
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.
1289 titles

D-Railed
›NR2018 · Horror · 80m · Carter Scott, Shae Smolik, Everette Wallin
Passengers on a murder mystery train that crashes into a river must decide whether to risk waiting for help in the wreckage or take their chances in the murky depths below.

Troll
›PG-131986 · Fantasy, Horror · 83m · Noah Hathaway, Jenny Beck, Phil Fondacaro
When a family moves into a San Francisco apartment, an opportunistic troll decides to make his move and take possession of little Wendy, thereby paving the way for new troll recruits, the first in his army that will take eventual control of the planet. We soon discover Torok is the ex-husband of Eunice St. Clair, a resident in the building who was married to Torok.

Jurassic Hunt
›R2021 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 83m · Courtney Loggins, Ruben Pla, Tarkan Dospil
Female adventurer Parker joins a crew of male trophy hunters in a remote wilderness park. Their goal: slaughter genetically recreated dinosaurs for sport using rifles, arrows, and grenades. After their guide is killed by raptors, the team tries to escape the park – but the hunters quickly become the hunted. Even worse, the park’s manager suspects Parker of being a spy and sends a hit squad after her. This battle’s about to become primitive!

Frogs
›PG1972 · Horror · 90m · Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark
Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.

Screamboat
›NR2025 · Horror, Comedy · 102m · David Howard Thornton, Allison Pittel, Amy Schumacher
A late-night boat ride turns into a desperate fight for survival in New York City when a mischievous mouse becomes a monstrous reality.

Mortuary
›R2005 · Horror · 94m · Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi, Bug Hall
A family moves to a small California town where they plan on starting a new life running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, suspected to be on haunted ground.

Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College
›R1990 · Horror, Comedy · 94m · Evan MacKenzie, Eva LaRue, Kevin McCarthy
A college teacher brings the little creatures back to his campus, where they proceed to terrorize the faculty and students.

Piranha
›R1995 · Horror, TV Movie · 89m · William Katt, Alexandra Paul, Monte Markham
Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in their path. Can they prevent the flesh-eating piranhas from escaping into the ocean and spawning?

Cruel Jaws
›PG-131995 · Horror, Thriller, Adventure · 94m · David Luther, George Barnes Jr., Scott Silveria
A tiger shark bred by the Navy as a killing machine is wreaking havoc in the sleepy tourist town of Hampton Bay.

C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
›R1989 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 85m · Brian Robbins, Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher
A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous zombies are unleashed upon a suburban neighborhood.

Munchies
›PG1987 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Harvey Korman, Charlie Stratton, Nadine Van der Velde
Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures and are they mean!

Grizzly Park
›2008 · Horror, Comedy · 91m · Glenn Morshower, Randy Wayne, Zulay Henao
A giant grizzly bear stalks 8 troubled young adults and a park ranger in a forest reserve called Grizzly Park after making the demise of an escaped serial killer.

Red Water
›2003 · Horror, Action · 92m · Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson, Coolio
In the quiet waters of the Mississippi, body parts are being discovered. No one knows what is behind it all, until a huge man eating bull shark turns up. This bull shark is different, as it can breath in fresh water, making a deadly encounter between anyone who comes before it. John Sanders must now try and reach the surface, with his ex-wife and whilst being held hostage.

Croc
›2007 · Horror, Action, TV Movie · 100m · Michael Madsen, Peter Tuinstra, Sherry Edwards
A large man-eating crocodile terrorizes tourists and locals near Krabi, in Thailand. Michael Madsen plays a hunter stalking the immense reptile, while sub-plots include a rivalry between a foreigner, who owns a crocodile-farm, and a Thai man who plays a part in framing the foreigner for the crocodile's rampage.

It Waits
›NR2005 · Horror · 88m · Cerina Vincent, Dominic Zamprogna, Greg Kean
A lone female park ranger tries to track down a vicious creature killing various people and terrorizing her at a remote national park.

Basilisk: The Serpent King
›NR2006 · Action, Horror, TV Movie · 88m · Jeremy London, Wendy Carter, Cleavant Derricks
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by modern archaeologist Harrison 'Harry' McColl's expedition. Despite a cryptic warning from tribal locals, everything goes to his Colorado university's museum. It's all exhibited during another eclipse, which leads to the monster reviving. Harry and some of his friends must try to petrify the monster again.

Alien Convergence
›2017 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 86m · Caroline Ivari, Stephen Brown, Mishone Feigin
When flying reptilian creatures wreak havoc all over the world, the survivors’ only hope of stopping them is a new, state-of-the-art fighter jet piloted by the only team that knows how to use the technology.

The Lost Tribe
›R2009 · Action, Adventure, Drama · 86m · Emily Baldoni, Nick Mennell, Brianna Brown
After a devastating boat crash, a group of friends are stranded on an uncharted island where they encounter an ancient tribe of humanoid creatures.

Unnatural
›2015 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 89m · James Remar, Sherilyn Fenn, Ron Carlson
Global climate change prompts a scientific corporation to genetically modify Alaskan polar bears with horrific and deadly results.

Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!
›PG1991 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 87m · Crystal Carson, Steve Lundquist, John De Bello
Police assitant Boyle along with tomatologist Kennedi Johnson look into investigations about Killer Tomato attacks, and discover Gangrene plans to brainwash people via TV talk shows to take over the world! Will Gangrene be stopped? Will Johnson become part of a Bacon, Lettuce and Human sandwich?

Xtro 3: Watch the Skies
›R1995 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 97m · Sal Landi, Andrew Divoff, Lisa London
Marines on a deserted island are ordered to defuse bombs, but then an alien creature terrorizes them.

Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep
›2006 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Charlie O'Connell, Victoria Pratt, Kristi Angus
Thirty years ago, Ray Reiter witnessed the brutal death of his parents at sea by a strange, octopus-like creature. Now determined to exact revenge, he joins archaeologist Nicole on a perilous high-seas expedition to find a legendary Greek Opal - said to be guarded by the very beast that murdered his family. As they come face to face with the killer Kraken, they must also battle a ruthless crime lord, who will stop at nothing to seize the coveted treasure for himself.

In the Spider's Web
›2007 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Lance Henriksen, Emma Catherwood, Cian Barry
When a team of backpackers sets out to explore the Indian jungles, one of them is bitten by a poisonous spider and killed.

Snakehead Terror
›2004 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 77m · Bruce Boxleitner, Carol Alt, Chelan Simmons
A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into the local lake in the hopes of reviving the local fishing industry. Thriving on the hormones, the Snakehead fish grow to monstrous proportions, devouring everything within reach. Capable of moving and eating on land, they are forced to leave the now barren lake in a desperate search for food - animal, vegetable or human.
