BORN ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY

1986 – Electra Avellan, has appeared in “Hidden in the Woods”, “Machete Kills”, “Machete”, “The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond”, “Planet Terror”, and “Death Proof.”
1986 – Elise Avellan, twin sister of Electra, has appeared in “Machete Kills”, “Machete”, “The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond”, “Planet Terror”, and “Death Proof.”
1985 – Jade Tailor, has appeared in “Cam2Cam”, “True Blood (TV Series)”, “Dark Reel”, “Crimson”, “You’re So Dead.”
1981 – Natalie Mendoza, starred in “The Descent”, “The Descent: Part 2”, “Surviving Evil”, and “BeastMaster (TV Series).”
1980 – Dominique Swain, appears in “Nazis at the Center of the Earth”, “Trance”, “Nightfall”, and more.
1972 – Rebecca Gayheart who appeared in the films “Urban Legend,” “Scream 2,” “From Dusk Til Dawn 3,” ” Santa’s Slay” and the Showtime series “Dead Like Me.”
1956 – Bruce Greenwood, who appeared in the films “Disturbing Behavior,” “I, Robot” and as “Christopher Pike” in the 2009 remake of “Star Trek.”
1954 – Sam Jones who played the title role in the 1980 version of “Flash Gordon” and appeared in the film “Revamped.”
1950 – Jim Beaver, has starred in “Supernatural (TV Series)”, “Crimson Peak”, “Tremors (TV Series)”, “The X-Files (TV Series)”, and much more.
1947 – John Nathan-Turner, who produced the “Dr. Who” TV series from 1980 to 1989.
1939 – George Hamilton, who played “Count Dracula” in “Love At First Bite,” and starred in the film “The Power” and the TV movie “The Dead Don’t Die.”
1931 – William Goldman who wrote the screenplays for the films “The Stepford Wives,” “Magic” and “Misery.”
1928 – Dan Curtis who produced the original and 1990 versions of the TV series “Dark Shadows” and such films as “The Night Stalker,” “The Night Strangler” and “Trilogy of Terror.”
1898 – Oskar Homolka, who appeared in the films “The Invisible Woman,” “Mr. Sardonicus” and the 1968 TV version of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.”
1893 – Howard Smith who appeared in the films “I Bury the Living” and “Face of Fire.”

DIED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY

2007 – Aida Young, produced many Hammer films including “Hands of the Ripper”, “Scars of Dracula”, “Taste the Blood of Dracula”, “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave”, “One Million Years B.C.” and more. She passed away at the age of 86.
2000 – Loretta Young, who appeared with Lon Chaney in “Laugh, Clown, Laugh” and “Seven Footprints To Satan,” passed away at the age of 87.
1999 – Ross Eliot, who appeared in “Tarantula,” “Monster on Campus” and as attorney “Paul Lowe” in “The Indestructible Man,” passed away at the age of 82.
1982 – Henry Fonda, who starred in the films “The Swarm,” “Tentacles” and “Fail Safe,” passed away at the age of 77.

FILMS RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 1941
Back From the Dead 1957
The Unknown Terror 1957
The Pit And The Pendulum 1961
Suspiria 1977
Funeral Home 1980
Cujo 1983
Mindwarp 1992
The Ghost And The Darkness 1996
The Skeleton Key 2005
I Saw the Devil 2010
Final Destination 5 2011