Proto Slasher Movies

  • 1960
    Psycho

    Psycho

    Psycho

    8.41960HD

    When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates...

    Psycho
  • 1960
    Peeping Tom

    Peeping Tom

    Peeping Tom

    7.41960HD

    Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which...

    Peeping Tom
  • 1964
    Strait-Jacket

    Strait-Jacket

    Strait-Jacket

    6.61964HD

    After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

    Strait-Jacket
  • 1973
    The Severed Arm

    The Severed Arm

    The Severed Arm

    4.91973HD

    Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on...

    The Severed Arm
  • 1963
    Dementia 13

    Dementia 13

    Dementia 13

    5.5391963HD

    A widow deceives her late husband's mother and brothers into thinking he's still alive when she attends the yearly memorial to his drowned sister,...

    Dementia 13
  • 1971
    A Bay of Blood

    A Bay of Blood

    A Bay of Blood

    6.61971HD

    An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends...

    A Bay of Blood
  • 1946
    The Spiral Staircase

    The Spiral Staircase

    The Spiral Staircase

    71946HD

    On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

    The Spiral Staircase
  • 1959
    A Bucket of Blood

    A Bucket of Blood

    A Bucket of Blood

    6.51959HD

    Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful...

    A Bucket of Blood
  • 1961
    Homicidal

    Homicidal

    Homicidal

    6.51961HD

    A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a...

    Homicidal
  • 1943
    The Leopard Man

    The Leopard Man

    The Leopard Man

    6.41943HD

    When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

    The Leopard Man
  • 1976
    Alice, Sweet Alice

    Alice, Sweet Alice

    Alice, Sweet Alice

    6.4471976HD

    Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving...

    Alice, Sweet Alice
  • 1978
    The Comeback

    The Comeback

    The Comeback

    5.51978HD

    A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. His ex-wife is brutally murdered, and the killer may be stalking him next.

    The Comeback
  • 1975
    Deep Red

    Deep Red

    Deep Red

    7.71975HD

    An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his neighbor, a psychic. With the help of a tenacious young reporter he tries to...

    Deep Red
  • 1953
    House of Wax

    House of Wax

    House of Wax

    6.9291953HD

    A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who...

    House of Wax
  • 1976
    The Town That Dreaded Sundown

    The Town That Dreaded Sundown

    The Town That Dreaded Sundown

    5.7911976HD

    When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local police are baffled and must find "the Phantom...

    The Town That Dreaded Sundown
  • 1976
    House of Mortal Sin

    House of Mortal Sin

    House of Mortal Sin

    6.61976HD

    Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession...

    House of Mortal Sin
  • 1963
    Terrified

    Terrified

    Terrified

    31963HD

    A masked lunatic kills off people in a haunted house.

    Terrified
  • 1963
    Maniac

    Maniac

    Maniac

    6.21963HD

    When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of...

    Maniac
  • 1967
    Berserk!

    Berserk!

    Berserk!

    5.51967HD

    A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.

    Berserk!
  • 1974
    Frightmare

    Frightmare

    Frightmare

    6.31974HD

    In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for...

    Frightmare