Decade
1950s Horror
The horror that defined the 1950s — ranked by Crypt Score, from era-defining classics to the deep cuts worth resurrecting.
151 titles
Teenage Zombies
›PG1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Steve Conte
A boating trip to an uncharted island becomes a fight for survival when two men happen upon a mad scientist, her brainwashed minions and a murderous gorilla.
Revenge of the Dead
›1959 · Horror · 69m · Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Valda Hansen
Reports of strange activities out by the Old Willow's place signal new adventures for Kelton the Cop & Co. An apparent mystic, Dr. Acula is engaging in rituals designed to raise the dead. But he may get more than he bargained for...
Terror from the Year 5000
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 70m · Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, Frederic Downs
Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?
The Giant Gila Monster
›1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Don Sullivan, Fred Graham, Lisa Simone
A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chomping on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. Only Chase Winstead, a quick-thinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out.
Mesa of Lost Women
›NR1953 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis
A mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab in Zarpa Mesa to create a race of superwomen by injecting spiders with human pituitary growth hormones. Women develop miraculous regenerative powers, but men mutate into disfigured dwarves. Spiders grow to human size and intelligence.
Robot Monster
›1953 · Science Fiction, Horror · 66m · George Nader, Claudia Barrett, Gregory Moffett
Ro-Man, an alien robot who greatly resembles a gorilla in a diving helmet, is sent to earth to destroy all human life. Ro-Man falls in love with one of the last six remaining humans, and struggles to understand how his programming can instruct him to kill her while his heart demands that he can't.
King Dinosaur
›1955 · Science Fiction, Horror, Adventure · 63m · William Bryant, Patti Gallagher, Douglas Henderson
In 1960, four American scientists travel to a planet that has just entered Earth's solar system to see if it's able to support an Earth colony. They find an oxygen atmosphere, a lush earth-like forest, and earth-like animals living around a potable fresh-water lake.
