Best horror from the 60s
The catalogue's horror films from 1960–1969, ranked by audience score. We bias against the cinephile-canonical picks (Letterboxd top-250) — if you've already seen the obvious entries, scroll past the first row.
Psycho
dreadgut punchparanoid
Portrait of Hell
foreign gemdreadoutsider
Rosemary's Baby
dreadmindfuckparanoid
Kwaidan
foreign gembittersweetdread
Onibaba
foreign gembittersweetdread
Night of the Living Dead
rawdreadslow burn
The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost
foreign gemdreadgut punch
The Birds
dreadparanoidslow burn
The Innocents
dreadparanoidslow burn
Peeping Tom
cerebraldreadparanoid
Black Sunday
foreign gemsurrealdread
Kuroneko
foreign gembody horrorgut punch
Repulsion
body horrordreadparanoid
The Flat
foreign gemdreadmindfuck
Seconds
dreadgut punchoutsider
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
bittersweetdreadtender
I, the Executioner
foreign gemdreadparanoid
The Bride from Hades
foreign gemdreadsurreal
Love and Crime
foreign gem3am cultsexy
Village of the Damned
dreadoutsiderparanoid
Taste of Fear
dreadparanoid
The Haunting
paranoiddreadslow burn
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
dreadparanoidneon soaked
The Snails
surrealunhinged
The Snow Woman
dreadslow burn
Carnival of Souls
3am cultdreadsurreal
The Big Shave
body horrordread
Dogora
3am cultsurrealunhinged
Frankenstein Conquers the World
3am cultepicplayful
The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
3am cultdreadsurreal