Welcome to Horror Bites! This is your weekly dose of useless frightening factoids and horror trivia that every fan must know. Each week we will deliver at least one fact a day related to being scared.
February is a remarkably notable month for horror and horror history. You would think that people would be too busy buying their Whitman’s Samplers for their sweethearts on Valentine’s Day. No, this is the perfect time to sink your teeth into the sanguine pleasures of the macabre. It was this week that the only horror film ever to win a Best Picture Oscar® was released. Do you know which one that is? This was also the same week that Universal unleashed Bela Lugosi in the classic monster movie, Dracula in 1931. We can’t forget, too , that beloved actor Lon Chaney Jr. was born this week.
Soak in the Horror Bites today and impress your horror buddies all week long!
February 9
Hannibal, the long-awaited sequel to
Silence of the Lambs was released in 2001
February 10
Lon Chaney, Jr. – Born in 1906
Final Destination 3
Released Theatrically – 2006
February 11
Leslie Nielsen (Prom Night (1980)
and Creepshow (1982)) was born in 1926
February 12
Dracula released theatrically in 1931
February 13
Oliver Reed Born in 1938
What We Do in the Shadows
released in 2015
February 14
The Silence of the Lambs
released theatrically in 1991
February 15
House of the Dead
released theatrically in 2003
Now don’t you feel scarier? There were some great things that happened this week. Leslie Nelson from the amazing Creepshow was born, Ken Russel staple, Oliver Reed (The Devils) was born too. That’s not to mention the ignominious arrival of schlock director, Uwe Boll, with the genuinely bad House of the Dead. February. What a great time for horror.
