Horror Movies of 1961
Pit and the Pendulum
American-International's standing "haunted castle" set is exhibited to peak ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
The Innocents
In this lugubrious but brilliantly realized adaptation of Henry James' classic novella The Turn of the Screw, 19th century British governess Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) arrives at a bleak mansion to take ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
Mr. Sardonicus
In this 1961 William Castle film based on Ray Russell's novel Sardonicus, Guy Rolfe stars as the ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
Dr. Blood's Coffin
Between his internship in Canadian television and his A-feature work on The Ipcress File, Sidney J. Furie directed an old-fashioned horror flick called Doctor Blood's Coffin. Kieron Moore stars as research scientist Dr. Peter Blood, ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
Konga
A British botanist goes bananas after he discovers a serum that turns his cuddly chimpanzee subject into a ferocious ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
A school for wayward girls is plagued by mysterious attacks by a strange beast. This low budget, melodramatic horror film ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
Homicidal
Homicidal represents producer/director William Castle's slant on Hitchcock's Psycho. The film concerns a young woman named Miriam Webster (Patricia Breslin) who seemingly has everything a girl could want - ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
Atom Age Vampire
A less-stylish variant on Franju's classic Les Yeux Sans Visage, this low-budget Italian production borrows heavily from that film's plot to tell the tale of a scientist who employs a radical new procedure to restore the beauty of a young ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
The Beast of Yucca Flats
This groaner from profoundly untalented "auteur" Coleman Francis involves the scenario (one couldn't exactly call it a 'story') of a tubby Soviet scientist (Tor Johnson -- who else?) who is ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
Bring Me the Vampire
This Mexican-Venezuelan co-production from popular genre filmmaker Alfredo B. Crevenna is a standard "old dark house" chiller filmed in three ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
Creature from the Haunted Sea
This early bit of "B"-movie fluff from Roger Corman and company is a hastily slapped-together melange of crime ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
La Maldicion de la Llorona
Based on the authentic Mexican legend first filmed in 1933 as La Llorona, this film begins with a ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
The Devil's Hand
A mystery woman leads an ordinary man down an evil path in this intriguing horror story. Rick Turner ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
The Manster
Manster is a favorite among campy horror aficionados and for good reason as it is both unintentionally ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
The Snake Woman
This horror film is set in a small turn-of-the-century English village where a herpetologist is trying to cure his wife's insanity with injections of ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
Varan the Unbelievable
Director Jerry A. Baerwitz created this uninspired, problematical monster story by using footage from a similar but different Japanese monster flic by Inoshira Honda (he who ... [ Horror movie - 1961 ]
