
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

Dracula A.D. 1972
›PG1972 · Horror · 96m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham
Set in London in the early 1970's, supposedly for teen thrills, Johnny organises a black magic ceremony in a desolate churchyard. The culmination of the ritual, however, is the rejuvenation of Dracula from shrivelled remains. Johnny, Dracula' s disciple, lures victims to the deserted graveyard for his master's pleasure and one of the victims delivered is Jessica Van Helsing. Descended from the Van Helsing line of vampire hunters her grandfather, equipped with all the devices to snare and destroy the Count, confronts his arch enemy in the age-old battle between good and evil.

The Phantom of the Opera
›R1989 · Horror, Romance · 93m · Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White
An aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victorian-era London -- and into the arms of a reclusive, disfigured maestro determined to make her a star.

The Mummy's Ghost
›1944 · Horror, Fantasy · 60m · Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Robert Lowery
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...

The Mummy's Curse
›1944 · Horror, Fantasy · 60m · Lon Chaney Jr., Peter Coe, Virginia Christine
After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.

Rise of the Mummy
›2021 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Abi Casson Thompson, Arthur Boan, Amanda-Jade Tyler
A group of archaeology students awaken an ancient mummy. After being trapped in a time loop, the only way they can escape, is to defeat the mummy. As the body count rises, it seems the Mummy has to collect the souls of those who woke him to be able to walk the earth - for good.

Frankenstein 1970
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Boris Karloff, Jana Lund, Don 'Red' Barry
The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.

Ghosts on the Loose
›NR1943 · Comedy, Mystery, Horror · 67m · Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

The Monster Maker
›1944 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell
Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.

Bloodsuckers from Outer Space
›1984 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Thom Meyers, Laura Ellis, Dennis Letts
A mysterious and invisible alien presence has landed in rural Texas and has started turning the nearby townspeople into white-faced, bloodthirsty killers. As the local authorities begin to investigate the strange and violent goings on, a photographer and his girlfriend find themselves trapped in the midst of an unexpected rural bloodbath, which seeks to turn them into another pair of bloodsuckers from outer space...

Curse of the Faceless Man
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction, Adventure · 67m · Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...

Monster Mash
›2024 · Horror, Action, Fantasy · 90m · Michael Madsen, Michelle Bauer, Ethan Daniel Corbett
Dracula, Werewolf, and the Invisible Man must work together to stop Dr. Frankenstein from creating an unstoppable monster.

Dracula: Dead and Loving It
›PG-131995 · Comedy, Horror · 88m · Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Amy Yasbeck
When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Professor Van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the Count.

Man with the Screaming Brain
›NR2005 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Bruce Campbell, Tamara Gorski, Ted Raimi
The brains of a Russian taxi driver and a wealthy businessman are brought together in one body by a mad scientist.

The Mummy's Tomb
›1942 · Horror, Fantasy · 61m · Lon Chaney Jr., Dick Foran, John Hubbard
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.

The Uncanny
›1977 · Horror · 89m · Peter Cushing, Ray Milland, Susan Penhaligon
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.

The Giant Behemoth
›NR1959 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · Gene Evans, André Morell, Leigh Madison
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.

Devil Girl from Mars
›NR1954 · Science Fiction, Horror · 77m · Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.

Wrath of Van Helsing
›2022 · Horror · 85m · Michael Hoad, Darrell Griggs, Antonia Whillans
Van Helsing is called upon to help save a missing girl and her friends from a hoard of demons.

The Vineyard
›R1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · James Hong, Karen Lorre, Michael Wong
Dr. Elson Po is one of the world's most famous wine growers and has a magic potion which has kept him handsome and alive for centuries. However, the magic which rejuvenates him seems to become less and less effective. As a side project, he makes movies and invites a group of young, aspiring actors to his island for a party, believing that the young, beautiful actress, Jezebel, can be his new source of life.

Varan the Unbelievable
›1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
›1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton
Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.

Dead Men Walk
›1943 · Horror, Mystery · 64m · George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.

The Gorilla
›NR1939 · Comedy, Mystery, Horror · 68m · Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, Al Ritz
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.

Sleepwalkers
›R1992 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 89m · Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.
