Best Classic Creature Horror Movies & Films Genre

Top 21 must-see best classic creature horror movies from classic creature horror movies, including ranked and rated by score.


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Classic Creature Horror Movies List

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1). King Kong (1933) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 8.61/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 94,187 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.7/10 | Metascore: 9.2/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
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Plot / Synopsis: A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition. Tagline: A Monster of Creation's Dawn Breaks Loose in Our World Today!...

Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Stars: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy


2). Frankenstein (1931) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 8.5/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 84,190 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.4/10 | Metascore: 9.1/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. Tagline: The Man Who Made A Monster!...

Director: James Whale
Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan


3). Cat People (1942) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 8.3/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 28,321 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.2/10 | Metascore: 8.5/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. Tagline: She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!...

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Stars: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt


4). Island of Lost Souls (1932) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 8.05/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 11,830 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.8/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
Plot / Synopsis: After his ship goes down, Edward Parker is rescued at sea. Parker gets into a fight with Captain Davies of the Apia and the Captain tosses him overboard while making a delivery to the tiny tropical island of Dr. Moreau. Parker discovers that Moreau has good reason to be so secretive on his lonely island. The doctor is a...

Director: Erle C. Kenton
Stars: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke


5). Tarantula (1955) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.85/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 11,420 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved | Gross: $1,100,000
Plot / Synopsis: In the Arizona desert, Professor Gerald Deemer is experimenting with growth hormones in the hopes of finding a way to increase the world's food supply. His partner in the project was recently found dead in the desert, suffering from a disease that normally takes years to advance but, in his case, seems to have afflicted him in only a...

Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott


6). The Mummy (1932) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.62/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 32,120 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.9/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Plot / Synopsis: A living mummy stalks the beautiful woman he believes is the reincarnation of his lover. Tagline: Stranger than "Dracula" ... More fantastic than "Frankenstein" ... More mysterious than "The Invisible Man"...

Director: Karl Freund
Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron, Edward Van Sloan


7). The Fly (1958) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.6/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 27,028 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | Metascore: 6.2/10 | MPAA Rating: Approved
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Plot / Synopsis: A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device. Tagline: If she looked upon the horror her husband had become... she would scream for the rest of her life!...

Director: Kurt Neumann
Stars: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman


8). The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Rotten Tomatoes: 9.4/10 | MPAA Rating: 0
Plot / Synopsis: When the clumsy Seymour Krelboyne spoils two flowers of a client, the owner of a small florist shop Gravis Mushnick is ready to fire him. However Seymour tells that he has mixed two plants of different breeds at home and created a hybrid named Audrey Jr. and Mushnick decides to give another chance to his employee. On the next...

Director: Roger Corman
Stars: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail


10). The Mummy (1959) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.33/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 12,100 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.2/10 | Metascore: 6.2/10 | MPAA Rating: Unrated
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Plot / Synopsis: In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences. Tagline: Torn from the tomb to terrify the world!...

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer


12). Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 7.15/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 36,766 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.0/10 | Metascore: 6.8/10 | MPAA Rating: G
Plot / Synopsis: A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study. Tagline: Not since the beginning of time has the world beheld terror like this!...

Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva


13). The Gorgon (1964) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.55/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 7,382 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: In the early 20th century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone. Tagline: A Monster With the Power to Turn Living Screaming Flesh Into Stone!...

Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe


14). Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 6.1/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,716 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.1/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: When an abused socialite grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind. Tagline: A titanic beauty spreads a macabre wave of horror! A terrifying masterpiece of shock and chills!...

Director: Nathan Juran
Stars: Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers, Roy Gordon, George Douglas


15). House of Frankenstein (1944) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

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Score: 5.85/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 8,244 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.5/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: After escaping from an asylum the mad Dr. Niemann and his hunch back assistant revive Count Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Frankenstein monster in order to extract revenge upon their many enemies. Tagline: THE DEVIL'S BROOD!...

Director: Erle C. Kenton
Stars: Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Anne Gwynne


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