maybe we really do all go a little mad
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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
horror movies of the 1960s for this list
we’re looking at those films that took
the early cinematic groundwork in horror
and expanded upon it leaving behind the
b-movie back lot and entering the
mainstream with major artists in front
of and behind the camera come on you
ain’t that scared this is part of a
series of videos spanning the decades of
horror cinema from the 1920s to the
2000s I hang up now number 10 the
haunting it’s with this young companion
the evil reputation of a louse really
begins a film like the haunting where a
haunted house story is more effective in
showing us the psychological
deterioration of the characters and
their fear instead of monsters and
ghosts shows us the mature direction of
horror films in the 60s the dead are not
quiet in Hill House based on the classic
Shirley Jackson novel the haunting of
Hill House we follow an investigator who
convinces a couple of colleagues to
spend the night with him at Hill House
for paranormal research where
researchers in the field of psychic
phenomena grace please go you couldn’t
have arrived at a worse time without
having to explicitly show us much this
movie is considered one of the most
unsettling and terrifying ever made
number nine e travolta della paura they
don’t call me to ship a lot see it off
with the huge success of TV shows like
The Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits
the 60s saw a rise in popularity of
horror anthology productions with this
French Italian film among its greatest
examples an early success by Italian
shop director Mario Bava Black Sabbath
presents us three short and creepy tales
of insanity and otherworldly terror all
introduced to us by age tour icon Boris
Karloff you’re a senior eosin about is
Carlo the international cast brings
class to the trio of stories about
ghosts stalkers and haunting undead
creatures
Valerie Connie Morty proprio la cura
that America was not prepared for bhavas
extreme talent Pesci Amaravati on
definied la nostra story as a support
role person incarcerated Asha number 8
the Village of the Damned whole village
fell asleep
although audiences had experienced evil
children before as with the great film
The Bad Seed no one was prepared for an
entire village
of bizarre and demonic children to
invade their movie screens
the now-famous plot follows a small
village after all the inhabitants had
lost consciousness for a short period of
time an attempted suicide
Janet Paul whose husband only came back
from sea yesterday dreadful treasury
other women in the village half out of
their minds all the women wake up
pregnant and all give birth to creepy
looking children that grow at an
alarming rate have telepathic powers and
harbours a thirst for blood and mayhem
that means that every woman in this
village who is capable of childbirth is
going to have a baby with sci-fi
undertones these kids trigger the horror
in every parent’s mind thank you but I’m
old enough to do things for myself
number seven peeping tom what causes
people to be peeping toms the acclaimed
classic British director of sweeping
dramas like black narcissus and the red
shoes was attacked and later reviled by
critics for this honest look at
voyeurism and violence anyway
a film about cinema itself the eccentric
story of a psychopathic cameraman and
his unsettling violent and sexual needs
urges us to watch as we go from his
traumatic childhood to his unsettling
adulthood I’ve been watching you Oh
despite its initial critical reception
the clever tale of murderous revenge and
it’s uncomfortable subject matter is
today hailed as a masterpiece and a cult
classic and knew I was going to kill
them I made them watch their own deaths
number 6
he’s your zombies ash if he says you
told a machine so it is useful detect a
brilliant French surgeon is hiding a
deadly secret in the basement of his
secluded mansion – Sanjay – Pete I
despise Jonah’s Fe after his daughter’s
horrific disfigurement the rich doctor
sets his eyes on some radical surgery to
give her a new face at any cost the
reasons of his own oovoo you dr. Tate
evade the controversial film shot
European audiences with its bizarre mix
of poetic haunting mood and ghastly
violence and was later released in
America in a much edited cheesier toned
down version called the horror chamber
of Doctor Faustus hahg
kiss kakuzu Lucy she banished Brown
despite this the original cut went on to
inspire countless films and even the
Billy Idol song eyes without a face
which is what the French title
translates to in English
sure fellas Tina’s your neck cheek
Sanford found on number 5 the innocence
unless they are both deceiving us the
innocence
by the 1960s Hollywood know how to
respectfully make some quality horror
how can you say that so you you too what
a complete innocent take a brilliant
novella by Henry James hire the great
Truman Capote to help out with the
script bring in Hollywood royalty like
Deborah Carr to star in it
neither complain nor appeal nor right
and the oscar-winning director of
photography Freddie Francis for some
gritty widescreen thrills and you get
this brilliant gothic nightmare whatever
you’ve done I’m not against you I don’t
think it’s your fault the story of a
governess watching over two very creepy
children in an even creepier house has
us wondering along with her is there
something supernatural going on or she
just going insane his name miles tell me
his name you tell me his name number for
the birds suspense director Alfred
Hitchcock had already established
himself by 1963 as a living legend but
he wasn’t close to finished proving to
the world that he could make anything
scary
he brought the creature features of the
40s and 50s out of the Stone Age and
into stark mega production in your face
terror with the birds I have never known
birds of different species to flock
together
the very concept is unimaginable
successfully doing what Steven Spielberg
did for swimming a little over a decade
later
Hitchcock’s avian masterpiece and people
too terrified to look up at the sky as
audiences looked on in horror as birds
of all kinds wreaked total havoc in the
town of goda gabay
number three Night of the Living Dead
they’re coming for you look that comes
one of them now the little film that
could this indie masterpiece with its
do-it-yourself horror aesthetic inspired
the likes of Sam Raimi and countless
other future backyard home movie
filmmakers wave of murder which is
sweeping the eastern third of the nation
is being committed by creatures who
feast upon the flesh of their victims
and it also gave birth to a little
something we call the modern zombie with
its deep social commentary and an
original storyline that we’ve now heard
hundreds of times this sci-fi horror
film sees the reanimated dead begin to
roam the earth looking to eat the flesh
of the living the main story revolves
around a group of poor unfortunate souls
that gets trapped in a small farmhouse
and is soon surrounded by the undead
lock up tight the ghoul can be killed by
a shot in the head or a heavy blow to
the skull number two Rosemary’s Baby to
make baby having already given us the
shocking and disturbing repulsion and
the horror comedy The Fearless Vampire
Killers earlier in the decade Anju will
be a booth with guns no one expected
Roman Polanski to top it all off with
his greatest masterpiece in 1968 what
have you done to it what have you done
to his eyes
one of the most atmospheric and
poetically haunting horror films of all
time Rosemary’s Baby plays on a mother’s
paranoia during her pregnancy
the oscar-winning film follows Mia
Farrow with these probing questions can
I trust my neighbors is my husband out
to get me while I give birth to a demon
child questions every mother has asked
herself right what have you done to him
you maniac taejun is his father not guy
before we pull the sheet off our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
reads all of you all of you freaks
mutations number one psycho this is a
prime example of an established director
taking on disturbing McCobb material and
turning it into gold
whoo how does one follow-up brilliant
thrillers like vertigo and North by
Northwest give the audience the shock of
their lives a stunning vision of
unrelenting terror Hitchcock went
full-on horror for this twisted tale of
mommy issues
brutality abusive insanity and sexual
violence and yet it was all done with
such style and grace we’re all in our
private traps checking into norman bates
motel would be the most fatal mistake of
your life but it’s a must watch horror
film
do you agree with our list how can we
prove it
what other classic images of Terra from
the 1960s can you think of yes I’ll tell
you about those and in a few moments for
more exciting top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com yeah I will love to would
that be possible
sometimes
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
horror movies of the 1960s for this list
we’re looking at those films that took
the early cinematic groundwork in horror
and expanded upon it leaving behind the
b-movie back lot and entering the
mainstream with major artists in front
of and behind the camera come on you
ain’t that scared this is part of a
series of videos spanning the decades of
horror cinema from the 1920s to the
2000s I hang up now number 10 the
haunting it’s with this young companion
the evil reputation of a louse really
begins a film like the haunting where a
haunted house story is more effective in
showing us the psychological
deterioration of the characters and
their fear instead of monsters and
ghosts shows us the mature direction of
horror films in the 60s the dead are not
quiet in Hill House based on the classic
Shirley Jackson novel the haunting of
Hill House we follow an investigator who
convinces a couple of colleagues to
spend the night with him at Hill House
for paranormal research where
researchers in the field of psychic
phenomena grace please go you couldn’t
have arrived at a worse time without
having to explicitly show us much this
movie is considered one of the most
unsettling and terrifying ever made
number nine e travolta della paura they
don’t call me to ship a lot see it off
with the huge success of TV shows like
The Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits
the 60s saw a rise in popularity of
horror anthology productions with this
French Italian film among its greatest
examples an early success by Italian
shop director Mario Bava Black Sabbath
presents us three short and creepy tales
of insanity and otherworldly terror all
introduced to us by age tour icon Boris
Karloff you’re a senior eosin about is
Carlo the international cast brings
class to the trio of stories about
ghosts stalkers and haunting undead
creatures
Valerie Connie Morty proprio la cura
that America was not prepared for bhavas
extreme talent Pesci Amaravati on
definied la nostra story as a support
role person incarcerated Asha number 8
the Village of the Damned whole village
fell asleep
although audiences had experienced evil
children before as with the great film
The Bad Seed no one was prepared for an
entire village
of bizarre and demonic children to
invade their movie screens
the now-famous plot follows a small
village after all the inhabitants had
lost consciousness for a short period of
time an attempted suicide
Janet Paul whose husband only came back
from sea yesterday dreadful treasury
other women in the village half out of
their minds all the women wake up
pregnant and all give birth to creepy
looking children that grow at an
alarming rate have telepathic powers and
harbours a thirst for blood and mayhem
that means that every woman in this
village who is capable of childbirth is
going to have a baby with sci-fi
undertones these kids trigger the horror
in every parent’s mind thank you but I’m
old enough to do things for myself
number seven peeping tom what causes
people to be peeping toms the acclaimed
classic British director of sweeping
dramas like black narcissus and the red
shoes was attacked and later reviled by
critics for this honest look at
voyeurism and violence anyway
a film about cinema itself the eccentric
story of a psychopathic cameraman and
his unsettling violent and sexual needs
urges us to watch as we go from his
traumatic childhood to his unsettling
adulthood I’ve been watching you Oh
despite its initial critical reception
the clever tale of murderous revenge and
it’s uncomfortable subject matter is
today hailed as a masterpiece and a cult
classic and knew I was going to kill
them I made them watch their own deaths
number 6
he’s your zombies ash if he says you
told a machine so it is useful detect a
brilliant French surgeon is hiding a
deadly secret in the basement of his
secluded mansion – Sanjay – Pete I
despise Jonah’s Fe after his daughter’s
horrific disfigurement the rich doctor
sets his eyes on some radical surgery to
give her a new face at any cost the
reasons of his own oovoo you dr. Tate
evade the controversial film shot
European audiences with its bizarre mix
of poetic haunting mood and ghastly
violence and was later released in
America in a much edited cheesier toned
down version called the horror chamber
of Doctor Faustus hahg
kiss kakuzu Lucy she banished Brown
despite this the original cut went on to
inspire countless films and even the
Billy Idol song eyes without a face
which is what the French title
translates to in English
sure fellas Tina’s your neck cheek
Sanford found on number 5 the innocence
unless they are both deceiving us the
innocence
by the 1960s Hollywood know how to
respectfully make some quality horror
how can you say that so you you too what
a complete innocent take a brilliant
novella by Henry James hire the great
Truman Capote to help out with the
script bring in Hollywood royalty like
Deborah Carr to star in it
neither complain nor appeal nor right
and the oscar-winning director of
photography Freddie Francis for some
gritty widescreen thrills and you get
this brilliant gothic nightmare whatever
you’ve done I’m not against you I don’t
think it’s your fault the story of a
governess watching over two very creepy
children in an even creepier house has
us wondering along with her is there
something supernatural going on or she
just going insane his name miles tell me
his name you tell me his name number for
the birds suspense director Alfred
Hitchcock had already established
himself by 1963 as a living legend but
he wasn’t close to finished proving to
the world that he could make anything
scary
he brought the creature features of the
40s and 50s out of the Stone Age and
into stark mega production in your face
terror with the birds I have never known
birds of different species to flock
together
the very concept is unimaginable
successfully doing what Steven Spielberg
did for swimming a little over a decade
later
Hitchcock’s avian masterpiece and people
too terrified to look up at the sky as
audiences looked on in horror as birds
of all kinds wreaked total havoc in the
town of goda gabay
number three Night of the Living Dead
they’re coming for you look that comes
one of them now the little film that
could this indie masterpiece with its
do-it-yourself horror aesthetic inspired
the likes of Sam Raimi and countless
other future backyard home movie
filmmakers wave of murder which is
sweeping the eastern third of the nation
is being committed by creatures who
feast upon the flesh of their victims
and it also gave birth to a little
something we call the modern zombie with
its deep social commentary and an
original storyline that we’ve now heard
hundreds of times this sci-fi horror
film sees the reanimated dead begin to
roam the earth looking to eat the flesh
of the living the main story revolves
around a group of poor unfortunate souls
that gets trapped in a small farmhouse
and is soon surrounded by the undead
lock up tight the ghoul can be killed by
a shot in the head or a heavy blow to
the skull number two Rosemary’s Baby to
make baby having already given us the
shocking and disturbing repulsion and
the horror comedy The Fearless Vampire
Killers earlier in the decade Anju will
be a booth with guns no one expected
Roman Polanski to top it all off with
his greatest masterpiece in 1968 what
have you done to it what have you done
to his eyes
one of the most atmospheric and
poetically haunting horror films of all
time Rosemary’s Baby plays on a mother’s
paranoia during her pregnancy
the oscar-winning film follows Mia
Farrow with these probing questions can
I trust my neighbors is my husband out
to get me while I give birth to a demon
child questions every mother has asked
herself right what have you done to him
you maniac taejun is his father not guy
before we pull the sheet off our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
reads all of you all of you freaks
mutations number one psycho this is a
prime example of an established director
taking on disturbing McCobb material and
turning it into gold
whoo how does one follow-up brilliant
thrillers like vertigo and North by
Northwest give the audience the shock of
their lives a stunning vision of
unrelenting terror Hitchcock went
full-on horror for this twisted tale of
mommy issues
brutality abusive insanity and sexual
violence and yet it was all done with
such style and grace we’re all in our
private traps checking into norman bates
motel would be the most fatal mistake of
your life but it’s a must watch horror
film
do you agree with our list how can we
prove it
what other classic images of Terra from
the 1960s can you think of yes I’ll tell
you about those and in a few moments for
more exciting top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com yeah I will love to would
that be possible
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