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A Double Feature Rated D: "Village of the Damned" and "Day of the Dead"- Tonight!

A fine comedic and dramatic horror actor has left us- Herbert Lom passed away in his sleep at the age of 95. Lom is usually associated with his role as the Paris police inspector who was driven to insanity by the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, played by the great Peter Sellers- but he has an honored place in the halls of horror for his work as “the Phantom of the Opera” in Hammer Studios’ 1962 version of the classic-and he also portrayed the vampire hunter Van Helsing in Hammer’s 1970 “Count Dracula” featuring Christopher Lee as the undead bloodsucker. He’s appeared on our show as Captain Nemo in “Mysterious Island” ,“Asylum”, and a 1989 version of “Masque of the Red Death”. While he...