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
In the Year 2889
›1969 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 80m · Paul Petersen, Quinn O'Hara, Charla Doherty
The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against the outside world. Beyond a dense mist, other survivors, radiated and mutant, grow hungry.
The Black Demon
›R2023 · Thriller, Horror · 101m · Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Julio Cesar Cedillo
Oilman Paul Sturges' idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Stranded and under constant attack, Paul and his family must somehow find a way to get his family back to shore alive before it strikes again in this epic battle between humans and nature.
Shark Night 3D
›PG-132011 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack
A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
›R1985 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 91m · Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Reb Brown
When a young journalist dies in violent circumstances, her brother soon learns, by way of the mysterious Stefan Crosscoe, that his sister has succumbed to the werewolf curse.
Man-Thing
›R2005 · Action, Horror, Adventure · 97m · Matthew Le Nevez, Rachael Taylor, Jack Thompson
Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.
Sharktopus
›2010 · TV Movie, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Eric Roberts, Kerem Bürsin, Sara Malakul Lane
The U.S. Navy's special group "Blue Water" builds a half-shark, half-octopus for combat. But the sharktopus escapes and terrorizes the beaches of Puerto Vallarta.
Beneath
›2013 · Horror · 90m · Daniel Zovatto, Bonnie Dennison, Jonny Orsini
Six high school seniors celebrating with day's excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed as they fight their way back to shore.
5-Headed Shark Attack
›2017 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Chris Bruno, Nikki Alexis Howard, Lindsay Sawyer
A beautiful island is home to thousands of species of aquatic life. Now there is a new species: the 5-Headed Shark is all heads and teeth. Shaped like a demented starfish, this monster terrorizes the open ocean before invading the beaches of Puerto Rico, endangering the once peaceful island paradise.
The Rig
›2010 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · William Forsythe, Stacey Hinnen, Serah D'Laine
In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.
Dinosaur Hotel
›2021 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 80m · Chelsea Greenwood, Aimee Marie Higham, Alexander John
Sienna is desperate to win a large cash prize in a secret underground game show. However, Dinosaur's begin to hunt her down for the entertainment of the rich and wealthy. Can she be the last to survive the horrific night to win the prize?
Dinocroc vs. Supergator
›NR2010 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 80m · David Carradine, Rib Hillis, Amy Holt
On a lush tropical island, working under a secret government charter, Martin Drake has not only grown sprawling acres of giant vegetables, but inadvertently spawned two mammoth reptiles as well. Now they've broken free of their enclosures, and Drake has only one option: kill the creatures before word gets back to Washington and they close him down. When Drake's first team of well-armed mercenaries gets wiped out within hours of setting down in the jungle, he turns to one lone hunter, The Cajun, to go in single-handedly. But will The Cajun be cunning enough to find the creatures and destroy them before they turn the blue waters red with the blood of tourists. The only hope is to bring the monsters together and make them fight. When one emerges victorious, that will be the time to strike and kill the other. It's a risky plan, but ultimately the only one that may work. One of David Carradine's last movies.
Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf
›2015 · Science Fiction, Horror, TV Movie · 83m · Casper Van Dien, Catherine Oxenberg, Jennifer Wenger
When a mad scientist mixes the genes of a killer whale and a wolf, it creates the Whalewolf, and it's up to Sharktopus to stop it.
Octopus
›PG-132000 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Jay Harrington, David Beecroft, Carolyn Lowery
During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An unknown object attacks and disables the sub with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks, among them the sub destroyed 38 years ago. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength! The only way out is the emergency submersible and a passing cruise ship. Above or below the water, there is no escape from the monster mutant octopus with a nuclear diet...
Nazi Overlord
›NR2018 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 88m · Tom Sizemore, Dominique Swain, Anthony Jensen
A D-Day rescue mission turns ugly when a band of Allied soldiers battle with horrific experiments created by the Nazis.
Creature from the Haunted Sea
›NR1961 · Horror, Comedy · 61m · Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.
The Curse of the Komodo
›PG-132004 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Gail Harris, Paul Logan, Tim Abell
Genetically-engineered Komodo dragons have become ginormous creatures hunting people on a remote tropical island. A small group of scientists must stop the dragons before they escape the island and destroy the rest of the world.
Carnosaur 3: Primal Species
›R1996 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Scott Valentine, Janet Gunn, Rick Dean
International terrorists get a surprise when their cargo turns out to contain living dinosaurs. The army commando team now have to think fast, if they want to prevent the extinction of the human species, instead of the reptiles.
King Cobra
›PG-131999 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Pat Morita, Scott Hillenbrand, Casey Fallo
30 feet of pure terror is the result of an experimental drug used in a biochemical lab and this mutated nightmare is pure evil! Half-African cobra and half-diamondback, he's 30 feet long with a giant appetite for terror.
Hammerhead
›R2005 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · William Forsythe, Hunter Tylo, Lydie Denier
When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and they aren't laughing anymore.
The Killer Eye
›R1999 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 72m · Jacqueline Lovell, Jonathan Norman, Nanette Bianchi
A mad scientist's experiment goes awry, turning a homeless man's eyeball into a giant killing machine that has an insatiable appetite for young women.
The Alien Dead
›R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 74m · Buster Crabbe, Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis
A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. Once they run out of alligators, they start going for the citizens. A local scientist tries to figure out what's happening to people once they start disappearing.
Terror from the Year 5000
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 70m · Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, Frederic Downs
Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?
Abominable
›2020 · Horror · 72m · Katrina Mattson, Amy Gordon, Robert Berlin
A research team embarks on a journey to obtain a plant that can advance medical research by centuries. While stumbling upon clues of the previous expedition, they discover that a Yeti creature lurks within the Himalayan mountains and will do anything to protect its terrain.
Jeepers Creepers 3
›R2017 · Horror · 100m · Stan Shaw, Gabrielle Haugh, Jonathan Breck
Taking place on the last day of the Creeper’s twenty-three-day feeding frenzy, as the skeptical Sergeant Tubbs teams up with a task force hellbent on destroying the Creeper for good. The Creeper fights back in gory glory as its enemies grow closer than ever before to learning the secret of its dark origins.