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1950s Horror
The horror that defined the 1950s — ranked by Crypt Score, from era-defining classics to the deep cuts worth resurrecting.
151 titles
The Thing That Couldn't Die
›NR1958 · Horror · 69m · William Reynolds, Carolyn Kearney, Jeffrey Stone
A 400 year old disembodied head hypnotizes a female psychic, who recovered it using a dowsing rod, to search for the rest of its body.
Missile to the Moon
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 78m · Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, K.T. Stevens
Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.
The Angry Red Planet
›NR1959 · Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror · 83m · Gerald Mohr, Naura Hayden, Les Tremayne
The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
›1956 · Western, Science Fiction, Horror · 81m · Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Phantom from Space
›1953 · Science Fiction, Horror · 73m · Noreen Nash, Harry Landers, James Seay
After a UFO sighting, a mysterious phantom in a bizarre outfit starts attacking people in San Fernando Valley.
Terror in the Midnight Sun
›NR1959 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama · 73m · Barbara Wilson, Sten Gester, Robert Burton
After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to investigate.
Bride of the Monster
›1955 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy
Dr. Eric Vornoff, with the help of his mute assistant Lobo, captures twelve men for a grisly experiment; His goal to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Reporter Janet Lawton, fiancée of the local lieutenant, vows to investigate Vornoff's supposedly haunted house.
Beginning of the End
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
Monster from Green Hell
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 71m · Jim Davis, Robert Griffin, Joel Fluellen
A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa. The two astrobiologists in charge of the test mount an expedition to the Darkest Continent to retrieve their experiment, only to find the wasps have grown to giant size which are panicking all forms of life as they quest for food.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 78m · Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore
In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife, and dies the day after she is buried. However, the space soldier Eros and his mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both, alongside the strong Inspector Clay, who was murdered by the alien-controlled dead couple. When the populations of Hollywood and Washington D.C. see flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife, and a policeman try to stop the aliens.
War of the Colossal Beast
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Duncan 'Dean' Parkin
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very angry.
The Beast with a Million Eyes
›NR1955 · Science Fiction, Horror · 78m · Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole
At a decrepit farm outside a remote American desert community, something takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through their eyes and control their actions.
From Hell It Came
›1957 · Horror · 73m · Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins
A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed and returns as a walking tree stump.
The She-Creature
›NR1956 · Science Fiction, Horror · 77m · Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
The Killer Shrews
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis
Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who when they have run out of small animals to eat, turn on the humans.
The Screaming Skull
›NR1958 · Thriller, Horror · 68m · John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway
Newlyweds Eric and Jenni Whitlock retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric's first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who has a history of mental illness, begins to see strange things including a mysterious skull, which may or may not be a product of her imagination.
Teenagers from Outer Space
›1959 · Crime, Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · David Love, Dawn Bender, Harvey B. Dunn
A young alien falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.
Night of the Blood Beast
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · John Baer, Angela Greene, Ed Nelson
An astronaut returns to Earth as the no-pulse host of an alien monster's embryos; he is discovered by a loony farmer who find ways to feed his new critter.
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
›NR1955 · Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen
A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.
The Snow Creature
›1954 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, Teru Shimada
A botanical expedition to the Himalayas captures a Yeti and brings it back alive to Los Angeles, where it escapes and runs amok, seeking food.
Attack of the Giant Leeches
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
Killers from Space
›NR1954 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar, James Seay
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
›1952 · Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror · 74m · Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo
The entertainment duo Mitchell & Petrillo, en route to a USO show for troops in Guam, fall out of their plane and end up on the jungle island of Cola Cola, where the mad scientist Dr. Zabor is conducting evolutionary experiments.
The Unearthly
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 73m · John Carradine, Myron Healey, Allison Hayes
A mad doctor uses patients at his isolated psychiatric institute as subjects in his attempts to create longevity by surgically installing an artificial gland in their skulls.