
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

The Young Cannibals
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Megan Purvis, Samuel Freeman, Hannah Louise Howell
Seven friends summon a monster when they are tricked into eating burgers made of human flesh.

Beyond Loch Ness
›R2008 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Brian Krause, Niall Matter, Don S. Davis
James Murphey is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, had a fatal encounter with the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father, and left James with deep facial scar. Twenty years later, James is hunting for Nessie, when his search leads him to the sleepy town of Pike Island, Ashburn, on Lake Superior. Hiring Josh Riley as his guide, James and Josh bond over their mutual scientific interests and deceased fathers, while James tries to convince Josh's mother, Sheriff Karen Riley, that the 60-foot plesiosaur is killing and breeding.

Saltwater
›2016 · TV Movie, Science Fiction, Action · 90m · Rachele Brooke Smith, Jeff Fahey, David Faustino
A group of lifeguards attempt to kill an atomic shark that is terrorizing the coast of San Diego.

Nailbiter
›R2013 · Horror · 82m · Joicie Appell, Emily Boresow, Jason Coffman
A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.

Piranha Sharks
›2014 · Horror, Comedy, Action · 79m · Allen Sarven, Ramona Mallory, Josh Hammond
Great white sharks bio-engineered to be the size of piranhas with the purpose of living in rich peoples exotic aquariums, terrorize New York City when they get into the water supply and do what great white sharks do best.

The Rage
›R2007 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Andrew Divoff, Erin Brown, Ryan Hooks
A crazed scientist experimenting with a rage virus on innocent victims in a laboratory in the woods. When his monstrous subjects escape and vultures devour their remains, they became mutations seeking to feed on humans.

The Bees
›PG1978 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · John Saxon, Angel Tompkins, John Carradine
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.

Phantom from Space
›1953 · Science Fiction, Horror · 73m · Noreen Nash, Harry Landers, James Seay
After a UFO sighting, a mysterious phantom in a bizarre outfit starts attacking people in San Fernando Valley.

The Deadly Bees
›1966 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman
Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting ta music video; her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with beekeeper Ralph Hargrove. Initially finding the Hargroves' bitter marital strife oddly relaxing, the arrival of specially-bred attack bees pushes Vicki to her survival instinct.

Gargoyle: Wings of Darkness
›R2004 · Horror · 87m · Michael Paré, Sandra Hess, Fintan McKeown
Two CIA agents are sent to Bucharest, Romania to solve a high profile kidnapping. But what they discover is something inexplicable. An evil gargoyle, once thought dead and banished forever, has returned with a vengeance.

Savage Creatures
›2020 · Horror · 75m · Greg Travis, Cean Okada, Victoria Steadman
Two bloodthirsty vampires begin to realize that their food source is in jeopardy now that alien creatures have landed on Earth.

Sasquatch Mountain
›R2006 · Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy · 90m · Lance Henriksen, Cerina Vincent, Michael Worth
A lonely tow-truck driver gets caught in a deadly struggle between a pair of bank robbers with a beautiful hostage, local cops, and a monster that has come down from the Arizona mountains to eat human flesh.

The Rake
›NR2018 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 78m · Rachel Melvin, Shenae Grimes-Beech, Izabella Miko
Ben and Ashley come together 20 years after the murder of their parents to determine the cause of their parents' death. Ashley is troubled by the idea that the thing that took her parents' lives may not be finished with her family.

Santa Jaws
›2018 · Action, Fantasy, Horror · 88m · Reid Miller, Courtney Lauren Cummings, Jim Klock
Trying to survive the family Christmas, Cody makes a wish to be alone, which ends up backfiring when a shark manifests and kills his entire family.

The Alien Factor
›1978 · Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Don Leifert, Tom Griffith, Richard Dyszel
A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small backwoods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk start turning up mutilated.

Sand Serpents
›2009 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Jason Gedrick, Tamara Hope, Elias Toufexis
Jason Gedrick and a small group of Marines are stranded in the remote Afghan desert. But it ain't the Taliban that's worrying them, it's these giant refugees from Tremors. In fact the big worms prove to be an ally of sorts by doing better against the Taliban than themselves but battling these enemies is something not covered in their training.

Silent Warnings
›2003 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 87m · Stephen Baldwin, A.J. Buckley, Billy Zane
In a small Oregon town, mysterious crop circles have begun appearing in Joe's corn fields. When Joe's cousin, his five college friends and local Sheriff Willingham happen upon the otherworldly designs, they unleash unfathomable terror.

Consumed
›2024 · Horror · 89m · Courtney Halverson, Mark Famiglietti, Devon Sawa
Married couple Jay and Beth take a celebratory camping trip a year after Beth's cancer remission but find themselves trapped between a wild madman and a skin-stealing monster.

The Jungle
›2013 · Thriller, Horror · 84m · Rupert Reid, Agoes Widjaya Soedjarwo, Igusti Budianthika
A big cat conservationist and his filmmaker brother travel into the Indonesian jungle to find and document the rare and endangered Javan leopard. As they travel deeper and deeper into the jungle they come to the realisation that they are being stalked by a deadly predator.

Suburban Sasquatch
›2004 · Horror · 100m · Sue Lynn Sanchez, Bill Ushler, Dave Bonavita
A mystical Sasquatch is on the loose in suburbia and only a Native American warrior can stop it.

They Crawl Beneath
›2022 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Joseph Almani, Karlee Eldridge, Michael Paré
After an earthquake leaves Danny trapped and alone, his claustrophobic nightmare only gets worse when something truly horrifying emerges from the fissures in the ground, forcing him to engage in a brutal fight for his life and his sanity.

Bug Buster
›PG-131998 · Comedy, Horror · 93m · Randy Quaid, Brenda Epperson, Katherine Heigl
After the mayor uses a potentially dangerous substance to protect the local plantation, the lakeside town of Mountview, in California, is attacked by a lethal species of large cockroach. After some of the town's inhabitants are killed, the mayor enlists the help of eccentric pest exterminator General George S. Merlin in order to prevent further harm to the local dwellers.

Star Leaf
›2015 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 77m · Russell Hodgkinson, Julian Gavilanes, Kiki Yeung
Hikers find a secret grove of extra-terrestrial marijuana and must fight for their lives when they anger the other-worldly forces protecting the plants.

Dark Waters
›2003 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 93m · Lorenzo Lamas, Simmone Mackinnon, Jeffrey Gorman
Unusually vicious and aggressive sharks attack an oil rig in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. Dane Quatrell and a team are sent to investigate, but the sharks are still on the prowl and now they have developed a taste for blood.
