100 Greatest Horror Classics
21 - The Ape
Doctor Adrian is a researcher looking for a cure to polio that would benefit his young friend Frances Clifford, who suffers from the disease. His research centers upon the use of spinal fluid in a serum that could return mobility to sufferers of polio. The escape of a circus ape and the injury of its trainer provide an opportunity to test his procedure on Frances and it provides positive but limited results. Hoping to prove his research and cure his friend, Doctor Adrian sets out to use the ape as a means to provide the necessary spinal fluid for completing his research.
Horror · Not Rated · 62 minutes · 1940 · Watched: 01/24/2021
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22 - The Monster Maker
A scientist has developed a serum which grotesquely distorts the victim's hands and heads. The scientist decides to use his new serum on a concert pianist to extort money from him for the cure as well as take the man's daughter for a wife. Things do no go as planned for the scientist due to the interference of the pianist's daughter and her boyfriend.
Horror · Not Rated · 62 minutes · 1944 · Watched: 01/27/2021
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23 - The Killer Shrews
A scientist on an island working on a project to help with the world population problem accidentally creates giant shrews that escape his lab and devour every animal on the island. With nothing else to eat, the giant shrews set their sights on the compound of scientists and their guests. Led by Captain Thorne Sherman, the group must make a break for his ship to escape from the ravenous shrews.
Horror · Not Rated · 69 minutes · 1959 · Watched: 02/08/2021
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24 - The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancee, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
Horror · Not Rated · 82 minutes · 1962 · Watched: 02/19/2021
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25 - King of the Zombies
During World War II, an American agent, his butler and a pilot are searching for a missing admiral when their plane crash lands on a Caribbean island. Taken in by a German doctor and his strange wife, the trio discovers the island inhabited by zombies under the control of Dr. Sangre. The doctor is attempting to use the zombies to extract information from the missing admiral to help his country's war efforts. Though the efforts of the butler, the heroes are able to turn the tables on Dr. Sangre and set his zombies against him.
Horror · Not Rated · 67 minutes · 1941 · Watched: 02/28/2021
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26 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll is working on separating the good and evil aspects from a person's persona and comes up with a potion that holds the key. Using himself as a guinea pig, Dr. Jekyll drinks his formula and is transformed into the evil Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde's actives are the scandal of the city and area major, though secret, embarrassment to the kindly Dr. Jekyll. Dr. Jekyll attempts to keep his connection to Mr. Hyde a secret, all the while he cannot put aside that aspect of his personality which he has released.
Horror · Not Rated · 79 minutes · 1920 · Watched: 02/28/2021
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27 - Bluebeard
John Carradine stars as Gaston, a successful nineteenth century artist and puppeteer in France's capital. Gaston, however, lives a secret life as Bluebeard, a demented serial killer who coldly strangles a series of beautiful young women who fail to meet his impossible standards. The lifeless bodies are discarded in the Parisian streets. All is concealed from the authorities until Lucille, Gaston's comely assistant, learns the awful truth and sears to bring him to his day of reckoning.
Horror · Not Rated · 72 minutes · 1944 · Watched: 03/04/2021
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28 - The Corpse Vanishes
Bela Lugosi revels in his role as European horticulturalist Dr. Lorenz in this outlandish tale of horror and dementia. The good doctor's aging wife needs fluids harvested from the glands of young virgins in order to retain her eternal youth and beauty. What better place for the doctor to maintain his supply than at the alter, where he kidnaps the unsuspecting brides before they can complete their vows. Sedating them into a come-like state he brings them to his mansion to collect his tainted bounty.
Horror · Not Rated · 64 minutes · 1942 · Watched: 03/05/2021
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29 - Night of the Living Dead
George Romero, the legendary director who helmed the Night of the Living Dead series, brings you a crazed tale of nuclear radiation that raises the dead, and creates a legion of flesh-eating zombies. Brother and sister, Johnny and Barbara visit their father's grave in a small town in Pennsylvania, where a re-animated zombie kills Johnny. Barbara escapes to a remote farmhouse where a cross-section of the local citizenry is hiding out.
Horror · Not Rated · 96 minutes · 1968 · Watched: 03/08/2021
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30 - Doomed to Die
Boris Karloff bows in for one last time as oriental detective Mr. Wong in the last of this long-running series. When "The Wentworth Castle" catches ablaze killing numerous people, shipping tycoon Cyrus Wentworth is distraught over the loss and is found shot to death in his office. Dick Fleming is the prime suspect in the mind of the none-too-bright police captain Bill Street. Dick is a business rival and happens to be in love with Wentworth's daughter Cynthia. When cub reporter Bobbie Logan puts Mr. Wong on the case the result is a foregone conclusion.
Horror · Not Rated · 67 minutes · 1940 · Watched: 03/11/2021
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31 - The Phantom of the Opera
This classic horror feature stars Lon Chaney in the title role as the tragic disfigured Erik who haunts the corridors and cellars in the decaying depths of the Paris Opera House. He befriends and secretly coaches a beautiful aspiring understudy named Christine who covets the lead role. Through an ever-building campaign of terror, the Phantom drives the lead soprano to flee her role, allowing his protege to take her place. Convinced that she will now return his love in spite of his disfigurement, he persuades her to join him in his subterranean lair, where he plans to confess his true feelings.
Horror · Not Rated · 92 minutes · 1925 · Watched: 03/12/2021
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32 - The Indestructible Man
Charles "The Butcher" Benton is a convicted bank robber and murderer executed for his crimes. A scientist working on a cure for cancer accidentally revives Benton making him extremely strong and nearly invulnerable. Benton kills the scientist and heads to Los Angeles seeking revenge on his gang members who betrayed him and are out to find his hidden bank loot.
Horror · Not Rated · 70 minutes · 1956 · Watched: 03/13/2021
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33 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
This classic film vaulted Lon Chaney into stardom for his portrayal of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell ringer living in the bell towers of Notre Dame. Quasimodo's devotion to Esmeralda, due to her act of kindness, places both of them in great peril from Jehan, the evil brother of the church's archdeacon.
Horror · Not Rated · 97 minutes · 1923 · Watched: 03/13/2021
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34 - Nosferatu
A young real estate agent visits the Carpathian castle of the mysterious Count Orlok, who is looking to relocate to a larger locale. Unbeknownst to the young man, Orlok is actually Nosferatu, a vampire who is in need of new hunting grounds. After the Count travels to the city of Bremen, a series of mysterious deaths occur that baffle the authorities. Only the real estate agent's wife realize what is happening and she herself takes efforts to stop Nosferatu.
Horror · Not Rated · 81 minutes · 1922 · Watched: 03/14/2021
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35 - Swamp Women
In hopes of recovering a hidden cache of stolen diamonds, a policewoman agrees to go undercover in a women's prison in order to infiltrate the gang responsible for the theft. Assisting the gang in breaking out of jail, the policewoman accompanies them into the bayou to retrieve the gems. When problems arise with their boat, the gang takes a man and his girlfriend hostage to use their boat. The policewoman is now torn between recovering the stolen diamonds and also protecting the hostages, especially since she has fallen for the man.
Horror · Not Rated · 70 minutes · 1955 · Watched: 03/16/2021
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36 - The World Gone Mad
An investigative newspaper reporter uncovers a plot against the District Attorney. The D.A. is about to present a case of white-collar crime against some well-respected Wall Street investors who wish to eliminate the D.A. before it can happen. The reporter races to prevent the murder before it can occur and also help the D.A. in bringing those responsible to justice.
Horror · Not Rated · 80 minutes · 1933 · Watched: 03/16/2021
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37 - Little Shop of Horrors
Seymour Krelboyne works in a skid row florist shop and is iin love with his beautiful co-worker Audry Fulquard. Seymour is also an amateur botanist and develops a new type of plant that he hopes to use to make a name for himself as well as win over Audrey. Unfortunately, the new plant not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
Horror · Not Rated · 70 minutes · 1960 · Watched: 04/06/2021
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38 - Tormented
A pianist dumps his singer girlfriend and becomes engaged to a young socialite from an affluent island community, which infuriates the singer. A confrontation between the pianist and the singer at the top of a lighthouse results in her falling to her death to the rocks below. The pianist tries to keep the death quiet while proceeding with the wedding plans but finds it impossible when the deceased singer begins to haunt him.
Horror · Not Rated · 75 minutes · 1960 · Watched: 10/28/2021
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39 - The Monster Walks
Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. Now it's her turn, as her deranged and relentless uncle targets her for death with the help of his wife and son, plus a very unhappy ape.
Horror · Not Rated · 63 minutes · 1932 · Watched: 11/04/2021
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40 - Monster from a Prehistoric Planet
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
Horror · Not Rated · 90 minutes · 1967 · Watched: 11/06/2021
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