
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

Blue Monkey
›R1987 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, John Vernon
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases of bacterial infection, but the more immediate problem for the hospital is the wormlike creature which after accidental exposure to a genetic growth stimulant grows to monstrous proportions and starts a reign of terror and bloodshed in the hospitals abandoned wing.

Devil's Den
›2006 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 84m · Kelly Hu, Devon Sawa, Ken Foree
Quinn Taylor and his friend Nick are on their way back from Mexico with a load of Spanish Fly to sell in the States. They stop at a gentlemen's club called The Devil's Den and decide to test out their product on the unsuspecting women there. Only, these women aren't really human, and the two men find themselves in a very fatal position. Also tossed in are a female-assassin on the hunt for Quinn, a monster hunter!

Call Girl of Cthulhu
›2014 · Comedy, Horror · 92m · Melissa LaMartina, David Phillip Carollo, Nicolette le Faye
When a virginal artist falls in love with a call girl, she turns out to be the chosen bride of the alien god Cthulhu. To save her, he must stop an ancient cult from summoning their god and destroying mankind.

The Roost
›NR2005 · Horror · 80m · Karl Jacob, Vanessa Horneff, Sean Reid
Following a near-death car accident, four friends on their way to a Halloween wedding, venture to a secluded farm for help. Little do they know however, they will soon disturb an ancient evil with far more ghastly plans in store for them...

Snake Hotel
›2023 · Horror · 88m · Kelly Rian Sanson, Natasha Tosini, Jase Rivers
A group of female inmates wanting to shorten their prison sentences take part in a hellish game of cat and mouse with a giant mutated snake.

Blood Moon
›2014 · Western, Horror · 90m · Shaun Dooley, George Blagden, Anna Skellern
A stagecoach full of passengers and an enigmatic gunslinger are held hostage by two outlaws on the run from the law but events take an unexpected turn when the travelers are stalked by a mythical beast that only appears on the night of a blood red moon.

Varan the Unbelievable
›1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

Mad Doctor of Blood Island
›NR1969 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ronald Remy
A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.

Aberration
›1998 · Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Pamela Gidley, Simon Bossell, Valery Nikolaev
After stealing a fortune from the Russian mob, Alex Langdon tries to hide out in a remote cabin but discovers that the area is home to a dangerous species of mutant lizards that have developed a taste for human flesh.

The Night Before Halloween
›2016 · Thriller, Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Bailee Madison, Justin Kelly, Jahmil French
When a Halloween prank goes wrong, it unleashes a creature that will hunt each of the participants down and kill them, unless they can figure out how to transfer the curse to someone else.

The Cellar
›PG-131989 · Horror · 86m · Patrick Kilpatrick, Chris Miller, Suzanne Savoy
A young boy finds an ancient Comanche monster spirit in the basement of his home. His parents don't believe him, so he must kill the monster alone.

Bone Cold
›NR2023 · Thriller, Action, Horror · 109m · Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jonathan Stoddard, Jennifer Khoe
An experienced Black Ops sniper attempts a nightmarish escape after a failed mission, tracked by enemy soldiers hellbent on revenge, and also hunted by something sinister and monstrous, hungry and determined.

Godmonster of Indian Flats
›NR1973 · Horror, Science Fiction, Western · 89m · Christopher Brooks, Stuart Lancaster, E. Kerrigan Prescott
A mutant sheep is on the move near a ranch in the American West.

The Strangeness
›1985 · Horror, Mystery · 93m · Dan Lunham, Terri Berland, Mark Sawicki
A group of young miners venture into the Gold Spike Mine in search of gold, even after being warned by old-time prospectors to stay away. The miners proceed into the caverns anyway and soon realize that there’s no gold in these mines, but also that they’re not alone.

Strange Nature
›2018 · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery · 100m · Tiffany Shepis, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lisa Sheridan
The first film to expose unsolved wildlife deformity outbreaks and where they may lead. Based on a true unsolved ecological mystery, thousands of hideously deformed frogs have turned up in the waters of Minnesota. As seen through the eyes of a one hit wonder single mother and her 11 year old son, a small town struggles with the unknown when the deadly mutations move beyond the ponds.

The Millennium Bug
›2011 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · John Charles Meyer, Jessica Simons, Christine Haeberman
When the Haskin family seeks refuge from Y2K hysteria in the isolated forests of the Sierra Diablos mountains, madness and terror find them there. Abducted by a vicious hillbilly clan, the Haskins fight for survival, but neither they nor the hillbilly Crawfords can comprehend the monstrous nightmare about to erupt from the bowels of the earth.

Beast Mode
›2020 · Comedy, Horror · 87m · C. Thomas Howell, Leslie Easterbrook, James Hong
After accidentally killing his lead star, a has-been hollywood producer turns to an ancient herbal elixir, in the hope that it will save his career. He makes a dark deal that unleashes a band of bloodthirsty, shape-shifting, ferocious beasts on LA.

Endangered Species
›2002 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Arnold Vosloo, Eric Roberts, John Rhys-Davies
When police are puzzled by several horrific murders, they assume they have a serial killer on their hands. But soon they realise that the unimaginable has happened. A killing machine from another world has arrived on Earth determined to brutally execute human beings. Finding themselves out of their depth they are forced to rely on a mysterious alien hunter that has volunteered his help.

The Predator
›R2018 · Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · 107m · Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Sterling K. Brown
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

Five Nights at Freddy's
›PG-132023 · Horror, Thriller · 110m · Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail
Recently fired and desperate for work, a troubled young man named Mike agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. But he soon discovers that nothing at Freddy's is what it seems.

Godzilla
›PG-131998 · Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · 139m · Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.

Dreamcatcher
›R2003 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 134m · Thomas Jane, Damian Lewis, Morgan Freeman
Four childhood friends reunite for a hunting trip in the Maine woods, bound by a psychic force born from a childhood friend's dreamcatcher. They find themselves caught in a grotesque alien invasion that twists memory, sanity and reality into something far more sinister.

Thrash
›R2026 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak, Djimon Hounsou
When a Category 5 hurricane decimates a coastal town, the storm surge brings devastation, chaos, and something far more frightening onto shore: hungry sharks.

Leprechaun Returns
›R2018 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · Taylor Spreitler, Pepi Sonuga, Sai Bennett
A group of unwitting sorority sisters accidentally awaken the serial-killing Leprechaun after they build a sorority house on his hunting grounds.
