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1960s: Horror & Suspense Throughout the Decades

by Encyclopedia_of_Horror • Created 8 years ago • Modified 2 weeks ago
The swinging 60s, truly a groundbreaking decade for horror, which saw the introduction of slashers, flesh eating zombies, the gore film and much more. A list brought to you by Eric Myford, author of The Encyclopedia of Horror & Suspense Movies book series...
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  • Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Heather Dawn May in Psycho (1960)

    1. Psycho

    19601h 49mR97Metascore
    8.5 (759K)
    A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera Miles
  • Marilyn Eastman, Duane Jones, and Judith Ridley in Night of the Living Dead (1968)

    2. Night of the Living Dead

    19681h 36mR89Metascore
    7.8 (146K)
    A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
    DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl Hardman
  • Village of the Damned (1960)

    3. Village of the Damned

    19601h 17mApproved77Metascore
    7.3 (20K)
    In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.
    DirectorWolf RillaStarsGeorge SandersBarbara ShelleyMartin Stephens
  • Children of the Damned (1964)

    4. Children of the Damned

    19641h 29mApproved42Metascore
    6.2 (5.3K)
    Six impossibly intelligent children from all over the world with dangerous psychic powers hide in a church in England after the military tries to experiment on them. Besieged, they warn the military to back off before carnage ensues.
    DirectorAnton LeaderStarsIan HendryAlan BadelBarbara Ferris
  • Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

    5. Die, Monster, Die!

    19651h 20mApproved
    5.6 (3.9K)
    A young man visits his fiancée's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
    DirectorDaniel HallerStarsBoris KarloffNick AdamsFreda Jackson
  • Connie Mason in Blood Feast (1963)

    6. Blood Feast

    19631h 7mNot Rated
    5.0 (7.7K)
    An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to revive a dormant Egyptian goddess while an inept police detective tries to track him down.
    DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsWilliam KerwinMal ArnoldConnie Mason
  • Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth (1964)

    7. The Last Man on Earth

    19641h 26mNot Rated
    6.7 (23K)
    When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
    DirectorsUbaldo RagonaSidney SalkowStarsVincent PriceFranca BettoiaEmma Danieli
  • Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, and Debra Paget in Tales of Terror (1962)

    8. Tales of Terror

    19621h 29mApproved68Metascore
    6.8 (8.9K)
    Three tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.
    DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceMaggie PierceLeona Gage
  • Connie Mason in Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)

    9. Two Thousand Maniacs!

    19641h 23mNot Rated
    5.8 (5.5K)
    Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
    DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsConnie MasonWilliam KerwinJeffrey Allen
  • Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby (1968)

    10. Rosemary's Baby

    19682h 17mR96Metascore
    8.0 (250K)
    A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
    DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsMia FarrowJohn CassavetesRuth Gordon
  • Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren in The Birds (1963)

    11. The Birds

    19631h 59mPG-1390Metascore
    7.6 (214K)
    A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRod TaylorTippi HedrenJessica Tandy
  • The Virgin Spring (1960)

    12. The Virgin Spring

    19601h 29mNot Rated
    8.0 (33K)
    In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowBirgitta ValbergGunnel Lindblom
  • The Gruesome Twosome (1967)

    13. The Gruesome Twosome

    19671h 12mNot Rated
    4.8 (1.3K)
    A demented elderly woman has her mentally-retarded son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop while a persistent coed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them.
    DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsElizabeth DavisGretchen WellsChris Martell
  • Frankie Avalon, Ray Milland, Richard Bakalyan, Neil Burstyn, Joan Freeman, Jean Hagen, Rex Holman, and Mary Mitchel in Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

    14. Panic in Year Zero!

    19621h 33mApproved
    6.6 (5.3K)
    A family leaves Los Angeles for a camping trip just before hydrogen bombs destroy the city. In the midst of the chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive along the highway.
    DirectorRay MillandStarsRay MillandJean HagenFrankie Avalon
  • Twice-Told Tales (1963)

    15. Twice-Told Tales

    19632hApproved
    6.6 (3.7K)
    Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the first story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of himself, his fiancee and his best friend. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father inoculating 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 the Pyncheon brother returns to his home to search for a hidden vault.
    DirectorSidney SalkowStarsVincent PriceSebastian CabotBrett Halsey
  • Julie Harris in The Haunting (1963)

    16. The Haunting

    19631h 52mG74Metascore
    7.4 (44K)
    Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.
    DirectorRobert WiseStarsJulie HarrisClaire BloomRichard Johnson
  • Herk Harvey and Candace Hilligoss in Carnival of Souls (1962)

    17. Carnival of Souls

    19621h 18mPG
    7.0 (30K)
    After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
    DirectorHerk HarveyStarsCandace HilligossFrances FeistSidney Berger
  • Monstrosity (1963)

    18. Monstrosity

    19631h 5mApproved
    3.0 (3.1K)
    A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.
    DirectorsJoseph V. MascelliJack PollexfenStarsMarjorie EatonFrank GerstleFrank Fowler
  • Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer in Peeping Tom (1960)

    19. Peeping Tom

    19601h 41mNot Rated
    7.6 (42K)
    A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
    DirectorMichael PowellStarsKarlheinz BöhmAnna MasseyMoira Shearer
  • Twisted Nerve (1968)

    20. Twisted Nerve

    19681h 58mM
    7.0 (2.6K)
    A troubled man becomes infatuated with a beautiful young woman and uses a childlike alter-ego to get close to her.
    DirectorRoy BoultingStarsHywel BennettRussell NapierHayley Mills
  • Planet of the Vampires (1965)

    21. Planet of the Vampires

    19651h 28mNot Rated
    6.2 (7.7K)
    After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
    DirectorMario BavaStarsBarry SullivanNorma BengellÁngel Aranda
  • Nightmare in Wax (1969)

    22. Nightmare in Wax

    19691h 36mPG
    3.9 (929)
    The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
    DirectorBud TownsendStarsCameron MitchellAnne HelmScott Brady
  • Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)

    23. Journey to the Seventh Planet

    19621h 17mApproved
    4.7 (2K)
    Earth sends a five-man team to explore the frozen planet Uranus, only to find a temperate forest and sultry women from their past on it, courtesy of an alien brain with evil designs.
    DirectorSidney W. PinkStarsJohn AgarCarl OttosenOve Sprogøe
  • Paranoiac (1963)

    24. Paranoiac

    19631h 20mNot Rated
    6.7 (3.6K)
    A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.
    DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsJanette ScottOliver ReedSheila Burrell
  • The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

    25. The Fearless Vampire Killers

    19671h 31mApproved56Metascore
    7.0 (35K)
    A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
    DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsJack MacGowranRoman PolanskiAlfie Bass

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