
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

Dead Awake
›NR2016 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Jocelin Donahue, Jesse Bradford, Jesse Borrego
Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who, after the sudden death of her twin sister, is investigating the mysterious deaths of other people who died in their sleep. Shortly before their deaths, the victims all reported a supernatural force that appeared to them while they were suffering from sleep paralysis. When Kate investigates further into the case, she opens herself up to the creature's wrath and soon finds herself and her family suffering from an ancient evil.

Attack of the Killer Donuts
›NR2016 · Comedy, Horror · 98m · Kayla Compton, C. Thomas Howell, Christine Nguyen
A chemical accident turns ordinary donuts into blood thirsty killers. Now it's up to Johnny, Michelle, and Howard to save their sleepy town from...Killer Donuts.

The Food of the Gods
›PG1976 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.

Killer Whale
›R2026 · Thriller, Horror, Action · 89m · Virginia Gardner, Mel Jarnson, Mitchell Hope
Follows best friends Maddie and Trish as they find themselves trapped in a remote lagoon with the dangerous killer whale named Ceto.

Creepozoids
›R1987 · Science Fiction, Horror · 72m · Linnea Quigley, Ken Abraham, Michael Aranda
Five Army deserters wander the post-apocalyptic, post-industrial LA landscape seeking shelter from an increasingly toxic environment and poisonous rain.

Scream of the Banshee
›2011 · Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Lance Henriksen, Lauren Holly, Edrick Browne
An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream.

Crocodile 2: Death Roll
›2002 · Horror · 89m · Heidi Lenhart, Jon Sklaroff, Martin Kove
After a bank robbery, four criminals escape to Mexico, but a storm causes an accident which takes down the plane where several die in the crash. The criminals take it into their own hands to continue when one survivor is attacked and eaten by a crocodile. The criminals kill it, but from then on the mother Crocodile is on a killing spree with a goal to kill each survivor. But that is not the only worry, because they're trapped within it's world, and if it doesn't kill them, the criminals will.

Arachnid
›2001 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Chris Potter, Alex Reid, José Sancho
Mercer's brother, an amateur pilot, crashes on an island and is killed by a giant spider. A year later, when Mercer goes in search of him, she discovers a breed of poisonous arachnids ready to attack.

Blood Beach
›R1980 · Science Fiction, Horror · 92m · David Huffman, Marianna Hill, Burt Young
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? And is there any chance of it reproducing? Meanwhile, David Huffman and Mariana Hill are once-almost-married old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, and searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play when they were young.

Ogre
›R2009 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 90m · John Schneider, Ryan Kennedy, Katharine Isabelle
A vicious Ogre rules over a town that has been stuck in time since the 1800's.

Unearthed
›R2007 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 93m · Emmanuelle Vaugier, Luke Goss, Charlie Murphy
In the desert area of Hat Creek, cows are found partially devoured and the farmers believe that a wolf is attacking the cattle. The alcoholic Sheriff Annie Flynn is called by the local farmer Rob Horn to witness the remains of an animal to request reimbursement from the government and for an accident with a tank truck that is blocking the road.

The Dungeonmaster
›PG-131984 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 73m · Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll, Leslie Wing
A computer whiz is yanked into a twisted digital world by the sadistic wizard Mestema and forced through a gauntlet of wild, deadly trials, from mutant goblins to metal mayhem, with his girlfriend’s soul on the line.

Day of Reckoning
›2017 · Science Fiction, Horror, Action · 85m · Jackson Hurst, Heather McComb, Hana Hayes
Some years ago, the world experienced a "day of reckoning" when creatures came up from below and purged humanity of evil. Now, it is happening again.

Prisoners of the Sun
›NR2013 · Mystery, Action, Adventure · 88m · John Rhys-Davies, David Charvet, Carmen Chaplin
A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse

Ozark Sharks
›R2016 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Allisyn Snyder, Michael Papajohn, Ross Britz
A picturesque family vacation to the Ozarks goes sideways when a group of bull sharks show up just in time for the big fireworks festival that the town holds every year.

Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
›1987 · Horror, Music · 83m · Jon Mikl Thor, Jillian Peri, Frank Dietz
At an old farmhouse, a family mysteriously dissapears at the hands of evil. Years later, hair metal band The Tritons comes to the farmhouse, whose barn now features a 24-track recording studio. Lead singer John Triton gets the band to perform their first night in the farmhouse after dinner, and weird little beasties suddenly appear, and strange things start to happen. Band members (and their tagalong girlfriends) begin to act strangely and vanish one by one. Soon, only John Triton remains, and he holds a secret. Finally, the evil shows itself and a battle between heaven and hell ensues....

Piglet
›R2025 · Horror · 83m · Alina Desmond, Alex Butler, Shayli Reagan
On Kate's 21st birthday camping trip, her friends encounter Piglet, a monstrous human-pig hybrid who brutally murders one of them. They uncover Piglet's origins and Kate must confront her past to survive the relentless killer.

My Demon Lover
›PG-131987 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · 90m · Scott Valentine, Michele Little, Robert Trebor
Denny has yet again been left by her thug boyfriend Chip. It seems as if she is doomed to be stuck with awful guys, this time she has to choose between nerdy Charles and the strange Kaz, who turns into a monster when sexually aroused.

Behemoth
›2011 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Ed Quinn, Pascale Hutton, Cindy Busby
Scientists discover a giant creature under the Earth that is wrapped around the entire planet. When the creature wakes all grumpy, it causes worldwide destruction.

Orcs!
›2011 · Action, Horror · 80m · Adam Johnson, Maclain Nelson, Brad Johnson
Faced with extinction, two park rangers are forced to defend the national park against hordes of rampaging orcs. Ancient and long forgotten, these orcs are unleashed from the depths of the mountains, and they won't stop until we're all dead.

War of the Colossal Beast
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Duncan 'Dean' Parkin
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very angry.

Bats: Human Harvest
›2007 · Horror · 84m · Tomas Arana, David Chokachi, Michael Jace
A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent, are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh. As they search for Walsh's camp, they are attacked by genetically-altered carnivorous bats. The survivors attempt to reach helicopter extraction but encounter various challenges, including Chechen rebels.

Amphibious Creature of the Deep
›2010 · Horror · 83m · Michael Paré, Verdi Solaiman, Janna Fassaert
Marine biologist Skylar Shane hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman, to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jack's 'friends', a gang of smugglers headquartered on a fishing platform in the middle of the sea. Tamal, an orphan sold into servitude on the fishing platform by his uncle, a 'Dukun' (sorcerer and master of black magic) shaman, begs Skylar to take him away. She empathizes with the boy, who reminds her of her lost daughter, Rebecca, and is determined to help him, not knowing what lurks beneath the dark inky water, waiting to surface. Ever since Tamal arrived, mysterious things begin to happen, until one by one the smugglers will be killed by the terrifying creature from the deep. In the middle of an eerie, violent storm, the animus inside Tamal grows stronger, calling for the ancient creature of his nightmares...

Bad Candy
›NR2021 · Horror · 104m · Zach Galligan, Corey Taylor, Derek Russo
On Halloween night in New Salem, Radio DJs Chilly Billy and Paul tell a twisted anthology of terrifying local myths. Residents of the small-town experience horrifying paranormal encounters that lead them to a grim end.
