William Peter Blatty, the best-selling author and screenwriter who terrified readers and moviegoers with “The Exorcist,” died Thursday, January 12, of multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. He was …
Horror
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Actor George Kosana played the sheriff in the classic zombie movie “Night of the Living Dead.”
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Horror filmmaker known as the Godfather of Gore.
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Marina Malfatti, an Italian actress known best in the U.S. for the 1971 films “The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave” and “The Fourth Victim”
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Angus Scrimm, a character actor best known for playing the frightening “Tall Man” in the “Phantasm” horror films, has died at the age of 89.
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There was more to Boris Karloff than green makeup and grunting…
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Gunnar Hansen, 68, the actor who played terrifying cannibal Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, died at his home in Maine from pancreatic cancer, according to Associated Press.
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When Wes Craven died, fans of the horror genre lost one of the most influential filmmakers ever to scare us sleepless.
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Bela Lugosi didn’t become one of the great legends of Hollywood’s golden age by playing heroes. It was monsters – bloodthirsty, twisted and sometimes tragic monsters – that made him …
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Vincent Price was the suavely menacing star of countless low-budget horror films but Price was much more than a horror movie star …