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R.I.P.: Max von Sydow has passed away at age 90

Posted 6 years ago

We have some sad news to report this morning, as the family of Swedish actor Max von Sydow has announced that he passed away yesterday, March 8th, at the age of 90. After starting a theatre club in high school,...

R.I.P. Brazilian horror legend Jose Mojica Marins, Coffin Joe

Posted 6 years ago

I spend half of every year in Brazil, and if you're someone who has an interest in both Brazil and the horror genre, the work of José Mojica Marins is unavoidable. Mojica (they call him Mojica instead of Marins) is...

R.I.P. Kevin Conway of Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse

Posted 6 years ago

Actor Kevin Conway had 80 screen credits to his name, appearing with the likes of Sylvester Stallone in F.I.S.T. and PARADISE ALLEY, Kevin Costner in THIRTEEN DAYS, Bruce Willis in MERCURY RISING, Chevy Chase in FUNNY FARM, Michael Keaton in...

R.I.P. Dyanne Thorne, star of Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS

Posted 6 years ago

We've lost one of the grindhouse / drive-in era's most popular icons, as the sad word has come out that actress Dyanne Thorne passed away on January 28th. Born in Greenwich, Connecticut in either 1936 or 1943 (there seems to...

R.I.P. Slaughter High director George Dugdale, husband of Caroline Munro

Posted 6 years ago

We have some sad news to share today, as genre icon Caroline Munro has informed her fans that her husband George Dugdale passed away on January 14th.  Munro has packed a lot of memorable work into a career that has...

R.I.P.: Virginia Leith of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die

Posted 7 years ago

Virginia Leith didn't do a ton of acting during her twenty-seven years in the film industry, and hadn't done any screen acting at all in the last thirty-nine years, but she did work on some notable projects. She made her...

R.I.P.: Robert Forster has passed away at age 78

Posted 7 years ago

Sad news broke over the weekend with the announcement that prolific actor Robert Forster passed away on Friday, October 11th, after a short battle with brain cancer. The day he passed away also happened to be the same day his...

R.I.P. Filmmaker and FX artist Ryan Nicholson

Posted 7 years ago

I remember being on Facebook a few years ago when the news broke that filmmaker / special effects artist Ryan Nicholson had collapsed right after a project he was working on wrapped. As it turned out, that incident was the...

R.I.P.: Sid Haig has passed away at the age of 80

Posted 7 years ago

Cinema has lost one of its coolest character actors, as this morning brings the said news that the great Sid Haig has passed away at the age of 80. Haig's wife Susan posted on his official Instagram page that he...

R.I.P.: Lane Carroll of Romero’s The Crazies has passed away

Posted 7 years ago

Lane Carroll only had four acting roles over the course of a career that lasted about eight years, but each of those roles were notable in some way. Under the name Holle K. Winters, she worked with Russ Meyer on...

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