Every Horror Movie from 1953
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1. Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Two workmen accidentally launch a space rocket intended for Mars, and find mistakenly landing in New Orleans just the beginning of their misadventures.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Paige, Mari Blanchard
Votes: 3,603
2. Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Two bumbling American cops hunt for the mysterious Mr. Hyde in London, England.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Craig Stevens
Votes: 4,998 | Gross: $2.62M
3. Beat the Devil (1953)
Approved | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley
Votes: 10,402
4. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Drama
Fierce competition among sponge fishermen forces a Greek-American family to fish in the dangerous 12-mile reef area off the western coast of Florida.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 1,611
5. Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders (1953)
Approved | 167 min | Drama, Western
A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missiles at the U.S. The Canadian Mounted Police dispatch agents to try to stop him.
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: William Henry, Susan Morrow, Arthur Space, Dale Van Sickel
Votes: 156
6. Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.
Director: Arthur Hilton | Stars: Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, Susan Morrow
Votes: 2,047
7. Donovan's Brain (1953)
Approved | 84 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Three scientists unlawfully remove the still living brain of a dead tycoon and experiment with it but the evil brain begins to telepathically control the lead scientist.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Reagan, Steve Brodie
Votes: 1,719
8. Drakula Istanbul'da (1953)
102 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Azmi is a lawyer from Istanbul. Drakula of Romania has assumed a new title. Azmi travels to Romania for legal matters. He is warned of Drakula but Azmi is a strong believer of goodness.
Director: Mehmet Muhtar | Stars: Annie Ball, Cahit Irgat, Ayfer Feray, Bülent Oran
Votes: 511
9. El Monstruo Resucitado (1953)
TV-14 | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The first major medical sci/fi movie in Mexico, loosely based on the Frankenstein story but injecting gory surgical motifs into it, laying the foundations of the genres that came to ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Miroslava, Carlos Navarro, José María Linares-Rivas, Fernando Wagner
Votes: 144
10. The Black Vampire (1953)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
This "feminist" reworking of Fritz Lang's classic M focuses on the mothers of children stalked by a deranged pedophile.
Director: Román Viñoly Barreto | Stars: Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nelly Panizza, Mariano Vidal Molina
Votes: 570
11. Glen or Glenda (1953)
PG | 65 min | Drama
A psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne).
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell
Votes: 9,189
12. House of Wax (1953)
GP | 88 min | Horror
An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones
Votes: 20,248 | Gross: $23.75M
13. Invaders from Mars (1953)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson
Votes: 8,831
14. It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 11,042
15. Kaibyô Arima goten (1953)
49 min | Horror
Director: Ryôhei Arai | Stars: Takako Irie, Michiko Ai, Yoshitaro Sadato, Shôsaku Sugiyama
Votes: 24
16. Man in the Attic (1953)
Approved | 82 min | Mystery, Thriller
After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier
Votes: 1,974
17. Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Approved | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom.
Directors: Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 1,889
18. Phantom from Space (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When an asteroid crashes, the search begins to track down the mysterious aliens.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Ted Cooper, Tom Daly, Steve Acton, Burt Wenland
Votes: 1,535
19. Port Sinister (1953)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, ... See full summary »
Director: Harold Daniels | Stars: James Warren, Lynne Roberts, Paul Cavanagh, William Schallert
Votes: 100
20. Project Moon Base (1953)
Approved | 63 min | Sci-Fi
A saboteur posing as a scientist strives to destroy the world's first space station.
Director: Richard Talmadge | Stars: Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke, Ross Ford, Larry Johns
Votes: 1,381
21. Robot Monster (1953)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
The monstrous Ro-Man attempts to annihilate the last family alive on Earth, but finds himself falling for their beautiful daughter.
Director: Phil Tucker | Stars: George Nader, Gregory Moffett, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle
Votes: 5,451 | Gross: $1.00M
22. Scared Stiff (1953)
Approved | 108 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
Fleeing a murder charge, a busboy and a nightclub singer wind up on a spooky Caribbean island inherited by a young woman.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda
Votes: 2,090
23. Spaceways (1953)
74 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small group of closely-guarded British scientists test their first rocket amidst indications of matrimonial strife in the community. After the partial failure of the firing, a couple go ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley, Philip Leaver
Votes: 530
24. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
G | 89 min | Family, Fantasy, Music
A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 4,459
25. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 8,723 | Gross: $5.00M
26. The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay
Votes: 10,518
27. The Knight of the Night (1953)
88 min | Horror, Romance
Fantasy :A 19th century noble is no longer, says his ballerina wife, the idealistic and tender man she married.Meanwhile his double is found to have set fires to purify places in Paris where an injustice or cruelty has been perpetrated.
Director: Robert Darène | Stars: Renée Saint-Cyr, Jean-Claude Pascal, Grégoire Aslan, François Martin
Votes: 43
28. The Lost Planet (1953)
Approved | 246 min | Family, Sci-Fi
Two newspaper reporters battle a plot by the evil Dr. Grood to conquer the world.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Judd Holdren, Vivian Mason, Ted Thorpe, Forrest Taylor
Votes: 89
29. The Magnetic Monster (1953)
Approved | 76 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The Office of Scientific Investigation sends A-Men agents to investigate reports of unusual magnetic activity in various communities.
Directors: Curt Siodmak, Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Jean Byron, Harry Ellerbe
Votes: 1,921
30. The Maze (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he ... See full summary »
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery, Michael Pate
Votes: 1,261
31. The Neanderthal Man (1953)
Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Professor Groves, an expert in prehistoric life, proves his theories with an extract that'll regress a cat to a saber-tooth tiger and man to a Neanderthal.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Robert Shayne, Joyce Terry, Richard Crane, Doris Merrick
Votes: 720
32. The Tell-Tale Heart (I) (1953)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Crime
A madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.
Director: Ted Parmelee | Stars: James Mason, Jack Mather
Votes: 2,211
33. The Twonky (1953)
84 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Tweedy college professor discovers his new TV set is animate, apparently possessed by something from the future, and militantly intent on regulating his daily life.
Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: Hans Conried, William H. Lynn, Gloria Blondell, Edwin Max
Votes: 630
34. The War of the Worlds (1953)
G | 85 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 38,527 | Gross: $4.36M
35. Ugetsu (1953)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito
Votes: 25,810 | Gross: $0.01M
36. Kaidan Saga yashiki (1953)
97 min | Horror
A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators.
Director: Ryôhei Arai | Stars: Shinobu Araki, Kôtarô Bandô, Takaji Fukui, Kazuko Fushimi
Votes: 21
37. Have Mercy (1953)
Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Arabic-language remake of 'Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein'.
Director: Isa Karamah | Stars: Abdel Fatah Al Kasri, Sanaa Gameel, Estafan Rosti, Lola Sedki
Votes: 127
38. The Quatermass Experiment (1953)
30 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
Follows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth.
Stars: Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean, Hugh Kelly, Paul Whitsun-Jones
Votes: 438
39. Remains to Be Seen (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
Jody Revere (June Allyson) is a band singer working in New York City. Waldo Williams (Van Johnson) is the manager of a fancy apartment house where a murder is committed. The victim is ... See full summary »
Director: Don Weis | Stars: June Allyson, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 248
40. All Hallowe'en (1953)
33 min | Short
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Sally Gilmour, Oleg Briansky, Jane Baxter, Diane Cilento
41. Halloween Party (1953)
6 min | Short
This vintage short (produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films) follows a seemingly typical American family and their German Sheppard as they prepare for Halloween activities.
Votes: 36
42. Walt Disney's Hallowe'en Hilarities (1953)
60 min
A package film of Halloween-themed cartoons, one of which being Trick or Treat (1952).
Stars: June Foray, Clarence Nash
Votes: 10
43. Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder (1953)
Horror
A compilation of 3 stories, (i)"The Missing Passenger" (ii) "Falstaff's Fur Coat" (iii) "Thirty Days To Die". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers' UK series "Calling Scotland Yard" and... See full summary »
Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Gilbert Harding, Kay Walsh, Betty Ann Davies, Patrick Barr
Votes: 13
44. Three's Company (1953)
78 min | Drama, Horror
Compilation of 3 episodes of the TV series "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents ..." (i)"The Surgeon" (ii)"Take A Number" (iii)"The Scream".
Directors: Terence Fisher, Charles Saunders | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Basil Sydney, Elizabeth Sellars, Andrew Osborn
Votes: 18
45. Diplodocus at Large (1953)
2 min | Short, Action, Drama
This is the story of a dinosaur that attacks a small town.
Votes: 11
46. Spooks! (1953)
Approved | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
The Stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. They disguise themselves as pie salesmen and end up wandering in a mad scientist's mansion trying to find her. They confront a gorilla and various other creepy characters.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Norma Randall
Votes: 505
47. The Monster (1953)
3 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two scientists awake an creature in their private laboratory.
Director: Bob Burns | Stars: Bob Burns, Lionel Comport
Votes: 6
48. The Tell-Tale Heart (II) (1953)
20 min | Horror, Short
A man has murdered an old man in his bed and hidden the remains. He is confronted by police. He seems convincing yet just as it looks as if he will get away with his crime he hears the ... See full summary »
Director: J.B. Williams | Star: Stanley Baker
Votes: 74
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