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1950s Horror Movies

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Godzilla(1954)

NR
| 1h 36min | Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 324 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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Creature from the Black Lagoon(1954)

1h 19min | Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 261 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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The Blob(1958)

NR
| 1h 26min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 222 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 Curse of Frankenstein(1957)

NR
| 1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 97 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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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!(1956)

NR
| 1h 21min | Science Fiction, Horror
3.4/5 (with 84 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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Night of the Demon(1957)

NR
| 1h 36min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 81 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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Them!(1954)

1h 34min | Science Fiction, Horror
3.4/5 (with 144 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 Night of the Hunter(1955)

NR
| 1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 583 votes)

In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Directed by Charles Laughton - With Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, ...
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House of Wax(1953)

1h 30min | Horror, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 116 votes)

A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

Directed by André de Toth - With Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Charles Bronson, Carolyn Jones, Phyllis Kirk, Paul Picerni, ...
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The Thing From Another World(1951)

NR
| 1h 27min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 209 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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Rodan(1956)

PG
| 1h 12min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 55 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

Dracula(1958)

1h 22min | Horror
3.7/5 (with 188 votes)

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Miles Malleson, Geoffrey Bayldon, ...
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Tarantula(1955)

1h 20min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 86 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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The Fly(1958)

NR
| 1h 34min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 192 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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Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956)

NR
| 1h 20min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 370 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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Diabolique(1955)

1h 57min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 348 votes)

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot - With Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault, Jacques Hilling, Véra Clouzot, ...
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The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957)

1h 21min | Drama, Science Fiction, Horror
3.8/5 (with 163 votes)

While on a boating trip, Scott Carey is exposed to a radioactive cloud. Nothing seems amiss at first, but several months later Scott realizes that he's shrunk in height by several inches. He sees a doctor, who admits that he's baffled. As Scott continues to shrink, decreasing to three feet tall, he becomes bitter, and lashes out at his wife, Louise. He begins to fear a cure will never be found -- since even as he becomes a national sensation, he's still shrinking.

Directed by Jack Arnold - With Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, Billy Curtis, Raymond Bailey, William Schallert, Paul Langton, ...
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The Quatermass Xperiment(1955)

1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 69 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, ...

The Revenge of Frankenstein(1958)

1h 29min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 45 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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The Bad Seed(1956)

NR
| 2h 9min | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 84 votes)

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, dote on their daughter, Rhoda -- as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove. But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts, whether given or stolen, in her room. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, William Hopper, Jesse White, ...
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It Came from Outer Space(1953)

NR
| 1h 21min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 69 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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It Came from Beneath the Sea(1955)

NR
| 1h 19min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror
2.8/5 (with 33 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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Invaders from Mars(1953)

1h 18min | Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror
3.1/5 (with 63 votes)

In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.

Directed by William Cameron Menzies - With Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Morris Ankrum, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke, ...
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It! The Terror from Beyond Space(1958)

1h 9min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 33 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 Hunchback of Notre Dame(1956)

PG
| 1h 55min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 32 votes)

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...

Directed by Jean Delannoy - With Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Jean Danet, Alain Cuny, Robert Hirsch, Valentine Tessier, ...

Revenge of the Creature(1955)

1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 41 votes)

Men from an oceanarium capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.

Directed by Jack Arnold - With John Agar, Lori Nelson, Clint Eastwood, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva, Ricou Browning, ...
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Attack of the Crab Monsters(1957)

1h 3min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 24 votes)

A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.

Directed by Roger Corman - With Pamela Duncan, Russell David Johnson, Charles B. Griffith, Ed Nelson, Tony Miller, Richard Garland, ...
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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman(1958)

1h 5min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.4/5 (with 45 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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El jinete sin cabeza(1957)

1h 31min | Mystery, Western, Horror
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").

Directed by Chano Urueta - With Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernández, Crox Alvarado

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1953)

1h 16min | Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 28 votes)

Abbott and Costello, two bumbling American cops on exchange in London, hunt for Mr. Hyde—the monster that has been terrorizing the city.

Directed by Charles Lamont - With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Craig Stevens, Helen Westcott, Henry Corden, ...
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