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 Terror Within
›1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · George Kennedy, Andrew Stevens, Starr Andreeff
Experiments in biological warfare have destroyed all but a few remnants of the human race. Alone in a lab, eight students work feverishly to create a vaccine before they are forced outside in search for food. It is then that the surviving scientists discover creatures mutated by the plague. Now they prepare to do battle against their worst fear: The Terror Within.
Night of the Demon
›R1980 · Horror · 96m · Michael Cutt, Paul Kelleher, Melanie Graham
An anthropology professor and his students attempt to track down a Bigfoot responsible for a rash of violent murders, only to uncover something even more sinister.
Beast from Haunted Cave
›1959 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 66m · Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, Frank Wolff
A gold thief and his gang use a skier's lodge and meet a monster covered with cobwebs.
The Mole People
›1956 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a five millennia-old mutant Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.
Cannibal Troll
›2021 · Horror · 85m · Georgina Jane, Zuza Tehanu, Barbara Dabson
A group of friends on a camping trip, for the bride to be' s hen do, find themselves hunted down by a man eating cannibal troll in the woodland. They are hunted, captured and locked up in the Trolls torture chamber being forced to undergo a variety of challenges in order to escape their fate.
Cyst
›NR2020 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 68m · Eva Habermann, George Hardy, Greg Sestero
In the 1960s, a nurse's last day on her job is ruined when a doctor inadvertently creates a cyst monster that terrorizes the office.
Hotel Inferno
›NR2013 · Action, Horror · 77m · Michael Howe, Rayner Bourton, Jessica Carroll
Contract killer Frank Zimosa has been hired for a ridiculously lucrative mission by the rich and powerful Jorge Mistrandia. The objective: kill a couple of people hiding in one of his European hotels. What would look like one of the simplest jobs Frank has ever had is about to turn into a living nightmare. He will soon realize he's nothing more than prey for Mistrandia and his army of mutated henchmen that have been hiding in the hotel along with an ancient and unstoppable horror.
Child Eater
›2016 · Horror · 82m · Caitlin Bliss, Colin Critchley, Jason Martin
A simple night of babysitting takes a horrifying turn when Helen realizes the boogeyman really is in little Lucas' closet.
Pig Hunt
›2008 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Travis Aaron Wade, Tina Huang, Howard Johnson Jr.
When John takes his San Francisco friends to his deceased uncle's remote ranch to hunt wild pigs, it seems like a typical guys weekend with guns - despite the presence of John's sexy girlfriend Brooks. But as John and his crew trek deeper into the forest, they begin tracking the awful truth about his uncle's demise and the legend of The Ripper -- a murderous three-thousand-pound black boar!
Headspace
›R2005 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Olivia Hussey, William Atherton, Sean Young
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so too does the mystery of a brutal series of murders. Now, as the killer seems to set his sights on Alex, the frightened genius must use his newfound brain power to put an end to the mayhem once and for all.
Watchers II
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Marc Singer, Tracy Scoggins, Mary Woronov
A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.
Spasms
›R1983 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Peter Fonda, Oliver Reed, Kerrie Keane
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.
Deadtime Stories
›R2009 · Horror · 77m · George A. Romero, Amy Marsalis, Marty Schiff
An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Valley of the Shadow," a woman searches for her missing husband in the jungles of South America, only to be in great danger herself. In "Wet," a lonely man finds an empty box on the beach and opens it, with disastrous results. In "House Call," a doctor is called to a rural farm house to diagnose a strange ailment. This segment is a short film directed by Tom Savini in 2004 as a failed television pilot.
High Plains Invaders
›2009 · Western, Science Fiction, Horror · 87m · James Marsters, Cindy Sampson, Sebastian Knapp
In the lawless heart of the Old West, notorious outlaw Sam Phoenix stands at the gallows, moments from justice—or so it seems. But when an unearthly terror descends on the town without warning, everything changes. As chaos erupts and survival becomes the only law, Phoenix finds himself facing a threat far deadlier than any posse. Something not of this world has arrived… and it’s just getting started.
Boogeyman
›2012 · Horror · 85m · Eddie McClintock, Amy Bailey, Emma Samms
A group of young boys inadvertently free the creature from captivity. Going on a rampage, the Boogeyman, whose origin dates back to the time of Genesis, targets an innocent child – whose father is the town Sheriff.
Silent Predators
›1999 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 91m · Harry Hamlin, Shannon Sturges, David Spielberg
In 1979, a delivery truck makes its way up a lonely southern California highway in a storm, bound for the San Diego Zoo with a deadly tropical rattlesnake as cargo. When the truck suffers a blowout, the driver loses control and hits a tree, shattering the snake's aquarium in the back and the window separating the snake from the driver. The snake slithers into the front of the truck, kills the driver with its bite and then moves off into the forest. Flash forward to 1999. The small southern California town of San Vicente has grown from 6,000 to 30,000, and the rattler, which escaped nearby years ago, has bred. There are now 25,000 of these hybrid rattlesnakes, and they are slowly making their way downhill into the town, attracted by the movement of the blasting as the town paves its way toward progress. Progress, in this case, brings terror, in this tale originally penned by John Carpenter.
Bottom Feeder
›PG-132007 · Science Fiction, Horror · 86m · Tom Sizemore, Wendy Anderson, Richard Fitzpatrick
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
The Twilight People
›PG1972 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · John Ashley, Pat Woodell, Jan Merlin
A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
Hellboy
›R2019 · Fantasy, Horror, Action · 121m · David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane
Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
›PG-132019 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Sophie Nélisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju
Four teenage girls go on a diving adventure to explore a submerged Mayan city. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as they discover the sunken ruins are a hunting ground for deadly great white sharks. With their air supply steadily dwindling, the friends must navigate the underwater labyrinth of claustrophobic caves and eerie tunnels in search of a way out of their watery hell.
The Colony
›NR2013 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 95m · Kevin Zegers, Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
The Fly II
›R1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 105m · Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
Skylines
›R2020 · Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · 113m · Lindsey Morgan, Alexander Siddig, Rhona Mitra
When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.
Exists
›R2014 · Horror · 81m · Denise Williamson, Samuel Davis, Roger Edwards
A group of friends venture into the remote Texas woods for a party weekend and find themselves stalked by Bigfoot.
