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Horror Almanac – May 12

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – MAY 12

  • 1997 – Odeya Rush, has appeared in “Goosebumps”, “When The Devil Comes,” and “We Are What We Are.”
  • 1986 – Emily VanCamp, who co-starred in the films “The Ring 2″ and “Carriers.”
  • 1978 – Malin Akerman, has appeared in “The Final Girls”, “Watchmen”, “The Invasion”, “Witchblade (TV Series)”, “The Circle”, “The Skulls” and more.
  • 1978 – Amy Wheaton, who appeared in the film “The Curse” (1987) and the TV series’ “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Sliders.”
  • 1970 – Samantha Mathis, who appeared in the 2004 version of the TV movie “Salem’s Lot,” “American Psycho” and the 1994 version of “The Punisher.”
  • 1962 – Emilio Estevez, who starred in “Nightmares,” “Freejack” and “Maximum Overdrive.”
  • 1962 – Ving Rhames who co-starred in “The People Under the Stairs,” “Jacob’s Ladder,” the 2004 remake of “Dawn of the Dead” and the 2008 remake of “Day of the Dead”
  • 1961 – Lar Park-Lincoln, best known for starring in “Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.” She also appeared in “House II: The Second Story”, “Freddy’s Nightmares (TV Series)”, “From the Dark.”
  • 1950 – Gabriel Byrne who has starred in the films “End of Days,” “Stigmata,” “Ghost Ship” and “Gothic.”
  • 1930 – Jesus (or Jess) Franco who directed the films “The Awful Dr. Orloff,” “Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula” and “Ilsa, the Wicked Warden.”
  • 1913 – Hugh Latimer who appeared in the films “The Strange World of Planet X,” (a.k.a. “The Cosmic Monsters”) and “Ghost Ship” (1952).
  • 1912 – Don Blackman who appeared in the film “Scream Blacula, Scream.”
  • 1903 – Wilfrid Hyde-White who appeared in the TV series’ “Buck Rogers” and “Battlestar Galatica,” as well as the film “Chamber of Horrors.”
  • 1898 – Edward Halperin who produced the films “White Zombie” and “Revolt of the Zombies” (both of which his brother Victor directed)
  • 1892 – John Barclay who appeared in the 1941 version of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,” “Soylent Green” and “The Brotherhood of Satan.”
Odeya Rush
Odeya Rush
Emily VanCamp
Emily VanCamp
Malin Akerman
Malin Akerman
Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames
Lar Park Lincoln
Lar Park Lincoln

DIED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – MAY 12

  • 2014 – H.R. Giger, the infamous dark artist who created the xenomorph in “Alien” and his designs were used in every subsequent “Alien” film. He also designed the creature in “Species” and “Species 2.” He passed away at the age of 74 from complications from a fall.
  • 2001 – Richard Davidson who did make-up and special effects work on the films “The Thing” (1982), “Planet of the Apes” (2001), “Jurassic Park” and “Batman Returns,” passed away at the age of 40.
  • 1995 – Arthur Lubin who directed the 1943 version of “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Hold That Ghost” and “Black Friday,” passed away at the age of 96.
  • 1992 – Robert Reed, was best known as everyone’s favorite TV dad in “The Brady Bunch (TV Series)” but he also had a few run-ins with the horror genre in “Galactica 1980 (TV Series)”, “Wonder Woman (TV Series)”, “The Maltese Bippy”, “Journey Into Darkness”, “Journey to the Unknown (TV Series)”, “Bloodlust!” He passed away at the age of 59 due to complications of AIDS.
  • 1971 – The one and only Mighty Tor Johnson, passed away at the age of 67.
  • 1957 – Erich von Stroheim who appeared in the films “The Lady & the Monster,” “The Mask of Dijon” and “Alraune,” passed away at the age of 72.
H.R. Giger
H.R. Giger

Robert Reed
Robert Reed
Tor Johnson
Tor Johnson

FILMS RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – MAY 12

Cobra Woman 1944
Earth Girls Are Easy 1988
Hell High 1989
Night Visitor 1989
The Return of the Swamp Thing 1989
Gothkill 2009
S. Darko 2009
The Grudge 3 2009

The Return of the Swamp Thing movie posterThe Grudge 3

 

Michael Juvinall

I am a Horror journalist, producer, ravenous Horror fiend, aficionado of the classic Universal Monsters, Hammer Horror, Werewolves, and all things Horror.

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