37 Best Monster Movies & Films / Creature Feature Movies
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Top 37 must-see best monster movies from 614 monster movies, including Pan's Labyrinth, Jaws, Aliens, Bride of Frankenstein, King Kong, Alien, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, The Birds, and Edge of Tomorrow ranked and rated by score.
614 Monster films / Creature Feature Movies sorted alphabetically from A-Z
Click any of movies below from the full list of monster movies list to see that films' synopsis, plot, cast/actors, directors, full poster, movie trailer, and review.
Plot / Synopsis: The United Nations assembles the ultimate weapon to defeat Godzilla, while scientists discover a fresh pteranodon egg on a remote Japanese island.
Tagline: Three is a very big crowd...
Plot / Synopsis: When Mothra went into outer space to stop a meteor from reaching Earth, she accidentally took with cells from Godzilla and remaining cells from Biollante that inhabited our atmosphere. The combined cells went through a black hole and created a new creature, Space Godzilla. Space Godzilla heads to Earth to confront Godzilla, Junior Godzilla, and the new G-Force robot,...
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! is Streaming on HBO Max
Plot / Synopsis: A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.
Tagline: Makes KING KONG look like a Midget!...
Directors: Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Morse Stars: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kôchi, Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata
Plot / Synopsis: When the aliens Xilians invade Earth, they release monsters to destroy the big cities. The Earth Defense Force formed by mutants is incapable to defeat the creatures. Commander Douglas Gordon decides to unleash Godzilla that has been trapped for many years to fight against the monsters. Godzilla becomes the last hope on Earth to vanquish the evil aliens and...
Directors: Ryûhei Kitamura, Koji Hashimoto, Shûsuke Kaneko … Stars: Masahiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa, Don Frye, Maki Mizuno, Kazuki Kitamura
Plot / Synopsis: Forty-two years after her first visit in Tokyo, Mothra returns to warn mankind that they must return Mechagodzilla, along with Godzilla's bones, to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. If not, dire consequences will follow. However, Godzilla is once again on the rampage, and Mechagodzilla is Japan's only defense.
Tagline: Two is company but three is...
Plot / Synopsis: American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.
Tagline: The legend begins...
Plot / Synopsis: Grabbers featured an odd couple detective team join up to protect a small Irish fishing town of Erin Island from tentacled alien invaders. The older hard drinking Ciaran O'Shea (Richard Coyle) is paired with younger Lisa Nolan (Ruth Bradley) in this horror comedy. The pairing alone seems to suggest that this team up if done right should be loads of laughs.
The extraterrestrial...
Director: Jon Wright Stars: Killian Coyle, Stuart Graham, Michael Hough, Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley
Plot / Synopsis: A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.Tagline: Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous...
Director: Joe Dante Stars: Hoyt Axton, John Louie, Keye Luke, Don Steele, Susan Burgess
Gremlins 2: The New Batch is Streaming on HBO Max, Peacock
Plot / Synopsis: The Gremlins are back, and this time, they've taken total control over the building of a media mogul.Tagline: Take Your Batch to See the New Batch...
Directors: Joe Dante, Chuck Jones Stars: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo
Plot / Synopsis: An eighteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into the area.
Tagline: 18 FEET OF TOWERING FURY!!...
Director: William Girdler Stars: Christopher George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel, Joan McCall, Joe Dorsey
Plot / Synopsis: Japanese villagers worship a monster and his son who live in an island cave. Some circus people hear about them, go to the island to capture the monster and wind up shooting its son. Then the trouble starts.
Tagline: From the wild frozen wastes of the world comes the MURDERING MONSTER that moves like a man!...
Directors: Kenneth G. Crane, Ishirô Honda Stars: John Carradine, Russell Thorson, Robert Karnes, Morris Ankrum, Akira Takarada
Plot / Synopsis: A scientist tries to save his son from cancer but his experiments turn him into a shark-man instead. A group of people from a pharmaceutical corporation are sent to the mad doctor's island to investigate his activities.
Tagline: When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and...
Director: Michael Oblowitz Stars: William Forsythe, Hunter Tylo, Jeffrey Combs, Elise Muller, Arthur Roberts
Plot / Synopsis: Alec Gillis' Harbinger Down (2015) looks like an awesome looking horror sci-fi film. There are some similarities between this film and John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) film BUT this film looks worthy enough to stand apart. Harbinger Down is a Kickstarter success story that has landed horror icon Lance Henriksen in the cast as well as Matt Winston, Giovonnie Samuels,...
Director: Alec Gillis Stars: Lance Henriksen, Camille Balsamo, Matt Winston, Reid Collums, Winston James Francis
Plot / Synopsis: The head of a cyborg reactivates and rebuilds itself and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.
Tagline: It activates it exhilarates... it exterminates...
Director: Richard Stanley Stars: Carl McCoy, Iggy Pop, Dylan McDermott, John Lynch, Mark Northover