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
The Boneyard
›R1991 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 98m · Ed Nelson, Deborah Rose, Norman Fell
Children turned into zombies wreak havoc in a coroner's building with just a burned-out psychic, an experienced cop and two coroners to stop the madness.
Eye of the Cat
›PG1969 · Horror · 102m · Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker
A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats.
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
›1959 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
›1986 · Horror · 97m · John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Bottoms, Irene Miracle
There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive. Some people find themselves being hunted by the starving monkeys and must do whatever they can to stay alive.
Winterbeast
›1992 · Horror, Comedy · 76m · Tim R. Morgan, Mike Magri, Charles Majka
People are being killed off near a popular New England mountain lodge, with a legend claiming that the mountain is haunted by a deadly Native American demonic curse.
The Girl in the WoodsSeries
›TV-PG2021 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Stefanie Scott, Sofia Bryant, Misha Osherovich
Carrie is a mysterious warrior who escaped from a cult-like colony that guards the world from monsters hidden behind a secret door in the woods.
Chosen Survivors
›PG1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel
A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, nearly two miles below the surface of the Earth. There they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a colony of thousands of bloodthirsty vampire bats finds a way into the shelter and launches a series of vicious attacks where they claim the humans one by one.
Escape the NightSeries
›TV-142016 · Mystery, Reality · 5 seasons · Joey Graceffa
Welcome to "Escape the Night." In this surreality competition series, hosted by Joey Graceffa, 10 guests are invited from the modern world to attend a dinner at his newly acquired mansion estate, which has been locked in the 1920's; when America was roaring... roaring with madness. This is a dinner party to die for. No one is safe.
Doomwatch
›1972 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, John Paul
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
The Brothers Grimm
›PG-132005 · Adventure, Fantasy, Action · 118m · Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Lena Headey
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.
Jaws 2
›PG1978 · Horror, Thriller · 117m · Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Species
›R1995 · Science Fiction, Horror, Action · 108m · Natasha Henstridge, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
Beast
›R2022 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 93m · Idris Elba, Leah Sava Jeffries, Iyana Halley
A recently widowed man and his two teenage daughters travel to a game reserve in South Africa. However, their journey of healing soon turns into a fight for survival when a bloodthirsty lion starts to stalk them.
The Ruins
›R2008 · Horror · 91m · Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore
Americans Amy, Stacy, Jeff and Eric look for fun during a sunny holiday in Mexico, but they get much more than that after visiting an archaeological dig in the jungle.
Death of a Unicorn
›R2025 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 107m · Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter
A father and daughter accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection
›PG2001 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Michael Gross, Shawn Christian, Susan Chuang
Survivalist Burt Gummer returns home to Perfection, to find that the little town has been shaken up again by morphing, man-eating Graboids.
The Monster
›R2016 · Horror, Drama · 91m · Zoe Kazan, Ella Ballentine, Aaron Douglas
Stranded on a desolate road at night, a troubled mother and her daughter are stalked by a terrifying woodland creature while confronting the trauma of their fractured relationship.
The Bride!
›R2026 · Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy · 127m · Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard
A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.
Beyond Re-Animator
›R2003 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 95m · Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Elsa Pataky
Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a new prison doctor and the brother of the girl who suffered from West's experiments 13 years earlier.
Primitive War
›NR2025 · Action, Horror, War · 135m · Jeremy Piven, Tricia Helfer, Ryan Kwanten
During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.
Wilderness
›R2006 · Horror, Action · 94m · Toby Kebbell, Lenora Crichlow, Sean Pertwee
Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they must fight for survival.
Digging Up the Marrow
›NR2015 · Horror · 88m · Ray Wise, Adam Green, Kane Hodder
A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.
Death Machine
›1995 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 122m · Ely Pouget, Brad Dourif, William Hootkins
Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in a world of models, toys and magazines. When he is fired by Cale for killing a few corporate officers, he unleashes the ultimate killing machine called the 'Warbeast' against Cale and those who would help her.
Kingdom of the Spiders
›PG1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 97m · William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode
Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hordes of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of townsfolk in a remote hotel.