Horror History: Wednesday, January 22, 1964: The Comedy of Terrors was released in theaters

A horror spoof in which a funeral director, who is in arrears on his rent, aggressively pursues customers to bolster his business–and the fact that they haven’t died yet doesn’t seem to dissuade him.

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Horror History: Wednesday, September 25, 1963: Dementia 13 was released in theaters

Following the abrupt death of her husband from a heart attack, scheming Louise Haloran travels to her in-laws estate in Ireland, only to find herself trapped in a creepy, decrepit castle with her ex-husband’s demented family.

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Horror History: Monday, June 17, 1963: The Terror was released in theaters

A young officer in Napoleon’s army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron where he discovers that she is the pawn of an old witch bent on driving the Baron to suicide.

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Horror History: Thursday, March 28, 1963: The Birds was released in theaters

A wealthy San Francisco playgirl pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town which slowly takes a turn when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there, in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.

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Horror History: Wednesday, March 6, 1963: Diary of a Madman was released in theaters

Vincent Price turns in a classic performance as a sculptor, possessed by an evil spirit, who hires a model (Nancy Kovack) to pose for him — then learns thereafter that she has been brutally murdered.

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Horror History: Wednesday, October 24, 1962: Tower of London was released in theaters

Horror movie king Vincent Price stars in this chilling tale based on the story of King Richard III, a disfigured and insane man who tortured his way to the British throne.

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Horror History: Wednesday, September 26, 1962: Carnival of Souls was released in theaters

A young woman in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her toward an abandoned lakeside pavilion.

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Horror History: Wednesday, August 15, 1962: The Phantom of the Opera was released in US theaters

When the star of a London Opera house (Heather Sears) is kidnapped, a producer (Edward de Souza) tracks down the Phantom (Herbert Lom) who is intent on seeking his revenge.

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Horror History: Wednesday, July 4, 1962: Tales of Terror was released in theaters

From the haunting tales of Edgar Allan Poe, comes a chilling trilogy of terror. In Morella, Locke (Vincent Price) blames the death of his wife on their only child and sends her away. When she returns 26 years later, her mother’s spirit inhabits her body and haunts the tortured man. In The Black Cat, Fortunato (Price) takes a drunken montresor (Peter Lorre) home and falls in love with the montresor’s wife… so the jealous montresor takes revenge and buries them both alive. In The Case Of M. Valdemar, Valdemar (Price) seeks relief from M. Carmichael (Basil Rathbone), an evil mesmerist. Carmichael has designs on Valdemar’s wife and holds him in a tortured state between life and death…until death itself intervenes.

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Horror History: Wednesday, August 23, 1961: The Pit and the Pendulum was released in theaters

Vincent Price plays a 16th century Spanish nobleman who slowly goes crazy when he thinks that his wife has been buried alive. It’s all a joint plot between the supposed dead wife and her doctor/lover to get Price’s money. Price now totally insane, assumes his father’s identity (that of a grand inquisitor) and starts to murder!

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Horror History: Wednesday, June 7, 1961: The Curse of the Werewolf was released in theaters

This re-imagining of the classic horror story is set in 18th century Spain and follows an orphan child who terrifies those around him when he becomes a werewolf after a hunting expedition.

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Horror History: Wednesday, May 3, 1961: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (aka Jekyll’s Inferno) was released in US theaters

While deeply absorbed in research designed to isolate the double nature in man, Dr. Jekyll (Paul Massie) succeeds in releasing his own savage alter ego, Mr. Hyde.

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Horror History: Wednesday, February 15, 1961: Black Sunday was released in US theaters

In an absolutely mesmerizing performance, Black Sunday stars Barbara Steele as Asa Vajda, a beautiful woman tortured and executed as a witch – but not before pronouncing a curse upon those who have condemned her, a curse that is fulfilled some 200 years later.

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Horror History: Friday, October 28, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A Thing About Machines” premiered

Season 2 Episode 4

A writer (Richard Haydn) believes machines are conspiring against him.

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Horror History: Friday, October 14, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room” premiered

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Season 2 Episode 3

A nervous gangster (Joe Mantell) faces himself when his boss (William D. Gordon) gives him his latest assignment.

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Horror History: Friday, October 7, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Man in the Bottle” premiered

Season 2 Episode 2

A genie (Joseph Ruskin) grants four wishes to an unsuccessful pawnbroker (Luther Adler) and his wife (Vivi Janiss).

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Horror History: Friday, September 30, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “King Nine Will Not Return” premiered

Season 2 Episode 1

The sole survivor of a World War II bomber crash (Robert Cummings) cannot find any trace of his crew, but he does see jet planes flying overhead.

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Horror History: Monday, September 5, 1960: The Brides of Dracula was released in US theaters

A brave young woman (Yvonne Monlaur) takes refuge in a mysterious chateau but soon finds herself the prey of a treacherous vampire intent on claiming her.

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Horror History: Friday, August 5, 1960: The Little Shop of Horrors was released in theaters

Seymour Krelboyne (Jonathan Haze) works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker Audrey Fulquard (Jackie Joseph).

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Horror History: Saturday, June 18, 1960: House of Usher was released in theaters

When a beautiful young woman’s suitor arrives to ask her hand in marriage, the doors of the mysterious house of Usher fling open…and terror begins. It seems the young woman’s brother is violently oppos- ed to her planned marriage and resorts to macabre ends to prevent the tainted Usher blood from spreading to future generations.

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Horror History: Friday, June 17, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Mighty Casey” premiered

Season 1 Episode 35

Dr. Stillman arranges to have his human-looking robot signed up as the star pitcher of the Hoboken Zephyrs. The team zooms to fourth place thanks to Casey. After he’s beaned by a ball, a doctor discovers Casey has no heart. The rules say nine men make up a team, and without a heart Casey is not a man. Dr. Stillman gives Casey a heart, but he becomes too compassionate to strike out other players. The Zephyrs lose the pennant, and Casey is washed up in baseball. Dr. Stillman gives the coach, Mouth McGarry, Casey’s blueprints as a memento. Looking at them, McGarry gets a sudden inspiration, and chases after the doctor.

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Horror History: Friday, June 10, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The After Hours” premiered

Season 1 Episode 34

A woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn’t exist – and that her “saleslady” is really a mannequin!

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Horror History: Friday, May 20, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A Passage for Trumpet” premiered

Season 1 Episode 32

A trumpet player who’s convinced he’ll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him.

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