With an average IMDb score of 7.3 from over 5 horror movies released in 1955 you could say it was pretty damn fine year to be a horror movie fan. There may have been a minor dud here and there but overall horror fans were really spoiled. With titles like The Night of the Hunter (1955) and Dementia (1955) there's no denying 1955 was a truly awesome time for horror movies and horror fans alike.So grab some snacks and a drink (and maybe something to hide behind) and check out reviews, ratings and trailers for the 1955 - Top 15 Horror Movies ranked by Rotten Tomatoes.
1955 - Top 15 Horror Movies
1
Diabolique
Year: 1955
Released: 21 Nov 1955 |
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
The plot
The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body... [read more]
8.6
2
The Night of the Hunter
Year: 1955
Released: 24 Nov 1955 |
Director: Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum...
The plot
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid... [read more]
9.0
3
The Quatermass Xperiment
Year: 1955
Released: 01 Jun 1956 |
Director: Val Guest
The plot
In the countryside of London, a rocket crashes on a farm and Professor Bernard Quatermass and Scotland Yard Inspector Lomax... [read more]
3.5
4
Dementia
Year: 1955
Released: 22 Dec 1955 |
Director: John Parker
The plot
This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.
3.3
5
Tarantula
Year: 1955
Released: 14 Dec 1955 |
Director: Jack Arnold
The plot
A spider escapes from an isolated desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks... [read more]
6.3
