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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

Gorgo

Gorgo

1961 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 78m · Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter

When an underwater volcanic eruption tears up the sea bed off the coast of Ireland, two treasure hunters make the discovery of a lifetime when they encounter a gigantic prehistoric monster that’s been unleashed from the earth’s crust. After capturing the beast, the pair transport the creature down to London where it’s given the name of “Gorgo” and put on display to an avid public. Little do they realize that Gorgo is just an infant, and that his exponentially larger mother is about to emerge from the depths to avenge the capture of her offspring.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.35.7
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Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

PG1971 · Horror · 94m · Valerie Leon, Andrew Keir, James Villiers

Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and terrifying incidents, powerless against the forces of darkness, directed by Corbeck, that are taking possession of her body and soul to fulfill the ancient prophesy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue her reign of unspeakable evil.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.55.7
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The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

NR1964 · Horror · 80m · Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark

Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.55.7
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Strange Invaders

Strange Invaders

PG1983 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 92m · Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid

Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.

IMDb 5.4🍅 67%TMDB 4.85.7
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The Alligator People

The Alligator People

NR1959 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 74m · Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr.

Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.65.7
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

1990 · Comedy, Horror · 101m · Neil Morrissey, Amanda Noar, Michael Elphick

When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.35.7
The Mummy's Shroud

The Mummy's Shroud

1967 · Horror · 90m · André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck

Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.

IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.55.7
Creature with the Atom Brain

Creature with the Atom Brain

NR1955 · Science Fiction, Horror · 69m · Richard Denning, S. John Launer, Michael Granger

Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.

IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.15.7
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Blood of the Vampire

Blood of the Vampire

1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Donald Wolfit, Vincent Ball, Barbara Shelley

A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crippled assistant Carl, the 'anemic' Mad Scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life.

IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.85.7
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The Climax

The Climax

1944 · Music, Horror, Thriller · 86m · Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.55.7
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Terror Is a Man

Terror Is a Man

NR1959 · Horror · 90m · Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr

A mad scientist transforms a panther into a man-like creature that escapes and goes on a murderous rampage.

IMDb 5.3TMDB 4.55.7
How to Make a Monster

How to Make a Monster

1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway

When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.

IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.75.7
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Gog

Gog

1954 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall

A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.95.7
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One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many

NR1944 · Comedy, Mystery, Thriller · 75m · Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi

An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.25.7
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The Curse of the Living Corpse

The Curse of the Living Corpse

NR1964 · Horror · 84m · Roy Scheider, Helen Warren, Robert Milli

The wealthy patriarch of the Sinclair family lives in mortal fear of being buried alive due to a rare condition that causes him to sometimes appear lifeless. After his death, relatives learn that his will stipulates a strict series of orders that must be followed in order to receive their inheritance. The family refuses to comply and the patriarch returns from the grave to exact revenge by killing each of them in the way they fear most.

IMDb 5.3TMDB 5.85.7
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The Munsters Today

The Munsters TodaySeries

1988 · Comedy · 3 seasons · John Schuck, Lee Meriwether, Howard Morton

America's First Family of Fright awaken after an accidental 22-year nap and must adjust to life in the 1980s.

IMDb 5.1TMDB 5.85.7
The Wolfman

The Wolfman

R2010 · Horror · 103m · Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt

Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.

IMDb 5.9MC 43🍅 32%TMDB 5.95.6
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Blacula

Blacula

PG1972 · Horror, Fantasy · 93m · William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas

An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina, a woman who he believes is the reincarnation of his deceased wife.

IMDb 5.7🍅 46%TMDB 5.55.6
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Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich

NR2018 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Thomas Lennon, Jenny Pellicer, Michael Paré

A recently divorced young man discovers a mint condition Blade doll in his deceased brother's closet and plans to sell the toy at a convention in Oregon celebrating the 30th anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose during the auction when a strange force animates all of the puppets throughout the convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree.

IMDb 5.4MC 52🍅 70%TMDB 5.65.6
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Alien Trespass

Alien Trespass

PG2009 · Action, Adventure, Comedy · 90m · Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird, Dan Lauria

In 1957 a fiery object crashes into a mountaintop in the California desert, bringing the threat of disaster to Earth. Out of the flying saucer escapes a murderous creature, the Ghota, bent on destroying all life forms on the planet. A benevolent alien from the spaceship, Urp, inhabits the body of Ted Lewis, an astronomer and with the help of Tammy, a diner waitress, sets out to save mankind.

IMDb 5.8MC 48🍅 38%TMDB 5.15.6
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The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat

NR1940 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 68m · Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien

Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.

IMDb 5.4🍅 60%TMDB 5.35.6
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Curse of the Crimson Altar

Curse of the Crimson Altar

R1968 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, Mark Eden

When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.

IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.25.6
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Doctor Mordrid

Doctor Mordrid

R1992 · Fantasy, Action, Horror · 74m · Jeffrey Combs, Yvette Nipar, Jay Acovone

Bound by hate and a mystical amulet that holds the powers of life and death, two immortal wizards meet for the last time in an ancient struggle of good versus evil.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.25.6
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The Old Dark House

The Old Dark House

PG1963 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 86m · Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott

An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.95.6