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
Beneath Loch Ness
›2001 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 96m · Patrick Bergin, Lysette Anthony, Brian Wimmer
A scientific expedition to Loch Ness runs into trouble when the group leader is killed in a mysterious diving accident. Soon after, when the unorthodox Professor Howell shows up to take over as leader of the group, more strange incidents and attacks start to occur. While Howell and TV producer Elizabeth Borden are busy investigating the source of the attacks, the body of an enormous sea creature washes up on the lake's shore.
Rage of the Yeti
›R2011 · Horror · 86m · Rosalind Halstead, Kitodar Todorov, Laura Haddock
A team of treasure hunters in the Arctic are attacked by ferocious snow beasts. Before long, the adventure is no longer about finding riches - it’s about getting down the mountain alive.
Dickshark
›NR2016 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 172m · Kayla Browne, John Giancaspro, Rachel Crow
Rachel's lover has been secretly using penis-enlargement cream that has an unusual side effect which ultimately leads to an abomination. Meanwhile, Vanna supports her boyfriend Dick, who is a modern-day Victor Frankenstein. The search for the rampaging monster intensifies as more victims fall prey.
Sharknado
›R2013 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 87m · Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard
A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin sets out with his friends Baz and Nova to rescue his estranged wife April and teenage daughter Claudia.
Doom: Annihilation
›R2019 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 97m · Amy Manson, Luke Allen-Gale, Nina Bergman
A group of UAC Marines responds to a distress call from a top-secret scientific base on Phobos, a Martian moon, only to discover it's been overrun by demons.
The Sand
›2015 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 84m · Brooke Serene Butler, Cleo Berry, Cynthia Murell
After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over students wakes up under the blazing sun to find their numbers somewhat depleted. An enormous alien creature has burrowed down deep and anyone foolish enough to make contact with the sand finds themselves at the mercy of a sea of flesh-eating tentacles. Will they ever be able to escape its carnivorous clutches?
Deep Fear
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 84m · Mădălina Ghenea, Ed Westwick, Macarena Gómez
A solo trip aboard a yacht takes a terrifying turn when a woman encounters three drug traffickers clinging to the shattered remains of a boat. They soon force her to dive into shark-infested waters to retrieve kilos of cocaine from the sunken wreck.
Lake Placid: The Final Chapter
›2013 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Yancy Butler, Robert Englund, Daniel Black
Black Lake is now a crocodile sanctuary, surrounded by an electric fence. When the fence is left open, a high-school bus unknowingly enters the park. It's up to Reba and the Sheriff to save the kids from becoming crocodile food.
Shark Side of the Moon
›R2022 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Maxi Witrak, Ego Mikitas, Michael Marcel
Decades ago, the USSR developed unkillable sharks and launched them to the moon. Today, a team of American astronauts will endure the fight of their lives.
Minotaur
›R2006 · Horror, Adventure, Fantasy · 93m · Tom Hardy, Michelle Van Der Water, Tony Todd
Long ago in the Iron Age, a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations, the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the loss of his love in an earlier sacrifice is convinced that the beast isn't real and that his girl still lives as a slave within the palace.
Into the Deep
›R2025 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 90m · Scout Taylor-Compton, Richard Dreyfuss, Stuart Townsend
Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a killer great white is determined not to let any of them escape its waters.
Python
›R2000 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Frayne Rosanoff, Robert Englund, Casper Van Dien
After a military plane crashes outside of a small American town, its cargo — a genetically engineered, sixty-foot-long python — begins stalking and killing the locals.
The Devil Below
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Alicia Sanz, Adan Canto, Will Patton
A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.
Attack of the Giant Leeches
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
Aquarium of the Dead
›2021 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 86m · Vivica A. Fox, Eva Ceja, D. C. Douglas
A scientific mishap causes the species of an aquarium to become zombies.
Hydra
›2009 · TV Movie, Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Dwayne Adway, Dawn Olivieri, Texas Battle
The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transported to a deserted island where the super rich pay a fortune to hunt human prey. But this island isn't exactly deserted; it's actually home to Hydra the Beast!
Zombie Shark
›2015 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 90m · Cassie Steele, Jason London, Laura Cayouette
A perfect getaway weekend turns into a nightmare for four friends who find themselves fighting for their lives against an experimental shark. In order to survive they must fight sharks, zombies, and shark zombies.
The Black Hole
›PG2006 · Science Fiction, Thriller, TV Movie · 90m · Kristy Swanson, Judd Nelson, David Selby
It's 2 A.M. in St. Louis when a routine scientific experiment goes terribly wrong and an explosion shakes the city. A scientific team investigates, clashing with an intergalactic, voltage-devouring creature that vaporizes them.
The Bone Snatcher
›R2003 · Science Fiction, Horror · 90m · Scott Bairstow, Rachel Shelley, Warrick Grier
After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
›2015 · TV Movie, Science Fiction, Action · 84m · Dominique Swain, Traci Lords, Christine Nguyen
When a fracking mishap accidentally rips apart the earth’s crust, the resulting hole opens up a gaping underground water way to a vast and mysterious ocean somewhere deep below. Instantly, giant prehistoric sharks begin wending their way upward toward a murky bog in the heart of the Arkansas Bayou. Unfortunately, for a group of female prisoners on a work detail in the swamp, the deadly sharks attack without warning – pinning a hapless group of intended victims in a small deserted cabin in the heart of the wetlands. Death may be the only means of escape!
Triassic Attack
›NR2010 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 84m · Steven Brand, Kirsty Mitchell, Emilia Clarke
A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak havoc on the small town and the local university.
Elves
›1989 · Horror · 89m · Dan Haggerty, Julie Austin, Deanna Lund
While conducting a pagan ritual in the woods with her friends, Kirsten inadvertently awakens the spirit of a demonic Christmas elf involved in a neo-Nazi plot to bring about the master race. After the rent-a-Santa in her department store is murdered, an unemployed, alcoholic ex-cop takes the job and the two set out to unravel the mystery.
Hidden 3D
›2011 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Sean Clement, Simonetta Solder, Jordan Hayes
Following the death of celebrated scientist Susan Carter, her son Brian is surprised to inherit her controversial experimental addiction treatment center. When he and some friends visit the property, they uncover a terrifying and deadly secret.
Killers from Space
›NR1954 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar, James Seay
Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing unhurt at the base later, he is given sodium amethol, but authorities are skeptical of his story that he was captured by aliens determined to conquer the Earth with giant monsters and insects. Martin vows to use existing technology to destroy them.
