Themes

Intense violence and sexual transgression 

  • The Night of the Hunter
  • The Bad Seed
  • Suddenly, Last Summer
  • Angel Face
  • Dementia
  • Don't Bother to Knock
  • The Young and the Damned
  • Bigger Than Life
  • Blood of the Vampire
  • The House in the Square
  • Wicked Woman
  • The Strange One
  • The Star

Crime, drugs and gangsters 

  • The Phenix City Story
  • The Big Heat
  • Kansas City Confidential
  • The Lineup
  • Rififi
  • Between Midnight and Dawn
  • The Asphalt Jungle
  • The Desperate Hours
  • Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
  • The Big Combo
  • The Hoodlum
  • The Racket
  • The Damned Don't Cry
  • The Sound of Fury
  • Armored Car Robbery
  • 99 River Street

Horror, the undead and monster classics 

  • Night of the Demon
  • House on Haunted Hill
  • House of Wax
  • The Curse of Frankenstein
  • The Fly
  • The Blob
  • The Screaming Skull
  • The Abominable Snowman
  • The Mummy
  • The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
  • Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
  • The Revenge of Frankenstein
  • The Vampire
  • The Monster of Piedras Blancas
  • The Black Sleep
  • Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

Twisted dark psychological thriller 

  • Vertigo
  • Diabolique
  • The Bad Seed
  • Strangers on a Train
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • I Bury the Living
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • The Snorkel
  • The House on Telegraph Hill
  • Where Danger Lives
  • Don't Bother to Knock
  • My World Dies Screaming
  • Niagara
  • Screaming Mimi
  • The Prowler
  • Beware, My Lovely

Challenging or sexual themes & twists 

  • Dementia
  • Suddenly, Last Summer

Gritty crime and ruthless gangsters 

  • The Big Heat
  • The Phenix City Story
  • Al Capone
  • The Big Combo
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • Kansas City Confidential
  • The Enforcer
  • 99 River Street
  • House of Bamboo
  • The Turning Point
  • Between Midnight and Dawn
  • The Racket
  • Storm Warning
  • On the Waterfront
  • Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
  • Party Girl

Violent crime and drugs 

  • The Phenix City Story
  • The Big Heat
  • The Young and the Damned
  • On the Waterfront
  • The Hoodlum
  • Al Capone
  • The Desperate Hours
  • Detective Story
  • I Want to Live!
  • Storm Warning
  • Pickup on South Street
  • The Racket
  • Casque d'Or
  • The Defiant Ones
  • Somebody Up There Likes Me
  • Tiger Bay

Gory, gruesome, and slasher horror 

  • Horrors of the Black Museum
  • Grip of the Strangler
  • Jack the Ripper
  • House of Wax
  • Dementia
  • The Vampire
  • The Curse of Frankenstein
  • Beast from Haunted Cave
  • The Monster of Piedras Blancas
  • Monster on the Campus
  • The Mad Magician
  • The Thing That Couldn't Die
  • The Revenge of Frankenstein
  • Return of the Fly
  • A Bucket of Blood
  • Corridors of Blood
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