
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

Dr. Cyclops
›1940 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 76m · Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.

The Return of the Vampire
›1943 · Horror · 69m · Bela Lugosi, Nina Foch, Roland Varno
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.

Bluebeard
›NR1944 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 72m · John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?

Salomé
›NR1923 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 74m · Alla Nazimova, Nigel De Brulier, Mitchell Lewis
Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist.

The Man Who Changed His Mind
›1936 · Horror, Science Fiction · 66m · Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.

The Magician
›1926 · Drama, Horror, Fantasy · 79m · Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Firmin Gémier
A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.

Dracula
›R1979 · Romance, Drama, Fantasy · 109m · Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence
In 1913, charming, seductive and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride.

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
›NR1956 · Science Fiction, Horror · 81m · Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kôchi
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.

The Vampire Lovers
›R1970 · Horror · 91m · Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, George Cole
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.

Phantom of the Opera
›NR1943 · Horror, Romance · 89m · Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.

The Gorgon
›NR1964 · Horror, Fantasy · 83m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. A professor has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise.

20 Million Miles to Earth
›1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 82m · William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean near a small Italian fishing village. The locals manage to save one of the astronauts Colonel Calder, the mission commander. A young boy also recovers what turns out to be a specimen of an alien creature. Growing at a fantastic rate, it manages to escape and eventually threatens the city of Rome.

Frankenstein Created Woman
›1967 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›1953 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 77m · Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
As American policemen in London, Bud and Lou meet up with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
›2001 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Fay Masterson, Andrew Parks, Susan McConnell
A dedicated scientist, aided by his clueless wife, rolls up his shirt sleeves and tries to save the world from a radioactive monster, curious space aliens, an evil scientist and a crabby skeleton.

The Mask of Fu Manchu
›1932 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 68m · Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

Twice-Told Tales
›NR1963 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 120m · Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Brett Halsey
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.

A Study in Terror
›NR1965 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 95m · John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.

The Invisible Ray
›1936 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 79m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frank Lawton
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.

The Mad Magician
›1954 · Thriller, Crime, Mystery · 72m · Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut down by capricious manager Ross Ormond who wants Gallico's brilliant buzz saw effect for the act of The Great Rinaldi, an established star. With this defeat, and the humiliation of having already lost his wife Claire to Ormond, Gallico decides it is time to take matters into his own hands.

Murders in the Zoo
›1933 · Crime, Horror · 62m · Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.

Scared Stiff
›NR1953 · Music, Comedy, Horror · 108m · Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...

Follow Me Quietly
›NR1949 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 60m · William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey
When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at night, leaving behind clues, but police efforts have been fruitless. Constructing a life-size dummy of the murderer, police Lt. Harry Grant is growing obsessed with capturing him, and always following Grant is the relentless reporter Ann Gorman looking to break the story, but the hunt continues.

The Bat
›1926 · Comedy, Mystery, Thriller · 86m · George Beranger, Charles Herzinger, Emily Fitzroy
A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
