Horror movies have always been the favorite of many fans, and when watching movies, they are attentive and fully engaged in horror, and what they want is the tension of hanging on to the throat and the excitement of not knowing when something ghostly suddenly appears. In addition to classic color horror films such as "The Exorcist", "The Shining", and "Rosemary's Baby", there are actually many black-and-white horror films with high artistic standards in film history. This list lists 20 of them, how many of you have seen horror movies?
20《The Clairvoyant》(1934)
Directed by: Maurice Elvey
Starring: Claude Raines
Synopsis: Maximus has the ability to read minds, but he cannot predict the future or have control over what is coming. Until one day, he discovers that the publisher's daughter Christine has given her superpowers, even if this causes his wife to be jealous. But what's worse is that he is cursed and about to be in a great disaster...
19《死城/The City of the Dead》(1960)
Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey
Starring: Dennis Lotis Christopher Lee
Synopsis: A student travels to New England during winter break in search of information about magic. Following the professor's advice, she went to a small village called Whitewood and found a small inn called "Raven's Inn". Madame Nuris, the lady of the inn, has witnessed many strange things happening one after another since she came here...
18 Carnival of Souls (1962 7.5)
Directed by: Herk Harvey
Starring: Candace Hilligoss Frances Feist
Synopsis: The film tells the story of the girl Marelli Henzo who comes to a small town after an accident and starts her new job - the organizer of the Christian church, but strange things happen one after another, all the normal people in the town seem to be unable to see her, and some strange pale guys keep talking to her...
17 The Innocents (1961 8.2)
Director: Jack Clayton
Starring: Deborah Chloe Michael Redgrave
Synopsis: Towards the end of the 19th century, Giddens, an inexperienced young woman, is entrusted to work as a governess for a pair of orphans at a manor house in the countryside of Bleigh. These are a pair of brothers and sisters who are very cute on the surface, the older brother is called Miles, and the younger sister is called Flora. Who knows, under the seemingly innocent and happy appearance of the two of them, there is an unspeakable secret hidden... The arrival of Miss Giddens shattered the originally peaceful life of the manor. She was vaguely aware that the house might have been under a spell and that the children were possessed by ghosts. Mrs. Gross reveals to her that all these mysteries are related to the late former governess Jessell and the head of staff, Peter Quint. Moreover, Giddens himself had seen these two dead ghosts appear in broad daylight more than once. So she desperately wants to save the children from the clutches of the devil! Can the manor regain its former tranquility?
16《深夜/Dead of Night》(1945 8.7)
Directed by: Cavalcanti Alberto
Starring: Anthony Baird Sally Ann Howes
Synopsis: Car race driver Hugh Granger is injured in a car race and lies in a hospital room. In the middle of the night, he saw the driver of the coffin parked outside the window waving at him. The next day he saw the conductor of a double-decker bus who was the same driver he had seen in the middle of the night. He did not dare to get on the bus, and a few minutes later, the double-decker bus wrecked and overturned. "Christmas Story" tells that one year at Christmas, the girl Sally attended a party. Everyone played hide-and-seek, and Sally comforted a lonely crying little boy. Afterwards, she was told that the little boy had been killed by his sister a few years earlier. "The Demon Mirror" is about Joan Courtland buying an old mirror and giving it to her fiancé Peter. When Peter looked in the mirror, he reflected the house where the master had murdered his wife. Peter's psyche was controlled by the man in the mirror, and he moved his hand to choke Joan's throat. Joan cleverly smashed the magic mirror. Peter was freed from his nightmare. The Story of Playing Goyle Ball is about two good friends who play golf while falling in love with a woman. Soon, one of them died, and the other married the woman. On wedding night, dead golfers come to "manifest" and play pranks. "The Puppet of the Belly Whisperer" tells the story of a puppeteer who is seduced by his puppets.
15 Night of the Demon (1957)
Directed by Jacques Tournelle
Starring: Dana Andrews, Peggy Carmins
Synopsis: This is not the first film designed to kill people in witchcraft, and the director has no ambition to make much innovation in witchcraft, otherwise it will be reduced to a simple gimmick like a monster. The film's brilliance lies in the clever control of the atmosphere and the exquisite laying out of suspense, telling a detective story like a puzzle game. In his bones, he is still a heroic story of discovering the conspiracy of a madman, but under the rendering of supernatural details such as cats turning into leopards and calling wind and rain, there are sometimes frightening performances. A lot of weird music also performed well.
14 The Unknown (8.0, 1927)
Directed by: Todd Browning
Starring: Ron Chanie Norman Kerry
Synopsis: The circus leader's daughter is often harassed by men because of her beauty, and she hates men's arms and hates men for touching her with their dirty hands, gradually forming psychological barriers. She only loves the armless man in the circus, but unfortunately the armless man is a fugitive who deliberately hides his arms, and this fake armless man also loves her, but if he wants to get her forever, he must really cut off his arms... However, she really cut her arms, but she changed her heart...
13 The Seventh Victim (1943)
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Tom Conway, Gene Brooks
Synopsis: Mary Gibson, a naïve orphan, travels to Manhattan to find her lost sister Jacqueline. However, her investigation leads her to discover Jacqueline's mysterious husband, as well as the strange worship of the devil by those who are also looking for her sister Jacqueline...
12 The Hand of Olek / Orlacs Hände (1924)
Director: Robert Wayne
Starring: Conrad Vader Alexandra Sorina
Synopsis: The story is probably about a pianist who lost his hands in a train accident, and was later connected to a pair of other people's hands, and later the pianist himself found out that this was the hand of a notorious murderer at that time, he was terrified, did not dare to touch others with his hands, even his wife, slowly and slowly, he always couldn't help but commit crimes, to fantasize about crime, but again and again he was controlled by his own reason, but he was trapped in endless uneasiness, trepidation, fear, and even wanted to cut off this pair of Pandora's hands. The last mysterious man who appears is the murderer who has been hanged, who kills the father of the male protagonist, but blames all the sin into the hands of the two evils.
11 Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
Director: William Cassel
Starring: Oscar Homorka Ronald Lewis
Synopsis: A Gothic style story set in London in 1880, where the Baron accidentally retrieves the winning lottery ticket left in his father's pocket while digging a grave and burying it in his father's pocket, and then he has a strange smile on his face. The film's advertising gimmick, "Punishment Poll", when the film's plot reaches its climax, director Castle suddenly appears on the screen to explain to the audience how to exercise his voting rights. Each spectator is given a thumb-printed card that they can either go up or down in order to decide Mr. Is Sardonicus resurrected or dead at the end of the film? According to incomplete statistics, there is basically not a single audience member who does not hope that the rebellion in the film will get the retribution it deserves.
10《魔童村/Village of the Damned》(1960 7.8)
Directed by: Wolf Lila
Starring: George Saunders Barbara Shelley
Synopsis: A small town with only 2,000 inhabitants in the United States suddenly falls into a coma at 10:00 a.m., and the U.S. federal government dispatches pathologist Kirsten. Eli traveled to the area to investigate the matter, but to no avail. A few hours later the town woke up, but strange things have been happening ever since. First, all women, including virgins, are pregnant on the same day. Subsequently, the children they were born with were all white-haired and xenophs with supernatural killing powers. The town's doctor is the father of one of the children, and after a long period of observation and effort, he discovers that they are alien immigrants who lack "humanity".
9 Dracula (1931 8.0)
Starring: Bella Lugosi Helen Chandler
Synopsis: The vampire Count Dracula lives deep in the Thousand Hills of Carlba, and a young real estate agent helps him move his property to London, but he is seduced by him into enslavement and escorts the vampire all the way to London. Lucy, a young woman, is reduced to a vampire by whom he sucks blood, while also endangering her friend Mina. Mina's father finally sees the true face of the vampire and is determined to protect Mina.
8 "Cat People" (1942 7.3)
Starring: Simone Simon Kent Smith
Synopsis: Serbian immigrant Irena meets Oliver, a ship engineer in New York, who has a bland life, and the two fall in love at first sight and quickly marry. But Irena has always been shrouded in the shadow of a legend in her hometown: she is a descendant of the leopard people, and once she kisses and kisses people, or has strong feelings of jealousy and anger, she will calmly turn into a leopard and kill her closest people. Oliver believes that everything is nothing more than a mental illness caused by the shadow of her childhood, so through her colleague Alice, she asks a psychologist to treat Irena, but Irena is suspicious of Alice's relationship with Oliver, and Alice is indeed in love with Oliver. Dominated by jealousy, Irena stalked Alice several times, nearly killing her several times. Irena becomes a leopard in a puzzle set by the psychiatrist, and is seriously injured in a fight with the doctor and finally dies. It was then that Oliver and Alice realized that the legend that had plagued Irena was actually the truth.
7 The Night of the Hunter (1955 8.0)
Director: Charles Lawton
Starring: Robert Mitchum Lillian Gisch
Synopsis: The only film in Charles Lawton's life that had a strong expressionist color, was critically critically acclaimed and failed at the box office, but is now hailed as america's greatest work of the 1950s.
6 Psycho (1960 8.6)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins Janet Leigh
Synopsis: This black-and-white film, shot in 1960, is a classic of horror thrillers and hitchcock's first epoch-making audiovisual work of art exploring schizophrenia.
5 Faceless Eyelids ( Les Yeux sans Visage ( 1960 7.9 )
Director: Georges Fransch
Starring: Pierre Brasser Alida Wally
Synopsis: The daughter of Professor Janass, a famous surgeon in Paris, was disfigured in a car accident, and in order to restore his daughter's appearance and self-confidence, the professor did not hesitate to abduct the young girl with his assistant, and then performed a face transplant for his daughter. But this deformed love did not save his daughter, and in the end his daughter, under the reproach of conscience, turned out to be... This atmospheric horror film has been described by some critics as "the most elegant horror film", and the director himself has regarded it as a "poetic fantasy". The film portrays the feelings of the father's love for his daughter very deeply, and the form has the romance of Cockdo and the mystery of Bresson, which far exceeds the effect of ordinary horror films.
4 Night of the Living Dead (1968 7.3)
Directed by: George W. Bush A. Romero
Starring: Duane Jones Judith Odi
Synopsis: Horror Master George W. Bush A. Romero's debut film, although it is not the first zombie film, it is recognized by the world film industry as the originator of zombie films, and has a profound impact on zombie culture.
3 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922 8.2)
Directed by: F. W. Maunau
Starring: Marcos Charrick Gusta von Waggenheim
Synopsis: Boot is an employee of a real estate company in Bremen, the boss sends him to the castle of Kapasion Hill to see the Count of Northferatu to trade a house sale, before leaving he entrusts his wife to his friend Martin, after many hardships, finally comes to a hotel near the castle, when they learn that he is going to the castle, they are shocked, for the sake of business he still went. In the castle he was received by the eccentric-looking Count, who appeared at night and disappeared in the morning, making Boot suspicious, and he decided to find out that the Count was a blood-eating vampire, and he had painstakingly fled the castle, and the vampire Count had also set out for Germany, and he had put his coffin on the ship bound for Bremen, spreading the plague all the way to the port where the ship was empty. The Count lives in the house he ordered, the arrival of the demons makes the plague raging in the town, and in the face of more and more people dying, Butt's wife accidentally sees the solution and decides to fight with Nosferratto, Ellen tries to lure the Count into the bait, she delays until the rooster announces, justice finally triumphs over evil, the Count turns into green smoke in the sun, and the town is saved.
2 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920 8.3)
Starring: Werner Klaus Conrad Vader
Synopsis: The annual bazaar of the small town of Holsden orr begins, and Dr. Caligari arrives at the mayor's office, where he wants to apply for a stage to perform hypnosis, and the person who receives the hypnosis is a sleepwalker named Scherjar. The officer who received him was arrogant, but he finally approved Dr. Caligari's application. But that night, the officer was murdered. The next day Arun and Francis went to the bazaar to watch Dr. Caligari's performance, and Shezar had the ability to predict the future. Aaron asked, "When am I going to die?" Shezar said, "Tomorrow in the early hours of the morning." "The next morning, people found Aaron dead. A succession of mysterious murders shattered the town's tranquility. Gradually, Francis discovers Dr. Caligari's mysterious behavior, which turns out to be his hypnosis of Shezar and his drive to kill for himself...
1 Frankenstein (1931 7.7)
Director: James Wyler
Starring: May Clark John Balls
Dr. Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with creating new life, and since the medical school does not allow him to carry out such experiments, he leaves the place and goes to an isolated castle in Bavaria to continue his work with a corpse stolen from the grave. He took various parts from different corpses and pieced them together with needles to form a new body, and on a dark and violent night, he succeeded in injecting new life into this body. But Frankenstein's excitement didn't last long, and the creature soon showed its terrible animalistic nature, and after killing his hunchbacked assistant, Frankenstein was determined to destroy the life he had created with his own hands. With the help of their former mentor Wardman, they devis a plan to destroy the monster, but the monster escapes from the castle, first wandering in the nearby countryside, and then fleeing to the vast snowy Arctic continent, where a game of chase and chase begins...