Best horror films 1941 – 1950 - Charts
Best horror films 1941 – 1950
1. The Portrait (1947)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Jiří Slavíček
Cast: Otomar Krejča st., Luba Skořepová
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman
3. The Body Snatcher (1945)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
4. The Black Cat (1941)
USA, Crime / Comedy
Directed by: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert
5. The Wolf Man (1941)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: George Waggner
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Albert Lewin
Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield
7. Dead of Night (1945)
UK, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton
Cast: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver
8. Phantom of the Opera (1943)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster
9. The Pearl of Death (1944)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
10. I Married a Witch (1942)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: René Clair
Cast: Fredric March, Veronica Lake
11. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
USA, Sci-fi / Fantasy
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles
12. The House of Fear (1945)
USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
14. The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Robert Florey
Cast: Robert Alda, Andrea King
15. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
USA, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: Charles Barton
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
16. Cat People (1942)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith
17. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: James Ellison, Frances Dee
18. The Return of the Vampire (1943)
USA, Horror
Directed by: Lew Landers
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort
19. The Scarlet Claw (1944)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
20. Night Monster (1942)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Ford Beebe
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill
21. The Woman in Green (1945)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
22. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
24. Zombies on Broadway (1945)
USA, Horror / Comedy
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Wally Brown, Alan Carney
25. The Seventh Victim (1943)
USA, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Mark Robson
Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks
26. Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman (1944)
USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
27. Dressed to Kill (1946)
USA, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
28. The Queen of Spades (1949)
UK, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Thorold Dickinson
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans
29. Invisible Agent (1942)
USA, Comedy / Adventure
Directed by: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall
30. Unusual Tales (1949)
France / Belgium, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Jean Faurez
Cast: Jules Berry, Jacques Dufilho
31. House of Frankenstein (1944)
USA, Horror / Fantasy
Directed by: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr.
32. Voodoo Man (1944)
USA, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: William Beaudine
Cast: Bela Lugosi, John Carradine
33. The Ghost Ship (1943)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Mark Robson
Cast: Richard Dix, Russell Wade
34. The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Lon Chaney Jr.
35. Carnival of Sinners (1943)
France, Horror / Fantasy
Directed by: Maurice Tourneur
Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël
36. Bluebeard (1944)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: John Carradine, Jean Parker
37. Invisible Ghost (1941)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Joseph H. Lewis
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young
38. The Uninvited (1944)
USA, Horror / Romance
Directed by: Lewis Allen
Cast: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey
39. The Undying Monster (1942)
USA, Horror
Directed by: John Brahm
Cast: James Ellison, Heather Angel
40. The Amazing Mr. X (1948)
USA, Film-Noir / Horror
Directed by: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari
41. The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Ford Beebe
Cast: Jon Hall, Leon Errol
42. The Leopard Man (1943)
USA, Thriller / Mystery
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo
43. Son of Dracula (1943)
USA, Horror
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton
44. The Ape Man (1943)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: William Beaudine
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie
45. She-Wolf of London (1946)
USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Don Porter, June Lockhart
46. House of Dracula (1945)
USA, Horror
Directed by: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine
47. The Mummy's Curse (1944)
USA, Horror
Directed by: Leslie Goodwins
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Peter Coe
48. King of the Zombies (1941)
USA, Horror / Comedy
Directed by: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury
49. Black Dragons (1942)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: William Nigh
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay
51. Scared to Death (1947)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Christy Cabanne
Cast: Bela Lugosi, George Zucco
52. The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
USA, Horror
Directed by: Reginald Le Borg
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine
53. The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
USA, Horror / Fantasy
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith
54. The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Wallace Fox
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters
55. Fog Island (1945)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Terry O. Morse
Cast: George Zucco, Lionel Atwill