Best Creature horror movies & Horror movies IMO
by nofacemonster | created - 30 Jan 2011 | updated - 29 Apr 2020 | PublicHere are some of the best creature horror movies i have watched. I thought i should list them up so people can see them if they haven't. I love creature-based horror movies, specially it has lots of chase scenes and non-human based creatures with proper scientific evidence. basically if any creature horror will do for me. Please note that they are not in any order, just a list of creature-horror stuff I've seen and think they are pretty good to recommend somebody else. I almost forgot, this list contains none-creature horror movies as well. and one more thing, this list contains mostly my favorite episode or part of the movie. Rest is up to you to find out and watch ok?.
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1. Feast (2005)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Patrons locked inside a bar are forced to fight monsters.
Director: John Gulager | Stars: Navi Rawat, Krista Allen, Balthazar Getty, Judah Friedlander
Votes: 33,828 | Gross: $0.05M
Loved it just because they are trapped in a bar and creatures are attacking from no-where. Following episodes are not even near good as part 1 of this movie.
2. The Descent (2005)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder
Votes: 246,698 | Gross: $26.02M
Pretty good movie, basically bunch of ladies are being chased, hunted and killed after they loose their way in a cave.
3. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
R | 107 min | Horror, Thriller
A traveling family falls victim to a group of mutated cannibals in a desert far away from civilization.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin
Votes: 183,126 | Gross: $41.78M
Watch the unrated version. A movie about family get stranded in the desert and being attacked by vicious group of deformed people.
4. Splinter (I) (2008)
R | 82 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still-living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.
Director: Toby Wilkins | Stars: Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo, Charles Baker
Votes: 40,876
Watch it if you haven't seen it, it's a great movie, i loved it, especially the concept of the creature.
5. Slither (2006)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Director: James Gunn | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker, Don Thompson
Votes: 88,800 | Gross: $7.77M
I say, Holly awesome, watch this if you like (hate) slugs :D if ya know what i mean. It's a great movie.
6. The Mist (2007)
R | 126 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher
Votes: 339,957 | Gross: $25.59M
Id say it's a very good horror movie, I liked it and i even liked a very unexpected ending. Watch it your self and see what i mean.
7. Aliens (1986)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser
Votes: 762,305 | Gross: $85.16M
If you haven't seen this, go grab ya self a nice sledge hammer and ask somebody to hit right on the head.... ermmm that's not what i mean..... Just can't call your self a creature-horror fan :D
8. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 949,398 | Gross: $78.90M
There is a excuse if you haven't seen this but not the part two of this.
9. Predator (1987)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo
Votes: 454,333 | Gross: $59.74M
Yes i know, Predator, the godmother (father) of all predator movies as far as i know and best of it. Forget everything you know of predator based movies if you have seen the new ones. Watch this, you'll laugh at new ones.
10. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin
Votes: 285,176 | Gross: $140.54M
Very good movie that might make you think as an movie made accidentally trying to make a documentary. yep! as far as i remember, the beginning of all over the shoulder student cam accident documentary turn in to a horror movie, movies. :D. It's good but find the version that has the ending. It's about bunch of film students (as far as i recall) going to make a documentary about blair b*** i mean blair witch.
11. REC (2007)
R | 78 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Stars: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano, Pablo Rosso
Votes: 196,401
Watch this first, Yes the original Spanish version of the movie and then watch the following episode which is REC 2. You can thank me later.
12. [Rec]² (2009)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
In order to ascertain the current situation inside, a supposed medical officer and a GEO team step into the quarantined and ill-fated apartment building.
Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Stars: Jonathan D. Mellor, Manuela Velasco, Óscar Zafra, Ariel Casas
Votes: 78,469 | Gross: $0.03M
Read the REC 1 comment or REC comment :P
13. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Approved | 137 min | Drama, Horror
A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 234,887
Good classic horror movie, YES It got a creature watch it.
14. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 466,061 | Gross: $13.78M
If you are just 6 years old, and see this, you will definitely have sleepless nights (only if you see this in 80's) pretty freaking even to think of it those days. Still an awesome cult classic. Bunch of scientist working in some pole (north or west whatever) unleashes an alien virus which deform them in to some sort of weirdo creatures. This is one of those movies that has my favorite atmosphere for a horror movie, Snow, Frozen, Creatures, Scientists, Aliens. Awesome!
15. The Toxic Avenger (1984)
R | 82 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Babtist, Cindy Manion
Votes: 32,109
Just loved this cool little movie, i am sure all of you will. About a kid who gets IL-treated by the society becomes a monster and ill-treats the society right at their F*** face.
16. Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
R | 104 min | Horror
Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.
Director: Victor Salva | Stars: Jonathan Breck, Ray Wise, Nicki Aycox, Garikayi Mutambirwa
Votes: 70,529 | Gross: $35.67M
School bus get stuck up in somewhere and the people in the bus is getting attacked by the friendly neighborhood creeper. Watch part 1 as well.
17. The Ring (2002)
PG-13 | 115 min | Horror, Mystery
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman
Votes: 374,706 | Gross: $129.13M
I don't wanna spoil it, by telling you what it is, yes watch it.
18. Ginger Snaps (2000)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.
Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers
Votes: 52,249 | Gross: $0.00M
Two teenage goth girls (sisters), and werewolves, what else can you ask for?, really good movie.
19. She Creature (2001 TV Movie)
R | 91 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
In Ireland, two carnies abduct a mermaid and decide to take her to America. In their sea route, the seductive and mysterious creature reveals an uncontrollable darker side.
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Jim Piddock, Reno Wilson
Votes: 3,842
I don't know where other parts went, but don't be fooled by the cover. it's a good horror movie and i always loved mermaids stuff since i was a kid. :P
20. Jaws (1975)
PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 658,850 | Gross: $260.00M
I promised my self I'll never go swimming again even on a swimming pool. Seriously i still don't go swimming in the sea even though i live in an island.
21. The Abyss (1989)
PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester
Votes: 193,012 | Gross: $54.46M
I wish this was really real. deep sea scientist like fellas go under the sea and few incidents do happen and they discover a intelligent alien like civilization in the deep sea. Pretty good effects for it's time.
22. Deep Rising (1998)
R | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who had already invaded the ship.
Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O'Connor
Votes: 40,758 | Gross: $11.20M
Many haven't seen it, i know cover looks stupid but it's a very good movie, and i am still waiting for the part 2 of it. cruiser liner getting attacked by a massive sea monster.
23. The Omen (1976)
R | 111 min | Horror, Mystery
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens, David Warner
Votes: 132,143 | Gross: $4.27M
About a kid who is the former devil and stuff he do to amuse himself. Really good.
24. Brain Damage (1988)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.
Director: Frank Henenlotter | Stars: Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes
Votes: 13,153
Something starts to live in his head, and yes it eats brains. At least that's what i remember of it.
25. Braindead (1992)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin
Votes: 103,232 | Gross: $0.24M
Can't believe peter Jackson did this funny gory master-piece. Watch it if you haven't, it's pretty good and i think unrated directors copy is out there. About a Sumatran rat monkey biting some grand ma and turning everything in to undead stuff. Very good movie.
26. Aberration (1997)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Mutant lizards attack a woman on the run hiding out in a cabin in the woods.
Director: Tim Boxell | Stars: Pamela Gidley, Simon Bossell, Valeriy Nikolaev, Helen Moulder
Votes: 1,047
A girl getting attacked by some sort of muty-lizards. good movie, i watched it long time ago. Reminds of Splinter 2008 though.
27. The Hole (2009)
PG-13 | 92 min | Fantasy, Thriller
A pair of brothers stumble upon a mysterious hole in their basement that leads to the darkest corridors of their fears and nightmares.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Chris Massoglia, Haley Bennett, Nathan Gamble, Teri Polo
Votes: 24,242
All i will tell you is, this is not your average everyday growing up kids horror movie. It's pretty scary for a horror movie. Bunch of kids find out that there is a bottomless pit in their new-home.
28. The New Daughter (2009)
PG-13 | 108 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A single father moves his two children to rural South Carolina, only to watch his daughter exhibit increasingly strange behavior.
Director: Luiso Berdejo | Stars: Kevin Costner, Ivana Baquero, Samantha Mathis, Gattlin Griffith
Votes: 16,111
I loved this movie, i wish it had a better ending (type of ending i like). dad, son, and daughter moves in to a new house and the place is ruled by some kind of ancient creatures. The daughter gets caught with them... that's all i will say. Watch it your self, it's not bad as they say it is.
29. The Gate (1987)
PG-13 | 85 min | Fantasy, Horror
Kids left home alone accidentally unleash a horde of malevolent demons from a mysterious hole in their suburban backyard.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Christa Denton, Louis Tripp, Kelly Rowan
Votes: 19,564 | Gross: $13.54M
Tiny little demons terrorize the neighborhood or at least the house that belong to their garden.
30. Hatchet (2006)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
When a group of tourists in a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
Director: Adam Green | Stars: Kane Hodder, Joel David Moore, Deon Richmond, Amara Zaragoza
Votes: 33,533 | Gross: $0.16M
Really good slasher flick, and funny as hell. I loved it, it's the typical slasher monster, some deformed guy killing people who got lost in the swamp.
31. Mulberry St (2006)
R | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to develop into blood-thirsty rat creatures.
Director: Jim Mickle | Stars: Nick Damici, Kim Blair, Ron Brice, Bo Corre
Votes: 6,409
A movie about infectious rodents causing havoc and spreading disease in Manhattan. good movie again.
32. The Host (2006)
R | 120 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-Bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona
Votes: 132,584 | Gross: $2.20M
one of the landmark movies when it comes to creature horror in asian cinema. Really good movie, and i loved it. Creature suddenly spawn from Han river in Seoul and wage a attack on civilians. Story focuses on a family that has severely got effected by the creatures actions.
33. 30 Days of Night (2007)
R | 113 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
Director: David Slade | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster
Votes: 189,258 | Gross: $39.57M
I have a special place in my soul for horror movies that is filmed completely in frozen atmosphere, and has creatures in it and they terrify helpless civilians and there courage in battle to overcome the creatures and their terror. This is one of the films that i really loved. When i hear a it's a movie in Alaska, in the dead of the night with plenty of terrorizing vampires. I jumped out and said "I want to see that".
34. Dark Floors (2008)
R | 85 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.
Director: Pete Riski | Stars: William Hope, Leon Herbert, Ronald Pickup, Philip Bretherton
Votes: 7,058
About a bunch of people trapped in a floor that they can never get out. This also has one of my second favorite atmosphere for a horror movie. Bunch of helpless people trapped in a realm which has no proper understanding of what it is and chased by creatures.
35. Lost (2004–2010)
TV-14 | 5,445 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The survivors of a plane crash are forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted tropical island.
Stars: Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly
Votes: 594,450
Yes i know, it's a TV series, and at it's best. i am not talking about the rest of the following seasons. The season 1 of the lost was really awesome, some nice creature chases, stranded up in a island not knowing what really it is. Go ahead and watch it if you haven't seen it yet.
36. The Presence (1992 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Horror
Mixed assortment of people survive the crash of an airliner at sea; cast upon a shore of mysterious island they discover dangerous creatures, exploding bananas, mutations and a biological weapons research facility.
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: Lisa Banes, Richard Beymer, MarÃa Celedonio, Gary Graham
Votes: 461
If you ever think that LOST TV series is and original idea. you are wrong, watch this TV movie first and then decide which one came first and whose idea was it first. I saw it many many years ago and i still remembers it. Passengers crash landing on a remote island which is terrorize by lots of unknown stuff. Pretty tribal girls (not to forget) and of course strange creatures.
37. The Langoliers (1995)
PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Most of the passengers on an airplane disappear, and the remainder land the plane in a mysteriously barren airport.
Stars: Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, Tom Holland, Kate Maberly
Votes: 31,868
One of my favorite movies associated with Stephen king's books. Passengers get trapped in time, and it's really interesting, especially the concept.
38. Dead Space: Downfall (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 74 min | Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
A team of miners at an outpost in deep space unearth an ancient alien artefact. After the relic is brought aboard their spaceship, the USG Ishimura, for scientific study, an alien species begins to infect the members of the ship.
Directors: Chuck Patton, Curt Geda, Vinton Heuck | Stars: Nika Futterman, Keith Szarabajka, Jim Cummings, Kevin Michael Richardson
Votes: 11,445
Another great creature horror movie, inspired by the older sci-fi horror movie as well as the video game. I liked it, and it is animated. Space ship crew go crazy after meddling with an object from red planet and they turn in to necromorphs. which is more like thing movie creatures.
39. Event Horizon (1997)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson
Votes: 196,994 | Gross: $26.67M
Another good sci-fi horror movie. it doesn't have much creatures but creature horror fans will be also entertained.
40. Starship Troopers (1997)
R | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Humans, in a fascist militaristic future, wage war with giant alien bugs.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey
Votes: 320,835 | Gross: $54.81M
Awesome movie i would say again. A war between humans and bugs from another world. It's fun to watch and lots of special effects for it's time and best of it.
41. Mimic (1997)
R | 105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini
Votes: 55,590 | Gross: $25.48M
story about bunch of insects who grown large enough to destroy the mankind. Enjoyable movie.
42. Godzilla (I) (1998)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that heads off to New York City. The American military must chase the monster across the city to stop it before it reproduces.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria
Votes: 203,421 | Gross: $136.31M
The most underrated movie of the history of moviekind. Really, no joke, it's a great fun, movie with few little bad parts, but 90% of the movie is awesome ride. Watch it if you haven't, and you'll see what i mean.
43. Dreamcatcher (2003)
R | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi