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1940s Horror Movies

Public list by WPS with 108 movies or TV shows/series

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The Wolf Man(1941)

1h 10min | Horror, Drama
3.6/5 (with 244 votes)

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.

The Picture of Dorian Gray(1945)

NR
| 1h 50min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, Horror
3.5/5 (with 106 votes)

Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.

Cat People(1942)

NR
| 1h 13min | Horror, Drama
3.5/5 (with 231 votes)

Serbian fashion designer Irena Dubrovna and American marine engineer Oliver Reed meet in Central Park, fall in love, and marry after a brief courtship; but Irena won't consummate the union for fear that she will turn into a panther compelled to kill her lover, pursuant to a belief harbored by her home village.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1941)

3.3/5 (with 70 votes)

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

Phantom of the Opera(1943)

3.1/5 (with 78 votes)

Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with acid. Soon, mysterious crimes plague the Paris Opera House, blamed on a legendary "phantom".

The Uninvited(1944)

3.5/5 (with 87 votes)

A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.

The Spiral Staircase(1946)

NR
| 1h 23min | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 97 votes)

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

Son of Dracula(1943)

NR
| 1h 20min | Fantasy, Horror
3.1/5 (with 43 votes)

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.

The Leopard Man(1943)

NR
| 1h 6min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 46 votes)

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

The Ghost of Frankenstein(1942)

NR
| 1h 7min | Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 60 votes)

Ygor discovers Frankenstein's creation is still alive and brings him to the Doctor's son, Ludwig, for help. Obsessed with restoring the monster to his full potential, Ludwig is unaware that someone has more devious plans for the creature.

House of Frankenstein(1944)

NR
| 1h 11min | Horror
3.0/5 (with 72 votes)

An evil scientist and a hunchback escape from prison and encounter Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster.

House of Dracula(1945)

NR
| 1h 7min | Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy
2.8/5 (with 49 votes)

A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.

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The Seventh Victim(1943)

NR
| 1h 11min | Horror, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 50 votes)

A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.

The Body Snatcher(1945)

NR
| 1h 18min | Horror, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 75 votes)

Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.

The Curse of the Cat People(1944)

1h 10min | Horror, Drama, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 55 votes)

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

Bedlam(1946)

1h 16min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 31 votes)

London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.

I Walked with a Zombie(1943)

1h 9min | Drama, Horror, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 107 votes)

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

The Ghost Breakers(1940)

NR
| 1h 25min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located on Black Island near the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.

Invisible Ghost(1941)

NR
| 1h 4min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 18 votes)

The town's leading citizen is a man victim of homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener.

The Mummy's Tomb(1942)

3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.

The Invisible Man's Revenge(1944)

NR
| 1h 18min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 18 votes)

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.

The Mummy's Hand(1940)

3.0/5 (with 33 votes)

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.

The Mummy's Ghost(1944)

1h 1min | Horror, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 24 votes)

An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...

The Invisible Man Returns(1940)

3.1/5 (with 46 votes)

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

The Lodger(1944)

NR
| 1h 24min | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 37 votes)

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Isle of the Dead(1945)

NR
| 1h 11min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 46 votes)

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.

The Corpse Vanishes(1942)

NR
| 1h 4min | Science Fiction, Horror
2.1/5 (with 26 votes)

A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.

Dr. Cyclops(1940)

3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.

She-Wolf of London(1946)

1h 1min | Horror, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 23 votes)

A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

The Amazing Mr. X(1948)

1h 18min | Thriller, Horror
3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...

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