FEBRUARY 9
BORN ON FEBRUARY 9
1978 – Fede Alvarez, director “Alien: Romulus,” “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.
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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],” “The Addams Family 2,” “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,” “Happytime Murders,” “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.”
929 – 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
2024 – Duke Vincent, producer for the TV Movies “Don’t Go to Sleep,” “Satan’s School for Girls [2000]” as well as episodes of the TV Series “Kindred: The Embraced” and “All Souls.”
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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FEBRUARY 11
BORN ON FEBRUARY 11
1992 – Taylor Lautner, appeared in the TV Series “Scream Queens.”
1992 – Georgia Groome, appeared in “The Cottage,” “The Disappeared,” “The Great Ghost Rescue” and “Double Date.”
1985 – Sarah Butler, appeared in “I Spit on Your Grave [2010],” “I Spit on Your Grave: Vengeance is Mine,” “All Light Will End,” “Flu Bird Horror” and “The Demented.”
1982 – Natalie Dormer, stars in “The Forest,” “Poe,” “Patient Zero” and the TV Series “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.”
1976 – Alexandra Neldel, starred in “Flashback.”
1969 – Jennifer Aniston, starred in “Leprechaun.”
1963 – David Reiner, actor in “Attack of the Virgin Mummies,” “The Darkroom,” “Backwoods,” “Circle of Eight” and “Night of the Templar.”
1962 – Diane Franklin, appeared in “Amityville II: The Possession”, and “TerrorVision.”
1961 – Carey Lowell, starred in “The Guardian [1990].”
1956 – Deena Freeman, actress in the TV Movie “Deadly Lessons.”
1947 – Wayne Crawford, actor in “Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things,” “God’s Bloody Acre,” “Barracuda,” “The Head Hunter,” “The Evil Below” and “Snake Island.”
1940 – Bobby “Boris” Pickett, The creator of the “Monster Mash.”
1930 – Flaminia Jandolo, voice Dubbing in “Black Sunday,” “The Long Hair of Death,” The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh,” “Werewolf Woman,” and “Suspiria [1977].”
1926 – Leslie Nielsen, starred in “Day of the Animals, “Prom Night [1980],” “Dracula: Dead and Loving It,” “Repossessed,” “Creepshow,” “Forbidden Planet,” episodes of the TV Series “Tales of Tomorrow,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Lights Out,” “Night Gallery” and more.
1925 – Kim Stanley, appeared in episodes of the TV Series “Inner Sanctum” and “Night Gallery.”
1847 – Thomas A. Edison, inventor whose film company was the first to commit the story of “Frankenstein” to celluloid.
DIED ON FEBRUARY 11
2023 – Austin Majors, voice actor for “Dead Silence [2007].”
2023 – James Flynn, producer for “Dorothy Mills” and the TV Series “Penny Dreadful.”
2022 – Mel Keefer, art department for “Exorcist III,” animation department for “Groovie Goolies” and “The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show.”
2022 – Isabel Torres, actress in “Fotos.”
2020 – Joseph Vilsmaier, cinematographer for the German TV Series” Gespenstergeschichten.”
2010 – Caroline McWilliams, appeared in “The Aliens Are Coming.”
2006 – Peter Benchley, author – the man who terrified a generation of beach goers who penned the novels “Jaws,” “The Beast,” “The Deep” and Creature,” all of which were made into films.
2006 – Del Courtney, appeared in “The Hideous Sun Demon” and “It Came From Beneath The Sea”.
2004 – Hugh Cecil, appeared in “Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
2002 – Barry Foster, appeared in the films “Twisted Nerve” and “Frenzy.”
2000 – Roger Vadim, directed the film, “Spirits of the Dead.”
1997 – Don Porter, actor in “Night Monster,” “She-Wolf of London,” “The Norliss Tapes,” “The Ghosts of Buxley Hall” and an episode of “Matinee Theatre.”
1994 – Sorrell Booke, appeared in the films “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Devil Times Five.”
1992 – Ray Danton, appeared in “Psychic Killer,” “The Centerfold Girls,” “Mystic Mountain Massacre,” episodes of “Night Gallery” and “Matinee Theatre.”
1982 – Takashi Shimura, appeared in “Godzilla [1954],” “Godzilla Raids Again,” “The Mysterians,” “Mothra,” “Gorath,” “Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster,” “Kwaidan,” “Frankenstein Conquers the World” and many more.
1977 – Carl Pierson, editor for “The Ape Man,” “Voodoo Man,” “Return of the Ape Man,” “Bluebird,” “She Devil” and “Hand of Death.”
1976 – Lee J. Cobb, appeared in “The Exorcist [1973]” and “Gorilla at Large.”
1969 – Michael Reeves, director of “Castle of the Living Dead,” “She Beast,” “The Sorcerers” and “Witchfinder General.”
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 11
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed [1969]
The Last Dinosaur [1977]
The Sentinel [1977]
My Bloody Valentine [1981]
Sphinx [1981]
House of the Dead 2 [2006]
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FEBRUARY 12
BORN ON FEBRUARY 12
1980 – Christina Ricci, starred in “Monstrous,” “Addams Family,” “Sleepy Hollow,” “After.Life,” “The Gathering,” “Bless the Child,” “Cursed,” the TV Series “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles” and more.
1969 – Darren Aronofsky, director & writer for “Mother!” and “Pi.”
1968 – Josh Brolin, starred in the films “Mimic,” “The Hollow Man” and “Planet Terror,”.
1965 – Christine Elise, appeared in “Child’s Play 2″ and “Body Snatchers [1993].”
1959 – Sigrid Thornton, actress in “Scare Campaign,” “Dream Life – TV Movie” and an episode of “Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King.”
1955 – Fraser C. Heston, directed “Needful Things” and an episode of “Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater.”
1952 – Simon MacCorkindale, appeared in the TV series’ “Quatermass,” “Manimal” and the film “Jaws 3D.”
1950 – Michael Ironside, appeared in “Scanners,” “Visiting Hours,” “Starship Troopers”, “Terminator Salvation,” “The Harrowing [2017],” “Prom Night II,” “Lake Placid 3,””The Shaft,” “Knuckleball“ and many more.
1940 – David Seltzer, screenwriter for “The Omen [1976],” “Damien: Omen II,” “The Final Conflict,” “Omen IV: The Awakening,” “The Prophecy,” “The Eighteenth Angel” and the TV Series “Damien.”
1940 – Richard Lynch, starred in “Bad Dreams,” “Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge,” “Corpses Are Forever,” Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” and “Mil Mascaras vs the Aztec Mummy.”
1940 – Ralph Bates, starred in the Hammer classics, “Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde,” “Taste the Blood of Dracula” and “The Horror of Frankenstein.”
1919 – Forrest Tucker, starred in “The Crawling Eye,” “The Abominable Snowman” and “The Cosmic Monsters.”
1915 – Ermelinda De Felice, actress in “So Sweet… So Perverse,” “Seven Blood-Stained Orchids,” “Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key” and “Torso.”
1899 – Edward L. Cahn, directed “It, the Terror from Beyond Space,” “The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake” and “Invisible Invaders.”
1898 – Blue Washington, appeared in “King Kong [1933]” and the short “Haunted Spooks.”
1898 – Wallace Ford, who appeared in “Freaks,” “The Mummy’s Hand” and “The Ape Man.”
DIED ON FEBRUARY 12
2024 – Alec Mills, cinematographer for “The Monkey’s Paw [1948],” “The Awakening [1980],” “The Appointment [1982],” “King Kong Lives [1986],” “Nine Lives [2002],” and directed “Bloodmoon [1990].”
2022 – William Kraft, music department for “North by Northwest,” “The Cabinet of Caligari” and composer for “Psychic Killer.”
2022 – Ivan Reitman, director for “Ghostbusters,” “Ghostbusters II,” “Cannibal Girls,” producer for “Shivers,” “The House By the Lake,” “Rabid,” “Mummies Alive! The Legend Begins,” “The Uninvited [2009]” and more.
2022 – Beryl Vertue, producer for “The House in Nightmare Park” and the TV Series “Jekyll.”
2021 – Marcia Diamond, appeared in “The Reincarnate,” “Black Christmas [1974],” “Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile” and an episode of “My Babysitter’s a Vampire.”
2021 – Milford Graves, music department for “Lord Shango.”
2021 – Christopher Pennock, appeared in the TV Series “Dark Shadows,” “Night of Dark Shadows,” “The Night-Time Winds” and the TV Short “A Poem of Poe.”
2021 – Lynn Stalmaster, casting director for “Lady in a Cage,” “Audrey Rose,” Damien: Omen II,” “The Fury,” “Nightwing,” “Prophecy” and many more.
2020 – Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon, did stunts for “They Live,” “Maniac Cop 2,” “976-Evil II,” “The Relic,” “Ghosts of Mars,” “Phantoms,” “Friday the 13th [2009]” and more.
2004 – Ken Johnson, music editor for “The Funhouse [1981],” “Transylvania 5-5000,” “Waxwork,” “Grizzly,” “The Unholy,” “Island Claws” and more.
2000 – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, who wrote the song “I Put a Spell on You,” as the opening for his stage act, he would often rise from a coffin.
2000 – Charles Schulz, creator of the “Peanuts” gang and who gave us that wonderful holiday show “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”.
1992 – Oliver Blake, actor in “House of Horrors,” “House of Wax [1953]” and “Giant from the Unknown.”
1970 – Guy Endore, novelist, and screenwriter in Hollywood. He wrote the seminal novel “The Werewolf of Paris” which was later adapted in the Hammer film “The Curse of the Werewolf.” He also wrote the screenplays for “Mark of the Vampire,” “The Raven,” “Mad Love” and “The Devil-Doll.”
1959 – Tobias Tally, appeared in “King Kong [1933].”
1952 – Enrique Jardiel Poncela, screenwriter for “Os 5 Avisos de Satanás – aka – Satan’s 5 Warnings.”
1948 – Leo F. Forbstein, musical director for “Night Nurse,” “Doctor X,” “Mystery of the Wax Museum,” “The Walking Dead,” “The Hidden Hand” and “The Beast with Five Fingers.”
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 12
Creature from the Black Lagoon [1954] – DVD premiere
Reflection of Fear [1972]
The Hound of Baskervilles [1972] – TV Movie
The Stepford Wives [1975]
The Beast Within [1982] – Denver premiere
Dead Alive [1993]
The Temp [1993]
My Favorite Martian [1999]
Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker [2001] – Frightvision Convention
Messengers [2004]
The Wolfman [2010]
616: Paranormal Incident [2013] – DVD premiere
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FEBRUARY 13
BORN ON FEBRUARY 13
1991 – Jay Anstey, actress in “Hell Trip,” “Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell,” “Friend Request,” “Rakka – short,” episodes of the series “Blood Drive” and “Oats Studios.”
1981 – Gillian Leigh, actress in “Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain.”
1979 – Mena Suvarim, starred “Day of The Dead [2008],” “What Lies Below,” “The Rage: Carrie 2,” “Don’t Blink,” “Apparition,” episodes of the TV Series “South of Hell” and “American Horror Story [2011.”
1968 – Kelly Hu, has appeared in “Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan,” “Dark Shadows [2005],” “Devil’s Den,” “Farm House,” “Succubus: Hell-Bent” and the TV Series “The Vampire Diaries.”
1964 – Mark Patton, starred in “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge,” “Family Possessions,” and “Amityville Clownhouse.”
1961 – Henry Rollins, appeared in “Feast,” “The Devil’s Tomb,” “Suck,” “Wrong Turn 2: Dead End” and episodes of the TV Series “Night Visions.”
1951 – David Naughton, starred in “An American Werewolf in London,” and appeared in “Body Bags,” “Big Bad Wolf,” “Steel and Lace,” “Ice Cream Man,” “A Crack in the Floor,” “Mirror Mirror 3: The Voyeur,” “The Sleeping Car,” “Amityville: A New Generation” and more.
1948 – Kitten Natividad, appeared in Fred Olen Ray’s “The Tomb” and “Zombie Ninja Gangbangers.”
1946 – Joe Estevez, appeared in “Soultaker,” “Werewolf,” “Blood Slaves of the Vampire Wolf,” “Silent Scream,” “Caesar & Otto’s Deadly Xmas,” “Hell Asylum” and many more.
1944 – Bo Svenson, appeared in the films “Curse II: The Bite,” “Beyond the Door III,” “Raising Jeffery Dahmer” and played the monster in the 1973 TV version of “Frankenstein.”
1944 – Jerry Springer, appeared in “Sharknado 3: Oh, Hell No! [2015].”
1942 – Carol Lynley, appeared in “Howling VI: The Freaks,” “The Shuttered Room” and the TV movie “The Night Stalker.”
1939 – Vittoria Febbi, voice dubbing (uncredited) for “Dawn of the Dead [1978],” “Suspiria [1977],” “Torso,” “Baron Blood,” “Dorian Gray,” “Castle of Blood,” “Beyond the Door,” “Nightmare City,” “Cannibal Ferox,” “Phantom of Death,” “Nightmare City,” “City of the Dead” and many more.
1938 – Oliver Reed, starred in “Curse of the Werewolf,” “Burnt Offerings” and “The Brood.”
1933 – Kim Novak, appeared “Vertigo,” “Massacre at Blood Bath Drive-in,” “Tales That Witness Madness” “Satan’s Triangle”
1932 – Barbara Shelley, appeared in “Five Million Years to Earth,” “Rasputin: The Mad Monk,” “Dracula: Prince of Darkness,” “The Secret of Blood Island,” “The Gorgon,” “Village of the Damned,” “Blood of the Vampire” and many more.
1932 – Susan Oliver made appearances on the TV shows “Ghost Story” and “Freddy’s Nightmare.”
1929 – Lee Fierro, appeared in “Jaws: The Revenge.”
1928 – Gerald Fried, composer for “The Vampire,” “I Bury the Living,” “The Return of Dracula,” “The Cabinet of Caligari,” “The Baby,” “The Spell,” “Cruise Into Terror” and more.
1911 – Paul Stader, stunts “House of Wax [1953],” “Cruse Into Terror,” “The Swarm,” “The Island,” “The Monster Squad” and “Repossessed.”
1898 – Hazel Howell, appeared in “King Kong [1933].”
DIED ON FEBRUARY 13
2024 – Aletta Bezuidenhout, actress in “Pure Blood [2001].”
2024 – Johanna von Koczian, actress in “Sanfter Schrecken – aka Gentle Terror (1977).”
2023 – Oliver Wood, cinematographer for “Bird Box,” “Q: The Winged Serpent,” “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed,” “Neon Maniacs,” “The Returning” and “Don’t Go in the House.”
2023 – Tom Luddy, actor in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1978].”
2023 – Alain Goraguer, art department for the short “Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Gir.”
2022 – Lindsey Pearlman, actress in The Purge – Episode: Should I Stay or Should I Go.”
2021 – Masashige Narusawa, screenwriter for “Curse of Blood.”
2020 – Yoshisada Sakaguchi, dubbing for characters in “Shutter Island,” “The Nightmare Room,” “Goosebumps,” and “Christine [1990].”
2012 – Frank Braña, actor in “The House That Screamed,” “Creeping Death,” “Crypt of the Living Dead,” “Return of the Evil Dead,” “Mystery on Monster Island,” “Pieces,” “Slugs,” “The Rift” and more.
1994 – Martin Balsam, who played “Detective Arbogast” in the original “Psycho”.
1980 – David Janssen starred in the TV movie “Moon of the Wolf,” as well as the films “Cult of the Cobra,” and “Marooned”.
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 13
Scream & Scream Again [1970]
Sphere [1998]
Dead Birds [2004]
Devil’s Den [2006]
Friday the 13th [2009]
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FEBRUARY 14 – Happy Valentine’s Day
BORN ON FEBRUARY 14
1992 – Freddie Highmore, starred in the TV Series “Bates Motel.”
1980 – Mindy Robinson, appeared in “The Haunting of Whaley House,” “Killjoy Goes to Hell,” “V/H/S/2,″ “The Impaler,” “After School Massacre,” “A Blood Story” and more.
1978 – Danai Gurira, known for portraying “Michonne” on “The Walking Dead – TV Series.”
1977 – Itziar Castro, actress in “[REC] 3: Genesis,” “Witching and Bitching,” “Killing God,” “Escape from Marwin” and “The Barcelona Vampiress.”
1976 – Erica Leerhsen, starred in “Wrong Turn 2: Dead End,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [2003]” and “Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.”
1971 – Noriko Sakai, starred in “Premonition [2004]” and “Ju-on: The Grudge 2.”
1970 – Simon Pegg, starred in “Shaun of the Dead,” “Land of the Dead,” “Grindhouse,” “Diary of the Dead,” “Slaughterhouse Rulez,” “A Fantastic Fear of Everything,” “The World’s End” and more.
1964 – Zach Galligan, starred in the films “Gremlins”, “Gremlins 2”, “Waxwork,” “Infested” and “Nightbeasts.”
1960 – Meg Tilly, starred in the films “Psycho II,” “One Dark Night” and Body Snatchers [1993].
1952 – Jim Hanson, produced the films “Witchcraft II: The Temptress,” “Doctor Hackenstein” and “Witchery.”
1949 – Don Scardino, appeared in “Squirm” and “He Knows You’re Alone.”
1946 – Gregory Hines, co-starred in the films “The Wolfen” and “Eve of Destruction.”
1946 – Tina Aumont, actress in “Necropolis,” “Arcana,” “Torso,” “Dinosaur from the Deep” and “Two Orphan Vampires.”
1942 – Andrew Robinson, starred in “Hellraiser,” “Child’s Play 3″ and “Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings.”
1936 – Andrew Prine, appeared in “The Town That Dreaded Sundown,” “Simon, King of the Witches,” “Crypt of the Living Dead” and “Sutures,” and “Grizzly.”
1929 – Vic Morrow, appeared in the films “Twilight Zone: The Movie” and “Humanoids from the Deep.”
1910 – Frances Dade, portrayed “Lucy” in the original 1931 version of “Dracula.”
1902 – Stuntman Ray “Crash” Corrigan, who played the title role of “The Ape,” “It, the Terror from Beyond Space” and appeared in “The Zombies of Mora Tau.”
1900 – Eddie Marr, appeared in “Indestructible Man,” “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” “How to Make a Monster” as well as episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” “The Addams Family” and “The Munsters.”
1888 – Larry Steers, appeared in “King Kong [1933],” “Hold That Ghost,” “The Strange Case of Doctor Rx,” “Weird Woman,” “King of the Wild” and “Murder in the Blue Room.”
DIED ON FEBRUARY 14
2024 – Sasha Montenegro, actress in “Santo vs. Black Magic Woman,” “Santo vs. the Killers from Other Worlds,” “Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dr. Frankenstein” and “The Man and the Beast.”
2023 – Javed Khan Amrohi, appeared in “Haveli – aka The Mansion” and “Raat Ke Andhere Mein.”
2022 – Alfred Sole, director for “Alice, Sweet Alice,” “Pandemonium,” production manager for “Natural Selection – TV Movie,” “Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies” and the TV Series “Moonlight.”
2020 – Lynn Cohen, starred in “The Vigil.”
2015 – Louis Jourdan, appeared in “Swamp Thing” and “Return of the Swamp Thing”, he also starred as “Dracula” in the great BBC version of “Count Dracula – TV Movie.”
2008 – Trevor Williams, production designer for “House of Dark Shadows,” “Night of Dark Shadows,” “Dracula [1974],” “The Changeling” as well as episodes of “Out of the Unknown,” “Kindred: The Embraced” and “The Immortal.”
2007 – Lee Patterson, who appeared in “Jack the Ripper [1959].”
1996 – Mark Venturini, appeared in “Mikey,” “The Return of the Living Dead” and “Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.”
1998 – Michael Anthony, starred in “The Night of the Strangler.”
1992 – Angelique Pettyjohn, appeared in “Biohazard,” “Mad Doctor of Blood Island” “The Phantom Planet” and more.
1983 – Wally Veevers, special effects for “Curse of the Demon,” “Die, Monster, Die!,” Lucifer Rising,” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” visual effects for “The Day of the Triffids,” “The Keep” and more.
1971 – Seth Holt, director of “Scream of Fear”, “The Nanny”, “Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb.”
1961 – Wallis Clark, appeared in “Mystery of the Wax Museum” and “The Lady and the Monster.”
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 14
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog [1927]
Dracula [1931]
The Mad Doctor [1941]
House on Haunted Hill [1959]
The Day Mars Invaded Earth [1963]
The Shuttered Room [1968]
TerrorVision [1986]
The Silence Of The Lambs [1991]
Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil [1991]
One Hour Photo [2002] – Turkey
Skinned Deep [2004]
The Horror Seasons [2005]
The Ghosts of Crowley Hall [2008]
The Spiderwick Chronicles [2008]
Girl House [2014]
Freshwater [2016]
VFW (2019)
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FEBRUARY 15
BORN ON FEBRUARY 15
1988 – Jessica De Gouw, appeared in “Gretel & Hansel,” “The Rezort” and the TV Series “Dracula.”
1988 – Tara Holt, appeared in “Victim” and the TV Series “American Horror Story.”
1978 – Suzi Lorraine, actress in “The Tenement,” “Around Midnight,” “The Night They Returned,” “Chainsaw Sally,” “Acrimony” “Rise of the Ghosts,” “Knock Knock,” “Mad Doctor of Zombie Island,” “Fairview Falls,” “Paranormal Captivity,” “Serial Kaller,” “Model Hunger,” “Drakul” and many more.
1971 – Reneé O’Connor, appeared in the films “Darkman II: The Return of Durant” and “Boogeyman 2.”
1968 – Vivian Schilling, appeared in “Future Shock,” “Project Eliminator,” “Soultaker,” “Terror Eyes” and more.
1953 – Lynn Whitfield, actress in “Jaws: The Revenge,” “The Fright Night Flies – TV Movie,” “Fear Files” and “Tales from the Hood 3.”
1938 – Gina Romand, actress in “Dr. Satan,” “Grave Robbers,” “The Vengeance of the Vampire Women” and “Santo vs. Frankenstein’s Daughter.”
1931 – Claire Bloom, starred in “The Haunting [1963]” and “The Illustrated Man.”
1923 – Fritzi Jane Courtney, actress in “Jaws 2” and “Jaws: The Revenge.”
1918 – Allan Arbus, actor in “Scream, Pretty Peggy” and “Damien: Omen II.”
1914 – Kevin McCarthy, starred in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956],” and also appeared in “Twilight Zone: The Movie,” “Piranha” and “The Howling.”
1899 – Gale Sondergaard, starred in “The Cat and the Canary [1939],” “The Black Cat [1941]” and “The Invisible Man’s Revenge.”
1882 – John Barrymore, starred in “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde [1920],” “Svengali,” “The Invisible Woman,” “The Mad Genius” and more.
DIED ON FEBRUARY 15
2024 – Anne Whitfield, appeared in episodes of the TV Series “One Step Beyond – Season 3, Episode 5” and “Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Season 1, 4.”
2024 – Stuart Organ, voice actor for the video game “Dante’s Inferno (2010).”
2023 – Raquel Welch, actress in “Bedazzled” and producer for “The Sorcerers.”
2023 – Shôzô Îzuka, voice actor for “Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis,” “Magnetic Rose,” “Resident Evil: Damnation” and the TV Series “Paranoia Agent.”
2023 – Dario Penne, voice dubbing for “The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave,” “The Reincarnation of Isabe,” “Devil Fish,” “Paganini Horror,” “Vampire in Venice” and more.”
2022 – Dominique Marcas, actress in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1956],” “Bloody Mallory” and “The Pharmacist.”
2022 – J. O’Rourke, appeared in 2 episodes of the TV Series “True Blood.”
2022 – Juan Antonio Quintana, actor in “Hacia el silencio (Towards Silence).”
2021 – Steuart Bedford, music conductor in “The Turn of the Screw – TV Movie.”
2021 – Sandro Dori, appeared in “Darker Than Night.”
2021 – Andreas Teuber, appeared in “Doctor Faustus.”
2020 – Vatroslav Mimica, writer for “Muha.”
2012 – Elyse Knox, starred in “The Mummy’s Tomb.”
2012 – Lina Romay, actress in “Female Vampire,” “The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff,” “Lorna the Exorcist,” “Jack the Ripper [1976],” “Oasis of Zombies,” “Mansion of the Living Dead,” “Faceless,” “Incubus,” “Snakewoman” and many more.
2006 – Xavier Barquet, producer for “Drive In,” actor in “The Toxic Avenger,” “The Unholy [1988],” “I’m Dangerous Tonight” and “Night of the Beast.”
1990 – Jack Fletcher, appeared in “Elvira: Mistress of The Dark.”
1978 – Joseph Lenzi, associate producer for Damien: Omen II.”
1973 – Tim Holt, starred in “The Monster That Challenged the World.”
1951 – Larry Steers, appeared in “King Kong [1933],” “Hold That Ghost,” “The Strange Case of Doctor Rx,” “Weird Woman,” “King of the Wild” and “Murder in the Blue Room.”
FILMS RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 15
Phantom Lady [1944] – Finland
Fog Island [1945]
Saturn 3 [1980]
The Wild Beasts [1984] – Italy
Deadly Species [2002]
Wendigo [2002]
House of the Dead [2003] – Italy
Hallowed [2005]
Chill [2007]
Diary of the Dead [2007] – Canada
The Hospital [2013] – San Francisco Independent Film Festival
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