Top 28 Horror Movies Releases from 1949

In a small town, a brewing romantic rivalry with a local tough and a school-teacher culminates in a terrifying ride in the night. Explore The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / IMDB / YouTube

Two employees of a secluded hotel investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect. Explore Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff / IMDB / YouTube

An army officer becomes obsessed with learning the secret to a card game for which an elderly countess sold her soul years earlier. Check out The Queen of Spades / IMDB / YouTube

A district attorney rises to political success and the governorship but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and perhaps diabolical Nick Beal. Get info on Alias Nick Beal / IMDB / YouTube

Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court. Details on Black Magic / IMDB / YouTube

A young lawyer is involved with a ghostly woman in his new house, where the builder and his fiancée died shortly after it was built. More about Mahal / IMDB / YouTube

The stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Peeping Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts to take the armor, until Lady Godiva shows up and the two ride off together. Read about The Ghost Talks / IMDB / YouTube

Candy on a toothache turns Sach into a prognosticator, which attracts the attention of an exploitative Slip and a personality-switching doctor hoping to create an obedient super race. Info on Master Minds / IMDB / YouTube

Emily, a pretty young Irish girl, gets a job on an English farm owned by the Tallent family. The local men take to her but the women don't, objecting to her flirtatious nature with their men and one woman, Bess Stanforth, is especially disturbed by her. When Dan, a man from Emily's past, shows up and accuses her of having tried to kill, him Beth's suspicions are furth. Details on Daughter of Darkness / IMDB / YouTube

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished master-less samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband. See more about The Ghost of Yotsuya: Part I / IMDB / YouTube

Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace called the Tears of Amour.. Get info on The Invisible Man Appears / IMDB / YouTube

In this second part to The Yotsuda Phantom, Iemon's apparent success is minimized by his own feelings of guilt, the quickly mounting evidence, and Naosuke's constant hounding. See more about The Ghost of Yotsuya: Part II / IMDB / YouTube

A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive. Info on Histoires extraordinaires à faire peur ou à faire rire... / IMDB / YouTube

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound. See more about Nijiotoko / IMDB / YouTube