10 Best Horror Movies of 1955
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The films listed below include 1955 horror movies; including movies shown in movie theaters ranked in order of best to worst.
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List of horror movies released in 1955 list sorted by popular, most voted, and alphabetical order. Check out which movie was the top grossing movie of 1955.
10 Best Horror Movies of 1955
Score: 4.93/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 2,810 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: After a nuclear war, an unlikely group of people, including a rancher, a geologist, a crook and his girlfriend, find themselves trapped in the middle of nowhere while battling an ugly mutant created by Paul Blaisdell. The geologist and the crook also find the time to fight over the rancher's daughter, while the moll fumes.
Tagline: ATTACKED... by a...
Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Mike Connors, Paul Birch
Score: 3.45/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 7,382 | Rotten Tomatoes: 1.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $1,100,000
Plot / Synopsis: The Creature from the Black Lagoon has been captured by scientists and transported to an aquarium in south Florida. Once there he becomes attracted to the lovely female scientist and manages to escape and kidnap her, and heads to Jacksonville, with her real life love in pursuit..
Tagline: Weird Monster Escapes! Terror Seizes City! ...a woman's beauty the lure...
Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva, Grandon Rhodes
Score: 5.95/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,841 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: After an encounter at sea with an unknown underwater creature, a naval commander works with two scientists to identify it. The creature they are dealing with is a giant, radioactive octopus that has left its normal feeding grounds in search of new sources of replenishment. As the creature attacks San Francisco, the Navy tries to trap it at the...
Director: Robert Gordon
Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Ian Keith, Dean Maddox Jr.
Score: 6.7/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 11,130 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.5/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: The electronic engineer Dr. Cal Meacham is a prominent scientist that is studying industrial application of nuclear energy and also a great pilot. One day, he receives a different condenser and soon his assistant Joe Wilson receives a manual instruction and several components of a sophisticated machine. Carl and Joe build a communication apparatus and a man called Exeter...
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Stars: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller, Russell Johnson
Score: 4/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,592 | Rotten Tomatoes: 1.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Bud and Lou find themselves pursued by an Egyptian cult for a special medallion linked to a walking mummy.
Tagline: It's Mummy's Day for Bud and Lou! (poster)...
Director: Charles Lamont
Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Dan Seymour
Score: 7.85/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 11,420 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved | Gross: $1,100,000
Plot / Synopsis: In the Arizona desert, Professor Gerald Deemer is experimenting with growth hormones in the hopes of finding a way to increase the world's food supply. His partner in the project was recently found dead in the desert, suffering from a disease that normally takes years to advance but, in his case, seems to have afflicted him in only a...
Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott
What We Thought of Diabolique
Score: 8.52/10 | IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 71,857 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Diabolique is Streaming on HBO MaxPlot / Synopsis: The wife and mistress of a sad**tic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school's filthy swimming pool... but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his 'killers' (and the audience) up the wall with...
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
Horror Movies of 1955 List
What We Thought of DiaboliqueScore: 8.52/10 | IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 71,857 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Diabolique is Streaming on HBO MaxPlot / Synopsis: The wife and mistress of a sad**tic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school's filthy swimming pool... but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his 'killers' (and the audience) up the wall with...
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Stars: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
Score: 7.85/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 11,420 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved | Gross: $1,100,000
Plot / Synopsis: In the Arizona desert, Professor Gerald Deemer is experimenting with growth hormones in the hopes of finding a way to increase the world's food supply. His partner in the project was recently found dead in the desert, suffering from a disease that normally takes years to advance but, in his case, seems to have afflicted him in only a...
Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott
Score: 6.7/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 11,130 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.5/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: The electronic engineer Dr. Cal Meacham is a prominent scientist that is studying industrial application of nuclear energy and also a great pilot. One day, he receives a different condenser and soon his assistant Joe Wilson receives a manual instruction and several components of a sophisticated machine. Carl and Joe build a communication apparatus and a man called Exeter...
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Stars: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller, Russell Johnson
Score: 5.95/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,841 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: After an encounter at sea with an unknown underwater creature, a naval commander works with two scientists to identify it. The creature they are dealing with is a giant, radioactive octopus that has left its normal feeding grounds in search of new sources of replenishment. As the creature attacks San Francisco, the Navy tries to trap it at the...
Director: Robert Gordon
Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Ian Keith, Dean Maddox Jr.
Score: 4.93/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 2,810 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: After a nuclear war, an unlikely group of people, including a rancher, a geologist, a crook and his girlfriend, find themselves trapped in the middle of nowhere while battling an ugly mutant created by Paul Blaisdell. The geologist and the crook also find the time to fight over the rancher's daughter, while the moll fumes.
Tagline: ATTACKED... by a...
Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Mike Connors, Paul Birch
Score: 4.85/10 | IMDB Rating: 4.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 7,932 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.5/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Rumours abound about what may go on at a creepy mansion just out of town. The house is owned by Dr. Eric Vornoff who is conducting experiments to turn people into super-beings through the use of atomic power. Reporter Janet Lawton decides to look into what is going there and its possible connection to men that have disappeared in...
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy, Loretta King, Harvey B. Dunn
Score: 4.17/10 | IMDB Rating: 3.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,866 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: An alien space craft lands in the desert. The alien takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through them. The animals attack and the terror begins.
Tagline: Prepare for a close encounter of the terrifying kind!...
Directors: David Kramarsky, Roger Corman, Lou Place
Stars: Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent, Leonard Tarver
Score: 4/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,592 | Rotten Tomatoes: 1.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Bud and Lou find themselves pursued by an Egyptian cult for a special medallion linked to a walking mummy.
Tagline: It's Mummy's Day for Bud and Lou! (poster)...
Director: Charles Lamont
Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Dan Seymour
Score: 3.49/10 | IMDB Rating: 2.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,727 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A new planet moves into our solar system and four scientists (two couples) are sent to explore Planet Nova. In between romantic interludes, the cast faces an iguana masquerading as a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Tagline: NEVER A THRILL LIKE THIS! (original print ad - all caps)...
Director: Bert I. Gordon
Stars: William Bryant, Wanda Curtis, Douglas Henderson, Patti Gallagher, Marvin Miller
Score: 3.45/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 7,382 | Rotten Tomatoes: 1.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $1,100,000
Plot / Synopsis: The Creature from the Black Lagoon has been captured by scientists and transported to an aquarium in south Florida. Once there he becomes attracted to the lovely female scientist and manages to escape and kidnap her, and heads to Jacksonville, with her real life love in pursuit..
Tagline: Weird Monster Escapes! Terror Seizes City! ...a woman's beauty the lure...
Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva, Grandon Rhodes
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10 List of 1955 Horror Films Worth Watching!
Looking for the best 1955 horror movies? Included in our best horror movies of 1955 list are "Diabolique (1955), Tarantula (1955), This Island Earth (1955), It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), and Day the World Ended (1955)." Our top list is an average of our review scores, our movie fans and movie viewers like you, and a few other sources.
The best horror film of 1955 is Diabolique (1955) scoring 8.52/10 stars with our combined scores. IMDB already has over 71,860 votes for this movie. Starring in Diabolique (1955) is Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, and Jean Brochard. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot did a phenomenal job treating us with this 1955 best horror film which was remarkable.Diabolique (1955) is in Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery, and Crime movie genres.
The next best 1955 horror movie is Tarantula (1955) with a score of 7.85/10 stars.
John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, and Ross Elliott star in "Tarantula (1955)". Tarantula (1955) is directed by Jack Arnold and has over 11,420 IMDB votes. You can find Tarantula (1955) in Horror, and Sci-Fi movie genres.
These are the best horror films of 1955, and we hope you enjoy the 10 movies on our list of good 1955 horror movies sorted best to worst.
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