Dan O’Bannon is born in St. Louis in 1946. The screenwriter and director wrote the screenplay for Alien, Lifeforce, and the Invaders from Mars remake, wrote and directed the horror comedy Return of the Living Dead, co-created the animated film Heavy Metal. #halloweeneverynight

Burnt Offerings premieres in New York in 1976. The evil house movie, based on the novel, starred Bette Davis, Oliver Reed, Karen Black and Burgess Meredith. It was the first film shot at The Dunsmuir House in Oakland, California. #halloweeneverynight #burntofferings #BetteDavis #OliverReed

Ed Wood opens in limited release in the U.S. in 1994. The Tim Burton dark comedy biopic of the man often considered to be the world’s worst filmmaker centers mostly on the making of his film Plan 9 From Outer Space. #halloweeneverynight #EdWoods #plan9fromouterspace #martinlandu #belalugosi

Linda Hamilton is born in Salisbury, Maryland in 1956. The actress’ career features theater and voice over work, as well as TV work including Beauty and the Beast and Stranger Things and most famously film work in The Terminator franchise and Children of the Corn. #halloweeneverynight #LindaHamilton

Movie Macabre premieres on KHJ-TV, channel 9 in Los Angeles in 1981. Hosted by the character “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark,” the show typically runs B-movie horror films with Elvira hosting the show and poking fun at the movie throughout the Saturday night broadcast. #halloweeneverynight

Hammer’s The Mummy opens in the U.K. in 1959. The iconic British film company’s version of the monster movie borrows heavily from Universal’s Mummy sequels The Mummy’s Hand, The Mummy’s Tomb and The Mummy’s Ghost, while following very little of the original Mummy plot. #halloweeneverynight #TheMummy

Midnight Mass premieres on Netflix in 2021. Mike Flanagan’s gothic horror mini-series starring Kate Seigel, Hamish Linklater and Henry Thomas uses the vampire genre to create a meditation about religion, faith and addiction. #halloweeneverynight#MikeFlanagan#kateseigel #hamishlinklater #HenryThomas

The Black Death Briefing or the “Terribilis”— autumn 1348 (Sept. 23?) [Edward III tells the Archbishop of Canterbury to instruct the people that plague was coming. #halloweeneverynight #blackplague #plaguedoctor #TheBlackDeath #historical

Seven opens across the U.S. in 1995. David Fincher’s groundbreaking and bleak crime thriller stars Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey and follows two detectives trying to stop a series of murders based on the seven deadly sins. #halloweeneverynight #BradPitt #morganfreeman #DavidFincher

H. G. Wells is born in Bromley, Kent, England in 1866. The prolific writer, futurist and social critic is one of the founding fathers of science fiction. #halloweeneverynight #hgwells #waroftheworlds #islandofdrmoreau #thetimemachine #TheInvisibleMan #theshapeofthingstocome

Angel on My Shoulder opens across the U.S. in 1946. The supernatural drama about deal between a dead man and the devil stars Paul Muni, Claude Rains and Anne Baxter. The film is a success and is remade as a TV movie in 1980. #halloweeneverynight #PaulMuni #ClaudeRains #AnneBaxter #supernatural

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes opens across the U.S. in 1963. The Roger Corman movie stars Ray Milland. American International Pictures released it as a double feature with Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13. #halloweeneverynight #RogerCorman #raymilland #francisfordcoppola #donrickles

The Haunting premieres in New York City in 1963. The creepy and atmospheric haunted-house thriller directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom and Russ Tamblyn, is a moderate success at the time, but has since come to be regarded as a horror classic. #halloweeneverynight

Cassandra Peterson, also known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark is born in Manhattan, Kansas in 1951. After being a Las Vegas showgirl, model, and brief Elvis Presley girlfriend, Peterson becomes Elvira in 1981 on KHJ-TV in Los Angeles. #halloweeneverynight#cassandrapeterson #elviramistressofthedark

The Zombie Survival Guide is published in 2003. Max Brooks’ first book is part sly zombie satire, part disaster preparedness manual. It delights some critics and confounds others, and sells well. #halloweeneverynight #zombies #maxbrooks #zombiesurvivalguide #worldwarz

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is published in 2009. The mashup novel by Ben H. Winters combines Jane Austin’s original narrative with sea monster tropes and is a conceptual follow up to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, released five months earlier by Seth Grahame-Smith. #halloweeneverynight

Sam Neill — is born in Omagh, Northern Ireland in 1947. The actor’s long career includes multiple genres in TV and film, but features notable work in Omen III, Possession, In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon, Snow White: A Tale of Terror #halloweeneverynight #SamNeill #jurrasicpark #eventhorizon

Scooby Doo, Where Are You? premieres on CBS in 1969. The iconic Hanna-Barbera animated mystery comedy used variations of the same plot each episode and ran for two seasons. It was followed by multiple series and films. #halloweeneverynight #scoobydoo #hannabarbera #cbs #donmessick

The Bad Seed opens across the U.S. in 1956. Based on Maxwell Anderson’s play and William March’s novel, Warner Brothers very bad kid movie cleverly avoided being shut down by Hollywood’s then-Production Code by a seeming act of God in the screenplay. #halloweeneverynight #pattymccormack

Kiss of the Vampire opens across the U.S. in 1963. Hammer Films’ intended third Dracula film ultimately is an entertaining, but formula vampire film with no mention of the character, and is a success. #halloweeneverynight #vampires #jenniferdaniel #cliffordevans #noelwillman #edwarddesouza