Best Horror Film 1960 - 1962 (part 34 of a series)

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Psycho	5
The Innocents	5
Carnival of Souls	4
Peeping Tom	4
The Day of the Triffids	2
Eyes Without a Face	2
Mother Joan of the Angels	2
Village of the Damned	1
Pit and the Pendulum	1
Homicical	1
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane	1
Santo contra hombres infernales	0
The Phantom of the Opera	0
The Mask	0
Premature Burial	0
Zotz!	0
Scream of Fear	0
The Shadow of the Cat	0
The Witch's Mirror (El espejo de la bruja)	0
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll	0
The Terror of the Tongs	0
The Terrible People	0
Tales of Terror	0
Skeleton of Mrs. Morales	0
The Sinners of Hell	0
The Ship of Monsters	0
Panic in Year Zero!	0
Mr. Sardonicus	0
The City of the Dead	0
Circus of Horrors	0
Burn, Witch, Burn	0
The Brides of Dracula	0
Black Sunday	0
The Beast of Yucca Flats	0
Blood and Roses	0
The Awful Dr. Orlof	0
The Curse of the Werewolf	0
Dead Eyes of London	0
Mill of the Stone Women	0
The Brain That Wouldn't Die	0
Last Woman on Earth	0
King Kong vs. Godzilla	0
House of Usher	0
Hercules in the Haunted World	0
The Flesh and the Fiends	0
Devil Doll Men	0
13 Ghosts	0

― Darin, Thursday, 5 January 2012 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link

Carnival of Souls in a red hot minute

― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 January 2012 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Peeping Tom, although there are a few other that were close.

― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Thursday, 5 January 2012 08:32 (thirteen years ago) link

kinda like the golden era, amirite

― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Thursday, 5 January 2012 10:40 (thirteen years ago) link

Carnival of Souls in a red hot minute

― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, January 5, 2012 8:55 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 5 January 2012 11:54 (thirteen years ago) link

Peeping Tom and Psycho are close; I'll vote for Peeping Tom, which is a little bit creepier to me. Like Carnival of Souls and Baby Jane fine. Haven't seen Black Sunday. Homicidal, from what I remember, is pretty funny.

― clemenza, Thursday, 5 January 2012 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Wow, for some reason it slipped my mind that "Psycho" and "Peeping Tom" came out the same year. Anyway, "Psycho," easily. It's a masterpiece that transcends its genre. "Peeping Tow" and "Carnival of Souls" right behind for historic import. But I would stress that "Eyes Without a Face" is an incredible film, "The Innocents" equally incredible, and "Village of the Damned," "Baby Jane," "Triffids" and several of the Hammer flicks pretty iconic.

Gosh, this is harder than I thought. Coming up with a number two, at least.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 January 2012 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link

The 2 great films are Peeping Tom and Psycho, but I don't particularly see them as horror films. Eyes Without a Face, otherwise, and what about Lang's The Last Testament of Dr Mabuse?

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link

sorry, I mean The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse.

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link

The Innocents is just as great as Psycho or Peeping Tom, if we're talking 'mainstream'/non-genre horror flicks; it has to be one of the most beautiful ghost stories ever filmed, up there with ugetsu monogatari and kwaidan, imho. Two of the Terence Fishers (Brides of Dracula and Curse of the Werewolf) on this list are amongst the highpoints of Hammer's output, and few films can match the intensity of Black Sunday's opening sequence, which is horrific even now. On the other hand, I find Carnival of Souls to be pretty draggy tbh, ghostly spookface carnivalesque moments aside.

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link

IMDb puts The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse into the drama/crime/thriller categories, so it was missed.

I ended up voting for The Innocents.

― Darin, Thursday, 5 January 2012 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 30 January 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link

Man, they knew how to name horror movies back then.

― Three Word Username, Monday, 30 January 2012 10:06 (twelve years ago) link

This thread has reminded me I need to get 'Mother Joan of the Angels'. Have only seen 3 of these, for shame.

― Yeah Yeah Bohney (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 30 January 2012 12:08 (twelve years ago) link

Impossible choice, but Carnival of Souls it is.

― dead-trius (Eric H.), Monday, 30 January 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link

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