List of horror films from the 1950s

The list of horror films from the 1950s gives a chronological overview of productions made in this genre between 1950 and 1959 . When using it, it should be noted that the majority of the films listed overlap with related genres from the field of fantasy such as science fiction and fantasy , but also crime films and comedy . The list does not claim to be complete.

1951

title	Director	Country of production
The thing from another world	Christian Nyby	United States
Behind the walls of horror	Joseph Pevney	United States

1952

title	Director	Country of production
Mandrake	Arthur Maria Rabenalt	BR Germany
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire	John Gilling	United Kingdom

1953

title	Director	Country of production
Donovan's brain	Felix E. Feist	United States
Professor Bondi's cabinet	André De Toth	United States
Panic in New York	Eugène Lourié	United States

1954

title	Director	Country of production
Formicula	Gordon Douglas	United States
Godzilla	Ishirō Honda	Japan
The horror of the Amazon	Jack Arnold	United States

1955

title	Director	Country of production
Abbott and Costello as mummy robbers	Charles Lamont	United States
Dementia	John Parker	United States
The horror from below	Robert Gordon	United States
The monster's revenge	Jack Arnold	United States
The Strangler's Revenge	Ed Wood	United States
shock	Val Guest	United Kingdom
Tarantula	Jack Arnold	United States

1956

title	Director	Country of production
Bad seeds	Mervyn LeRoy	United States
The demonic	Don Siegel	United States
It Conquered the World	Roger Corman	United States
The Chamber of Horrors of Dr. Thosti	Reginald Le Borg	United States
The vampire of Notre Dame	Riccardo Freda , Mario Bava	Italy
XX unknown	Leslie Norman	United Kingdom

1957

title	Director	Country of production
Attack of the giant claw	Fred F. Sears	United States
Beginning of the end	Bert I. Gordon	United States
Enemies out of nowhere	Val Guest	United Kingdom
The demon's curse	Jacques Tourneur	United Kingdom
Frankenstein's curse	Terence Fisher	United Kingdom
The secret of the stone monster	John Sherwood	United States
Envoy of horror	Roger Corman	United States
Always at nightfall	Paul Landres	United States
The maldición de la momia azteca	Rafael Portillo	Mexico
Death has black claws	Gene Fowler Jr.	United States
The incredible story of Mister C.	Jack Arnold	United States
Yeti, the snowman	Val Guest	United Kingdom

1958

title	Director	Country of production
Blob, horror without a name	Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. , Russell S. Doughten Jr.	United States
The demon with the bloody hands	Henry Cass	United Kingdom
Dracula	Terence Fisher	United Kingdom
Dracula's Blood Night	Paul Landres	United States
It happened in broad daylight	Ladislao Vajda	Federal Republic of Germany / Switzerland / Spain
The fly	Kurt Neumann	United States
Frankenstein's revenge	Terence Fisher	United Kingdom
The witch's kitchen of Dr. Rambov	Howard W. Koch	United States
Macabre	William Castle	United States
The revenge of the black spider	Bert I. Gordon	United States
The horror creeps through the night	Jack Arnold	United States
Monster without a face	Arthur Crabtree	United Kingdom
Vertigo - From the realm of the dead	Alfred Hitchcock	United States

1959

title	Director	Country of production
The house on the haunted hill	William Castle	United States
The night of the sinister beasts	Ray Kellogg	United States
The naked woman and Satan	Victor Trivas	BR Germany
Plan 9 from space	Ed Wood	United States
The revenge of the pharaohs	Terence Fisher	United Kingdom
Scream when the Tingler comes	William Castle	United States
The black museum	Arthur Crabtree	United Kingdom
Outwitted death	Terence Fisher	United Kingdom
The Loch Ness Monster	Douglas Hickox , Eugène Lourié	United Kingdom / United States
The wasp woman	Roger Corman , Jack Hill	United States

See also

• List of ghost movies
• List of slasher films
• List of splatter films
• List of vampire films
• List of werewolf films
• Zombie movie

Individual evidence

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