Showing posts with label horror movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror movies. Show all posts

18 May 2022

Priscilla Pointer

 Priscilla Pointer was born on May 18th, 1924 in New York City. 

Priscilla Marie Pointer

With Daughter Amy Irving in Carrie (1976)

Mommie Dearest (1981)

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

With Kyle MacLachan and Frances Bay
in Blue Velvet (1986)

With Craig Wasson in
Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

With Robert Vaughn in
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D
Directed by son David Irving


03 May 2022

Amy Steel

 Amy Steel was born on May 3rd, 1960 in Pennsylvania. 

Amy Steel

Friday the 13th part 2 (1981)
with Tom McBride, Walt Gorney 
and Betsy Palmer

April Fool’s Day (1986)


06 April 2022

Michael Rooker

 Michael Rooker was born on April 6th, 1955 in Jasper, Alabama. 

Michael Rooker

With Tom Towles in
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

The Dark Half (1993)

Mallrats (1995)

Slither (2006)

Super (2010)

The Walking Dead (2010-2013)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Love and Monsters (2020)

17 February 2022

Don Coscarelli

Writer, producer and director Don Coscarelli was born on February 17th, 1954 in Tripoli, Libya. 

Don Coscarelli 

Angus Scrimm in Phantasm (1979)

The Beastmaster (1982) starring 
Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts,
John Amos and Rip fucking Torn


Phantasm II (1988)

Phantasm III:
Lord of the Dead (1994)

Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)

Bruce Campbell in
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)

John Dies at the End (2012)

Phantasm: Ravager (2016)

Also on this date:

Silent Night, Bloody Night was released in 1972



20 December 2021

Jenny Agutter

 Jenny Agutter was born on December 20th, 1952 in Taunton, Somerset, England. 

Jenny Agutter

Best known for her roles in Logan’s Run, An American Werewolf in London and Child’s Play 2.

Logan’s Run (1976)

An American Werewolf in London 
with David Naughton (1981)

Child’s Play 2 (1990)


19 December 2021

Nancy Loomis

 Nancy Kyes, known professionally as Nancy Loomis, was born on December 19th, 1949. 

Nancy Kyes

Known mostly for her work in John Carpenter films.

She is the only actor to be featured in the first 3 Halloween movies, Halloween, Halloween II and Halloween III: Season of the Witch. 

Nancy with P.J. Soles and Jamie Lee Curtis

She was also in Carpenter’s The Fog and Assault on Precinct 13. 

Assault on Precinct 13

Janet Leigh and Nancy Loomis in The Fog (1980)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
with Tom Atkins

She was married to Tommy Lee Wallace, another Carpenter collaborator, and they have two children together. 

Wallace and Loomis

23 November 2021

Boris Karloff

On November 23rd, 1887, Boris Karloff was born in Surrey, England. 

Boris Karloff (1887-1969)


Frankenstein’s monster

With Dwight Frye and 
Edward Van Sloan in
Frankenstein (1931)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
with
Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester and Ernest Thesiger 

The Mummy (1932)
with Bramwell Fletcher and Edward Van Sloan


Scarface (1932)

Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)
with Angelo Rossitto

Narrator and Voice of Grinch in
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

Also on this date:

Dominique Dunne was born in 1959

22 November 2021

Jamie Lee Curtis

 On November 22nd, 1958, THE Final Girl was born. 


Jamie Lee Curtis

Halloween (1978) 
with P.J. Soles and Nancy Loomis

Terror Train (1980)
with Vanity

With Tom Atkins in The Fog (1980)

Prom Night (1980)
with Leslie Nielsen
 

Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
with Tommy Lee Wallace

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
with Janet Leigh

Knives Out (2019)