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
The Gingerdead Man
›NR2005 · Horror, Comedy · 70m · Gary Busey, Robin Sydney, Ryan Locke
An evil yet adorable Gingerbread man comes to life with the soul of a convicted killer, and this real life cookie monster wreaks havoc on the girl who sent the killer to the electric chair.
Creature
›R2011 · Horror · 93m · Mehcad Brooks, Serinda Swan, Dillon Casey
An ex-Navy seal, his girlfriend and their friends head out on a road trip to New Orleans. The group decides to stop at a roadside convenience store owned by Chopper, who tells them the tale of Lockjaw, a fabled god-like creature who is half-man, half-alligator.
Shark Attack 2
›R2000 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 98m · Thorsten Kaye, Nikita Ager, Dan Metcalfe
A biological experiment goes bad, this time releasing a gaggle of mutated great white sharks with a taste for human flesh. Soon enough, shark expert Nick West is on the case, leading a crew to study them and eventually bring them back into captivity. West's plans hit a snag, however, when Australian shark hunter Roy Bishop is called in to wipe out the fishy menace.
6-Headed Shark Attack
›2018 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 89m · Brandon Auret, Thandi Sebe, Cord Newman
What is supposed to be a marriage boot camp on a remote island turns into the ultimate test for survival when a 6-headed shark starts attacking the beach. Trapped with minimal weapons they try to fight off the shark, but quickly discover that no one is safe in the water or on land.
Krampus 2: The Devil Returns
›2016 · Thriller, Action, Horror · 83m · Shawn C. Phillips, Melantha Blackthorne, R.A. Mihailoff
Five years after the murder of his wife and disappearance of his daughter, former police officer Jeremy Duffin is brought back to help in the hunt for a yuletide monster that punishes children that have been "naughty." As the monster becomes more erratic and unpredictable, Jeremy learns the truth about the disappearance of his daughter and the fate that has been bestowed upon him by an unlikely source. Can Jeremy finally end the nightmare Christmas monster that has terrorized this town for years?
Jurassic City
›2015 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 88m · Ray Wise, Kevin Gage, Vernon Wells
When a top-secret laboratory is unexpectedly breached, thousands of rampaging raptors are unleashed on Los Angeles! A black-ops unit is mobilized to contain the creatures before they cause city-wide chaos. Simultaneously, a truckload of raptors is rerouted to a nearby prison. Upon their escape, these ferocious flesh-eaters are beyond containment. This is Jurassic judgment night for smoking hot sorority girls, sinister scientists, muscle-bound military and doomed death-row inmates! It's about to get bloody in Jurassic City!
Ice Spiders
›R2007 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 90m · Patrick Muldoon, Charles Halford, Thomas Calabro
When a young ski team training for the Olympics arrives at the remote and isolated Lost Mountain Ski Resort to focus on training, they're thrilled to find a retired Olympic skier is there to help them train. But their plans are halted when a scientist working at a nearby government lab arrives with the horrifying news that a top secret Government project has produced giant spiders and they have escaped, killing and eating everything in sight.
Pterodactyl
›2004 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 89m · Cameron Daddo, Coolio, Amy Sloan
A dormant volcano deep with the Turkish forest holds within it a deadly secret. Perfectly preserved, a nest of pterodactyl eggs are ready to hatch...
Dinoshark
›2010 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 92m · Eric Balfour, Aarón Díaz, Iva Hasperger
A baby dinoshark evolves into a ferocious predatory adult, terrorising tourists and locals offshore from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Rottweiler
›R2004 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 95m · William Miller, Irene Montalà, Ivana Baquero
Dante travels across a desolate, futuristic Spain in search of his girlfriend, Ula. He is pursued by a bloodthirsty, cybernetic Rottweiler.
The Giant Gila Monster
›1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Don Sullivan, Fred Graham, Lisa Simone
A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chomping on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. Only Chase Winstead, a quick-thinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out.
Jersey Shore Shark Attack
›R2012 · TV Movie, Action, Science Fiction · 86m · Jack Scalia, Jeremy Luke, Joseph Russo
Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a legend... or is it? It's a holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore and, unbeknownst to anyone, underwater drills have attracted dozens of albino bull sharks to the pier. When a man goes missing, TC (The Complication), Nookie and friends fear the worst and plead with the police chief to close down the beach. It isn't until a famous singer is eaten alive during a performance on the pier that the shark hunt begins. Now, the Preppies must work together with the Guidos in order to save the Jersey Shore and its inhabitants from another vicious slaughter.
Sharkenstein
›2016 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 75m · Greta Volkova, James Carolus, Titus Himmelberger
In the final days of World War II, a secret experiment to weaponize sharks is shut down and destroyed by the Third Reich. But now, 60 years later, a small ocean town is plagued by a bloodthirsty, mysterious creature, one built and reanimated using parts of the greatest killers to ever inhabit the sea – the Sharkenstein monster!
The Crawlers
›R1991 · Horror · 95m · Wanja Mary Sellers, Jason Saucier, Bubba Reeves
People from a small town are attacked by evil radioactive tree roots growing in the forest.
Feeders
›1996 · Horror, Science Fiction · 68m · Jon McBride, John Polonia, Gary LeBlanc
Two friends on a road trip pass through a town where aliens are landing and feeding upon the some of the civilians.
Attack of the Sabretooth
›2005 · Horror, Action · 90m · Robert Carradine, Nicholas Bell, Brian Wimmer
In the Fiji islands, the greedy and unscrupulous owner of the Valalola Resort Primal Park invites investors and guests for an opening party of his compound composed of hotel and zoo aiming to find partners for his discoveries. When a bunch of college smalltime thieves puts a virus in the security system to participate in a scavenger hunt, the greatest attractions of the zoo - sabretoothes from the prehistoric age developed from DNA found in fossils - escape, killing the hosts and guards for fun.
The Slime People
›NR1963 · Horror, Science Fiction · 76m · Robert Hutton, Robert Burton, Susan Hart
After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters, a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller, Romance · 83m · Ryan Lord, Julia Culbert, Alan Bagh
Love blossoms between Evan and Kim in the coastal town of Santa Cruz, California, but so does a flock of displaced sea eagles, who go on a rampage.
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
›R2004 · Adventure, Horror, Action · 92m · Colleen Porch, Richard Burgi, Lawrence Monoson
A group of troopers take refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.
Megalodon
›PG-132018 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 90m · Michael Madsen, Scott C. Roe, Ego Mikitas
A military vessel on the search for an unidentified submersible finds themselves face to face with a giant shark, forced to use only what they have on board to defend themselves from the monstrous beast.
The Last Sharknado: It's About Time
›2018 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 86m · Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo
Our hero Fin has battled sharks all over the globe, but in this last installment he will tackle the final shark-tier - time travel.
Lake Placid 3
›R2010 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 93m · Colin Ferguson, Yancy Butler, Kirsty Mitchell
A game warden moves his family to Lake Placid, once the site of deadly crocodile attacks. Locals assure him the crocs are gone, but his mischievous young son finds a few baby crocs and begins feeding them. They quickly grow into very big adults and start attacking the game warden's family and nearby town.
Beowulf
›R1999 · Adventure, Fantasy, Action · 93m · Christopher Lambert, Rhona Mitra, Oliver Cotton
Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel, which comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The Outpost is ruled by Hrothgar. He has a daughter, whose husband may have been murdered by the Outpost's master of arms.
Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
›R2015 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 92m · Yancy Butler, Corin Nemec, Skye Lourie
A giant alligator goes head to head with a giant Anaconda. The town sheriff must find a way to destroy the two monsters before they kill the whole town.