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Horror Movies from the 1930s

by Bpquinn07 • Created 2 years ago • Modified 1 year ago
A list of every horror movie from the 1930s
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  • Brigitte Helm in A Daughter of Destiny (1928)

    1. Alraune

    19291h 43m
    6.0 (129)
    A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.
    DirectorRichard OswaldStarsBrigitte HelmAlbert BassermannHarald Paulsen
  • Ingagi (1930)

    2. Ingagi

    19301h 25mPassed
    4.0 (260)
    An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe. After many dangerous adventures, they come upon the tribe they sought, only to watch as a virgin is sacrificed to a huge gorilla, who takes her away. The expedition follows the gorilla in an attempt to save the woman.
    DirectorWilliam CampbellStarsSir Hubert WinsteadCharles GemoraArthur Clayton
  • Lupita Tovar in La voluntad del muerto (1930)

    3. La voluntad del muerto

    19301h 27mPassed
    5.9 (41)
    Strange happenings and disappearances take place in an old dark house.
    DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsAntonio MorenoLupita TovarAndrés de Segurola
  • Mysterious Mose (1930)

    4. Mysterious Mose

    19306mShort
    6.7 (307)
    Betty Boop (with dog's ears) can't sleep on a scary night, so she sings the title song and meets the gentleman in question... a surreal version of Bimbo.
    DirectorsDave FleischerWillard BowskyStarsMargie HinesBilly Murray
  • Spooks (1930)

    5. Spooks

    19307mShort
    6.1 (161)
    The Phantom of a cheap opera house helps an aspiring singer by putting a phonograph machine down her skirt. When she spurns him for Oswald the Rabbit, the Phantom takes his revenge.
    DirectorWalter LantzStarsPinto ColvigWalter Lantz
  • Swing You Sinners! (1930)

    6. Swing You Sinners!

    19308mShort
    7.6 (852)
    Bimbo is seen late at night, trying to steal a chicken. He runs away from a policeman and enters a haunted cemetery. Various ghosts and monsters tell him that he will be punished for his sin.
    DirectorsDave FleischerTed SearsStarsHall Johnson ChoirBilly Murray
  • Una Merkel and Chester Morris in The Bat Whispers (1930)

    7. The Bat Whispers

    19301h 24mApproved
    6.3 (1.4K)
    A master criminal terrorizes the occupants of an isolated country mansion.
    DirectorRoland WestStarsChester MorrisUna MerkelWilliam Bakewell
  • Raymond Hackett and Helen Twelvetrees in The Cat Creeps (1930)

    8. The Cat Creeps

    19301h 15m
    6.9 (109)
    Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.
    DirectorsRupert JulianJohn WillardStarsHelen TwelvetreesRaymond HackettNeil Hamilton
  • Cuckoo Murder Case (1930)

    9. Cuckoo Murder Case

    19308mShort
    6.8 (201)
    The Cuckoo Bird residing in an old clock in a creepy old mansion is shot dead by an unknown assailant; Flip the Frog is called in to investigate (and finds more than he bargained for).
    DirectorUb Iwerks
  • The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)

    10. The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

    193030mApprovedShort
    7.1 (2.2K)
    In order to claim an inheritance, the boys present themselves at a creaky, bat-filled mansion on a stormy night.
    DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyFrank Austin
  • Jean Arthur and Neil Hamilton in The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)

    11. The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

    19301h 13mPassed
    5.8 (342)
    The villainous master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu sets out to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
    DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsWarner OlandO.P. HeggieJean Arthur
  • Lon Chaney, Harry Earles, and Ivan Linow in The Unholy Three (1930)

    12. The Unholy Three

    19301h 12mPassed
    6.7 (1.5K)
    Professor Echo, a ventriloquist, forms a burglary ring. He disguises himself as an elderly pet store owner selling talking birds to the wealthy, using his skills to make the birds seem to talk while casing the homes for robberies.
    DirectorJack ConwayStarsLon ChaneyLila LeeElliott Nugent
  • Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

    13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    19311h 38mApproved88Metascore
    7.6 (17K)
    Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
    DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsFredric MarchMiriam HopkinsRose Hobart
  • Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)

    14. Dracula

    19311h 15mPassed71Metascore
    7.3 (62K)
    Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
    DirectorsTod BrowningKarl FreundStarsBela LugosiHelen ChandlerDavid Manners
  • Drácula (1931)

    15. Drácula

    19311h 44mUnrated
    7.0 (5.5K)
    Centuries-old vampire Dracula preys upon the innocent Eva and her friends.
    DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsCarlos VillaríasLupita TovarBarry Norton
  • Boris Karloff, John Boles, Mae Clarke, Colin Clive, and Dwight Frye in Frankenstein (1931)

    16. Frankenstein

    19311h 10mApproved91Metascore
    7.8 (84K)
    Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
    DirectorJames WhaleStarsColin CliveMae ClarkeBoris Karloff
  • The Ghost Train (1931)

    17. The Ghost Train

    19311h 12m
    5.8 (89)
    The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force, Part talkie mostly silent.
    DirectorWalter FordeStarsJack HulbertCicely CourtneidgeAnn Todd
  • Arthur McLaglen in King of the Wild (1931)

    18. King of the Wild

    19314h 8mPassed
    5.4 (151)
    American adventurer Richard Grant is falsely accused of murdering an Indian noble and escapes to Africa in search of diamond field and the real culprit.
    DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsWalter MillerNora LaneTom Santschi
  • M (1931)

    19. M

    19311h 39mPassed
    8.3 (178K)
    When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
    DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge Landgut
  • Irving Pichel and Lilyan Tashman in Murder by the Clock (1931)

    20. Murder by the Clock

    19311h 16m
    6.0 (422)
    An elderly woman installs a horn in her crypt in case she's buried alive.
    DirectorEdward SlomanStarsWilliam 'Stage' BoydLilyan TashmanIrving Pichel
  • 21. Operené stíny

    1931
    5.2 (15)
    Disillusioned with his marriage which has ended in divorce, Petr Leroy goes off to the Riviera to the place where he first met his wife and where he hopes to be spiritually revived. Here he meets his friend Jan and together they enjoy the joys the Riviera has to offer. Jan meets a charming girl at the casino and he takes her off into the mountains. On his return he speaks of the beautiful Olga with whom he has spent a wonderful three days. Olga, however, does not appear for a meeting they had arranged, so Jan goes to look for her in the mountains. Then he sees her in a village and tries to catch up with her in his car. He has an accident. Olga takes him to the nearest sanatorium where everyone behaves very strangely to the newly-arrived patient.
    DirectorLeo MartenStarsJan W. SpeergerMilada MatysovaJirí Hron
  • Cuckoo Murder Case (1930)

    22. Spooks

    19319mShort
    6.8 (242)
    Flip the Frog finds himself in a house haunted by crazy skeletons.
    DirectorUb Iwerks
  • John Barrymore and Marian Marsh in Svengali (1931)

    23. Svengali

    19311h 21mApproved
    6.8 (2.8K)
    Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.
    DirectorArchie MayoStarsJohn BarrymoreMarian MarshDonald Crisp
  • The Bells (1931)

    24. The Bells

    19311h 15m
    5.6 (34)
    Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn But Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow mesmerist supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the mesmerist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.
    DirectorsHarcourt TemplemanOscar Friedrich WerndorffStarsDonald CalthropJane WelshEdward Sinclair
  • Warner Oland in The Black Camel (1931)

    25. The Black Camel

    19311h 11mPassed
    6.6 (1.8K)
    The unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress.
    DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsWarner OlandSally EilersBela Lugosi

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