Happy Birthday, Kevin Yagher

Wishing Kevin Yagher a happy birthday today, he turns 59. Kevin is the excellent and immensely talented special effects artist who created the iconic design of the Crypt Keeper puppet which instantly became one of Horror's most recognizable faces, and for many children back in the day was their worst nightmare. Besides Crypty, he's also done excellent and exceptional effects work over the years on scores of other films and characters, including Chucky and Freddy Krueger (in Nightmare On Elm Street parts 2-4). The Crypt Keeper is perhaps arguably his crowning achievement which given his impressive body of work is no small feat. He's also a talented director, having directed Lower Berth and Strung Along from TFTC, which are both classic episodes. Here's to him being in excellent health and with us for decades more creating more iconic genre characters.