Horror from the world's archives

1–48 of 12,001 films, free to watch, from the world's open archives.

Where these films come from, and who sees what

Every film here plays from the archive that keeps it: the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons, the NASA Image and Video Library, the Library of Congress and Open Images (the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision). Nothing is copied to this site. Each film's page names its archive, links to its page there, and states its licence or status as the archive does.

Archive films carry no age ratings, so each is placed from the collections it sits in and the subjects the archive gives it, cautiously. Sexual content and nudity are left out altogether.

Little OnesFilms for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool.
KidsCartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature.
TweensDocumentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures.
TeensEverything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower.
AdultSexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive House on Haunted Hill 1959 · Feature · 1 h 14 min · Subtitles Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. Internet Archive Bloody Pit of Horror 1965 · Feature · 1 h 22 min · Subtitles A group of models and cameramen go to a castle to shoot covers for horror novels where they're captured and tortured by the castle's owner, the Crimson… Internet Archive The Lost World 1925 · Feature · Subtitles The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.You can find more information… Internet Archive The Ghoul 1933 · Feature · 1 h 8 min · Subtitles The Ghoul is a 1933 British Horror film starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger and Ralph Richardson, whose debut film this was. The plot… Internet Archive Teenagers from Outer Space 1959 · Feature · 1 h 25 min · Subtitles A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts. Internet Archive Horror Express 1976 · Feature · 1 h 27 min · Subtitles An English anthropologist (Christopher Lee) has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He… Internet Archive The Phantom of the Opera 1925 · Feature · 1 h 46 min At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for… Internet Archive 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1916 · Feature · 1 h 48 min The Universal Film Manufacturing Company was not known in the silent era as premier producer of motion pictures. Yet, in 1916 they produced a film that could… Internet Archive The House On Haunted Hill 1959 · Feature Vincent Price gives a stellar performance as the suavely malevolent host of a "haunted house party" who offers his guests $10,000 if they can survive a night… Internet Archive City of the Dead/Horror Hotel 1960 · Feature · 1 h 15 min · Subtitles College student Nan Barlow visits the village of Whitewood as research for her paper on witchcraft in New England, particularly the case of Elizabeth Selwyn.… Internet Archive Night of the Living Dead 1968 · Feature · 1 h 35 min · Subtitles This is the full 1080p Blu-Ray rip (m2ts) of "Night of the Living Dead" ( IMDB ) as well as other versions derived from it. The mkv's each have the DTS and… Internet Archive Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari ( The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ) 1919 · Feature · 51 min The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the first modern Horror Film and it influence a number of contemporary productions. A real classic! PLOT: A man named Francis… Internet Archive Nightmare Castle 1965 · Feature · 1 h 19 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . This MPEG-4 file has been encoded to work with the Sony PSP. I would be interested to get… Internet Archive House on Haunted Hill 1959 · Feature · 1 h 14 min · Subtitles An eccentric millionaire throws a party for his wife in a haunted house offering each guest $10,000 if they can make it through the night. Only there seem to… Internet Archive Deep Red 1975 · Feature · Subtitles A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the… Internet Archive Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror) 1922 · Short · 1 min This is the most complete version available (just over 93 minutes) as this movie was demanded by Bram Stokers widow to be destroyed after winning 2 lawsuits… Internet Archive Atom Age Vampire 1960 · Feature · 1 h 26 min · Subtitles After a beauty is mangled in a car accident, a researcher uses a treatment he has created to restore her to her former self. However, the treatment comes with… Internet Archive Grave of the Vampire 1974 · Feature · 1 h 29 min · Subtitles William Smith tracks down his father, a vampire who raped his mother. The IMDB entry is here . The mpeg2 file has nav-packets, so you can load it into… Internet Archive White Zombie 1932 · Feature · 1 h 8 min · Subtitles From IMDb : A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave. Hopefully you will… Internet Archive Horror Express 1973 · Feature · 1 h 27 min · Subtitles In 1906, on a train racing through Siberia, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are engulfed in nightmare when a frozen missing link comes to life. You can load… Internet Archive Carnival of Souls 1962 · Feature · 1 h 23 min · Subtitles After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival. Internet Archive King of the Zombies 1941 · Feature · 1 h 17 min · Subtitles Three men in a plane searching the Caribbean for a missing admiral crash-land on an island where voodoo is practiced and zombies roam. They soon find a… Internet Archive Carnival of Souls 1962 · Feature · 1 h 22 min · Subtitles Atmospheric 60s B-horror film with a cult following. Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around with two friends but everything goes wrong when… Internet Archive Bluebeard 1944 · Feature · 1 h 10 min · Subtitles Young female models are being strangled inexplicably. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims? You can find more… Internet Archive Reign of the Fallen 2006 · Feature · 55 min · Subtitles In the times since great wars laid waste to the planet Prias, its people have learned to embrace a simple life, away from the perils of technology and war. As… Internet Archive Phantom Ship , The 1936 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles Also known as "The Mystery of the Marie Celeste". You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Wasp Woman 1960 · Feature · 1 h 13 min · Subtitles A beautiful woman by day - a lusting queen wasp by night. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Most Dangerous Game 1932 · Feature · 1 h 3 min Ship wrecked Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea) crawls ashore on a mysterious island and finds his way to a creepy castle inhabited by a Russian Count named Zaroff… Internet Archive The Sadist 1963 · Feature · 1 h 32 min · Subtitles This is believed to be the first feature film based on real life serial killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate. Mainstream Hollywood would not produce… Internet Archive The Incredible Petrified World 1957 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles It's supposed to be cutting edge science: a diving bell that can descend the depths of the ocean. However, when a cable snaps, the crew fears that they may… Internet Archive Daughter of Horror 1955 · Feature · 54 min · Subtitles Also known as Dementia. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Attack of the Giant Leeches 1959 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles After a local drunk shoots a monster in the swamp, people start disappearing... Find out more about this movie on it's IMDB page. Internet Archive Snowbeast 1977 · Feature · 1 h 25 min A Colorado ski resort is besieged by a sub-human beast that commits brutal murders on the slopes. - IMDB Description Internet Archive The Corpse Vanishes 1942 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles A newspaper reporter begins to investigate after a series of brides die suddenly during their wedding. Her quest leads her to the secret of eternal youth and… Internet Archive The Ghost Train 1941 · Feature · 1 h 25 min Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to… Internet Archive Fog Island 1945 · Feature · 1 h 8 min · Subtitles Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Leo was framed by a group of former business… Internet Archive Night Of The Living Dead 1968 · Feature · Subtitles The dead come back to life and terrorize a group of people trapped inside a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. "It has been established that persons who have… Internet Archive Gammera the Invincible 1965 · Feature · 1 h 26 min · Subtitles This was the only film in the original Gamera series to be released to American theaters. It was originally presented in America by World Entertainment Corp.… Internet Archive Night of the Living Dead 1968 · Feature · Subtitles I did some digital tweaking on Night of the Living Dead to make it more watchable and made it into a DVD image that you can burn. Internet Archive Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory 1962 · Feature · Subtitles From IMDb : The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott (Carl Schell) with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls.… Internet Archive The Screaming Skull 1958 · Feature · 1 h 7 min · Subtitles A widower remarries and the couple move into the house he shared with his previous wife. Only the ghost of the last wife might still be hanging around. Find… Internet Archive King of the Zombies 1941 · Feature · 1 h 7 min · Subtitles A plane flying to the Bahamas gets blown off course and crashes on the island of the mysterious Dr. Sangare. Jefferson Jackson (Mantan Moreland) tries to warn… Internet Archive Satan's Cheerleaders ( 1977) 1977 · Feature WIDESCREEN VERSION Plot: The janitor at a local high school is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for a virgin to sacrifice. One day… Internet Archive Eegah 1962 · Feature · 1 h 30 min · Subtitles A caveman is discovered out in the desert who proceeds to fall in love with a girl and then wreak havoc on a nearby town. You can find out more about this… Internet Archive White Zombie 1932 · Feature · 1 h 6 min · Subtitles A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave. Internet Archive How Awful About Allan 1970 · Feature · 1 h 13 min Allan (Anthony Perkins) is blamed for an accidental fire that killed his father (Kent Smith), disfigured his sister (Julie Harris) and landed him in an… Internet Archive City of the Dead/Horror Hotel 1960 · Feature · 1 h 15 min · Subtitles College student Nan Barlow visits the village of Whitewood as research for her paper on witchcraft in New England, particularly the case of Elizabeth Selwyn.… Internet Archive Black Dragons 1942 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. It…