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Dick Smith (makeup artist and special effects)
Richard Emerson “Dick” Smith (born June 26, 1922) is an American special effects make-up artist (nicknamed “The Godfather of Make-Up”) known for his pioneering work on such films as Little Big Man,...
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Amicus Productions (film production company)
From the second half of the 1950s to the mid 1970s, Hammer Films ruled supreme as Britain’s masters of horror. But the company was not unrivalled, as several other producers sought to cash in on the...
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Pan Book of Horror Stories
The Pan Book of Horror Stories was a paperback series of short horror story anthologies published by Pan Books Ltd. The series ran to thirty volumes, the first published in 1959. The series was...
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Black Park, Buckinghamshire (horror location)
Black Park is a country park in Wexham, Buckinghamshire, England between Slough and Iver Heath. Covering 530 acres of woodland, heathland and grassland, the park includes an imposing avenue of mature...
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Night of the Big Heat
Night of the Big Heat is a 1967 British sci-fi horror film produced by Planet Film. Based on the 1959 novel of the same name by John Lymington, the film was directed by Terence Fisher, and stars...
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The Nest of the Cuckoo Bird
The Nest of the Cuckoo Bird is a 1965 American horror exploitation film written, produced, directed by and starring Bert Williams. The rest of the cast were Ann Long, Chuck Frankle, Jackie Scelza and...
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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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Horror (aka The Blancheville Monster)
Horror (aka The Blancheville Monster) is a 1963 Italian/Spanish horror film directed by Alberto De Martino from a screenplay by Bruno and Sergio Corbucci, Giovanni Grimaldi based upon an (uncredited)...
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House on Bare Mountain
House on Bare Mountain is a 1962 American comedy horror ‘nudie cutie’ film directed by Lee Frost (Love Camp 7, The Thing with Two Heads), Peter Perry Jr., Wes Bishop. Horror/exploitation producer...
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Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster is a 1965 American science fiction cult film, directed by Robert Gaffney and starring Marilyn Hanold, James Karen (The Return of the Living Dead), Lou Cutell and...
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Confessions of a Psycho Cat
Confessions of a Psycho Cat is a 1968 exploitation horror film produced abd directed by “Eve” (Herb Stanley) from a screenplay by Bill Boyd. It stars Eileen Lord, Ed Garrabrandt, Frank Geraci, Dick...
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Curse of the Stone Hand
Curse of the Stone Hand is a 1964 (released April 1965) composite horror film consisting of new footage shot by opportunistic U.S. producer/director Jerry Warren (Teenage Zombies) that features John...
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R. L. Stine (author and producer)
Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), known as R. L. Stine, and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer and producer. Stine, who is referred to as the “Stephen King of children’s literature,”...
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Bees Saal Baad (1962)
Bees Saal Baad (‘Twenty Years Later’) is a 1962 Indian horror film produced by Hemant Kumar, who also gave the music and sings some of the movie’s songs. The film was directed by Biren Nag from a...
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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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Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb vs. The Monsters
In the early 1960s, US film distributor K.Gordon Murray had a surprising amount of success importing, editing and dubbing Mexican children’s films and releasing them to unsuspecting audiences. His...
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Mike Vraney (founder of Something Weird video)
Mike Vraney was the founder of Something Weird Video, an American film distributor company based in Seattle, Washington. On January 2, 2014, he died after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. He was...
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Eerie Publications (publisher of comic magazines)
Eerie Publications was a publisher of black-and-white horror-anthology comics magazines. Less well-known and more downscale than the field’s leader, Warren Publishing (Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella), the...
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Yongary: Monster from the Deep (1967)
Yongary: Monster from the Deep , original title: Yonggary or Yongary (Hangul: 대괴수 용가리; RR: Taekoesu Yongary; lit. Great Monster Yongary) is a 1967 South Korean Kaiju monster film directed by prominent...
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The Body Beneath
The Body Beneath (1969) is a British-shot horror film written and directed by American auteur Andy Milligan. It stars Gavin Reed, Jackie Skarvellis, Berwick Kaler, Richmond Ross, Emma Jones, and Colin...
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