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
Count Yorga, Vampire
›PG-131970 · Horror · 93m · Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy
Posing as a hip medium, a bloodthirsty old-world undead gent attracts young lovelies to his mansion by holding séances in modern-day Los Angeles.
Invasion of the Saucer Men
›1957 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 69m · Steven Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin
Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town, but the town's teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.
Voodoo Man
›1944 · Horror, Mystery · 62m · Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Tod Andrews
After several female motorists begin disappearing en route to Twin Falls, a Hollywood screenwriter and the cousin of his bride-to-be discover that they've all been abducted by the mysterious Dr. Marlowe, who is attempting to resurrect his dead wife.
Horrors of the Black Museum
›NR1959 · Horror · 81m · Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
The Manster
›1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura
An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.
Bowery at Midnight
›NR1942 · Crime, Horror, Action · 62m · Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
Zombies of Mora Tau
›1957 · Adventure, Horror · 69m · Gregg Palmer, Allison Hayes, Autumn Russell
A fortune hunter leads a search for diamonds guarded by undead sailors off the coast of Africa.
Zombies on Broadway
›NR1945 · Comedy, Horror · 69m · Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Bela Lugosi
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
Hands of a Stranger
›NR1962 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey, James Noah
A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.
Here Come the Munsters
›1995 · Horror, Comedy, Family · 96m · Edward Herrmann, Veronica Hamel, Robert Morse
The Munsters come to America to search for Herman's brother-in-law Norman Hyde, only to find out that he has turned himself into Brent Jekyll, who is running for congress, and Grandpa must make a formula to change Norman back.
Unknown Island
›1948 · Science Fiction, Horror, Adventure · 75m · Virginia Grey, Phillip Reed, Richard Denning
Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne has convinced his finacee Carole to finance his expedition to an uncharted South Pacific island supposedly populated with dinosaurs...
The Monster of Piedras Blancas
›NR1959 · Science Fiction, Horror · 71m · Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon
An old lighthouse keeper who lives with his daughter secretly keeps a prehistoric fish-man by feeding it scraps and fish. One day he misses the feeding and all hell breaks loose.
Cry of the Werewolf
›1944 · Horror · 63m · Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen
A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies.
Mary Reilly
›R1996 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 108m · Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Return of the Fly
›1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
›1958 · Science Fiction, Drama, Horror · 66m · Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers
When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.
The Son of Kong
›1933 · Adventure, Action, Horror · 70m · Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
Shock Waves
›PG1977 · Horror, Science Fiction, War · 85m · Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Brooke Adams
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.
The Crawling Eye
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Forrest Tucker, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro
A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.
The Creature Walks Among Us
›1956 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Rex Reason, Jeff Morrow, Leigh Snowden
Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs.
The Mummy Resurrection
›2023 · Horror, Fantasy · 88m · Carl Wharton, Chris Bell, Marcus Langford
When an infamous "cursed" Egyptian sarcophagus falls into the hands of unscrupulous huckster Everett Randolph, he becomes obsessed with resurrecting the mummified princess held within it.
The Invisible Man's Revenge
›1944 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Jon Hall, Evelyn Ankers, Alan Curtis
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
›R1989 · Horror · 91m · Derek Rydall, Kari Whitman, Rob Estes
A young man named Eric apparently dies in a suspicious house fire after saving his girlfriend, Melody. One year later, a new mall is constructed atop where Eric's house once stood, where a shadowy, uninvited guest is preying on the mall's crooked developers.
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula
›2000 · TV Movie, Horror · 92m · Rudolf Martin, Jane March, Christopher Brand
Meet the man behind the legend in this true story of Vlad the Impaler, whose vicious and cruel reputation as a bloodthirsty warlord became the basis for the myth of Dracula.
