1The Pit and the Pendulum
TMDB6.9
1961·383 votes
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
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2House of Usher
TMDB6.7
1960·362 votes
Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.
3The Haunted Palace
TMDB6.7
1963·192 votes
A man and his wife claim the mansion of his warlock ancestor burned alive in 1765.
4Tales of Terror
TMDB6.7
1962·207 votes
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
5A Bucket of Blood
TMDB6.6
1959·165 votes
Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.
6X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
TMDB6.6
1963·264 votes
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
7The Masque of the Red Death
TMDB6.6
1964·357 votes
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
8The Comedy of Terrors
TMDB6.5
1964·167 votes
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
9The Tomb of Ligeia
TMDB6.3
1964·181 votes
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
10Panic in Year Zero!
TMDB6.3
1962·103 votes
While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be the first casualties.
11The Raven
TMDB6.3
1963·279 votes
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.
12The Premature Burial
TMDB6.3
1962·141 votes
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.
13The Little Shop of Horrors
TMDB6.3
1960·466 votes
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
14Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
TMDB6.1
1979·101 votes
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate.
15The Dunwich Horror
TMDB5.3
1970·122 votes
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He is turned away by Wilbur, the family's insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won't be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret — as well as a great evil.
16The Terror
TMDB5.2
1963·180 votes
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.
17The Wasp Woman
TMDB4.5
1959·120 votes
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.