Sub-genre
Monster & Creature
🐙 Every monster & creature title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
1284 titles
Stranger ThingsSeries
›TV-142016 · Action & Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 5 seasons · Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Alien
›R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 117m · Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
The X-FilesSeries
›TV-141993 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime · 11 seasons · David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
›2009 · Horror, Science Fiction, Drama · 62m · David Tennant, Lindsay Duncan, Peter O'Brien
In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.
Aliens
›R1986 · Action, Thriller, Science Fiction · 137m · Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
Kolchak: The Night StalkerSeries
›TV-PG1974 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or even science fiction, including fantastic creatures.
Jaws
›PG1975 · Horror, Thriller, Adventure · 124m · Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.
Buffy the Vampire SlayerSeries
›TV-141997 · Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 7 seasons · Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.
King Kong
›1933 · Adventure, Fantasy, Horror · 100m · Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
Bride of Frankenstein
›NR1935 · Horror, Science Fiction · 75m · Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.
The Outer LimitsSeries
›TV-PG1963 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
The Thing
›R1982 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 109m · Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
The WitcherSeries
›TV-MA2019 · Drama, Action & Adventure · 4 seasons · Liam Hemsworth, Anya Chalotra, Freya Allan
Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
GrimmSeries
›TV-142011 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 6 seasons · David Giuntoli, Silas Weir Mitchell, Russell Hornsby
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.
Frankenstein
›1931 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles
Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.
IT: Welcome to DerrySeries
›TV-MA2025 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Matilda Lawler
In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.
AngelSeries
›TV-141999 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 5 seasons · David Boreanaz, Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof
The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In Search of...Series
›1977 · Documentary, Mystery · 7 seasons · Leonard Nimoy
In Search of... is a TV series that was broadcast weekly from 1977 to 1982, devoted to mysterious phenomena. It was created after the success of three one-hour TV documentaries produced by creator Alan Landsburg: In Search of Ancient Astronauts in 1973, In Search of Ancient Mysteries and The Outer Space Connection, both in 1975. All three featured narration by Rod Serling, who was the initial choice to host the spin-off show. After Serling's death, Leonard Nimoy was selected to be the host.
The Fly
›R1986 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
The Birds
›NR1963 · Horror, Thriller · 119m · Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
A Quiet Place
›PG-132018 · Horror, Drama, Science Fiction · 91m · Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Teen WolfSeries
›TV-MA2011 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Comedy · 6 seasons · Tyler Posey, Holland Roden, Shelley Hennig
Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life. The following characters are instrumental to his struggle: Stiles, his best friend; Allison, his love interest who comes from a family of werewolf hunters; and Derek, a mysterious werewolf with a dark past. Throughout the series, he strives to keep his loved ones safe while maintaining normal relationships with them.
GoosebumpsSeries
›TV-G1995 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Kids · 4 seasons
Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.
Island of Lost Souls
›NR1932 · Science Fiction, Horror · 71m · Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.