Best 26 Horror Movies Releases from 1945

Londoner Dorian Gray stays young, but his portrait ages. Find out about The Picture of Dorian Gray / IMDB / YouTube

A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers. Read about The Body Snatcher / IMDB / YouTube

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot. Read about The Woman in Green / IMDB / YouTube

The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse. Read about House of Dracula / IMDB / YouTube

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims. More about The House of Fear / IMDB / YouTube

A Greek general takes leave from the 1912 Balkan War to visit a small island in Greece, where his wife is buried. A plague soon breaks out and he is forced to stay when quarantine is declared. Details on Isle of the Dead / IMDB / YouTube

A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory. Get info on Hangover Square / IMDB / YouTube

Professional pollster Pete Marshall gets more than he bargained for when he heads deep into the Ozarks to investigate the disappearances of several of his colleagues. Find out about Murder, He Says / IMDB / YouTube

High jinks and chills ensue after a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches. Info on The Ghost Train / IMDB / YouTube

Eccentric scientist Harper lives in a spooky mansion with all the trimmings: hidden lab, secret panels, inscrutable butler, and greedy relatives with unusual talents. When Harper seems to be murdered, Charlie Chan (with the uninvited help of No. 4 son) tries to answer such questions as Where's the body? How can a dead man walk? And how can a secret murder be done in f. Get info on The Jade Mask / IMDB / YouTube

A stage mentalist involved in a mysterious death and a discredited plastic surgeon are among the assorted characters involved in mysterious goings-on in an eerie wax museum. Info on The Frozen Ghost / IMDB / YouTube

An investor recently released from prison invites a group of former business associates to a holiday in his island home, intending to exact revenge on them. More about Fog Island / IMDB / YouTube

Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences. Check out Zombies on Broadway / IMDB / YouTube

An unfaithful attorney is suspected of murdering his wife. Read about Pillow of Death / IMDB / YouTube

A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door. Details on The Unseen / IMDB / YouTube

A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in tragedy. More about Strange Confession / IMDB / YouTube

Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape. Details on White Pongo / IMDB / YouTube

In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his life of the past few hundred years. More about The Vampire's Ghost / IMDB / YouTube

Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will. They arrive on a dark and stormy night only to find that the lawyer has been murdered and the will and the body have disappeared. All the relatives must stay in the spooky house while the police investigate and the stooges are given . Read about If a Body Meets a Body / IMDB / YouTube

Once again, Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman, is brought back to life, this time by a mad scientist and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps his female lab assistant in order to have a female blood donor. By this time, Paula has brain damage from her experiences in the last film, so there's not much for her to do except wander around. Read about The Jungle Captive / IMDB / YouTube

After a bus accident, a woman comes to believe that she's actually a 300-year-old witch. Learn about Woman Who Came Back / IMDB / YouTube

The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder. Look into The Phantom Speaks / IMDB / YouTube

The jumpy chess editor at a newspaper accidentally gets involved in some murders at a sleazy tavern run by a pair of bizarre brothers. See more about Scared Stiff / IMDB / YouTube

A scientist who has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) finds himself in a dilemma: he has fallen in love, and he has also discovered that if he doesn't get new glands, he will die. Info on The Man in Half Moon Street / IMDB / YouTube

A young man's fiancée dies after contracting a terminal illness and, in his efforts to contact her, he gets involved with a group of spiritualists. See more about The Spell of Amy Nugent / IMDB / YouTube

Sylvie, a girl who believes she is cursed having seen her two lovers die in tragic circumstances, lives in the town of Carcassonne, in the South of France with her adoptive guardian, Mr. Toulzac. This one, a retired school teacher, has a passion: to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. One day Sylvie m. Details on La fiancée des ténèbres / IMDB / YouTube