
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

Doctor Faustus
›1967 · Mystery, Drama, Horror · 93m · Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Durden
Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.

Queen of Blood
›1966 · Science Fiction, Horror · 81m · Florence Marly, Basil Rathbone, John Saxon
A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster. Uses footage from Encounter in Space (1963).

Blood Feast
›1963 · Horror · 67m · William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.

Devil Doll
›1964 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.

Konga
›1961 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!

The Green Slime
›G1968 · Science Fiction, Horror · 90m · Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel
A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!

The Deadly Bees
›1966 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman
Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting ta music video; her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with beekeeper Ralph Hargrove. Initially finding the Hargroves' bitter marital strife oddly relaxing, the arrival of specially-bred attack bees pushes Vicki to her survival instinct.

Love Camp 7
›1969 · Horror, Thriller, War · 96m · Bob Cresse, Maria Lease, Kathy Williams
Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.

Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
›1967 · Horror · 83m · Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Rochelle Hudson
John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In the first, "The Witches Clock," the Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts and are warned by the town doctor of the history of witches in the community. The second story, "King of the Vampires," deals with a slight-figured killer called the King of the Vampires by Scotland Yard. The third, "Monster Raid," is about a man turned zombie when he ODs on his experimental drug. "Spark of Life" deals with a doctor Mendell obsessed with the experiments of a thrown-out professor named Erich von Frankenstein. "Count Alucard" is a variation on the Dracula story, with the Count acquiring the deed to Carfax Abbey from Harker as vampiresses and dead bodies start turning up.

The Projected Man
›NR1966 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday, Norman Wooland
Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die
›NR1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniels
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.

Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
›1965 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Marilyn Hanold, James Karen, Lou Cutell
When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties

Blood of Dracula's Castle
›NR1969 · Horror · 84m · Alexander D'Arcy, Paula Raymond, John Carradine
Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.

She Freak
›1967 · Horror · 83m · Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond, Lynn Courtney
Jade is a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival. She quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
›NR1966 · Horror, Western · 74m · John Carradine, Chuck Courtney, Melinda Casey
Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.

The Phantom Planet
›NR1961 · Science Fiction, Horror · 82m · Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter
After an asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.

Zontar: The Thing from Venus
›1967 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 80m · John Agar, Susan Bjurman, Tony Huston
A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to "help solve man's problems". However, as soon as Zontar arrives on Earth, it quickly becomes obvious that the three-eyed, bat-winged, skeletal black creature has a hidden agenda.

Bloodlust!
›NR1961 · Drama, Horror, Adventure · 68m · Wilton Graff, June Kenney, Walter Brooke
Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau, whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.

In the Year 2889
›1969 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 80m · Paul Petersen, Quinn O'Hara, Charla Doherty
The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against the outside world. Beyond a dense mist, other survivors, radiated and mutant, grow hungry.

Creature from the Haunted Sea
›NR1961 · Horror, Comedy · 61m · Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

The Crawling Hand
›NR1963 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Rod Lauren, Sirry Steffen, Peter Breck
After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, with the astronaut begging to be killed, a teenager couple finds a severed arm on a remote beach. The boy takes the arm home, where it becomes animate and the alien force which animates it soon possesses his mind as well.

The Astro-Zombies
›1968 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 91m · Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tom Pace
For devilishly mad "astro-scientist" Dr. DeMarco (John Carradine), a typical day involves run-ins with reanimated corpses, bloodthirsty solar-powered killer robot zombies, Chinese communist spies and vicious Mexican secret agents. But when a bloody trail of young female murder victims leads an intrepid CIA agent to his door, things get really interesting. Ted V. Mikels directs this unique B horror-thriller.

Hillbillys in a Haunted House
›1967 · Comedy, Horror, Music · 86m · Ferlin Husky, Joi Lansing, Don Bowman
Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble, forcing them to stop at an old haunted mansion. Soon they realize that the house is not only haunted, but is also the headquarters of a ring of international spies after a top secret formula for rocket fuel.

The Slime People
›NR1963 · Horror, Science Fiction · 76m · Robert Hutton, Robert Burton, Susan Hart
After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters, a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
