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Stuart Freeborn (make-up artist)
Stuart Freeborn (5 September 1914 – 5 February 2013) was a veteran British motion picture make-up artist who died recently. He has been referred to as the “grandfather of modern make-up design” and is...
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Rondo Hatton (actor)
Rondo Hatton was born with a genetic condition, that of acromegaly which affects the pituitary gland (not the last actor to be afflicted – Richard Kiel – most famous as ‘Jaws’ in two James Bond films...
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Wolf Blood (1925)
Wolf Blood, also known as Wolfblood: A Tale of the Forest, is a silent 1925 werewolf movie starring George Chesebro, who also directed it. Dick Bannister is the new field boss of the Ford Logging...
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Richard Matheson (author and screenwriter)
Richard Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He may be known best as the author of I Am...
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José Larraz (director)
José Ramón Larraz (born 1929 in Barcelona) was an idiosyncratic Spanish director of exploitation and horror fims such as the erotic and bloody cult classic Vampyres (1974). He died in Malaga on 3rd...
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Haunted Spooks (short film)
Haunted Spooks is a two-reeler short film from the Hal Roach studio, starring Harold Lloyd, which began shooting in 1919 and was completed the following year. It also stars his future wife, Mildred...
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Drakula halála
Drakula halála – translated as ‘Dracula’s Death’ or ‘The Death of Drakula’ — is a 1921 Hungarian horror movie written and directed by Károly Lajthay. Currently believed to be a lost, the film is...
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The Phantom Carriage
The Phantom Carriage (original title: Körkarlen) is a 1921 Swedish film generally considered to be one of the central works in the history of Swedish cinema. Released on New Year’s Day 1921, it was...
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Tod Slaughter (actor)
Tod Slaughter (19 March 1885 – 19 February 1956) was an English actor, best known for playing over-the-top maniacs in macabre film adaptations of Victorian melodramas. Born as Norman Carter Slaughter...
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“From Hell…” Jack the Ripper at the Movies and on TV
The Ripper (1997) Jack the Ripper. The very name conjures up images of fog-shrouded streets, grisly murder and chirpy, voluptuous Cockney street girls spilling out of East End dens of inequity to meet...
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The Hounds of the Baskervilles: Holmesian Horror in Film and TV (article)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories – and the ongoing industry spun off from them – have a curious connection to the horror genre. The image of the master detective, stalking the...
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Riz Ortolani (composer)
Riziero “Riz” Ortolani was an Italian film composer. Born on 25 March 1926, he recently died in Rome, aged 87. In the early 1950s Ortolani began his musical career as a founder and member of a...
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The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) is a short silent American horror film adaptation of the short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. It tells the story of a brother and...
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The Hands of Orlac
The Hands of Orlac (German: Orlacs Hände) is a 1924 Austrian silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina and Fritz Kortner. The film’s plot is based on the...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 film)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 horror silent film, produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount/Artcraft. The film is based upon Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case...
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The Dunwich Horror (short story)
“The Dunwich Horror” is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales. It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts and is considered one of...
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Noble Johnson (actor)
Noble Johnson (April 18, 1881 – January 9, 1978) was an African-American actor and film producer. He was one of the first black actors in Hollywood to achieve any meaningful level of fame and...
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Dwight Frye (actor)
Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American stage and screen actor, noted for his appearances in the classic horror films Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The...
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The Synth of Fear: Horror film soundtracks with synthesizer scores – article
Keith Emerson’s sound-man at work… Electronically produced sound has been available to adventurous film composers since the silent era. Among the earliest electronic instruments were the Ondes-Martenot...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Cthulhu (article)
Cthulhu is a fictional deity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft and first introduced in the short story “The Call of Cthulhu”, published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. Considered a Great Old...
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