Over at the Classic Horror Film Boards (no relation to Classic-Horror.com), Tom Weaver reported that Ben Chapman, the actor who performed as the Creature in the on-land sequences of Creature from the Black Lagoon , died this morning (Febru ...

Blog entry - Nate Yapp - 2008-02-21 11:46 - 5 comments

Special effects guru Stan Winston passed away Sunday, June 15th, 2008, at age 62, after a long struggle with multiple myeloma. Winston straddled the worlds of makeup and visual effects, contributing to such horror films as Dead & Bu ...

Blog entry - Nate Yapp - 2008-06-16 15:43 - 0 comments

Word came in from Jim Clatterbaugh over on the Classic Horror Film Board (no relation to Classic-Horror.com) that Hazel Court , a actress who added so much to the horror genre in the course of her career, passed on this morning, April 15th ...

Blog entry - Nate Yapp - 2008-04-15 16:55 - 0 comments

Roy Scheider, the actor who famously exclaimed "We're gonna need a bigger boat" in Jaws (1975), died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital. He was 75 years old. The cause of death has not been disclo ...

Blog entry - Nate Yapp - 2008-02-11 10:42 - 0 comments

As you likely know by now, Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira the first television horror host, passed away January 10, 2008 of natural causes. Although she gave much to the horror community -- if the invention of the late night horror host concept wasn't enough, ...

Blog entry - Nate Yapp - 2008-01-25 23:41 - 0 comments