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1960s Horror

The horror that defined the 1960s — ranked by Crypt Score, from era-defining classics to the deep cuts worth resurrecting.

203 titles

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)Series

1969 · Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime · 1 season · Annette Andre, Kenneth Cope, Mike Pratt

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a British private detective television series. In the initial episode Hopkirk is murdered during an investigation, but returns as a ghost. Randall is the only main character able to see or hear him, although certain minor characters are also able to do so in various circumstances throughout the series.

IMDb 7.7TMDB 7.07.4
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The Devil Rides Out

The Devil Rides Out

G1968 · Horror · 96m · Christopher Lee, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower

The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.

IMDb 6.9🍅 96%TMDB 6.57.3
The Nanny

The Nanny

1965 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 91m · Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett

Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nanny's prepared or take a bath with her in the room. He also demands to sleep in a room with a lock. Joey's parents -- workaholic Bill and neurotic Virgie -- are sure Joey is disturbed, but he may have good reason to be terrified of Nanny.

IMDb 7.1🍅 86%TMDB 7.07.3
Carnival of Souls

Carnival of Souls

NR1962 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 78m · Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Sidney Berger

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

IMDb 7.0🍅 87%TMDB 6.97.2
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The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum

1961 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 80m · Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

IMDb 7.0MC 78🍅 89%TMDB 6.97.2
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Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass and the Pit

1967 · Science Fiction, Horror · 97m · Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley

A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

IMDb 7.0🍅 88%TMDB 6.77.2
No Way to Treat a Lady

No Way to Treat a Lady

NR1968 · Comedy, Thriller · 108m · Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal

Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

IMDb 7.0🍅 89%TMDB 6.77.2
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Witchfinder General

Witchfinder General

NR1968 · Drama, History, Horror · 87m · Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Robert Russell

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.

IMDb 6.7🍅 94%TMDB 6.57.1
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The Boston Strangler

The Boston Strangler

R1968 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · 116m · Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy

Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.

IMDb 7.0MC 66🍅 88%TMDB 6.77.1
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

1965 · Horror · 98m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle

Five train passengers are joined by a mysterious fortuneteller who offers to read Tarot. A quintet of stories unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a vengeful werewolf; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarises music from a voodoo ceremony; and a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.

IMDb 6.6🍅 100%TMDB 6.57.1
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Strait-Jacket

Strait-Jacket

NR1964 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 93m · Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

IMDb 6.8🍅 89%TMDB 6.57.1
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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

G1966 · Comedy, Family, Mystery · 90m · Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.

IMDb 7.2🍅 67%TMDB 6.87.1
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The Sadist

The Sadist

NR1963 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Arch Hall Jr., Richard Alden, Marilyn Manning

Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.

IMDb 6.6🍅 100%TMDB 6.47.1
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Whistle and I'll Come to You

Whistle and I'll Come to You

1968 · TV Movie, Horror · 42m · Michael Hordern, Ambrose Coghill, George Woodbridge

A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.

IMDb 7.3TMDB 6.67.1
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House of Usher

House of Usher

NR1960 · Horror, Drama · 79m · Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.

IMDb 6.9MC 75🍅 83%TMDB 6.77.0
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The Masque of the Red Death

The Masque of the Red Death

1964 · Drama, Horror · 90m · Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

IMDb 6.9MC 77🍅 73%TMDB 6.67.0
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The Comedy of Terrors

The Comedy of Terrors

1964 · Comedy, Horror, Crime · 84m · Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

IMDb 6.5🍅 100%TMDB 6.57.0
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The Plague of the Zombies

The Plague of the Zombies

1966 · Horror, Mystery · 91m · André Morell, Brook Williams, Diane Clare

Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. He discovers that one of the squires is a disciple of Haitian witchcraft and using dark magic to resurrect the dead. As the plan to create undead servants unravels, the squire unleashes his zombie army on the unsuspecting village.

IMDb 6.6🍅 92%TMDB 6.47.0
Night of the Eagle

Night of the Eagle

NR1962 · Horror · 90m · Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston

A woman who may be a witch defends her husband from forces attempting to harm him.

IMDb 6.9MC 73🍅 88%TMDB 6.77.0
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The Fearless Vampire Killers

The Fearless Vampire Killers

NR1967 · Comedy, Horror · 108m · Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

IMDb 7.0MC 56🍅 73%TMDB 7.06.9
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The Last Man on Earth

The Last Man on Earth

1964 · Science Fiction, Drama, Horror · 87m · Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli

When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.

IMDb 6.7🍅 80%TMDB 6.66.9
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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

NR1963 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 79m · Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone

A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.

IMDb 6.6🍅 88%TMDB 6.66.9
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Twisted Nerve

Twisted Nerve

PG1968 · Thriller, Horror · 112m · Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.

IMDb 7.0TMDB 6.86.9
Dracula: Prince of Darkness

Dracula: Prince of Darkness

1966 · Horror · 90m · Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir

Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.

IMDb 6.6🍅 82%TMDB 6.76.8
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