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
Plague Town
›NR2009 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Josslyn DeCrosta, Erica Rhodes, David Lombard
An American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant children.
The Ape
›NR1940 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 62m · Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
Blood Dolls
›R1999 · Comedy, Horror · 84m · Kristopher Logan, Debra Mayer, William Paul Burns
Virgil, an eccentric freak billionaire, spends his days being a "biological inventor." The "blood dolls," his newest creation, aid him in getting revenge on those who betrayed him.
Silent Retreat
›2013 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 85m · Chelsea Jenish, Sofia Banzhaf, Robert Nolan
Janey arrives at a silent retreat in the middle of the woods for rehabilitation, only to discover that the men who run it aren't afraid to show her what lurks beyond the trees.
Grotesque
›R1988 · Horror · 89m · Linda Blair, Tab Hunter, Donna Wilkes
A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of murderous creature is chasing them...
Scared to Death
›R1980 · Science Fiction, Horror · 93m · John Stinson, Diana Davidson, Jonathan David Moses
A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating. The murders are found to be the work of an out-of-control experiment in genetic engineering. The two men must descend into the city's sewer systems to destroy the horrific miscreation. It won't be hard to find, as it's already looking for its next victims...
Larva
›R2005 · Horror, TV Movie, Science Fiction · 96m · Vincent Ventresca, Rachel Hunter, William Forsythe
In Host, Missouri, the newcomer Dr. of Veterinary Science Eli Rudkus is called by the farmer Jacob Long to exam one of his cows. The veterinarian finds a strange parasite in the animal and sends it to a friend in the Department of Agriculture for research. Later, he finds the same parasite in a creek and he summons the population for a meeting, warning that the cause might be the animal food. However, Fletcher Odermatt, the wealthy owner of the local Host Tender Meals that has been providing free animal food for the farmers, brings his lawyer Hayley Anderson and discredits Eli. When a huge mutant parasite attacks Eli and Jacob, they discover that the meals are actually an experimental genetic cocktail that is growing parasites inside the cattle and people. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Code Red
›2013 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Paul Logan, Borislav Iliev, Velizar Binev
A female doctor struggling to find her daughter after a long lost World War II biological weapon explodes on a U.S. military base in Bulgaria, turning people into mutant zombies.
Warhouse
›2013 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Joseph Morgan, Matt Ryan, William Troughton
Royal Marine A.J Budd awakes in a mysterious house and is forced to fight for his life everyday against grotesque inhuman opponents. Trapped alone in an unchanging prison of unbreakable routines, he must kill every day or die himself. As days stretch into years, the isolation and unceasing violence threaten his very soul.
Star Runners
›2009 · TV Movie, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Connor Trinneer, James Kyson, Toni Trucks
Two space smugglers are caught by the government and told if they deliver a crate to a certain location the charges will be forgotten. Turns out the crate is the key to a cover up and other parties want it to.
Scurry
›2025 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 96m · Jamie Costa, Emalia, Indianna Sparke
Two strangers find themselves trapped underground when the city is attacked by a monstrous threat. Badly injured with limited resources they must navigate a treacherous, narrowing tunnel in hopes of finding an exit.
The Day the World Ended
›2001 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Nastassja Kinski, Bobby Edner, Randy Quaid
A school psychologist investigates the death of a student's mother and finds the boy believes he is the son of an alien being.
Scourge
›2008 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 92m · Robyn Ledoux, Nic Rhind, Russell Ferrier
The ancient creature, The Scourge, long confined in a church, wreaks havoc in a small town. Bodies accumulate as Scott and Jessie, rekindling their love, become the town's last defense against the unleashed menace.
Rattlers
›PG1976 · Horror · 82m · Sam Chew Jr., Elisabeth Chauvet, Dan Priest
A herpetologist investigating a series of fatal rattlesnake attacks discovers that the creatures have been infected by a mysterious nerve gas disposed of in the desert by the military.
Netherworld
›R1992 · Horror · 87m · Michael Bendetti, Denise Gentile, Anjanette Comer
A young man arrives at his father's mansion in Louisiana to discover that a secretive cult is using winged creatures to raise the dead to do their bidding.
The Hatching
›2014 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Andrew-Lee Potts, Thomas Turgoose, Laura Aikman
On the death of his father, Tim Webber returns to his childhood village in Somerset to find something sinister is disturbing the idyllic peace of the villagers.
Maneater
›2007 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Gary Busey, Ian D. Clark, Ty Wood
When a dismembered body is found in the Appalachian Mountains, a county Sheriff is shocked to discover that the predator is a six-hundred pound Bengal tiger.
Hellmaster
›1992 · Horror · 96m · John Saxon, David Emge, Amy Raasch
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers
Frankenstein's Daughter
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Donald Murphy, Sandra Knight, John Ashley
Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
Doll Graveyard
›2005 · Horror · 71m · Jared Kusnitz, Gabrielle Lynn, Kristyn Green
It's 1905 when 12 year old Sophia plays all by herself in her big, creepy house with only four handmade dolls as friends. When her abusive father has finally had enough, he forces her to bury them in the backyard. But, after she "slips" and breaks her neck, dad buries her right along with the dolls. 100 years later, the Fillbrook family moves into the very same house.
Beyond Atlantis
›PG1973 · Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror · 91m · Patrick Wayne, John Ashley, Leigh Christian
A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure.
Dam Sharks!
›2016 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Jason London, Jessica Blackmore, Kabby Borders
Voracious sharks use human bodies to build dams.
Claw
›2021 · Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Chynna Marie Walker, Richard Rennie, Mel Mede
Two friends forced to spend the night in a ghost town find themselves hunted by a prehistoric predator.
Meg 2: The Trench
›PG-132023 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 116m · Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Shuya Sophia Cai
An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.
