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 Black Castle
›1952 · Mystery, Horror · 82m · Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally
A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
FrankensteinSeries
›2004 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Alec Newman, William Hurt, Julie Delpy
A scientist brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.
Grip of the Strangler
›NR1958 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 78m · Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
›1982 · Drama, Romance, TV Movie · 102m · Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, David Suchet
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.
The Strange Door
›1951 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.
The Monster
›1925 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 86m · Lon Chaney, Johnny Arthur, Gertrude Olmstead
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
Twilight Zone: The Movie
›PG1983 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 101m · Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Scatman Crothers
An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Frankenhooker
›R1990 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · James Lorinz, Patty Mullen, Joseph Gonzalez
A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can collect body parts to reassemble her.
Taste the Blood of Dracula
›R1970 · Horror · 95m · Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford
Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula's servants. In a nightly ceremony they restore the count back to life. The three men killed Dracula's servant and as a revenge, the count makes sure that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own sons.
House of the Long Shadows
›PG1983 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 100m · Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
›NR1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 69m · Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Love at First Bite
›PG1979 · Romance, Comedy, Horror · 96m · George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin
Dracula and Renfield relocate to '70s era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker. "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's psychiatrist, Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Van Helsing, who may be in love with Cindy too.
The Invisible Woman
›1940 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 72m · Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
Not of This Earth
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 67m · Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones
An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nuclear radiation, is sent to Earth to acquire fresh human blood for his people.
Man in the Attic
›1953 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 82m · Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
Jekyll & Hyde
›1990 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 96m · Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Joss Ackland
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.
The Black Cat
›NR1941 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 70m · Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
Man-Made Monster
›1941 · Horror, Science Fiction · 60m · Lon Chaney Jr., Lionel Atwill, Anne Nagel
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
Night Monster
›1942 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 72m · Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
House of Horrors
›NR1946 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 65m · Rondo Hatton, Martin Kosleck, Robert Lowery
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
The Undying Monster
›1942 · Horror, Mystery · 64m · James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.
Calling Dr. Death
›1943 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 63m · Lon Chaney Jr., Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
Haeckel's Tale
›2006 · Horror, TV Movie · 60m · Steve Bacic, Micki Maunsell, Gerard Plunkett
A grieving widower seeking the help of a necromancer is told the terrible tale of Ernst Haeckel, a man obsessed with reanimation.
Before I Hang
›NR1940 · Crime, Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett
Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.
