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The Ultimate Horror Watchlist

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Check out the following articles or Barry Keith Grant's BFI Screen Guides, 100 American Horror Films.
A great horror film from every year, from 1922 to now
10 great vampire films

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There are 23 films in this list released in the 1950s.

  • A Bucket of Blood
  • The Tingler
  • House on Haunted Hill
  • The Blob
  • The Fly
  • Dracula
  • Night of the Demon
  • I Was a Teenage Werewolf
  • The Curse of Frankenstein
  • X the Unknown
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • Dementia
  • The Quatermass Xperiment
  • Godzilla
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon
  • House of Wax
  • Ugetsu
  • The Black Castle
  • The White Reindeer
  • The Man from Planet X
  • The Thing from Another World
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • The Man Without a Face
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