
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

Zoombies
›2016 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 90m · Ione Butler, Andrew Asper, Aaron Groben
When a strange virus quickly spreads through a safari park and turns all the zoo animals undead, those left in the park must stop the creatures before they escape and zombify the whole city.

Lake Placid: Legacy
›R2018 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 93m · Katherine Barrell, Tim Rozon, Luke Newton
A group of young explorers discover a secret area hidden from all maps and GPS devices. When they reach the center of the lake, they discover an abandoned facility that houses one of the largest, and deadliest apex-predators known to man.

Ice Sharks
›2016 · TV Movie, Adventure, Action · 85m · Edward DeRuiter, Jenna Parker, Kaiwi Lyman
A new breed of aggressive, ravenous sharks cracks the frozen ocean floor of an Arctic research station, devouring all who fall through. As the station sinks into frigid waters, those alive must fashion makeshift weapons or suffer the same fate.

Night of the Lepus
›PG1972 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun
Rancher Cole Hillman is fed up of rabbits plaguing his fields. Zoologist Roy Bennett conducts an experiment to curb their population, but it gives rise to giant rabbits that terrorise the town.

51
›R2011 · Science Fiction, Horror · 87m · Rachel Miner, Jason London, Bruce Boxleitner
Due to political pressure from the American public, the Air Force has decided to allow two well-known reporters limited access to the most secretive base on the planet. But when one of the base’s “long-term visitors” exploits this unprecedented visit as a chance to liberate himself and his fellow alien captives, Area 51 turns from a secure government base to a horrifying destination of terror.

The Incredible Melting Man
›R1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.

Tape 407
›PG-132012 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 90m · Abigail Schrader, Samantha Lester, James Lyons
Survivors of an airplane crash find themselves within the borders of a government testing area and pursued by predators.

Swim
›NR2021 · Horror, Action · 87m · Joey Lawrence, Jennifer Field, Andrew Lauer
After a storm floods a family's vacation rental home, they must get past a vicious shark that has found its way inside the house.

It's Alive
›R2009 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Bijou Phillips, James Murray, Raphaël Coleman
When Lenore Harker learns that she's pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend Frank in the country. The happy new family's lives takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a mysterious connection to their newborn.

Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon
›NR2008 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 85m · Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, Carly Pope, Ona Grauer
Surviving the plane crash was only the beginning ... After their plane crashes into uncharted territory in the Himalayas, the survivors set out to find help in the freezing cold. As the days pass and with no sign of a rescue, tensions begin to mount. The survivors wrestle with their consciences as they realise that in order to survive, they must use the bodies of the dead as food. But when it appears that something else is already feeding upon the dead, the survivors realise that their biggest danger is not hunger but something infinitely more sinister: a legendary Yeti is stalking them and is moving in for the kill. Can they outsmart the beast or will they die trying?

Bunker
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, War · 109m · Roger Clark, Luke Baines, Sean Cullen
Trapped in a bunker during World War I, a group of soldiers are faced with an ungodly presence that slowly turns them against each other.

Shark Season
›2020 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 87m · Michael Madsen, Paige McGarvin, Juliana Destefano
Dozens of great white sharks attack the sleepy coastal town of Goldcoast, CA, resulting in several deaths and forcing the town council to bring in a group of marine biologists and shark hunters to solve the problem. But when one shark in particular refuses to go down without a fight, it will take all of the biologists’ and hunters’ knowhow to defeat the creature for good.

Raging Sharks
›2005 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Corin Nemec, Vanessa Angel, Corbin Bernsen
An oceanic observation station is in desperate trouble after a sudden shark attack wrecked the oxygen supply. The accompanying ship, a coast guard cruiser, and other ships in and around the Bermuda triangle are attacked as well. The US Navy sends a submarine to investigate, but soon they too are under attack.

Raptor
›R2001 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Eric Roberts, Corbin Bernsen, Melissa Brasselle
When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut. When the Pentagon discovers Hyde obtained foreign backing to continue his experiments, they send in a strike team to save Tanner and Barbara and stop Hyde.

Bear
›R2010 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 93m · Patrick Scott Lewis, Katie Lowes, Brendan Michael Coughlin
Two young couples are driving through a remote forest when their car breaks down. When a run-in with a curious grizzly bear ends up with the bear being shot to death, the bear's mate arrives on the scene and vengefully attacks their van. The couples are trapped inside the disabled car and must come up with clever ways to survive. As they battle the surprisingly intelligent creature, and contemplate their uncertain fate, secrets begin to emerge that threaten to tear the group apart before the bear does.

Trog
›1970 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay
Anthropologist Dr Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte — an Ice Age 'missing link': half-caveman, half-ape — in a local cave. Through experimentation, she manages to communicate with and domesticate him before he's released by an irate land developer and goes on a rampage, terrorising the local citizenry.

Roboshark
›2015 · Thriller, Action, Science Fiction · 87m · Alexis Peterman, Matt Rippy, Nigel Barber
What starts off as a typical day on the streets of Seattle soon becomes a terrifying bloodbath, when a great white shark devours an alien space probe…and ROBOSHARK is born. The U.S. military comes after it with guns blazing, but it’s the power of social media that puts an ambitious newscaster and her tech-savvy daughter ahead of everyone else in the race to stop the destruction.

Forest of the Damned
›2005 · Horror · 83m · Tom Savini, Nicole Petty, Daniel Maclagan
A group of friends go on a roadtrip and come to a stop in a forest where legend has it a group of naked bisexual female monsters lurk. Will they awaken them? And if so will they survive?

The Hidden II
›1993 · Crime, Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Raphael Sbarge, Kate Hodge, Jovin Montanaro
The alien criminal from the first movie is dead, but he left a few eggs which are hatching now. The good alien, who still inhabits Tom Beck's body, has been waiting just in case this happened. Unfortunately, his presence in the body has taken a terrible toll on it, draining it of life energy. Additionally relations with Beck's daughter Juliet (now a cop) have deteriorated. But when the killing starts again, they will need to work together to stop the new generation of aliens.

The Dark Lurking
›R2010 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Philippe Deseck, Ozzie Devrish, Anthony Edwards
The eight remaining survivors of a secret research facility barricade themselves away from a horde of ancient and deadly creatures

Hyenas
›R2010 · Drama, Horror · 92m · Christa Campbell, Costas Mandylor, Rudolf Martin
Roving clans of shape-shifting human/hyena creatures prowl and hunt for human prey. They are hunted by one man seeking revenge for the death of his loved ones.

The Thing Below
›R2004 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 94m · Billy Warlock, Kurt Max Runte, Catherine Lough Haggquist
A top secret drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico raises a dormant alien creature from the depths. Once loose, the creature goes on a murderous rampage.

The Killing Tree
›2022 · Horror, Comedy · 73m · Sarah Alexandra Marks, Marcus Massey, Judy Tcherniak
On Christmas Eve, a scorned widow casts an ancient spell to resurrect her executed husband. However, when the spell goes wrong, the husband is brought back as an Evil Christmas Tree. Hell-bent on getting revenge on the one who caused his execution, the body count keeps rising as the Tree hunts her down.

Hillside Cannibals
›2006 · Horror · 83m · Heather Conforto, Tom Nagel, Vaz Andreas
A group of teenagers in the desert become the prey of cannibalistic inbreds who live in the nearby hillside.
