The Best '60s Horror Movies
List Rules
Horror movies released in the 1960s.
The best ‘60s horror movies were soaked in experimentation, paranoia, and outstanding accomplishment. The horror films of the '60s saw the release of some of the most important horror films of all time. The best '60s horror movies are among the greatest classic horror movies of all time, the scariest movies of all time, and are just films every die-hard horror fan needs to see.
Whether you’re in the mood for more of a realistic thriller, a gory shockfest, or a movie that was based on true historic events, there’s sure to be a horror movie on this list that will satisfy your needs and get you good and scared.
Vote up the best 60s horror films, and be sure to check the best horror movies of the 21st century!
Ranked by
- 1Alfred Hitchcock
- Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam
- Released: 1960
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a ...more - 2William Castle
- Actors: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans
- Released: 1968
- Directed by: Roman Polanski
A young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband Guy (John Cassavetes) move to a New York City apartment ...more - 3Karl Hardman, Russell Streiner
- Actors: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne, Judith Ridley
- Released: 1968
- Directed by: George A. Romero
A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. The pragmatic Ben (Duane Jones) does his best ...more - 4Alfred Hitchcock
- Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright
- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) meets Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco pet store and decides to follow him home. She brings with her the gift of two love birds and they strike up a ...more - 5Robert Aldrich
- Actors: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Marjorie Bennett, Anna Lee
- Released: 1962
- Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), also a former child actress. Stuck living together in a mansion in old ...more - 6Robert Wise
- Actors: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Lois Maxwell
- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Robert Wise
Dr. John Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, takes two specially selected women to Hill House, a reportedly haunted mansion. Eleanor (Julie Harris), a lonely, eccentric ...more
