Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Notes |
1950 |
Harriet Craig |
Vincent Sherman | Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey | United States | [7] |
1951 |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man |
Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello | United States | [8] |
Bride of the Gorilla |
Curt Siodmak | Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., Raymond Burr | United States | [9] |
Five |
Arch Oboler | William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubeš, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee | United States | [10] |
The Thing from Another World |
Christian Nyby | James Arness, Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey | United States | [11] |
Satur |
Lamberto V. Avellana | Manuel Conde, Delia Razon, Jaime de la Rosa | Philippines | |
The Son of Dr. Jekyll |
Seymour Friedman | Louis Hayward, Jody Lawrance, Alexander Knox | United States | [12] |
The Strange Door |
Joseph Pevney | Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest | United States | [13] |
1952 |
Alraune |
Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Hildegard Knef, Erich von Stroheim, Karlheinz Böhm | West Germany | [14] |
The Black Castle |
Nathan H. Juran | Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr. | United States | [15] |
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire |
John Gilling | Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi, Dora Bryan | United Kingdom | [16] |
Taong Paniki |
Richard Abelardo | Jaime de la Rosa, Delia Razon | Philippines | |
1953 |
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff | United States | [17] |
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms |
Eugène Lourié | Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway | United States | Science fiction horror[18] |
Donovan's Brain |
Felix E. Feist | Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis, Steve Brodie | United States | [19] |
House of Wax |
André De Toth | Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk | United States | [20] |
Ghost of Saga Mansion |
Ryohei Arai | Kōtarō Bandō, Kunitarō Sawamura, Takako Irie | Japan | [21] |
Man in the Attic |
Hugo Fregonese | Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer | United States | [22] |
The Maze |
William Cameron Menzies | Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery | United States | [23] |
The Neanderthal Man |
Ewald André Dupont | Robert Shayne, Doris Merrick, Richard Crane | United States | |
Scared Stiff |
George Marshall | Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis | United States | [24] |
White Witch Doctor |
Henry Hathaway | Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum | United States | [25] |
1954 |
Godzilla |
Ishirō Honda | Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura | Japan | |
Creature from the Black Lagoon |
Jack Arnold | Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning | United States | Science fiction horror |
La Bruja |
Chano Urueta | Lilia del Valle, Ramón Gay | Mexico | [26] |
The Mad Magician |
John Brahm | Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor | United States | [27] |
The Snow Creature |
W. Lee Wilder | Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, Teru Shimada | United States | [28] |
Them! |
Gordon Douglas | James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness | United States | Science fiction horror |
1955 |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy |
Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor | United States | Horror comedy[29] |
Bride of the Monster |
Ed Wood | Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy | United States | [30] |
Creature with the Atom Brain |
Edward L. Cahn | Richard Denning, Angela Stevens, S. John Launer | United States | Science fiction horror[31] |
Cult of the Cobra |
Francis D. Lyon | Faith Domergue, Richard Long, Marshall Thompson, Jack Kelly, Kathleen Hughes, David Janssen, Edward Platt, Myrna Hansen | United States | [32] |
Dementia |
John Parker | Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman, Richard Barron | United States | [33] |
It Came from Beneath the Sea |
Robert Gordon | Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis | United States | Science fiction horror[34] |
Les Diaboliques |
Henri-Georges Clouzot | Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel | France | [35] |
Night of the Hunter |
Charles Laughton | Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters | United States | [36] |
Queen Bee |
Ranald MacDougall | Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland, Lucy Marlow | United States | [37] |
1956 |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
Don Siegel | Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates | United States | Science fiction horror[38] |
The Black Sleep |
Reginald Le Borg | Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, Tor Johnson | United States | [39] |
Man Beast |
Jerry Warren | Rock Madison, Asa Maynor, George Skaff | United States | [40] |
The Mole People |
Virgil Vogel | John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont | United States | Science fiction horror[42] |
The She-Creature |
Edward L. Cahn | Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway | United States | [43] |
1957 |
The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas |
Val Guest | Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell | United Kingdom United States | [44] |
Attack of the Crab Monsters |
Roger Corman | Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson | United States | [45] |
Back from the Dead |
Charles Marquis Warren | Peggie Castle, Arthur Franz, Marsha Hunt | United States | [46] |
The Black Scorpion |
Edward Ludwig | Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas | United States | [47] |
Blood of Dracula |
Herbert L. Strock | Sandra Harrison, Gail Ganley, Jerry Blaine | United States | [48] |
Cat Girl |
Alfred Shaughnessy | Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard | United Kingdom United States | [49] |
The Curse of Frankenstein |
Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court | United Kingdom | [50] |
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll |
Edgar G. Ulmer | John Agar, Gloria Talbott, Arthur Shields | United States | [51] |
The Disembodied |
Walter Grauman | Paul Burke, Allison Hayes, John Wengraf | United States | [52] |
From Hell It Came |
Dan Milner | Tina Carver, Baynes Barron, Suzanne Ridgeway | United States | [53] |
The Giant Claw |
Fred F. Sears | Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday | United States | [54] |
La Maldicion de la Momia Azteca (aka Curse of the Aztec Mummy) |
Rafael Lopez Portillo | Julian DeMeriche, Alejandro Cruz, Arturo Martinez Sr. | Mexico | [55] |
La Momia Azteca (aka The Aztec Mummy) |
Rafael Lopez Portillo | Emma Roldan, Jorge Mondragon, Arturo Martinez Sr. | Mexico | [56] |
The Monster That Challenged the World |
Arnold Laven | Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Mimi Gibson | United States | Science fiction[57] |
Night of the Demon (aka Curse of the Demon) |
Jacques Tourneur | Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis | United Kingdom | [58] |
Pharaoh's Curse |
Lee Sholem | Mark Dana, Ziva Rodann | United States | [59] |
Plan 9 from Outer Space |
Ed Wood | Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Maila Nurmi | United States | Shot in 1956, released in 1957 Science fiction horror[60] |
The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy |
Rafael Lopez Portillo | Emma Roldan, Jorge Mondragon, Arturo Martinez Sr. | Mexico | |
Spook Chasers |
George Blair | Huntz Hall, Robert Shayne | United States | Horror comedy[61] |
The Undead |
Roger Corman | Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes, Val Dufour | United States | [62] |
The Vampire |
Paul Landres | John Beal, Kenneth Tobey, Dabbs Greer | United States | [63] |
I Vampiri (aka The Devil's Commandment) |
Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda | Gianna Maria Canale, Carlo D'Angelo, Dario Michaelis | Italy | |
Voodoo Island |
Reginald Le Borg | Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Murvyn Vye | United States | [65] |
Voodoo Woman |
Edward L. Cahn | Marla English, Tom Conway, Lance Fuller | United States | [66] |
1958 |
The Blob |
Irvin Yeaworth | Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe | United States | Science fiction horror[67] |
Blood of the Vampire |
Henry Cass | Donald Wolfit, Vincent Ball, Barbara Shelley | United Kingdom | [68] |
Black Cat Mansion |
Nobuo Nakagawa | Toshio Hosokawa, Yuriko Ejima, Takashi Wada | Japan | [69] |
The Brain Eaters |
Bruno Ve Sota | Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Jack Hill | United States | [70] |
The Bride and the Beast |
Adrian Weiss | Charlotte Austin, Lance Fuller, Johnny Roth | United States | [71] |
The Castle of the Monsters |
Julián Soler | Antonio Espino, Evangelina Elizondo | Mexico | [72] |
Corridors of Blood |
Robert Day | Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee | United Kingdom | [73] |
The Crawling Eye (aka The Trollenberg Terror) |
Quentin Lawrence | Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne | United Kingdom | |
Curse of the Faceless Man |
Edward L. Cahn | Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara | United States | [74] |
The Fly |
Kurt Neumann | Al Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price | United States | Science fiction horror[75] |
Giant from the Unknown |
Richard E. Cunha | Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Buddy Baer | United States | [76] |
The Haunted Strangler (aka Grip of the Strangler) |
Robert Day | Boris Karloff, Jean Kent | United Kingdom | [77] |
The Hideous Sun Demon |
Tom Boutross, Robert Clarke | Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson | United States | Science fiction horror[78] |
El hombre y el monstruo (The Man and the Monster) |
Rafael Baledon | Abel Salazar | Mexico | [79] |
The Horror of Dracula |
Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Melissa Stribling | United Kingdom | [80] |
I Bury the Living |
Albert Band | Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer | United States | [81] |
It! The Terror from Beyond Space |
Edward L. Cahn | Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spaldin | United States | [82] |
Macabre |
William Castle | Jacqueline Scott, Jim Backus, Philip Tonge | United States | [83] |
Monster on the Campus |
Jack Arnold | Joanna Moore, Troy Donahue, Nancy Walters | United States | [84] |
The Return of Dracula |
Paul Landres | Francis Lederer | United States | [85] |
The Screaming Skull |
Alex Nicol | John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Toni Johnson | United States | [86] |
Space Master X-7 |
Edward Bernds | Bill Williams, Lyn Thomas, Robert Ellis | United States | [87] |
Terror in the Haunted House (aka My World Dies Screaming) |
Harold Daniels | Gerald Mohr, Cathy O'Donnell, William Ching | United States | [88] |
The Thing That Couldn't Die |
Will Cowan | William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Jeffrey Stone | United States | [89] |
The Vampire's Coffin |
Fernando Mendez | Abel Salazar | Mexico | [90] |
The Woman Eater |
Charles Saunders | George Coulouris, Vera Day | United Kingdom | [91] |
1959 |
The Alligator People |
Roy Del Ruth | Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., George Macready | United States | [92] |
Attack of the Giant Leeches |
Bernard Kowalski | Jan Shepard, Gene Roth, Yvette Vickers | United States | [93] |
Beast from Haunted Cave |
Monte Hellman | Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Chris Robinson | United States | [94] |
A Bucket of Blood |
Roger Corman | Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Anthony Carbone | United States | [95] |
Caltiki – The Immortal Monster |
Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava | John Merivale, Didi Perego, Gérard Herter | Italy France | [97] |
The Head |
Victor Trivas | Horst Frank, Michel Simon, Paul Dahlke | West Germany | [98][99] |
La Casa del Terror |
Gilberto Martínez Solares | Lon Chaney Jr., Tin-Tan, Yolanda Varela | Mexico | [100] |
Curse of the Undead |
Edward Dein | Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley | United States | [101] |
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake |
Edward L. Cahn | Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Henry Daniell | United States | [102] |
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow |
William J. Hole Jr. | Jody Fair, Martin Braddock, Russ Bender | United States | [103] |
Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (aka The Ghost of Yotsuya) |
Nobuo Nakagawa | Shigeru Amachi, Noriko Kitazawa | Japan | [104] |
The Giant Gila Monster |
Ray Kellogg | Don Sullivan, Fred Graham | United States | [105] |
House on Haunted Hill |
William Castle | Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long | United States | [106] |
Jack the Ripper |
Monty Berman, Robert S. Baker | Eddie Byrne, Lee Patterson | United Kingdom | |
La Llorona (a.k.a. The Crying Woman) |
René Cardona, Sr. | María Elena Marqués | Mexico | |
The Man Who Could Cheat Death |
Terence Fisher | Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee | United Kingdom United States | [108] |
The Mummy |
Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux | United Kingdom | [109] |
Return of the Fly |
Edward Bernds | Vincent Price, Brett Halsey | United States | [110] |
Teenagers from Outer Space |
Tom Graeff | David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant | United States | Science fiction horror[111] |
Terror Is a Man |
Gerardo de León | Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr | Philippines United States | [112] |
The Tingler |
William Castle | Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman | United States | Science fiction horror[113] |
Uncle Was a Vampire (aka Hard Times for Vampires) |
Steno | Sylva Koscina, Christopher Lee | Italy | [114] |