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    1930s Horror Movies

    The 40 most popular 1930s horror movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.

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    Dracula
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    Dracula

    1931 · 1h 14m · US

    A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves and drives the agent to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.

    King Kong
    TMDB3.8

    King Kong

    1933 · 1h 40m · US

    Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

    Frankenstein
    TMDB3.7

    Frankenstein

    1931 · 1h 10m · US

    Obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from deceased body parts. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it flees into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc.

    The Invisible Man
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    The Invisible Man

    1933 · 1h 11m · US

    After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

    Bride of Frankenstein
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    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935 · 1h 15m · US

    After recovering from injuries sustained in the mob attack upon himself and his creation, Dr. Henry Frankenstein falls under control of his former mentor, Dr. Pretorius, who insists the now-chastened doctor resume his experiments in creating new life. Meanwhile, the Monster remains on the run from those who wish to destroy him.

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    1939 · 1h 57m · US

    Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.

    Freaks
    TMDB3.9

    Freaks

    1932 · 1h 4m · US

    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.

    Doctor X
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    Doctor X

    1932 · 1h 16m · US

    A wisecracking reporter investigates the cannibalistic 'Moon Killer' murders tied to a medical academy, culminating in a chilling reenactment experiment.

    The Mummy
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    The Mummy

    1932 · 1h 13m · US

    An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

    Castle Sinister
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    Castle Sinister

    1932 · 50m · UK

    A scientist seeks to transplant the brain of a young girl into his apeman.

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    1931 · 1h 36m · US

    Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

    Krazy Spooks
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    Krazy Spooks

    1933 · 6m · US

    On a stormy, windy night, Krazy's car breaks down so he and Kitty must seek refuge in an eerie old house. Happy the pup finds a skeleton, but the really scary resident is a huge, violent gorilla that runs off with Kitty, and Krazy must rescue her.

    Vampyr
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    Vampyr

    1932 · 1h 14m · DE

    Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

    Maniac
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    Maniac

    1934 · 51m · US

    An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.

    Chloe, Love Is Calling You
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    Chloe, Love Is Calling You

    1934 · 1h 2m · US

    A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisiana swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old conjure woman Mandy returns with her daughter Chloe to their bayou home after fifteen years. Chloe was too young to remember much about the bayou, but once Mandy had been a famous voodoo priestess in these parts. But after the whites lynched her husband Sam, she took her little girl & moved away into the Everglades. She seems to have gone a little mad in the intervening years & has returned swearing a belated vengeance against the murdering white folks.

    Island of Lost Souls
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    Island of Lost Souls

    1932 · 1h 11m · US

    An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

    The Medium

    TMDB3.5

    The Medium

    1934 · 38m · UK

    A mad sculptor murders his wife and hides the body within a statue; a psychic model suspects the truth.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles
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    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    1939 · 1h 20m · US

    When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

    The Most Dangerous Game
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    The Most Dangerous Game

    1932 · 1h 3m · US

    When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

    The Old Dark House
    TMDB3.4

    The Old Dark House

    1932 · 1h 10m · US

    In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

    The Son of Kong
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    The Son of Kong

    1933 · 1h 10m · US

    Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.

    Murders in the Zoo
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    Murders in the Zoo

    1933 · 1h 2m · US

    Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.

    The Black Cat
    TMDB3.4

    The Black Cat

    1934 · 1h 5m · US

    After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

    Demon of the Himalayas
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    Demon of the Himalayas

    1935 · 1h 32m · CH

    German film about a Himalayan expedition and the search for a mountain spirit, who guarded, according to the tradition of the locals, the peaks of high mountains. The long-lost and recently rediscovered and restored film is now a unique cinematic document because it is the first feature film that was shot directly in the Himalayas (up to 6400 m altitude). Hans Ertl even turned his Bell & Howell to the main summit of Sia Kangri, 7422m. Likewise, the film contains footage from India and Tibet, from a time long before the emergence of mass tourism. Some of the footage was later recycled in ‘Lost horizon’ (1937) by Frank Capra and in ‘Storm over Tibet’ (1952).

    Son of Frankenstein
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    Son of Frankenstein

    1939 · 1h 39m · US

    One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.

    House of Mystery
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    House of Mystery

    1934 · 1h 2m · US

    Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.

    White Zombie
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    White Zombie

    1932 · 1h 7m · US

    A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

    Dracula's Daughter
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    Dracula's Daughter

    1936 · 1h 11m · US

    A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

    Mystery of the Wax Museum
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    Mystery of the Wax Museum

    1933 · 1h 18m · US

    A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.

    Murders in the Rue Morgue
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    Murders in the Rue Morgue

    1932 · 1h 1m · US

    In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.

    The Mask of Fu Manchu
    TMDB2.7

    The Mask of Fu Manchu

    1932 · 1h 8m · US

    The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

    Demon Man
    TMDB3.5

    Demon Man

    1937 · PH

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    Murder at Dawn
    TMDB2.7

    Murder at Dawn

    1932 · 1h 2m · US

    Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.

    The Cat and the Canary
    TMDB3.5

    The Cat and the Canary

    1939 · 1h 13m · US

    A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.

    Werewolf of London
    TMDB3.0

    Werewolf of London

    1935 · 1h 15m · US

    A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.

    The Old Mill
    TMDB3.7

    The Old Mill

    1937 · 9m · US

    Night in an old mill is dramatically depicted in this Oscar-winning short in which the frightened occupants, including birds, timid mice, owls, and other creatures try to stay safe and dry as a storm approaches. As the thunderstorm worsens, the mill wheel begins to turn and the whole mill threatens to blow apart until at last the storm subsides.

    House of Mystery
    TMDB4.3

    House of Mystery

    1931 · 16m · US

    Two hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanation. At first it looks like his son has killed his unfaithful wife, but the wife's lover and the family butler are acting suspiciously enough to be followed.

    Drácula
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    Drácula

    1931 · 1h 44m · US

    A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.

    The Phantom of the Monastery
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    The Phantom of the Monastery

    1934 · 1h 25m · MX

    Alfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina who tries to seduce Alfonso in a strange coincidence to a story told by an old monk. After some efforts to escape, Alfonso is trapped inside a jail and more strange and macabre situations happen.

    The Return of Doctor X
    TMDB3.0

    The Return of Doctor X

    1939 · 1h 2m · US

    When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.

    About 1930s Horror Movies

    The 1930s

    The 1930s were the studio system at full power, with sound now fully integrated and the Production Code arriving mid-decade to sharply narrow what films could depict. It's the decade of the Universal monster cycle, screwball comedy, and the first Technicolor spectacles.

    Horror

    Horror is cinema's most reliable laboratory — cheap to make, endlessly reinvented, and unusually good at smuggling in subtext. Every few years a national wave redefines it: Italian giallo, Japanese J-horror, the Korean thriller, American indie horror.

    In this list

    Best reviewed
    Freaks (7.8)
    Often also
    Thriller, Mystery, Science Fiction

    Common questions

    What are the best 1930s horror movies?
    By popularity across Flickfolio and TMDB, the top picks right now are Dracula, King Kong, and Frankenstein. The full ranked list of 40 sits above — open any movie for ratings, reviews, and streaming availability.
    How is this list ranked?
    1930s horror movies are ordered by overall popularity, which blends how often a title is viewed, searched, and logged. It updates as viewing habits shift, so the list reflects what people are actually watching rather than a fixed critical canon.
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