Best 29 Horror Movies Fan Favorite Released in 1944

A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past. Info on The Uninvited / IMDB / YouTube

A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf. Learn about House of Frankenstein / IMDB / YouTube

The young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress. Look into The Curse of the Cat People / IMDB / YouTube

After a gentlewoman is found dead with her throat torn out, the villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer. Read about The Scarlet Claw / IMDB / YouTube

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called pajama suicides. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Info on The Spider Woman / IMDB / YouTube

After a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders. Info on The Pearl of Death / IMDB / YouTube

A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper. Look into The Lodger / IMDB / YouTube

Kharis the mummy is given a sacred potion that grants him eternal life to search for his lost love, Princess Ananka, despite the unending curse that haunts them. More about The Mummy's Ghost / IMDB / YouTube

Shipped to Louisiana, the mummy Kharis from Egypt roams the bayou, tormented by his forbidden love for Princess Ananka. Find out about The Mummy's Curse / IMDB / YouTube

An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends. See more about The Invisible Man's Revenge / IMDB / YouTube

In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them. See more about Bluebeard / IMDB / YouTube

Charlie searches for a murderer amidst numerous ghosts conjured up by a strange variety of spiritualists and occultists. More about Black Magic / IMDB / YouTube

An insurance salesman arrives at a creepy mansion to discover his potential eccentric millionaire client already dead. Instead he gets embroiled in a house full of greedy, murderous relatives competing for the inheritance. Check out One Body Too Many / IMDB / YouTube

A young woman raised by gypsies hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to protect. Explore Cry of the Werewolf / IMDB / YouTube

A mad scientist injects his enemies with an acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed. Find out about The Monster Maker / IMDB / YouTube

Dr. Richard Marlowe uses a combination of voodoo and hypnosis in an attempt to revive his dead wife by transferring the life essences of several hapless young girls he has kidnapped and imprisoned in the dungeon beneath his mansion. Find out about Voodoo Man / IMDB / YouTube

A group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious... Look into The Halfway House / IMDB / YouTube

While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some kind of supernatural being. Learn about Weird Woman / IMDB / YouTube

When an artist is blinded, his fiancée's father offers an operation to restore his sight. When the benefactor suddenly dies, the artist becomes a suspect. Look into Dead Man's Eyes / IMDB / YouTube

A demented physician becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice sounds similar to his late mistress. Read about The Climax / IMDB / YouTube

In 19th-century Madrid a young man plays roulette. A mysterious character helps him by pointing with his walking stick the next number on which the ball will fall; the protagonist is the only one able to see him. The mysterious man turns out to be the ghost of an archaeologist and asks the young man to defend his niece from a gang of hunchbacks. Get info on The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks / IMDB / YouTube

Paula the ape woman (Acquanetta) is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish), also reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody. See more about Jungle Woman / IMDB / YouTube

A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death, and telepathically begins to take control of those around him. See more about The Lady and the Monster / IMDB / YouTube

Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman. Details on Gildersleeve's Ghost / IMDB / YouTube

A scientist seeks to transplant a brain into the body of a thawed caveman in order to get it to do his bidding. See more about Return of the Ape Man / IMDB / YouTube

As famous surgeon, George Winson, lies on his deathbed, his wife Ann calls on unknown powers to save him. A strange woman (Lilyan) appears from nowhere and takes control. George recovers, but he's mysteriously dominated by Lilyan, and leaves his wife. When the evil woman tempts him into letting his best friend (Roger) die Wilson realizes that Lilyan wants his soul in . Look into The Soul of a Monster / IMDB / YouTube

A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill he. Get info on Candles at Nine / IMDB / YouTube