Top Ten for 1959

Overview coming soon.
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1959

Top 5

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1. Tôkaidô Yotsuya kaidan (Ghost Story of Yotsuya)

Japan / Nobuo Nakagawa / ★★★1/2

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2. The Hound of the Baskervilles

UK / Terence Fisher / ★★★

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3. House on Haunted Hill

USA / William Castle / ★★★

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4. A Bucket of Blood

USA / Roger Corman / ★★★

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5. El hombre y el monstruo (The Man and the Monster)

Mexico / Rafael Baledón / ★★★

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Rounding Out the Top 10:

6. Terror Is a Man (Blood Creature) / Philippines, USA / Gerardo de Leon / ★★★
7. Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, The / USA / Edward L. Cahn / ★★1/2
8. Man Who Could Cheat Death, The / UK / Terence Fisher / ★★1/2
9. Angry Red Planet, The (Journey to Planet Four) / USA / Ib Melchior / ★★1/2
10. Manster, The (The Split) / Japan, USA / George P. Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane / ★★1/2

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Also seen:

- Alligator People, The / USA / Roy Del Ruth / ★★1/2
- Bat, The / USA / Crane Wilbur / ★★1/2

- Beast from Haunted Cave (Creature from the Cave) / USA / Monte Hellman / ★★

- Cosmic Man, The / USA / Herbert S. Greene / ★★1/2
- Curse of the Undead (Mark of the West) / USA / Edward Dein / ★★
- Giant Gila Monster / USA / Ray Kellogg / ★1/2
- Horrors of the Black Museum / UK / Arthur Crabtree / ★★
- Incredible Petrified World, The / USA / Jerry Warren / ★1/2
- Invisible Invaders / USA / Edward L. Cahn / ★★
- Killer Shrews, The / USA / Ray Kellogg / ★★1/2
- Lady Vampire, The (Onna kyûketsuki) / Japan / Nobuo Nakagawa / ★★
- Plan 9 from Outer Space / USA / Edward D. Wood, Jr. / SBIG
- Santa Claus (Santa Claus vs. the Devil) / Mexico / René Cardona / ★★

- Teenagers from Outer Space / USA / Tom Graeff / SBIG
- Teenage Zombies / USA / Jerry Warren / ★
- Terror in the Midnight Sun (Rymdinvasion i Lappland) / Sweden, USA / Virgil W. Vogel / ★★1/2
- Uncle Was a Vampire (Tempi duri per i vampiri) / France, Italy / Steno / ★★1/2
- Wasp Woman, The / USA / Roger Corman / ★★1/2

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