
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

Razortooth
›2007 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Kathleen LaGue, Doug Swander, Matt Holly
When four college students trek to the Everglades to conduct extra-credit research for their biology professor, they become prey to a huge man-eating eel with nasty incisors that’s been terrorizing a nearby Florida community, based on a true story concerning an exotic species of eels that are released in the southeast from Asia. They breathe air and can survive on land.

Deep Evil
›2004 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 90m · Lorenzo Lamas, Ona Grauer, Adam J. Harrington
An alien microbe lands in remote Siberia in the 1950's. In the year 2004, US scientist working at a top secret underground lab in Alaska clone the microbe. A garbled distress signal is heard from the lab just before a complete lock down of the facility. This is the last word sent out from the scientists. A team of scientists and military personnel are in charge of finding out what went wrong.

Carny
›2009 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 88m · Lou Diamond Phillips, A.C. Peterson, Vlasta Vrana
When a traveling carnival comes to a rural Nebraska town, the caged attraction everyone is talking about is the alleged Jersey Devil. When the beast escapes, tearing the citizens to shreds, local sheriff Sam Atlas steps up to form a tracking team. But the carnivorous fugitive is only one of Sam’s problems. The local pastor, enraged by the death of his son at the hands of the beast, has plans for igniting his own brand of hellfire and revenge.

Bugs
›2003 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Antonio Sabàto Jr., Angie Everhart, R. H. Thompson
A cop on the track of a criminal finds himself in the midst of an unfinished subway tunnel, when his flashlight reveals a startling discovery: a three meter long scorpion-like Bug. With one slice of its massive tail the bug fells the man and devours him. FBI agent Matt Pollack is brought in to investigate, and when forensics reveal the source of the problem, he turns to his friend and entomologist Emily Foster for help.

The Hideous Sun Demon
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson
After exposure to radiation, an atomic research scientist finds himself changing into a murderous, lizard-like creature every time he is exposed to sunlight.

The Hills Have Eyes 2
›R2007 · Horror · 89m · Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup, Jacob Vargas
A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.

Black Water: Abyss
›NR2020 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 98m · Jessica McNamee, Luke Mitchell, Amali Golden
An adventure-loving couple convince their friends to explore a remote, uncharted cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a tropical storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, but when the caves start to flood, tensions rise as oxygen levels fall and the friends find themselves trapped. Unknown to them, the storm has also brought in a pack of dangerous and hungry crocodiles.

Harbinger Down
›2015 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Lance Henriksen, Matt Winston, Camille Balsamo
A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of human companionship.

The Last Breath
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Kim Spearman, Jack Parr, Alexander Arnold
A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks.

Prowl
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Ruta Gedmintas, Joshua Bowman, Perdita Weeks
Amber dreams of escaping her small town existence and persuades her friends to accompany her to find an apartment in the big city. When their transportation breaks down, she and her friends gratefully accept a ride in the back of a semi. But when the driver refuses to stop and they discover the cargo is hundreds of cartons of blood, they panic. Their panic turns to terror when the truck disgorges them into a dark, abandoned warehouse where blood-thirsty creatures learn to hunt human prey, which, the friends realize, is what they now are... Written by Svetlio Svilenov

Squirm
›R1976 · Horror · 92m · Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, R.A. Dow
A violent electrical storm topples power lines into the rain soaked earth that is home for an aggressive breed of worms. The high voltage causes the worms to mutate into larger, hostile hordes of man-eating worms that lie in wait for the residents of Fly Creek.

Spookies
›R1986 · Horror · 85m · Felix Ward, Maria Pechukas, Dan Scott
Taking a wrong turn, travelers find themselves trapped in a mysterious house. One horror after another threatens them, as the sorcerer who lives within needs sacrifices to give eternal life to his beautiful bride.

Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud
›R2007 · Horror, Fantasy, TV Movie · 95m · Lance Henriksen, Rob Freeman, Amy Manson
During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster Pumpkinhead, and resurrects it seek revenge on the family. Despite being warned away by the ghost of Ed Harley, his vengeance plan starts out, and the Hatfield family is soon under siege by the powerful demon. Not accepting the legend of the creature and believing their arch-rivals are the real cause, the two families attempt to go to war, only to be stopped when Pumpkinhead attacks the Hatfield house. Putting aside their differences, they band together to stave off the creature before it's vengeance pact is completed.

Watchers
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Corey Haim, Michael Ironside, Barbara Williams
A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that it's an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unbeknownst to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature that's not quite so friendly.

The Green Slime
›G1968 · Science Fiction, Horror · 90m · Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel
A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!

Howling VI: The Freaks
›R1991 · Horror · 102m · Brendan Hughes, Michele Matheson, Sean Sullivan
A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.

Castle Freak
›2020 · Horror · 106m · Clair Catherine, Jake Horowitz, Chris Galust
After she’s permanently blinded in a tragic car accident, Rebecca receives some bizarre news: her long-lost mother has recently passed away, leaving her their family’s ancestral castle in rural Albania. Traveling to the estate with a group of friends, Rebecca hopes it will be an opportunity for her to reconnect with a past she never knew and a mother who seemingly left her behind. When mysterious events begin to occur and her friends begin to die, Rebecca must unravel the secrets of her family’s history before she too falls prey to the Castle Freak.

Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown
›R1991 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Brick Bronsky, Lisa Gaye, Leesa Rowland
At the Tromaville Institute of Technology's nuclear plant, Prof. Holt has perfected "subhumanoids": living beings without emotions who perform menial tasks. When school reporter Roger Smith meets a beautiful subhumanoid named Victoria, they fall in love and he becomes determined to save her and the school from a giant mutant squirrel, Tromie.

Carved
›R2024 · Horror, Comedy · 94m · Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Corey Fogelmanis, Jackson Kelly
On Halloween 1993, the staff of a historic pioneer village attraction must work together to survive the attack of a monstrous killer pumpkin set on revenge.

Arbor Demon
›2016 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 92m · Fiona Dourif, Jake Busey, Rob Bouton
An adventurous woman with a secret from her husband insists they go for a romantic camping trip in a remote wood to reconnect and share some quality time. But their idyll is shockingly cut short after a group of nearby hunters are brutally killed by a mysterious creature. Trapped inside their tent, the couple is forced to help one of the injured hunters and together they plan their escape. Is there really something supernatural hidden in the forest? Or is it just their imaginations running riot. Soon they must determine if the real threat is inside or outside their enclosure

Dead Zone
›R2022 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Michael Jai White, Chad Michael Collins, Jeff Fahey
To stop the collapse of humanity, an elite team of soldiers must descend on a radiation-poisoned town and perform the ultimate stealth mission using high-tech armor and weapons.

Sea Beast
›2008 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 87m · Corin Nemec, Miriam McDonald, Camille Sullivan
In the fishing village of Cedar Bay, terror lies within the water. And now it has surfaced in search of something more substantial to devour than marine life: human flesh. A captain and a sea biologist must wage a terrifying battle against the deadly creatures in order to save mankind from total extinction.

The Loch Ness Horror
›2023 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Becca Hirani, Tara MacGowran, May Kelly
A vanished submarine prompts a rescue operation that leads to the Loch Ness monster. Having escaped the Loch, the creature unleashes decades of pent-up aggression on those it encounters.

Welcome to Willits
›2016 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Bill Sage, Dolph Lundgren, Rory Culkin
Deep in the Northern California woods, in the heart of the notorious Emerald Triangle, lies a remote cabin. The residents struggle to fight off the repeated attacks and abductions by mysterious creatures that have plagued them for years. When a local pot farmer is caught up with a wayward group of campers, the situation quickly escalates into total carnage.
