Let's make this birthday one to remember.

73 years old (Born on December 27, 1951)

Happy Birthday, Charles Band! May your day be as wonderfully eerie and entertainingly twisted as the films you've gifted us. From breathing delightful madness into "Re-Animator," making Bruce Abbott face bizarre horrors with comedic charm—your creative genius continues to keep audiences glued (and sometimes spooked stiff) year after delightfully macabre year.

Here's to celebrating another round of irresistibly strange puppets, reanimated corpses, and cinematic oddities that only you can conjure up so masterfully. Keep weaving dread-filled magic on screen; you're proof we should never underestimate how much fun it is being just a little terrified!

Cheers to many more beautifully creepy birthdays ahead!