Ron Perlman is born in 1950. The actor's 40-year, Golden Globe-winning actor is known for roles like Beauty and the Beast, Hellboy, and The Name of the Rose, and has voiced characters in DC and Marvel Comics animated films.
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Jack Donovan Foley is born in Yorkville, N.Y. in 1891. The pioneer of sound effects for motion pictures, his work spanned from the 1920s to films like Spartacus in the 1960s. The craft is known as Foley, and its practitioners are called Foley artists.
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Howard W. Koch is born in New York City in 1916. The producer/director’s career in film and TV includes Frankenstein 1970, Ghost, Macabre, Pharaoh’s Curse, Voodoo Island and The Manchurian Candidate. He died in 2001.
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The Howling opens in the U.S. in 1981. Joe Dante’s werewolf film is the first of three released that year, followed by American Werewolf in London and Wolfen. The film is a dark-humored homage to werewolf movies with innovative effects by Rob Bottin.
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House of Wax premieres in New York City in 1953. Promoted as a color 3D feature and a remake of 1933’s Mystery of the Wax Museum, it stars Vincent Price and is directed by Andre DeToth, who was blind in one eye and could not perceive the film’s 3D effects.
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I Walked With a Zombie premieres in Cleveland in 1943. The Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur film, partly a retelling of Jane Eyre with voodoo zombies, received mixed reviews and was a mild box office success but has grown in stature over time.
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Special makeup effects artist Stan Winston is born in Richmond, Virginia in 1946. The four-time Oscar winner’s work includes The Terminator, Jurassic Park, Aliens, Predator, and Edward Scissorhands. He died in 2008.
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Harold Eugene “Doc” Edgerton is born in Fremont, Nebraska in 1903. The father of the modern strobe light received his PhD in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he used the stroboscope to study synchronous motors.
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Roger Corman is born in Detroit in 1926. The iconic B-movie producer/director has over 400 credits, including horror and action films such as Little Shop of Horrors, Death Race 2000, and films based on Edgar Allan Poe stories featuring Vincent Price.
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Taste of Fear premieres in London in 1961. The Hammer thriller, known in the U.S. as Scream of Fear, stars Susan Strasberg and Christopher Lee. It was written by Jimmy Sangster and directed by Seth Holt. Lee regarded it as his best Hammer film.
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Actor Andrew Keir is born in Shotts, Scotland in 1926. Known for his Hammer horror films of the 1960s and 1970s, he appeared in Quatermass and the Pit, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb.
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The Monster Club opens across the U.K. in 1981. Director Roy Ward Baker’s final film is an anthology telling three different short tales within a framing device featuring Vincent Price and John Carradine.
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Helter Skelter premieres on CBS in 1976. The first episode of a two-part mini series based on Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry's book that depicts the trial of the Manson family members after the Tate-LaBianca murders.
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Christopher Walken is born in Astoria, Queens, NY in 1943. The Oscar-winning actor is known for playing tense, haunted or unstable characters and is the star of The Dead Zone, Sleepy Hollow, The Deer Hunter, The Prophecy trilogy and many other movies.
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Beetlejuice opens across the U.S. in 1988. Tim Burton’s dark comedy stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis and is a critical and box office hit that inspires an animated series, a stage musical and wins the Oscar for Best Make Up.
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The Birds opens in the U.S. in 1963. Alfred Hitchcock’s Oscar-nominated horror thriller stars Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor and is based on a 1961 California incident. The film was added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry in 2016.
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Man Made Monster opens across the U.S. in 1941. The B-movie about an electrically-charged man stars Lon Chaney Jr. and Lionel Atwill and its small success launches Chaney’s career in horror, who will soon become The Wolf Man.
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What We Do in the Shadows premieres on FX in 2019. The Emmy-nominated TV spinoff of the 2014 movie is a horror comedy mockumentary featuring a group of vampires sharing a house on Staten Island in New York City.
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Leonard Nimoy is born in Boston in 1931. Best known as Spock in Star Trek, his career includes Them!, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits, and narrating In Search of… He died in 2015.
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World Without End opens across the U.S. in 1956. Essentially a version of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, featuring Rod Taylor (the future star of the film adaptation), and future director Sam Peckinpah, producer Walter Mirisch, and artist Alberto Vargas.
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Magician and actor Harry Houdini is born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874. One of the most famous magicians, he performed escapes for audiences in the U.S. and Europe, later starred in films and exposed spiritualists as frauds.
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Joan Crawford is born in San Antonio in 1906. Though her Oscar-winning career was in dramas and romances, her later work focused on thrillers like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Berserk!, and the William Castle films Straight-Jacket and I Saw What You Did.
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Resident Evil is released for PlayStation in the U.S. in 1996. The first survival horror game features zombies and other monsters and is a major hit, spawning a media franchise including a series of games, comics, books, movies and various merchandise.
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Gary Oldman is born in London in 1958. The Oscar-winning actor has worked in various genres, but his films include Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Fifth Element, Lost in Space, Hannibal, Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
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Two Thousand Maniacs! opens across the U.S. in 1964. The Southern gore film is the second of what is known as “The blood trilogy” by director Herschell Gordon Lewis and is shot in 15 days.
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Archie Comics Publications launches Archie Horror in 2015. Based on the success of Afterlife with Archie and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the imprint allows the 76-year-old company to explore dark, adult subject matter using its classic characters.
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Waxworks opens across the U.S. in 1926. Director Paul Leni’s silent anthology horror fantasy features a wax museum, Jack the Ripper and Ivan the Terrible and is influential for both its storytelling and cinematography.
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Flesh for Frankenstein (a.k.a. Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein) opens in the U.S. in 1974. Paul Morrissey’s take on Mary Shelley’s classic is a provocative arthouse satire known for its gore, explicit sex, and in some theaters, 3D presentation.
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Theater of Blood premieres in Toronto, Canada in 1973. The horror film about an actor murdering his critics is said to be star Vincent Price’s favorite. Also said to be co-star Diana Rigg’s personal favorite.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire opens in New York City in 1961. Val Guest’s BAFTA-winning British nuclear thriller, set mostly in London, ends ambiguously amid rising Cold War tensions before the Cuban Missile Crisis and remains well-regarded.
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