they’re creatures of the night
try not to die of fright welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 horror
movies of the 1920s to the 1950s for
this list we’re looking at those
foundational cinematic expressions of
terror and the McCobb this is part of a
series of videos spanning the decades of
horror cinema from the 1920s to the
2000s doesn’t make any difference now
the point is he won’t do any more
killing
and while horror films can easily cross
genres dealing with everything from
murder mysteries and thrillers to aliens
and the supernatural that is oh it’s not
we have omitted straight-up
action-adventure flicks like King Kong
and kaiju movies like Godzilla
number 10 The Creature from the Black
Lagoon
following the major success of it came
from outer space director Jack Arnold
needed to get away from all the aliens
invading screens in the early 50s the
classic Gil man makes his first
appearance in this golden oldie creature
feature as an ancient monster protecting
his habitat for vendetta so far
originally shot in 3d the film follows
an expedition down the Amazon that’s
looking for fossils but instead they
find the entire previous group had been
killed
back when monster flicks were made on
the cheap
this film stood out with its expert
makeup effects and genuine thrills
number nine House of Wax she will be the
leading lady of my new exhibition in the
first of many appearances in our series
here
Vincent Price plays Professor Henry
Jerrod a man hell-bent on gruesome
revenge after his famous wax museum is
burned to the ground while he’s left for
death deep in those lines around the
corner of the mouth not too much yeah
yeah that’s better he returns with a new
and more McCobb Museum that looks a
little too real the biggest horror icon
was at the peak of his career here and
he knew exactly how to give the drive-in
50s crowd the chills
it is Cathy it’s Cathy’s body under the
wax also shot in 3d this movie was a
massive hit for Warner Brothers and for
price as well
murder torture execution scare the
living daylights out of people I don’t
care for that kind of a teenager number
8 the cabinet of dr. Caligari
this German Expressionists silent film
has been hailed by many as the first
true horror film with the use of a
creative and influential narrative frame
we witness dr. Caligari performing his
tricks at a carnival the most striking
of which is the some nebulous Cesare
that he keeps in his cabinet
little does the audience know that he
sends them out at night while hypnotized
to kill and kidnap
immensely influential even almost 100
years later the cabinet of dr. Caligari
set unprecedented groundwork for the
genre for storytelling visual techniques
and boasts the earliest use of the
surprise twist ending
number seven The Wolfman hey hey hey
what’s all the excitement world weekend
even a man who is pure in heart and says
his prayers by night this classic
Universal monster movie proves it anyone
can become a monster after being bitten
while defending a girl against what
seemed like a wolf Larry Talbot soon
finds himself not only being accused of
murder but also suffering the
uncontrollable urges of a werewolf
poor Giants Lon Chaney jr. bela lugosi
pant quad rains joined forces to bring
the legend of the werewolf to the
mainstream where do you suppose a wolf
came from and with it they brought a
timeless film that has been scaring
generations of fans for years number 6
the fly when did you first see that fly
filly
while many Atomic Age horror films
warned about the destructive nature of
nuclear warfare the fly turned the
science inward Canadian scientist ante
de la shouldn’t have been playing God
when he turned his matter transporter on
himself I know
instead of teleporting himself he swaps
his atoms with a fly and becomes a
hideous monster
less cheesy and more shockingly tragic
than its contemporaries this Vincent
Price thrill ride which was originally
based on a short story spawned a slew of
sequels and remakes most notably David
Cronenberg’s body horror masterpiece
number five house on Haunted Hill
Richard why don’t you take us on a tour
through the house and let’s see what
happens so Vincent Price is back yet
again this time as an eccentric
millionaire who invited a bunch of
random people to his castle for a party
a haunted house party why he will pay
them handsomely if they can spend the
whole night there the catch the castle
is supposed to be haunted
I think everyone wonders what they would
do if they saw a ghost
William Castle the king of gimmicky be
horror flicks such as the later
productions the Tingler and thirteen
ghosts used gimmicks like skeletons that
would pop up and fly inside the theater
for some house on Haunted Hill showings
come with me
lettuce come with me just as horror
audiences we’re becoming jaded this film
assured in a new era of jump scares and
bloody thrills
number four
Nosferatu following the plot of Bram
Stoker’s Dracula very loosely this
German expressionist film is considered
one of the earliest representations of a
vampire ever put on film Max Shrek’s
portrayal of Count warlock was so
haunting and disturbing that it caused
rumors among the cast and crew that he
really was one of the undead
being a silent film with a silent
character only adds to its freakiness
subtitled a symphony of horror it was
more than just a film it was an
experience as filmmakers appear to be
trying to see how much disturbing and
macabre imagery the audience could
actually handle
tonight number three Frankenstein
although only loosely based on Mary
Shelley’s novel this movie and its plot
need no introduction this Frankenstein
known for giving the horror movie world
the brilliant Boris Karloff in his first
major role this science gone wrong
creature feature did everything right
and then some I know that don’t keep on
saying so you idiot
here are the unknown a terrifying
monster children and women in danger and
moral and ethical dilemmas about but
which shines through is Karloff’s
monster even under tons of makeup and no
dialogue a cat a frightened sidekick
hair while Bride of Frankenstein is a
near-perfect but unless serious
masterpiece the original is truly iconic
will you play with me
number two invasion of the Body
Snatchers
when action and Western director Don
Siegel decided to experiment with sci-fi
he gave us one of the most terrifying
visions of extraterrestrial life
with this flick the whole town’s been
taken over by the Pott during the men
and achieve costume days of alien movies
Seagal chose to tap into people’s fear
of the unknown and unseen with alien
spores creating pod people which are
duplicate human clones controlled by the
aliens I don’t know what they are I
never saw them before they look like
great big seed pods with the threats of
nuclear attacks communist spies and
imminent war on America’s mind the film
works beautifully as it portrays the
invasion more like a spreading disease
and less like an alien attack
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
it’s right in the middle of it sir
number one Dracula
the most iconic big-screen portrayal of
the most iconic villain of all time
takes our top spot I bid you welcome
Nosferatu was taking over the world and
Universal Studios decided to adapt the
play that already had Bela Lugosi in the
lead she did enough the night what music
today me with hundreds of Dracula’s
having graced our screens in the last
100 years people today will still do a
Bela Lugosi impression when pretending
to be the king of vampires God will is
strong and Helsing although Christopher
Lee’s reimagining starting with 1958
horror of Dracula is a close second
Lugosi ‘s eerie gaze and hypnotizing
voice will never be forgotten
Indy do you agree with our list alright
I don’t know what it is who where it
came from
which horror masterpiece from the 20s to
the 50s do you think is hiding in the
dark shadows for more creepy top-10
lists published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com I hope you
will like
you
try not to die of fright welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 horror
movies of the 1920s to the 1950s for
this list we’re looking at those
foundational cinematic expressions of
terror and the McCobb this is part of a
series of videos spanning the decades of
horror cinema from the 1920s to the
2000s doesn’t make any difference now
the point is he won’t do any more
killing
and while horror films can easily cross
genres dealing with everything from
murder mysteries and thrillers to aliens
and the supernatural that is oh it’s not
we have omitted straight-up
action-adventure flicks like King Kong
and kaiju movies like Godzilla
number 10 The Creature from the Black
Lagoon
following the major success of it came
from outer space director Jack Arnold
needed to get away from all the aliens
invading screens in the early 50s the
classic Gil man makes his first
appearance in this golden oldie creature
feature as an ancient monster protecting
his habitat for vendetta so far
originally shot in 3d the film follows
an expedition down the Amazon that’s
looking for fossils but instead they
find the entire previous group had been
killed
back when monster flicks were made on
the cheap
this film stood out with its expert
makeup effects and genuine thrills
number nine House of Wax she will be the
leading lady of my new exhibition in the
first of many appearances in our series
here
Vincent Price plays Professor Henry
Jerrod a man hell-bent on gruesome
revenge after his famous wax museum is
burned to the ground while he’s left for
death deep in those lines around the
corner of the mouth not too much yeah
yeah that’s better he returns with a new
and more McCobb Museum that looks a
little too real the biggest horror icon
was at the peak of his career here and
he knew exactly how to give the drive-in
50s crowd the chills
it is Cathy it’s Cathy’s body under the
wax also shot in 3d this movie was a
massive hit for Warner Brothers and for
price as well
murder torture execution scare the
living daylights out of people I don’t
care for that kind of a teenager number
8 the cabinet of dr. Caligari
this German Expressionists silent film
has been hailed by many as the first
true horror film with the use of a
creative and influential narrative frame
we witness dr. Caligari performing his
tricks at a carnival the most striking
of which is the some nebulous Cesare
that he keeps in his cabinet
little does the audience know that he
sends them out at night while hypnotized
to kill and kidnap
immensely influential even almost 100
years later the cabinet of dr. Caligari
set unprecedented groundwork for the
genre for storytelling visual techniques
and boasts the earliest use of the
surprise twist ending
number seven The Wolfman hey hey hey
what’s all the excitement world weekend
even a man who is pure in heart and says
his prayers by night this classic
Universal monster movie proves it anyone
can become a monster after being bitten
while defending a girl against what
seemed like a wolf Larry Talbot soon
finds himself not only being accused of
murder but also suffering the
uncontrollable urges of a werewolf
poor Giants Lon Chaney jr. bela lugosi
pant quad rains joined forces to bring
the legend of the werewolf to the
mainstream where do you suppose a wolf
came from and with it they brought a
timeless film that has been scaring
generations of fans for years number 6
the fly when did you first see that fly
filly
while many Atomic Age horror films
warned about the destructive nature of
nuclear warfare the fly turned the
science inward Canadian scientist ante
de la shouldn’t have been playing God
when he turned his matter transporter on
himself I know
instead of teleporting himself he swaps
his atoms with a fly and becomes a
hideous monster
less cheesy and more shockingly tragic
than its contemporaries this Vincent
Price thrill ride which was originally
based on a short story spawned a slew of
sequels and remakes most notably David
Cronenberg’s body horror masterpiece
number five house on Haunted Hill
Richard why don’t you take us on a tour
through the house and let’s see what
happens so Vincent Price is back yet
again this time as an eccentric
millionaire who invited a bunch of
random people to his castle for a party
a haunted house party why he will pay
them handsomely if they can spend the
whole night there the catch the castle
is supposed to be haunted
I think everyone wonders what they would
do if they saw a ghost
William Castle the king of gimmicky be
horror flicks such as the later
productions the Tingler and thirteen
ghosts used gimmicks like skeletons that
would pop up and fly inside the theater
for some house on Haunted Hill showings
come with me
lettuce come with me just as horror
audiences we’re becoming jaded this film
assured in a new era of jump scares and
bloody thrills
number four
Nosferatu following the plot of Bram
Stoker’s Dracula very loosely this
German expressionist film is considered
one of the earliest representations of a
vampire ever put on film Max Shrek’s
portrayal of Count warlock was so
haunting and disturbing that it caused
rumors among the cast and crew that he
really was one of the undead
being a silent film with a silent
character only adds to its freakiness
subtitled a symphony of horror it was
more than just a film it was an
experience as filmmakers appear to be
trying to see how much disturbing and
macabre imagery the audience could
actually handle
tonight number three Frankenstein
although only loosely based on Mary
Shelley’s novel this movie and its plot
need no introduction this Frankenstein
known for giving the horror movie world
the brilliant Boris Karloff in his first
major role this science gone wrong
creature feature did everything right
and then some I know that don’t keep on
saying so you idiot
here are the unknown a terrifying
monster children and women in danger and
moral and ethical dilemmas about but
which shines through is Karloff’s
monster even under tons of makeup and no
dialogue a cat a frightened sidekick
hair while Bride of Frankenstein is a
near-perfect but unless serious
masterpiece the original is truly iconic
will you play with me
number two invasion of the Body
Snatchers
when action and Western director Don
Siegel decided to experiment with sci-fi
he gave us one of the most terrifying
visions of extraterrestrial life
with this flick the whole town’s been
taken over by the Pott during the men
and achieve costume days of alien movies
Seagal chose to tap into people’s fear
of the unknown and unseen with alien
spores creating pod people which are
duplicate human clones controlled by the
aliens I don’t know what they are I
never saw them before they look like
great big seed pods with the threats of
nuclear attacks communist spies and
imminent war on America’s mind the film
works beautifully as it portrays the
invasion more like a spreading disease
and less like an alien attack
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
it’s right in the middle of it sir
number one Dracula
the most iconic big-screen portrayal of
the most iconic villain of all time
takes our top spot I bid you welcome
Nosferatu was taking over the world and
Universal Studios decided to adapt the
play that already had Bela Lugosi in the
lead she did enough the night what music
today me with hundreds of Dracula’s
having graced our screens in the last
100 years people today will still do a
Bela Lugosi impression when pretending
to be the king of vampires God will is
strong and Helsing although Christopher
Lee’s reimagining starting with 1958
horror of Dracula is a close second
Lugosi ‘s eerie gaze and hypnotizing
voice will never be forgotten
Indy do you agree with our list alright
I don’t know what it is who where it
came from
which horror masterpiece from the 20s to
the 50s do you think is hiding in the
dark shadows for more creepy top-10
lists published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com I hope you
will like
you
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