Monday, April 8, 2013

BEST HORROR MOVIES OF THE 50s

A continuation of the Decades of Horror Ranked by Genre series that began here. Click the following links to see past Horror posts at the Wandering Image: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s... 










#45-44 = quite good
#43-24 = great
#23-11 = top shelf liquor
#10-1 = God tier
 The countdown:




    THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN
45.      (OF THE HIMALAYAS)









                  I MARRIED 
44.MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE





                        IT CAME 
43.    FROM BENEATH THE SEA





42.                   RODAN








41.       THE WHITE REINDEER








40.   A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959)





39.            THE TINGLER





38. 
THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN






37.  THE HAUNTED STRANGLER





36.        CLAWS FOR ALARM





35.            SCARED STIFF





34.       THE BAD SEED (1956)





                  ABBOTT AND 
33. COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY





32.
HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959)







31.  INVADERS FROM MARS (1953)






30.            THE FLY (1958)









                     DEMENTIA
29.    [DAUGHTER OF HORROR]

 


28.       BLACK CAT MANSION








                     CALTIKI, 
27.    THE IMMORTAL MONSTER





26.THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT





25.     FIEND WITHOUT A FACE





24.     HORROR OF DRACULA





        THE GHOST OF YOTSUYA
23.TOKAIDO YOTSUYA KAIDAN 東海道四谷怪談





22.  RETURN TO GLENNASCAUL
   [ORSON WELLES' DUBLIN GHOST STORY]






21.         X: THE UNKNOWN





                   THE BEAST 
20.     FROM 20,000 FATHOMS





19.        BLACK PIT OF DR. M






18.     FIRST MAN INTO SPACE






17.             TARANTULA





16.            THEM!





15. 
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)









              QUATERMASS II:
14.ENEMY FROM SPACE





13.    THE TELL-TALE HEART




                   CREATURE 
12.   FROM THE BLACK LAGOON





11.           THE BLOB (1958)




10.
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN





9.            GODZILLA (1954)





8.       HOUSE OF WAX 3D (1953)




7.         THE THING 
FROM ANOTHER WORLD




6.                  INVASION
  OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)





5.           DIABOLIQUE (1955)





4.THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN





         NIGHT OF THE DEMON
3.     [CURSE OF THE DEMON]




2.
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE 3D




1.   THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
*****



















HONORABLE MENTION
EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS (1956), THE H-MAN (1958), I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (1957), VAMPIRE'S COFFIN [EL ATAÚD DEL VAMPIRO] (1958), THE MANSTER (1959), THE STRANGE DOOR (1951), MACABRE (1958), THE BAT (1959), THE BLACK SLEEP (1956), 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957), THE MAD MAGICIAN (1954), MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD (1957), THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957), EL VAMPIRO (1957), HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM (1959), THE WASP WOMAN (1959), THE MAN FROM PLANET X (1951), THE CRAWLING EYE (1958), THE ANGRY RED PLANET (1959), MONSTER ON CAMPUS (1958), THE MUMMY (1959), GOG (1954), CURSE OF THE UNDEAD (1959), THE WEREWOLF (1956)


















MIXED BAG - WORTH WATCHING!
THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955), THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES (1959), BEGINNING OF THE END (1957), THE BLACK SCORPION (1957), REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (1955), RETURN OF DRACULA (1958), ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (1958), NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957), TERROR IS A MAN (1959), THE MOLE PEOPLE (1956), PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE (1954), CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (1955), INVASION OF THE SAUCER-MEN (1957), MONSTER OF PIEDRAS BLANCAS (1959), INVISIBLE INVADERS (1959), THE UNDEAD (1957), PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1957), IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956), ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN (1958), EARTH VS. THE SPIDER (1958), GHOST SHIP (1952), ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS (1957), THE BRAIN EATERS (1958)




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