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July 14, 2015

1950s Horror Films


1. 1951 Bride of the Gorilla

The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla.
Director: Curt Siodmak
Stars: Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr.

2. 1952 My Son, the Vampire

The mysterious figure known as the Vampire comes to England to complete experiments in his mad bid to gain control of the world.
Director: John Gilling
Stars: Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi

3. 1953 Mesa of Lost Women

A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom.
Director: Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos
Stars: Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon

4. 1953 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and ultimately New York City.
Director: Eugène Lourié
Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond

5. 1953 The Maze

A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Stars: Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst

6. 1954 The Snow Creature

American botanical expedition in the Himalayas stumbles across a Yeti den, capture one and transport it back to Los Angeles, where it escapes while customs officials are debating whether it is animal or human.
Director: W. Lee Wilder
Stars: Paul Langton, Leslie Denison

7. 1955 Bride of the Monster

An mad doctor attempts to create atomic supermen.
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson

8. 1955 It Conquered the World

A well meaning scientist guides an alien monster to Earth from Venus, so that he can rid mankind of feelings and emotions - but only death and sorrow results.
Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Peter Graves, Beverly Garland




9. 1955 The Beast with a Million Eyes

A dysfunctional family operating an isolated date farm in the California desert is threatened by the arrival of an extra-terrestrial.
Director: David Kramarsky, Roger Corman
Stars: Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer

10. 1955 The Quatermass Xperiment

In the countryside of London, a rocket crashes on a farm and Professor Bernard Quatermass and Scotland Yard Inspector Lomax arrive in the spot.
Director: Val Guest
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner

11. 1956 I Vampiri

A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.
Director: Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava
Stars: Gianna Maria Canale, Carlo D'Angelo

12. 1956 Indestructible Man

Scientific experiments accidentally revive an executed criminal and make him impervious to harm, prompting him to seek revenge on his former partners.
Director: Jack Pollexfen
Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter

13. 1956 X: The Unknown

An atomic researcher in Scotland links radiation burns to throbbing mud from the center of the Earth.
Director: Leslie Norman, Joseph Losey
Stars: Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman



14. 1957 Back from the Dead

A newly married young woman is possessed by the evil spirt of her husband's deceased first wife. The possession turns her into a scheming killer who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Stars: Peggie Castle, Arthur Franz

15. 1957 Beginning of the End

Crops thrive on irradiated soil, thanks to the U.S. government, but so do grasshoppers.
Director: Bert I. Gordon
Stars: Peter Graves, Peggie Castle

16. 1957 From Hell It Came

A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump.
Director: Dan Miln
Stars: Tod Andrews, Tina Carver

17. 1957 I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

Professor Frankenstein, a university lecturer with an alligator pit under his house, steals body parts of dead athletes from the wreckage of a crashed airplane. He builds a hunky male monster with a hideously disfigured face, which goes on a killing spree.
Director: Herbert L. Strock
Stars: Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates

18. 1957 I Was a Teenage Werewolf

A meat-eating teenager sees a psychiatrist, who only makes things worse.
Director: Gene Fowler, Jr.
Stars: Michael Landon, Herman Cohen

19. 1957 La Maldicion de la Momia Azteca

The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb.
Director: Rafael Portillo
Stars: Ramón Gay, Rosa Arenas

20. 1957 La Momia Azteca

Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Almada discovers that his fiancée, Flor, is the reincarnation of an Aztec maiden who was put to death for loving an Aztec warrior, her body placed at the entrance to a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid of Yucatan where the treasures of the Aztecs were hidden, and her lover mummified but cursed to remain alive and guard the treasure.
Director: Rafael Portillo
Stars: Ramón Gay, Rosa Arenas

21. 1957 The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas

A kindly English botanist and a gruff American scientist lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.

22. 1957 The Vampire

A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
Director: Paul Landres
Stars: John Beal, Coleen Gray