
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

Critters Attack!
›R2020 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Tashiana Washington, Ava Preston, Jack Fulton
Mysterious alien Critters have crash-landed in a small college town, devouring every living thing they encounter. Drea and the kids she's babysitting must try desperately to save themselves from the ravenous, rolling beasts. Will Drea discover her inner badass, and will it be enough to stop the Critter onslaught?

Empire of the Ants
›PG1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson
A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.

Spiders
›2000 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 94m · Lana Parrilla, Josh Green, Oliver Macready
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.

Swamp Shark
›R2011 · Action, Adventure, Comedy · 85m · Kristy Swanson, Robert Davi, D. B. Sweeney
Open on gorgeous swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin in the summer. Lots of beautiful teens are at the beach the weekend before Gator Fest. That night an animal smuggling deal goes wrong and a large sea creature escapes into a swampy backwoods river. At the McDaniel's "Gator Shack" restaurant, a local, Jackson is drunk, and gets mangled to bits. The town sheriff blames the carnage on the McDaniel's "escaped" pack of gators and tries hauling them off to jail. Rachel McDaniel, head of the family, claims to have seen the fin of a shark! Rachel and her family, along with the help of a mysterious stranger, Charlie, take on the Swampshark and the law to clear their names, save Rachel's kid sister Krystal and prevent the unwitting folks at the upcoming Gator Fest from being torn to shreds by a beast the likes of which no one has ever seen!

Mongolian Death Worm
›2010 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 90m · Sean Patrick Flanery, Victoria Pratt, George Cheung
When an American oil company sets up an experimental drilling plant out in the vast deserts of Mongolia, they awaken a nest. The deadly creatures begin to breed and spread, devouring everyone in their path. The only person who can stop them is treasure hunter and adventure seeker who spent his life searching for a legendary tomb, fabled to be protected by the Death Worms. He knows he must do what he can to kill the creatures, but stopping these monsters may mean destroying his life's work forever!

Monster Brawl
›R2011 · Comedy, Horror · 89m · Dave Foley, Art Hindle, Robert Maillet
Eight of the world's most legendary monsters, along with their diabolical managers, compete in a wrestling tournament deathmatch to determine the most powerful champion of all time. Interviews, pre-fight breakdowns, trash talking, and monster origin segments round out this ultimate fight of the living dead.

Mammoth
›2006 · Action, Comedy, Science Fiction · 90m · Vincent Ventresca, Summer Glau, Tom Skerritt
On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater Louisiana, a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof of the local Natural History Museum. The meteor is actually a spaceship containing an alien life form which animates the museum's partially frozen Woolly Mammoth and begins a rampage. Local authorities and Government Investigators join forces with Frank Abernathy, the Museum Curator, and his father Simon, a B-Movie enthusiast, to bring down the giant mammoth in this alien-invasion flick!

DNA
›1997 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 97m · Mark Dacascos, Jürgen Prochnow, Robin McKee
A mad scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life, and only his former assistant Ash Mattley and CIA operative Claire Sommers can stop it.

Night of the Blood Beast
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · John Baer, Angela Greene, Ed Nelson
An astronaut returns to Earth as the no-pulse host of an alien monster's embryos; he is discovered by a loony farmer who find ways to feed his new critter.

Dead Space
›R1991 · Science Fiction, Horror · 72m · Marc Singer, Laura Mae Tate, Judith Chapman
On the planet Phaebon, a controlled research facility had been thought to be safe... until a breach unleashes alien terrors unknown.

Xtro 2: The Second Encounter
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Jan-Michael Vincent, Paul Koslo, Tara Buckman
An underground government facility is locked down by its A.I.-controlled computer when an alien entity travels through a dimensional portal and threatens the lives of everybody inside.

RoboCroc
›2013 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 84m · Corin Nemec, Dee Wallace, Lisa McAllister
A rocket carrying nano robots crash lands shortly after takeoff into a zoo. The bots are released and find their way into a massive crocodile. The croc, now programmed to kill, will target anything and anyone for its next meal.

Robo Vampire
›1988 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 90m · Robin Mackay, Nian Watts, Harry Myles
Narcotics agent Tom Wilde is given a second chance at life after being shot and killed. In a futuristic experiment, agent Wilde is returned to life as an Android Robot. He is sent on a very dangerous mission into the depths of the golden Triangle to rescue Sophie, a beautiful undercover agent who has been captured by the evil drug warlord Mr. Young and his inhuman creation the Vampire Beast.

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
›NR1955 · Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen
A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.

Reign of Chaos
›2022 · Action, Horror, Fantasy · 77m · Rebecca Finch, Ray Whelan, Kate Milner Evans
When the world is gripped by a plague unleashed by the evil lord Chaos, and humans are turned into rabid creatures, mankind can only be saved by three young women, descendants of a Goddess, with the power to stop Chaos' evil.

The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
›R1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Bruce Dern, Pat Priest, Casey Kasem
Dr. Roger Girard is a rich scientist conducting experiments on head transplantation. His caretaker has a son, Danny, who, although fully grown, has the mind of child. One day an escaped psycho-killer invades Girard's home, killing Danny's father before being gunned down himself. With the maniac dying and Danny deeply unsettled by his father's death, Dr. Girard decides to take the final step and transplant the killer's head onto Danny's body.

Deadly Instincts
›1997 · Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Todd Jensen, Samantha Womack, Oliver Tobias
It's an invasion of the most personal and terrifying kind. When a meteorite crash lands onto a Boston college campus and an alien beast is released, only one man understands its mission to mate. From the depths of an all girls college, the grotesque monster stalks his prey in a cat-and-mouse chase until the final conflict where only one species can survive.

SnakeMan
›2005 · Horror, Adventure, TV Movie · 96m · Stephen Baldwin, Jayne Heitmeyer, Shelly Varod
An object is found that points to the secret of eternal youth so a research team is sent to find the fountain only to find it is protected by a giant snake

Horror of the Blood Monsters
›1970 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante
Astronauts land on a planet with prehistoric creatures and a war between a human-like tribe and a race of vampires.

Xtinction: Predator X
›2010 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 90m · Mark Sheppard, Elena Lyons, Lochlyn Munro
When her father seemingly goes missing, divorcee Laura LeCrois is forced to return home after a 20-year hiatus. However, home is not the way Laura remembers it. Her father is in major debt with the bank, her ex-boyfriend is the town sheriff, and her ex-husband has quit his job as a world-renowned professor who is now suspiciously buying up swampland in the area. In an effort to save the swamp and to pass the time, Laura decides to work the dying family business giving boat tours of the Louisiana swamp. But on her first sunset tour, deep in the swamp, Laura and her passengers witness two Bayou swamp rats toss a squirming body into a gator pit, only the gators aren't the ones that feast on the flesh. Instead it's the most terrifying creature Laura has ever seen...

Project Legion
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 89m · Donald Cerrone, Brande Roderick, Kelly Lynn Reiter
A former marine awakens to an apocalyptic sight outside of his window and barricades himself from evil creatures that surround his apartment door and terrorize the city.

Spaceship
›PG1983 · Comedy, Horror · 88m · Cindy Williams, Bruce Kimmel, Leslie Nielsen
A farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien. Alternate titles include "The Creature Wasn't Nice" and "Naked Space" (1999 re-release trying to capitalize on Nielsen's "Naked Gun" success).

The Snow Creature
›1954 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, Teru Shimada
A botanical expedition to the Himalayas captures a Yeti and brings it back alive to Los Angeles, where it escapes and runs amok, seeking food.

Sasquatch
›R2002 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 92m · Lance Henriksen, Andrea Roth, Russell Ferrier
Harlan Knowles, billionaire and president of Bio-Comp Industries heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest. Knowles is obsessed with finding the plane and rescuing his daughter, who was one of its passengers. The assembled team includes local guide Clayton Tyne, wilderness expert/author Winston Burg and Marla Lawson. Soon, the team begins to suspect that Knowles' main objective is actually to recover the prototype of a DNA testing machine called the Huxley Project, which his company has spent years and millions of dollars developing.
