These timeless and terrifying classics, like House of Wax and Diabolique, are among the best horror movies from the 1950s.

A two-part series at the Quad Cinema chronicles the cheaply made and formally rich horror movies that the UK’s Hammer Films began producing in the 1950s.

Witness the decade that changed the horror genre forever. The '60s created some of the greatest, most rewatchable horror classics of all time. Gone were the 1950s and it's sci-fi/monster craze. Here ...

In 1986, horror went through a sci-fi retro phase, paying homage to 1950s B-movies with tales about body horror, alien invasions, and nonsense antics. Main Navigation Open menu ...

But it was really the sci-fi B movies of the 1950s, like Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.’s “The Blob” and Kurt Neumann’s “The Fly,” that solidified the various body horror tropes as their own ...

He would spend the next two decades largely performing in dramas, until 1953’s House of Wax made him a horror icon to be exploited heavily by Roger Corman’s Edgar Allen Poe films of the 1950s ...

The film is steeped in the post-war Red Scare McCarthyism that found its way into every nook and cranny of the time’s pop cultural landscape. Looking back, this film can be seen as a quirky yet very ...

Like The Fly, The Thing was a hard-R 1980s horror film adapted from a 1950s horror feature. In this case, 1951’s The Thing from Another World inspired John Carpenter’s sci-fi/horror classic ...

From 1950s titles like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Fly to 2024's The Substance, ... But Teeth is a horror movie, and it’s loaded with dismembered members.