The Top 50 Horror Movies of the 1950s

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The Top 50 Horror Movies of the 1950s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
Ranking
555 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel NR -
882 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda NR -
939 Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher NR -
1139 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur NR -
1312 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby NR -
1372 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Jack Arnold NR -
1393 House on Haunted Hill 1959 William Castle NR -
1406 Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 Jack Arnold G -
1535 House of Wax 1953 André De Toth NR -
1652 The Bad Seed 1956 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
1830 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Terence Fisher NR -
1900 Them! 1954 Gordon Douglas NR -
2121 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann NR -
2662 The Blob 1958 Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. NR -
2813 Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 1956 Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Moore NR -
3116 The Mummy 1959 Terence Fisher NR -
3402 Invaders from Mars 1953 William Cameron Menzies NR -
3480 The Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 Terence Fisher NR -
3519 20 Million Miles to Earth 1957 Nathan Juran NR -
3668 The Tingler 1959 William Castle NR -
3794 A Bucket of Blood 1959 Roger Corman NR -
4217 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 1953 Eugène Lourié NR -
4627 Tarantula 1955 Jack Arnold NR -
4721 Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1953 Charles Lamont NR -
4973 It Came from Outer Space 1953 Jack Arnold G -
5011 Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 1956 Fred F. Sears NR -
5349 The Creeping Unknown 1955 Val Guest NR -
5396 Rodan 1956 Ishirô Honda NR -
5590 It! The Terror from Beyond Space 1958 Edward L. Cahn NR -
5731 Fiend Without a Face 1958 Arthur Crabtree NR -
5803 Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 Edward D. Wood Jr. NR -
6465 The Naked Jungle 1954 Byron Haskin NR -
6466 I Bury the Living 1958 Albert Band NR -
6948 It Came from Beneath the Sea 1955 Robert Gordon NR -
7249 Revenge of the Creature 1955 Jack Arnold NR -
7386 I Married a Monster from Outer Space 1958 Gene Fowler Jr. NR -
7493 The Tell-Tale Heart 1953 Ted Parmelee NR -
7523 Enemy from Space 1957 Val Guest NR -
7752 The Abominable Snowman 1957 Val Guest NR -
7832 Dementia 1955 John Parker NR -
7853 The Bat 1959 Crane Wilbur NR -
8528 Not of This Earth 1957 Roger Corman NR -
8797 Return of the Fly 1959 Edward Bernds NR -
8884 Godzilla Raids Again 1955 Motoyoshi Oda NR -
9949 I Was a Teenage Werewolf 1957 Gene Fowler Jr. NR -
10009 The Monster That Challenged the World 1957 Arnold Laven NR -
10273 X: The Unknown 1956 Leslie Norman NR -
10290 Corridors of Blood 1958 Robert Day NR -
10535 The Deadly Mantis 1957 Nathan Juran NR -
10692 The Return of Dracula 1958 Paul Landres PG -

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