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1. The Monster Walks (1932)
Passed | 57 min | Horror, Mystery
People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Mischa Auer, Martha Mattox, Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds
Votes: 1,085
2. The Vampire Bat (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When corpses drained of blood begin to show up in a European village, vampirism is suspected to be responsible.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Maude Eburne
Votes: 3,050
3. Maniac (1934)
Not Rated | 51 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.
Director: Dwain Esper | Stars: Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter, Ted Edwards, Phyllis Diller
Votes: 2,706
4. The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in whoever it is injected into. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, so that he can bury them alive.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Harriet Russell, Dwight Frye, Paul Guilfoyle
Votes: 399
5. The Pace That Kills (1935)
PG | 68 min | Crime, Drama
A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."
Director: William A. O'Connor | Stars: Lois January, Noel Madison, Sheila Bromley, Dean Benton
Votes: 701
6. Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Horror
An international expedition is sent into Cambodia to destroy an ancient formula that turns men into zombies.
Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger, Roy D'Arcy, Robert Noland
Votes: 1,879
7. Reefer Madness (1936)
PG | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Cautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Lillian Miles, Dave O'Brien
Votes: 9,353
8. Assassin of Youth (1938)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama
A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Luana Walters, Arthur Gardner, Dorothy Short, Earl Dwire
Votes: 468
9. Sex Madness (1934)
Not Rated | 57 min | Drama
This exploitation film belongs to the social guidance genre of quasi-documentary narratives, which exhort young adults to follow particular moral and social prescriptions related to sexuality and drug use.
Director: Dwain Esper | Stars: Vivian McGill, Rose Tapley, Al Rigali, Mark Daniels
Votes: 991
10. Child Bride (1938)
62 min | Drama
A schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying underage girls.
Director: Harry Revier | Stars: Shirley Mills, Bob Bollinger, Warner Richmond, Diana Durrell
Votes: 1,096
11. The Devil's Daughter (1939)
Approved | 52 min | Drama, Horror
Sylvia Walton returns from Harlem to take over a Jamaican plantation from her vindictive half-sister, amid the growing sound of drums.
Director: Arthur H. Leonard | Stars: Nina Mae McKinney, Jack Carter, Ida James, Hamtree Harrington
Votes: 334
12. The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Approved | 265 min | Action, Family, Horror
A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold, Edwin Stanley
Votes: 1,121
13. The Devil Bat (1940)
Approved | 68 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien, Guy Usher
Votes: 3,450
14. Son of Ingagi (1940)
Passed | 70 min | Horror
A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.
Director: Richard C. Kahn | Stars: Zack Williams, Laura Bowman, Alfred Grant, Daisy Bufford
Votes: 331
15. The Ape (1940)
Approved | 62 min | Horror
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan
Votes: 2,063
16. King of the Zombies (1941)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
On a spooky island, three stranded travelers find an evil doctor working with foreign spies and in control of zombies.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor
Votes: 2,508
17. Invisible Ghost (1941)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young, John McGuire, Clarence Muse
Votes: 2,593
18. The Mad Monster (1942)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Glenn Strange
Votes: 1,941
19. The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
Passed | 64 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist, aided by an old hag and her two sons, kills virginal brides, steals their bodies, and extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin, Elizabeth Russell
Votes: 3,514
20. The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Horror
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Maxie Rosenbloom, Larry Parks
Votes: 1,263
21. The Panther's Claw (1942)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Mystery
Members of an opera company are being blackmailed by someone called the Black Panther.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Rick Vallin, Byron Foulger, Herbert Rawlinson
Votes: 317
22. Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
Passed | 58 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
Dr. Larry Forbes visits the château of Dr. Robert Renault, uncle of his fiancée Madelon, who is idolized by Renault's assistant, a strange émigré from Java.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Shepperd Strudwick, Lynne Roberts, George Zucco
Votes: 547
23. Dead Men Walk (1943)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Horror
The twin of a kindly small-town physician returns from the grave for vengeance against his brother, who secretly killed him because the twin served Satan.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young, Dwight Frye
Votes: 1,684
24. The Ape Man (1943)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A crazed scientist accidentally turns himself into a half ape, half human creature, and scrambles to find a cure.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford, Henry Hall
Votes: 1,505
25. Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
Approved | 61 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After the death of Max's spouse, Lila, Max holds a funeral for her, but he has also reanimates her as a zombie. He is amazed when Lila show signs of free will and challenges him for control.
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: John Carradine, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Bob Steele
Votes: 826
26. Delinquent Daughters (1944)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama
A town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: June Carlson, Fifi D'Orsay, Teala Loring, Mary Bovard
Votes: 409
27. Return of the Ape Man (1944)
Approved | 60 min | Horror
A scientist seeks to transplant a brain into the body of a thawed caveman in order to get it to do his bidding.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco, Frank Moran
Votes: 430
28. The Monster Maker (1944)
Approved | 62 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist injects his enemies with an acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Wanda McKay
Votes: 1,262
29. Fog Island (1945)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An inventor recently released from prison invites a group of former business associates to a holiday in his island home, intending to exact revenge on them.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan, Sharon Douglas
Votes: 984
30. Mom and Dad (1945)
R | 97 min | Drama
When a high-school girl gets pregnant and her boyfriend dies, the sex-ed teacher shows her a film about childbirth and the dangers of venereal disease.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: June Carlson, Hardie Albright, Lois Austin, George Eldredge
Votes: 259 | Gross: $34.88M
31. Test Tube Babies (1948)
70 min | Drama
A happily-married couple having no luck with starting their family finally discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, ... See full summary »
Director: W. Merle Connell | Stars: Dorothy Duke, William Thomason, Timothy Farrell, John Michael
Votes: 421
32. Wild Weed (1949)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Lila Leeds, Alan Baxter, Lyle Talbot, Mary Ellen Popel
Votes: 504
33. Prehistoric Women (1950)
Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Tigri and her stone-age girl friends hate all men, but realizing they are a necessary evil, capture some for potential husbands.
Director: Gregg G. Tallas | Stars: Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee, Judy Landon
Votes: 632
34. Racket Girls (1951)
Unrated | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A money launderer uses women's wrestling as a front for his illegal activities, but earns the enmity of a powerful mobster.
Director: Robert C. Dertano | Stars: Peaches Page, Timothy Farrell, Clara Mortensen, Rita Martínez
Votes: 1,116
35. Wild Women (1951)
Approved | 62 min | Adventure, Comedy
A small safari in Africa is captured by a tribe of white jungle women.
Director: Norman Dawn | Stars: Lewis Wilson, Dana Broccoli, Morton C. Thompson, Don Orlando
Votes: 215
36. The Man from Planet X (1951)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward Earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert
Votes: 3,096
37. Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Horror
The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla.
Director: Curt Siodmak | Stars: Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., Raymond Burr, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,436
38. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
Not Rated | 74 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita
Votes: 2,619
39. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 8,730 | Gross: $5.00M
40. Striporama (1953)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Musical
This is not a Documentary in any form, shape or fashion. But it is one of the very few exploitation-burlesque films that wasn't filmed with one camera from the back of a burlesque theater, ... See full summary »
Director: Jerald Intrator | Stars: Georgia Sothern, Rosita Royce, Jack Diamond, Mandy Kay
Votes: 75
41. Robot Monster (1953)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
The monstrous Ro-Man attempts to annihilate the last family alive on Earth, but finds himself falling for their beautiful daughter.
Director: Phil Tucker | Stars: George Nader, Gregory Moffett, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle
Votes: 5,455 | Gross: $1.00M
42. Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Approved | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom.
Directors: Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 1,889
43. Glen or Glenda (1953)
PG | 65 min | Drama
A psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne).
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell
Votes: 9,193
44. Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.
Director: Arthur Hilton | Stars: Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, Susan Morrow
Votes: 2,047
45. Phantom from Space (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When an asteroid crashes, the search begins to track down the mysterious aliens.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Ted Cooper, Tom Daly, Steve Acton, Burt Wenland
Votes: 1,537
46. The Neanderthal Man (1953)
Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Professor Groves, an expert in prehistoric life, proves his theories with an extract that'll regress a cat to a saber-tooth tiger and man to a Neanderthal.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Robert Shayne, Joyce Terry, Richard Crane, Doris Merrick
Votes: 720
47. Killers from Space (1954)
Passed | 71 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An atomic scientist claims he was abducted by aliens after being injured in a plane crash.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Peter Graves, James Seay, Steve Pendleton, Frank Gerstle
Votes: 2,559
48. The Snow Creature (1954)
Approved | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
American botanical expedition in the Himalayas stumbles across a Yeti den, capture one and transport it back to Los Angeles, where it escapes while customs officials are debating whether it is animal or human.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, Teru Shimada, Rollin Moriyama
Votes: 1,217
49. Varietease (1954)
Not Rated | 71 min | Comedy, Music
The legendary pinup queen Bettie Page stars in a marvelous burlesque show, alongside '50s icons Lili St.Cryr, Bobby Shields, Chris Le Chris Lynn and many others.
Director: Irving Klaw | Stars: Lili St. Cyr, Cass Franklin, Monica Lane, Bettie Page
Votes: 149
50. Jail Bait (1954)
Unrated | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Vic Brady draws young Don Gregor into a life of crime. He then blackmails Gregor's plastic surgeon father into fixing up his face so he can evade the cops.
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller, Herbert Rawlinson, Steve Reeves
Votes: 2,878
51. Godzilla (1954)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable dinosaur-like beast.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi
Votes: 39,737 | Gross: $2.42M
52. Dementia (1955)
Not Rated | 61 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery
This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.
Directors: John Parker, Bruno VeSota | Stars: Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman, Richard Barron
Votes: 2,574
53. Bride of the Monster (1955)
Passed | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad doctor attempts to create atomic supermen.
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy, Loretta King
Votes: 7,646
54. The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
Passed | 75 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A dysfunctional family operating an isolated date farm in the California desert is threatened by the arrival of an extra-terrestrial.
Directors: David Kramarsky, Roger Corman, Lou Place | Stars: Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent
Votes: 1,757
55. Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Scout pilots for a fishing fleet are startled to discover a new monster named Anguirus alongside a second Godzilla. The monsters make their way toward Osaka as Japan can only brace for tragedy and relive the horror of Godzilla once more.
Directors: Motoyoshi Oda, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 8,345
56. Tarantula (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 10,781 | Gross: $1.10M
57. The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955)
Passed | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A seaside community is terrorized by a hideous sea monster, which has been created by experiments in atomic radiation.
Director: Dan Milner | Stars: Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen, Helene Stanton
Votes: 2,059
58. Teaserama (1955)
Not Rated | 67 min | Comedy, Music
A collection of numerous burlesque acts from the 1950s, including strippers, and cult character Betty Page introducing the acts.
Director: Irving Klaw | Stars: Tempest Storm, Bettie Page, Trudy Wayne, Dave Starr
Votes: 337
59. It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A giant, radioactive octopus rises from the Philippine Trench to terrorize the North American Pacific Coast.
Director: Robert Gordon | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Ian Keith
Votes: 6,358
60. The She-Creature (1956)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Chester Morris, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller
Votes: 1,963
61. The Flaming Teenage (1956)
69 min | Drama
A small town boy heads for the lights of the big city and discovers the delights of hard liquor and fast women. Ere long, he becomes an addict, a dope peddler and a shop-lifter to obtain money for drugs.
Directors: Charles Edwards, Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | Stars: Noel Reyburn, Ethel Barrett, Jerry Franks, Shirley Holmes
Votes: 86
62. Rodan (1956)
Approved | 74 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A mining engineer investigates the death of his fellow coworkers and discovers prehistoric nymphs emerging from the mines. As he heads deeper into the mines, he makes a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Akio Kobori
Votes: 5,990 | Gross: $0.50M
63. Indestructible Man (1956)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Charles "The Butcher" Benton, a brutal death row inmate gets double-crossed by his crooked lawyer. He gets his chance for revenge when, after he's been executed, a bizarre experiment brings him back to life and more deadly than ever.
Director: Jack Pollexfen | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr, Ross Elliott
Votes: 3,158
64. The Violent Years (1956)
Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Paula Parkins is the teenage daughter of wealthy parents who can't seem to make time for her, so she looks for thrills as the leader of her all girl-gang who rob and rape young men.
Director: William Morgan | Stars: Jean Moorhead, Barbara Weeks, Art Millan, Theresa Hancock
Votes: 1,811
65. The Mole People (1956)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier
Votes: 3,998
66. It Conquered the World (1956)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A well meaning scientist guides an alien monster to Earth from Venus, so that he can rid mankind of feelings and emotions - but only death and sorrow results.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef, Sally Fraser
Votes: 2,669
67. The Black Scorpion (1957)
Approved | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas, Mario Navarro
Votes: 3,411
68. The Cyclops (1957)
Approved | 66 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An expedition to Mexico finds and does battle with a mutated 25-foot man with one big eye.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney Jr., Tom Drake
Votes: 1,152
69. The Giant Claw (1957)
Approved | 75 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Louis Merrill
Votes: 4,422
70. The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
Approved | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
"The Monster That Challenged the World" is a 1957 horror / science fiction movie of when horde of prehistoric mollusk monsters enter the canal system of the California's Imperial Valley and terrorize the populace.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Barbara Darrow
Votes: 3,161
71. The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A military officer survives a nuclear blast, only to begin to uncontrollably grow into an increasingly unstable giant.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, Larry Thor
Votes: 2,845
72. Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Approved | 63 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Scientists become trapped on a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson, Leslie Bradley
Votes: 3,808
73. I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
Unrated | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Professor Frankenstein creates a hulking teenager from the body of an accident victim; his "creation" awakens and goes on a killing spree.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton, Gary Conway
Votes: 1,038
74. The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An evil alien brain from the planet Arous hijacks the body of an Earth scientist in order to control the Earth.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller, Thomas Browne Henry
Votes: 1,871
75. The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Approved | 79 min | Family, Horror, Sci-Fi
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, Donald Randolph
Votes: 4,103
76. Voodoo Island (1957)
Approved | 76 min | Horror
A scholarly type is asked to investigate the possible island site for a large resort hotel--an island rumored to be infested with zombies.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Murvyn Vye, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 912
77. The Undead (1957)
Unrated | 71 min | Fantasy, Horror
A beautiful woman is sent back in time via hypnosis to the Middle Ages where she finds she is suspected of being a witch, and subject to being executed.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes, Val Dufour
Votes: 2,584
78. 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
Not Rated | 82 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
The first U.S. spaceship to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily on its return trip. A dangerous, lizard-like creature comes with it and quickly grows gigantic.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Thomas Browne Henry, Frank Puglia
Votes: 8,038
79. The Astounding She-Monster (1957)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
A gang of crooks has kidnapped a rich heiress come up against a beautiful, but lethal alien who has crash-landed her spaceship on Earth.
Director: Ronald V. Ashcroft | Stars: Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum
Votes: 1,094
80. Monster from Green Hell (1957)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientific expedition in Africa investigates wasps that have been exposed to radiation and mutated into giant, killing monsters.
Director: Kenneth G. Crane | Stars: Jim Davis, Robert Griffin, Joel Fluellen, Barbara Turner
Votes: 1,366
81. I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf.
Director: Gene Fowler Jr. | Stars: Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell, Charles Willcox
Votes: 2,864 | Gross: $2.00M
82. Curfew Breakers (1957)
Approved | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crackdown on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One kid dies from an overdose, two more kill a gas-station attendant in an ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander J. Wells | Stars: Paul Kelly, Cathy Downs, Regis Toomey, Sheila Urban
Votes: 125
83. From Hell It Came (1957)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump.
Director: Dan Milner | Stars: Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins, John McNamara
Votes: 1,975
84. Beginning of the End (1957)
Passed | 76 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Enterprising journalist Audrey Ames (Peggie Castle) is determined to get the scoop on enormous grasshoppers that were accidentally created at the Illinois State experimental farm, and she ... See full summary »
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Than Wyenn
Votes: 2,767
85. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
Passed | 66 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When 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.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers, Roy Gordon
Votes: 6,267 | Gross: $0.48M
86. It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
Approved | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Ann Doran
Votes: 6,270
87. Macabre (1958)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.
Director: William Castle | Stars: William Prince, Jim Backus, Christine White, Jacqueline Scott
Votes: 1,404
88. Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
Not Rated | 83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Needing 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.
Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund, Don 'Red' Barry
Votes: 1,544
89. Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Approved | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A 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.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn, Michael Balfour, Gil Winfield
Votes: 4,805
90. The Brain Eaters (1958)
Approved | 61 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
The inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.
Director: Bruno VeSota | Stars: Ed Nelson, Alan Jay Factor, Cornelius Keefe, Joanna Lee
Votes: 1,804
91. Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
Unrated | 67 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Calcified Pompeii gladiator kidnaps a scientist's girlfriend in modern-day Naples, Italy.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara, Luis Van Rooten
Votes: 1,241
92. I Bury the Living (1958)
Approved | 77 min | Horror
Cemetery 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.
Director: Albert Band | Stars: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer, Howard Smith
Votes: 3,195
93. Monster on the Campus (1958)
Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters
Votes: 2,079
94. The Crawling Eye (1958)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
Director: Quentin Lawrence | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro
Votes: 4,822
95. The Blob (1958)
Approved | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
Directors: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr. | Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland
Votes: 29,395
96. The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1958)
Approved | 65 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad doctor builds a robot in order to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from a tomb guarded by a centuries-old living mummy.
Director: Rafael Portillo | Stars: Ramón Gay, Rosita Arenas, Crox Alvarado, Luis Aceves Castañeda
Votes: 2,804
97. The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958)
Unrated | 69 min | Horror
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Will Cowan | Stars: William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Jeffrey Stone, Carolyn Kearney
Votes: 1,896
98. Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
Approved | 79 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney, Michael Mark
Votes: 2,890
99. The Screaming Skull (1958)
Unrated | 68 min | Horror, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Alex Nicol | Stars: John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway, Tony Johnson
Votes: 3,961
100. Night of the Blood Beast (1958)
Not Rated | 62 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An astronaut is killed on reentry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly gestating aliens.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, John Baer, Ed Nelson
Votes: 2,271
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