
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

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
›R2010 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 99m · Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.

Elevation
›R2024 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Anthony Mackie, Morena Baccarin, Maddie Hasson
Post-apocalyptic survivors find refuge in the Rocky Mountains to hide from giant, insect-like creatures that can't live above 8,000 feet. However, when one of them needs life-saving supplies, they risk it all to venture into the danger zone.

Arcadian
›R2024 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins
In the near future, on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons face terror at night when ferocious creatures awaken. When Paul is nearly killed, the boys come up with a plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive.

Hostile
›R2018 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 82m · Brittany Ashworth, Grégory Fitoussi, Javier Botet
Juliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only come out at nighttime.

Dark Harvest
›R2023 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 96m · Casey Likes, Luke Kirby, West Mulholland
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.

Humanoids from the Deep
›R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow
After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women.

Tremors: Shrieker Island
›PG-132020 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 102m · Michael Gross, Jon Heder, Caroline Langrishe
When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent creatures, and swiftly multiplying Shriekers!

Stephanie
›R2017 · Horror, Mystery · 86m · Shree Crooks, Frank Grillo, Anna Torv
After a mysterious global crisis, a young girl is left alone to hide from a malevolent power that stalks her home. Her parents eventually return and the struggle begins to save their daughter.

Altered
›R2006 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 88m · Adam Kaufman, Brad William Henke, Misty Rosas
Fifteen years ago, five men were abducted by aliens. Only four returned. Now, these same four men have managed to capture one of the creatures who killed their friend and ruined their lives.

Unwelcome
›R2023 · Horror, Fantasy · 104m · Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Jamie Lee O'Donnell
Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. When heavily pregnant Maya’s relationship with a local family turns sour, who – or what – will come to her rescue and to what extremes will she go to protect her unborn child?

Return to... Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2
›NR2017 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Asta Paredes, Catherine Corcoran, Lloyd Kaufman
Following the events of Volume 1, the mutated glee club continue their violent rampage in Tromaville. Chrissy and Lauren, two innocent lesbian lovers, must fight not only the Cretins, mutants, and monsters but also the evil Tromorganic Foodstuffs Conglomerate. Can they, and Kevin the Wonder Duck, save Tromaville High School and the world?

Citadel
›R2012 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 85m · James Cosmo, Aneurin Barnard, Amy Shiels
Chronically agoraphobic since the day his wife was murdered, Tommy Cowley finds himself terrorized by a gang of syringe-wielding feral children, who are intent on taking his baby daughter. Upon discovering the nightmarish truth surrounding these hooded children, he learns that to be free of his fears, he must finally face the demons of his past and enter the one place he fears the most - the abandoned tower block, known as the Citadel.

Monster Island
›2025 · Horror, Fantasy, Action · 83m · Dean Fujioka, Callum Woodhouse, Alan Maxson
In the Pacific, 1944, a Japanese soldier and a British prisoner of war are stranded on a deserted island, hunted by a deadly creature. Two mortal enemies must come together to survive the unknown.

Head Count
›2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Isaac Jay, Ashleigh Morghan, Chelcie May
Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them.

Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature
›R2001 · Horror, Fantasy, TV Movie · 91m · Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Jim Piddock
Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads towards the mythical Forbidden Islands, the mermaid begins to display its deadly side.

Monster Portal
›2022 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 80m · Sian Altman, Sarah Alexandra Marks, Louis James
A young woman inherits her estranged father's estate after his mysterious death. Once she and her friends arrive at the mansion, they discover that the home is on an old cemetery, which has the power of opening a portal to another realm, which contains the creatures foretold to the world by writer H.P. Lovecraft.

Alien Trespass
›PG2009 · Action, Adventure, Comedy · 90m · Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird, Dan Lauria
In 1957 a fiery object crashes into a mountaintop in the California desert, bringing the threat of disaster to Earth. Out of the flying saucer escapes a murderous creature, the Ghota, bent on destroying all life forms on the planet. A benevolent alien from the spaceship, Urp, inhabits the body of Ted Lewis, an astronomer and with the help of Tammy, a diner waitress, sets out to save mankind.

The Beast Must Die
›PG1974 · Horror, Mystery · 93m · Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark
Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.

The Devil Bat
›NR1940 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 68m · Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.

Man Vs.
›2015 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Chris Diamantopoulos, Chloe Bradt, Michael Cram
As host of his own hit TV series, 'MAN VS', Doug Woods is forced to fend for himself for five days in remote locations with no crew, food, or water, only the cameras he carries on his back to film his experiences. Doug's in the remote woods for a routine episode, until he's awoken by an earth-shaking crash. Things get weirder as it becomes clear Doug isn't alone. Someone or something is watching him.

The Kindred
›R1987 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · David Allen Brooks, Rod Steiger, Amanda Pays
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.

Day the World Ended
›1955 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Paul Birch
After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.

No Such Thing
›R2002 · Fantasy, Drama, Horror · 102m · Sarah Polley, Robert John Burke, Helen Mirren
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.

Gargoyles
›NR1972 · Fantasy, Horror, TV Movie · 74m · Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall
After receiving word about a mysterious carcass/skeleton unearthed in the Arizona desert, a father and his daughter decide to remove it from the burial grounds for further study. Once they do so, they, as well as the town, are besieged by a colony of gargoyles living in some nearby caverns.
