BORN ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – APRIL 12

1994 – Saoirse Ronan, appeared in “Lost River”, “The Host” and “Byzantium.”
1979 – Jennifer Morrison, best known as “Doctor Allison Cameron” on “House. She also appeared in the 2009 remake of “Star Trek,” “Stir of Echoes” and provided the voice of “The Wasp” in the “Super Hero Squad” animated series. She currently stars in “Once Upon a Time (TV Series).”
1974 – Marley Shelton, who played F.B.I. special agent “Rachel Young” on the short lived series “Eleventh Hour” and “Victoria Winters” on the short lived remake of “Dark Shadows.” She also appeared in the Grindhouse double feature “Planet Terror” and “Death Proof.”
1971 – Shannen Doherty, best known for her role as “Brenda Walsh” on “Beverly Hills 90210.” She starred in the remake of the TV movie “Satan’s School For Girls,” and as the original host of the Syfy channel series “Scare Tactics.”
1971 – Nicholas Brendon, who starred as “Xander Harris” in the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV series. He also appeared in the films “Demon Island” and “Psycho Beach Party.”
1951 – Tom Noonan who appeared in “House of the Devil,” “The Wolfen,” ” Eight Legged Freaks,” “Robocop 2,” and as the “Frankenstein Monster” in “The Monster Squad.”
1936 – Charles Napier whose numerous film appearances included “Deep Space,” “Silence of the Lambs,” “Body Bags” and “Dinocroc.”

Saoirse Ronan

Jennifer Morrison

Shannen Doherty

Nicholas Brendan

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DIED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – APRIL 12

2010 – Peter Haskell, appeared in “Robot Wars”, “Child’s Play 2&3”, “The Outer Limits (TV Series)” and more. He was 75.
2009 – Fumio Tanaka, who produced the films “Godzilla 1985,” “Yog, Monster From Space” and “Evil of Dracula,” passed away at the age of 67.
2007 – Robert Miles who appeared in “Snake Island,” and performed the stunts in the films “The Slime People” and “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers,” passed away at the age of 79.
2003 – Sydney Lassick, who appeared in the films “Carrie,” “An American Vampire Story,” and “Future Shock,” passed away at the age of 80.
2001 – Richard Shores, who co-starred in the TV movie “Mystery in Dracula’s Castle” and in episodes of “The Twilight Zone” and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” passed away at the age of 83.

Peter Haskell

FILMS RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY – APRIL 12

Dr. Cyclops 1940
Black Friday 1940
House of Seven Gables 1940
Dead Men Walk 1943
Jack and the Beanstalk 1952
Cape Fear 1962
Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
Cat’s Eye 1985
Ladyhawke 1985
Fear 1996
Class of Nuke ‘Em High II: Subhumaniod Meltdown 1991
Frailty 2002
Street Tales of Terror 2004
Cave Women on Mars 2008