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List of horror movies released in 1959 list sorted by popular, most voted, and alphabetical order. Check out which movie was the top grossing movie of 1959.
Plot / Synopsis: The monster, which looks like a snarling "Creature from the Black Lagoon," invades a sleepy seaside town. The lighthouse keeper, newly widowed and estranged from the town folk, has been leaving food out for the monster for years, unaware of it's blood lust. When the monster's appetite outstrips the keeper's ability to serve it, bloodless decapitated corpses start to...
Director: Irvin Berwick Stars: Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon, Frank Arvidson, Jeanne Carmen
Plot / Synopsis: An American reporter in Japan is sent to interview an eccentric Japanese scientist working on bizarre experiments in his mountain laboratory...Tagline: Half-Man, Half-Monster!...
Directors: George P. Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane Stars: Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Norman Van Hawley
Plot / Synopsis: One of only two survivors from a Martian expedition is so traumatized she doesn't remember the circumstances of the trip.
Tagline: Sights beyond belief! (Ad cuts)...
Director: Ib Melchior Stars: Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen, Paul Hahn
Plot / Synopsis: A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and that's the last his wife sees of him. Years later after a long search she finally tracks him down on his family's southern estate where she...
Director: Roy Del Ruth Stars: Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., George Macready, Frieda Inescort
Plot / Synopsis: Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing...
Tagline: Written, Produced and Directed to Scare the Daylights Out of You!...
Director: Edward L. Cahn Stars: Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Grant Richards, Henry Daniell, Lumsden Hare
Plot / Synopsis: The dumping of radioactive waste in the ocean disturbs a prehistoric monster than can project electric shocks and radioactive beams. After terrorizing the English coast, it is discovered that if the creature is destroyed with conventional weaponry it would spread a dangerous amount radioactive contamination over the entire country, with this fact preventing the military from attacking the monster...
Directors: Douglas Hickox, Eugène Lourié Stars: Gene Evans, André Morell, Leigh Madison, John Turner, Jack MacGowran
Plot / Synopsis: Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle Fran?ois attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.
Tagline: Blood-curdling giant fly creature runs amuck!!!...
Director: Edward Bernds Stars: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, David Frankham, John Sutton, Dan Seymour
Plot / Synopsis: Archaeologists investigating some Mayan ruins come across a blob-like monster. They manage to destroy it with fire...
Tagline: Slimy Glob of Doom Engulfs The World!...
Directors: Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava Stars: John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, Gérard Herter, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Vittorio André
Plot / Synopsis: The promotion announced that this film was released in "Hypnovision" which gives an idea of the story. A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotises his assistant to make him commit the required crimes.
Tagline: SEE! The Fantastic Binocular Murder! SEE! The Vat of Death!...
Director: Arthur Crabtree Stars: Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen
Plot / Synopsis: In 1888, Jack the Ripper is on his killing spree. Scotland Yard Inspector O'Neill is pleased to welcome to London his old friend Sam Lowry, a New York City detective who has come to visit him and is only too happy to help out with the case. Sam becomes attracted to Anne Ford, a modern woman for the age,...
Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman Stars: Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon, John Le Mesurier
Plot / Synopsis: A crazed killer known as "The Bat" is on the loose in a mansion full of people.
Tagline: P.S. After seeing 'The Bat' 7 out of 8 people will get cold feet tonight!...
Director: Crane Wilbur Stars: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton, Lenita Lane
Plot / Synopsis: A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth ad health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.
Tagline: HIS HIDEOUS OBSESSION LED HIM TO COMMIT GHASTLY CRIMES OF PASSION AND VIOLENCE...
Director: Terence Fisher Stars: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marlé, Delphi Lawrence
Plot / Synopsis: An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.
Tagline: Ghastly Beyond Belief!...
Director: William Castle Stars: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln
Plot / Synopsis: In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.
Tagline: Torn from the tomb to terrify the world!...
Director: Terence Fisher Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer
Plot / Synopsis: A millionaire offers ten thousand dollars to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
Tagline: See it with someone with warm hands!...
Director: William Castle Stars: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig
Plot / Synopsis: When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Tagline: Sherlock Holmes' Most Terrifying Adventure! [UK]...
Director: Terence Fisher Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, David Oxley
Plot / Synopsis: When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Tagline: Sherlock Holmes' Most Terrifying Adventure! [UK]...
Director: Terence Fisher Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, David Oxley
Plot / Synopsis: In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.
Tagline: Torn from the tomb to terrify the world!...
Director: Terence Fisher Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer
Plot / Synopsis: A millionaire offers ten thousand dollars to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
Tagline: See it with someone with warm hands!...
Director: William Castle Stars: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig
Plot / Synopsis: An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.
Tagline: Ghastly Beyond Belief!...
Director: William Castle Stars: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln
Plot / Synopsis: A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth ad health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.
Tagline: HIS HIDEOUS OBSESSION LED HIM TO COMMIT GHASTLY CRIMES OF PASSION AND VIOLENCE...
Director: Terence Fisher Stars: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marlé, Delphi Lawrence
Plot / Synopsis: In 1888, Jack the Ripper is on his killing spree. Scotland Yard Inspector O'Neill is pleased to welcome to London his old friend Sam Lowry, a New York City detective who has come to visit him and is only too happy to help out with the case. Sam becomes attracted to Anne Ford, a modern woman for the age,...
Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman Stars: Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon, John Le Mesurier
Plot / Synopsis: Archaeologists investigating some Mayan ruins come across a blob-like monster. They manage to destroy it with fire...
Tagline: Slimy Glob of Doom Engulfs The World!...
Directors: Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava Stars: John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, Gérard Herter, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Vittorio André
Plot / Synopsis: Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing...
Tagline: Written, Produced and Directed to Scare the Daylights Out of You!...
Director: Edward L. Cahn Stars: Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Grant Richards, Henry Daniell, Lumsden Hare
Plot / Synopsis: A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and that's the last his wife sees of him. Years later after a long search she finally tracks him down on his family's southern estate where she...
Director: Roy Del Ruth Stars: Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., George Macready, Frieda Inescort
Plot / Synopsis: The monster, which looks like a snarling "Creature from the Black Lagoon," invades a sleepy seaside town. The lighthouse keeper, newly widowed and estranged from the town folk, has been leaving food out for the monster for years, unaware of it's blood lust. When the monster's appetite outstrips the keeper's ability to serve it, bloodless decapitated corpses start to...
Director: Irvin Berwick Stars: Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon, Frank Arvidson, Jeanne Carmen
Plot / Synopsis: One of only two survivors from a Martian expedition is so traumatized she doesn't remember the circumstances of the trip.
Tagline: Sights beyond belief! (Ad cuts)...
Director: Ib Melchior Stars: Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen, Paul Hahn
Plot / Synopsis: An American reporter in Japan is sent to interview an eccentric Japanese scientist working on bizarre experiments in his mountain laboratory...Tagline: Half-Man, Half-Monster!...
Directors: George P. Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane Stars: Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Norman Van Hawley
Plot / Synopsis: Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle; when it's converted into a hotel, he stays on as a bellboy. His mysterious uncle arrives--and turns out to be a vampire. When his uncle vampirizes Osvaldo, the newly-minted blood-sucker gallops about the castle sipping from the necks of dozens of beautiful female guests...
Director: Steno Stars: Renato Rascel, Sylva Koscina, Lia Zoppelli, Kai Fischer, Franco Scandurra
Plot / Synopsis: Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle Fran?ois attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.
Tagline: Blood-curdling giant fly creature runs amuck!!!...
Director: Edward Bernds Stars: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, David Frankham, John Sutton, Dan Seymour
Plot / Synopsis: The promotion announced that this film was released in "Hypnovision" which gives an idea of the story. A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotises his assistant to make him commit the required crimes.
Tagline: SEE! The Fantastic Binocular Murder! SEE! The Vat of Death!...
Director: Arthur Crabtree Stars: Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen
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21 List of 1959 Horror Films Worth Watching!
Looking for the best 1959 horror movies? Included in our best horror movies of 1959 list are "The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), The Mummy (1959), House on Haunted Hill (1959), The Tingler (1959), and The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)." 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 1959 is The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) scoring 8.2/10 stars with our combined scores. IMDB already has over 13,590 votes for this movie. Starring in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) is Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, and David Oxley. Director Terence Fisher did a phenomenal job treating us with this 1959 best horror film which was remarkable.The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) is in Horror, and Mystery movie genres.
The next best 1959 horror movie is The Mummy (1959) with a score of 7.33/10 stars.
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, and Felix Aylmer star in "The Mummy (1959)". The Mummy (1959) is directed by Terence Fisher and has over 12,100 IMDB votes. You can find The Mummy (1959) in Horror, Fantasy, and Adventure movie genres.
These are the best horror films of 1959, and we hope you enjoy the 21 movies on our list of good 1959 horror movies sorted best to worst.
Please let us know if there is a movie that you think belongs on our list that we missed.
The next best 1959 horror movie is The Mummy (1959) with a score of 7.33/10 stars.
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, and Felix Aylmer star in "The Mummy (1959)". The Mummy (1959) is directed by Terence Fisher and has over 12,100 IMDB votes. You can find The Mummy (1959) in Horror, Fantasy, and Adventure movie genres.