Cliff Gorman

 Cliff Gorman was Born on October 13th, 1936 in Queens, New YorkCity.

Joel Joshua Goldberg (1936-2002)

William Friedkin’s
The Boys in the Band (1970)

All That Jazz (1979)
with Roy Scheider and John Lithgow

Angel (1984) with Donna Wilkes, Dick Shawn,
Susan Tyrrell and Rory Calhoun

Jim Jarmusch’s
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
with Henry Silva 

Also 

Terrence Malick’s Badlands premiered in 1973 starring Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Novel)

 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was first published on October 12th, 1979. 

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

This first part of a 5 part trilogy was written by Douglas Adams and based on the hugely popular BBC radio series from the year previous.

The Radio Series Cassette set

1981 saw a BBC TV adaptation.

David Dixon and Simon Jones

In 2005 a movie was released.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Also on this date:

Sid Vicious was charged with the murder of Nancy Spungen in 1978

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

On October 11th, 1963 the Twilight Zone episode, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, first aired on CBS. 

Season 5 Episode 3

William Shatner
with Nick Cravat and Christine White

Remakes and Parodies:

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
with John Lithgow

The Simpsons - Terror at 5 1/2 feet (1993)

Anthrax - Video for Inside Out (1998)

“The Scary Door” on Futurama
(I Dated a Robot - 2001)

Nightmare at 30,000 Feet (2019)
with Adam Scott

Also on this date:

Saturday Night (Live) premiered in 1975

Chris Penn

Chris Penn was born on October 10th, 1965 in Los Angeles, California. 

Christopher Shannon Penn (1965-2006)

Rumble Fish (1983)

Footloose (1984)
with Kevin Bacon and John Lithgow 

At Close Range (1986)
with Stephen Geoffrey’s

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

True Romance (1993)
with Gary Oldman 

Also on this date:

Ed Wood was born in 1924

Katt Shea

Katt Shea was born on October 9th, 1959 in Detroit, Michigan. 

Kathleen Ann Shea

Streets (1990)
Writer and Director 

Poison Ivy (1992)
Writer and Director 

The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
Director with 
Emily Bergl and Amy Irving

Also on this date:

Al Jourgensen was born 195

Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver was born on October 8th, 1949 in New York City. 

Susan Alexandra Weaver

Alien (1979) with Yaphet Kotto,
Aliens (1986), Aliens 3 (1992)

Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters (1984) and
Ghostbusters 2 (1989), Ghostbusters (2016)
and Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

The Ice Storm (1997)
with Kevin Kline

Jean-Pierre Juenet’s 
Alien: Resurrection (1997)
with Michael Wincott and Dominique Pinon

Galaxy Quest (1999)

Cabin in the Woods (2012)

Amy Heckerling’s Vamps (2012)
with Alicia Silverstone, Kristen Ritter
and Taylor Negron 

Also on this date:

Sex Pistols sign to EMI in 1967

Tom McBride

Tom McBride was born on October 7th, 1952 in West Virginia. 

Tom McBride (1952-1995)

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
with Amy Steel, Walt Gorney 
and Betsy Palmer

Also on this date:

Dylan Baker was born in 1959

The Addiction

 The Addiction (1995)

dir. Abel Ferrara
written by Abel Ferrara and Nicholas St. John

Released nationwide on October 6th, 1995

A late night convo between
Walken and Taylor

From the controversial director Abel Ferrara who brought us the likes of the cult classic Ms. 45 (1981) and the early slasher The Driller Killer (1979) comes this gritty vampire story set in New York City. The film is shot in black and white and was filmed on location in Manhattan, Greenwich Village and at the New York University.

The Addiction stars Lili Taylor, Edie Falco, Christopher Walken and Annabella Sciorra. Both Walken and Sciorra starred together again in Ferrara's Funeral (1996). Walken had previously worked with him in King of New York (1990). The film itself contains allegories to both addiction and religion, both a recurring theme in Ferrara's work and the vampire genre in general. Whenever I think of this movie the scene that comes to mind is a blood orgy near the end of the film where Lili Taylor regurgitates blood after gorging on too many victims only to go right back at it. The excessive bloodiness in the scene is made that much darker by the fact that it is filmed in black and white.

Relative:

Seven (Technically Nine) Pretty Good Vampire Movies You Might Have Missed

Also on this date:

Britt Ekland was born in 1942