20th Century Horror: Recommends for Zag

Here are lesser-known horror films from the 1930s to the 1990s:

1930s

1. The Vampire Bat (1933) - A blend of mystery and horror, involving a village plagued by mysterious deaths blamed on a vampire.
2. White Zombie (1932) - Often considered the first zombie film, it features Bela Lugosi as a sinister voodoo master.
3. The Ghoul (1933) - A rare British horror film starring Boris Karloff, about an Egyptologist returning from the dead.
4. The Old Dark House (1932) - A creepy and atmospheric tale set in a strange mansion with even stranger inhabitants.
5. Mad Love (1935) - A surgeon obsessed with a stage actress grafts the hands of a murderer onto her lover.

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1940s

1. Isle of the Dead (1945) - A psychological horror set during a plague on a quarantined island, starring Boris Karloff.
2. The Leopard Man (1943) - A suspenseful Val Lewton production about a series of murders blamed on a leopard.
3. Dead of Night (1945) - A British anthology film with several eerie stories, including a chilling tale of a ventriloquist's dummy.
4. The Seventh Victim (1943) - A dark story about a woman uncovering a satanic cult while searching for her missing sister.
5. The Uninvited (1944) - A ghost story with a romantic twist, involving a haunted seaside house.

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1950s

1. The Tingler (1959) - A campy William Castle film about a creature that grows on fear and can only be subdued by screaming.
2. The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959) - A mix of voodoo and body horror centered on a family curse.
3. Curse of the Demon (1957) - A British horror about a skeptic investigating a cult and cursed runes.
4. House of Wax (1953) - The first color 3D horror film, starring Vincent Price as a vengeful wax sculptor.
5. Macabre (1958) - A suspenseful low-budget film about a missing girl and a buried-alive twist.

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1960s

1. Carnival of Souls (1962) - A low-budget psychological horror with a haunting atmosphere.
2. Black Sunday (1960) - A gothic Italian horror about a witch's curse, directed by Mario Bava.
3. Spider Baby (1967) - A darkly comedic horror about a dysfunctional family with murderous tendencies.
4. The Innocents (1961) - A chilling adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, focusing on supernatural happenings.
5. The City of the Dead (1960) - A tale of witches and curses in a fog-drenched New England town.

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1970s

1. Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) - A surreal and unsettling film about a woman's fragile sanity.
2. Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) - A proto-slasher with religious themes and a masked killer.
3. The Sentinel (1977) - A model discovers her apartment building is a gateway to hell.
4. Messiah of Evil (1973) - A surreal and eerie tale of an artist encountering a strange seaside town.
5. Martin (1977) - A psychological exploration of a young man who may or may not be a vampire.

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1980s

1. The Changeling (1980) - A classic haunted house story with an emotional core.
2. Dead & Buried (1981) - A creepy small-town horror with unexpected twists.
3. Night of the Creeps (1986) - A fun blend of sci-fi and horror involving alien slugs turning people into zombies.
4. The Slayer (1982) - A nightmarish story about a woman whose dreams manifest into deadly reality.
5. Street Trash (1987) - A gory and bizarre film about a toxic liquor that causes people to melt.

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1990s

1. In the Mouth of Madness (1994) - A Lovecraftian descent into madness directed by John Carpenter.
2. Cube (1997) - A claustrophobic sci-fi horror about strangers trapped in a deadly maze.
3. The Reflecting Skin (1990) - A surreal and haunting exploration of innocence and evil in rural America.
4. Ravenous (1999) - A darkly comedic horror about cannibalism in the 19th century.
5. Cemetery Man (1994) - A stylish and existential Italian horror about a man managing a cemetery where the dead rise.