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July 14, 2015

1960s Horror Films



1. 1960 Atom Age Vampire

A stripper is horribly disfigured in a car accident. A brilliant scientist develops a treatment that restores her beauty and falls in love with her.
Director: Anton Giulio Majano
Stars: Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret

2. 1960 Black Sunday

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.
Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson

3. 1960 Circus of Horrors

In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Stars: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg

4. 1960 Horrors of Spider Island

Survivors of a plane crash on a remote island find it is covered by spiders. When bitten, the survivors start turning into spiders!
Director: Fritz Böttger
Stars: Harald Maresch, Helga Franck

5. 1960 The City of the Dead

A young coed uses her winter vacation to research a paper on witchcraft in New England. Her professor recommends that she spend her time in a small village called Whitewood.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Stars: Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis

6. 1960 The Housemaid

The hero, a composer, has an immoral relation to a maid. The maid is jealous of his wife and gives vent to her bad temper to him. When the hero rebukes her, she asks him for dying together for love.
Director: Ki-young Kim
Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Jeung-nyeo Ju

7. 1960 The Leech Woman

An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.
Director: Edward Dein
Stars: Coleen Gray, Grant Williams

8. 1960 The Little Shop of Horrors

A clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it.
Director: Roger Corman, Charles B. Griffith
Stars: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph




9. 1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams

10. 1961 Creature from the Haunted Sea

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.
Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland

11. 1961 Doctor Blood's Coffin

People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting with reviving the dead.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Kieron Moore, Hazel Court

12. 1961 Lycanthropus

At a girl's school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf-man-like creature. Suspicion falls upon a newly arrived teacher.
Director: Paolo Heusch
Stars: Barbara Lass, Carl Schell

13. 1961 The Beast of Yucca Flats

A defecting Soviet scientist is hit by a nuclear explosion near Yucca Flats and roams around as a beast.
Director: Coleman Francis
Stars: Douglas Mellor, Barbara Francis

14. 1961 The Curse of the Werewolf

In Spain, Leon is born on Christmas day to a mute servant girl who was raped by a beggar. His mother dies giving birth and he is looked after by Don Alfredo. As a child Leon becomes a werewolf after having been taken hunting.
Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed

15. 1961 The Innocents

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Director: Jack Clayton
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde

16. 1961 The Mask

A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.
Director: Julian Roffman
Stars: Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins

17. 1962 Carnival of Souls

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
Director: Herk Harvey
Stars: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist

18. 1962 Hands of a Stranger

A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.
Director: Newt Arnold
Stars: Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey

19. 1962 Night of the Eagle

A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Stars: Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair

20. 1962 The Brain That Wouldn't Die

A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
Director: Joseph Green
Stars: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith

21. 1962 The Day of the Triffids

A shower of meteorites produces a glow that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the population go blind.
Director: Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis
Stars: Nicole Maurey, Howard Keel

22. 1962 The Premature Burial

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Ray Milland, Hazel Court