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
Frenzy
›PG-132018 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 85m · Aubrey Reynolds, Gina Vitori, Lanett Tachel
A group of friends run a popular travel vlog that helps fund their adventures. The leader of the group brings along her younger sister for the next scuba diving trip to an isolated cove. But when their plane crashes, the two sisters must use their strength, resourcefulness and immense courage to survive a pack of great white sharks.
Poseidon Rex
›2014 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 76m · Brian Krause, Anne McDaniels, Steven Helmkamp
Jackson Slate, famous treasure hunter, is out to find the legendary Lost Gold Of Cortez in the open waters off a secluded island in the Caribbean Sea. Using dynamite to blast his way through centuries of silt, new chasms are created reaching miles below the ancient ocean floor. From here, an ancient evil is released, that quickly, savagely, and without warning, destroys Jackson s boat and kills his crew. The sole survivor of the carnage, Jackson teams up with marine biologist, Sarah, to venture back to the site and investigate the horrific events. They extract an egg from the darkest depths of the ocean and take it back to the lab to investigate. But when it hatches, they realise they have awaken a deadly prehistoric monster, the P-Rex, which will stop at nothing until the entire island is destroyed...
Krampus: The Reckoning
›NR2015 · Horror · 89m · Monica Engesser, Amelia Haberman, James Ray
Zoe, a strange child has a not so imaginary friend the Krampus who is the dark companion of St. Nicholas.
Grizzly Rage
›2007 · Thriller, Horror, TV Movie · 86m · Tyler Hoechlin, Kate Todd, Graham Kosakoski
After accidentally killing a bear cub while celebrating graduation in the woods, four teens become the target of a seemingly unstoppable Grizzly.
Shark Week
›2012 · Horror · 90m · Patrick Bergin, Yancy Butler, Josh Allen
A group of complete strangers find themselves isolated by a wealthy madman on his island compound. They are forced into a horrifying gauntlet where they must survive a barrage of ever deadlier species of shark.
Mesa of Lost Women
›NR1953 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis
A mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab in Zarpa Mesa to create a race of superwomen by injecting spiders with human pituitary growth hormones. Women develop miraculous regenerative powers, but men mutate into disfigured dwarves. Spiders grow to human size and intelligence.
A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell
›1990 · Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror · 82m · Linda Corwin, Paul Guzzi, Alex Pirnie
In a post-Armageddon world, a young woman finds herself in a fight for survival against mutant cavemen, dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
Jurassic Prey
›NR2015 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 71m · Danielle Donahue, Jeff Kirkendall, Bob Dennis
A woman steals money from her mob boss husband hoping to start a new life with her lover. Meanwhile, a washed-up former child star and his buddies rob a bank with a police detective hot on their trail. Through a twist of fate, these people all find themselves at a remote cabin, unaware that recent construction work has unleashed a ferocious creature which now roams the surrounding area!
Piranhaconda
›2012 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 90m · Michael Madsen, Rachel Hunter, Rib Hillis
A hybrid creature - half piranha and half anaconda -- attacks a low-budget horror movie crew on location near her nest when her egg is stolen. Now they must outrun and kill the deadly piranhaconda as well as stop the mad scientist who stole the egg - before they all become dinner.
Arachnoquake
›PG2012 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Edward Furlong, Bug Hall, Olivia Hardt
Giant albino spiders break free from the depths of Earth in New Orleans, making everyone’s worst nightmare a reality.
Komodo vs. Cobra
›2005 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 94m · Michael Paré, Michelle Borth, Ryan McTavish
A team of environmentalists, including a reporter, her camera man, and an environmentalist's famous girlfriend charter a boat and with the captain, sail to a military island. They suspect the island is hosting to illegal activities. Upon arrival, however, they find no one. They finally reach a deserted house, where they find Dr. Susan Richardson, who tells them that everyone on the island is dead, including her father. Richardson's team were working on a compound that could make edible plants grow to super size, however the military intervened with plans of their own. They wanted to test the compound's effects on animals, and proceeded to feed it to several komodo dragons and cobras.
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
›PG1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney Jr., Zandor Vorkov
Judith Fontaine is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out that Joanie has become fallen victim to Groton, an ax-wielding homicidal maniac under the employ of Dr. Durea, the last living descendant of the Frankenstein family and is now both running a house of horrors on the beach's boardwalk and performing experiments on Gorton's victims in his basement laboratory.
Attack of the Unknown
›2020 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 103m · Tara Reid, Robert LaSardo, Richard Grieco
A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss must fight their way out of a county detention center during a catastrophic alien invasion.
A*P*E
›PG1976 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Alex Nicol, Joanna Kerns, Lee Nak-hoon
A newly discovered 36-foot gorilla escapes from a freighter off the coast of Korea. At the same time an American actress is filming a movie in the country. Chaos ensues as the ape kidnaps her and rampages through Seoul.
Dead Sea
›R2014 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · James Duval, Devanny Pinn, Tawny Amber Young
A Marine Biologist is assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of some marine life in an inland salt water lake that has been attributed to a creature thought to have been the stuff of a legend.
The Hive
›2008 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 90m · Tom Wopat, Kal Weber, Elizabeth Healey
When ants, displaying never-before-seen behavior, seize an island, the controversial Thorax Team is called in to stop the massive threat, only to discover that the ants are controlled by something beyond this world.
The Eye Creatures
›1967 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 80m · John Ashley, Cynthia Hull, Warren Hammack
A teenager and his girlfriend must save the world from "eye" aliens after their attempts to convince authorities of an invasion fall on deaf ears.
The Blackout
›2009 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 80m · Barbara Streifel Sanders, Joseph Dunn, Ian Malcolm
It's Christmas Eve, the city goes dark, and the few remaining tenants of The Ravenwood find themselves trapped in their building. And they are not alone.
Spiders
›PG-132013 · Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Patrick Muldoon, Christa Campbell, William Hope
After a Soviet space station crashes into a New York City subway tunnel, a species of venomous spiders is discovered, and soon they mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the city.
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon
›R2002 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 99m · John Barrowman, Jenny McShane, Ryan Cutrona
When two researchers discover a colossal shark's tooth off the Mexican coast their worst fears surface - the most menacing beast to ever rule the waters is still alive and mercilessly feeding on anything that crosses its path. Now they must hunt the fierce killer and destroy it... before there is no one left to stop it
Boa vs. Python
›R2004 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · David Hewlett, Jaime Bergman, Kirk B.R. Woller
After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human victims. An FBI agent and a snake specialist come up with a plot to combat the creature by pitting it against a bioengineered, 70-foot boa constrictor. It's two great snakes that snake great together!
Shark Attack
›R1999 · Horror, TV Movie · 95m · Casper Van Dien, Ernie Hudson, Bentley Mitchum
When an accidental death verdict is given on discovery of the remains of a top scientist, within the stomach of a hammerhead shark his closest friend Marine Biologist Steven McRay is not happy with the explanation and travels to investigate further, where he discovers that his friend's death was not an isolated incident, and that the local population have been terrorised by a rash of shark attacks.Developments in scientific technology had allowed experts to predict the pattern and likelihood of Shark Attacks, but now it seems that they may also be able to actually control these factors, rendering at their disposal the ultimate Killing machine.Enjoy the water... you may never want to go in the sea again!
Camel Spiders
›R2011 · Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy · 80m · Brian Krause, Paula LaBaredas, C. Thomas Howell
Based on actual creatures that for years have tormented our armed forces in the Middle East, these creatures have now invaded the southwestern deserts of the United States. The Camel Spiders now freely hunt for prey, unafraid of any predator - including man. No place is safe no one is beyond their paralyzing sting. In the end, a small band of hearty fighters are forced to make one last stand against the creatures.
Sharks in Venice
›2008 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 88m · Stephen Baldwin, Vanessa Johansson, Hilda van der Meulen
The seemingly tranquil waterways of Venice are terrorized by the perfect killing machine. In search of his father who has mysteriously disappeared diving in the city, David stumbles across the cryptic trail leading to the long-lost fortune of the Medici. As the unwitting pawn in a Mafia plot to recover the treasure, David's girlfriend is kidnapped at gunpoint, plunging him into a desperate race against time. If he has any hope of saving her he must enter the deadly waters. Can David out-gun the Mafia assassins and survive the voracious sharks laying in wait beneath the surface, or will he succumb to the same fate as his father?