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.