Top 13 must-see new classic thriller movies from classic thriller movies, including ranked and rated by release date, new classic thriller movie releases first
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Plot / Synopsis: Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Sir Edward occasionally escapes and causes havoc around the town.
Tagline: For the first time... the classic tale of the restless dead and their unspeakable hungers!...
Director: Gordon Hessler Stars: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Uta Levka, Sally Geeson
Plot / Synopsis: When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Tagline: By night they leave their graves, crawling, shambling, through empty streets, whimpering, pleading, begging for his blood!...
Directors: Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow Stars: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Umberto Raho
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Terror strikes the London Opera House as a new opera is disrupted by the actions of a deformed specter of the show's past who has an obsession with one of the production's chorus girl.
Tagline:
Out of the hell-fire of horror unimaginable rises the figure of terror incarnate!...
Director: Terence Fisher Stars: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Thorley Walters, Michael Gough
Plot / Synopsis: A newly married couple arrives at the home of the husband's late wife, where the gardens have been maintained by a gardener faithful to the dead woman's memory. Soon, eerie events lead the new wife to think she's losing her mind.
Tagline: FREE!! We guarantee to bury you without charge if you die of fright during SCREAMING SKULL!...
Director: Alex Nicol Stars: John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway, Tony Johnson, Alex Nicol
Plot / Synopsis: It's the Great Depression. In the process of robbing a bank of $10,000, Ben Harper kills two people. Before he is captured, he is able to convince his adolescent son John and his daughter Pearl not to tell anyone, including their mother Willa, where he hid the money, namely in Pearl's favorite toy, a doll that she carries everywhere...
Director: Charles Laughton Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
Plot / Synopsis: An architect senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales...
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden … Stars: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers, Frederick Valk
Plot / Synopsis: A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Tagline: Can a full grown woman truly love a MIDGET ?...
Director: Tod Browning Stars: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor