10 Best Horror Films of 1953
The best year for horror in the first half of the decade, which was sorely needed in order to bring the horror film back into relevance. Picking up from the sci-fi entries two years prior, a hybrid genre would emerge here that would persist for the rest of the 50's.
Notable Films sometimes labelled as horror:
Ugetsu, The Hitch-Hiker
Notable Films that didn't make the cut:
Return to Glennascaul, The Maze, The Magnetic Monster, The Neanderthal Man, Dracula in Istanbul, Mesa of Lost Women
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Notable Films sometimes labelled as horror:
Ugetsu, The Hitch-Hiker
Notable Films that didn't make the cut:
Return to Glennascaul, The Maze, The Magnetic Monster, The Neanderthal Man, Dracula in Istanbul, Mesa of Lost Women
Jump Back to 10 Best Horror Films of 1902 & 1903
Jump Back to 10 Best Horror Films of 1913
Jump Back to 10 Best Horror Films of 1923
Jump Back to 10 Best Horror Films of 1933
Jump Back to 10 Best Horror Films of 1943
10 Best Horror Films of 1952
10 Best Horror Films of 1954
Jump Forward to 10 Best Horror Films of 1963
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- DirectorAndré De TothStarsVincent PriceFrank LovejoyPhyllis KirkAn associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsGene BarryAnn RobinsonLes TremayneA small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.
- DirectorTed ParmeleeStarsJames MasonJack MatherA madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.
- DirectorEugène LouriéStarsPaul HubschmidPaula RaymondCecil KellawayA ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloBoris KarloffTwo bumbling American cops hunt for the mysterious Mr. Hyde in London, England.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRichard CarlsonBarbara RushCharles DrakeA spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.
- DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsHelena CarterArthur FranzJimmy HuntA young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsDean MartinJerry LewisLizabeth ScottFleeing a murder charge, a busboy and a nightclub singer wind up on a spooky Caribbean island inherited by a young woman.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsLew AyresGene EvansNancy ReaganThree scientists unlawfully remove the still living brain of a dead tycoon and experiment with it but the evil brain begins to telepathically control the lead scientist.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsJack PalanceConstance SmithByron PalmerAfter an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.
