Top 24 Horror Movies Worth Watching Released in 1961

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted. Check out The Innocents / IMDB / YouTube

Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia. Learn about Black Sunday / IMDB / YouTube

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. Check out The Pit and the Pendulum / IMDB / YouTube

A defecting Soviet scientist is hit by a nuclear explosion near Yucca Flats and roams around as a beast. Check out The Beast of Yucca Flats / IMDB / YouTube

In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town. Get info on The Curse of the Werewolf / IMDB / YouTube

A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after 10 years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate. Check out Scream of Fear / IMDB / YouTube

After copper miners discover a piece of the frozen tail of a giant prehistoric reptile in Lapland, scientists inadvertently bring it back to life. Read about Reptilicus / IMDB / YouTube

A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting. More about Mother Joan of the Angels / IMDB / YouTube

Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus, inciting the wrath of the creature's much-larger mother. Look into Gorgo / IMDB / YouTube

The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California. Look into Homicidal / IMDB / YouTube

A mysterious and cruel Baron, whose face has become frozen in a horrifying grin, demands that a prominent London physician apply experimental treatments on him to restore his face. Info on Mr. Sardonicus / IMDB / YouTube

Dr. Henry Jekyll is a dull, bookish scientist who spends more time with his lab animals testing theories of alternate personalities than with his beautiful, young wife. Kitty Jekyll has given up trying to find any passion in her distant, preoccupied husband and is involved in an affair with one of Jekyll's old 'friends,' Paul Allen, a weak slacker and wastrel who relies on Jekyll to pay his numerous gambling debts. After experimenting on himself, the bearded, tweedy Jekyll transforms himself into the young, dynamic, and self-confidant Edward Hyde. In his new character he befriends Allen, who has no idea that this clean-cut, handsome playboy prone to outbursts of violence is really Jekyll. As Hyde, he encourages Allen to introduce him to the dark underbelly of London's night life including opium dens and sex clubs, where he begins an affair with the sensual courtesan Maria, an exotic dancer and snake charmer. When he tries to seduce Allen's mistress, in reality his own wife, he is frustrated to find she prefers her decadent lover to him. Check out The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll / IMDB / YouTube

A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real. Explore Creature from the Haunted Sea / IMDB / YouTube

Hercules must journey into Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness. Read about Hercules in the Haunted World / IMDB / YouTube

A crazed hunter kidnaps people and turns them loose on his private estate, where he hunts them for sport. Explore Bloodlust! / IMDB / YouTube

Dr.Decker comes back from Africa. During one year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee and he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga' to 'get rid of them'. Look into Konga / IMDB / YouTube

In Canada, a British schoolmaster meets official resistance when he learns that his 9-year-old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family. Read about Never Take Candy from A Stranger / IMDB / YouTube

Based on popular Indian stories of the great writer Rabindranath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls. Check out Three Daughters / IMDB / YouTube

A house cat sees her mistress murdered by two servants under orders from her husband , and becomes ferociously bent on revenge. More about The Shadow of the Cat / IMDB / YouTube

A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a Satanic cult. Learn about The Devil's Hand / IMDB / YouTube

Mr. Joly, doctor Cordelier's lawyer, is amazed to discover that his client and friend leaves his possessions to a stranger, Opale, a sadistic criminal. He needs this man to prove that people's behavior can be adjusted at will... Get info on Experiment in Evil / IMDB / YouTube

A young archaeologist thinks he is cursed by an Aztec mask that makes him have strange nightmares. Before committing suicide, he sends the mask to his psychiatrist, who soon plunges into the mask's nightmarish world. Find out about The Mask / IMDB / YouTube

A runaway asteroid dubbed The Outsider mysteriously begins orbiting the Earth and threatens it with lethal flying saucers. Explore Battle of the Worlds / IMDB / YouTube

Ernie's uncle has just died, but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. Before long, the guests begin to drop dead. Read about No Place Like Homicide! / IMDB / YouTube