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Boris Karloff Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Boris Karloff appears in the billed cast of 37 films in our catalog, from 1931 to 1968. Top of the list is How the Grinch Stole Christmas! ('1966), at 8.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.7. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Raven, 6.8 on IMDb against 44 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! '1966 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.5 | Chuck Jones |
| 2 | Bride of Frankenstein '1935 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 98% | 95 | 7.5 | James Whale |
| 3 | Frankenstein '1931 | Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 94% | 91 | 7.5 | James Whale |
| 4 | The Body Snatcher '1945 | Horror / Thriller | 7.3 | 86% | 74 | 7.0 | Robert Wise |
| 5 | Targets '1968 | Thriller / Crime | 7.3 | 89% | - | 7.1 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 6 | Son of Frankenstein '1939 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 95% | - | 6.7 | Rowland V. Lee |
| 7 | Lured '1947 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.3 | Douglas Sirk |
| 8 | Black Sabbath '1963 | Horror | 7.0 | 89% | 82 | 7.2 | Mario Bava |
| 9 | Unconquered '1947 | Drama | 6.9 | 86% | - | 6.5 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 10 | Charlie Chan at the Opera '1936 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | H. Bruce Humberstone |
| 11 | The Old Dark House '1932 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 7.0 | 97% | - | 6.7 | James Whale |
| 12 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty '1947 | Comedy / Fantasy / Romance | 6.9 | 69% | - | 6.8 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 13 | Bedlam '1946 | Drama / Thriller | 6.8 | 90% | - | 6.6 | Mark Robson |
| 14 | The Man They Could Not Hang '1939 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Crime | 6.8 | 71% | - | 6.6 | Nick Grindé |
| 15 | The Mummy '1932 | Horror | 6.9 | 90% | - | 6.7 | Karl Freund |
| 16 | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff '1949 | Comedy / Horror / Mystery | 6.7 | - | - | 6.6 | Charles Barton |
| 17 | The Black Room '1935 | Horror / Crime | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Roy William Neill |
| 18 | The Black Cat '1934 | Horror / Thriller | 6.9 | 89% | - | 6.7 | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| 19 | The Criminal Code '1931 | Crime / Drama | 6.9 | - | - | 6.1 | Howard Hawks |
| 20 | Tower of London '1939 | Drama / Horror | 6.6 | 83% | - | 6.2 | Rowland V. Lee |
| 21 | Night Key '1937 | Sci-Fi / Crime | 6.3 | - | - | 6.2 | Lloyd Corrigan |
| 22 | The Raven '1935 | Horror / Crime | 6.8 | 79% | 44 | 6.6 | Lew Landers |
| 23 | Isle of the Dead '1945 | Horror / Mystery | 6.5 | 91% | - | 6.0 | Mark Robson |
| 24 | The Man Who Changed His Mind '1936 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.6 | - | - | 6.1 | Robert Stevenson |
| 25 | The Comedy of Terrors '1964 | Comedy / Horror / Crime | 6.5 | 100% | - | 6.5 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 26 | The Lost Patrol '1934 | Action / War | 6.8 | 100% | 85 | 6.6 | John Ford |
| 27 | Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde '1953 | Comedy / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 6.4 | 67% | - | 6.2 | Charles Lamont |
| 28 | The Raven '1963 | Comedy / Horror / Fantasy / Drama | 6.5 | 88% | - | 6.3 | Roger Corman |
| 29 | The Walking Dead '1936 | Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.6 | - | - | 6.3 | Michael Curtiz |
| 30 | Black Friday '1940 | Sci-Fi / Crime / Horror / Mystery / Drama | 6.3 | 100% | - | 6.0 | Arthur Lubin |
| 31 | The Invisible Ray '1936 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller | 6.5 | 63% | - | 6.4 | Lambert Hillyer |
| 32 | Mr. Wong, Detective '1938 | Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 6.0 | - | - | 5.6 | William Nigh |
| 33 | The Mask of Fu Manchu '1932 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.2 | 78% | - | 5.4 | Charles Brabin |
| 34 | House of Frankenstein '1944 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.2 | 55% | - | 6.1 | Erle C. Kenton |
| 35 | The Ape '1940 | Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 4.6 | 43% | - | 4.9 | William Nigh |
| 36 | The Ghoul '1933 | Horror / Mystery | 5.8 | - | - | 5.6 | T. Hayes Hunter |
| 37 | The Terror '1963 | Horror / Mystery | 5.0 | 50% | - | 5.1 | Roger Corman |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.