Top 21 must-see new critter movies from critter movies, including There's Nothing Out There, Arachnophobia, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Troll 2, Elves, Critters 2, Hobgoblins, Monkey Shines, Slugs, and The Blob ranked and rated by release date, new critter movie releases first.
Plot / Synopsis: Seven teens head up to a cabin on the lake for spring break. Mike has studied all horror films on video, and recognizes the signs of foreshadowing of doom. The others dismiss his concerns as the workings of a person that watches too many videos, but there really is something out there, and the teens begin experiencing an attrition...
Director: Rolfe Kanefsky Stars: Craig Peck, Wendy Bednarz, Mark Collver, Bonnie Bowers, John Carhart III
Plot / Synopsis: A species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to the U.S. in a coffin and starts to breed and kill.Tagline: Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude...
Director: Frank Marshall Stars: Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman, Julian Sands, Stuart Pankin
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: A family vacationing in a small town discovers the entire town is inhabited by goblins in disguise as humans, who plan to eat them.Tagline: One was not enough!...
Director: Claudio Fragasso Stars: Michael Paul Stephenson, George Hardy, Margo Prey, Connie Young, Robert Ormsby
Plot / Synopsis: A young woman discovers that she is the focus of an evil N*zi experiment involving selective breeding and summoned elves...
Tagline: They don't work for Santa anymore!...
Plot / Synopsis: Eggs of the small, furry alien carnivores are left behind on Earth and, after hatching, set their appetites on the town of Grover's Bend.Tagline: Get ready for seconds... they're back!...
Director: Mick Garris Stars: Terrence Mann, Don Keith Opper, Cynthia Garris, Scott Grimes, Al Stevenson
Plot / Synopsis: A young security guard must track down diminutive aliens who kill people even as they make their fantasies come true.Tagline: Be careful what you wish for... You just might get it!...
Director: Rick Sloane Stars: Tom Bartlett, Paige Sullivan, Steven Boggs, Kelley Palmer, Billy Frank
Plot / Synopsis: A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.Tagline: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil...
Director: George A. Romero Stars: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest
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: Before director Peter Jackson would become famous for his The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit movies, he made this horror sci-fi comedy film titled Bad Taste (1987). This movie featured aliens hunting humans for the meat in their intergalactic fast food chains. Bad Taste released in the US in June 1989 and is 91 minutes long. Bad Taste...
Director: Peter Jackson Stars: Terry Potter, Pete O''Herne, Craig Smith, Mike Minett, Peter Jackson
Plot / Synopsis: The Ghoulies wreak havoc at an amusement park, disposing of those who mistake them for mere fairground attractions.
Tagline: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bathroom...
Director: Albert Band Stars: Damon Martin, Royal Dano, Phil Fondacaro, J. Downing, Kerry Remsen
Plot / Synopsis: Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
Tagline: The terror has hatched...
Director: Terence H. Winkless Stars: Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz, Terri Treas, Stephen Davies
Plot / Synopsis: A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.Tagline: Don't feed the plants...
Director: Frank Oz Stars: Levi Stubbs, Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin