Horror 1930-1960
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1. The Vampire (1957)
Approved | 75 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A kind, small-town doctor mistakenly injests pills made from vampire bat blood and they turn him into a dangerous fanged creature
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey, Lydia Reed
Votes: 846
2. The Return of Dracula (1958)
PG | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Francis Lederer, Norma Eberhardt, Ray Stricklyn, John Wengraf
Votes: 1 062
3. Voodoo Woman (1957)
Approved | 75 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Deep in the jungles a mad scientist is using the natives' voodoo for his experiments to create an indestructible being to serve his will. When a party of gold seekers stumbles upon his ... See full summary »
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Marla English, Tom Conway, Mike Connors, Lance Fuller
Votes: 365
4. The Devil's Hand (1961)
Approved | 71 min | Horror
A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a Satanic cult.
Director: William J. Hole Jr. | Stars: Linda Christian, Robert Alda, Ariadne Welter, Neil Hamilton
Votes: 981
5. Voodoo Island (1957)
Approved | 76 min | Horror
A wealthy industrialist hires the renowned hoax-buster Phillip Knight to prove that an island he plans to develop isn't voodoo cursed. However, arriving on the island, Knight soon realizes ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Murvyn Vye, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 717
6. Nabonga (1944)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure
When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Fifi D'Orsay, Barton MacLane, Julie London
Votes: 396
7. Jungle Woman (1944)
Approved | 61 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Paula the ape woman (Acquanetta) is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish), also reverting to her true gorilla form ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, Samuel S. Hinds, Lois Collier
Votes: 302
8. Ghost Ship (1952)
Approved | 74 min | Horror
A luxury ship is haunted by the ghosts of a crew that had disappeared off the ship years before.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden, John Robinson
Votes: 368
9. The Undying Monster (1942)
Not Rated | 63 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard, Bramwell Fletcher
Votes: 1 013
10. The Disembodied (1957)
Not Rated | 66 min | Horror
A photographer on an expedition in the jungle runs afoul of a voodoo cult.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Paul Burke, Allison Hayes, John Wengraf, Eugenia Paul
Votes: 226
11. The Hypnotic Eye (1960)
Approved | 79 min | Horror
A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police for being responsible for a wave of female mutilation victims.
Director: George Blair | Stars: Jacques Bergerac, Merry Anders, Marcia Henderson, Allison Hayes
Votes: 578
12. From Hell It Came (1957)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump.
Director: Dan Milner | Stars: Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins, John McNamara
Votes: 1 142
13. Teenage Monster (1958)
Approved | 65 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Western
In 1880 a young boy is exposed to the effects of a meteor and becomes an ugly killer monster, as his mother hides him in her new house and tries to stop his killing.
Director: Jacques R. Marquette | Stars: Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Castillo, Chuck Courtney
Votes: 276
14. Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954)
Approved | 64 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Julie, an American on vacation in Mexico, spots a giant, one-eyed amoeba rising from the ocean, but when she tries to tell the authorities, no one believes her. She finally teams up with a marine biologist in an attempt to destroy it.
Director: Wyott Ordung | Stars: Anne Kimbell, Stuart Wade, Dick Pinner, Wyott Ordung
Votes: 467 | Gross: $0.12M
15. Day the World Ended (1955)
Approved | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In a post-Apocalyptic world after an atomic war seven disparate people find themselves in a protected valley in the home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Mike Connors
Votes: 1 630
16. Murder at Dawn (1932)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Josephine Dunn, Jack Mulhall, Eddie Boland, Marjorie Beebe
Votes: 92
17. The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Horror, Romance
Edward Jekyll, ignorant of how his father had brought forth death and destruction with his experiments, is pursuing a chemist career despite the fact that he has been discharged from school... See full summary »
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Louis Hayward, Jody Lawrance, Alexander Knox, Lester Matthews
Votes: 228
18. The Witching Hour (1934)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Guy Standing, John Halliday, William Frawley, Judith Allen
Votes: 74
19. The Maze (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he ... See full summary »
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery, Michael Pate
Votes: 820
20. Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A young woman raised by gypsies hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to protect.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen, Blanche Yurka
Votes: 549
21. The Mad Butcher (1971)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills ... See full summary »
Director: Guido Zurli | Stars: Victor Buono, Franca Polesello, Brad Harris, Dario Michaelis
Votes: 327
22. Blood of Dracula (1957)
Approved | 69 min | Horror
Under hypnosis, a young woman turns into a vampire.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Sandra Harrison, Louis Fitch, Gail Ganley, Jerry Blaine
Votes: 766
23. House of the Black Death (1965)
GP | 89 min | Horror
Two brothers, both of whom are warlocks, use their powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune.
Directors: Harold Daniels, Reginald Le Borg, Jerry Warren | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Andrea King, Tom Drake
Votes: 150
24. Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
Unrated | 93 min | Horror
The promotion announced that this film was released in "Hypnovision" which gives an idea of the story. A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotises ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow, Shirley Anne Field
Votes: 993
25. Curse of the Undead (1959)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
B-grade western with a twist: mysterious gunslinger-for-hire Drake Robey is really a vampire, and it's up to Preacher Dan to save the town and girlfriend Dolores Carter.
Director: Edward Dein | Stars: Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley, John Hoyt
Votes: 659
26. The Living Ghost (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with apparent brain damage, ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: James Dunn, Joan Woodbury, Paul McVey, Vera Gordon
Votes: 459
27. The Creeper (1948)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Horror
A man is turned into a "catlike" killer by means of a serum invented by a crazed scientist.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Eduardo Ciannelli, Onslow Stevens, June Vincent, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 154
28. Panic in Year Zero (1962)
Approved | 93 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A family leaves L.A. for a camping trip - just before a nuclear bomb destroys the city. As the city descends into chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive.
Director: Ray Milland | Stars: Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchel
Votes: 3 414
29. The Man Without a Body (1957)
Unrated | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A wealthy business man discovers he has a brain tumor and seeks medical help. The business man finds a scientist experimenting with transplanting monkey heads on different monkey bodies. ... See full summary »
Directors: Charles Saunders, W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Robert Hutton, George Coulouris, Julia Arnall, Nadja Regin
Votes: 246
30. Crypt of the Vampire (1964)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
Count Karnstein sends for a doctor to help his sick daughter Laura. Her nurse believes she is possessed by the spirit of a dead ancestor, Carmilla. A young woman becomes intrigued by the ... See full summary »
Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Christopher Lee, Adriana Ambesi, Ursula Davis, José Campos
Votes: 602
31. My World Dies Screaming (1958)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.
Director: Harold Daniels | Stars: Gerald Mohr, Cathy O'Donnell, William Ching, John Qualen
Votes: 490
32. Phantom Ship (1935)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
Director: Denison Clift | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey, Arthur Margetson, Edmund Willard
Votes: 617
33. The Jungle Captive (1945)
Approved | 63 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Once again, Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman, is brought back to life, this time by a mad scientist and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps his female lab assistant in order to have a ... See full summary »
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Otto Kruger, Vicky Lane, Amelita Ward, Phil Brown
Votes: 263
34. The Monkey's Paw (1933)
Passed | 58 min | Horror
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son--a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.
Directors: Wesley Ruggles, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Ivan F. Simpson, Louise Carter, C. Aubrey Smith, Bramwell Fletcher
Votes: 67
35. The Three Weird Sisters (1948)
Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Drama
A secretary suspects that her employer's three elderly sisters are plotting to kill him after he announces he'll no longer finance their philanthropic endeavors.
Director: Daniel Birt | Stars: Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall, Nova Pilbeam
Votes: 113
36. The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 423
37. Woman Who Came Back (1945)
Approved | 68 min | Horror, Mystery
After a bus accident, a woman comes to believe that she's actually a 300-year-old witch.
Director: Walter Colmes | Stars: John Loder, Nancy Kelly, Otto Kruger, Ruth Ford
Votes: 252
38. The Hidden Hand (1942)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Willie Best
Votes: 336
39. The Mysterious Doctor (1943)
Approved | 57 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: John Loder, Eleanor Parker, Bruce Lester, Lester Matthews
Votes: 470
40. Pharaoh's Curse (1957)
Approved | 66 min | Horror
Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse by entering a Pharaoh's tomb.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Mark Dana, Ziva Rodann, Diane Brewster, George N. Neise
Votes: 494
41. Behind the Mask (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An undercover Federal officer serving time in prison fakes his escape in order to infiltrate a heroin smuggling ring.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Jack Holt, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff, Claude King
Votes: 200
42. The Ghost of Rashmon Hall (1948)
52 min | Horror
A doctor is summoned to an old dark house to rid it of evil spirits.
Director: Denis Kavanagh | Stars: Valentine Dyall, Anne Howard, Alec Faversham, Howard Douglas
Votes: 83
43. The Man in Black (1949)
80 min | Thriller
A yogi seemingly dies while simulating death and his evil second wife, and her daughter, try to force his daughter into insanity for control of his estate.
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Betty Ann Davies, Sheila Burrell, Sidney James, Anthony Forwood
Votes: 195
44. Things Happen at Night (1948)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Horror
A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon.
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Gordon Harker, Alfred Drayton, Robertson Hare, Gwyneth Vaughan
Votes: 139
45. The Headless Ghost (1959)
Not Rated | 62 min | Comedy, Horror
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their bit to help him find it.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Richard Lyon, Liliane Sottane, David Rose, Clive Revill
Votes: 213
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