List of horror films: 1950s

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The following list sets down titles of horror films released in the 1950s. For science fiction films with horror elements, see List of science fiction films

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
1950
Dark City	William Dieterle	Charlton Heston, Ed Begley, Viveca Lindfors
Dungeon of Horror	not available	not available		filmed in San Antonio
Got, Mentsh un Tayvl (God, Man and Devil)	Joseph Seiden	Michal Michalesko, Gustav Berger, Berta Gersten, Shifra Lerer		Yiddish-language film
1951
Bride of the Gorilla	Curt Siodmak	Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney, Jr., Raymond Burr, Tom Conway
Císaruv pekar a pekaruv císar	Martin Frič	Jan Werich, Marie Vásová, Natasa Gollová, Bohus Záhorský, Jirí Plachý, Zdenek Stepánek		Czech-language film
Strangers on a Train	Alfred Hitchcock	Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Marion Lorne
1952
The Black Castle	Nathan H. Juran	Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally, Rita Corday, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Hoyt
1953
Donovan's Brain	Felix E. Feist	Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis, Steve Brodie, Tom Powers
I Confess	Alfred Hitchcock	Montgomery Clift, Karl Malden, Anne Baxter
Invaders from Mars	William Cameron Menzies	Leif Erickson, Arthur Franz, Helena Carter
House of Wax	André De Toth	Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones
1954
Them!	Gordon Douglas	James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens
The Creature from the Black Lagoon	Jack Arnold	Richard Carlson, Nestor Paiva, Bernie Gozier
La Bruja	Chano Urueta	Lilia del Valle, Ramón Gay		Spanish-language
Godzilla	Ishiro Honda	Akira Takarada
The Mad Magician	John Brahm	Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery
Them!	Gordon Douglas	Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness
1955
Cult of the Cobra	Francis D. Lyon	Faith Domergue, Richard Long, Marshall Thompson
Dementia	John Parker	Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman, Richard Barron
Night of the Hunter	Robert Mitchum, Charles Laughton	Lillian Gish, Shelley Winters, Evelyn Varden
1956
The Bad Seed	Mervyn LeRoy	Patty McCormack, Eileen Heckart, Paul Fix
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers	Fred F. Sears	Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, John Zaremba
I Vampiri	Riccardo Freda	Gianna Maria Canale, Carlo D'Angelo, Dario Michaelis
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Don Siegel	Dana Winter, Carolyn Jones, Jean Andren
The She-Creature	Edward L. Cahn	Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs
The Wrong Man	Alfred Hitchcock	Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Esther Minciotti
1957
The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas	Val Guest	Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell
La Momia Azteca	Rafael Lopez Portillo	Emma Roldan, Jorge Mondragon, Arturo Martinez Sr.		Spanish-language
Back from the Dead	Charles Marquis Warren	Peggie Castle, Arthur Franz, Marsha Hunt, Don Haggerty
Blood of Dracula	Herbert L. Strock	Sandra Harrison, Gail Ganley, Jerry Blaine, Heather Ames
Cat Girl	Alfred Shaughnessy	Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard, Paddy Webster
La Maldicion de la Momia Azteca	Rafael Lopez Portillo	Julian DeMeriche, Alejandro Cruz, Arturo Martinez Sr.
The Curse of Frankenstein	Terence Fisher	Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll	Edgar G. Ulmer	John Agar, Gloria Talbott, Arthur Shields, John Dierkes
The Disembodied	Walter E. Grauman	Paul Burke, Allison Hayes, John Wengraf, Eugenia Paul
From Hell It Came	Dan Milner	Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins, John McNamara
Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi (The Ghost of Kasane)	Nobuo Nakagawa	Kazuko Wakasugi, Takashi Wada, Tetsuro Tamba
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein	Herbert L. Strock	Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Gary Conway
I Was a Teenage Werewolf	Gene Fowler	Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell, Tony Marshall
The Incredible Shrinking Man	Jack Arnold	Helene Marshall, William Schallert, Diana Darrin
Invasion of the Saucer Men	Edward L. Cahn	Frank Gorshin, Gloria Castillo, Sam Buffington
Night of the Demon (Curse of the Demon)	Jacques Tourneur	Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Athene Seyler
Throne of Blood	Akira Kurosawa	Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Isuzu Yamada
The Undead	Roger Corman	Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes, Val Dufour
El Vampiro	Fernando Mendez	Mercedes Soler
Voodoo Island	Reginald Le Borg	Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Murvyn Vye
Voodoo Woman	Edward L. Cahn	Marla English, Tom Conway, Lance Fuller
1958
La Momia Azteca contra el Robot Humano	Rafael Lopez Portillo	Julian DeMeriche
Blood of the Vampire	Henry Cass	Donald Wolfit, Vincent Ball, Barbara Shelley
Bride and the Beast	Adrian Weiss	Charlotte Austin, Lance Fuller, Johnny Roth, Steve Calvert
The Castle of the Monsters	Julián Soler	Antonio Espino, Evangelina Elizondo
Corridors of Blood	Robert Day	Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee
Curse of the Faceless Man	Edward L. Cahn	Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara
Dracula (Horror of Dracula)	Terence Fisher	Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Melissa Stribling, Michael Gough
Frankenstein 1970	Howard W. Koch	Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund
Frankenstein's Daughter	Richard E. Cunha	Harry Wilson, Sally Todd, Voltaire Perkins
I Bury the Living	Albert Band	Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer
El hombre y el monstruo	Rafael Baledon	Abel Salazar
Macabre	William Castle	Jacqueline Scott, Jim Backus, Philip Tonge
Monster on the Campus	Jack Arnold	Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt
The Revenge of Frankenstein	Terence Fisher	Peter Cushing, Francis Matthers, Eunice Gayson
The Thing That Couldn't Die	Will Cowan	William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Jeffrey Stone
El Ataud del Vampiro	Fernando Mendez	Abel Salazar
1959
Attack of the Giant Leeches	Bernard Kowalski	Jan Shepard, Gene Roth, Yvette Vickers
Beast from Haunted Cave	Monte Hellman	Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff
Behemoth, the Sea Monster (The Giant Behemoth)	Douglas Hickox, Eugène Lourié	John Turner, Leigh Madison, Jack MacGowran
Misterios de ultratumba	Fernando Mendez	Gaston Santos, Mapita Cortes
A Bucket of Blood	Roger Corman	Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Anthony Carbone
Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	Riccardo Freda	John Merivale, Didi Perego, Gerard Herter
Curse of the Undead	Edward Dein	Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake	Edward L. Cahn	Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Henry Daniell, Grant Richards
The Giant Gila Monster	Ray Kellogg	Don Sullivan, Fred Graham, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher
Horrors of the Black Museum	Arthur Crabtree	Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow, Shirley Ann Field
House on Haunted Hill	William Castle, Rosemary Horvath	Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
The Killer Shrews	Ray Kellogg	James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis
La Casa del Terror	Gilberto Martinez Solares	Lon Chaney Jr., Tin-Tan, Yolanda Varela
La Llorona	René Cardona, Sr.	María Elena Marqués
Macumba Love	Douglas Fowley	Walter Reed, Ziva Rodann, William Wellman, Jr.
The Man Who Could Cheat Death	Terence Fisher	Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee
The Monster of Piedras Blancas	Irvin Berwick	Les Tremayne, Jeanne Carmen, Don Sullivan
The Mummy	Terence Fisher	Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux
Night of the Ghouls	Edward D. Wood, Jr.	Criswell, Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Tor Johnson
Teenage Zombies	Jerry Warren	Katherine Victor, Don Sullivan
Terror Is a Man	Gerardo de Leon	Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr
The Tingler	William Castle	Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman

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