Best horror films 1931 – 1940 - Charts
Best horror films 1931 – 1940
1. The Invisible Man (1933)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: James Whale
Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart
3. King Kong (1933)
USA, Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
4. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: James Whale
Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins
7. Vampyr (1932)
German Empire / France, Fantasy / Horror
Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Julian West, Maurice Schutz
10. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Richard Greene, Basil Rathbone
11. Son of Frankenstein (1939)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff
13. The Cat and the Canary (1939)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard
15. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
USA, Adventure / Horror
Directed by: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen
16. Werewolf of London (1935)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Stuart Walker
Cast: Henry Hull, Warner Oland
17. Dracula (1931)
USA, Horror / Drama
Directed by: George Melford, Enrique Tovar Ávalos
Cast: Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton
19. Mark of the Vampire (1935)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Tod Browning
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan
20. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
USA, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Joe May
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price
21. Dracula's Daughter (1936)
USA, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Lambert Hillyer
Cast: Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden
22. The Black Cat (1934)
USA, Horror / Crime
Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
23. The Walking Dead (1936)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez
24. The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
UK, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee
25. Der Hund von Baskerville (1937)
German Empire, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Karel Lamač
Cast: Peter Voß, Fritz Odemar
26. Dr. Cyclops (1940)
USA, Adventure / Sci-fi
Directed by: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast: Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley
27. The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
USA, Adventure / Horror
Directed by: Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor
Cast: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone
28. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray
29. The Black Room (1935)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh
31. The Ghost Breakers (1940)
USA, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: George Marshall
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard
32. The Phantom of the Monastery (1934)
Mexico, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: Fernando de Fuentes
Cast: Victorio Blanco, Paco Martínez
33. The Human Monster (1939)
UK, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Walter Summers
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams
34. The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Nick Grinde
Cast: Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray
35. The Invisible Ray (1936)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Lambert Hillyer
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
38. The Mummy's Hand (1940)
USA, Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by: Christy Cabanne
Cast: Dick Foran, Peggy Moran
40. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Robert Florey
Cast: Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi
41. The Son of Kong (1933)
USA, Horror / Action
Directed by: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Cast: Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack
42. The Black Camel (1931)
USA, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: Hamilton MacFadden
Cast: Warner Oland, Sally Eilers
43. The Golem (1936)
France / Czechoslovakia, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Harry Baur, Roger Karl
44. The Return of Doctor X (1939)
USA, Thriller / Mystery
Directed by: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane
45. Night of Terror (1933)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Benjamin Stoloff
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford
47. The Invisible Woman (1940)
USA, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore
48. The Devil Bat (1940)
USA, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren
49. The Old Dark House (1932)
USA, Horror / Comedy
Directed by: James Whale
Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas
50. The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)
USA, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: William Nigh
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford
52. Phantom Ship (1935)
UK, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Denison Clift
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey
53. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
UK, Crime / Horror
Directed by: George King
Cast: Tod Slaughter, Bruce Seton
55. The Vampire Bat (1933)
USA, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Frank R. Strayer
Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray
56. Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
USA, Horror
Directed by: Victor Halperin
Cast: Dean Jagger, Roy D'Arcy