RIP John Hughes

1950 - 2009

Director of such films as Ferris Bueller's Day Off , Planes, Trains and Automobiles and The Breakfast Club has sadly died. He has also written and produced films such National Lampoon's Vacation, Home Alone and Beethoven.

R.I.P. Kon Ichikawa (1915 - 2008)

Kon Ichikawa, director of film such as The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad and An Actor's Revenge sadly passed away yesterday after complications from pneumonia.

R.I.P. Vampira (1921 - 2008)

Maila Nurmi aka Vampira sadly departed our world on the 10th of January. Nurmi was famed for playing her ghoulish character on her late night TV show The Vampira Show and soon afterwards appearing in a silent role in Edward D. Wood Jr's notorious Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959). Her trademark image has been much imitated most famously by Elvira who she famously tried to sue. Since Plan 9 Nurmi has only appeared in a handful of films her last being in, appropriately, the Ed Wood written I Woke Up Early the Day I Died in 1998. Other on screen appearances have included many documentaries on Ed Wood and cult cinema including one on herself Vampira: the Movie (2006).

Maila Nurmi will be greatly missed.