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
Color Me Blood Red
›1965 · Comedy, Horror · 79m · Gordon Oas-Heim, Candi Conder, Elyn Warner
A crackpot painter kills people to use their blood as his new crimson red color for his art.
Gammera the Invincible
›1966 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 86m · Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, Diane Findlay
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.
Devils of Darkness
›NR1965 · Horror · 88m · William Sylvester, Hubert Noël, Carole Gray
A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.
Doctor Blood's Coffin
›1961 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter
After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.
Brides of Blood
›NR1968 · Horror, Science Fiction · 97m · Kent Taylor, Beverly Powers, John Ashley
Americans investigating the results of nuclear radiation discover a man-eating monster on a remote island.
Two on a Guillotine
›NR1965 · Mystery, Horror · 107m · Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?
The Gruesome Twosome
›NR1967 · Comedy, Horror · 72m · Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell
A demented elderly woman has her mentally incompetent son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop while a persistent co-ed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them.
Destination Inner Space
›1966 · Thriller, Science Fiction · 83m · Scott Brady, Sheree North, Gary Merrill
A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they attract the unwanted attention of a dangerous creature who puts the scientists and crew in danger.
Boom!
›PG1968 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 113m · Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward
Secluding herself in an island mansion in the Mediterranean with her servants and nurses, the wealthy Flora "Sissy" Goforth prepares for her impending death -- and she isn't the only one who's waiting. Known for his attraction to the dying rich, poet Chris Flanders ingratiates himself with the wilting Sissy. Although her friend explains Flanders' "Angel of Death" nature to her, Sissy embraces the vulture-like Flanders.
The Haunted House of Horror
›1969 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Dennis Price
Teenagers in an old mansion are being murdered one by one. The survivors must discover who among them is the killer before they're all finished off.
Varan the Unbelievable
›1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
Mad Doctor of Blood Island
›NR1969 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ronald Remy
A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.
The Terror
›1963 · Horror, Mystery · 79m · Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.
War-Gods of the Deep
›NR1965 · Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror · 84m · Vincent Price, David Tomlinson, Tab Hunter
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their kidnapped friend Jill. Held captive in the underwater city by the tyrannical Captain (Vincent Price), and his crew of former smugglers, the three plot to escape...
Tormented
›NR1960 · Thriller, Horror · 75m · Richard Carlson, Susan Gordon, Lugene Sanders
A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.
99 Women
›R1969 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 99m · Maria Schell, Herbert Lom, Mercedes McCambridge
Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island prison. When an escape attempt goes awry, the fugitives discover that escaping can be as dangerous as remaining in the prison.
Journey to the Seventh Planet
›1962 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · John Agar, Carl Ottosen, Ove Sprogøe
A space expedition to Uranus is menaced by a giant brain that can make illusions come true.
The Devil's Hand
›1961 · Horror, Mystery · 71m · Linda Christian, Robert Alda, Neil Hamilton
A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a satanic cult.
The Leech Woman
›NR1960 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Coleen Gray, Grant Williams, Phillip Terry
An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
›NR1966 · Music, Comedy, Horror · 82m · Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Aron Kincaid
A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
The Undertaker and His Pals
›R1966 · Comedy, Horror · 63m · Ray Dannis, Warrene Ott, James Westmoreland
An undertaker befriends a pair of motorcycle-riding, knife-wielding, psycho restaurant owners who kill people for body parts to use in their blue-plate daily specials.
House on Bare Mountain
›NR1962 · Comedy, Horror · 62m · Bob Cresse, Laine Carlin, Leticia Cooper
The Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein spy on a girls' school in the mountains, where most of the girls spend their time sunbathing in the nude, nude exercises and nude art classes. The monsters finally invade the school…
Flaming Creatures
›1963 · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy · 42m · Francis Francine, Sheila Bick, Joel Markman
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.
Fear Chamber
›1968 · Horror · 88m · Boris Karloff, Julissa, Carlos East
The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.