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
Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid
›R1994 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 102m · Brick Bronsky, Lisa Star, John Tallman
It's the final chapter in the cult classic Class of Nuke'Em High Trilogy, and this time the fate of Tromaville hangs in the balance! Following the destruction of the Nukamama Power Plant by the lovable and horribly mutated toxic squirrel Tromie. Roger Smith (Brick Bronsky) and his half-subhumanoid son Adlai (also played by Brick Bronsky) are working to rebuild Tromaville into a place where human and subhumanoid can live together in peace. Unbeknownst to them, Adlai's twin brother Dick (again played by Brick Bronsky!), kidnapped at birth and raised by the evil Power Clite, has plans to regain contol of the Subhumanoids and turn Tromaville into a nuclear waste dump. In a showdown for the ages, "The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid" face off in an explosive sci-fi battle of epic proportions!
Hoax
›2019 · Horror · 96m · Adrienne Barbeau, Brian Thompson, Ben Browder
An investigation into a camping trip gone wrong turns into a fight for survival when a team, including a brilliant primate specialist and led by a ruthless television producer, must come to grips with the possible existence of Bigfoot.
Goblin
›2010 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 92m · Gil Bellows, Tracy Spiridakos, Camille Sullivan
Every Halloween, a small hamlet in the deep woods is visited by a fierce goblin, intent on capturing infants and brutally murdering anyone in its path.
Skinned Deep
›R2004 · Comedy, Horror · 97m · Forrest J. Ackerman, Eric Bennett, Karoline Brandt
An ordinary family goes on a trip by car, but their car breaks down. The dutiful father of the family immediately sets off to get help and seems to find it with a nice elderly lady. The woman invites the whole family to dinner, but the hospitality soon turns out to be an ambush.
The Nest
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Dee Wallace, Sarah Navratil, Kevin Patrick Murphy
As a mother becomes suspicious that her daughter may be infected by a parasitic creature, she is thrust into a nightmare as the people she trusts most push her into a chasm of drug addiction, self-destruction, and devastating sacrifice.
Blood Tide
›1982 · Adventure, Horror, Action · 82m · James Earl Jones, José Ferrer, Lila Kedrova
An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.
Attack of the Meth Gator
›2024 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 85m · LaRonn Marzett, Ray Acevedo, Vanessa Tamayo
On a small island in the Florida Everglades, a DEA agent and a local sheriff gather a team of locals to take down a giant meth-fueled alligator.
Spawn of the Slithis
›PG1978 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Alan Blanchard, Judy Motulsky, J.C. Claire
A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.
Black Swarm
›2007 · Horror, Action · 89m · Sebastien Roberts, Sarah Allen, Jayne Heitmeyer
A widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her daughter Kelsey. There she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's blind friend Beverly; an entomologist, Katherine is summoned to help with the investigation, along with Devin, Jane's brother-in-law and former boyfriend. Meanwhile, Kelsey befriends Eli, a scientist who has developed genetically modified wasps to the army as a weapon, and who is now trying to revert the process. When the wasps attack Black Stone, Jane, Devin and Eli team-up to attempt to destroy the swarm.
Food of the Gods II
›R1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Paul Coufos, Lisa Schrage, Réal Andrews
A growth hormone experiment gets out of hand, when the the resulting giant man-eating rats escape, reaking havoc on the unsuspecting campus. Much blood-letting follows.
The Dark
›R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel
At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.
Rise of the Gargoyles
›PG-132009 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 94m · Eric Balfour, Caroline Néron, Justin Salinger
Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!).
Underworld
›R1985 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 103m · Denholm Elliott, Steven Berkoff, Nicola Cowper
When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds traces that lead to Dr. Savary, who has produced a strange white powder that's coveted by a race of deformed human beings who live in the underworld in the sewers below the city.
Missile to the Moon
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 78m · Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, K.T. Stevens
Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.
Zoombies 2
›2019 · Comedy, Action, Adventure · 84m · Erica Sturdefant, Jonathon Buckley, Jarrid Masse
A game ranger arresting poachers ends up saving their lives when zombie animals attack them in the jungle. Now surrounded, the game ranger and poachers forge uneasy alliance to stop the beasts before the super-zombie virus spreads to entire world.
Flying Monkeys
›2013 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Electra Avellan, Maika Monroe, Vincent Ventresca
A teenage girl thinks that the monkey she owns is her innocent pet, but it turns out to be something much more dangerous, an evil shapeshifter capable of unthinkable acts no loyal pet would ever be able to perform.
Shark Waters
›2022 · Thriller, Horror, Action · 85m · Jim Fitzpatrick, Meghan Carrasquillo, Mike Rae Anderson
Great white sharks attack a fishing charter, ramming a hole in the ship’s hull. With the shoreline miles away, those aboard are forced to fight for their lives before they are either drowned or eaten alive.
Manticore
›2005 · Action, Fantasy, Horror · 88m · Robert Beltran, Jeff Fahey, Chase Masterson
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, a US Army Squad is sent to a small Iraqi town to locate a missing news crew, only to find the residents of the town dead and a living weapon of mass destruction, a Manticore, awakened from its long slumber by a terrorist leader wanting to rid his land of the American invaders at any price.
Watchers III
›1994 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Wings Hauser, Gregory Scott Cummins, Daryl Keith Roach
A top-secret experiment spawns two highly intelligent life-forms: Einstein, a golden retriever with an IQ of 175; and The Outsider, a deformed monstrosity that exists to kill... and avenge its creators. When the Outsider escapes into the jungles of South America, the government sends in some ex-military convicts to catch the beast. But what starts out as a high-speed chase ends up in bloody carnage. Only Einstein knows the Outsider's motives, and only the canine can outsmart the creature. Now, it's a battle of beasts as man's best friend confronts man's worst nightmare.
I, Frankenstein
›PG-132014 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Aaron Eckhart, Yvonne Strahovski, Bill Nighy
200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.
Chernobyl Diaries
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Olivia Taylor Dudley, Jesse McCartney, Devin Kelley
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.
No Way Up
›R2024 · Thriller, Horror, Action · 90m · Colm Meaney, Phyllis Logan, Sophie McIntosh
Characters from different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they're travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A nightmare fight for survival ensues with the air supply running out and dangers creeping in from all sides.
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
›PG-132004 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Johnny Messner, KaDee Strickland, Matthew Marsden
A scientific expedition sets out for Borneo to seek a flower called the Blood Orchid, which could grant extended life. Meanwhile, they run afoul of snakes and each other.
Imaginary
›PG-132024 · Horror, Mystery · 104m · DeWanda Wise, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun
When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice develops an eerie attachment to a stuffed bear named Chauncey she finds in the basement. Alice starts playing games with Chauncey that begin playful and become increasingly sinister. As Alice’s behavior becomes more and more concerning, Jessica intervenes only to realize Chauncey is much more than the stuffed toy bear she believed him to be.
