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: On a naval expedition to Antarctica, three men and reporter Maggie Hathaway crash-land in a crater 1000 m below sea level. There, they encounter steamy tropical forest, dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and human footprints, as Maggie's clothes become more and more abbreviated.
Tagline: DEEP IN THE ANTARCTIC WILDERNESS! (original print ad - all caps)...
Director: Virgil W. Vogel Stars: Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson, William Reynolds, Henry Brandon, Douglas Kennedy
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
Plot / Synopsis: This film starts out like the Love Boat on acid, as a cast of varied characters, with various issues, take Captain Eric Porter's leaky cargo ship to escape their troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and our heroes find themselves trapped on an island of man-eating seaweed, populated by giant monster...
Directors: Michael Carreras, Leslie Norman Stars: Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Suzanna Leigh, Tony Beckley, Nigel Stock
Plot / Synopsis: Professor Challenger reveals the existence of a remote plateau in the Amazon jungle where dinosaurs have survived. He returns there leading an expedition. Not only are dinosaurs found and confronted, but also highly evolved apes, Amazonian Indians who think Challenger a god, and, on the way, the attractive orphaned niece of a lonely missionary. Theology intervenes in this exercise...
Director: Stuart Orme Stars: Bob Hoskins, James Fox, Tom Ward, Matthew Rhys, Elaine Cassidy
Plot / Synopsis: Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a diary given to him by fellow explorer Maple White's daughter, Paula. Malone's paper funds an expedition to rescue Maple White, who...
Director: Harry O. Hoyt Stars: Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett
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Plot / Synopsis: A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.
Tagline: Based on the novel by Michael Crichton...
Director: Steven Spielberg Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Richard Attenborough
Plot / Synopsis: A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one...
Tagline: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Down Under...
Director: Philippe Mora Stars: William Yang, Deby Wightman, Christopher Pate, Jerome Patillo, Dagmar Bláhová
Plot / Synopsis: A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.Tagline: Stephen King's Legendary Tale of Terror...
Director: Frank Darabont Stars: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, Toby Jones
Plot / Synopsis: On an archaeological dig in Asia, Dr. Roger Bentley finds a cuneiform tablet referring to an ancient society, the Shadow Dynasty, that was destroyed. An earthquake soon after reveals an ancient artifact and the scientists discover the ruins of an ancient temple world on a remote mountain site. It leads them to an underground world, lost in time, where...
Director: Virgil W. Vogel Stars: John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier, Nestor Paiva
Plot / Synopsis: A strange black meteor crashes near the town of San Angelo and litters the countryside with fragments. When a storm exposes these fragments to water, they grow into skyscraper-sized monoliths which then topple and shatter into thousands of pieces that grow into monoliths themselves and repeat the process. Any humans in the way are crushed or turned into human...
Director: John Sherwood Stars: Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne, Trevor Bardette, Phil Harvey
Plot / Synopsis: The monster, which looks like a snarling "Creature from the Black Lagoon," invades a sleepy seaside town. The lighthouse keeper, newly widowed and estranged from the town folk, has been leaving food out for the monster for years, unaware of it's blood lust. When the monster's appetite outstrips the keeper's ability to serve it, bloodless decapitated corpses start to...
Director: Irvin Berwick Stars: Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon, Frank Arvidson, Jeanne Carmen
Plot / Synopsis: A young group of monster fanatics attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters.Tagline: The End of the World Starts at Midnight...
Director: Fred Dekker Stars: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan
Plot / Synopsis: An earthquake in the Salton Sea unleashes a horde of prehistoric mollusk monsters. Discovering the creatures, a Naval officer and several scientists attempt to stop the monsters, but they escape into the canal system of the California's Imperial Valley and terrorize the populace.
Tagline: Distinctly chilling. So real that it is nearly incredible. (1993 MGM/UA VHS tape cover)...
Director: Arnold Laven Stars: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Barbara Darrow, Max Showalter
Plot / Synopsis: An American serving in the French Foreign Legion on an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra accidentally awakens a mummy.Tagline: The sands will rise. The heavens will part. The power will be unleashed...
Director: Stephen Sommers Stars: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O''Connor
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
