Best horror films 1951 – 1960 - Charts
Best horror films 1951 – 1960
1. Psycho (1960)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles
2. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
USA, Sci-fi / Thriller
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Cast: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart
3. Diabolique (1955)
France, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Don Siegel
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter
5. Sudden Fear (1952)
USA, Film-Noir / Horror
Directed by: David Miller
Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance
6. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
UK, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, André Morell
8. House of Usher (1960)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Mark Damon
10. House of Wax (1953)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: André De Toth
Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy
11. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
UK, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court
12. Horror of Dracula (1958)
UK, Horror
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
14. Peeping Tom (1960)
UK, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Michael Powell
Cast: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer
15. The City of the Dead (1960)
UK, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey
Cast: Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee
16. Curse of the Demon (1957)
UK, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins
17. The Fly (1958)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Kurt Neumann
Cast: David Hedison, Patricia Owens
18. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
UK, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews
19. Village of the Damned (1960)
UK, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Wolf Rilla
Cast: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley
20. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
USA, Adventure / Horror
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Cast: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams
21. The Housemaid (1960)
South Korea, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Ki-young Kim
Cast: Seong-gi Ahn, Eun-shim Lee
22. The Tingler (1959)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: William Castle
Cast: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn
23. The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus (1960)
France / Italy, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Georges Franju
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob
25. The Bad Seed (1956)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack
27. Black Cat Mansion (1958)
Japan, Horror
Directed by: Nobuo Nakagawa
Cast: Toshio Hosokawa, Fujie Satsuki
28. The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)
Japan, Horror
Directed by: Nobuo Nakagawa
Cast: Shigeru Amachi, Katsuko Wakasugi
29. Enemy from Space (1957)
UK, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Val Guest
Cast: Brian Donlevy, John Longden
30. The Sinners of Hell (1960)
Japan, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Nobuo Nakagawa
Cast: Yôichi Numata, Shigeru Amachi
31. The Black Castle (1952)
USA, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Nathan Juran
Cast: Richard Greene, Boris Karloff
32. The Black Sleep (1956)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Reginald Le Borg
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff
33. A Bucket of Blood (1959)
USA, Horror / Comedy
Directed by: Roger Corman
Cast: Dick Miller, Antony Carbone
34. The White Reindeer (1952)
Finland, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Erik Blomberg
Cast: Mirjami Kuosmanen, Kalervo Nissilä
35. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
USA, Comedy / Horror
Directed by: Roger Corman
Cast: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph
36. The Brides of Dracula (1960)
UK, Horror
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, David Peel
37. Jekyll's Inferno (1960)
UK, Horror
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Cast: Christopher Lee, David Kossoff
38. The Vampire (1957)
Mexico, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Fernando Méndez
Cast: Ariadne Welter, José Chávez
39. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
UK / USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Val Guest
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Margia Dean
40. Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
Italy / France, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Giorgio Ferroni
Cast: Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel
41. The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
UK, Horror
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Cast: Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson
42. I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Gene Fowler Jr.
Cast: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott
43. I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Gene Fowler Jr.
Cast: Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime
44. Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)
Mexico, Fantasy / Horror
Directed by: Fernando Méndez
Cast: Carolina Barret, Antonio Raxel
45. The Undead (1957)
USA, Horror / Fantasy
Directed by: Roger Corman
Cast: Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland
46. The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
UK, Horror
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Cast: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court
47. The Terrible People (1960)
West Germany, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Harald Reinl
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor
48. The Black Scorpion (1957)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Edward Ludwig
Cast: Richard Denning, Mara Corday
49. The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (1959)
France, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault, Michel Vitold
50. The Snorkel (1958)
UK, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Guy Green
Cast: Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John
51. Man in the Attic (1953)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Hugo Fregonese
Cast: Jack Palance, Constance Smith
52. The Ghost Cat of Otam-ag-Ike (1960)
Japan, Horror
Directed by: Yoshihiro Ishikawa
Cast: Yôichi Numata
53. Lake of the Dead (1958)
Norway, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Kåre Bergstrøm
Cast: Henki Kolstad, Henny Moan
54. The Vampire's Coffin (1957)
Mexico, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Fernando Méndez
Cast: Carlos Robles Gil, Antonio Raxel
55. The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
UK, Horror
Directed by: John Gilling
Cast: Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence
56. The Split (1959)
USA / Japan, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: George P. Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane
Cast: Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton
57. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
USA, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: William Castle
Cast: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart
58. The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960)
Italy, Horror
Directed by: Renato Polselli
Cast: Hélène Rémy, Walter Brandi
59. Macabre (1958)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: William Castle
Cast: William Prince, Jim Backus
60. 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
USA, Sci-fi / Fantasy
Directed by: Nathan Juran
Cast: William Hopper, Joan Taylor
61. Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
USA / Japan, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Terry O. Morse, Ishirō Honda
Cast: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura
62. Not of This Earth (1957)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Roger Corman
Cast: Paul Birch, Beverly Garland
63. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Eugène Lourié
Cast: Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway
64. 4D Man (1959)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Cast: Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether
65. Monster on the Campus (1958)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Cast: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore
66. Fiend Without a Face (1958)
UK, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Marshall Thompson, Arthur Crabtree
Cast: Marshall Thompson, Kim Parker
67. The Hypnotic Eye (1960)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: George Blair
Cast: Jacques Bergerac, Allison Hayes
68. The Deadly Mantis (1957)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Nathan Juran
Cast: Craig Stevens, William Hopper
69. The Maze (1953)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: William Cameron Menzies
Cast: Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst
70. The Monolith Monsters (1957)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: John Sherwood
Cast: Grant Williams, Lola Albright
71. Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: Richard Denning, S. John Launer
72. The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Arnold Laven
Cast: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton
73. X... the Unknown (1956)
UK, Sci-fi / Mystery
Directed by: Leslie Norman, Joseph Losey
Cast: Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman
74. The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
USA / Mexico, Horror / Romance
Directed by: Ismael Rodríguez, Edward Nassour
Cast: Guy Madison, Patricia Medina
75. Circus of Horrors (1960)
UK, Horror / Drama
Directed by: Sidney Hayers
Cast: Anton Diffring, Yvonne Monlaur
76. Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
USA, Horror / Adventure
Directed by: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: Gregg Palmer, Allison Hayes
77. Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
UK, Horror
Directed by: Arthur Crabtree
Cast: Michael Gough, June Cunningham
78. Return of the Fly (1959)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Edward Bernds
Cast: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey
80. The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (1957)
UK, Adventure / Horror
Directed by: Val Guest
Cast: Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing
81. The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Nathan Juran
Cast: John Agar, Joyce Meadows
82. I Bury the Living (1958)
USA, Horror
Directed by: Albert Band
Cast: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel
83. Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Tom Graeff
Cast: David Love, Dawn Bender
84. The Avenger (1960)
West Germany, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Karel Anton
Cast: Heinz Drache, Ingrid van Bergen
86. The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: Eduard Franz, Valerie French
87. Invisible Invaders (1959)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: John Agar, Jean Byron
88. The Crawling Eye (1958)
UK, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Quentin Lawrence
Cast: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne
89. Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959)
Italy / USA, Horror / Adventure
Directed by: Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava
Cast: John Merivale, Daniela Rocca
90. The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
USA, Horror
Directed by: Irvin Berwick
Cast: Les Tremayne, Jeanne Carmen
91. Revenge of the Creature (1955)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Cast: John Agar, Lori Nelson
92. The Giant Claw (1957)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Fred F. Sears
Cast: Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday
93. The Cyclops (1957)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Bert I. Gordon
Cast: James Craig, Gloria Talbott
94. Invaders from Mars (1953)
USA, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: William Cameron Menzies
Cast: Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt
95. The She-Creature (1956)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Edward L. Cahn
Cast: Chester Morris, Tom Conway
96. The Man from Planet X (1951)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field
97. Blood and Roses (1960)
France / Italy, Horror
Directed by: Roger Vadim
Cast: Mel Ferrer, Elsa Martinelli
98. The Bat (1959)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Crane Wilbur
Cast: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead
99. Screaming Skull (1958)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Alex Nicol
Cast: John Hudson, Peggy Webber
100. The Thing from Another World (1951)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
Cast: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey