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1 day ago · The best ‘60s horror movies were soaked in experimentation, paranoia, and outstanding accomplishment. The horror films of the '60s saw the release of some of the most important horror films of all time.
- 'Black Sunday'
- 'Eyes Without A Face'
- 'Peeping Tom'
- 'Psycho'
- 'The Innocents'
- 'The Birds'
- 'The Haunting'
- 'Blood and Black Lace'
- 'Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte'
- 'Repulsion'
Before Mario Bava would direct the earliest identifiable slasher films in Italy, which genre-lovers loving know as giallos, he made this gothic throwback that could easily stand astride the best of Hammer Films’ output of the previous decade. Black Sunday begins with a stunning and horrific opening sequence that would get the film banned in the UK ...
Georges Franju was one of the creators of the famous French Cinematheque that housed long lost classics and introduced the filmmakers of the French New Wave. He’d worked tirelessly during World War II to find, protect, and move around various film cans from being destroyed. Franju was obviously a lover of the moving image. And in his most beloved f...
Audiences were so horrified by Peeping Tom that it was actually pulled from theaters. They felt violated and betrayed because one of the most revered and hopeful of Britain’s directors, Michael Powell (The Red Shoes), had made something perverse and psychotic. He made viewers confront the level of thrill-seeking they hope to get from a moving image...
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is the big kahuna of this list. The shower murder of our beautiful heroine (Janet Leigh) features 77 camera angles and almost as many cuts (and string shrieks from composer Bernard Herrmann). It’s one of the most perfect moments in all of cinema. And there’s so much to unpack from those three minutes alone; everything in t...
The Innocents is one of the most evocatively shot horror films of all time. Both narratively and visually, this ghost tale is about what we do in the shadows. The black and white cinematography makes candle flickers unpredictable, the space under a doorway extra creepy, but Jack Clayton also uses it to highlight the black-and-white approach of righ...
The Birds was the most difficult film (wrangling all those birds and using very primitive technology) to make for Alfred Hitchcock. It doesn’t stand up as well now in comparison to many of his other classics, simply because the technological advancements years later makes us aware that in most attack scenes the birds diving are overlaid over the ac...
Many of the great ghost stories embrace our skepticism of whether our protagonists are actually haunted by ghosts or just losing their minds to unexplained sounds, forgotten placements of objects, and their mind fills in the blanks in ways that then present spooky visages. Robert Wise’s The Haunting presents this as a dare. There’s a spooky mansion...
Mario Bava changed horror forever with Blood and Black Lace. Already a horror maestro, Bava kicked off the giallo genre (Italian bloodletters) with highly stylized and gruesome kills, interesting point of view shots that withheld the killer’s identity while also gave up close vantage points for slicing and strangling, and set colors that were as br...
Robert Aldrich made diva camp before that was even a known thing. Sunset Boulevard was the first film to truly make use of a faded Hollywood star, but there it presented the older Hollywood star as having a diseased wish for continued applause. In 1962, Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? allowed Bette Davis and Joan Crawford to go full on d...
Roman Polanski’s first English-language film follows a fractured woman who fears penetration from every man she encounters. It’s also a film that breaks into new fractures due to the grotesque and crooked turns in Polanski’s personal life that came later (the brainwashed cult murder of his wife and child, and his drugged rape of a teenager). There’...
1 day ago · The 60 Best 1960s Horror Movies. Unearth the best 1960s movies ever and you’ll see the decade started off screaming. Psycho titillated audiences showing Janet Leigh in a bra before...
Learn more. A pretty good for horror. When the genre was starting to get more creative and violent after Psycho in 1960 changed the way of filmmaking and brought it into a new direction.
1. Horror of Dracula. 1958 1h 22m Approved. 7.2 (29K) Rate. 67 Metascore. When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain. Director Terence Fisher Stars Peter Cushing Christopher Lee Michael Gough. 2.
Oct 29, 2021 · The '60s was a time of great upheaval, and horror reflected that. Here's the best horror movies from that decade.
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Oct 21, 2023 · The Best Horror Movies of the 1960s. With filmmakers like Hitchcock, Romero, Bava, Wise, and Corman doing some of their best work, the 1960s was a golden age for horror movies.
