SeriesTV-PGSupernatural Ghosts & Haunting Demonic & Possession

Thriller1960

Name: Thriller
Genre: Supernatural, Ghosts & Haunting, Demonic & Possession, Gothic
Released: 1960-09-13
Rating: 7.8

7.8

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 8.2TMDB 6.7

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Year

1960

Seasons

Network

NBC

Status

Ended

Box Office

🏆 Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 2 wins & 5 nominations total

The premise

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.

Horror Vault's take

Hosted by the legendary Boris Karloff, this classic NBC anthology series delivers a parade of self-contained tales spanning chilling supernatural horror and brooding Hitchcockian crime. Each episode plunges viewers into a different world of dread — haunted houses, dark obsessions, unearthly forces, and morbid human nature. Karloff's commanding presence lends every introduction an air of distinguished menace, whether he's merely the guide or stepping into the story himself. A landmark of early American television horror, it remains essential viewing for fans of weird fiction and classic macabre storytelling.

Content: Macabre Themes, Mild Violence, Occult Content

Episode Guide

🏆 Best Episode Overall

S1.E1 · The Twisted Image

9.0

⭐ Highest Rated This Season

S1.E1 · The Twisted Image

9.0

★ 6.8 avg· 30h 50m total· Sep 1960 → Jun 1961

S1.E1 · The Twisted ImagePremiere
9.0
Sep 13, 1960 · 50 min · Dir: Arthur Hiller
When the paths of a disturbed young man (consumed with the idea of taking over the life of his boss) and a disturbed young woman (obsessed with the same man) cross, the results are disatrous.
S1.E2 · Child's Play
Sep 20, 1960 · 50 min · Dir: Arthur Hiller
A young boy with an unhappy homelife gets dangerously absorbed in his imagination.
S1.E3 · Worse Than Murder
4.5
Sep 27, 1960 · 50 min · Dir: Mitchell Leisen
A man dies and leaves a diary describing how he and his sister murdered a woman. The sister's unscrupulous daughter-in-law uses the diary for blackmail.
S1.E4 · The Mark of the Hand
Oct 4, 1960 · 50 min · Dir: Maxwell Shane
An eight-year-old girl is accused of murdering a man and then trying to kill again.
S1.E5 · Rose's Last Summer
Oct 11, 1960 · 50 min · Dir: Arthur Hiller
When an aging film actress dies under mysterious circumstances a friend and her former husband try to find out what happened to her.