Horror Movies By Year - 1961
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1. Akui ggot (1961)
Horror
A biologist creates a vine that drains its victims of their blood. He uses it to take revenge upon his enemies.
Director: Yong-min Lee | Stars: Ye-chun Lee, Kum-Bong Do, Seon-ae Ko, Chimi Kim
2. Bloodlust! (1961)
Approved | 68 min | Horror, Thriller
A crazed hunter kidnaps people and turns them loose on his private estate, where he hunts them for sport.
Director: Ralph Brooke | Stars: Wilton Graff, June Kenney, Walter Brooke, Robert Reed
Votes: 2,589
3. Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
Unrated | 63 min | Comedy, Horror
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson
Votes: 3,301
4. Dead Eyes of London (1961)
Not Rated | 104 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Wealthy, heavily-insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious "reverend."
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Baal, Dieter Borsche, Wolfgang Lukschy
Votes: 1,313
5. Devil's Partner (1960)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror
An old man sells his soul to the devil, and turns into a young man. He then uses witchcraft and black magic to win a woman from his rival.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau | Stars: Edgar Buchanan, Jean Allison, Richard Crane, Spencer Carlisle
Votes: 574
6. Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)
Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting; reviving the dead.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Kenneth J. Warren
Votes: 1,064
7. Du mang qing yuan (1961)
Horror
Director: Weibang Ma-Xu | Stars: Ching Chung, Sutasit Satayawon, Vilaiwan Wattanapanit, Pin Ho
8. El fistol del diablo (1961)
87 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Satan presents himself to the unwary, who for economic needs invoke him, presenting himself under the name of Lucero.
Director: Fernando Fernández | Stars: Roberto Cañedo, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Pascual García Peña, Mireya Sauza
Votes: 18
9. El mundo de los vampiros (1961)
83 min | Horror
A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the vampires in Europe.
Director: Alfonso Corona Blake | Stars: Guillermo Murray, Silvia Fournier, Mauricio Garcés, Erna Martha Bauman
Votes: 228
10. The Old Temple Well (1961)
78 min | Horror
Director: Kazuo Mori | Stars: Eiji Funakoshi, Yasuko Nakada, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Bonta Maru
Votes: 15
11. The Ghost Story of Oiwa's Spirit (1961)
94 min | Horror
Tamiya, an egomaniacal samurai, determines to reunite with his wife Oiwa, who's left him after a murder scandal. When her sister Osode is tricked into prostitution by a masseuse, Tamiya is ... See full summary »
Director: Tai Katô | Stars: Ayuko Fujishiro, Sentarô Fushimi, Jûshirô Konoe, Yumiko Mihara
Votes: 151
12. Goliath and the Vampires (1961)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Goliath must save the kidnapped women of his village from an evil zombie leader who needs their blood to feed his soldiers.
Directors: Sergio Corbucci, Giacomo Gentilomo | Stars: Gordon Scott, Leonora Ruffo, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale
Votes: 423
13. Gorgo (1961)
Unrated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus, inciting the wrath of the creature's mother.
Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter, Christopher Rhodes
Votes: 4,238
14. Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)
G | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Hercules must journey into Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Reg Park, Christopher Lee, Leonora Ruffo, George Ardisson
Votes: 2,352
15. Homicidal (1961)
Unrated | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce
Votes: 3,787
16. Honeymoon of Terror (1961)
62 min | Horror, Thriller
A couple honeymoons on a deserted isle called Thunder Island. When the husband leaves the island to go for supplies, the wife finds that the island isn't as deserted as they thought it was.
Director: Peter Perry Jr. | Stars: Dwan Marlow, Anton von Stralen, Doug Leith, Peter Perry Jr.
Votes: 129
17.
Kraft Mystery Theater (1961–1963)
Episode:
House of Mystery
(1961)
56 min | Crime, Mystery
A young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Nanette Newman, Maurice Kaufmann
Votes: 199
18. Juego diabólico (1961)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Satan presents himself to the unwary, who for economic needs invoke him, presenting himself under the name of Lucero.
Director: Fernando Fernández | Stars: Roberto Cañedo, Arturo Martínez, Agustín Isunza, Irma Carlón
19. Konga (1961)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Dr.Decker comes back from Africa. During one year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee and he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga' to 'get rid of them'.
Director: John Lemont | Stars: Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad, Claire Gordon
Votes: 2,165
20. Konsiyerto ng kamatayan (1961)
Horror
Directors: Abraham Cruz, Cirio H. Santiago, Danilo Santiago, Teodorico C. Santos, Teodoro Santos | Stars: Cesar Ramirez, Cecilia Lopez, Jose Garcia, Ruben Rustia
Votes: 11
21. The Curse of Nostradamus (1961)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them.
Directors: Federico Curiel, Stillman Segar | Stars: Germán Robles, Julio Alemán, Domingo Soler, Aurora Alvarado
Votes: 99
22. La marca del muerto (1961)
74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
Director: Fernando Cortés | Stars: Fernando Casanova, Sonia Furió, Rosa María Gallardo, Guillermo Cramer
Votes: 143
23. Locura de terror (1961)
90 min | Comedy, Horror, Fantasy
Director: Julián Soler | Stars: Germán Valdés, Manuel 'Loco' Valdés, Sonia Furió, Verónica Loyo
Votes: 41
24. Mga daing sa libingan (1961)
Horror
Directors: Armando De Guzman, Gil de Leon, Jose Miranda Cruz, Jose Velasco | Stars: Willie Sotelo, Myrna Delgado, Gloria Sevilla, Amado Cortez
25. Mi hun jing (1961)
Horror
Director: Pingqian Li | Stars: Sisi Chen, Hong Hong, Yuen Kao, Ciyu Li
26. Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska, Maria Chwalibóg
Votes: 4,316
27. Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mysterious and cruel Baron, whose face has become frozen in a horrifying grin, demands that a prominent London physician apply experimental treatments on him to restore his face.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Oscar Homolka, Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe
Votes: 3,644
28. Muñecos infernales (1961)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
Director: Benito Alazraki | Stars: Elvira Quintana, Ramón Gay, Roberto G. Rivera, Quintín Bulnes
Votes: 363
29. Nagsasalitang kalansay (1961)
Horror
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Director: Pablo Santiago | Stars: Myrna Delgado, Jose Romulo, Cielito Legaspi, Rodolfo Cristobal
30. No Place Like Homicide! (1961)
87 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Ernie's uncle has just died, but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. Before long, the guests begin to drop dead.
Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price
Votes: 1,011
31. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders
Votes: 16,406 | Gross: $4.36M
32. Reptilicus (1961)
Passed | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After copper miners discover a piece of the frozen tail of a giant prehistoric reptile in Lapland, scientists inadvertently bring it back to life.
Directors: Poul Bang, Sidney W. Pink | Stars: Bent Mejding, Asbjørn Andersen, Povl Wøldike, Ann Smyrner
Votes: 4,375
33. Sakristan mayor (1961)
Action, Drama, Horror
Director: Nemesio E. Caravana | Stars: Fernando Poe Jr., Johnny Monteiro, Mina Aragon, Oscar Keesee
34. Santo vs. Infernal Men (1961)
77 min | Adventure, Mystery
El Santo helps an undercover agent take down a gang of drug smugglers.
Directors: Joselito Rodríguez, Enrique Zambrano | Stars: Joaquín Cordero, Gina Romand, Enrique Zambrano, Jorge Marx
Votes: 135
35. 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
36. The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Approved | 93 min | Horror
In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller
Votes: 6,837
37. The Dead One (1961)
Not Rated | 68 min | Horror
A voodoo priestess sends out zombies to bring back live victims for her sacrificial rituals.
Director: Barry Mahon | Stars: John McKay, Linda Ormond, Monica Davis, Clyde Kelly
Votes: 270
38. The Devil's Hand (1961)
Approved | 71 min | Horror
A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a Satanic cult.
Director: William J. Hole Jr. | Stars: Linda Christian, Robert Alda, Ariadne Welter, Neil Hamilton
Votes: 1,427
39. The Devil's Messenger (1962)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Satan enlists the help of a suicide victim in Hell to lure unsuspecting earthly victims to their eternal doom. Contains three somewhat unrelated Twilight Zone-esque stories.
Directors: Herbert L. Strock, Curt Siodmak | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Karen Kadler, Michael Hinn, Ralph Brown
Votes: 534
40. The Innocents (1961)
Not Rated | 100 min | Horror
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave
Votes: 33,079 | Gross: $2.62M
41. The Mask (1961)
Approved | 83 min | Horror, Thriller
A young archaeologist thinks he is cursed by an Aztec mask that makes him have strange nightmares. Before committing suicide, he sends the mask to his psychiatrist, who soon plunges into the mask's nightmarish world.
Director: Julian Roffman | Stars: Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins, Bill Walker, Anne Collings
Votes: 1,047
42. The Midnight Terror (1961)
120 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Amir who needs money to marry with his fiance Maryam begins to do illegal working in a gang of a guy Afshar. Afshar's wife falls in love with Amir but he doesn't care for her. One day Afshar sees them alone and becomes suspicious.
Director: Samuel Khachikian | Stars: Armais Vartani Hovsepian, Parvin Ghaffari, Mohamad Ali Fardin, Vida Ghahremani
Votes: 76
43. The Naked Witch (1961)
M | 59 min | Horror
A student researching the German settlements of Central Texas unearths the grave of a reputed witch. The witch rises from her grave nude and embarks on a campaign of seduction and murder against the descendants of her persecutors.
Directors: Claude Alexander, Larry Buchanan | Stars: Denis Adams, Charles West, Howard Ware, Jack Herman
Votes: 564
44. The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Approved | 79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas, Freda Jackson
Votes: 1,568
45. The Snake Woman (1961)
Unrated | 68 min | Horror
In 1890 England a doctor, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind", injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter the villagers begin to call "The Devil's Baby". They ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: John McCarthy, Susan Travers, Geoffrey Denton, Elsie Wagstaff
Votes: 568
46. Trampa fatal (1961)
87 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The tie pin continues to cause benefits and curses to those who wear it. While Lucero the devil, acquires more souls to his collection.
Director: Fernando Fernández | Stars: Roberto Cañedo, Freddy Fernández, Raúl Farell, Roberto Ramírez Garza
47. Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1961)
Approved | 83 min | Horror, Mystery
At a girls' school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf/man-like creature. Suspicion falls upon a newly-arrived teacher.
Director: Paolo Heusch | Stars: Barbara Lass, Carl Schell, Curt Lowens, Maurice Marsac
Votes: 1,313
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