
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

Return of the Fly
›1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.

Daylight's End
›2016 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 105m · Johnny Strong, Lance Henriksen, Louis Mandylor
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.

Appendage
›R2023 · Horror · 94m · Hadley Robinson, Emily Hampshire, Kausar Mohammed
After hitting a breaking point, Hannah's inner thoughts physicalize into a monstrous creature that threatens to upend her life.

Fear Below
›R2025 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 85m · Hermione Corfield, Jake Ryan, Josh McConville
A rag-tag team of divers attempting to salvage a sunken car from a river are thwarted by a highly aggressive bull shark.

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
›1958 · Science Fiction, Drama, Horror · 66m · Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers
When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.

Ben
›PG1972 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.

The Son of Kong
›1933 · Adventure, Action, Horror · 70m · Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.

The Cleanse
›R2018 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · 81m · Johnny Galecki, Anna Friel, Anjelica Huston
The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic experiences.

The Nest
›R1988 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 89m · Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.

The Crawling Eye
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Forrest Tucker, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro
A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.

The Creature Walks Among Us
›1956 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Rex Reason, Jeff Morrow, Leigh Snowden
Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs.

Venom
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, however, when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and terrorizes both them and their hostages.

The Field Guide to Evil
›2019 · Horror · 117m · Marlene Hauser, Luzia Oppermann, Birgit Minichmayr
A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

Gnaw
›NR2017 · Horror · 99m · Penelope Mitchell, Kyle Gass, Chris Johnson
Jennifer Conrad is a small-town girl starting over in the big city. Fleeing an abusive relationship, all she wants is a chance to begin again. But it is hard to start over when something is eating you while you sleep . . . one painful bite at a time.

Shadow Puppets
›PG-132007 · Horror · 103m · James Marsters, Tony Todd, Jolene Blalock
Director Michael Winnick's chilling tale stars James Marsters as Jack, one of eight captives who awaken in an abandoned asylum not knowing who they are or why they are together. They discover that they've been used in an experiment to erase disturbing memories, but instead, a murderous creature has been unleashed. Reaching out from the shadows, the monster hunts the eight strangers as they race to escape the asylum.

Out Come the Wolves
›R2024 · Thriller, Action, Horror · 87m · Missy Peregrym, Joris Jarsky, Damon Runyan
At a cabin deep in the wilderness, a weekend of hunting turns to mayhem and a fight for survival when a pack of wolves attack a man, his female best friend and her fiance.

Killer High
›PG-132018 · Horror, Comedy, TV Movie · 87m · Kacey Rohl, Humberly González, Asha Bromfield
Sabrina's perfectly planned high school reunion goes south when a monster keeps killing all the guests.

Dinosaurus!
›1960 · Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Ward Ramsey, Paul Lukather, Kristina Hanson
After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population.

You Shall Not Sleep Tonight
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 79m · Greg Lucey, Dan Bronchinson, John C. Forman
A boy is haunted by terrifying nightmares where a monster lurks inside the closet. To his relief, his father appears in the middle of the night helping him to face his fears. But the boy will begin to question the true nature of these apparitions, having to face the truth about his father's destiny and the evil force that threatens to consume him.

The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter
›R1992 · Horror · 104m · Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Charles Klausmeyer, Maria Ford
A creature of demonic nature, too hideous to have a name, once again terrorizes the college kids that summoned it.

The Mutations
›R1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris
A mad scientist crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.

Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 98m · Tara Leigh, Dianna Flaherty, Katherine Romaine
A virus from outer space transforms a bio-researcher into a blood thirsty monster. But chief, Dr.Vialini doesn't like the cops and public to be involved in this secret experiment. But he becomes lunch very soon.

Captive Wild Woman
›1943 · Horror, Science Fiction · 61m · John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
›NR1996 · Comedy, Family, TV Movie · 91m · Ann Magnuson, Bug Hall, Mary Woronov
The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie missing his home in Transylvania. Soon the entire family bands together to teach the young boy everything great about the holiday season.
