Favorite Horror Movies (1960-1969)


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Everything I've rated 7 or higher.

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La Maschera del demonio (Black Sunday) (House of Fright) (Mask of the Demon) (1960,  R)
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Black Sabbath (I Tre volti della paura) (The Three Faces of Fear) (The Three Faces of Terror) (1963,  Unrated)
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The Brides of Dracula (1960,  Unrated)
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965,  Unrated)
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Carnival of Souls (1962,  Unrated)
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Circus of Horrors (Phantom of the Circus) (1960,  Unrated)
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The Collector (The Butterfly Collector) (1965,  Unrated)
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Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961,  Unrated)
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The Curse of the Werewolf, (The Wolfman), (The Curse of Siniestro) (1961,  Unrated)
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969,  Unrated)
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Dead Ringer (1964,  Unrated)
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Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel (Blood of the Virgins)(The Blood Demon)(Torture Chamber) (1967,  Unrated)
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Eyes Without a Face (,  Unrated)
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House of Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) (1960,  Unrated)
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Homicidal (1961,  Unrated)
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Incubus (1965,  Unrated)
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The Innocents (1961,  Unrated)
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Kill, Baby, Kill (Operazione paura) (Curse of the Living Dead) (Don't Walk in the Park) (1966,  PG)
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Kaidan (Kwaidan) (Ghost Stories) (1964,  Unrated)
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The Little Shop of Horrors (,  R)
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Marat/Sade (1967,  Unrated)
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964,  R)
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Matango:Attack of the Mushroom People (1963,  Unrated)
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Miss Muerte (Miss Death and Dr. Z in the Grip of the Maniac) (The Diabolical Dr. Z) (1967,  Unrated)
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The Nanny (1965,  Unrated)
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Nightmare (Here's the Knife, Dear: Now Use It) (1964,  Unrated)
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Night of the Living Dead (1968,  Unrated)
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Onibaba (1965,  Unrated)
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Peeping Tom (1960,  Unrated)
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The Phantom of the Opera (1962,  Unrated)
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Pit and the Pendulum (The Pit and the Pendulum) (1961,  Unrated)
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The Power (1968,  Unrated)
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Pretty Poison (She Let Him Continue) (1968,  R)
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Psycho (1960,  R)
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Quatermass and the Pit (Five Million Years to Earth)(The Mind Benders) (1967,  Unrated)
Quatermass and the Pit (Five Million Years to Earth)(The Mind Benders)
Workers at the Hobb's End Underground Transport unearth skeletal remains that seem to date back five-million years. They also hit a strange non-metallic plate that ends up being part of an alien spacecraft. Perplexed by the substance, which is harder than diamond and resistant to the 3000 degree flames from a blow-torch, some conflicting experts are called in to investigate. Derelict apartments across the street from the excavation site have strange claw marks on the walls. A hidden compartment on the ship also houses some dead, medium-sized, horned, green, insect-like creatures. But it's really the ship itself that poses the strongest threat. And what is lying dormant in all of our minds. The military, of course, continually butt heads with the scientists and call the whole discovery a hoax (a "German propaganda item" from World War II).

But Professor Bernard Quatermass (Andrew Keir) thinks otherwise and proposes a theory that offends just about everyone involved; managing to question both creationism and evolution. Quatermass comes to the conclusion that millions of years ago, aliens landed on Earth, removed primitive apes and took them back to their home planet (which may have been Mars) for experimentation. They continued to do so, each time making them more intelligent until man was eventually born? He could be right, but not necessarily. The government definitely is on the wrong track and open up the site to the general public. The dormant evil is unleashed and those exposed to it become mindless and violent. Buildings collapse, fires start, citizens go on a rampage and London will eventually be completely leveled if Quatermass and chief archaeologist Dr. Roney (James Donald) can't stop it. Barbara Shelley co-stars as Barbara Judd, an assistant who has visions of an alien colony and becomes possessed, eventually getting socked in the face by Quatermass himself! Julian Glover is the close-minded militarist who's fried into crispy critter.

All four of the principal actors are excellent in this intelligent, thoughtful, sometimes humorous and multi-layered science-fiction film, which raises an impressive number of interesting questions.
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The Reptile (1966,  Unrated)
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Repulsion (1965,  Unrated)
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La Residencia (The House That Screamed) (The Boarding School) (The Finishing School) (1969,  Unrated)
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Rosemary's Baby (1968,  R)
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The Sadist (1963,  Unrated)
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Seconds (1966,  R)
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Shadow of the Cat (1961,  Unrated)
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Spider Baby, or The Maddest Story Ever Told (Attack of the Liver Eaters) (1968,  Unrated)
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Spirits of the Dead (1969,  R)
Spirits of the Dead
Three top European directors take on the works of Edgar Allan Poe in what is one of my favorite anthology horrors, right up there with DEAD OF NIGHT (1945) and BLACK SABBATH (1963).

Roger Vadim's "Metzengerstein" is incredibly beautiful. It was shot around great-looking, crumbling oceanfront castles and is remarkably photographed, costumed and scored, it's just a shame the core plotting is so weak. The evil Baroness Frederique (Jane Fonda, the directors wife at the time) is an insatiable tyrant who presides over orgies and sadistic, dehumanizing games. When she destroys a pure soul, her distant cousin Wilhelm (Peter Fonda), horses and fire play a key role in her demise.

"William Wilson," by Louis Malle, is an entertaining reworking of the old doppelganger theme starring Alain Delon as a pure lout AND his better half, a exact copy who drives him crazy by putting a halt to his evil impulses. Odd story structure here and Brigitte Bardot (in a black wig) is good support during a fateful card game. And then comes the really good stuff.

"Toby Dammit" (released separately as "Never Bet the Devil Your Head"), a brilliant and sometimes very chilling piece of enigmatic filmmaking from Federico Fellini. Terence Stamp is a marvel of facial expressions as boozy, obnoxious British movie star Toby Dammit, who falls apart at the seems upon arriving in Italy to start production on a Western reworking of the story of Christ. Instead he becomes imprisoned in his own personal hell. In every possible technical department, this segment is a triumph and the creepy finale (borrowing a key image from Mario Bava's KILL, BABY, KILL!) has lost absolutely none of its impact.

The score by Nino Rota and cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno deserve special recognition, as well. The version I saw (titled TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION) is subtitled, but a dubbed version also exists featuring narration by Vincent Price.
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Strait-Jacket (1964,  Unrated)
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Taste of Fear (Scream of Fear) (1961,  Unrated)
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The Tomb of Ligeia (Tomb of the Cat) (1965,  Unrated)
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Two Thousand Maniacs (1964,  Unrated)
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Venus in Furs (1970,  R)
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Village of the Damned (1960,  R)
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1960,  Unrated)
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La frusta e il corpo (The Whip and The Body) (1963,  Unrated)
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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963,  Unrated)

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