
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 Thing from Another World
›NR1951 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

The Fly
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror, Drama · 94m · David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

The Black Cat
›1934 · Horror, Thriller · 65m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›NR1920 · Horror, Science Fiction, Drama · 79m · John Barrymore, Brandon Hurst, Martha Mansfield
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

Fright Night
›R1985 · Comedy, Horror · 107m · Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.

House of Wax
›1953 · Horror, Crime · 88m · Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

Tales from the Crypt
›PG1972 · Horror · 93m · Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice
When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
›1965 · Horror · 98m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle
Five train passengers are joined by a mysterious fortuneteller who offers to read Tarot. A quintet of stories unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a vengeful werewolf; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarises music from a voodoo ceremony; and a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.

The Devil-Doll
›1936 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton
Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
›1970 · TV Movie, Horror, Mystery · 54m · Vincent Price
Renowned horror actor Vincent Price narrates four tales of terror by renowned horror author Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.

Count Dracula
›1977 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 150m · Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon
Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle.

Count DraculaSeries
›1977 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Bosco Hogan
Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first aired 22 December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Louis Jourdan played the title role.

Creature from the Black Lagoon
›G1954 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.

House of Usher
›NR1960 · Horror, Drama · 79m · Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey
Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.

The Masque of the Red Death
›1964 · Drama, Horror · 90m · Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

The Curse of Frankenstein
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
›1953 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.

The Comedy of Terrors
›1964 · Comedy, Horror, Crime · 84m · Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

The Plague of the Zombies
›1966 · Horror, Mystery · 91m · André Morell, Brook Williams, Diane Clare
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. He discovers that one of the squires is a disciple of Haitian witchcraft and using dark magic to resurrect the dead. As the plan to create undead servants unravels, the squire unleashes his zombie army on the unsuspecting village.

The Leopard Man
›NR1943 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 66m · Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

The Spider Woman
›NR1943 · Mystery, Crime, Thriller · 63m · Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.

The Cat and the Canary
›1939 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 73m · Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal
Relatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
›2002 · Horror, Music · 74m · Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni
A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it uses dance to tell the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women.

The Face Behind the Mask
›NR1941 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 69m · Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
