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
War of the Colossal Beast
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Duncan 'Dean' Parkin
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very angry.
From Hell It Came
›1957 · Horror · 73m · Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins
A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed and returns as a walking tree stump.
The She-Creature
›NR1956 · Science Fiction, Horror · 77m · Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
The Jack in the Box
›2019 · Horror · 87m · Ethan Taylor, Robert Strange, Lucy-Jane Quinlan
When a vintage Jack-in-the-box is un-earthed and opened, it's new owners soon have reason to believe the creepy clown doll within has a life of its own.
Teenagers from Outer Space
›1959 · Crime, Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · David Love, Dawn Bender, Harvey B. Dunn
A young alien falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
›PG-131995 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Tim Daly, Sean Young, Lysette Anthony
A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.
Blackenstein
›R1973 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 87m · John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately, an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiancée) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.
Time Walker
›PG1982 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Ben Murphy, Nina Axelrod, Kevin Brophy
From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institute of Sciences where X-rays reveal five diamond-like crystals hidden within the coffin. Technician Peter Sharpe steals the crystals but doesn't notice that the powerful X-ray has revived a green fungus. When the coffin is opened at a university press conference, the reporters uncover more than they bargained for. The mummy has disappeared... and the Time Walker is alive again!
Brain of Blood
›1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Grant Williams, Kent Taylor, Regina Carrol
Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again
›2016 · TV Movie, Comedy, Science Fiction · 88m · Laverne Cox, Victoria Justice, Ryan McCartan
After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr. Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.
Monster Brawl
›R2011 · Comedy, Horror · 89m · Dave Foley, Art Hindle, Robert Maillet
Eight of the world's most legendary monsters, along with their diabolical managers, compete in a wrestling tournament deathmatch to determine the most powerful champion of all time. Interviews, pre-fight breakdowns, trash talking, and monster origin segments round out this ultimate fight of the living dead.
The Mad Monster
›NR1942 · Horror · 77m · George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Johnny Downs
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
Horror of the Blood Monsters
›1970 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante
Astronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and a race of vampires.
Bloodlust!
›NR1961 · Drama, Horror, Adventure · 68m · Wilton Graff, June Kenney, Walter Brooke
Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau, whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
The Snow Creature
›1954 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, Teru Shimada
A botanical expedition to the Himalayas captures a Yeti and brings it back alive to Los Angeles, where it escapes and runs amok, seeking food.
Attack of the Giant Leeches
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
Killers from Space
›NR1954 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar, James Seay
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
›1952 · Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror · 74m · Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo
The entertainment duo Mitchell & Petrillo, en route to a USO show for troops in Guam, fall out of their plane and end up on the jungle island of Cola Cola, where the mad scientist Dr. Zabor is conducting evolutionary experiments.
The Unearthly
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 73m · John Carradine, Myron Healey, Allison Hayes
A mad doctor uses patients at his isolated psychiatric institute as subjects in his attempts to create longevity by surgically installing an artificial gland in their skulls.
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
›R1998 · Horror, Adventure, Fantasy · 88m · Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Sean Pertwee
Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the cursed seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book, and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthirsty Talos.
Day of the Mummy
›NR2014 · Action, Adventure, Fantasy · 76m · Danny Glover, William McNamara, Andrea Monier
Welcome to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. A place steeped in history and legend; Gods and spiritual guides; untold wealth – and the bone-cracking, blood-spilling guardians of its riches. Jack Wells has arrived in Egypt in search of the famous diamond known as The Codex Stone. His journey leads him to the tomb of the cursed King Neferu, cursed not by name but by nature. With his centuries-old slumber disturbed by timeless human greed, the King rises from the dead with a blood-lust that cannot be quenched and a raging fury that will shred flesh from bone, bringing terrible and tormented death to all who dare witness the Day of the Mummy.
Trog
›1970 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay
Anthropologist Dr Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte — an Ice Age 'missing link': half-caveman, half-ape — in a local cave. Through experimentation, she manages to communicate with and domesticate him before he's released by an irate land developer and goes on a rampage, terrorising the local citizenry.
Legion of the Dead
›R2005 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Courtney Clonch, Claudia Lynx, Bruce Boxleitner
When the mummified remains of an evil Egyptian queen are brought back to life, she resurrects an army of living dead to help fulfill the prophecy that promises her all the powers of the Underworld.
Teenage Zombies
›PG1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Steve Conte
A boating trip to an uncharted island becomes a fight for survival when two men happen upon a mad scientist, her brainwashed minions and a murderous gorilla.
