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
Spring Break Shark Attack
›2005 · Action, Drama, Horror · 88m · Shannon Lucio, Riley Smith, Justin Baldoni
A young teenager travels to Florida, unknowing that a group of dangerous tiger sharks are ravaging the beach.
Spiders II: Breeding Ground
›2001 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Stephanie Niznik, Greg Cromer, Daniel Quinn
Happy couple Jason and Alexandra lose their sail yacht in a storm and are grateful to get picked up by Captain Jim Bigelow's commercial carrier. Suspicious about the ship's doctor and realizing the ship is improbably empty and the radio not broken as the crew claims, Jason starts snooping around. Bodies on meat-hooks, genetic experimentation and giant spiders are what he finds.
Alienator
›R1990 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 93m · Jan-Michael Vincent, John Phillip Law, Teagan Clive
A space commander sends a female android to Earth to destroy an escaped convict.
The Birds II: Land's End
›R1994 · Horror, TV Movie · 86m · Brad Johnson, Chelsea Field, James Naughton
Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can complete work on his thesis. Everything couldn’t seem more picturesque about their new, seaside home… that is, except for the increasing number of aggressively behaving birds.
Krocodylus
›R2000 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 88m · Kate Fischer, Duncan Regehr, Matt Borlenghi
A sleazy producer develops a concept he dubs "blood surfing" -- tossing bloody fish remains into the water to lure sharks and then surfing through the animals as they chomp about. Along with his camerawoman, the producer brings two thrill-seeking surfers to the coast of Florida to capture some gnarly footage. But, as they blood surf, they encounter something even more deadly: a colossal prehistoric crocodile intent on devouring them.
Python 2
›PG-132002 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · William Zabka, Dana Ashbrook, Alex Jolig
A man, his business partner, and his wife are enlisted to transport an unknown object from a Russian military base, only to discover that the object is a giant, genetically-altered python.
Dinocroc
›R2004 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 86m · Costas Mandylor, Charles Napier, Bruce Weitz
After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Gereco lab.
New Alcatraz
›R2001 · Science Fiction, Horror, Action · 95m · Dean Cain, Lisa Lackey, Mark Sheppard
Paleontologist Robert Trenton is called to Northeastern Antarctica near the Indian Ocean to help the FBI build an underground maximum-security military base and prison for the world's most dangerous criminals and terrorists, which is dubbed "New Alcatrax" by the staff. While building the prison, the staff accidentally awaken and unleash a prehistoric Boa Constrictor from its 200 year hibernation.
Extinction
›2014 · Thriller, Adventure · 100m · Ben Loyd-Holmes, Sarah Mac, Neil Newbon
Deep in the Amazon jungle a group of scientists are on a dangerous mission. When their guide suddenly abandons them, they find themselves in a savage and hostile environment. However, things turn deadly when they find they are in the middle of a hunting ground for a pack of prehistoric predators long thought extinct.
The Galaxy Invader
›PG1985 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 79m · Richard Ruxton, Faye Tilles, George Stover
An alien is hunted by a gang of drunken hillbillies who saw him crash-land his spaceship.
Bone Eater
›2008 · Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Paul Rae, Bruce Boxleitner, William Katt
Ancient Native American legend of the Bone Eater rises up and begins terrorizing the local townspeople
Blue Demon
›PG-132004 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Dedee Pfeiffer, Randall Batinkoff, Danny Woodburn
The "Blue Demon" project is an attempt by a team of scientists to train Great White sharks to protect America's coastline from any intruders.
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
›1952 · Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror · 74m · Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo
The entertainment duo Mitchell & Petrillo, en route to a USO show for troops in Guam, fall out of their plane and end up on the jungle island of Cola Cola, where the mad scientist Dr. Zabor is conducting evolutionary experiments.
Don't Speak
›NR2020 · Horror · 84m · Stephanie Lodge, Ryan Davies, Jake Watkins
Upon arriving at their grandparents farm, a family soon realise the entire town has been taken out by an unknown monster that hunts by sound. And soon, they become its prey.
The Forbidden Dimensions
›2013 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 86m · Brittany O'Neil, Kyle Morris, Al Ridenour
Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic doctors that rule the wastelands, creating deformed mutants with a serum synthesized from the flesh of dead aliens. Now Slade must travel back to the year 1998 to destroy a device known as the wavelength generator, which opened the dimensional gateways to these alien beings. With the help of an army of female outlaws and a sleazy detective, Slade re-connects with the star child Khadijah, who holds the key to stopping these tragic events from ever taking place.
Leeches!
›R2003 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Matthew Twining, Josh Henderson, Stacey Nelson
When a crop of doped-up athletes from the Lakecrest College swim team dive into the campus lake to blow off some steam, the bloodsucking leeches below the surface undergo a stunning transformation. After ingesting small amounts of the swimmers' steroid-laced blood, the slimy creatures grow to unusual sizes and set out to sink their teeth into an unsuspecting student population.
Wolf
›2019 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 85m · Stuart Brennan, Mark Paul Wake, George McCluskey
Great Britain. 150AD. When four messengers sent by Rome to a plague infected Caledonia, with a message of peace and help for their King, go missing Rome has no choice but to send ten of their finest across Hadrian's Wall to find and bring them back. Led by their Captain, Domitius, (George McCluskey, "The Zombie King"), and two of their strongest warriors, Grackus, (Stuart Brennan, "Risen") and Nerva, (Mark Paul Wake, "Plan Z"), the legion soon realise that what lays in wait for them is something much worse than any plague or army known to man - And with them being picked off one by one on their journey back to the wall by a beast none of them can match, and survival being their only hope, will there be anyone left to warn Rome of the dangers it may now face. Fight For Rome. Fight For Caesar. Fight To Survive.
Boogeyman
›PG-132005 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 89m · Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Lucy Lawless
Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years ago. Is the Boogeyman real, or did Tim make it up to explain why his father abandoned his family?
Return to Silent Hill
›R2026 · Mystery, Drama, Horror · 106m · Jeremy Irvine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Ljiljana Velimirov
When James receives a mysterious letter from his lost love Mary, he is drawn to Silent Hill—a once-familiar town now consumed by darkness. As he searches for her, James faces monstrous creatures and unravels a terrifying truth that will push him to the edge of his sanity.
Species III
›R2005 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 111m · Robin Dunne, Robert Knepper, Sunny Mabrey
After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But Sara is also savage and leaves a trail of deaths in her wake. This carnage makes chemistry student Dean question whether to help her race or not.
Critters 3
›PG-131991 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Aimee Brooks, John Calvin, Katherine Cortez
As fanged, furious furballs viciously invade an L.A. apartment building and sink their teeth into the low-rent tenants, Josh leads the battle to beat back the conniving critters and save the planet.
Ghoulies
›PG-131985 · Horror, Comedy · 81m · Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres
A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.
The Flood
›R2023 · Action, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Casper Van Dien, Nicky Whelan, Louis Mandylor
A horde of giant hungry alligators is unleashed on a group of in-transit prisoners and their guards after a massive hurricane floods Louisiana.
Bats
›PG-131999 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 91m · Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.