Notable American Gothic horror films released before 1960 as highlighted in American Gothic: Six Decades of Classic Horror Cinema (Signum Books, 2017), by author Jonathan Rigby.
See also: English Gothic horror films, Euro Gothic horror films
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*(1914)The Avenging Conscience: or ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ -
*(1920)Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -
*(1922)A Blind Bargain -
*(1922)One Exciting Night -
*(1925)The Monster -
*(1925)The Phantom of the Opera -
*(1926)The Bat -
*(1926)The Bells -
*(1926)The Magician -
*(1926)Sparrows -
***(1927)The Cat and the Canary -
*(1927)London After Midnight -
***(1927)The Unknown -
*(1928)The Last Warning -
*(1928)The Man Who Laughs -
*(1929)Seven Footprints to Satan -
***(1930)The Bat Whispers -
***(1931)Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -
****(1931)Dracula -
****(1931)Drácula -
****(1931)Frankenstein -
*(1931)Murder by the Clock -
**(1931)Svengali -
***(1932)Doctor X -
***(1932)Freaks -
***(1932)Island of Lost Souls -
**(1932)Kongo -
***(1932)The Mask of Fu Manchu -
***(1932)The Most Dangerous Game -
****(1932)The Mummy -
***(1932)Murders in the Rue Morgue -
***(1932)The Old Dark House -
***(1932)White Zombie -
****(1933)The Invisible Man -
***(1933)Murders in the Zoo -
***(1933)Mystery of the Wax Museum -
*(1933)Night of Terror -
***(1933)Supernatural -
***(1933)The Vampire Bat -
***(1934)The Black Cat -
***(1935)The Black Room -
****(1935)Bride of Frankenstein -
*(1935)The Crime of Doctor Crespi -
***(1935)Mad Love -
***(1935)Mark of the Vampire -
***(1935)The Raven -
***(1935)Werewolf of London -
***(1936)The Devil-Doll -
***(1936)Dracula’s Daughter -
***(1936)The Invisible Ray -
**(1936)The Walking Dead -
***(1939)The Cat and the Canary -
***(1939)The Hound of the Baskervilles -
***(1939)The Man They Could Not Hang -
**(1939)The Return of Doctor X -
***(1939)Son of Frankenstein -
***(1940)Black Friday -
***(1940)The Devil Bat -
***(1940)The Ghost Breakers -
***(1940)The Invisible Man Returns -
***(1940)The Mummy’s Hand -
***(1941)All That Money Can Buy -
***(1941)The Devil Commands -
***(1941)Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -
**(1941)King of the Zombies -
***(1941)Man Made Monster -
***(1941)The Monster and the Girl -
****(1941)The Wolf Man -
***(1942)Cat People -
**(1942)Dr. Renault’s Secret -
***(1942)The Ghost of Frankenstein -
***(1942)Night Monster -
***(1942)The Undying Monster -
***(1943)Captive Wild Woman -
***(1943)Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man -
***(1943)I Walked with a Zombie -
***(1943)The Leopard Man -
***(1943)The Mad Ghoul -
***(1943)The Return of the Vampire -
**(1943)The Seventh Victim -
***(1943)Son of Dracula -
**(1944)Bluebeard -
***(1944)House of Frankenstein -
***(1944)The Lady and the Monster -
***(1944)The Lodger -
***(1944)The Scarlet Claw -
***(1944)The Uninvited -
***(1945)The Body Snatcher -
***(1945)Hangover Square -
***(1945)House of Dracula -
***(1945)Isle of the Dead -
***(1945)The Picture of Dorian Gray -
**(1945)Woman Who Came Back -
**(1946)The Beast with Five Fingers -
***(1946)Bedlam -
***(1946)The Spiral Staircase -
*(1948)Macbeth -
*(1950)Sunset Boulevard -
***(1951)The Thing from Another World -
***(1953)House of Wax -
*(1954)Phantom of the Rue Morgue -
***(1956)The Black Sleep -
***(1956)Invasion of the Body Snatchers -
*(1957)I Was a Teenage Frankenstein -
*(1957)I Was a Teenage Werewolf -
***(1958)The Fly -
***(1958)I Married a Monster from Outer Space -
***(1958)The Return of Dracula -
***(1959)A Bucket of Blood -
***(1959)House on Haunted Hill -
***(1959)The Tingler
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