
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

Bride of the Gorilla
›1951 · Horror · 70m · Raymond Burr, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr.
The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?

Scared to Death
›NR1947 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 68m · Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's cousin who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf.

The Brute Man
›1946 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 58m · Rondo Hatton, Tom Neal, Jan Wiley
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.

Frankenstein's Daughter
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Donald Murphy, Sandra Knight, John Ashley
Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.

Black Dragons
›NR1942 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 64m · Bela Lugosi, Clayton Moore, Joan Barclay
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.

Blood Feast
›1963 · Horror · 67m · William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.

The Giant Claw
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 74m · Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
›PG1978 · Music, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 96m · Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons
The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans into robots in his laboratory at an amusement park. It just so happens that he plans to use the KISS concert as a platform to unleash his plan on the world. KISS must use their special powers to stop him.

The Corpse Vanishes
›NR1942 · Science Fiction, Horror · 63m · Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.

She-Wolf of London
›1946 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 61m · Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

Earth vs. the Spider
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Ed Kemmer, June Kenney, Eugene Persson
Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.

Maniac
›1934 · Horror · 51m · Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter, Ted Edwards
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.

Devil Doll
›1964 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.

Konga
›1961 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!

The Hideous Sun Demon
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson
After exposure to radiation, an atomic research scientist finds himself changing into a murderous, lizard-like creature every time he is exposed to sunlight.

Puppet Master: Axis Termination
›NR2017 · Horror, War · 75m · George Appleby, Tonya Kay, Paul Logan
To stop the Third Reich and the Nazi war machine from winning World War II and affecting the outcome of the free world, Toulon's indestructible puppets join forces with the masters of psychic powers.

Indestructible Man
›1956 · Crime, Horror, Science Fiction · 72m · Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr
A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his former partners, and deal similarly with anyone else who gets in his way.

The Thing That Couldn't Die
›NR1958 · Horror · 69m · William Reynolds, Carolyn Kearney, Jeffrey Stone
A 400 year old disembodied head hypnotizes a female psychic, who recovered it using a dowsing rod, to search for the rest of its body.

Missile to the Moon
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 78m · Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, K.T. Stevens
Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.

The Werewolf of Washington
›PG1973 · Horror · 90m · Dean Stockwell, Katalin Kallay, Henry Ferrentino
After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terrorizing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the President.

I, Frankenstein
›PG-132014 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Aaron Eckhart, Yvonne Strahovski, Bill Nighy
200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.

Dracula 2000
›R2000 · Horror · 99m · Gerard Butler, Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller
When a team of techno-savvy thieves break into a high-security vault, they don't discover priceless works of art... they find a crypt unopened for 100 years.

Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
›PG1988 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 98m · Anthony Starke, George Clooney, Karen M. Waldron
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.

Bram Stoker's Van Helsing
›2021 · Horror · 86m · Mark Topping, Charlie Bond, Tom Hendryk
England, 1897. Abraham Van Helsing receives a letter from his former student Dr John Seward requesting his urgent assistance in the northern town of Whitby, where his fiancée Lucy is showing all the signs of vampirism. Van Helsing follows the bloody trail to the coffin of Count Dracula himself. Van Helsing is a fresh take on the legend of Dracula through the eyes of his greatest enemy.
