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In this great movie in the psychological horror genre, British director Jack Clayton attempts a movie version of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw using a screenplay that was cowritten by Truman Capote. The Innocents (1961) Deborah Kerr (right) is a governess who realizes the house she oversees is haunted. In the 80s, there was a reamke with Steve Martin as a manic dentist who takes pleasure in causing pain to his patients.

Little Shop was later turned into a successful Broadway musical and a 1986 full-color black-horror comedy musical. The film also features a young Jack Nicholson as a masochistic dental patient. The Little Shop of Horrors is a small masterpiece regarding a young man in a flower shop who discovers to his horror that the plant he’s been feeding is carnivorous and has an insatiable appetite for human flash. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) The Little Shop of Horrors was made with a shoestring budget but became a cult classic.ĭirector and producer Roger Corman is known as the “King of B-Movies,” having directed over 50 low-budget sci-fi and horror films as well has producing nearly 400 films in the same genre from a career spanning decades. It is reputed to be the most-watched scene in film history. Hitchcock, a pioneer of early horror cinema going back to the Silent Era, masterfully blends horror and suspense-especially in the infamous “shower scene,” where Janet Leigh is stabbed to death while showering. Janet Leigh stars as a frustrated Arizona secretary who embezzles $40,000 from her employer, then escapes into rural California, only to end up at the Bates Motel, a dilapidated and decrepit lodging house run by Norman Bates, who seems to be endlessly belittled by his mother. In a film that shocked American audiences as much as Peeping Tom traumatized British filmgoers, Alfred Hitchcock turns the Robert Bloch novel into a horror masterpiece. Psycho (1960) Janet Leigh at the end of Psycho‘s infamous shower scene.

Considered one of the very first slasher films, Peeping Tom has gradually gained recognition as a masterpiece and the first truly great horror film of the 1960s. What was most disturbing to audiences is that it drags them into Mark’s lonely world as he films his victims’ expressions while he’s killing them.
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This psychological thriller about a young man named Mark who became a serial killer as a result of his father’s endless psychological bullying during childhood shocked audiences to the point that it was pulled from British theaters after only five days, and it ruined the career of Michael Powell, who until that point was one of England’s most respected directors.

Released in April 1960-right at the dawn of a new decade that would forever alter popular culture- Peeping Tom came out a couple months before Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, the other film that would forever change the horror genre. 1960s Horror Movies Peeping Tom (1960) Carl Boehm stars as Mark Lewis, a mentally tortured and depraved photographer/ voyeur. The following is a list of 1960s horror films that were not only iconic and influential but which were so weird, they could have only been made in the 1960s. The film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) also was critical in inspiring 60s horror movies.īritish film company Hammer Films produced a cluster of Frankenstein films from 1957-1974, including Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) that would inspire much of pop culture and horror fandom.
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Sixties horror movies were also deeply inspired, not by a Hollywood film, but by a TV show: The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), which explored supernatural themes with average, everyday characters. Many of the movies on this list would inspire critical films in cinematic history such as The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Star Wars (1977), Evil Dead (1981), and Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). The 1960s were a foundational decade for what would become the modern horror genre and Hollywood sci-fi films.
