Your Favourite Horror Film from 1960
 

1960 was a year for some brilliant horror films, but which one is your favourite? What makes it special to you? When did you first see it? Would you recommend it to the uninitiated?

Sometimes it's a hard decision to just pick one film (even when you're limiting it to a single year!), but my favourite film of 1960 is...


Runners Up:
Brides of Dracula
Circus of Horrors
City of the Dead
Eyes Without a Face
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Flesh and the Fiends
The Last Woman on Earth
The Little Shop of Horrors
The Mask of Satan
Mill of the Stone Women
Peeping Tom
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Village of the Damned

Now this is where it gets REALLY TOUGH.

Psycho has no faults at all, we may agree on this one Bizarre eye.

When looking at horror in the 1960s, I think you may be right on some of these years being the toughest yet.

I'm fairly prepared in what I'm going to post, but even then it's going to be tough making that final decision...

argh!! cant i pick all of them? no? sod it then Black Sunday (well thats the title i have it under, harumph)

One or two not previously mentioned.

Terror of the Tongs
The Tell Tale Heart
Taste of Fear
Peeping Tom


It has to be Psycho all the way.

Good choice. ;)

I have two copies of this - one as Black Sunday (The ABUS DVD) and the RHV 2 disc Italian DVD under it's original title: La Maschera del Demonio

Great film though, whatever you choose to call it; plus, Steele looks fantastic (even as a corpse! :tongue1:)

Peeping Tom was certainly released in 1960, even IMDB thinks so, Wiki as well.

You're right, there. :)

I've amended my original post to include it - I purposefully left it off because I thought it was made in 1959 for some reason.

A fantastic film in any respect, and a direct runner-up to Psycho.

I know i listed it, HOWEVER, i've only seen it once, on vhs, and wasn't really struck on it.

Keep meaning to buy a copy but never get on with it.

I have the Studio Canal/Optimum Blu-Ray and it is absolutely superb. Definitely recommended if you're set up for HD.

I have seen it (many years ago!) and it's on my 1961 Runners Up list.

Curse you Aurum Horror film encyclopedia, you let me down, only a one off i hope, i still love you. :blush:

A good list - Sorry to say i haven't seen Eyes without a Face.

City of the Dead - wow ! :clap:

The problem i have found with these lists of yearly films -

For example Taste of Fear wins its yearly slot, as does Freddie Francis' film Girly, however neither film is as good as say Witchfinder General which came a close second to The Devil Rides Out in its year.

I completely understand your predicament. It's worse in the 90s and 00s threads, as some years were extremely lean in regards to decent horror films. This means that when picking the best you may vote for an okayish film, but the subsequent year could yield a dozen or so films that are much better than the previous years winner.

Black Sunday (aka The Mask of Satan or La maschera del demonio) would be my pick, too. Maybe Bava's best movie - including the amazing Barbara Steele, the scary character of Prince Vajda (nope, not me - but played by the fantastic yet unknown Ivo Garrani) and great cinematography. I have watched it several times and still love it.:rockon:

Greetings!

1960, hmmm... Dead heat between 'Pyscho', the only film my parents forbid me to watch (you're too young etc.) didn't work tho, stayed up late one night to watch it, great memories. 'Black Sunday' is sheer genius, especially when viewed by a 12 year old horror fan at 1 o'clock in the morning, brill. Although the top horror that year was my birth. (cue Omen theme and diabolical laughter):lol::dance::lol:

Peeping Tom by far. One of the very finest films of any genre, of any year, in my opinion.

Then Les Yeux Sans Visage (I thought this was 1959, but I am amending my reply now I realise it counts!)

Then an impossible call between Psycho and Mask Of Satan/Black Sunday/etc for third place.

Then the under-rated and very wonderful Flesh And The Fiends - my favourite Cushing performance and one of my all-time favourite lines in cinema: "Gentlemen, if you would incline you heads to the left, you will see a door. Please use it".

I didn't realise 1960 had so much in it! Mind you, I had always thought of Peeping Tom and Les Yeux Sans Visage as 1959 films.

There are only three films that come into consideration:

Peeping Tom
Eyes without a Face
Psycho

And although they are all five-star masterpieces, Hitchcock's film would be my choice any day of the week: Psycho.

I'll have to say it's a three-way tie between Eyes Without a Face, Peeping Tom, and Psycho.



Another one I'd toss into the mix, not my favorite, but haven't seen it mentioned, is Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku.

I haven't seen that, but I'll rent it as it sounds good from the synopsis.

I've just had a look for Jigoku and, sadly, it seems it's only available on the Criterion Collection DVD and hasn't been released in the UK.

Not to be boring, but another vote for Psycho. Easily my favorite Hitchcock film.

Corman's House of Usher for sure. Runner Up - Eyes Without A Face.

I thought it was a drama :shocked:

Psycho... A true masterpiece.

I will go with this: psycho/the fall of the house of usher/eyes without a face

Psycho or Mask of Satan

Psycho

Any other year Black Sunday would of made it to number one. Psycho is a classic and a masterpiece and Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates WOW.

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