Character actor and venerable genre flick fixture Richard Lynch was found dead at his home yesterday, news broken on Facebook this morning by Rob Zombie, who cast Lynch in his 2007 remake of Halloween and his forthcoming The Lords Of Salem.

“Richard was great to work with and really gave it his all,” Zombie wrote.

“I will never forget the way he scared the crap out of the kid actors in Halloween.” (Accounts of Lynch’s exact age are all over the map, but he was probably in his mid-70s.) After a stint in the Marines, the Brooklyn-born Lynch ...... See Complete Article @ AV Club