Horror Movies By Year - 1958
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- DirectorSamuel KhachikianMushegh SarvariStarsReza Arham SadrRufiaEzzatollah VosooghHajji Jabbar is a miser, greedy and disliked businessman. He tries to make more money by any means even by forcing her daughter to marry a rich old man rather than let her marry her cousin Hamid that she loves. Jabbar suddenly becomes sick and sees grim reaper who takes him to see hell in a long sequence. When Hajji Jabbar awakes he changes and tries to redeem himself.
- DirectorRamon EstellaStarsHasimahKemat HassanS. KadarismanA woman named Manis screams in pain one night while giving birth to her twins. Sensing her imminent death, she instructs her husband to do one last thing, to pull out a nail that has been stuck at the back of her neck for years. This sets off a terrifying transformation, before she dies. A year later, she returns from the dead, to his horror, and swears to protect her son Petir forever. Petir grows up to be strong with an occasional display of an aggressive behaviour. Ten years later, he falls in love with Halimah, a beautiful village girl, much to the dismay of an elderly scientist, Dr Sulong who has the same feelings for her. When the village is plagued by evil forces, Petir finds himself changing into a horrible creature, to protect the love of his life.
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsAllison HayesWilliam HudsonYvette VickersWhen an abused socialite grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsJohn AgarJohn HoytJune KenneyLonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsToshio HosokawaMidori ChikumaYuriko EjimaThe descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
- DirectorB. Narayan RaoStarsMaria MenadoMustapha MaarofSalmah AhmadBased on a Malay folklore about a vampire who emerges after the death of a woman during childbirth, the 'pontianak'.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsDonald WolfitVincent BallBarbara ShelleyIn 1870s Transylvania, scientist Dr. Callistratus is put to death by villagers who wrongly believe he's a vampire. However, his horribly disfigured henchman, Carl is on hand to orchestrate a life-saving heart transplant.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsBoris KarloffBetta St. JohnChristopher LeeDr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsRichard AndersonElaine EdwardsAdele MaraCalcified Pompeii gladiator kidnaps a scientist's girlfriend in modern-day Naples, Italy.
- DirectorIshirô HondaMotoyoshi OdaStarsKôzô NomuraAyumi SonodaKoreya SendaOriginal Japanese version. Research in the Tohoku region comes across a monster known to the locals as the mountain god Baradagi.
- DirectorKåre BergstrømStarsErling LindahlBjørg EnghHenny MoanA group of friends travel to a cabin in the Norwegian forest. It's a rumor that at night a crazy man can be heard screaming at a lake nearby the cabin.
- DirectorS.D. NarangStarsKishore KumarNutanAmarA thug from Delhi is accused of killing a young boy in Bombay.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsEd KemmerJune KenneyEugene PerssonTeenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.
- DirectorRafael BaledónStarsLuis AguilarFernando FernándezIrma DorantesThe Scarlet Fox in the Hanged Man's Revenge (1958). An evil witch steals the dead body of a hanged criminal and brings it back to life for her vengeance.
- DirectorFernando MéndezStarsAbel SalazarAriadne WelterGermán RoblesGraverobbers stumble upon the tomb of a vampire, who turns them into zombies to do his bidding, which is to stalk and capture beautiful women.
- DirectorJulián SolerStarsAntonio EspinoEvangelina ElizondoCarlos OrellanaA couple are forced to stay in a scary castle, and the castle is filled with monsters!
- DirectorAlfredo B. CrevennaStarsArturo de CórdovaAna Luisa PeluffoRaúl MerazA scientist discovers a formula that makes him invisible.
- DirectorArthur CrabtreeStarsMarshall ThompsonTerry KilburnMichael BalfourA scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.
- DirectorHoward W. KochStarsBoris KarloffTom DugganJana LundNeeding money, the last member of the Frankenstein family leases his family's castle out to a film company as he tries to continue his ancestor's gruesome experiments to create life.
- DirectorRichard E. CunhaStarsJohn AshleySandra KnightDonald MurphyDr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern-day L.A.
- DirectorKenji MisumiStarsShintarô KatsuChieko MurataMieko Kondô
- DirectorGorô KadonoStarsAkira NakamuraKatsuko WakasugiAsao MatsumotoAfter apprenticing himself to a painter, a man decides that the painter's knowledge isn't enough--he wants his wife too. But as it turns out, the painter's death doesn't keep him from exacting revenge.
- DirectorKinnosuke Fukada
- DirectorRichard E. CunhaStarsEd KemmerSally FraserBob SteeleA very large, degenerate, Spanish conqueror is freed from suspended animation by lightning and goes on a killing spree in a small town.
- DirectorMitsuo HirotsuStarsToshio ChibaRumiko KomachiIkuko Môri
- DirectorKenneth G. CraneIshirô HondaStarsJohn CarradineRussell ThorsonRobert KarnesJapanese villagers worship a monster and its son who live in an island cave. Some circus people hear about them, go to the island to capture the monster, and wind up shooting its son. Then the trouble starts.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingChristopher LeeMichael GoughWhen Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.
- DirectorHerbert L. StrockStarsRobert H. HarrisPaul BrinegarGary ConwayWhen a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
- DirectorAlbert BandStarsRichard BooneTheodore BikelPeggy MaurerCemetery director Robert Kraft discovers that by arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots' owners.
- DirectorGene Fowler Jr.StarsTom TryonGloria TalbottPeter BaldwinAliens arrive on Earth to possess the bodies of humans. One of their first victims is a young man, whose new wife soon realizes something is wrong with him.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsMarshall ThompsonShirley PattersonKim SpaldingThe first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsShôji NakayamaNaoko KuboShigeru Amachi
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsWilliam PrinceJim BackusChristine WhiteA doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.
- DirectorJacques R. MarquetteStarsAnne GwynneStuart WadeGloria CastilloIn 1880 a young boy is exposed to the effects of a meteor and becomes an ugly killer monster, as his mother hides him in her new house and tries to stop his killing.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsArthur FranzJoanna MooreJudson PrattThe blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid.
- DirectorHarold DanielsStarsGerald MohrCathy O'DonnellWilliam ChingA newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.
- DirectorMiguel M. DelgadoStarsNadia Haro OlivaCarlos RiquelmeAldo MontiThe stage magician Eglé Elohim offers a show that is causing a sensation in an old archaeology professor who comes to see her in the theater, who is also a great specialist in the history of magic, witchcraft and ancient rituals.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsMichael EmmetAngela GreeneJohn BaerAn astronaut is killed on reentry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly gestating aliens.
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsGeorge FantUlla JacobssonAnita BjörkThe third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. He will now face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend.
- DirectorCirio H. SantiagoStarsJohnny MonteiroCynthia ZamoraLauro DelgadoIn the Nineteenth century a were-cat is cursed to live nine lives unless he can perform an act of sacrifice.
- DirectorJaime SalvadorStarsMarco Antonio CamposGaspar HenaineSonia FurióBrothers Viruta and Capulina inherit, along with their distant cousin Reynaldo, an eerie mansion where a hidden treasure is located.
- DirectorRichard E. CunhaStarsIrish McCallaTod GriffinVictor Sen YungHeroic, but dull, Fred Maklin and beautiful, but spoiled, Jerrie Turner wash up on an uncharted tropical island. They are soon captured by ex-Nazi Colonel Osler, who also has imprisoned a bevy of beauty contest winners whom he allows to be whipped by his slavering Nazi storm troopers. He has, you see, been extracting some glandular substance from the girls to inject into his wife Mona, who suffered terrible facial disfigurement, in efforts to restore her beauty. Things get worse as the island is used for test bombing by the US Air Force.
- DirectorWui Ng
- DirectorHung YinShilin ZhuStarsChuan-Chuan ChenYuen KaoHua Jiang
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsBill WilliamsLyn ThomasRobert EllisA fungus brought from space threatens to grow and spread, devouring everyone in its path.
- DirectorDave FlockerStarsBob ClymireBill SimonsenJan SwihartArchaeology students uncover a prehistoric manster... part man, part monster, and all bad attitude with a cheap costume.
- DirectorRafael PortilloStarsRamón GayRosita ArenasCrox AlvaradoA mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries-old living mummy.
- DirectorIrvin S. Yeaworth Jr.Russell S. Doughten Jr.StarsSteve McQueenAneta CorsautEarl RoweAn alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
- DirectorBruno VeSotaStarsEd NelsonAlan Jay FactorCornelius KeefeThe inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.
- DirectorAdrian WeissStarsCharlotte AustinLance FullerJohnny RothWhen Laura and Dan get married, she's more interested in Dan's gorilla. It's revealed through hypnosis that she was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation. By: Mark Rowan
- DirectorEugène LouriéStarsJohn BaragreyMala PowersOtto KrugerA brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...
- DirectorGilbert GunnStarsForrest TuckerGaby AndréMartin BensonA friendly visitor from outer space warns against conducting experiments with the Earth's magnetic field, that could mutate insects into giant monsters.
- DirectorQuentin LawrenceStarsForrest TuckerLaurence PayneJennifer JayneA series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsDavid HedisonPatricia OwensVincent PriceA scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsYumi ShirakawaKenji SaharaAkihiko HirataWhen a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works. His disappearance stumps the police - until a young scientist appears who claims that H-Bomb tests in the Pacific, evidenced by a "ghost ship" that has turned up in the harbor, have created radioactive creatures - "H-Men" - who ooze like slime and dissolve anyone they touch.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsBoris KarloffAnthony DawsonDerek BirchA researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.
- DirectorTadashi Sawashima
- DirectorPaul LandresStarsFrancis LedererNorma EberhardtRay StricklynAfter a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingFrancis MatthewsEunice GaysonHaving escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.
- DirectorAlex NicolStarsJohn HudsonPeggy WebberRuss ConwayA newly married couple arrives at the home of the husband's late wife, where the gardens have been maintained by a gardener faithful to the dead woman's memory. Soon, eerie events lead the new wife to think she's losing her mind.
- DirectorWill CowanStarsWilliam ReynoldsAndra MartinJeffrey StoneA psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was beheaded by Sir Francis Drake.
- DirectorCharles SaundersStarsGeorge CoulourisVera DayPeter Forbes-RobertsonA mad scientist captures women and feeds them to a flesh-eating tree, which in turn gives him a serum that helps bring the dead back to life.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsSally FraserRoger PaceDuncan 'Dean' ParkinGlenn Manning, "The Amazing Colosasal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsDick MillerSusan CabotRichard DevonAn "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.