
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

The Frankenstein Theory
›NR2013 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Heather Stephens, Kris Lemche, Eric Zuckerman
When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, "Frankenstein," is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction...a nightmare from which there is no waking.

Frankenstein vs. The Mummy
›2015 · Horror · 114m · Ashton Leigh, Max Rhyser, Boomer Tibbs
The mummy of a cursed pharaoh and a reanimated corpse terrorize a medical university. Only an Egyptologist and a college professor, the deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may be able to stop the creatures before it's too late.

Dawn of the Mummy
›1981 · Horror · 93m · Brenda Siemer Scheider, Barry Sattels, George Peck
A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
›PG1980 · Comedy, Horror, Crime · 108m · Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.

Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
›1967 · Horror · 83m · Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Rochelle Hudson
John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In the first, "The Witches Clock," the Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts and are warned by the town doctor of the history of witches in the community. The second story, "King of the Vampires," deals with a slight-figured killer called the King of the Vampires by Scotland Yard. The third, "Monster Raid," is about a man turned zombie when he ODs on his experimental drug. "Spark of Life" deals with a doctor Mendell obsessed with the experiments of a thrown-out professor named Erich von Frankenstein. "Count Alucard" is a variation on the Dracula story, with the Count acquiring the deed to Carfax Abbey from Harker as vampiresses and dead bodies start turning up.

The Projected Man
›NR1966 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday, Norman Wooland
Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.

The Tomb
›1986 · Fantasy, Horror · 84m · Cameron Mitchell, John Carradine, Sybil Danning
An Egyptian princess rises from the dead and goes to California for the amulets she needs.

Leprechaun
›R1993 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt
A demonic leprechaun terrorizes a group of young people whom he believes stole his gold.

From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
›R2000 · Western, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Marco Leonardi, Michael Parks, Rebecca Gayheart
Set one hundred years ago, outlaw Johnny Madrid, after narrowly escaping death, goes on the run with the hangman's sensuous daughter Esmeralda by his side.

Transylvania 6-5000
›PG1985 · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy · 93m · Jeff Goldblum, Joseph Bologna, Ed Begley Jr.
Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter the sensitive Wolfman, the Vampiress Odette and a whole cast of other weirdos.

Beware! The Blob
›PG1972 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Robert Walker Jr., Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace-- the local hippies, cops, drunks and bowlers must all face the Blob!

The Invisible Maniac
›R1990 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 86m · Peter Noel Duhamel, Melissa Moore, Savannah
An invisible scientist escapes from an asylum and teaches high-school physics to nubile teens.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die
›NR1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniels
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.

Bride of the Monster
›1955 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy
Dr. Eric Vornoff, with the help of his mute assistant Lobo, captures twelve men for a grisly experiment; His goal to turn them into supermen using atomic energy. Reporter Janet Lawton, fiancée of the local lieutenant, vows to investigate Vornoff's supposedly haunted house.

Retro Puppetmaster
›PG-131999 · Horror · 80m · Greg Sestero, Brigitta Dau, Stephen Blackehart
Andre Toulon, living a peaceful life as a puppeteer in pre-WWI Paris, encounters the renegade sorcerer Afzel, who has stolen the mysterious secrets of life from the dark god Sutekh.

The Awakening
›R1980 · Horror · 105m · Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.

Beginning of the End
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?

Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
›1965 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Marilyn Hanold, James Karen, Lou Cutell
When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties

Monster from Green Hell
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 71m · Jim Davis, Robert Griffin, Joel Fluellen
A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa. The two astrobiologists in charge of the test mount an expedition to the Darkest Continent to retrieve their experiment, only to find the wasps have grown to giant size which are panicking all forms of life as they quest for food.

Blood of Dracula's Castle
›NR1969 · Horror · 84m · Alexander D'Arcy, Paula Raymond, John Carradine
Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.

Army of Frankensteins
›2013 · Comedy, Adventure, Horror · 109m · Jordan Farris, Christian Bellgardt, Eric Gesecus
A young man travels back in time, finding himself entrenched in the Civil War with an army of Frankensteins.

Plan 9 from Outer Space
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 78m · Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore
In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife, and dies the day after she is buried. However, the space soldier Eros and his mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both, alongside the strong Inspector Clay, who was murdered by the alien-controlled dead couple. When the populations of Hollywood and Washington D.C. see flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife, and a policeman try to stop the aliens.

Zoltan… Hound of Dracula
›R1977 · Horror · 90m · Michael Pataki, Jan Shutan, José Ferrer
A Romanian vampire-hunter tracks Dracula's servant to Los Angeles, home of the last of his line.

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
›NR1966 · Horror, Western · 74m · John Carradine, Chuck Courtney, Melinda Casey
Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
