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
Ghost Shark
›2013 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Mackenzie Rosman, Shawn C. Phillips, Richard Moll
A coastal town is plagued by a supernatural man-eating shark. A ghost hunter joins forces with a sea captain to uncover the secrets of the area's dark past and find a way to exorcise the spectral predator.
Carnosaur
›R1993 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Diane Ladd, Raphael Sbarge, Jennifer Runyon
After being driven to extinction, great bloodthirsty dinosaurs come back to life with the assistance of a demented genetic scientist. She plans to replace the human race with a super-race of dinosaurs who will not pollute the planet.
Malibu Shark Attack
›2009 · Horror, Action, TV Movie · 87m · Peta Wilson, Chelan Simmons, Sonya Salomaa
An underwater earthquake generates a tsunami that strikes Malibu, bringing a hunting pack of prehistoric-looking goblin sharks to the surface. Although the beach is evacuated before the big wave strikes, a group of lifeguards and a crew of construction workers are stranded in the high water and have to fight the sharks to get to dry land.
The Giant Spider Invasion
›PG1975 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Robert Easton
A black hole hits North Wisconsin and opens a door to other dimensions. Giant 15 meter spiders emerge from it, who have an appetite for human flesh! Two NASA scientists try to save the world.
Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda
›2014 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 84m · Robert Carradine, Tony Evangelista, Rib Hillis
An American scientist up to no good (as usual) by creating the half-pterodactyl, half-barracuda: Pteracuda. When the creature inevitably escapes, it's up to Sharktopus to stop him.
Don't Fuck in the Woods
›NR2016 · Horror · 73m · Brandy Mason, Scott Gillespie, Brittany Blanton
A group of friends are going on a camping trip to celebrate graduating college. But once they enter the woods, the proverbial shit starts to hit the fan.
Planet Dune
›2021 · Science Fiction, Horror, Adventure · 86m · Sean Young, Emily Killian, Sienna Farall
A crew on a mission to rescue a marooned base on a desert planet turns deadly when the crew finds themselves hunted and attacked by the planet’s apex predators: giant sand worms.
Ghoulies IV
›R1994 · Horror, Comedy · 84m · Peter Liapis, Barbara Alyn Woods, Stacie Randall
While in pursuit of cop Johnathan Graves, his demonic nemesis, Faust, sends his disciple Alexandria to hunt down the amulet that will set him free. Meanwhile, the Ghoulies find their way through an open porthole and onto the streets of L.A., creating madness and mayhem as they search for a way to get back home. As the body count rises, it becomes an ultimate battle between a demonic killer, a rule-breaking cop, and our favorite creatures from the netherworld!
Megalodon
›2004 · Horror, Science Fiction, Adventure · 90m · Leighanne Littrell, Robin Sachs, Al Sapienza
A skeptical news reporter is invited by the CEO of Nexecon Petroleum to document the safety of Colossus, the largest drilling and refining platform ever constructed. As the powerful drill tears through the seabed, a fissure forms, revealing a hidden mirror ocean teeming with prehistoric life. When a team is sent to access the damage, it comes face to face with the most powerful oceanic predator that ever lived: Carcharodon Megalodon.
Dark Wolf
›2003 · Horror · 94m · Samaire Armstrong, Ryan Alosio, Andrea Bogart
A vicious werewolf stalks the streets of Los Angeles. Between killings, its desperate goal is to mate with unsuspecting Josie, who is unaware of her special power attracting the beast. Forced to take over an investigation involving werewolves after his partner is killed, an LAPD Detective is led to the trail of this ravenously deadly hybrid werewolf.
Legion of Fire: Killer Ants
›1998 · Horror, TV Movie · 95m · Mitch Pileggi, Eric Lutes, Julia Campbell
When a hive of deadly killer ants attack a town in Alaska, a small group races to survive and to find a way to stop the ruthless ants.
Cocaine Shark
›NR2023 · Horror, Science Fiction · 76m · Titus Himmelberger, Ken Van Sant, Natalie Himmelberger
A mafia drug lord has unleashed a new, highly addictive stimulant on the streets called HT25, derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab, and which causes monstrous side effects. After an explosion and leak at the lab, an army of mutated, bloodthirsty sharks and other creatures are set loose on the world.
Curse of Bigfoot
›1975 · TV Movie, Horror · 88m · Bob Clymire, Jan Swihart, Bill Simonsen
A group of high school students on an archaeological dig discover a centuries old mummified body in a sealed cave. Removing the mummy, it soon comes back to life, revealing itself to be an inhuman beast that terrorizes a small California town.
Jaws 3-D
›PG1983 · Thriller, Horror · 98m · Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
Piranha 3DD
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 83m · Danielle Panabaker, Matt Bush, Katrina Bowden
After the events at Lake Victoria, the prehistoric school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into swimming pools, plumbing, and a newly opened water park.
Piranha II: The Spawning
›R1982 · Horror · 94m · Tricia O'Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
COVID-21: Lethal Virus
›2021 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 87m · Christian Stamm, Loretta Hope, Lee Partridge
The climate change has released an ancient rabies virus trapped in the Antarctica ice. A female scientist tries to get to the laboratory to create a cure to save the world, protected by an eccentric and two members of the special forces.
Stranded
›NR2013 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Amy Matysio
The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends the crewwoman Ava Cameron to repair a wing that is full of CO2. Dr. Lance Krauss warns that the gas may cause paranoia and hallucinations. Ava brings a sample of the meteor for analysis and Dr. Krauss finds that there are spores attached to the meteor. Ava accidentally cuts her finger in a sample but she hides the cut from the doctor. Soon Ava gets pregnant and delivers an alien offspring. However, neither Col. Brauchman nor Dr. Kraus believes in her words and they believe that Ava is delusional. The offspring bites the crewman Bruce Johns and the crew discovers that Bruce has been cloned by the alien. Soon they find how dangerous the clone is.
The Marsupials: The Howling III
›PG-131987 · Horror · 98m · Barry Otto, Max Fairchild, Imogen Annesley
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?
Maneater
›R2022 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 86m · Nicky Whelan, Trace Adkins, Jeff Fahey
A group of friends on vacation in a seeming island paradise are stalked by an unrelenting great white after an accident leaves them stranded and left for dead.
Age of Dinosaurs
›NR2013 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 88m · Treat Williams, Ronny Cox, Jillian Rose Reed
Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit and terrorize Los Angeles, a former firefighter must rescue his teenage daughter from the chaos brought on by the Age of Dinosaurs
Mega Shark vs. Kolossus
›2015 · Thriller, Action, Horror · 89m · Illeana Douglas, Amy Rider, Brody Hutzler
In search of a new energy source, Russia accidentally reawakens the Kolossus - a giant robot doomsday device from the Cold War. At the same time, a new Mega Shark appears, threatening global security.
Ouija Shark
›2020 · Horror, Comedy · 70m · Steph Goodwin, Zoe Towne, Robin Hodge
A group of teenage girls summon an ancient man-eating shark after messing with a spirit board that washes up on the beach. An occult specialist must enter the shark's realm to rid this world of the deadly spirit ghost once and for all.
Planet of the Sharks
›2016 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Brandon Auret, Stephanie Beran, Lindsay Sullivan
In the near future, glacial melting has covered 98% of earth's landmass. Sharks have flourished and now dominate the planet, operating as one massive school led by a mutated alpha shark.