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: Director Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) struck the perfect balance between horror and sci-fi. The crew of a space merchant vessel receive a transmission thinking it a distress call, proceed to investigate. The crew is then attacked by the mysterious life-form via facehugger and the final form of the Alien. Alien had an estimated movie budget of $11 million and grossed...
Director: Ridley Scott Stars: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt
Plot / Synopsis: After her last encounter, Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina Fury 161, a maximum security prison. When a series of strange and deadly events occur shortly after her arrival, Ripley realizes that she brought along an unwelcome visitor.
Tagline: In 1979, we discovered in space no one can hear you scream. In 1992, we will discover, on Earth, EVERYONE can hear...
Director: David Fincher Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover
Plot / Synopsis: In a secret government lab, Dr. Alan Woodman conducts experiments to develop a violent alien into a revolutionary fighting machine. The trial fails and the creature escapes into compound, killing everyone in its path. Only Woodman and his assistant Charlie survive. After locking down the facility, they send out a distress call and the top covert military force responds...
Director: Abram Cox Stars: James Marshall, Michelle Goh, John Savage, Martin Kove, Stanislav Dimitrov
Plot / Synopsis: A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilisation. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine but are victims of a new type of discrimination. When the first Newcomer police officer, Sam Francisco is assigned his new partner, he is given Matthew Sykes...
Director: Graham Baker Stars: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard, Leslie Bevis
Plot / Synopsis: Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the aliens.Tagline: It's been more than 200 years...The beginning has just started...
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan
Plot / Synopsis: James Cameron returned to direct the sequel to his Alien (1979) film with this Aliens (1986) which added action and adventure to this installment. Aliens had an estimated movie budget of $18.5 million and grossed $85.2 million at the box office. Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, and Carrie Henn star in Aliens...
Director: James Cameron Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen
Plot / Synopsis: Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right,...
Director: Lewis Teague Stars: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Sydney Lassick
Plot / Synopsis: A giant alligator runs riot in a small town with a lake connected to a sewer/drainage system. Typical plot; nobody believes the sightings until lots of people have been killed.
Tagline: It erupted from the bowels of the city in a lethal frenzy...
Director: Jon Hess Stars: Joseph Bologna, Dee Wallace, Richard Lynch, Woody Brown, Holly Gagnier
Plot / Synopsis: An American man unwittingly gets involved with French werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.Tagline: Things are about to get a little hairy...
Director: Anthony Waller Stars: Tom Everett Scott, Julie Delpy, Vince Vieluf, Phil Buckman, Julie Bowen
Plot / Synopsis: A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.
Tagline: You can't scream if you can't breathe...
Director: Luis Llosa Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde
Plot / Synopsis: A mercenary-for-hire accepts a mission from a billionaire to capture a dangerous snake that could possibly help cure a terminal illness.
Tagline: They Can Taste Your Fear...
Director: Don E. FauntLeRoy Stars: David Hasselhoff, Crystal Allen, Ryan McCluskey, Patrick Regis, Anthony Green
Plot / Synopsis: A scientific expedition sets out for Borneo to seek a flower called the Blood Orchid, which could grant longer life. Meanwhile, they run afoul of snakes and each other.
Tagline: The hunters will become the hunted...
Director: Dwight H. Little Stars: Johnny Messner, KaDee Strickland, Matthew Marsden, Nicholas Gonzalez, Eugene Byrd
Plot / Synopsis: Picking up immediately where Anaconda 3 left off, herpetologist Amanda Hayes finally learns her employer Murdoch's true colors when he hires a doctor to harvest a fresh supply of blood orchids to experiment with the regenerative nectar on a baby snake in order to seek treatment for his own terminal illness. Amanda is forced to secretly bring together another...
Director: Don E. FauntLeRoy Stars: Crystal Allen, Linden Ashby, Danny Midwinter, Calin Stanciu, Ana Ularu
Plot / Synopsis: Six archeology students are spending the summer at an isolated rural compound with their college professor, working on an exciting discovery: an ancient mummy, found in the ruins of a temple. Little do they realize that the mummy was the servant of the Rain God, and that one of them has the ability to bring it back to life...
Director: David DeCoteau Stars: Trent Latta, Jeff Peterson, Ariauna Albright, Michele Nordin, Russell Richardson
Plot / Synopsis: When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing, blood thirsty predator.
Tagline: Fear lives in the dark...
Director: Brett Simmons Stars: Joey Lauren Adams, Elizabeth Gillies, Paul Iacono, Thorsten Kaye, Amaury Nolasco
