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27/05/2025

comedic actor 🕯 Perhaps best known for his role as beloved barpatron "Norm Peterson" on the hit '80s sitcom CHEERS. Wendt was also actor ' uncle.

● Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982)
● Ghostbusters (1984, official music video) (uncredited)
● Fred Dekker's HOUSE (1985)
● The Twilight Zone (1985 – 1989) (1 episode)
● Tales from the Crypt (1989 – 1996) (1 episode)

● Welcome to Planet Earth (Alien Avengers, 1996)
● Aliens Among Us (Alien Avengers II, 1997)
● Masters of Horror (2005 – 2007) (1 episode)
● Family (2006, short film)
● Bliss (2019)

30/04/2025

Rest in Peace, actress PRISCILLA POINTER (1924 – 2025) 🕯

● Carrie (1976)
● Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
● Mommie Dearest (1981)
● The Mysterious Two (1982)

● Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
● Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories (1985 – 1987) (2 episodes)
● David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986)
● A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
● Rumpelstiltskin (1987)

● C.H.U.D. II (1989)
● Disturbed (1990)
● The Flash (1990 – 1991) (3 episodes)
● Twilight Zone: Lost Classics (1994)
● The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) (archive footage, uncredited)

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3866312/carrie-dream-warriors-actress-priscilla-pointer-has-passed-away-at-100/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ-kjJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFST21ycGw0WE1wVnF4SDgzAR6DYCrxtT3ukxtkHjbqor0Ga-khnyZ-YusAVh-5Pvsd_BX72c1zRJl1MdL-Vw_aem_kzyQZYjtasusckI53ydy_w

Actress Priscilla Pointer has passed away. She died in her sleep yesterday, April 28, at the age of 100 — and just three weeks shy of her 101st birthday.

21/03/2025

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● Vice Squad (1982)
● Deadly Force (1983)
● Mutant (Night Shadows, 1984)

● The Wind (1986)
● Nightmare at Noon (1988)
● The Carpenter (1988)

● Bedroom Eyes II (1989)
● Freddy's Nightmares (1988 – 1990) (1 episode)
● Street Asylum (1990)

● Pale Blood (1990)
● BeastMaster 2 (1991)
● Mind, Body & Soul (1992)

● Watchers III (1994)
● Tales from the Hood (1995)
● Victim of Desires (1995)

Wings Hauser, the character actor known for his work in "The Young and the Restless" and "Vice Squad," has died. He was 78.

20/03/2025

Teaser trailer for THE TOXIC AVENGER (2025)
Starring as Toxie

12/03/2025

Remembering star of:

12/03/2025

TRIVIA TIDBIT: WHO IS “THE SHAPE” IN JOHN CARPENTER’S THE THING? https://robertvgalluzzo.com/trivia-tidbit-who-is-the.../

TRIVIA TIDBIT: WHO IS “THE SHAPE” IN JOHN CARPENTER’S THE THING? https://robertvgalluzzo.com/trivia-tidbit-who-is-the-shape-in-john-carpenters-the-thing/

05/03/2025

On his birthday, we'd like to take a moment to remember Gunnar Hansen, the actor behind the original Leatherface in Tobe Hooper's 1974 TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE.

An icon of the genre, forever.

27/02/2025

Legendary actor 🕯

● Ride with Terror (1963)
● Lilith (1964)
● The Invaders (1967 – 1968) (1 episode)
● Marooned (1969)
(1971)
● Prime Cut (1972)

(1972)
● The Conversation (1974)
(1974)
● Night Movies (1975)
● French Connection II (1975)
(1978)

● Superman II (1980)
● The Firm (1993)
● The True Story of (1994, archive footage)
● The Quick and the Dead (1995)
(1995)
(1996)

(1997)
● Twilight (The Magic Hour, 1998)
(1998)
● Under Suspicion (2000)
(2001)
● Superman II: (2006)

BREAKING: Gene Hackman, the prolific and versatile two-time Oscar-winning actor whose career spanned five decades, has died at 95 after he and his wife were found dead in their home Wednesday afternoon. https://abcnews.link/LKjuAad

22/02/2025

Phantasm star Reggie Bannister is sadly entering hospice care, and would like to hear from his Phans.

Lets send Reggie some love and appreciation to the address below.
REGGIE BANNISTER
PO Box 4387
Crestline, CA 92325

We Love You, Reg.

PHANTASM star Reggie Bannister has entered hospice care, and would like to hear from his Phans. Here's how you can write to him and send him some love.

09/02/2025

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●Rod Serling's Night Gallery (1969 – 1973) (1 episode)
●Serpico (1973)
●The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (1974)
●Amityville 3-D (Amityville III: The Demon, 1983)
●Popcorn 1991
●Law & Order (1990– ) (5 episodes)

14/01/2025

29/12/2024

Rest in Peace, 🕯
● BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)
● JESUS OF NAZARETH (1977)
● AGATHA CHRISTIE's DEATH ON THE NILE (1978)
● THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1978)

● VIRUS (1980)
● DISTORTIONS (1988)
● PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING (1990)
● STEPHEN KING's IT (1990)

Olivia Hussey Eisley, who starred in 1968's 'Romeo and Juliet' and the seminal 1974 slasher 'Black Christmas,' has died at age 73.