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Best Horror Movies of the 1960s

Horror films released 1960–1969, ranked by TMDB rating among titles with at least 500 votes.

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   #1 Psycho (1960) · ★ 8.4 · 11,281 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, horror, mystery

   When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Ba…

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   #2 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) · ★ 7.9 · 1,193 votes · 2h 15m · thriller, drama, horror

   A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.…

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   #3 Rosemary's Baby (1968) · ★ 7.8 · 4,510 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, drama, horror

   A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.…

4. 
   #4 Onibaba (1964) · ★ 7.7 · 504 votes · 1h 45m · drama, horror

   While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are dev…

5. 
   #5 Night of the Living Dead (1968) · ★ 7.6 · 2,764 votes · 1h 36m · thriller, horror, science-fiction

   A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.…

6. 
   #6 Eyes Without a Face (1960) · ★ 7.6 · 818 votes · 1h 24m · thriller, drama, horror

   Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessie…

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   #7 The Birds (1963) · ★ 7.5 · 4,565 votes · 1h 59m · thriller, horror

   Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.…

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   #8 The Innocents (1961) · ★ 7.5 · 693 votes · 1h 40m · drama, horror, mystery

   In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being pos…

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   #9 Repulsion (1965) · ★ 7.4 · 1,132 votes · 1h 45m · thriller, drama, horror

   Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on a…

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    #10 Peeping Tom (1960) · ★ 7.4 · 933 votes · 1h 41m · thriller, drama, horror

    Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reaction…

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    #11 Black Sunday (1960) · ★ 7.4 · 603 votes · 1h 26m · horror

    A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike desc…

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    #12 Hour of the Wolf (1968) · ★ 7.4 · 576 votes · 1h 28m · drama, horror

    While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.…

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    #13 Wait Until Dark (1967) · ★ 7.3 · 615 votes · 1h 48m · thriller, horror, crime

    After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals…

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    #14 Village of the Damned (1960) · ★ 7.2 · 517 votes · 1h 17m · horror, science-fiction

    In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hai…

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    #15 The Haunting (1963) · ★ 7.1 · 737 votes · 1h 52m · horror

    Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and it…

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    #16 Carnival of Souls (1962) · ★ 7.0 · 553 votes · 1h 18m · fantasy, horror, mystery

    Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church…

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    #17 The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) · ★ 6.9 · 848 votes · 1h 48m · comedy, horror

    A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.…

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    #18 The Last Man on Earth (1964) · ★ 6.6 · 501 votes · 1h 27m · drama, horror, science-fiction

    When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.…

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