Top Ten for 1963

Overview coming soon.
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1963

Top 5

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1. La frusta e il corpo (The Whip and the Body)

France, Italy / Mario Bava / ★★★★

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2. The Sadist

USA / James Landis / ★★★1/2

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3. The Birds

USA / Alfred Hitchcock / ★★★1/2

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4. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

USA / Roger Corman / ★★★1/2

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5. Matango (Attack of the Mushroom People)

Japan / Ishirô Honda / ★★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Demon, The (Il demonio) (1963; Brunello Rondi) France, Italy

7. Lord of the Flies / UK / Peter Brook / ★★★
8. Black Sabbath (I tre volti della paura) / France, Italy, UK / Mario Bava / ★★★

9. Unearthly Stranger / UK / John Krish / ★★★

10. Horror Castle (La vergine di Norimberga) / Italy / Antonio Margheriti / ★★★

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Also seen:

- Atomic Brain, The (Monstrosity) / USA / Joseph V. Mascelli / ★1/2
- Black Abbot, The (Der schwarze Abt) / West Germany / Franz Josef Gottlieb / ★★1/2
- Blancheville Monster, The (Horror) / Italy, Spain / Alberto De Martino / ★★
- Blood Feast / USA / Herschell Gordon Lewis / ★★
- Bring Me the Vampire (Échenme al vampiro) / Mexico / Alfredo B. Crevenna / ★1/2
- Dementia 13 / USA / Francis Ford Coppola / ★★1/2
- Diary of a Madman / USA / Reginald Le Borg / ★★

- Doctor of Doom (Las luchadoras contra el médico asesino) / Mexico / René Cardona / ★★
- Fat Black Pussycat, The / USA / Harold Lea / ★1/2
- Ghost, The (Lo spettro; The Specter) / Italy / Riccardo Freda / ★★1/2
- Girl Who Knew Too Much, The (La ragazza che sapeva troppo) / Italy / Mario Bava / ★★★

- House of the Frights (La casa de los espantos) / Mexico / Alfredo B. Crevenna / ★1/2
- Indian Scarf, The (Das indische Tuch) / West Germany / Alfred Vohrer / ★★1/2

- Kiss of the Vampire, The (Kiss of Evil) / UK / Don Sharp / ★★
- Insomnia (Insomnie) / France [short] / Pierre Étaix / ★★1/2

- Labyrinth (Labirynt) / Poland [short] / (1963; Jan Lenica) / ★★★1/2
- Macabre Mark, The (La huella macabra) / Mexico / Alfredo B. Crevenna / ★★1/2
- Paranoiac / UK / Freddie Francis / ★★1/2

- Santo in the Wax Museum (Santo en el museo de cera) / Mexico / Alfonso Corona Blake / ★★1/2
- Squeaker, The (Der Zinker) / France, West Germany / Alfred Vohrer / ★★★
- Terror, The (The Haunting) / USA / Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill and Jack Nicholson / ★★
- Tomb of Torture (Metempsyco) / Italy / Antonio Boccaci / ★★
- Twice-Told Tales (The Corpse-Makers) / USA / Sidney Salkow / ★★1/2

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