The Good, The Bad and The Critic

Established on March 19th, 2012 and pioneered by film fanatic Michael J. Carlisle. The Good, The Bad and The Critic will analyze classic and contemporary films from all corners of the globe. This title references Sergei Leone's influential spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

Monday, October 10, 2016

50 Favourite Horror Films (Pre-1960's)

Title: 50 Favourite Horror Films
Year(s): 1915-1959

I was first exposed to the horror genre as a child, when a television station played all the Universal Horror Classics near Halloween. These amazed me, and I became motivated to watch the best that horror had to offer. Unfortunately, perhaps due to Psycho's influence, post 60's horror became more reliant on blood, gore and torture. As time went on, I felt the genre had lost what pulled me into it in the first place; atmosphere. 

 Granted there are still some pretty great post 60's Horror (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night from 2014, Don't Look Now from 1973) and I may cover those at a later date. This list is my favorite pre-1960's horror (or pre-Psycho horror). I do stretch the genre to include science fiction, some Hitchcock thrillers, a creepy Billy Wilder film noir hybrid and a medieval period picture but my logic is that they have an intense focus on death and are infused with a great horror-like atmosphere


  1. Les Vampires (1915)
  2. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
  3. The Golem (1920)
  4. The Haunted House (1921)
  5. Haxan (1922)
  6. Nosferatu (1922)
  7. Dr.Mabuse: The Gambler (1922)
  8. Phantom of the Opera (1925)
  9. A Page of Madness (1926)
  10. Faust (1926)
  11. The Man Who Laughs (1928)
  12. M (1931)
  13. Frankenstein (1931)
  14. Dracula (1931)
  15. Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (1931)
  16. Vampyr (1932)
  17. The Mummy (1932)
  18. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
  19. Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
  20. The Invisible Man (1933)
  21. King Kong (1933)
  22. The Wolf Man (1941)
  23. Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
  24. Suspicion (1941)
  25. Cat People (1942)
  26. The Uninvited (1944) 
  27. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  28. The Thing from Another World (1951)
  29. Strangers on A Train (1951)
  30. Wages of Fear (1953)
  31. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
  32. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
  33. Dial M for Murder (1954)
  34. Rear Window (1954)
  35. Them! (1954)
  36. Godzilla (1954)
  37. The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955)
  38. Night of the Hunter (1955)
  39. It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
  40. Les Diaboliques (1955)
  41. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
  42. The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)
  43. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
  44. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  45. The Haunted Strangler (1958)
  46. Fiend Without a Face (1958)
  47. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
  48. Vertigo (1958)
  49. Corridors of Blood (1958)
  50. The Blob (1959)
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