Sub-genre
Classic Monsters
🧟♂️ Every classic monsters title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
484 titles
Monster on the Campus
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelacanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.
The Return of Count Yorga
›R1971 · Horror · 97m · Robert Quarry, Mariette Hartley, Roger Perry
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
Halloween with the New Addams Family
›G1977 · Comedy, Horror, TV Movie · 74m · John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan
The original TV Addams Family members prepare for Halloween.
The Dark Eyes of London
›NR1939 · Horror · 76m · Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
The Flesh Eaters
›1964 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Martin Kosleck, Byron Sanders, Barbara Wilkin
An alcoholic actress, her personal assistant, and their pilot are downed on a secluded isle by bad weather, where a renegade Nazi scientist is using ocean life to develop a solvent for human flesh. The tiny flesh-eating sea critters that result certainly give our heroes a run for their money - and lives.
Arnold
›PG1973 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 94m · Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester
Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.
Burke & Hare
›R2010 · Comedy, Thriller, History · 91m · Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
13 Ghosts
›NR1960 · Horror · 85m · Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner
The reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his sprawling mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property itself, they have also inherited the occultist's collection of thirteen ghosts.
Blood Vessel
›2020 · Horror, Fantasy, War · 93m · Nathan Phillips, Alyssa Sutherland, Robert Taylor
Near the end of World War II, the survivors of a torpedoed hospital ship cling to life aboard a crowded lifeboat. With no food, water, or shelter, all seems lost – until an eerily silent German minesweeper drifts ominously towards them, giving them one last chance at survival. As our motley crew explores the ship, it becomes all too clear that some diabolical fate has befallen its German crew. The mystery only deepens when they encounter a young Romanian girl, apparently the sole survivor, who leads them to a locked room in the bowels of the vessel.
Patchwork
›2015 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Tory Stolper, Tracey Fairaway, Maria Blasucci
A delightfully dark, Frankenstein-themed horror comedy about a re-animated corpse, made from the stitched together body parts of three murdered young women, that decides to go on a bloody quest to find their killer and avenge their deaths!
The Return of Doctor X
›1939 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 62m · Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris
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.
I, Monster
›PG1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Mike Raven
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.
The Cat and the Canary
›PG1978 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 98m · Honor Blackman, Edward Fox, Michael Callan
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.
Donovan's Brain
›1953 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Lew Ayres, Nancy Reagan, Gene Evans
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflicts its personality upon the doctor who saved it, creating a "Jekyll and Hyde" paradigm.
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
›1959 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
It!
›1967 · Horror · 96m · Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth, Paul Maxwell
After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
›2005 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 76m · Judson Pearce Morgan, Daamen J. Krall, Doug Jones
Remake of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920). Shot entirely on green screen. Some exact shots from the 1920 film were superimposed to properly replicate the original. Francis relates the story of traveling magician Dr. Caligari and Cesare. Their arrival in a town coincides with savage killings.
Transylvania Twist
›PG1989 · Fantasy, Comedy, Horror · 90m · Robert Vaughn, Teri Copley, Steve Altman
The nephew of a librarian must go collect a 200 year old book, "The Book of Ulthar." that should have never been checked out by the Evil Count Orlock cause one of the spells in it could bring about the end of the world. During his trip to the castle, he meets Marissa, a gorgeous rock star and heir to the castle's fortune. There they must confront the only other heir to the fortune and the book, Uncle Byron; and Uncle Byron and his 3 adopted nieces all have very, very, very broad smile.
Van Helsing
›PG-132004 · Horror, Adventure, Action · 132m · Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
Elvira's Haunted Hills
›PG-132002 · Comedy, Horror · 90m · Cassandra Peterson, Mary Jo Smith, Richard O'Brien
The setting is Carpathia. The year is 1851. When Elvira gets kicked out of an Inn for a slight monetary discrepancy, she is rescued by a local who takes her to stay at the castle in the hills high above the village. The fact that she happens to resemble the count's former "missing" wife opens a can of worms or two.
House of Dracula
›1945 · Horror, Science Fiction · 64m · John Carradine, Onslow Stevens, Lon Chaney Jr.
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
›R1974 · Action, Horror · 89m · Peter Cushing, David Chiang Da-Wei, Julie Ege
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
Countess Dracula
›PG1971 · Drama, Horror · 93m · Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Elès
Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her will be high and bloody.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
›1955 · Adventure, Horror, Comedy · 79m · Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.