Movies by Lists - The 60 Best 1960s Horror Movies (64 [61]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 8½A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. | 1963 | Federico Fellini (*) | Drama | 8.0 (115.2K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul [À Meia-Noite Levarei SuaA gravedigger prowls the city in search of a female to bear him a son. | 1964 | José Mojica Marins | Horror | 7.0 (3.3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Birds, TheA wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 7.7 (182.9K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Black Cat [Yabu no naka no kuroneko]Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai. | 1968 | Kaneto Shindô (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.7 (7.3K votes) | 99 | 20220531 |
| Black Sunday aka La maschera del demonioA vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, with only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor standing in her way. | 1960 | Mario Bava (*) | Horror | 7.2 (15K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Blind Beast [Moju]A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model. | 1969 | Yasuzô Masumura | Drama, Horror | 7.2 (3.3K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Blood and Black LaceA masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome. | 1964 | Mario Bava (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (10.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Blood and Black Lace aka Sei donne per l'assassinoA masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome. | 1964 | Mario Bava (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (10.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Brides of Dracula, TheVampire hunter Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on beautiful young schoolteacher Marianne. | 1960 | Terence Fisher (*) | Horror | 6.7 (7.5K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Children Of The DamnedSix impossibly intelligent children from all over the world with dangerous psychic powers hide in a church in England after the military tries to experiment on them. Besieged, they warn the military to back off before carnage ensues. | 1964 | Anton Leader | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (4.3K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Comedy Of Terrors, TheDishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones. | 1963 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Comedy, Horror | 6.7 (5.8K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Curse of the Werewolf, TheIn eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town. | 1961 | Terence Fisher (*) | Horror | 6.6 (5.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Day of the Triffids, TheAfter an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals. | 1963 | Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.1 (8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Death Wheelers, The [Psychomania]An amiable, psychopathic leader of a violent teen motorbike gang is spurred by his mother, a Satan-worshiping spiritual medium, into committing suicide and returning to life as an "undead". | 1973 | Don Sharp | Adventure, Horror | 5.8 (2.7K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Dementia 13Shocked by the death of her spouse, a scheming widow hatches a bold plan to get her hands on the inheritance, unaware that she is targeted by an axe-wielding murderer who lurks in the family's estate. What mystery shrouds the noble h | 1963 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Horror, Thriller | 5.7 (7.9K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| The Devil Rides OutDevil worshipers plan to convert two new victims. | 1968 | Terence Fisher (*) | Horror | 6.9 (8.9K votes) | 95 | 20220423 |
| Die Monster DieA young man visits his fiancée's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife f | 1965 | Daniel Haller | Mystery, Horror, Sci-Fi | 5.6 (3.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Terrors House of HorrorsAboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers. | 1965 | Freddie Francis | Horror | 6.6 (6.3K votes) | 98 | 20220423 |
| Dracula Has Risen From the GraveWhen Castle Dracula is exorcised by the Monsignor, it accidentally brings the Count back from the dead. Dracula follows the Monsignor back to his hometown, preying on the holy man's beautiful niece and her friends. | 1968 | Freddie Francis | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance | 6.6 (7.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Dracula, Prince Of DarknessDracula is resurrected, preying on four unsuspecting visitors to his castle. | 1966 | Terence Fisher (*) | Horror | 6.7 (9.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Evil Eye, The [La ragazza che sapeva troppo]A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings. | 1963 | Mario Bava (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (4.5K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Evil of Frankenstein, TheUpon returning to his home village to continue his experimental research, the destitute Dr. Frankenstein revives his old creature, but a hypnotist wants the monster to control for himself. | 1964 | Freddie Francis | Horror | 6.1 (4K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Eyes Without A Face [Les yeux sans visage]A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face. | 1960 | Georges Franju (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.7 (30.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Fearless Vampire Killers, TheA noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress. | 1967 | Roman Polanski (*) | Comedy, Horror | 7.2 (31.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Frankenstein Must Be DestroyedBaron Frankenstein, with the aid of a young doctor and his fiancée, kidnaps the mentally sick Dr. Brandt in order to perform the first brain transplant operation. | 1969 | Terence Fisher (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (4.7K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Ghost and Mr. Chicken, TheA timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter - until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house. | 1966 | Alan Rafkin | Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance | 7.3 (6.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Girl Who Knew Too Much, TheA mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings. | 1963 | Mario Bava (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (4.5K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Haunted Palace, TheCharles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago. | 1963 | Roger Corman (*) | Horror | 6.8 (6.8K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Haunting, TheHill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted. | 1963 | Robert Wise (*) | Horror | 7.5 (38.6K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| HomicidalThe brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California. | 1961 | William Castle | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (3.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Horrors of Malformed Men [Kyôfu kikei ningen; Edogawa RamAfter escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men. | 1969 | Teruo Ishii | Horror | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen]While vacationing on a remote Scandanavian island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires. | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.6 (20.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| House of UsherUpon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely. | 1960 | Roger Corman (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.0 (13.1K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Housemaid, The [Hanyo]A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for. | 1960 | Kim Ki-young (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (4K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Hush...Hush, Sweet CharlotteAn aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative. | 1964 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (14.2K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Innocents, TheA young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted. | 1961 | Jack Clayton (*) | Horror | 7.8 (29.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Kuroneko [Yabu no naka no kuroneko]Two women are raped and killed by samurai soldiers. Soon they reappear as vengeful ghosts who seduce and brutally murder the passing samurai. | 1968 | Kaneto Shindô (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.7 (7.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Kwaidan [Kaidan]A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes. | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 8.0 (17K votes) | 183 | 20211228 |
| Last Man on Earth, TheWhen a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter. | 1964 | Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (19.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Little Shop of Horrors, TheA clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it. | 1960 | Roger Corman (*) | Comedy, Horror | 6.3 (17.8K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Man With X-Ray Eyes, TheA doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences. | 1963 | Roger Corman (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.6 (6.9K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Masque of the Red Death, TheA European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land. | 1964 | Roger Corman (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.0 (14K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Night of the Living DeadA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the East Coast of the United States. | 1968 | George A. Romero (*) | Horror, Thriller | 7.9 (124.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Night TideA young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman, performing as a mermaid at the local carnival. He soon comes to suspect the girl might be a real mermaid, who draws men to a watery death during the full moon. | 1961 | Curtis Harrington | Horror, Romance, Thriller | 6.4 (3.2K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| OnibabaTwo women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask. | 1964 | Kaneto Shindô (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.0 (18.3K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Peeping TomA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. | 1960 | Michael Powell (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.7 (34.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| PersonaA nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together. | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (113.5K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Pit and the PendulumIn the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor. | 1961 | Roger Corman (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.1 (14.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Planet of the Vampires aka Terrore nello spazioAfter landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants. | 1965 | Mario Bava (*) | Action, Adventure, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (5.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| PsychoA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (643.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Quatermass And The PitA mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called into to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people. | 1967 | Roy Ward Baker | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.0 (10.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Raven, TheA magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help. | 1963 | Roger Corman (*) | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 6.6 (11.5K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Rosemary's BabyA young couple trying for a baby move into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, but find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors. | 1968 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.0 (207.9K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| SecondsAn unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity - one that comes with its own price. | 1966 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.7 (19.3K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Sorcerers, TheAn aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts. | 1967 | Michael Reeves | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (2K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Spider BabyA caretaker devotes himself to three demented siblings after their father's death. | 1967 | Jack Hill | Comedy, Horror | 6.8 (6.9K votes) | 81 | 20220423 |
| Spirits of the Dead [Histoires extraordinaires]Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel princess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil. | 1968 | Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 6.5 (6.2K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Tales of TerrorThree tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death. | 1962 | Roger Corman (*) | Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (7.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| TargetsAn elderly horror film star, while making a personal appearance at a drive-in theatre, confronts a psychotic Vietnam War veteran who has turned into a mass-murdering sniper. | 1968 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (9.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Tomb of Ligeia, TheA man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride. | 1964 | Roger Corman (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.5 (6K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Village of the DamnedIn the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers. | 1960 | Wolf Rilla | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.3 (16.6K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| ViyA young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him. | 1967 | Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.3 (7.1K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| What Ever Happened to Baby JaneA former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion. | 1962 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 8.0 (54.8K votes) | 134 | 20220414 |
| Witchfinder GeneralA young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch-hunter when the latter terrorizes his fiancée and kills her uncle. | 1968 | Michael Reeves | Drama, History, Horror | 6.7 (10.6K votes) | 86 | 20220423 |