
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

Virus
›R1999 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 100m · Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

Primeval
›R2007 · Adventure, Horror, Action · 93m · Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton, Orlando Jones
A news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.

The Lair
›2022 · Horror, Action · 93m · Charlotte Kirk, Jonathan Howard, Jamie Bamber
Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.

Graveyard Shift
›R1990 · Horror · 89m · David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht
John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.

The Bayou
›2025 · Thriller, Horror, Action · 87m · Athena Strates, Madalena Aragão, Elisha Applebaum
Vacation turns disaster when Houston grad Kyle and her friends survive a plane crash in the desolate Louisiana everglades, only to discover there's something way more dangerous lurking in the shallows.

The Jurassic Games
›2018 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 86m · Ryan Merriman, Perrey Reeves, Adam Hampton
In the near future, 10 death row convicts are forced to compete in a virtual reality game that pits them against dinosaurs and each other.

Storage 24
›R2012 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Something nasty is lurking inside a secure storage unit. When a group of people get trapped inside, they need to find a way to get out of a building that's designed to keep things in...

Shortcut
›R2020 · Horror, Adventure, Fantasy · 80m · Jack Kane, Zanda Emlano, Zak Sutcliffe
A group of five classmates is trapped inside their school bus after an encounter with a mysterious creature on the road. Amid constant threats from the creature, the teen's anxiety increases while their survival chances decrease.

Creature
›R1985 · Science Fiction, Horror · 97m · Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.

The Forgotten Ones
›R2009 · Horror, Action · 84m · Jewel Staite, Justin Baldoni, Kellan Lutz
When a devastating boat crash shipwrecks a group of friends in the jungles of an uncharted island, they are savagely picked off one-by-one by a cannibalistic enemy that evolution forgot.

Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes
›R2006 · Horror, Fantasy · 95m · Doug Bradley, Lance Henriksen, Douglas Roberts
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.

The Outwaters
›NR2023 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 110m · Robbie Banfitch, Angela Basolis, Scott Schamell
Deep in the Mojave desert, under a scorching blood-red sun, four travelers have set up camp to make art. One fateful night, the group is thrust into a feverish tornado of flayed flesh and mind-boggling monstrosities, the likes of which mere humans simply cannot fathom.

Super Hybrid
›2011 · Horror · 95m · Shannon Beckner, Oded Fehr, Ryan Kennedy
Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The on-call mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of its own. With hundreds of horsepower and two tons of reinforced steel at its command, it's a seemingly unstoppable killing machine capable of outrunning -- and outwitting -- humans.

Kaw
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 93m · Sean Patrick Flanery, Kristin Booth, Megan Park
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens.

The Frankenstein Theory
›NR2013 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Heather Stephens, Kris Lemche, Eric Zuckerman
When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, "Frankenstein," is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction...a nightmare from which there is no waking.

The Angry Red Planet
›NR1959 · Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror · 83m · Gerald Mohr, Naura Hayden, Les Tremayne
The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?

Crawl or Die
›R2014 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 90m · Nicole Alonso, Torey Byrne, Tommy Ball
Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.

Bleeders
›1997 · Horror, Mystery · 89m · Roy Dupuis, Kristin Lehman, Rutger Hauer
A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although his relatives were all thought to be dead, he finds them living underground.

Nightbeast
›R1982 · Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Tom Griffith, Jamie Zemarel, Karin Kardian
A creature from outer space, nightbeast, crash lands in Baltimore and starts a killing spree that quickly escelates.

Roadkill
›R2011 · Horror, TV Movie · 88m · Kacey Barnfield, Stephen Rea, Eliza Bennett
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.

Reaper
›2014 · Science Fiction, Crime, Horror · 90m · Danny Trejo, Vinnie Jones, Jake Busey
Criminals and a beautiful but cunning hitchhiker must battle a supernatural force known as the Reaper.

The Beast of Hollow Mountain
›1956 · Western, Science Fiction, Horror · 81m · Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.

Frankenstein vs. The Mummy
›2015 · Horror · 114m · Ashton Leigh, Max Rhyser, Boomer Tibbs
The mummy of a cursed pharaoh and a reanimated corpse terrorize a medical university. Only an Egyptologist and a college professor, the deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may be able to stop the creatures before it's too late.

Gremlin
›NR2017 · Horror · 90m · Adam Hampton, Kristy K. Boone, Katie Burgess
A man receives a mysterious box containing a terrible secret, a creature that will kill everyone else in his family unless he passes it on to someone he loves to continue its never-ending circulation.
