace [2009] – USA limited
Raven [2009] – Los Angeles
The Id Proxy [2009]
The Possession of Michael King [2014] – Singapore
Shark Exorcist [2015]
Show Yourself [2016]
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AUGUST 15
BORN ON AUGUST 15
1990 – Jennifer Lawrence, starred in “Mother!” and “House at the End of the Street.”
1985 – Emily Kinney, starred in “The Walking Dead – TV Series.”
1974 – Natasha Henstridge, starred in “Why?” “Species,” “Species II,” “Species III,” “Ghosts of Mars” and the TV series “The Secret Circle.”
1972 – Ben Affleck appeared in “Phantoms,” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.
1970 – Anthony Anderson, appeared in “The Town That Dreaded Sundown [2014],” “Scary Movie 3 & 4″ and “Urban Legends: Final Cut.”
1968 – Rico Devereaux, appeared in “Neron,” “Presence,” “Mutant Vampire Zombies from the ‘Hood!” and “Zombie Strippers!”
1963 – Waide Aaron Riddle, producer/writer for the shorts “Something Wicked Dwells,” “A Haunting in Arkansas” and appeared in “Necromancer.”
1951 – Bobby Caldwell, composer for “Bug Buster” and songwriter for “Fright Night [1985] – Give It Up.”
1950 – Gaylen Ross, in “Dawn of the Dead [1978],” “Madman” and “Creepshow.”
1936 – Pat Priest, played “Marilyn Munster” on the series “The Munsters,” and appeared in the film “The Incredible Two Headed Transplant.”
1933 – Lori Nelson, starred in “Revenge of the Creature,” “The Day the World Ended” and “The Naked Monster.”
1929 – Gordon Russell, wrote for the original “Dark Shadows” and wrote the screenplay for “House of Dark Shadows.”
1928 – Nicolas Roeg, director for “Puffball: The Devil’s Eyeball,” “The Witches [1990],” “Don’t Look Now,” cinematographer for “Masque of the Red Death” and “Dr. Crippen.”
1928 – Nosher Powell, appeared in “The Legend of Spider Forest” and an episode of the TV Series “Department S.”
1919 – Huntz Hall, directed “Spooks Run Wild” and “Ghosts on the Loose.”
1903 – Charles Gemora, appeared in “I Married a Monster from Outer Space,” the 1932 version of “Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “War of the Worlds.”
1900 – Steve Carruthers, had uncredited rolls in “She Devil,” “House of Wax [1953],” “The Ghost Breakers,” “Them!,” TV Series “The Outer Limits,” “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” “Thriller” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
1897 – Aben Kandel, writer for “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” “I Was a Teenage Frankenstein,” “Blood of Dracula,” “Horrors of the Black Museum,” “The Headless Ghost,” “How to Make a Monster,” “Konga,” “Black Zoo,” “Berserk,” “Trog” and more.
DIED ON AUGUST 15
2022 – Steve Grimmett – former singer of the 80s metal band Grim Reaper, composer/singer for the music videos “See You In Hell,” “Fear No Evil” and “Rock You To Hell” and more.”
2021 – Gianfranco D’Angelo, appeared in “Io zombo, tu zombi, lei zomba – aka I Zombie, You Zombie, She Zombie.”
2013 – Gerry Arbeid, production manager for “Curtains” and appeared in “Black Christmas [1974].”
2013 – Lisa Robin Kelly, appeared in “Poltergeist: The Legacy – TV Series,” “Amityville: Dollhouse,” “The X-Files – TV Series” and “Terror in the Shadows.”
2007 – Anthony Carras, producer of “Comedy of Terrors” and “Ghost in the Invisible Bikini”.
1996 – Joe Seneca, appeared in “Friday the 13th – TV Series and “The Blob” remake.
1988 – Ronald Stein, composer for “Spider Baby” and “The Haunted Palace.”
1979 – William Schramm, appeared in “Dracula’s Daughter”.
FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 15
The Phantom of the Opera [1962]
Horror Castle [1963] – Italy
Targets [1968]
Manhunter [1986]
The Fly [1986]
Event Horizon [1997]
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer [1992]
Freddy vs Jason [2003]
Mutation [2006]
Snakes on a Train [2006]
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer [2007] – USA limited
Mirrors [2008]
47 Meters Down: Uncaged [2019] – Spain
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AUGUST 16
BORN ON AUGUST 16
1991 – Evanna Lynch, appeared in the TV Series “Apex.”
1988 – Rumer Willis, starred in “The Ganzfeld Haunting,” “Sorority Row” and “From Within.”
1985 – Agnes Bruckner, appeared in “Occult,” “The Pact,” “Vacancy 2: The First Cut,” “Blood and Chocolate,” “The Woods,” “Venom,” episodes of the TV Series “The Returned,” and more.
1982 – Cam Gigandet, appeared in “Priest,” “Pandorum,” “The Unborn”, “Tenement,” and “Assimilate.”
1979 – Kevin Turen, producer for “Pearl,” X,” “Antlers,” “Villains,” “Tau,” “Assassination Nation” and “An American Crime.”
1960 – Timothy Hutton, appeared in “The Dark Half,” “Secret Window,” and episodes of “The Haunting of Hill House.”
1958 – Madonna, soundtrack/songwriter for “Deep Blue Sea – El Paradiso Rico.”
1958 – Rachel Talalay, producer/director for “Ghost in The Machine,” “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare,” “Supernatural – TV Series,” “Wolf Lake – TV Series” and more.
1958 – Angela Bassett, appeared in “Vampire in Brooklyn,” “Innocent Blood,” “The Lazarus Child,” “Critters 4” and episodes of “American Horror Story.”
1957 – Laura Innes, actress in “The Fury” and “The Good Neighbor.”
1954 – James Cameron, producer/writer/director some include “The Terminator,” “Aliens,” “Piranha II: The Spawning,” “The Abyss” and more.
1953 – Caitlin O’Heaney, appeared in “Late Phases,” “Wolfen,” “He Knows You’re Alone” and “Savage Weekend.”
1948 – Mirta Miller, actress in “Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf,” “Count Dracula’s Great Love,” “Vengeance of the Zombies,” “Eyeball” and “Bloody Sex.”
1942 – George Eastman, writer for “Metamorphiosis,” “Absurd,” “The Great Alligator,” “Anthropophagus II,” appeared in the previous plus “Delirium,” “StageFright,” “Baby Yaga” and more.”
1937 – Lorraine Gary, appeared in “Jaws,” “Jaws 2″ and “Jaws the Revenge.”
1934 – Neil T. Maffeo, producer for the TV Movies “Dying Room Only,” “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” “The Stranger Within,” “The Intruder Within” and production manager for “The Night Stalker.”
1933 – Max Kleven, unit director for “Death Becomes Her,” “What Lies Beneath,” stunt coordinator for “Damien: Omen II,” “The Changeling,” “Happy Birthday to Me” and “Species.”
1933 – Gary Clarke, actor in “How to Make a Monster,” “Lightning Field,” “Revenge!” as well as episodes of the TV Series “Thriller” and “The Sixth Sense.”
1933 – Julie Newmar, starred in “Deep Space,” “Evils of the Night” and episodes of “The Twilight Zone.”
1930 – Robert Culp starred in “The Demon with the Glass Hand” episode of the original “Outer Limits” TV show and “Santa’s Slay,” “The Chill Factor” and the film “Silent Night, Deadly Night 3.”
1910 – Mae Clarke, portrayed “Elizabeth” in the original “Frankenstein.”
1899 – Glenn Strange who played the “Frankenstein Monster” in the later Universal horror films such as “House of Frankenstein,” “House of Dracula” and “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.”
1895 – W. Howard Greene, cinematographer for “Doctor X,” “Mystery of the Wax Museum,” “Phantom of the Opera [1943]” and “The Climax.”
1882 – Dick Rush, appeared in “Murder by the Clock,” “The Thirteenth Guest,” “Mystery of the Wax Museum,” “Secret of the Blue Room” and “Black Magic.”
DIED ON AUGUST 16
2023 – Jürgen Kluckert, actor in “Vampires in Havana” and Black Mirror.”
2020 – Bahman Mofid, appeared in “Ghoul [1973].”
2019 – Peter Fonda, “Spirits of the Dead,” “Race With the Devil,” “Dance With Dwarfs,” “Spasms,” “Nadja,” and “Ghost Rider.”
2015 – David A. Prior, director and writer for “Killer Workout,” Sledgehammer,” “Mutant Species,” “Night Trap,” “Night Claw,” “Zombie Wars,” “Night Wars” and “The Lost Platoon.”
2007 – Clive Exton, screenwriter for “Doomwatch, “The House in Nightmare Park,” “The Awakening,” “Stigma – short,” as well as episodes of “The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells,” “Out of the Unknown” and “Out of This World.”
2004 – Acquanetta, played “The Ape Woman” in both “Jungle Captive” and “Captive Wild Woman,” also co-starred in “The Lost Continent” and “Dead Man’s Eyes.”
2002 – Jeff Corey, appeared in “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man,” “Lady in the Cage,” “Something Evil,” “The Premonition,” episodes of “The Outer Limits,” and more.
1999 – David Allen, visual effects for “Laserblast,” “The Howling,” “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” “Dolls,” “Puppet Master plus 2, 3, 4, 5,” “Bride of Re-Animator,” “Demonic Toys,” “Shrunken Heads” and more.
1998 – Phil Leeds, actor in “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie,” “Saturday the 14th Strikes Back” and an episode of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.”
1997 – Robin Wentworth, appeared in “The Blood Beast Terror,” “Nothing But the Night” and an episode of the TV Series “Sherlock Holmes.”
1994 – John Hawker, actor in “The Toolbox Murders” and “Lisa.”
1993 – Stewart Granger, starred in “The Hound of the Baskervilles [1972].”
1992 – Malcolm Atterbury, actor in “The Birds,” “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” “Blood of Dracula,” “How to Make a Monster” and 2 episodes of “The Twilight Zone.”
1964 – Jack Pennick, actor in “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms [1953].”
1956 – Bela Lugosi, starred in “Dracula,” “The Wolf Man,” “The Phantom Creeps,” “Island of Lost Souls,” “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein,” “White Zombie,” “The Black Cat,” “The Ghost of Frankenstein,” “The Raven,” and many more.
FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 16
The Unholy Three [1925]
Corpse Eaters [1974] – Canada
The Bride [1985]
The Return of the Living Dead [1985]
The Borrower [1991] – Chicago
Bordello of Blood [1996]
The Fan [1995]
The Sisters [2004]
Dementia: An Experiment in Terror [2006]
The Slasher [2009]
HazMat [2013] – Massachusetts Independent Film Festival
Nightmare Shark [2018] – TV Movie
Sharkenstein [2016]
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AUGUST 17
BORN ON AUGUST 17
1994 – Taissa Farmiga, starred in “American Horror Story – TV Series,” “50 States of Fright – TV Series,” “The Nun” and “The Final Girls.”
1982 – Mark Salling, appeared in “The Graveyard” and “Children of the Corn: The Gathering.”
1977 – Venus DeMilo Thomas, appeared in “Frost [2022]” and an episode of the tv series “Beyond Belief: Fact of Fiction.”
1970 – Rupert Degas, appeared in “X [1996],” “Exorcist: The Beginning,” “Dark Corners” and “Evil Dead [2013].”
1969 – Donnie Wahlberg, appeared in, “The Sixth Sense,” “Dead Silence” and “Saw II, III & IV.”
1968 – Helen McCrory, appeared in “Interview with a Vampire,” “Frankenstein – TV Movie,” “Penny Dreadful – TV Series” and “The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.”
1961 – Ashlie Rhey, appeared in “Pot Zombies 2: More Pot, Less Plot,” “Dead Country,” “Cannibal Taboo,” “No Rest for the Wicked,” “Witchcraft 7: Judgement Hour,” “Body Count,” The Summoned” and more.
1959 – Kate McNeil, appeared in “The House on Sorority Row,” “Monkey Shines” and 2 episodes of the TV Series “Them.”
1951 – Wesley Eure, actor in “The Toolbox Murders [1978]” and “Jennifer [1978].”
1951 – Robert Joy, appears in “Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem,” “The Hills Have Eyes [2006],” “Land of the Dead,” “Resurrection,” “Amityville 3-D,” and more.
1949 – Bub Asman, editor for “Grizzly,” “Day of the Animals,” “The Manitou,” “Three on a Meethook,” “Abby” and “The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow.”
1949 – Julian Fellowes, appeared in “The Haunting of Julia,” TV Movie “Hotline” and an episode of the TV Series “Tales of the Unexpected.”
1946 – Shane Briant, appeared in “Straight on Till Morning,” ”Demons of the Mind,” “Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell,” “Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter” and “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”
1943 – Robert De Niro, starred in “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” “Hide and Seek,” “Red Lights,” “Angel Heart,” and episodes of “100 Years of Horror.”
1943 – Linda DeVetta, make up artist for “The Legend of Hell House,” “Alien³,” “Snow Whtie: A Tale of Terror,” “Alien: Resurrection” and “A Monster Calls.”
1930 – Glenn Corbett appeared in “Homicidal” and made appearances in the TV shows “Night Gallery,” and “Manimal.”
1923 – Julius Harris, appeared in “King Kong [1976],” “Friday the 13th The Series,” “Crimewave,” “Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence,” “Shrunken Heads,” “Full Moon High” and more.
1918 – Evelyn Ankers, appeared in the Universal films “The Wolf Man,” “The Mad Ghoul” and “The Ghost of Frankenstein.”
DIED ON AUGUST 17
2023 – Bobby Eli, soundtrack for “Rubber [2010] “Just Don’t Want To be Lonely.”
2023 – Mentor Ba, actor in “Saloum [2021].”
2023 – Angie Ferro, actress in “Shake Rattle & Roll XV,” “Bulong” and “Kill Barbara with Panic.”
2023 – David Ostrosky, actor in “Spam [2008]” and “Morgana [2012].”
2022 – Motomu Kiyokawa, voice actor in “Vampire D” as well as the TV Series “Hellsing (2001-2002)” and “Hellsing Ultimate (2006-2012).”
2021 – Thierry Liagre, actor in “Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse.”
2010 – Peter V. Saldutti, costume designer for “Psycho II” and Psycho III.”
2004 – Kathy Lutz, who lived in the house in Amityville which she and her family proclaimed to be haunted, on which the book and movie, the “Amityville Horror” was based.
1998 – Rita Roland, editor for “The New Kids” and the TV Movie “The Devil’s Daughter.”
1995 – Helen Christie, she appeared in “Lust for a Vampire” and “Rasputin: The Mad Monk.”
1944 – Robert Frazer, actor in “White Zombie,” “The Vampire Bat,” “The Whispering Shadow” and “Condemned to Live.”
FILMS RELEASED ON AUGUST 17
The Man They Could Not Hang [1939]
The Soul of a Monster [1944]
Cry of the Werewolf [1944]
Lost Continent [1951]
Dreamscape [1984]
The Exorcist III [1990]
The Cell [2000] – Century City, CA premiere
Biker Zombies [2001]
Red Water [2003] – TV Movie
Dead Moon Rising [2007] – Fright Night Film Festival
The Invasion [2007]
Krampus: The Christmas Devil [2013] – Indie Gathering International Film Festival
Down a Dark Hall [2018]
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich [2018]
Zombie Tidal Wave [2019] – Brazil
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