Upcoming Poll schedule for October

Introduction
The golden age of horror films, ushered in by Universal Studios, spawned a quintet of horror icons: Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, and the Creature of the Black Lagoon. These representatives of the fears that lurked in the backs of our minds starred in no less than 19 films and subsequent sequels.

Following this period, when Universal turned their backs on the celluloid demons that promoted a substantial amount of growth for not only the studio but for the film industry itself, the horror film genre would go without champions to defend it. Unless you were a fan of giant bugs, that is.

Then, something happened in 1974, in a little film called "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Then, it happened again four years later in "Halloween." And then the eighties came, bringing with it "Friday the 13th," "A Nightmare on Elm Street," and "Hellraiser." Horror turned to a new crop of ambassadors. Instead of sporting titles like "Dracula," "Monster," "Creature," these bogeymen had mundane names, and could have been your neighbors: "Michael," "Freddy," "Jason" .... uh, "Leather." Where the older guard had spawned a number of sequels, so too did the new blood, to the tune of forty-one films amongst them.

It's time to pit these horror icons against each other, to determine who reigns supreme in the cinematic nightmares of every fan. Every sixth day this month, I'll post up a random match-up, the schedule for which is below.

Oct. 6: Frankenstein's Monster (Boris Karloff, 1932) vs. Pinhead (Doug Bradley, 1987)
Oct. 12: The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr., 1941) vs. Michael Myers (Nick Castle, 1978)
Oct. 18: Dracula (Bela Lugosi, 1932) vs. Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen, 1974)
Oct. 24: The Mummy (Boris Karloff, 1932) vs. Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund, 1984)
Oct. 30: The Creature From The Black Lagoon (Ben Chapman/Ricou Browning, 1954) vs. Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder¹, 1980)

¹In most cases, it was easy to go with the first actor to portray the character, and choose that actor as the definitive model on which to base the monster for each match-up. However, even though Kane Hodder didn't usher in the role of Jason until 1988, he maintained the role for four Friday films - "The New Blood," "Jason Takes Manhattan," "The Final Friday," and "Jason X." I'd call that definitive.