
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

King Kong
›PG1976 · Adventure, Fantasy, Horror · 134m · Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange, Charles Grodin
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.

Silver Bullet
›R1985 · Horror · 95m · Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Tovah Feldshuh
The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…

Kill Command
›2016 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Vanessa Kirby, Thure Lindhardt, David Ajala
Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes and his tight-knit unit, descends into a terrifying battle to the death, as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.

Sea Fever
›2020 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 95m · Hermione Corfield, Ardalan Esmaili, Olwen Fouéré
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.

Feast
›R2005 · Horror · 87m · Navi Rawat, Balthazar Getty, Jenny Wade
When a motley crew of strangers find themselves trapped in an isolated tavern, they must band together in a battle for survival against a family of flesh-hungry creatures.

The Relic
›R1997 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 110m · Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

Pumpkinhead
›R1988 · Fantasy, Horror · 86m · Lance Henriksen, Jeff East, John D'Aquino
When a group of teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley seeks the powers of a backwoods witch to bring the child back to life.

The Burrowers
›R2008 · Horror, Western · 96m · Doug Hutchison, Clancy Brown, William Mapother
It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories, a band of men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their home. Expecting the offenders to be a band of fierce natives, but they soon discover that the real enemy stalks them from below.

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
›NR1943 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Patric Knowles
After being resurrected by grave robbers, Larry Talbot searches for Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes of being cured of his lycanthropy. The mad scientist may turn out to be dead, but his monster is just waiting to be found…

It's Alive
›PG1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan
The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever scared. And it's easily scared.

Razorback
›R1984 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr
In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.

Basket Case 2
›R1990 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Kevin Van Hentenryck, Annie Ross, Heather Rattray
Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks.

Willard
›PG1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Sondra Locke
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.

The Monster Club
›NR1981 · Horror, Comedy · 98m · Vincent Price, John Carradine, Donald Pleasence
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.

Frankenstein
›R2015 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Xavier Samuel, Carrie-Anne Moss, Danny Huston
After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity.

The Evil of Frankenstein
›1964 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Peter Cushing, Peter Woodthorpe, Duncan Lamont
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?

The Mummy's Hand
›1940 · Horror, Fantasy · 67m · Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.

The Horror of Frankenstein
›R1970 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson
Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.

The BeastSeries
›TV-PG1996 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · William L. Petersen, Karen Sillas, Charles Martin Smith
Mysterious deaths and unexplained disappearances begin to occur in the small seaport village of Graves Point. When a large, strange claw is discovered on an empty raft washing up on the shore, marine biologist Dr. Herbert Talley identifies it as belonging to a rare giant squid.

Bloodlust: Subspecies III
›R1994 · Horror · 83m · Anders Hove, Denice Duff, Kevin Spirtas
Still in the thrall of the evil vampire Radu, Michelle yearns to be taught the skills of the vampire. Meanwhile, her sister Becky tries to free her from his evil clutches, and this time, she's brought some help.

Schlock
›PG1973 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · John Landis, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi
A quiet suburb in Southern California is terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd.

Eye for an Eye
›2025 · Horror · 101m · Whitney Peak, Golda Rosheuvel, Finn Bennett
Anna, grieving the sudden death of her parents, relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother she has never met. Isolated, vulnerable, and in need of friends, she finds brief solace in the company of two local teens. But when she becomes complicit to their unforgivable act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr. Sandman – the twisted soul of a tormented child who haunts bullies’ dreams before feasting on their eyeballs when they finally wake - Anna must right her wrong before becoming a victim of this gruesome curse.

The Vampire
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 76m · John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.

Die Influencers Die
›NR2020 · Horror · 74m · DevHorra Dark, Seth Fischer, Esther Gabriel
Alpha male social media star Stue Harrington dupes a group of his peers into an overnight live-streaming event at an abandoned movie studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Deep behind the old movie sets is the lair of a savage blood thirsty Clown Model Moxie who's directed to kill these intruders by a sinister Otherworld-Coyote.
