1960s Proto-Slashers
List of films from the 1960s that influenced the slasher genre. This list was created by combing through other lists, books, podcasts, interviews, and documentaries on the slasher genre.
*These are not necessarily my own personal opinion.
*This list is a work in progress.
*List is organized alphabetically by year.
**I will not be listing every giallo released in the 60s despite the genre being a clear influence on slashers.
Pre-60s Proto-Slasher List Here: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls564171809/
*These are not necessarily my own personal opinion.
*This list is a work in progress.
*List is organized alphabetically by year.
**I will not be listing every giallo released in the 60s despite the genre being a clear influence on slashers.
Pre-60s Proto-Slasher List Here: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls564171809/
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- DirectorSidney HayersStarsAnton DiffringErika RembergYvonne MonlaurDr. Rossiter, a plastic surgeon wanted by the police, flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a run-down circus. His first recruit is a woman criminal. He transforms her face by surgery and trains her.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsKarlheinz BöhmAnna MasseyMoira ShearerA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
- DirectorBoris PetroffStarsRonnie BurnsPamela LincolnDarrell HoweThe crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother's execution.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsGlenn CorbettPatricia BreslinEugenie LeontovichThe brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsRod LaurenSteve DrexelTracy OlsenA masked lunatic kills off people in a haunted house.
- DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsWilliam KerwinMal ArnoldConnie MasonAn 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.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsWilliam CampbellLuana AndersBart PattonA scheming widow hatches a bold plan to acquire her late husband's inheritance, unaware that she is being targeted by an ax murderer who lurks in the family's estate.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsJohn SaxonLetícia RománValentina CorteseA mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.
- DirectorMichael CarrerasStarsKerwin MathewsNadia GrayDonald HoustonAn American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village. To free her from her marriage, the painter must help the estranged husband escape from an asylum.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsTom PostonRobert MorleyJanette ScottIn England, an American car salesman ends-up spending a stormy night at the mysterious and deadly mansion of a client's family.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsJanette ScottOliver ReedSheila BurrellA man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.
- DirectorRichard HilliardStarsLee PhilipsShepperd StrudwickJean HaleA war veteran from a wealthy but troubled New England family is suspected of a series of brutal murders in his small town.
- DirectorGastone GrandiStarsPino ColizziLauren MadisonPaul JanningMembers of the Mafia are killed off while camped out in a large house.
- DirectorMario BavaStarsCameron MitchellEva BartokThomas ReinerA masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.
- DirectorDel TenneyStarsRoy ScheiderHelen WarenRobert MilliRelatives gather in an old house for the reading of a will, but the "dead" man comes back to life and starts killing.
- DirectorEdwin ZbonekStarsHansjörg FelmyMarianne KochDietmar SchönherrThen the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London as a series of brutal slayings by the Monster of London City has Scotland Yard baffled. In a macabre coincidence, a new play about the famous murderer is about to become a major West End hit... and the leading man is rapidly becoming the prime suspect!
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsDavid KnightMoira RedmondJennie LindenA young woman is plagued by nightmares of her asylum-patient mother. Upon returning to her family home, the nightmares become real when she sees a strange woman pacing the halls.
- DirectorKarel ReiszStarsAlbert FinneySusan HampshireMona WashbourneA psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.
- DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsConnie MasonWilliam KerwinJeffrey AllenSix 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.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsJoan CrawfordDiane BakerLeif EricksonAfter a 20-year asylum stay for a double ax murder, suspicion arises about Lucy Harbin's behavior as she returns to her daughter Carol, who is engaged to marry Michael Fields. Soon, heads begin to roll again. Is Lucy repeating her past?
- DirectorBurt TopperStarsVictor BuonoDavid McLeanDiane SayerAn overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.
- DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsGordon Oas-HeimCandi ConderElyn WarnerA crackpot artist kills various people to use their blood as his new crimson red color for his paintings.
- DirectorSilvio NarizzanoStarsTallulah BankheadStefanie PowersPeter VaughanA young woman is terrorized by her deceased fiancé's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingNeil McCallumAboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.
