The Banana Splits Movie - USA, 2019
The Banana Splits Movie is a 2019 American horror feature film directed by Danishka Esterhazy (Level 16) from a screenplay written by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas (My Super Psycho …
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1920s
Ogopogo – mythical creature
In Canadian folklore, the Ogopogo or Naitaka (Salish: n’ha-a-itk, “lake demon”) is a lake monster reported to live in Okanagan Lake, in British Columbia, Canada. The Ogopogo has been allegedly seen by First Nations people since the 19th century. The most …
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The Bizarre Practice of Head Shrinking - article
The bizarre practice of shrinking a human head has an extremely dark history. While numerous cultures have participated in the practice of headhunting, the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Peruvian Amazon Jivaro …
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The Hearse Song aka The Worms Crawl In - song
“The Hearse Song” is a song about burial and human decomposition, of unknown origin. It was initially popular as a World War I song, and was widely sung in the …
Read MoreWilliam Peter Blatty - writer and filmmaker
William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer and filmmaker. The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his most well-known novel; he also wrote the screenplay …
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Dwarfs in Horror Cinema - article
For some, all the world’s a stage, for others, a battlefield. Circumstances sometimes mean that these two options are thrust upon a person, both socially and as a career. It’s …
Read MoreHäxan aka Witchcraft Through the Ages - Sweden/Denmark, 1922
Häxan (English title: The Witches or Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 Swedish/Danish silent horror feature film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Based partly on Christensen’s study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is …
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Robert Bloch - writer
Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 - September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee,Wisconsin. Bloch is best known as the writer of …
Read MoreNecronomicon - fictional grimoire
The Necronomicon is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in the stories by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers. It was first mentioned in Lovecraft’s 1924 published …
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My Name is Bruce - USA, 2007
‘Fearless! Unstoppable! Ready for his close-up!’ My Name Is Bruce is a 2007 American comedy supernatural horror feature film, directed, co-produced by and starring cult actor Bruce Campbell. The film …
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Hunting Humans: The Influence of The Most Dangerous Game - article
“A terrible thought crept like a snake into my mind - hunting was beginning to bore me.” Like calamitous oceanic buses, two shipwrecks have left Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrae) and …
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The Abominable Snowman - UK, 1957
The Abominable Snowman is a 1957 British horror film directed by Val Guest for Hammer Film Productions. It is based on a 1955 BBC television play, The Creature, written by Nigel Kneale (The Quatermass …
Read MoreAngus Scrimm - actor
Angus Scrimm (born Lawrence Rory Guy; August 19, 1926 – January 9, 2016) was an American actor and author, best known for playing the Tall Man in the 1979 horror …
Read MoreH.P. Lovecraft - author
Howard Phillips Lovecraft aka H.P. Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only …
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Christopher Lee - actor
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly seventy years, Lee initially portrayed villains and became …
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M.R. James - author
Montague “Monty” Rhodes James OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost …
Read MoreThe Lodger: A Story of the London Fog - UK, 1926
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1926 British silent thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It stars Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, and Ivor …
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The Ouija Board: A history and its influence - article
There are essentially three things required to contact the dead; a dead person; a living person to whom they are acquainted (or would like to be); a very open mind. …
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The Golem: How He Came into the World - Germany, 1920
The Golem: How He Came into the World - original title: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam - is a 1920 German silent horror feature film co-directed by Paul Wegener with Carl Boese from …
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Borley Rectory - ‘The most haunted house in England’
Borley Rectory was a Victorian mansion that gained fame as allegedly ‘the most haunted house in England’. Built in 1862 to house the rector of the parish of Borley, Essex, and …
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The Devil’s Chimney, Gloucestershire - landmark
The Devil’s Chimney is a limestone rock formation that stands above a disused quarry in Leckhampton, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. It is named for its peculiar shape, that of a …
Read MoreThéâtre du Grand-Guignol, Paris - location
Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol [“The Theatre of the Big Puppet”] – known as the Grand Guignol – was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis, rue Chaptal). From …
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H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos - 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. …
Read MoreThe Synth of Fear: Horror Films with Synthesizer Scores - article
Electronically produced sound has been available to adventurous film composers since the silent era. Among the earliest electronic instruments were the Ondes-Martenot (invented in 1928), which produced a characteristic quivering …
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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 Invisible Man (1933), and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). He is frequently …
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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 successfully …
Read MoreThe Dunwich Horror - short story by H.P. Lovecraft
“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 the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. Although …
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - USA, 1920
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 of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and starring …
Read MoreThe Hands of Orlac - Austria, 1924
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 story Les Mains d’Orlac by Maurice Renard. Wiene had made his …
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The Fall of the House of Usher - USA, 1928
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 …
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