JANUARY 26
BORN ON JANUARY 26
1981 – Colin O’Donoghue, appeared in “The Rite” and “Storage 24″.
1964 – Cathy Podewell, starred in “Night of the Demons [1988].”
1941 – Scott Glenn, appeared in “The Keep,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Slaughter of the Innocents,” “Sucker Punch” and more.
1928 – Roger Vadim, directed “Spirits of the Dead,” “Blood and Roses” and an episode of “The Hitchhiker – Dead Man’s Curve.”
1923 – Anne Jeffreys, actress in “Zombies on Broadway.”
1922 –Page Cavanaugh, whose band “The Page Cavanaugh Trio” performed in “Frankenstein’s Daughter.”
1915 – William Hopper who appeared in “20 Million Miles to Earth” and “The Deadly Mantis.”
1906 – Russell Saunders, assistant director for “The Walking Dead [1936],” “Them!,” production manager for “Chosen Survivors,” “The Amityville Horror [1979]” and appeared in “King Kong [1933].”
1891 – Frank Mills, appeared in “King Kong [1933],” “Son of Kong,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1939[,” “You’ll Find Out,” “Woman Who Came Back,” “The Black Castle,” “The Little Shop of Horrors [1960]” and an episode of “The Twilight Zone.”
DIED ON JANUARY 26
2024 – Conrad Chase, stunts for the TV Movie “The Lost [2009].”
2022 – Peter McCann, soundtrack for, Dawn of the Dead [2004] – Right Time of the Night.”
2022 – Moses J. Moseley, actor in “Volumes of Blood: Horror Stories,” “Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies,” “Doll Murder” and 6 episodes of the TV Series “The Walking Dead.”
2022 – Morgan Stevens, appeared in “Scene of the Crime – Episode: A Vote for Murder/The Medium is the Murder.”
2022 – Kenneth Wannberg, music editor for “The Mephisto Waltz,” “The Witches of Eastwick,” “Jurassic Park,” “The Muppet Masters,” composer for “Of Unknown Origin.”
2021 – Hana Maciuchová, appeared in “Valerie and Her Week of Wonders” and “Hrabé Drakula.”
2021 – Peter Vere-Jones, appeared in “Bad Taste” and “Dead Alive.”
2016 – Abe Vigoda, appeared in the TV Series “Monsters,” “Tales from The Darkside” and many more.
2012 – Ian Abercrombie, appeared in “The Hound of the Baskervilles [1972],” “Young Frankenstein,” “Blood Beach,” “Catacombs,” “Warlock,” “Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge,” “Army of Darkness” and many more.
1992 –José Ferrer, starred in “Covenant,” “The Being,” “Bloodtide,” “Bloody Birthday,” “The Swarm,” “The Sentinel,” “Dracula’s Dog,” and “Crash!”
1978 – Leo Glenn, appeared in “The Bloody Judge,” “Frightmare [1974],” “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – TV Movie” and “Psycho-Circus.”
1938 – Matthew Betz, actor in “Mystery of the Wax Museum” and “The Terror.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JANUARY 26
The Kiss of the Vampire [1963]
Mark of the Devil Part II [1973]
Plague [1979]
Food of the Gods II [1989]
Screamers [1995]
Shadow of the Vampire [2001]
A Plague So Pleasant [2013] – premiere
Frankenstein’s Army [2013] – International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
Girls Just Wanna Have Blood [2019] – New Jersey Film Festival
Sadistic Intentions [2019]
Theresa & Alison [2019] – Reels of the Dead Film Festival
His House [2020] – Sundance Film Festival
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JANUARY 27
BORN ON JANUARY 27
1984 – Elizabeth Domin, appeared in the films “Skeleton Key” and “Cry Wolf.”
1984 – Georgi Manchev, stunts for “Wicked Little Things,” “Mega Snake,” “Day of the Dead,” “Shark in Venice,” “Prowl,” “Spiders,” “The Car: Road to Revenge,” “Hellboy [2019]” and more.
1964 – Bridget Fonda, appeared in “Frankenstein Unbound,” “Army of Darkness” and “Lake Placid.”
1953 – John Bloom – aka “Joe Bob Briggs,” appeared “The Stand,” “Evil Ever After,” “Scare Package” episodes of the series “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” and more.
1941 – Jeannie Epper, stunts for “Eaten Alive,” “Poltergeist [1982],” “Vamp,” “Innocent Blood,” “The Final Terror, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark,” “The Silent Scream,” “Retribution,” “Blade,” appeared in “Quarantine” and “Evilution” and more.
1940 – James Cromwell, appeared in “Species II,” “Salem’s Lot – TV Series” and “American Horror Story [2012] – TV Series.”
1939 – Carol Saraceno, writer for the TV Movie “The Initiation of Sarah.”
1936 – Troy Donahue, appeared in “The Monolith Monsters,” “Monster on Campus” and “Dr. Alien.”
1921 – Donna Reed, actress in “The Picture of Dorian Gray [1945]” and the TV Movie “Deadly Lessons.”
1917 – Marc Daniels, director of 2 episodes of the TV Series “Way Out.”
1913 – Michael Ripper, appeared in “Scars of Dracula,” “Taste the Blood of Dracula,” “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave,” “The Mummy’s Shroud,” “The Reptile,” “The Plague of the Zombies,” “The Mummy [1959],” “Curse of the Werewolf” and many more.
1896 – Milton Kibbee, appeared in “Mystery of the Wax Museum,” “The Walking Dead [1936],” “The House of Fear,” “The Cat and the Canary,” “The Body Snatcher” and more.
DIED ON JANUARY 27
2024 – Enrique Liporace, actor in “Drácula [1999] – TV Mini Series,” “Death Knows Your Name [2007]” and “Dying God [2008].”
2022 – Gianna Piaz, actress in “Atom Age Vampire.”
2022 – Sylvia Syms, actress in “Asylum.”
2022 – Arturo Arribas, actor in “You Shouldn’t Be Here.”
2022 – Karl Spiehs, producer for “Dracula Blows His Cool,” “Contamination” and “Devil Hunter.”
2021 – Cloris Leachman, starred in “Dying Room Only,” “Young Frankenstein,” “The Demon Murder Case,” “Fade to Black,” “Haunts of the Very Rich,” “My Boyfriend’s Back,” “Scary Movie 4,” “Lake Placid 2” and “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.”
2021 – Goddess Bunny, appeared as herself in “Hollyweird.”
2020 – Norbert George Moutier, directed “Mad Mutilator,” “Trepanator,” “Dinosaur from the Deep” and “Le syndrome d’Edgar Poe.”
2019 – Erica Yohn, actress in “Rough Draft,” “Good Against Evil,” and “Song of the Succubus”
2018 – 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.
2011 – Herb Robins, actor in “The Brainsucker,” “The Funhouse,” “The Worm Eaters,” “Invasion of the Bee Girls,” “Sinthia: The Devil’s Doll” and “The Thrill Killers.”
2010 – Martin Grace, stunt supervisor for “Horror Hospital” and “Afraid of the Dark.”
2010 – Zelda Rubinstein, starred in “Poltergeist [1982],” “Poltergeist II: The Other Side,” “Poltergeist III,” “Anguish,” “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon,” episodes of the series “Scariest Places on Earth” and more.
2009 – John Updike, novelist who wrote the book “The Witches of Eastwick” on which the film was based.
2006 – Anthony Franciosa, starred in the film “Tenebre.”
2005 – Paul A. Partain, starred in “Texas Chainsaw Massacre [1974]” and also appeared in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation” and “Race with The Devil”.
1995 – Robert Totten, director for the TV Movie “Mystery in Dracula’s Castle.”
1994 – Claude Akins, appeared in the films “The Curse,” and the TV movie “The Night Stalker.”
1994 – Telly Savalas, actor in “Horror Express,” “Lisa and the Devil,” “Faceless,” episodes of the TV Series “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” “Tales of the Unexpected” and “The Twilight Zone [1963].”
1978 – Oskar Homolka, appeared in “Mr. Sardonicus,” “The Invisible Woman” and the 1968 TV version of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.”
1965 – Hazel Howell, appeared in “King Kong [1933].”
1961 – Jack Kenney, appeared in “Invisible Invaders,” “Frankenstein 1970,” “The Mad Magician” and “House of Wax [1953].”
1946 – Esdras Hartley, art director for “The Return of Doctor X.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JANUARY 27
Seven Footprints to Satan [1929]
Beast of Blood [1970]
Curse of the Vampires [1971]
Soul Survivor [1984] – Albuquerque, NM
Parents [1989]
The Crucifer [2005]
Dominion [2006]
Blood Monkey [2007]
The Grey [2011]
Sadistic Intentions [2019]
Velvet Buzzsaw [2019] – Sundance Film Festival
His House [2020] – Sundance Film Festival
Unwelcome [2023] – internet
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JANUARY 28
BORN ON JANUARY 28
1998 – Ariel Winter, appeared in “One Missed Call,” “Excision,” “R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour,” “ParaNorman” and more.
1986 – Alexis Texas, appeared in “An Erotic Tale of Ms. Dracula,” “Bloodlust Zombies,” “Bikini Frankenstein” and more.
1986 – Torey Widener, starred in “Blood Redd” and the short “Signed, Souled, and Delivered.”
1975 – Omar Orn Hauksson, director of “Patient Seven” and the short “Ódauðleg ást – aka Immortal Love.”
1959 – Frank Darabont, writer/director whose credits include “The Green Mile,” ”The Mist,” “Frankenstein [1994]” “The Blob [1988]” and is the writer/creator of “The Walking Dead” TV Series.
1947 – Dærick Gröss Sr., comic book illustrator for “Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat #1-12,” “Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned #2,” “Forbidden Planet #1-4,” “Evil Ernie: The Resurrection #1,” “Lady Death: Last Rites #2,” “Anne Rice’s Tale of the Body Thief #1-4” and many more.
1937 – John Normington, appeared in “The Monster Club” and episodes of “The Frighteners” and “The Protectors.”
1936 – Alan Alda, appeared in “The Mephisto Waltz” and “To Kill a Clown.”
1941 – Joel Crothers, who played “Joe Haskell” on the tv-show “Dark Shadows.”
1940 – Al Strobel, actor in the TV Movie “Child of Darkness, Child of Light.”
1937 – John Normington, appeared in “The Monster Club” and episodes of “The Frighteners” and “The Protectors.”
1936 – Alan Alda, starred in “The Mephisto Waltz,” “To Kill a Clown” and the TV Movie “Isn’t It Shocking?”
1935 – Nicholas Pryor, actor in “Damien: Omen II,” “Brain Dead,” “Doctor Sleep,” “Halloween Kills” and more.
1933 – Jack Hill, directed “Track of the Vampire,” “House of Evil” and “Spider Baby.”
1915 – Bill Ross, art director for the TV Movies “The Devil’s Daughter,” “Halloween with the New Addams Family,” “Night Cries” and “Are You in the House Alone?”
1914 – Nelson Olmsted, actor in “Diary of a Madman,” TV Movie “She Wait,” episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” “Thriller,” “Tales of Tomorrow” and “Lights Out.”
DIED ON JANUARY 28
2022 – Lisa Loring, actress – the original Wednesday Addams of “The Addams Family [1964-1966” as well as “Halloween with the New Addams Family,” “Blood Frenzy,” “Iced,” “Way Down in Chinatown” and “Doctor Spine.”
2022 – Kevin O’Neal, appeared in “The Twilight Zone – Episode: The Changing of the Guard.”
2022 – Tom Verlaine, soundtrack for “Woodshock – Guiding Light.”
2022 – Gérard Caillaud, actor in “Black Journal.”
2022 – Graciela Orozco, actress in the TV Series “La chacala.”
2021 – Cicely Tyson, starred in “The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia” and “The Outer Limits – Episode: Final Appeal.”
2021 – Ryszard Kotys, appeared in “The Wolf” and “Return of the Wolf.”
2021 – Vasiliy Lanovoy, appeared in “Tear of the Prince of Darkness.”
2020 – John Kottoly, appeared in “Dagudu Muthalu.”
2020 – Marjorie Dusay, appeared in the TV Movie “Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon,” “Thirty Dangerous Seconds,” ”Stalking Laura” and “A Chronicle of Corpses.”
2020 – Dyanne Thorne, appeared in “Point of Terror,” “Blood Sabbath,” “Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS,” “Wanda, the Wicked Warden,” “Hellhole,” “House of the Witchdoctor” and more.
2005 – Paul A. Partain, starred in “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974]” and also appeared in “Race with the Devil” and “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.”
1993 – John Steadman, appeared in “The Hills Have Eyes [1977],” “Fade to Black” and “Dark Night of the Scarecrow.”
1993 – 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.
1980 – Erle C. Kenton, directed “The Ghost of Frankenstein,” “House of Frankenstein” and “House of Dracula.”
1978 – Oskar Homolka, appeared in “The Invisible Woman,” “Mr. Sardonicus” and the 1968 TV version of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.”
1959 – Philip Tonge, appeared in “Invisible Invaders,” “Macabre” and “House of Wax.”
1934 – Walter Percival, appeared in “Mystery of the Wax Museum.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JANUARY 28
Phantom Lady [1944]
The Night Walker [1964]
Balsamus l’uomo di Satana [1970] – Italy
She Waits [1972] – TV Movie
Eye of the Beholder [1999]
Alone in The Dark [2005]
Hide & Seek [2005]
The Rite [2011]
Husk [2011]
Antisocial [2013]
Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark [2014]
Wonder Valley [2017]
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JANUARY 29
BORN ON JANUARY 29
1986 – Jennifer Churchich starred in “Quadrant 9EV9” and “The Sand.”
1970 – Heather Graham, actress in “Scream 2,” “From Hell,” “Blessed,” “Terrified,” as well as episodes of the TV Series “The Stand” and “Outer Limits.”
1968 – Bobbie Phillips, appeared in “Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain” and “Carnival of Souls”.
1968 – Edward Burns, actor in “One Missed Call” and “A Sound of Thunder.”
1957 – Diane Delano, actress in “Sleepwalkers,” “Rattled,” “Jeepers Creepers 2” and “The Wicker Man [2006].”
1954 – Terry Kinney, actor in “Don’t Look Down” and “Body Snatchers.”
1948 – Marc Singer, starred in “Dead Space,” “Watchers II,” “High Desert Kill” and the TV Series “V.”
1948 – Wade Popwell, played The Monster in the film “Zaat.”
1945 – Kathryn Leigh Scott, starred as “Maggie Evans” on the tv-show “Dark Shadows.”
1943 – Tim Souster, composer for “Slugs” and the TV Mini-Series “The Green Man.”
1940 – Astrid Heeren, starred in “Silent Night, Bloody Night.”
1940 – Katharine Ross, starred in “The Stepford Wives [1975],” “The Legacy,” “The Swarm” and “Donnie Darko.”
1938 – Brian Taggert, writer for “Omen IV,” “Poltergeist III,” “Of Unknown Origin,” “Visiting Hours,” and more.
1935 – Akira Ishihama, actor in “Day-Dream” and “The Snow Woman.”
1931 – Bunty Webb, actress in “Deadline,” “Deadly Eyes,” “Curtains,” “American Nightmare” and an episode of “The Twilight Zone.”
1915 – Victor Mature, starred in the film “One Million B.C.”
1909 – Alan Marshall, appeared in “House on Haunted Hill [1959]” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1939].”
1907 – H.R. Warwick, appeared in “King Kong [1933].”
DIED ON JANUARY 29
2024 – Jandira Martini, actress in the TV Mini Series “The Phantom of the Opera [1991].”
2022 – Adama Niane, actor in “Get In.”
2022 – Mandeep Roy, appeared in “Aaptharakshaka” and “Karva.”
2022 – Barrett Strong, soundtrack for “Gothika – Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” “Blood: The Last Vampire – War” and “Day Shift – “Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On.”
2022 – Annie Wersching, appeared in “Supernatural – Episode: Playthings,” “The Vampire Diaries – 22 episodes” and the video game “The Last of Us .”
2022 – Howard Hesseman, actor in “Halloween II [2009],” “Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo,” “Bigfoot,” “A Helping Hand – Short,” as well as episodes of “The Outer Limits” and “The Ray Bradbury Theater.”
2022 – Leonard Fenton, actor in “Panic” and “Zombie Diaries.”
2022 – Jo Kendall, appeared in “The Uninvited – Episode: Episode #1.2.”
2022 – Pete Smith, appeared in “Pandemonium” and “Mataku – Episode: The Final Plume.”
2012 – John Rich, director of 2 episodes of “The Twilight Zone.”
2004 – Andrew J. Kuehn, producer/director of the film “Terror in The Aisles.”
1986 – Leif Erickson starred in “Strait-Jacket,” “I Saw What You Did” and Invaders from Mars [1953].
1976 – Michael Gwynn, appeared in “Scars of Dracula,” “Revenge of Frankenstein,” and “Village of the Damned”
FILMS RELEASED ON JANUARY 29
Children of the Damned [1964]
Venom [1981]
Nekromantik [1988] – Berlin (premiere)
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama [1988]
Lobster Man from Mars [1989]
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice [1992]
Nemesis [1992]
Matinee [1993]
American Nightmare [2002]
Chupacabra Terror [2005]
Deadline [2009]
Warm Bodies [2013] – Hollywood (premiere)
Trashploitation [2018]
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JANUARY 30
BORN ON JANUARY 30
1990 – Jake Thomas, appeared in “The Cell,” “The Unwilling,” “Dinocroc” and “Monster Night.”
1974 – Christian Bale, producer for “The Pale Blue Eye” and starred in “American Psycho.”
1965 – Julie McCullough, appeared in “The Blob [1988],” “Gila!,” and “Sharknado”.
1959 – Anthony Hickox, director/writer for “Waxwork,” “Sundown: The Vampire Retreat ,” “Hellraiser III,” “Motörhead: Hellraiser,” “Full Eclipse,” “Warlock: The Armageddon,” “Knife Edge,” “Infamous Six” and more.
1959 – Dwier Brown, appeared in “Red Dragon,” “The Guardian [1990],” “House,” “House II: The Second Story” and more.
1951 – Charles Dutton, starred in “Aliens 3,” “Gothika” and “Legion.”
1935 – Elsa Martinelli, starred in “Blood and Roses.”
1930 – Gene Hackman, played the “Old Blind Hermit” in “Young Frankenstein.”
1914 – John Ireland, appeared in “The Incubus,” “Satan’s Cheerleaders,” “Waxwork II: Lost in Time,” “Terror Night,” “The House of Seven Corpses,” “The Graveyard Story” and more.
1914 – Jane Randolph, starred in “Cat People,” “Curse of the Cat People” and “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.”
1911 – Hugh Marlowe, starred in “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and “World Without End.”
1910 – James Carreras, the founder of Hammer Films and was the executive in charge of production for “The Curse of Frankenstein.”
1907 – Ben Colman, cinematographer for “Haunts of the Very Rich,” “The Norliss Tapes,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray – TV Movie,” “The Black Sheep,” “Voodoo Island,” “It! The Terror from Beyond Space” and more.
DIED ON JANUARY 30
2024 – Chita Rivera, appeared in an episode of the TV Series “The Outer Limits.”
2024 – Hinton Battle, appeared in an episode of the TV Series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
2022 – John William Galt, actor in “Look Who’s Toxic,” “Headless at the Fair – short,” “The Fanglys,” “Davy Crockett Battles Kung Fu Vampires,” as well as the video games “Nocturne” and “Prey.”
2022 – Leonid Kuravlyov, appeared in “Viy” and the TV Series “Little Tragedies.”
2022 – Calvin Remsberg, appeared in an episode of “The X-Files” and soundtrack for the TV Movie version of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [1982].”
2021 – Allan Burns, writer for the TV Series “The Munsters,” “The Munsters Revenge,” “Here Come The Munsters,” “The Munsters Scary Little Christmas,” What Happened to Eddie Munster” and “Mockingbird Lane.”
2021 – Sophie Xeon, directed “Sophie: Ponyboy” and “Sophie: Faceshopping.”
2019 – Richard “Dick” Miller – actor in “The Terminator,” “Gremlins,” “Gremlins 2: The New Batch,” “The Howling,” “Piranha,” “Night of the Creeps,” “Amityville 1992: It’s About Time,” “Route 666,” “Burying the Ex,” “Chopping Mall,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Hanukkah,” episodes of “100 Years of Horror” and many more
2019 – Louisa Moritz, actress in “New Year’s Evil.”
2006 – William B. Jurgensen, cinematographer for “Arnold [1973]” and “Terror in the Wax Museum.”
2001 – 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.”
2001 – Robert Forward, appeared in “The Toolbox Murders.”
2000 – Hedger Wallace, actor in “Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors,” “Torture Garden,” “The Oblong Box,” “The Creeping Flesh,” “The Doctor and the Devils” and more.
1999 – Huntz Hall, who played “Sach” of the Bowery Boys, “Spooks Run Wild” and “Ghosts on the Loose.”
1998 – Ferdy Mayne, starred in “The Fearless Vampire Killers,” “The Vampire Lovers” and “Frightmare.”
1997 – Heinrich Starhemberg, actor in “Trauma [1978],” “Rostros,” “The Dracula Saga” and “Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf.”
1973 – Jack MacGowran, appeared in “The Brain [1964],” “The Fearless Vampire Killers,” and “The Exorcist.”
1969 – Jack Dietz, Jack Dietz, produced “The Black Scorpion,” “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” and “Return of the Ape Man.”
1962 – Fred Schuessler, casting director for “The Monkey’s Paw,” “King Kong [1933]” and “Before Dawn.”
1953 – Lionel Belmore, appeared in “The Unholy Night,” “Frankenstein [1931],” “The Vampire Bat,” “Son of Frankenstein,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1939]” and “The Ghost of Frankenstein.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JANUARY 30
The Silent Scream [1980]
To All a Goodnight [1980]
The Incredible Shrinking Woman [1981]
Monster In The Closet [1986]
Silence Of The Lambs [1991]
Deep Rising [1998]
Dead End [2003] – Gerardmer Film Festival – France
Final Destination 2 [2003]
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed [2004]
The Temptress [2003]
Freakshow [2007]
Prey [2007]
The Uninvited [2009]
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JANUARY 31
BORN ON JANUARY 31
1999 – Lily Mo Sheen, appeared in “Underworld: Evolution.”
1973 – Portia de Rossi, appeared in “Cursed,” “Stigmata” and “Dead and Breakfast.”
1971 – Patricia Velasquez, appeared in “The Mummy [1999],” “The Mummy Returns” and “Mindhunters.”
1970 – Minnie Driver, starred in “Stage Fright” and the short “Laboratory Conditions.”
1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, starred in “Annabelle: Creation,” “Dark Whispers Vol 1,” “Black Magic,” “Innocent Blood” and episodes of “The Twilight Zone.”
1943 – Joan McCall, starred in “Grizzly,” “Act of Vengeance” and “Devil Times Five.”
1940 – Jessica Walter, starred in “Play Misty For Me,” “Vampire” and also appeared in “Ghost in the Machine,” “Temptress” and the TV Movie “Home for the Holidays.”
1940 – 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.”
1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, co-starred in “The Power,” “The Birds,” and episodes of the TV Series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
1929 – Jean Simmons, appeared in Dark Shadows [1990] and “Howl’s Moving Castle.”
1929 – Andy Milligan, “The Ghastly Ones,” “Bloodthristy Butchers” and “The Rats Are Coming, The Werewolves Are Here.”
1927 – Jean Speegle Howard, appeared in “The Night Caller” and “Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction – Episode: The Viewing.”
1925 – Anthony Newlands, appeared in “Scream and Scream Again,” “Psycho-Circus” and an episode of “Thriller [1974].”
1923 – Larry Buchanan, wrote and directed “Zontar, the Thing from Venus,” “The Eye Creatures” and “Curse of the Swamp Creature.”
1922 – William Sylvester, actor in “Gorgo,” “Devil Doll,” “Devils of Darkness,” “Beast of Morocco” and the TV Movie “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.”
1921 –John Agar, starred in “The Brain From Planet Arous,” “Revenge of the Creature” and “Tarantula.”
1911 – Eddie Byrne, appeared in the films “Jack the Ripper” and “Island of Terror.”
1894 – Isham Jones, music/songwriter for “The Passing,” “I’ll See You In My Dreams” and “A Fantastic Fear of Everything.”
1887 – Charles Irwin, appeared in “Kingo” and “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.”
DIED ON JANUARY 31
2024 – Rick Boland, actor in “Behind the Wall [2007].”
2022 – Carleton Carpenter, actor in “The Prowler [1981].”
2022 – Ekkehardt Belle, actor in “Dracula Blows His Cool.”
2022 – Paul Kelman, actor in “My Blood Valentine [1981],” “Black Roses ,” “Bloodlust: My Bloody Valentine and the Rise of the Slasher Film” and “My Bloody Valentine 40th Anniversary.”
2021 – Andrej Hryc, appeared in “Freckled Max and the Spooks,” “Darkness,” “Frankenstein’s Aunt – TV Series” and “Frankenstein [2004] – TV Series.”
2020 – Mary Higgins Clark, author of “A Stranger is Walking,” “The Cradle Will Fall,” “Stillwatch” which were made into movies.
2018 – Alf Humphreys, actor in “Virus,” “Funeral Home,” “My Blood Valentine [1981],” “Intensity,” “Final Destination 2,” “The Uninvited [2009],” “Dark Skies” and more.
2006 – Moira Shearer, starred in “Peeping Tom.”
2001 – Ancel Cook, actor in “Rattler,” “Frightmare” and “Wishcraft.”
FILMS RELEASED ON JANUARY 31
Phenomena [1985]
Shock ’em Dead [1991]
Brotherhood of the Wolf [2001]
Killers 2: The Beast [2002]
Final Destination 2 [2003]
Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers [2006]
Scourge [2008] – Canada
The Spiderwicke Chronicles [2008]
Creature of Darkness [2009]
Mutants [2009] – France’s Gerardmer Film Festival
Wyvern [2009] – TV Movie
The Sleeper [2012]
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