
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

Haunted Honeymoon
›PG1986 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 82m · Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise
Radio personalities Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are stars of a mystery show. Since they announced their engagement, Larry has been plagued by speech problems and, seeking out an unconventional cure, he returns to his boyhood home, a mansion in the countryside, bringing Vickie along. Larry reunites with numerous family members, but discovers that there are sinister things afoot within the walls of the creepy estate.

The Bride
›PG-131985 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 114m · Sting, Jennifer Beals, Anthony Higgins
Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed with Eva, and tries to make her a perfect Victorian woman.

War-Gods of the Deep
›NR1965 · Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror · 84m · Vincent Price, David Tomlinson, Tab Hunter
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their kidnapped friend Jill. Held captive in the underwater city by the tyrannical Captain (Vincent Price), and his crew of former smugglers, the three plot to escape...

I Was a Teenage Werewolf
›1957 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 76m · Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell
A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf.

The Brain from Planet Arous
›1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller
An evil alien brain, bent on world domination, takes over the body of an atomic scientist, while a "good" alien brain inhabits the body of the scientist's dog and waits for an opportunity to defeat the evil brain.

The Cyclops
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 66m · James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney Jr.
A test pilot is missing and a search party is sent out in the jungles of Mexico; however, while searching they uncover a monster in the jungle who became this way due to a dose of radioactivity.

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
›NR1966 · Music, Comedy, Horror · 82m · Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Aron Kincaid
A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.

Blood of Dracula
›1957 · Horror · 69m · Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis, Gail Ganley
A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.

House on Bare Mountain
›NR1962 · Comedy, Horror · 62m · Bob Cresse, Laine Carlin, Leticia Cooper
The Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein spy on a girls' school in the mountains, where most of the girls spend their time sunbathing in the nude, nude exercises and nude art classes. The monsters finally invade the school…

The Mummy
›PG-132017 · Fantasy, Thriller, Action · 110m · Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

Revenge of the Creature
›1955 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield
In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.

The Mole People
›1956 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a five millennia-old mutant Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.

Frightmare
›1983 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Ferdy Mayne, Luca Bercovici, Nita Talbot
Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize their violation of the tomb has triggered powerful black magic, and Conrad hasn't taken his final bows yet.

Mimesis
›R2011 · Horror · 95m · Sid Haig, Courtney Gains, Lauren Mae Shafer
A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.

Vampira
›PG1974 · Comedy, Horror · 88m · David Niven, Teresa Graves, Peter Bayliss
In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from several beautiful models, but during the transfusion, Vampira's race turns from white to black.

Dracula's Widow
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Sylvia Kristel, Josef Sommer, Lenny Von Dohlen
Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.

The Wasp Woman
›NR1959 · Science Fiction, Horror · 61m · Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Michael Mark
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

The Deadly Mantis
›1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.

It Came from the Desert
›2018 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 90m · Mark Arnold, Harry Lister Smith, Vanessa Grasse
New Mexico, present day. Brian and Lukas are off to the desert to join a kegger party and to celebrate Lukas’ victory in a motocross competition. His winning prize includes meeting The Deathinator, the biggest action star in the world. The party gets started under the hot desert sun, but Brian isn’t in the mood, so he wanders off and is soon joined by his friend, Lukas. They discover something strange in the desert which leads them into a secret military laboratory, where they discover the disturbing truth of what the government has been doing. Secret experiments on ants and spiders using DNA found in a meteorite which fell to Earth in 1951 has given birth to mutated giant ants which have overrun the facility. Now, it's up to Brian and Lukas to save the world from a giant ant invasion!

Frankenstein
›R2004 · TV Movie, Drama, Horror · 88m · Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Thomas Kretschmann
An investigation into a serial killer leads two detectives to discover that Dr. Frankenstein and his creature are still alive after two centuries of genetic experiments.

The Undead
›1957 · Horror, Fantasy · 71m · Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes
Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. When they unwittingly send her back in time, she finds herself in the Middle Ages, suspected of being a witch and on the verge of being executed.

Queen of Blood
›1966 · Science Fiction, Horror · 81m · Florence Marly, Basil Rathbone, John Saxon
A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster. Uses footage from Encounter in Space (1963).

The Ape Man
›NR1943 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 64m · Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford
A scientist is turned into an ape man.

The Ape
›NR1940 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 62m · Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
