
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

DeepStar Six
›R1989 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 99m · Taurean Blacque, Nancy Everhard, Greg Evigan
The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.

Devil's Gate
›2018 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Milo Ventimiglia, Shawn Ashmore, Javier Botet
Set in the small town of Devil's Gate, North Dakota, the film examines the disappearance of a local woman and her young son. Schull plays an FBI agent who helps the local sheriff search for answers. Partnering with a deputy , they track down the missing woman's husband and find that nothing is as it seems.

Galaxy of Terror
›R1981 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 81m · Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston
As a lone spaceship proceeds on its long voyage across space, the crew are surprised to encounter a strange pyramid form. Surprise turns to horror as one by one, they discover that their darkest nightmares are all starting to become real. The pyramid has to be behind it all somehow, but how can they save themselves from its influence?

Altitude
›R2010 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Jessica Lowndes, Julianna Guill, Ryan Donowho
After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.

TerrorVision
›R1986 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 85m · Diane Franklin, Gerrit Graham, Mary Woronov
After Stanley Putterman installs a state-of-the-art satellite dish in his backyard, a strange monster leaps off the screen and needs to feed on humans for survival. The Putterman children Sherman and Suzy—along with Suzy's metalhead boyfriend O.D.—are left to figure out what to do.

Screamers: The Hunting
›R2009 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Gina Holden, Jana Pallaske, Lance Henriksen
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost.

Rawhead Rex
›R1986 · Horror · 89m · David Dukes, Niall Tóibín, Cora Lunny
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.

Decoys
›R2004 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 95m · Kim Poirier, Stefanie von Pfetten, Corey Sevier
Luke and Roger are just another couple of college guys trying to lose their virginity. But when Luke sees something unusual, he begins to suspect that the girls on campus aren't exactly...human.

The Wasp Woman
›NR1959 · Science Fiction, Horror · 61m · Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Michael Mark
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

Deep in the Darkness
›NR2014 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Dean Stockwell, Sean Patrick Thomas, Dina Cataldi
Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town's deepest secret: a terrifying and controlling race of creatures that live amongst the darkness in the woods behind his home.

Living Hell
›R2008 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Johnathon Schaech, Erica Leerhsen, James McDaniel
In a top secret Cold War military project an unstoppable, malignant organism who feeds on light and energy is unleashed threatening to destroy everything in its path.

The Deadly Mantis
›1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.

Decoys 2: Alien Seduction
›2007 · Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Kim Poirier, Corey Sevier, Tobin Bell
Sam, a college student in a small Northwestern town, reluctantly joins his roommates in a contest to see who can hook up with the most gorgeous co-eds by the end of the semester. But when men slowly start disappearing around town, he and his friends learn that when it comes to beautiful women, it's what's inside that really matters.

It Came from the Desert
›2018 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 90m · Mark Arnold, Harry Lister Smith, Vanessa Grasse
New Mexico, present day. Brian and Lukas are off to the desert to join a kegger party and to celebrate Lukas’ victory in a motocross competition. His winning prize includes meeting The Deathinator, the biggest action star in the world. The party gets started under the hot desert sun, but Brian isn’t in the mood, so he wanders off and is soon joined by his friend, Lukas. They discover something strange in the desert which leads them into a secret military laboratory, where they discover the disturbing truth of what the government has been doing. Secret experiments on ants and spiders using DNA found in a meteorite which fell to Earth in 1951 has given birth to mutated giant ants which have overrun the facility. Now, it's up to Brian and Lukas to save the world from a giant ant invasion!

Dawn of the Beast
›2021 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Adrian Burke, Ariella Mastroianni, Anna Shields
Aiming to find the Bigfoot, a group of graduate students venture deep into an area of the Northeastern wilderness known for its strange creature sightings. Soon, they learn that there is a much more sinister evil lurking in the woods, the Wendigo, and once the spirit knows you’re there, they will come for you. Who will survive in a battle between the two most notorious monsters of the forest?

The Horde
›2016 · Action, Horror · 88m · Paul Logan, Matthew Willig, Bill Moseley
The film follows John Crenshaw as he accompanies his girlfriend and her students on a weekend nature-photography expedition deep into the woods. What should be an educational and fun-filled weekend turns into horror as the group is besieged by an unspeakable evil - a horde of hideously disfigured, mutated humans with an insatiable taste for blood. As things go from bad to worse, Crenshaw becomes their only hope if they are going to get out alive.

Return of the Killer Shrews
›2012 · Horror · 84m · John Schneider, Sean Flynn, James Best
A reality TV crew charter a boat to an island for filming, one which the boat's captain had been to before and attacked by giant shrews, more than fifty years earlier.

Frankenstein
›R2004 · TV Movie, Drama, Horror · 88m · Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Thomas Kretschmann
An investigation into a serial killer leads two detectives to discover that Dr. Frankenstein and his creature are still alive after two centuries of genetic experiments.

Monster on a Plane
›2024 · Horror, Comedy · 88m · Eva Habermann, Robin Czerny, Philippe Brenninkmeyer
An exotic animal turns into a monster and becomes a deadly danger for all passengers.

Rippy
›R2024 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Michael Biehn, Tess Haubrich, Aaron Pedersen
Young police officer Maddy is determined to live up to her deceased father's legacy. Her courage is put to the test when locals are found brutally ripped to shreds by the zombie kangaroo. As the undead beast leaves a trail of carnage, Maddy, with the help of her eccentric Uncle Schmitty and resilient Aunt Donna, must embark on a high-stakes battle to save the town.

The Crooked Man
›2016 · Horror · 87m · Michael Jai White, Angelique Rivera, Cameron Jebo
While at a slumber party, twelve-year-old Olivia is blamed for the horrific and mysterious death of her friend after singing a song, created by a reclusive mastermind, Milo, which summons a demonic figure known as “The Crooked Man.” Returning to her hometown six years later, a string of unusual deaths lead Olivia to believe that she’s still being haunted by whatever she saw that fateful night. Once you sing the rhyme, everyone in the house is cursed to die by his hands.

The Brain Eaters
›NR1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 61m · Ed Nelson, Joanna Lee, Cornelius Keefe
A huge, alien structure resembling an inverted cone, appears in the woods outside a small rural town. Sent from Washington to investigate the origin of the mysterious object, a team of investigators discovers that intelligent parasites from inside the "cone" can attach themselves to humans' nervous systems and control their minds, taking control of the authorities and workers, making communication with the outside world impossible, and leaving the responsibility of stopping the invasion up to seven people who have thus far been able to avoid possession by these creatures from parts unknown.

Seedpeople
›R1992 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Sam Hennings, Andrea Roth, Dane Witherspoon
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.

Snowbeast
›NR1977 · Horror · 86m · Bo Svenson, Sylvia Sidney, Yvette Mimieux
A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from the impending danger.
