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
13 Ghosts
›NR1960 · Horror · 85m · Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner
The reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his sprawling mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property itself, they have also inherited the occultist's collection of thirteen ghosts.
Venus in Furs
›1969 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm
After a jazz musician finds a woman's corpse washed up on the beach and remembers that he witnessed her murder at a party the previous night, a woman who bears a strong resemblance to her begins to exact revenge on the murderers.
Eye of the Cat
›PG1969 · Horror · 102m · Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker
A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats.
It!
›1967 · Horror · 96m · Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth, Paul Maxwell
After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.
Gorgo
›1961 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 78m · Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter
When an underwater volcanic eruption tears up the sea bed off the coast of Ireland, two treasure hunters make the discovery of a lifetime when they encounter a gigantic prehistoric monster that’s been unleashed from the earth’s crust. After capturing the beast, the pair transport the creature down to London where it’s given the name of “Gorgo” and put on display to an avid public. Little do they realize that Gorgo is just an infant, and that his exponentially larger mother is about to emerge from the depths to avenge the capture of her offspring.
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
›NR1964 · Horror · 80m · Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark
Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.
Night of the Big Heat
›1967 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
The Mummy's Shroud
›1967 · Horror · 90m · André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.
Circus of Fear
›1966 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 91m · Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
The Curse of the Living Corpse
›NR1964 · Horror · 84m · Roy Scheider, Helen Warren, Robert Milli
The wealthy patriarch of the Sinclair family lives in mortal fear of being buried alive due to a rare condition that causes him to sometimes appear lifeless. After his death, relatives learn that his will stipulates a strict series of orders that must be followed in order to receive their inheritance. The family refuses to comply and the patriarch returns from the grave to exact revenge by killing each of them in the way they fear most.
Two Thousand Maniacs!
›NR1964 · Horror · 87m · Connie Mason, William Kerwin, Jeffrey Allen
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
Curse of the Crimson Altar
›R1968 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, Mark Eden
When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.
The Illustrated Man
›PG1969 · Science Fiction, Drama, Horror · 103m · Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas
A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the "skin illustrations". Each tattoo reveals a bizarre story, which is experienced by staring at the scene depicted. When the illustrated man meets a fellow tramp on the road a strange voyage begins.
The Old Dark House
›PG1963 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 86m · Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott
An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
The Alphabet Murders
›NR1965 · Comedy, Crime, Mystery · 90m · Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Hands of a Stranger
›NR1962 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey, James Noah
A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.
Dinosaurus!
›1960 · Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Ward Ramsey, Paul Lukather, Kristina Hanson
After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population.
The She Beast
›NR1966 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 79m · Barbara Steele, John Karlsen, Ian Ogilvy
A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.
Berserk!
›NR1967 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 96m · Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Blood Bath
›NR1966 · Horror · 62m · William Campbell, Sandra Knight, Karl Schanzer
A painter of morbid art, who becomes a murderous vampire by night and kills young women, attempts a daytime relationship with a woman who resembles a former love and is also the sister of one of his victims.
The Frozen Dead
›NR1966 · Science Fiction, Horror · 95m · Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.
Something Weird
›NR1967 · Horror · 80m · Tony McCabe, Elizabeth Wilkinson, William Brooker
An accident victim makes a deal with a witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers; he uses these powers to assist the police in solve crimes.
Curse of the Fly
›1965 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Carole Gray
The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.
The Blood Beast Terror
›G1968 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham
A scientist working with genetics creates a horrifying flying creature that feeds on human blood. Following a gruesome trail of dead bodies, Scotland Yard investigators must scramble to halt its ravenous rampage.