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R.I.P.: Julie Strain, B-movie legend and Penthouse Pet, has died at age 58

Posted 6 years ago

Last January, it was mistakenly announced that B-movie legend and 1993 Penthouse Pet of the Year Julie Strain had passed away. The announcement was quickly retracted – but in a sad twist of fate, friends and family are confirming that...

R.I.P.: Carmine Capobianco, star of Psychos in Love, has passed away

Posted 6 years ago

The name Carmine Capobianco may not be immediately familiar to a lot of horror fans, and to be honest I wasn't familiar with it myself before I walked into a Q&A with the man at the Cinema Wasteland convention in...

R.I.P.: Barbara Shelley, Hammer horror star, has passed away at age 88

Posted 6 years ago

Too often these days, we have to share the sad news that the horror genre has lost another one of its icons. The news broke this week that Barbara Shelley, known as "The First Leading Lady of British Horror", has...

R.I.P.: Tanya Roberts of Tourist Trap and The Beastmaster has passed away

Posted 6 years ago

UPDATE: A phone call from the hospital informing Tanya Roberts' longtime boyfriend Lance O'Brien that she was still alive gave us a few extra hours of hope, but now it has been confirmed that Roberts has passed away. Despite some...

R.I.P.: Day of the Dead’s Gary Klar has passed away at age 73

Posted 6 years ago

The George A. Romero Foundation has confirmed that 2020 took one last genre star from us in its final hours, as Day of the Dead cast member Gary Klar passed away on December 31st after a battle with ALS. He...

R.I.P.: David Giler, Alien franchise writer/producer, has passed away

Posted 6 years ago

Earlier this year, we heard the intriguing news that Alien producers Walter Hill and David Giler had written a 50 page treatment for a sequel that would bring Sigourney Weaver back to the series and tell a scary story while...

Hugh Keays-Byrne: R.I.P. Mad Max’s Toecutter, Fury Road’s Immortan Joe

Posted 6 years ago

Hugh Keays-Byrne had a screen acting career that lasted around fifty years, and in that time he earned over fifty credits, including on Australian cult classics Stone, The Man from Hong Kong (a.k.a. The Dragon Flies), and Mad Dog Morgan –...

R.I.P. Daria Nicolodi: Argento collaborator, Italian genre icon passed away

Posted 6 years ago

On Wednesday we were discussing the 1977 horror classic SUSPIRIA here on Arrow in the Head, and in a sad coincidence the film's co-writer Daria Nicolodi passed away soon after. Nicolodi's daughter Asia Argento announced the passing of her mother...

R.I.P.: Ken Jones, Phantasm caretaker and sphere victim, has passed away

Posted 6 years ago

Although Kenneth V. Jones (usually credited as Ken Jones) only had three screen acting credits to his name, one of the roles he took on did make quite an impact. Genre fans might not have known his name off the...

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