Decade
1960s Horror
The horror that defined the 1960s — ranked by Crypt Score, from era-defining classics to the deep cuts worth resurrecting.
203 titles
Captain Clegg
›1962 · Adventure, Crime, Thriller · 83m · Peter Cushing, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse.
The Strangler
›1964 · Horror · 89m · Victor Buono, David McLean, Diane Sayer
An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.
The Gorgon
›NR1964 · Horror, Fantasy · 83m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. A professor has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise.
Frankenstein Created Woman
›1967 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
Twice-Told Tales
›NR1963 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 120m · Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Brett Halsey
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.
A Study in Terror
›NR1965 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 95m · John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.
Night Must Fall
›NR1964 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Albert Finney, Mona Washbourne, Susan Hampshire
A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.
The Day of the Triffids
›NR1963 · Science Fiction, Horror · 93m · Howard Keel, Janina Faye, Nicole Maurey
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
The Curse of the Werewolf
›NR1961 · Horror · 93m · Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain
A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges.
The Phantom of the Opera
›1962 · Horror · 84m · Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge.
Games
›1967 · Thriller, Horror · 100m · Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.
The Shadow of the Cat
›1961 · Horror, Thriller · 79m · André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
Unearthly Stranger
›1963 · Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror · 78m · John Neville, Philip Stone, Gabriella Licudi
A series of scientists working on a new techology to facilitate man's conquest of space are killed in mysterious circumstances. Suspicion falls on the wife of another scientist on the project, who may not be what she seems.
The Premature Burial
›NR1962 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 81m · Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.
The Reptile
›1966 · Horror · 90m · Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett
Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young woman Anna whose tyrannical father controls her life and, as they discover that others in the village have suffered a similar fate, their investigations lead to Anna. What they uncover is a victim of the most terrifying legacy... a destiny of mutilation and murder.
Mr. Sardonicus
›NR1961 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe
In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatment, is summoned to Gorslava by the mysterious Baron Sardonicus—who is now married to Cargrave's former wife, Maude—to treat his disfigurement. When Cargrave arrives, he finds the masked baron is a cruel sadist who has threatened to harm Maude if he is not successfully cured.
Diary of a Madman
›PG1963 · Horror · 96m · Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield
Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a "horla" is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.
Tower of London
›1962 · History, Horror · 80m · Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman
The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.
The Night Walker
›NR1964 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 86m · Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Judi Meredith
A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
Mudhoney!
›NC-171965 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Hal Hopper, Antoinette Cristiani, John Furlong
In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney, traveling from Michigan to California, stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she's married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.
The Skull
›1965 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark
Esoterica collector Dr Maitland buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source; the artifact is what remains of the Marquis De Sade. Much too soon, Maitland discovers that the skull is turning him into a frenzied killer.
Children of the Damned
›NR1964 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 90m · Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Torture Garden
›1967 · Horror · 100m · Burgess Meredith, Jack Palance, Beverly Adams
A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman Dr Diabolo, to warn people of foreseeable evil. One by one, skeptics stand before the Fate Atropos to preview the greed and violence hiding behind their respectable façades.
I Saw What You Did
›NR1965 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 82m · Andi Garrett, Sara Lane, Joan Crawford
Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.