15 Best Horror Movies of 1960
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The films listed below include 1960 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 1960 list sorted by popular, most voted, and alphabetical order. Check out which movie was the top grossing movie of 1960.
15 Best Horror Movies of 1960
Score: 5.06/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 668 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Five beautiful showgirls are trapped by a storm and find refuge in a creepy old castle. The owner of the castle, a strange nobleman, has a secret laboratory in the basement and has his own plans for the girls.
Tagline: 5 Playgirls Walked Innocently Into His Arms...only to meet the devil in the flesh!...
Director: Piero Regnoli
Stars: Walter Brandi, Lyla Rocco, Maria Giovannini, Alfredo Rizzo, Marisa Quattrini
Score: 5.34/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 704 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A troupe of beautiful young dancers find themselves stranded in a sinister, spooky old castle, not knowing that it is home to a group of vampires.
Tagline: BLOOD-LUSTING FIEND WHO PREYS ON GIRLS! VAMPIRE-QUEEN WHO FEEDS ON LIFEBLOOD OF MEN!...
Director: Renato Polselli
Stars: Hélène Rémy, Tina Gloriani, Walter Brandi, Isarco Ravaioli, Gino Turini
Score: 5.2/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 2,643 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, deformed by bombs from the war. Later he becomes the owner of the circus, and continues transforming disfigured women into the beautiful stars of his show...
Director: Sidney Hayers
Stars: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton
Top 10 Horror Movies 1960
Score: 7.3/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 3,602 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Tagline: Sometimes, Terror Has A Handsome Face...
Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Norma Marla
Score: 5.43/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,528 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Young Carmilla is jealous of her friend's engagement, and her obsession leads her to the tomb of a female vampire. The vampire possesses her and leads her to kill and terrorise the inhabitants of the estate. But is it all in her mind, or is she really under the control of an ancient vampire ancestor?
Tagline: Beyond Reason! Beyond...
Director: Roger Vadim
Stars: Mel Ferrer, Elsa Martinelli, Annette Stroyberg, Alberto Bonucci, René-Jean Chauffard
Score: 7.25/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 9,418 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.9/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Vampire hunter Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on beautiful young schoolteacher Marianne.
Tagline: He Turned Innocent Beauty Into Unspeakable Horror...
Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson, David Peel
Score: 7.1/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 9,029 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.5/10 | MPAA Rating: PG-13
Plot / Synopsis: A young coed (Nan Barlow) uses her winter vacation to research a paper on witchcraft in New England. Her professor recommends that she spend her time in a small village called Whitewood. He originally cam from that village so he also recommends she stay at the "Raven's Inn," run by a Mrs. Newlis. She gets to the village and...
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Stars: Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel, Tom Naylor, Betta St. John
Score: 5.56/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 4,804 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell...
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata, Hiroshi Hayashi, Jun Ôtomo
Score: 8.1/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 20,310 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | Metascore: 7.7/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: In the small English village of Midwich everybody and everything falls into a deep, mysterious sleep for several hours in the middle of the day. Some months later every woman capable of child-bearing is pregnant and the children that are born out of these pregnancies seem to grow very fast and they all have the same blond hair and...
Director: Wolf Rilla
Stars: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips
Score: 5.83/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 2,149 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Jean Carter, nine-year-old daughter of the town's newly-appointed school principal, Peter Carter and his wife Sally, is playing in the woods with her 11-year-old friend Lucille, when Jean discovers she has lost her purse containing her "candy" money. Lucille tells her she knows where they can get sweets for nothing, and leads her to an imposing mansion, from which...
Director: Cyril Frankel
Stars: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis, Alison Leggatt
In-Depth Eyes Without a Face Review
Score: 8.5/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 37,442 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.7/10 | Metascore: 9.0/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved | Gross: $58,565
Plot / Synopsis: A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured, and goes to extremes to give her a new face...
Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba
What We Thought of Peeping Tom
Score: 8.39/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 42,458 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.6/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated | Gross: $36,598
Plot / Synopsis: A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dy**g expressions of terror.Tagline: Stark Terror Meets Art in a Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse. (DVD)...
Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce
Honest Review: Psycho (1960)
Score: 9.2/10 | IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 757,065 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.7/10 | Metascore: 9.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $32,181,230
Psycho is Streaming on Netflix, PeacockPlot / Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock cult fave Psycho (1960) had an estimated movie budget of $806.9K and grossed $32 million at the box office, that is a huge success. A secretary on the run after stealing $40K from her former employer and checks into The Bates Motel. Norman Bates became a household name in this classic horror film. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, and...
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam
Horror Movies of 1960 List
Honest Review: Psycho (1960)Score: 9.2/10 | IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 757,065 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.7/10 | Metascore: 9.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $32,181,230
Psycho is Streaming on Netflix, PeacockPlot / Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock cult fave Psycho (1960) had an estimated movie budget of $806.9K and grossed $32 million at the box office, that is a huge success. A secretary on the run after stealing $40K from her former employer and checks into The Bates Motel. Norman Bates became a household name in this classic horror film. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, and...
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam
In-Depth Eyes Without a Face ReviewScore: 8.5/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 37,442 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.7/10 | Metascore: 9.0/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved | Gross: $58,565
Plot / Synopsis: A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured, and goes to extremes to give her a new face...
Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba
What We Thought of Peeping TomScore: 8.39/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 42,458 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.6/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated | Gross: $36,598
Plot / Synopsis: A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dy**g expressions of terror.Tagline: Stark Terror Meets Art in a Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse. (DVD)...
Director: Michael Powell
Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce
Score: 8.1/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 20,310 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | Metascore: 7.7/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: In the small English village of Midwich everybody and everything falls into a deep, mysterious sleep for several hours in the middle of the day. Some months later every woman capable of child-bearing is pregnant and the children that are born out of these pregnancies seem to grow very fast and they all have the same blond hair and...
Director: Wolf Rilla
Stars: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips
Score: 7.3/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 3,602 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Tagline: Sometimes, Terror Has A Handsome Face...
Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Norma Marla
Score: 7.25/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 9,418 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.9/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Vampire hunter Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on beautiful young schoolteacher Marianne.
Tagline: He Turned Innocent Beauty Into Unspeakable Horror...
Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson, David Peel
Score: 7.1/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 9,029 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.5/10 | MPAA Rating: PG-13
Plot / Synopsis: A young coed (Nan Barlow) uses her winter vacation to research a paper on witchcraft in New England. Her professor recommends that she spend her time in a small village called Whitewood. He originally cam from that village so he also recommends she stay at the "Raven's Inn," run by a Mrs. Newlis. She gets to the village and...
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Stars: Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel, Tom Naylor, Betta St. John
Score: 5.83/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 2,149 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Jean Carter, nine-year-old daughter of the town's newly-appointed school principal, Peter Carter and his wife Sally, is playing in the woods with her 11-year-old friend Lucille, when Jean discovers she has lost her purse containing her "candy" money. Lucille tells her she knows where they can get sweets for nothing, and leads her to an imposing mansion, from which...
Director: Cyril Frankel
Stars: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis, Alison Leggatt
Score: 5.8/10 | IMDB Rating: 4.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,915 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population. Freed from his watery tomb, as well, is a very friendly Neanderthal man who proceeds to befriend a local orphan boy. The boy, Neanderthal and irritated dinosaur make for an interesting dramatic climax.
Tagline: Alive With Thrills!...
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Stars: Ward Ramsey, Paul Lukather, Kristina Hanson, Alan Roberts, Fred Engelberg
Score: 5.56/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 4,804 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell...
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yôichi Numata, Hiroshi Hayashi, Jun Ôtomo
Score: 5.43/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,528 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Young Carmilla is jealous of her friend's engagement, and her obsession leads her to the tomb of a female vampire. The vampire possesses her and leads her to kill and terrorise the inhabitants of the estate. But is it all in her mind, or is she really under the control of an ancient vampire ancestor?
Tagline: Beyond Reason! Beyond...
Director: Roger Vadim
Stars: Mel Ferrer, Elsa Martinelli, Annette Stroyberg, Alberto Bonucci, René-Jean Chauffard
Score: 5.34/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 704 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A troupe of beautiful young dancers find themselves stranded in a sinister, spooky old castle, not knowing that it is home to a group of vampires.
Tagline: BLOOD-LUSTING FIEND WHO PREYS ON GIRLS! VAMPIRE-QUEEN WHO FEEDS ON LIFEBLOOD OF MEN!...
Director: Renato Polselli
Stars: Hélène Rémy, Tina Gloriani, Walter Brandi, Isarco Ravaioli, Gino Turini
Score: 5.2/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 2,643 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, deformed by bombs from the war. Later he becomes the owner of the circus, and continues transforming disfigured women into the beautiful stars of his show...
Director: Sidney Hayers
Stars: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton
Score: 5.06/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 668 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Five beautiful showgirls are trapped by a storm and find refuge in a creepy old castle. The owner of the castle, a strange nobleman, has a secret laboratory in the basement and has his own plans for the girls.
Tagline: 5 Playgirls Walked Innocently Into His Arms...only to meet the devil in the flesh!...
Director: Piero Regnoli
Stars: Walter Brandi, Lyla Rocco, Maria Giovannini, Alfredo Rizzo, Marisa Quattrini
Score: 4.71/10 | IMDB Rating: 4.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 3,103 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A man lets a former flame fall to her death rather than let her interfere with his new relationship, but her ghost returns to disrupt his impending nuptials.
Tagline: A ghost-woman owned him body and soul!...
Director: Bert I. Gordon
Stars: Richard Carlson, Susan Gordon, Lugene Sanders, Juli Reding, Joe Turkel
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15 List of 1960 Horror Films Worth Watching!
Looking for the best 1960 horror movies? Included in our best horror movies of 1960 list are "Psycho (1960), Eyes Without a Face (1960), Peeping Tom (1960), Village of the Damned (1960), and The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)." 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 1960 is Psycho (1960) scoring 9.2/10 stars with our combined scores. IMDB already has over 757,070 votes for this movie. Starring in Psycho (1960) is Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Martin Balsam. Director Alfred Hitchcock did a phenomenal job treating us with this 1960 best horror film which was remarkable.Psycho (1960) is in Horror, Thriller, Drama, and Mystery movie genres.
The next best 1960 horror movie is Eyes Without a Face (1960) with a score of 8.5/10 stars.
Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, and Béatrice Altariba star in "Eyes Without a Face (1960)". Eyes Without a Face (1960) is directed by Georges Franju and has over 37,440 IMDB votes. You can find Eyes Without a Face (1960) in Horror, and Drama movie genres.
These are the best horror films of 1960, and we hope you enjoy the 15 movies on our list of good 1960 horror movies sorted best to worst.
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