The Blair Witch Project

 On January 25th, 1999 The Blair Witch Project premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. 

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Phantom of the Opera saw an initial premiere on January 7th, 1925 in Los Angeles, California. The audience didn’t react well. A rewrite and reshoot with a different director was received even less favorably the following April. A third and final version was released the following November. 

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

The Rocky production was originally directed by Rupert Julian and stars Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin. Adapted from the Gaston Leroux 1910 novel.

Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin

Lon Chaney’s make-up work

Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told

 On December 24th, 1967 Spider Baby aka Cannibal Orgy aka the Maddest Story Ever Told aka the Liver Eater aka Attack of the Liver Eaters premiered in Corpus Christi, Texas. 

Spider Baby aka…

Written and directed by Jack Hill and starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Carol Ohmart, Beverly Washburn, Jill Banner and Sid Haig.  

Beverly Washburn, Sid Haig, Jill Banner 
and Lon Chaney, Jr.

Carol Ohmart

Sid Haig and Beverly Washburn would work with Jack Hill again in 1969 in Pit Stop. 

Pit Stop (1969)