Terrifying Tuesdays: This Week's Favorite Mid-Century Scary Movies to Watch (Week 3)

This week I have quite a few links to some favorite mid-century scary movies to share, so let's get started!  First up is "House on Haunted Hill" (1959), starring Vincent Price as a millionaire throwing a very spooky birthday party for his scheming wife in a haunted house full of jump scares and plot twists that will make you glad you were not invited to the party.  The video from YouTube is shown above.

Next up is a YouTube link shown above to the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956).  Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Carolyn Jones, and King Donovan star as four friends and residents of a small California town trying to escape from a terrifying alien invasion.  This classic has been remade a couple of times but the original is still my favorite.

The third link from YouTube (above) is the film "Island of Terror" (1966), starring Peter Cushing (my all-time favorite scary movie star) as one of a team of scientists who travel to a remote Irish island to investigate an unusual death, only to find that this death is not a solitary incident and the cause is something so horrifying that the entire island is soon endangered.

From Amazon

I have two more movie links but I will not load them in this post because they are available on DailyMotion and I have found that if I share their videos here they run continuously.  "It Came from Outer Space" (1953) stars Richard Carlson as an amateur astronomer who witnesses what he assumes is a meteor crash in the Arizona desert.  He soon discovers that the object is more than just a meteor, and strange occurrences in his town are directly linked to his discovery.  You can watch this movie here.

From Amazon

Finally, "The Monolith Monsters" (1957) really does involve a meteor crash landing on Earth, bringing with it a mysterious alien life form that threatens to destroy yet another small town, this time in California.  Luckily a local geologist is there to save the day!  Watch this film here.

These movie links ought to be enough to keep you entertained all week.  I hope you enjoy some or all of them - Halloween is almost here!