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1950s Monster Movies

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Godzilla(1954)

NR
| 1h 36min | Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 386 votes)

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Haruo Nakajima, Kokuten Kōdō, ...
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Godzilla Raids Again(1955)

1h 22min | Science Fiction, Horror
3.0/5 (with 100 votes)

Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.

Directed by Motoyoshi Oda - With Haruo Nakajima, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Koizumi

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!(1956)

NR
| 1h 21min | Science Fiction, Horror
3.3/5 (with 99 votes)

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.

Directed by Terry O. Morse, Ishirō Honda - With Raymond Burr, Momoko Kōchi, Akira Takarada, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Kenji Sahara, ...
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Forbidden Planet(1956)

1h 38min | Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 380 votes)

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

Directed by Fred M. Wilcox - With Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Warren Stevens, Robby the Robot, Richard Anderson, ...
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Creature from the Black Lagoon(1954)

1h 19min | Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 329 votes)

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.

Directed by Jack Arnold - With Julie Adams, Antonio Moreno, Richard Denning, Richard Carlson, Whit Bissell, Nestor Paiva, ...
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Them!(1954)

1h 34min | Science Fiction, Horror
3.4/5 (with 171 votes)

As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent, and the world.

Directed by Gordon Douglas - With James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Fess Parker, Onslow Stevens, ...
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The Curse of Frankenstein(1957)

NR
| 1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 119 votes)

Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Valerie Gaunt, Melvyn Hayes, ...
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The Thing from Another World(1951)

NR
| 1h 27min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 260 votes)

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

Directed by Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks - With Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Douglas Spencer, Robert Cornthwaite, James Arness, James Young, ...
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad(1958)

G
| 1h 28min | Action, Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 111 votes)

When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.

Directed by Nathan H. Juran, Ray Harryhausen - With Kerwin Mathews, Torin Thatcher, Kathryn Crosby, Richard Eyer, Alec Mango, Danny Green, ...
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956)

NR
| 1h 20min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 442 votes)

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Directed by Don Siegel - With Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Larry Gates, Bobby Clark, ...
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The Tingler(1959)

NR
| 1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 62 votes)

After much hard work, a pathologist discovers and captures a creature that lives in every vertebrate and grows when fear grips its host. "Scream for your lives!".

Directed by William Castle - With Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Dallas McKennon, William Castle, ...
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The Blob(1958)

NR
| 1h 26min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 246 votes)

A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.

Directed by Irvin Yeaworth - With Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Olin Howland, Earl Rowe, Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan, John Benson, ...
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The Fly(1958)

NR
| 1h 34min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 220 votes)

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene Delambre, who tells him that she has just killed her husband, André. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that André invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber during the matter transference.

Directed by Kurt Neumann - With David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson, ...
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Rodan(1956)

PG
| 1h 12min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 64 votes)

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Haruo Nakajima, Akihiko Hirata, Yoshifumi Tajima

Night of the Demon(1957)

NR
| 1h 36min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 110 votes)

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur - With Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler, Liam Redmond, ...
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Attack of the Giant Leeches(1959)

NR
| 1h 2min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.0/5 (with 29 votes)

A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.

Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski - With Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Bruno VeSota
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms(1953)

NR
| 1h 20min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 76 votes)

The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.

Directed by Eugène Lourié - With Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Woods, ...
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20 Million Miles to Earth(1957)

NR
| 1h 22min | Science Fiction, Horror
3.1/5 (with 58 votes)

When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.

Directed by Nathan H. Juran - With William Hopper, Frank Puglia, Jan Arvan, Ray Harryhausen, Joan Taylor, John Zaremba, ...
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Tarantula(1955)

1h 20min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 111 votes)

A lone-wolf scientist sequestered in a mansion near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new, and very female, assistant, they discover that, far worse, something much larger and hungrier than it ever should be, is devouring local cattle - and humans - in increasingly large quantities.

Directed by Jack Arnold - With John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Clint Eastwood, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott, ...
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers(1956)

NR
| 1h 23min | Action, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 66 votes)

Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction.

Directed by Fred F. Sears, Ray Harryhausen - With Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, John Zaremba, Donald Curtis, Frank Wilcox, Larry J. Blake, ...
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It Came from Outer Space(1953)

NR
| 1h 21min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 82 votes)

Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...

Directed by Jack Arnold - With Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell David Johnson, Kathleen Hughes, ...
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Return of the Fly(1959)

NR
| 1h 20min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 107 votes)

Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.

Directed by Edward Bernds - With Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, Dan Seymour, Danielle De Metz, David Frankham, John Sutton, ...
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This Island Earth(1955)

NR
| 1h 27min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror
3.0/5 (with 95 votes)

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

Directed by Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold - With Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Russell David Johnson, Lance Fuller, Douglas Spencer, ...

It! The Terror from Beyond Space(1958)

NR
| 1h 9min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 40 votes)

In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned; by the time a rescue mission arrives, there is only one survivor: the leader, Col. Edward Carruthers, who appears to have murdered the others! According to Carruthers, an unknown life form killed his comrades during a sandstorm. But the skeptical rescuers little suspect that "it" has stowed away for the voyage back to Earth...

Directed by Edward L. Cahn - With Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Ann Doran, Dabbs Greer, Robert Bice, Ray Corrigan, ...
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The Revenge of Frankenstein(1958)

1h 29min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 53 votes)

Baron Frankenstein, working under the protective pseudonym Dr. Victor Stein, together with his assistant Dr. Kleve, transplants a dwarf's brain into another body and unleashes a deranged being.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn, Lionel Jeffries, John Welsh, ...
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It Came from Beneath the Sea(1955)

NR
| 1h 19min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror
2.8/5 (with 38 votes)

A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.

Directed by Robert Gordon - With Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Ian Keith, Donald Curtis, Harry Lauter
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The She-Creature(1956)

NR
| 1h 17min | Romance / Love, Fantasy, Horror
1.8/5 (with 11 votes)

A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

Directed by Edward L. Cahn - With Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Spike, Ron Randell, ...

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman(1958)

1h 5min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.4/5 (with 59 votes)

When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.

Directed by Nathan H. Juran - With Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers, Otto Waldis, Cristi Conaway, Daniel Baldwin, ...
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Revenge of the Creature(1955)

1h 22min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror
2.9/5 (with 54 votes)

In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.

Directed by Jack Arnold - With John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva, Ricou Browning, Robert B. Williams, ...
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The Quatermass Xperiment(1955)

1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 79 votes)

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

Directed by Val Guest - With Brian Donlevy, Lionel Jeffries, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, Margia Dean, Thora Hird, ...
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