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 |