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Fifty years ago today William Castle's B-movie classic House on Haunted Hill made its premiere. As with other Castle films, House on Haunted Hill featured one of Castle's wacky, ingenious showman gimmicks. In this instance the gimmick was called "Emergo" and consisted of an inflatable skeleton being hauled over the audience's heads by a pulley ( Read more... )

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Happy Birthday to actor Jonathan Frid, who turns 84-years-old today! Frid is primarily known for his role as the vampire Barnabas Collins on the popular 1960s Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. The show had suffered from weak ratings until it began to dabble with supernatural elements. The introduction of ghosts into the plot generated a little ( Read more... )

The famed Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, New York is the site of a rather unusual milestone late this evening.  On November 30, 1989 at around approximately 3:00 A.M. EST, a couple of people on the bridge witnessed what they thought at the time was the making of a new Hollywood Sci-Fi movie.  They described seeing a bright light hovering in the ( Read more... )

On November 22, 1958, Jamie Lee Curtis was born to Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. A child of actors, it seemed fairly natural that she followed them in their footsteps. After appearances on various television movies and series, she landed her first feature film role in 1978. That April, she headed to South Pasadena to film a low-budget horror film ( Read more... )

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Happy Birthday to Betsy Palmer. The actress turns 82 today on All Saints Day. Betsy has been acting in films since the 1950s and continues to work; acting in last year's Bell Witch: The Movie, another movie based on the stories of the Bell Witch in Tennessee.

However, Betsy is most often remembered for her role as Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th ( Read more... )

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