Top Ten for 1961

Overview coming soon.
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1961

Top 5

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1. The Innocents

UK, USA / Jack Clayton / ★★★★

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2. Scream of Fear (Taste of Fear)

UK / Seth Holt / ★★★1/2

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3. Homicidal

USA / William Castle / ★★★

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4. The Curse of the Werewolf

UK / Terence Fisher / ★★★

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5. The Pit and the Pendulum

USA / Roger Corman / ★★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. World of the Vampires (El mundo de los vampiros) / Mexico / Alfonso Corona Blake / ★★★
7. Shadow of the Cat / UK / John Gilling / ★★★
8. Grim Reaper, The ("Thriller" series) / USA [TV] / Herschel Daugherty / ★★★
9. Ghost of Oiwa (Kaidan Oiwa no borei) / Japan / Tai Katô / ★★★
10. Nightmare (Efialtis; εφιάλτης) / Greece / Erricos Andreou / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Beast of Yucca Flats, The / USA / Coleman Francis / SBIG
- Bloodlust! / USA / Ralph Brooke / ★1/2
- Brain of Evil (Santo contra cerebro del mal) / Cuba, Mexico / Joselito Rodriguez / ★1/2
- Creature from the Haunted Sea / USA / Roger Corman / ★★1/2
- Curse of the Doll People, The (Muñecos infernales) / Mexico / Benito Alazraki / ★★1/2
- Dead One, The (Blood of the Zombie) / USA / Barry Mahon / ★1/2
- Devil's Hand, The / USA / William J. Hole, Jr. / ★★1/2
- Devil's Partner / USA / Charles R. Rondeau / ★★1/2
- Doctor Blood's Coffin (Dr. Blood's Coffin) / UK / Sidney J. Furie / ★★1/2
- Hercules in the Haunted World (Ercole al centro della Terra) / Italy / Mario Bava / ★★1/2
- House of Mystery / UK / Vernon Sewell / ★★1/2
- Journey to the Seventh Planet / Denmark, USA / Sidney W. Pink / ★★
- Konga (I Was a Teenage Gorilla) / UK, USA / John Lemont / ★★
- Masquerade ("Thriller" series) / USA [TV] / Herschel Daugherty / ★★1/2
- Mr. Sardonicus (Sardonicus) / USA / William Castle / ★★1/2
- Naked Witch, The / USA / Claude Alexander and Larry Buchanan / ★1/2
- Nightmare at Elm Manor (Nude in Dracula's Castle) / UK [short] / Harrison Marks / ★★1/2

- Night Tide / USA / Curtis Harrington / ★★1/2

- Reptilicus / Denmark / Poul Bang, Sidney W. Pink / SBIG

- Ursula / USA [short] / Lloyd Michael Williams / ★★★
- Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory (Lycanthropus) / Austria, Italy / Paolo Heusch / ★★
- Witchcraft (Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles) / USA [short] / Harold Young / ★★1/2

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