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: Anthropologists deep in the Amazon uncover the remains of a man they come to determine was approximately 300-years old when he died. This leads to a second expedition to discover the reason behind his longevity, but there's a major problem in the form of an Amazonian tribe that guards the proverbial fountain of youth and the giant, five-headed snake...
Director: Allan A. Goldstein Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Jayne Heitmeyer, Larry Day, Gary Hudson, Ross McCall
Plot / Synopsis: The men who captured the giant ape King Kong return to Skull Island and find his likewise gigantic but far more friendly son.
Tagline: The Twelve Foot Ape Befriended them On the Island of King Kong!...
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack Stars: Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, John Marston, Victor Wong
Plot / Synopsis: When a man doesn't come home one night his daughter and her boyfriend go out searching and encounter a giant spider in a cave near the man's wrecked car. Coming back with the Sheriff, the spider is seemingly killed by DDT spraying, and the body then hauled for storage in the high school gymnasium. However, a loud dose of...
Director: Bert I. Gordon Stars: Ed Kemmer, June Kenney, Eugene Persson, Gene Roth, Hal Torey
Plot / Synopsis: A group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in, and find themselves at the mercy of a slimy, mysterious creature.
Tagline: No one knows the incredible secret of the mine...
Director: Melanie Anne Phillips Stars: Dan Lunham, Terri Berland, Rolf Theison, Keith Hurt, Mark Sawicki
Plot / Synopsis: A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.Tagline: Are you eating it ...or is it eating you?...
Director: Larry Cohen Stars: Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom
Plot / Synopsis: A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people.
Tagline: It is more than speculation... it is a prediction!...
Director: Irwin Allen Stars: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland
Plot / Synopsis: Thierry Notz's The Terror Within (1989) had so much potential in this post-apocalyptic world where monsters resembling gargoyles search the landscape to kill and reproduce with human females. Andrew Stevens, Starr Andreeff, and George Kennedy star in The Terror Within...
Director: Thierry Notz Stars: George Kennedy, Andrew Stevens, Starr Andreeff, Terri Treas, John Lafayette
Plot / Synopsis: At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting rest of the world
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Director: Mark A. Lewis Stars: Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, Kyle Schmid, William B. Davis, Steph Song
Plot / Synopsis: Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living...
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Plot / Synopsis: Master of Horror John Carpenter directed The Thing (1982), and this horror mystery sci-fi film is one I can watch every month of the year. A research facility crew discover a creature that can become anything it touches. The only weakness it has is to fire. The Thing had an estimated movie budget of $15 million and grossed $13,782,838 at...
Director: John Carpenter Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David
Plot / Synopsis: Based on the classic sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells, scientist and inventor, Alexander Hartdegen, is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to change the past. Testing his theories with a time machine of his own invention, Hartdegen is hurtled 800,000 years...
Director: Simon Wells Stars: Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Sienna Guillory, Laura Kirk
Plot / Synopsis: An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.
Tagline: Ghastly Beyond Belief!...
Director: William Castle Stars: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln
Plot / Synopsis: This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hed***stic, contemptuous and vain health club members, to the point of accidentally ending up in a vat of toxic waste. The devastating results then have a transmogrification effect, his alter ego is released, and the Toxic Avenger is born, to deadly...
Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman Stars: Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Babtist, Cindy Manion, Robert Prichard
Plot / Synopsis: The Toxic Avenger is lured to Tokyo, Japan by the evil corporation Apocalypse Inc. So while the Toxic Avenger is fighting crime in Tokyo, Apocalypse Inc. spread evil in Tromaville.
Tagline: Tackling Toxic Troubles from Tromaville to Tokyo!...
Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman Stars: Ron Fazio, John Altamura, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Rikiya Yasuoka
Plot / Synopsis: Back in the 1800's a lady gives birth to a monster. They decide that the baby is too ugly to name, therefore the monster is known as the "Unnamable". The creature brutally slaughters his family, and gets trapped in a vault. Go ahead to 1998, and some college students have heard the story about the unnamable and want to...
Director: Jean-Paul Ouellette Stars: Charles Klausmeyer, Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Alexandra Durrell, Laura Albert, Eben Ham
