
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

Dinosaurus!
›1960 · Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Ward Ramsey, Paul Lukather, Kristina Hanson
After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population.

Captive Wild Woman
›1943 · Horror, Science Fiction · 61m · John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
›NR1996 · Comedy, Family, TV Movie · 91m · Ann Magnuson, Bug Hall, Mary Woronov
The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie missing his home in Transylvania. Soon the entire family bands together to teach the young boy everything great about the holiday season.

The Ghoul
›1975 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Peter Cushing, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastedo
In 1920s England, former clergyman Dr Lawrence keeps his cannibal son locked in the attic after the young man is exposed to savage practices in India. When an auto race is held at the estate, Lawrence worries that his son may escape and terrorise the youth.

The Frozen Dead
›NR1966 · Science Fiction, Horror · 95m · Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.

Terror in the Wax Museum
›NR1973 · Horror, Mystery · 93m · Ray Milland, Elsa Lanchester, Maurice Evans
Terrifying wax figures of renowned personalities, such as Attila the Hun and Jack the Ripper, surround the sale of a London museum.

Spooks Run Wild
›1941 · Comedy, Horror · 65m · Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

Blade: Trinity
›R2004 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 113m · Wesley Snipes, Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds
For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existed—The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail and Hannibal, two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to the ancient creature that is also hunting him—the original vampire, Dracula.

Wishmaster
›R1997 · Horror, Fantasy · 90m · Angus Scrimm, Andrew Divoff, Tammy Lauren
The Djinn, having been released from his ancient prison, seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.

Frankenstein's Army
›R2013 · Action, Horror · 84m · Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym
Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat

The Bat
›1959 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 80m · Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.

Frankenstein Unbound
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · John Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Nick Brimble
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.

Chillerama
›NR2011 · Comedy, Horror · 120m · Richard Riehle, Adam Rifkin, Ray Wise
It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, I Was a Teenage Werebear, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.

Lust for a Vampire
›R1971 · Horror · 91m · Barbara Jefford, Ralph Bates, Suzanna Leigh
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the blood of nubile young ladies but also with the headmaster who is desperate to become Mircalla's disciple, and the equally besotted and even more foolish author Richard Lestrange.

Scream Blacula Scream
›PG1973 · Horror, Fantasy · 96m · William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier
After an aging voodoo priestess dies, her arrogant son Willis Daniel's believes he is next in line to lead. He is outraged when Lisa, his mother's adopted apprentice is chosen as the leader. Willis seeks revenge by reviving the African prince Blacula — but soon finds that he cannot control him.

Attack of the Puppet People
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · John Hoyt, John Agar, June Kenney
A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.

The Blood Beast Terror
›G1968 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham
A scientist working with genetics creates a horrifying flying creature that feeds on human blood. Following a gruesome trail of dead bodies, Scotland Yard investigators must scramble to halt its ravenous rampage.

Invisible Ghost
›NR1941 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 64m · Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young, John McGuire
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

King of the Zombies
›NR1941 · Horror, Comedy · 67m · Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.

Grave of the Vampire
›PG1972 · Horror · 91m · William Smith, Michael Pataki, Lyn Peters
Vampire Caleb Croft has awakened from his unholy slumber -- with an insatiable lust for blood and the pleasures of the flesh.

Sphinx
›PG1981 · Adventure, Mystery, Thriller · 118m · Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, Maurice Ronet
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!

Doctor Blood's Coffin
›1961 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter
After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.

Revenge of the Zombies
›1943 · Horror, Comedy · 59m · John Carradine, Robert Lowery, Gale Storm
When Dr. Von Altermann's wife Lila dies mysteriously at his spooky mansion her relations suspect murder. They also suspect the doctor is turning her into a zombie, to join the army of living dead he hopes to devote to the Nazi cause. However, Lila, though dead, has developed a will of her own.

Return to Horror Hotel
›2019 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 83m · Baby Norman, Jeremy Michael Grey, R.C. Sayyah
Return to Horror Hotel is an anthology feature with 4 segments. One is about giant a bedbugs, one is about a magical charm that turns girls beautiful, one is about a WWII sailor who hasn't aged and one is about a terrorizing severed hand.
