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: One of only two survivors from a Martian expedition is so traumatized she doesn't remember the circumstances of the trip.
Tagline: Sights beyond belief! (Ad cuts)...
Director: Ib Melchior Stars: Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen, Paul Hahn
Plot / Synopsis: Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him, it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find appropriate donors...
Director: William Beaudine Stars: Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford, Henry Hall, Minerva Urecal
Plot / Synopsis: A late businessman's daughter is heading with her aunt to the estate of her soon-to-be husband, unaware of the strange rumors that cloud the family's name.
Tagline: Just About The Most Outrageous er***c Fantasy Ever Committed To Film...
Director: Walerian Borowczyk Stars: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti, Guy Tréjan
Plot / Synopsis: A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Tagline: It's alive !...
Director: Eugène Lourié Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Donald Woods
Plot / Synopsis: A defecting Russian scientist is transformed by an atomic test into a hulking monster, Tor Johnson, of course. Not much else except some people are killed, boys get lost, and a rabbit sniffs Tor's corpse. (This film was used for Mystery Science Theater 3000.)
Tagline: Commies made him an atomic mutant!...
Director: Coleman Francis Stars: Douglas Mellor, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford, Larry Aten, Linda Bielema
Plot / Synopsis: An alien space craft lands in the desert. The alien takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through them. The animals attack and the terror begins.
Tagline: Prepare for a close encounter of the terrifying kind!...
Directors: David Kramarsky, Roger Corman, Lou Place Stars: Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent, Leonard Tarver
Plot / Synopsis: A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Tagline: Behind this doorway lie the terrifying and unspeakable secrets of hell. No one who sees it lives to describe it. And you shall live in darkness for all...
Director: Lucio Fulci Stars: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John, Veronica Lazar
Plot / Synopsis: A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
Tagline: Suspense and shock beyond anything you have seen or imagined!...
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Stars: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright
Plot / Synopsis: Giant scorpions demolish Mexico City. They have been released from underground caverns by a series of volcanic eruptions, and it's up to Hank, an American geologist to stop them.
Tagline: DON'T BE ASHAMED TO SCREAM - IT HELPS TO RELIEVE THE TENSION...
Director: Edward Ludwig Stars: Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas, Mario Navarro, Carlos Múzquiz
Plot / Synopsis: 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.
Tagline: When the lights go out...the feeding begins...
Director: Robert David Sanders Stars: Barbara Streifel Sanders, Joseph Dunn, Ian Malcolm, Michael Caruso, Caroline Rich
Plot / Synopsis: A strange lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.Tagline: Man is no longer the supreme being on this planet...
Director: Chuck Russell Stars: Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch Jr., Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark
Plot / Synopsis: An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
Tagline: Beware of the Blob! It creeps, and leaps, and glides and slides across the floor...
Directors: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr. Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Stephen Chase
Plot / Synopsis: After three of its employees have been reported missing in the Southern African Namib desert, the Eland Mining exploration company mounts a search and rescue expedition, comprising more employees which team up with Dr. Zach Straker, who researches extreme survival systems. Amidst the moving sand dunes they find human bones with just some blood on it, and identify them...
Director: Jason Wulfsohn Stars: Scott Bairstow, Rachel Shelley, Warrick Grier, Patrick Shai, Andre Weideman
Plot / Synopsis: A group of five college kids are forced to match wits with unwelcoming residents when they fly to a "deserted" island for a party weekend.Tagline: Play dead...
Director: Nicholas Mastandrea Stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Oliver Hudson, Taryn Manning, Eric Lively, Hill Harper
Plot / Synopsis: When Laura and Dan get married, she's more interested in Dan's gorilla. It's revealed through hypnosis that she was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation.
Tagline: Please Don't Tell What Happens To The Bride!...
Director: Adrian Weiss Stars: Charlotte Austin, Lance Fuller, Johnny Roth, William Justine, Jeanne Gerson