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Pop-Up Frankiestein is a plastic toy manufactured in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s by the Wilkin Toy Company of Hong Kong. Atop his turreted castle, Dr Frankenstein’s ghastly creation …
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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies is a 1964 American monster movie written, produced and directed by Ray Dennis Steckler, who also starred, billed under the pseudonym “Cash Flagg”. Produced on a …
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Autopsy of a Ghost (original title: Autopsia de un Fantasma) is a 1967 Mexican horror-comedy film, directed by Ismael Rodríguez and starring Basil Rathbone (cinema’s most famous Sherlock Holmes), John Carradine …
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The Daughters of Satan is a horror novel by Sandra Shulman. The novel was first published in 1968 by Paperback Library Inc under the title The Daughters of Astoroth but is …
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The Mire Beasts, tentacled octopoid monstrosities tucked away in Episode One (“The Executioners”) and Episode Two (“The Death of Time”) of the 1965 Doctor Who story The Chase, are among …
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in lurid production-still colour… and glorious black-and-white… The creatures commonly referred to as ‘the Brains of Morphoton’ appeared in “The Velvet Web”, episode two of the 1964 Doctor Who story …
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‘The ripper is waiting…’ Night, After Night, After Night. is a 1969 British horror thriller film directed by Lindsay Shonteff (Devil Doll; Curse of the Voodoo aka Curse of Simba) [as Lewis J. …
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Chewits is the brand name of a British chewy, cuboid-shaped, soft taffy sweet manufactured by Cloetta since 1965. Chewits have been available in a variety of increasingly exotic flavours since their inception. Chewits were first advertised on …
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Riziero “Riz” Ortolani was an Italian film composer. Born on 25 March 1926, he died in Rome, on 23 January 2014. In the early 1950s, Ortolani began his musical career as a founder …
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Witchcraft – Magic: An Adventure in Demonology is a 1969 spoken word album, featuring the florid tones of horror legend Vincent Price as he discusses the world of witchcraft and …
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Yongary: Monster from the Deep – original title: Yonggary or Yongary (대괴수 용가리; Taekoesu Yongary; literally Great Monster Yongary) is a 1967 South Korean Kaiju monster film directed by prominent genre-film director Kim Ki-duk. It stars Oh Yeong-il and Nam Jeong-im. The …
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‘All your favorite make-believe characters’ Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters is a 1962 Mexican children’s film directed by Roberto Rodríguez from a screenplay by Fernando Morales Ortiz and Adolfo Torres …
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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 …
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Bees Saal Baad (translation: “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 …
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‘Here lived a fiend of sadistic lust!’ Curse of the Stone Hand is a 1964 – released April 1965 – composite horror film consisting of new footage shot by opportunistic …
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Confessions of a Psycho Cat is a 1968 American exploitation horror film produced and directed by “Eve” [Herb Stanley] from a screenplay by Bill Boyd. It stars Eileen Lord, Ed Garrabrandt, Frank Geraci, …
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Jack the Ripper. The very name conjures up clichéd images of fog-shrouded streets, grisly murder and chirpy, voluptuous Cockney street girls spilling out of East End dens of inequity to …
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‘Bloodthirsty! Raw! We defy you to guess… the killer’ The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds is a 1965 American horror exploitation film written, produced, directed by and starring Bert Williams. The …
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Black Park is a country park in Wexham, Buckinghamshire, England. Covering roughly 530 acres of woodland, heathland and grassland, the park includes an imposing avenue of mature pine trees and …
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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 …
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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 …
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José Ramón Larraz (born 1929 in Barcelona) was a Spanish director of exploitation and horror films such as the cult classic Vampyres (1974). He died in Malaga on 3rd September 2013 whilst working on a remake of …
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Creepy was an American horror-comics magazine launched by Warren Publishing in 1964. Like Mad magazine, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and thus did not require the approval or seal of the dreaded Comics Code …
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The Hypnotic Eye is a 1960 American horror film directed by George Blair from a screenplay written by Gitta Woodfield and William Read Woodfield. Released by Allied Artists, the movie …
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Homicidal is a 1961 American horror-thriller film produced and directed by the self-proclaimed “King of Showmanship”, William Castle. Written by Robb White, the film stars Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie …
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Terror Tales was the name of two American publications: a pulp magazine of the weird menace genre, and a horror comic in the 1960s and 1970s. Terror Tales was originally published by Popular Publications. The first issue was published in September …
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The World of the Vampires is a 1961 Mexican supernatural horror film directed by Alfonso Corona Blake (Samson vs. the Vampire Women). The movie stars Mauricio Garcés, Erna Martha Bauman, …
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‘The greatest horror monster alive’ The Mighty Gorga is a 1969 monster movie and the brainchild of David L. Hewitt (Gallery of Horror; Monsters Crash the Pajama Party), who stars, …
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Richard Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He may be known best as the author of I Am Legend, …
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Basil Gogos is an artist and illustrator best known for his striking, often colourful portraits of movie monsters that appeared on the covers of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine in the 1960s and 70s. …
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Santo vs. the Martian Invasion is a 1967 Mexican sci-fi alien invasion film directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna from a screenplay written by Rafael García Travesi. The movie stars wrestling …
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Jack Davis (Dec 2, 1924 – July 27, 2016) was an American cartoonist and illustrator, known for his advertising art, magazine covers, film posters, record album art and numerous comic book stories. Davis was one of the founding …
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The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument, controlled without physical contact from the player. It was originally also known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone, termenvox or thereminvox, In the 1950s, the emergence of science fiction movies as mass …
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‘Cannibalism was never so funny’ The Undertaker and his Pals is a 1966 American black comedy horror film directed by T.L.P. Swicegood. It stars Ray Dannis, Warrene Ott and James Westmoreland. …
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‘The chamber of horrors lives again!’ Castle of Evil is a 1966 American science fiction horror film directed by Francis D. Lyon (Destination Inner Space; Cult of the Cobra) from a screenplay …
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‘Talons of terror!’ The Vulture is a 1967 British-Canadian-American science fiction horror film written, produced and directed by Lawrence Huntington, the veteran’s final film before he died in 1968 (although …
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Review: A “lonely castle” is the suitably atmospheric setting of this horror themed 8mm glamour film from the late 1960s. The castle is home to an equally lonely hunchback, who …
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Thriller – aka Boris Karloff’s Thriller – is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–1961 and 1961–1962 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of …
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Alfred Reginald Natzick aka Reggie Nalder/Detlef Van Berg/Detlas Van Burg Born in Vienna in what was then Austria-Hungary in 1907, or indeed any point during a twenty-year period around this time …
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‘Everyone is dying to meet’ Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, and Girly – released as Girly in North America – is a 1969 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis from a screenplay written …
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Castle Films was a home-movie distributor founded in California by former newsreel cameraman Eugene W. Castle in 1924. The company originally produced business and advertising films. In 1937, Castle branched out into 8mm and 16mm home movies, buying newsreel …
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Castle of Frankenstein is an American horror, science fiction and fantasy film magazine, distributed by Kable News and published in New Jersey from 1962 to 1975 by Calvin Thomas Beck’s …
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The Diabolical Doctor Z is a 1965 Spanish/French science fiction horror film, originally titled Miss Muerte (“Miss Death”) and Dans les griffes du maniaque (“In the Grip of the Maniac”). It …
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Unearthly Stranger is a 1963 British science fiction horror film directed by John Krish and produced by Albert Fennell (The Legend of Hell House; Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde; Night of the Eagle). …
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Dagora, the Space Monster is a 1964 tokusatsu science fiction film produced and released by Toho Studios. It was directed by the “Golden Duo” of director Ishirō Honda and special-effects …
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Although traditionally feared and despised, witches have also long provided the public with light-hearted entertainment – one only has to look at the stereotypical image of the witch, with the …
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British actor Frank Thornton, most famous for playing stuffy Captain Peacock in the long-running innuendo-filled BBC TV sitcom – and offshoot film – Are You Being Served? died in March 2012, …
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The Living Skeleton (aka Kyûketsu Dokuro-Sen/Bloodsucking Skeleton Ship/Vampire Skeleton Ship/Vampire Skull Ship/Living Skeleton) is a 1968 Japanese horror film directed by Hiroshi Matsuno and produced by Shochiku. It was written by …
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The Mars Attacks trading card series was created by Topps in 1962. Product developer Len Brown, inspired by Wally Wood’s cover for EC Comics Weird Science #16, pitched the idea to Woody Gelman. Gelman and Brown created the story …
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The Curse of the Doll People – original title: Muñecos infernales (“Devil Doll”) – is a 1961 Mexican supernatural horror film directed by Benito Alazraki from a screenplay by Alfredo Salazar (Doctor of …
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