My list of the 30 worst Horror films 1930-1980{no particular order}...
by Franklfw | created - 12 Apr 2017 | updated - 12 Apr 2017 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
GP | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
Directors: Al Adamson, Samuel M. Sherman | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney Jr., Zandor Vorkov, Anthony Eisley
Votes: 2,244
2. The Unearthly (1957)
Approved | 73 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Mad doctor uses patients at his isolated psychiatric institute as subjects in his attempts to create longevity by surgically installing an artificial gland in their skulls, with disastrous results.
Director: Boris Petroff | Stars: John Carradine, Myron Healey, Allison Hayes, Marilyn Buferd
Votes: 1,887
3. Teenage Zombies (1959)
Approved | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves.
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Steve Conte, J.L.D. Morrison
Votes: 1,260
4. Monster a Go-Go (1965)
TV-PG | 68 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A space capsule crash-lands on Earth, and the astronaut aboard disappears. Is there a connection between the missing man and the monster roaming the area?
Directors: Bill Rebane, Herschell Gordon Lewis | Stars: Philip Morton, June Travis, George Perry, Lois Brooks
Votes: 10,078
5. The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Unrated | 54 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A defecting Soviet scientist is hit by a nuclear explosion near Yucca Flats and roams around as a beast.
Director: Coleman Francis | Stars: Douglas Mellor, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford, Larry Aten
Votes: 10,431
6. The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Musical
Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.
Director: Del Tenney | Stars: John Lyon, Alice Lyon, Allan Laurel, Eulabelle Moore
Votes: 3,192
7. The Astro-Zombies (1968)
92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The Plan - to build a super human. How? By murdering innocent, convenient victims, and using various bits of them. The result? Creatures on the rampage.
Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tom Pace, Joan Patrick
Votes: 2,786
8. I Eat Your Skin (1971)
GP | 92 min | Horror
A playboy adventure novelist joins his publisher on an expedition to Voodoo Island in the Caribbean, where a cancer researcher is being forced to turn the tribes-people into zombies.
Director: Del Tenney | Stars: William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Walter Coy, Dan Stapleton
Votes: 1,659
9. The Crawling Hand (1963)
Approved | 89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Peter Breck, Kent Taylor, Rod Lauren, Alan Hale Jr.
Votes: 2,013
10. Gallery of Horror (1967)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"Gallery of Horror" is a 1967 anthology horror movie with John Carradine narrating five horror tales with macabre twists.
Director: David L. Hewitt | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Rochelle Hudson, Roger Gentry
Votes: 805
11. Orgy of the Dead (1965)
Unrated | 92 min | Fantasy, Horror
A couple driving to a cemetery looking for inspiration for a horror story encounters the dancing dead.
Director: Stephen C. Apostolof | Stars: Criswell, Fawn Silver, Pat Barrington, William Bates
Votes: 3,319
12. Kong Island (1968)
Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Eve is a jungle girl brought up by apes. She is captured with a number of apes by a mad scientist, conducting mind control experiments on them. Eventually she is liberated by a young explorer.
Director: Roberto Mauri | Stars: Brad Harris, Esmeralda Barros, Marc Lawrence, Adriana Alben
Votes: 954
13. The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965)
Unrated | 70 min | Horror
Surfers are being brutally murdered. Is the culprit a sea monster or just one of the teens' jealous parents?
Director: Jon Hall | Stars: Jon Hall, Sue Casey, Walker Edmiston, Elaine DuPont
Votes: 1,083
14. Blackenstein (1973)
R | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Eddie is a Vietnam war veteran who loses both his arms and his legs when he steps on a land mine. A brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs, but his assistant switches the DNA injections, transforming him into a huge hulking monster.
Director: William A. Levey | Stars: John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue, Roosevelt Jackson
Votes: 1,416
15. Curse of the Headless Horseman (1972)
PG | 75 min | Horror
A phantom horseman who appears every night with a human head tucked under his arm lets it be known that he is searching for eight gunfighters.
Director: John Kirkland | Stars: Ultra Violet, Marland Proctor, Claudia Reame, Don Carrara
Votes: 480
16. Blood Freak (1972)
X | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A biker gets a job at a turkey farm and agrees to act as guinea pig for some chemicals that need tested, failing to anticipate the murderous side effects.
Directors: Brad F. Grinter, Steve Hawkes | Stars: Steve Hawkes, Dana Cullivan, Randy Grinter, Heather Grinter
Votes: 1,819
17. Carnival of Blood (1970)
GP | 87 min | Horror
A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a carnival to pick his victims, who he then murders and dismembers.
Director: Leonard Kirtman | Stars: Earle Edgerton, Judith Resnick, Martin Barolsky, Kaly Mills
Votes: 638
18. Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)
GP | 85 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
In the near future with a intergalactic vampire plague threatening earth, an expedition is sent to a distant galaxy in hopes of discovering the plague's source. Landing on a mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Al Adamson | Stars: John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante, Joey Benson
Votes: 1,131
19. Laserblast (1978)
PG | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenager stumbles upon an alien weapon, which transforms him into a grotesque killer.
Director: Michael Rae | Stars: Kim Milford, Cheryl Smith, Gianni Russo, Ron Masak
Votes: 6,696
20. Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)
GP | 77 min | Horror
Somewhere in upstate New York, a secretive group of farmers are harvesting human blood for a mysterious purpose.
Director: Ed Adlum | Stars: Norman Kelley, Tanna Hunter, Bruce Detrick, Paul Craig Jennings
Votes: 1,129
21. Satan's Cheerleaders (1977)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
The janitor at a local high school is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for a virgin to sacrifice. One day he kidnaps the cheerleading squad to use for their ... See full summary »
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: John Ireland, Yvonne De Carlo, Jack Kruschen, John Carradine
Votes: 1,231
22. Mako: The Jaws of Death (1976)
PG | 86 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A Vietnam veteran with a psychic connection to sharks discovers their exploitation by the local aquarium and begins an underwater reign of terror to avenge them. The movie action scenes were shot using real sharks.
Director: William Grefé | Stars: Richard Jaeckel, Jennifer Bishop, Buffy Dee, Harold Sakata
Votes: 1,061
23. The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
PG | 92 min | Adventure, Crime, Horror
Fu Manchu seizes a Turkish castle for its stockpile of opium, as he needs the drug as part of his plot to freeze the Earth's oceans.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Howard Marion-Crawford, Günther Stoll
Votes: 2,305
24. Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
PG | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In New Mexico mineralogist student Paul Carlson is struck in the head by a tiny shard of a meteor causing him to unknowingly transform into a bloodthirsty reptilian creature.
Director: Richard Ashe | Stars: Chase Cordell, Leigh Drake, Gregorio Sala, Patrick Wright
Votes: 3,851
25. Doctor Dracula (1983)
R | 88 min | Horror
An evil hypnotist puts a beautiful woman under his spell.
Directors: Al Adamson, Paul Aratow | Stars: John Carradine, Don 'Red' Barry, Larry Hankin, Geoffrey Land
Votes: 497
26. Cathy's Curse (1977)
R | 82 min | Horror
A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her aunt, who died as a child in a car accident. Soon, people around her begin to mysteriously die off.
Director: Eddy Matalon | Stars: Alan Scarfe, Beverly Murray, Randi Allen, Dorothy Davis
Votes: 1,224
27. Ring of Terror (1961)
Unrated | 71 min | Drama, Horror
A group of medical students undertake some silly and frightening endeavors in order to pledge a fraternity.
Director: Clark L. Paylow | Stars: George E. Mather, Austin Green, Esther Furst, Norman Ollestad
Votes: 1,420
28. Cataclysm (1980)
R | 94 min | Horror
Mitchell, a police detective investigating the death of a victim of a German concentration camp, discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.
Directors: Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, Gregg G. Tallas | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Marc Lawrence, Faith Clift, Richard Moll
Votes: 709
29. Bigfoot (1970)
GP | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Bigfoot kidnaps some women and some bikers decide to go on a rescue mission to save them.
Director: Robert F. Slatzer | Stars: John Carradine, Joi Lansing, Judith Jordan, John Mitchum
Votes: 987
30. Zaat (1971)
PG | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist transforms himself into an aquatic killer.
Directors: Don Barton, Arnold Stevens | Stars: Marshall Grauer, Wade Popwell, Paul Galloway, Gerald Cruse
Votes: 5,310
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