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
Curse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween
›2022 · Fantasy, Horror · 92m · Chelsea Jurkiewicz, Tanner Gillman, Colin Cunningham
High school teenagers accidentally unleash an ancient Irish entity on their hometown and must stop it before midnight on Halloween.
The Carrier
›R1988 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 99m · Gregory Fortescue, Stevie Lee, Steve Dixon
An orphaned teen is attacked by a mysterious beast and struck with an infectious disease that turns everything he touches into a death trap.
Astrid & Lilly Save the WorldSeries
›2022 · Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Jana Morrison, Samantha Aucoin, Spencer MacPherson
High school is hard enough when you're different, but when outcast BFFs Astrid and Lilly accidentally crack open a portal to a terrifyingly quirky monster dimension, it gets a lot more complicated. It's up to them to vanquish the creepy creatures and save the world, becoming the badass heroes they were meant to be. That is, if they can survive the horrors of high school.
Deep Blue Sea
›R1999 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 105m · Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL Cool J
Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.
Antlers
›R2021 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 99m · Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas
A small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, discover a young student is harbouring a dangerous secret that could have frightening consequences.
Open Water
›R2004 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Saul Stein
Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
The Boogeyman
›PG-132023 · Horror · 99m · Sophie Thatcher, Vivien Lyra Blair, Chris Messina
Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it’s too late.
Black Sheep
›R2006 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Nathan Meister, Peter Feeney, Danielle Mason
After a childhood prank by his brother Angus causes Henry to develop a phobia of sheep, he must step up to the onslaught of a genetically-mutated man-eating flock with the help of his friend and a young environmentalist.
Cold Skin
›2017 · Horror, Fantasy, Drama · 106m · David Oakes, Ray Stevenson, Aura Garrido
A young man who arrives at a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his life.
The Hallow
›NR2015 · Horror, Fantasy · 97m · Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novaković, Michael McElhatton
Deep within the darkness of secluded forest land in rural Ireland dwells an ancient evil. Feared by the nearby superstitious villagers as cursed creatures who prey upon the lost, their secrets have been kept from civilization and remain on their hallowed ground. But when a conservationist from London moves in with his wife and infant child in order to survey the land for future construction, his actions unwittingly disturb the horde of demonic forces. Alone in a remote wilderness, he must now ensure his family's survival from their relentless attacks.
A Christmas Horror Story
›NR2015 · Horror, Fantasy · 99m · William Shatner, George Buza, Rob Archer
Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, peace and goodwill. But for some folks in the small town of Bailey Downs, it turns into something much less festive.
Burning Bright
›PG-132010 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Briana Evigan, Garret Dillahunt, Charlie Tahan
After her lousy stepfather steals her savings to buy a vicious tiger, Kelly loses all hope of going to college. But Kelly's situation worsens when a hurricane leaves her and her autistic brother boarded up in their house with the man-eating beast. This edge-of-your-seat thriller follows the gutsy heroine and her younger sibling as they struggle to outwit the ravenous predator and find a way to survive.
Gaia
›R2021 · Horror, Fantasy, Drama · 97m · Monique Rockman, Carel Nel, Alex van Dyk
In the depths of an ancient forest, something has been growing. Something older than humanity itself, and perhaps greater too. When a park ranger discovers a man and his son living wild, she stumbles onto a secret that is about to change the world.
The Golem
›R2018 · Horror, Drama · 95m · Hani Furstenberg, Ishai Golan, Lenny Ravich
A re-imagining of the old mystical folklore that follows a woman and a tight-knit Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders. She conjures a dangerous creature to protect them but it may be more evil than she ever imagined.
The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It
›PG2007 · Horror, TV Movie, Fantasy · 87m · Emily Osment, Brittany Curran, Alex Winzenread
Cassie, a 13 year old Gothic girl, is trying to fit in at her new school. To entertain herself, she plays a series of pranks on the popular kids and her younger brother, Max. When she goes to a Halloween store looking for new tricks, she finds a little book called "The Evil Thing"
Daddy's Head
›2024 · Horror · 92m · Julia Brown, Nathaniel Martello-White, Charles Aitken
A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.
Beast of War
›R2025 · Thriller, Action, War · 87m · Mark Coles Smith, Joel Nankervis, Sam Delich
When their boat sinks while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a troop of young Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark.
It Came from Beneath the Sea
›1955 · Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror · 79m · Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis
A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.
The Deadly Spawn
›R1983 · Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter
When a meteorite touches down in the New Jersey woods carrying a monstrous alien slug, it’s up to four teens to stop it before it’s terrifying brood consumes all life on Earth!
Cheat
›2023 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Corin Clay, Mick Thyer, April Clark
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.
Slapface
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · August Maturo, Mike Manning, Libe Barer
A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a relationship with a dangerous monster.
The Werewolf
›NR1956 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Steven Ritch, Don Megowan, Joyce Holden
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
The Monster That Challenged the World
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
Monster on the Campus
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelacanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.
