Top Ten for 1962

Overview coming soon.
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1962

Top 5

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1. Carnival of Souls

USA / Herk Harvey / ★★★★

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2. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

USA / Robert Aldrich / ★★★1/2

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3. Pitfall (Otoshiana)

Japan / Hiroshi Teshigahara / ★★★1/2

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4. The Cybernetic Grandmother (Kybernetická babicka)

Czechoslovakia [short] / Jiří Trnka / ★★★1/2

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5. Night of the Eagle (Burn, Witch, Burn)

UK / Sidney Hayers / ★★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Awful Dr. Orloff, The (Gritos en la noche) / France, Spain / Jesus Franco / ★★★

7. Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An (La rivière du hibou) / France [short] / Robert Enrico / ★★★

8. Tales of Terror / USA / Roger Corman / ★★★
9. Phantom of the Opera, The / UK / Terence Fisher / ★★★

10. Incredible Doktor Markesan, The / USA [Thriller TV series] / Robert Florey / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Brainiac, The (El barón del terror) / Mexico / Abel Salazar / ★★
- Brain That Wouldn't Die, The / USA / Joseph Green / ★★
- Cursed Palace, The (Al-qasr al-mal'oun) / Egypt / Hassan Reda / ★★1/2
- Day of the Triffids, The / UK / Freddie Francis and Steve Sekely / ★★1/2
- Eegah / USA / Arch Hall Sr. / ★
- Experiment in Terror / USA / Blake Edwards / ★★1/2
- Face of Terror (La cara del terror) / Spain / Isidoro M. Ferry, William J. Hole Jr. / ★★1/2

- Hand of Death / USA / Gene Nelson / ★★
- House on Bare Mountain / USA / Lee Frost / ★★
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters / Mexico / Roberto Rodríguez / ★★1/2

- Night Creatures (Captain Clegg) / UK / Peter Graham Scott / ★★1/2
- Pit, The / UK [short] / Edward Abraham / ★★★

- Planets Against Us (I pianeti contro di noi) / France, Italy / Romano Ferrara / ★★

- Premature Burial / USA / Roger Corman / ★★1/2
- Santo vs. the Vampire Women (Santo vs. las mujeres vampiro) / Mexico / Alfonso Corona Blake / ★★
- Secret of the Red Orchid, The (Das Rätsel der roten Orchidee) / West Germany / Helmut Ashley / ★★1/2
- Stark Fear / USA / Ned Hockman / ★★1/2
- Tower of London / USA / Roger Corman / ★★
- Trauma / USA / Robert Malcolm Young / ★★1/2

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