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Best Horror Movies of the 1960s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
106 horror films from the 1960s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Psycho (1960), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Rosemary's Baby, 8.0 on IMDb against 96 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Psycho '1960 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 8.5 | 97% | 97 | 8.4 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2 | Rosemary's Baby '1968 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 8.0 | 97% | 96 | 7.8 | Roman Polanski |
| 3 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? '1962 | Horror / Thriller | 8.0 | 91% | 75 | 7.9 | Robert Aldrich |
| 4 | Night of the Living Dead '1968 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 95% | 89 | 7.6 | George A. Romero |
| 5 | Kwaidan '1965 | Horror / Fantasy / Drama | 7.9 | 91% | - | 7.7 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 6 | Onibaba '1964 | Horror | 7.8 | 90% | - | 7.7 | Kaneto Shindō |
| 7 | The Cremator '1969 | Horror / Drama / Crime / Comedy | 8.0 | 89% | - | 7.8 | Juraj Herz |
| 8 | The Innocents '1961 | Horror / Mystery | 7.7 | 95% | 88 | 7.5 | Jack Clayton |
| 9 | The Birds '1963 | Horror / Thriller | 7.6 | 95% | 90 | 7.5 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 10 | Wait Until Dark '1967 | Thriller / Crime / Horror | 7.7 | 96% | 81 | 7.3 | Terence Young |
| 11 | Peeping Tom '1960 | Thriller / Horror | 7.6 | 96% | - | 7.4 | Michael Powell |
| 12 | Eyes Without a Face '1960 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 7.6 | 97% | 90 | 7.6 | Georges Franju |
| 13 | Repulsion '1965 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 7.5 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Roman Polanski |
| 14 | Seconds '1966 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror | 7.6 | 79% | 71 | 7.4 | John Frankenheimer |
| 15 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte '1964 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.5 | 84% | - | 7.3 | Robert Aldrich |
| 16 | Hour of the Wolf '1968 | Drama / Horror | 7.5 | 92% | - | 7.4 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 17 | The Haunting '1963 | Horror | 7.4 | 88% | 74 | 7.1 | Robert Wise |
| 18 | Kuroneko '1968 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 7.7 | 96% | - | 7.4 | Kaneto Shindō |
| 19 | The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales '1960 | Comedy / Crime / Horror | 7.7 | - | - | 8.0 | Rogelio A. González |
| 20 | Village of the Damned '1960 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 93% | 77 | 7.2 | Wolf Rilla |
| 21 | Mother Joan of the Angels '1961 | Drama / Horror | 7.5 | - | - | 7.5 | Jerzy Kawalerowicz |
| 22 | Taste of Fear '1961 | Thriller / Mystery / Horror | 7.4 | 100% | 65 | 7.1 | Seth Holt |
| 23 | Night of the Eagle '1962 | Horror | 6.9 | 88% | 73 | 6.7 | Sidney Hayers |
| 24 | Dead Ringer '1964 | Crime / Drama / Horror | 7.3 | 100% | 66 | 6.9 | Paul Henreid |
| 25 | Targets '1968 | Thriller / Crime / Horror | 7.3 | 89% | - | 7.1 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 26 | The Damned '1962 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.6 | 88% | 72 | 6.3 | Joseph Losey |
| 27 | Black Sunday '1960 | Horror | 7.1 | 88% | - | 7.4 | Mario Bava |
| 28 | Tales of Terror '1962 | Horror / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 71% | 68 | 6.7 | Roger Corman |
| 29 | The Phantom of the Opera '1962 | Horror / Musical | 6.4 | - | - | 6.4 | Terence Fisher |
| 30 | The Premature Burial '1962 | Horror / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 6.5 | 50% | - | 6.3 | Roger Corman |
| 31 | Carnival of Souls '1962 | Horror / Mystery / Fantasy | 7.0 | 87% | - | 7.0 | Herk Harvey |
| 32 | Blood and Black Lace '1964 | Crime / Horror / Mystery | 7.1 | 75% | - | 7.3 | Mario Bava |
| 33 | The Nanny '1965 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 7.1 | 86% | - | 6.9 | Seth Holt |
| 34 | Viy '1967 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 7.1 | 88% | - | 6.9 | Georgi Kropachyov |
| 35 | Jigoku '1960 | Horror / Drama | 6.7 | - | - | 6.3 | Nobuo Nakagawa |
| 36 | Black Sabbath '1963 | Horror | 7.0 | 89% | 82 | 7.2 | Mario Bava |
| 37 | The Pit and the Pendulum '1961 | Horror / Mystery / Drama | 7.0 | 89% | 78 | 6.8 | Roger Corman |
| 38 | The Girl Who Knew Too Much '1963 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 6.9 | 71% | - | 6.9 | Mario Bava |
| 39 | House of Usher '1960 | Horror / Drama | 6.9 | 83% | 75 | 6.7 | Roger Corman |
| 40 | Even the Wind Is Afraid '1968 | Mystery / Horror / Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 7.9 | Carlos Enrique Taboada |
| 41 | The Fearless Vampire Killers '1967 | Comedy / Horror | 7.0 | 73% | 56 | 6.9 | Roman Polanski |
| 42 | At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul '1964 | Horror / Thriller / Fantasy | 6.9 | 67% | - | 6.8 | José Mojica Marins |
| 43 | Quatermass and the Pit '1967 | Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.0 | 88% | - | 6.7 | Roy Ward Baker |
| 44 | The Big Shave '1967 | Horror / Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 6.9 | Martin Scorsese |
| 45 | The Book of Stone '1969 | Horror / Thriller | 7.2 | - | - | 7.8 | Carlos Enrique Taboada |
| 46 | Castle of Blood '1964 | Horror | 6.8 | - | - | 7.1 | Antonio Margheriti |
| 47 | The City of the Dead '1960 | Mystery / Horror | 6.7 | 75% | - | 6.5 | John Llewellyn Moxey |
| 48 | Blind Beast '1969 | Thriller / Horror | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.5 | Yasuzō Masumura |
| 49 | The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll '1960 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.3 | 83% | - | 6.1 | Terence Fisher |
| 50 | The Masque of the Red Death '1964 | Drama / Horror | 6.9 | 73% | 77 | 6.7 | 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.
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