Happy Birthday, Monica Bellucci

"We all need illusions. That's why we love movies."

The stunning Italian actress and fashion model turns 47 today.

Bram Stoker's Dracula photoshoot

Vanity Fair 1992, by Helmut Newton

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by Helmut Newton

with husband Vincent Cassel

Angel of Vengeance

Zoë Lund in a promotional still from Abel Ferrara's rape revenger Ms. 45 (1981)

Birthday Teese

"I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute."

Model and fashion icon Dita Von Teese turns 39 today.

Purrfection.

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Shear Horror

Brigitte Lahaie and victim

in a promotional still from Jess Franco's Faceless (1988)

 

Seven days of the weak

promo for Jörg (Nekromantik) Buttgereit's bleak, but surprisingly thoughtful

Der Todesking aka The Death King (1990)

The Sunday Funnies

Something for the blunted

To know death you must fuck life in the gall bladder!

promotional still from Paul Morrissey's Flesh For Frankenstein (1974)

Leave something witchy

still from Jim Van Bebber's highly ambitious self-produced opus The Manson Family (2003)

(working title "Charlie's Family")

Fiction is the truth inside the lie

 

"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader.

But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify,

and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."

 

                                          author Stephen King celebrates his 64th birthday today

Pretending to be alive

"Big Daddy" in a still from George A. Romero's Land Of The Dead (2005)

Keep Repeating, It's Only A Promo

ad for Wes Craven's infamous Last House On The Left (1972)

Star David Hess turns 69 today.

Wandering on the moors

promotional still from Hammer Film's exceptional The Plague Of The Zombies (1966)

Happy Birthday, Elvira

Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark celebrates her 60th birthday today.

A few mid 70s nude layouts would prove the temptress a natural redhead and one of

the most gorgeous women in existence if I have my say.  And I do; hence this blog :)

Grab a tool and start banging.