Supernatural Horror Movies of the 1950s
Supernatural horror covers ghosts, hauntings, curses and possession: fear from beyond the grave. Atomic-age monsters and Hammer's first color gothics drove a new wave of horror. Standouts from the 1950s include House on Haunted Hill, The Hound of the Baskervilles and Night of the Demon.
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house.
See where it’s streamingThe Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Rated 6.8 on TMDB
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
See where it’s streamingNight of the Demon (1957)
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before.
See where it’s streamingAbbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
Bud and Lou, two stranded American archaeologists, run afoul of an Egyptian cult with big plans to resurrect the mummified corpse of Klaris, guardian of his Princess Ara's treasure-filled tomb.
See where it’s streamingThe Mummy (1959)
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered.
See where it’s streamingThe She-Creature (1956)
Rated 4.1 on TMDB
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
See where it’s streamingCurse of the Faceless Man (1958)
Rated 5.7 on TMDB
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
See where it’s streamingThe Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
Rated 6.0 on TMDB
Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing.
See where it’s streamingGhost Story of Yotsuya (1959)
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.
See where it’s streamingBride of the Gorilla (1951)
Rated 4.8 on TMDB
In a remote South American rubber plantation, overseer Barney Chavez kills his employer, Klaas Van Gelder. Witnessed by a local native witch/maid, Barney is placed under a voodoo curse.
See where it’s streamingThe Curse of the Aztec Mummy (1957)
Rated 4.1 on TMDB
The evil Dr. Krupp, once again trying to get possession of the Aztec princess Xochitl's jewels, hypnotizes her current reincarnation, Flor, to get her to reveal the jewels' location - Xochitl's tomb.
See where it’s streamingThe Witch (1952)
Rated 6.2 on TMDB
An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy...
See where it’s streamingRevenge of the Dead (1959)
Rated 4.4 on TMDB
Reports of strange activities out by the Old Willow's place signal new adventures for Kelton the Cop & Co. An apparent mystic, Dr. Acula is engaging in rituals designed to raise the dead.
See where it’s streamingThe Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)
Rated 5.4 on TMDB
Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire
See where it’s streamingThe Brain Eaters (1958)
Rated 4.9 on TMDB
A huge, alien structure resembling an inverted cone, appears in the woods outside a small rural town.
See where it’s streamingThe Fall of the House of Usher (1950)
Rated 5.2 on TMDB
A traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious…
See where it’s streamingThe Headless Ghost (1959)
Rated 3.4 on TMDB
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
See where it’s streamingBack from the Dead (1957)
Rated 4.9 on TMDB
A woman is possessed by the spirt of her husband's deceased first wife, turning her into a cold, scheming flirt who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
See where it’s streamingBlack Cat Mansion (1958)
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying…
See where it’s streamingGhost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)
Rated 4.5 on TMDB
A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters.
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