Genre "Monster Film" Movies
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| 1. 20 Million Miles to Earth (year: 1957) |
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One of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen's pre-Seventh Voyage of Sinbad efforts, 20 Million Miles to Earth borrows a few pages from King Kong. An ...
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| 2. 30 Days of Night (year: 2007) |
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Hard Candy director David Slade took the helm for this adaptation of Steve Niles' terrifying comic-book series of the same name. In Barrow, AK, one ni ...
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| 3. Abominable (year: 2006) |
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With 42,000 sightings in 68 countries, the elusive woodland creature known as Sasquatch, Yeti, and Bigfoot is one of the most enduring natural mysteri ...
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| 4. Alien (year: 1979) |
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"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraf ...
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| 5. Aliens (year: 1986) |
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Big-budget special effects, swiftly paced action, and a distinct feminist subtext from writer/director James Cameron turned what should have been a by ...
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| 6. Alligator (year: 1980) |
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Lewis Teague directed this sly horror-comedy from a script by John Sayles, which plays off the old urban legend about the dangers of flushing one's pe ...
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| 7. Altered States (year: 1980) |
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In this 1980 sci-fi horror film, William Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with discovering mankind's true role in the universe. To this e ...
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| 8. Attack of the Giant Leeches (year: 1959) |
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This hysterical drive-in favorite pits a community of swamp-dwelling yokels against the silliest-looking monsters since the shag-rug aliens of The Cre ...
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| 9. Automaton Transfusion (year: 2007) |
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An army experiment gone awry sets the stage for terror in this tale of a small town overtaken by ravenous flesh eaters. The undead have risen, and Mai ...
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| 10. Beneath Loch Ness (year: 2001) |
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An American research party on Scotland's Loch Ness believes it has sonar evidence that the fabled monster of the lake is active. They summon Case Howe ...
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| 11. Bleeders (year: 1997) |
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A family of incestuous Dutch aristocrats emigrates to New England, and 300 years later, their long-lost descendent returns to the ancestral environs t ...
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| 12. Blood and Chocolate (year: 2007) |
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Iron Jawed Angels director Katja von Garnier and the producers of Underworld team to adapt author Annette Curtis Klause's tale of a teenage werewolf w ...
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| 13. Blood Angels (year: 2005) |
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In this direct-to-video horror outing, Ashley (Siri Baruc) is a troubled teenager who has been given to episodes of suicidal depression thanks to the ...
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| 14. Blood Freak (year: 1972) |
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This mind-numbingly odd product from the Gator State has so many moments of absolute mania it practically exists in a genre of its own: the Sunday-Sch ...
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| 15. Brotherhood of the Wolf (year: 2001) |
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French legend has it that a creature known as the Beast of Gevaudan — a huge, wolf-like monster — was responsible for the violent ...
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| 16. Cat People (year: 1982) |
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In this loose adaptation of the 1942 horror classic of the same name, a 2001-style opening montage establishes some sort of sacrificial, mystical unio ...
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| 17. Cloverfield (year: 2008) |
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Producer J.J. Abrams teams with writer Drew Goddard and director Matt Reeves for this frenetic tale of a powerful destructive force that descends upon ...
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| 18. Creature from the Black Lagoon (year: 1954) |
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Universal Pictures introduced audiences to yet another classic movie monster with this superbly crafted film, originally presented in 3-D. The story i ...
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| 19. Creepshow (year: 1982) |
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Two of the most venerable names in the horror field, author Stephen King and director George A. Romero, present this anthology of original twisted tal ...
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| 20. Creepshow 2 (year: 1987) |
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This less-satisfying sequel to the 1982 George A. Romero/Stephen King anthology presents a new trio of King stories, framed in a similar EC Comics-sty ...
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| 21. Critters 3 (year: 1991) |
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The third in the tongue-in-cheek horror series liberally cribbed from Gremlins (1984) features an early performance from future heartthrob Leonardo Di ...
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| 22. Darkness Falls (year: 2003) |
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Children have a very good reason to be afraid of the dark in this flashy horror story. Matilda Dixon was a genially eccentric woman who, in the 1850s, ...
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| 23. Dead Meat (year: 2004) |
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The Emerald Isle becomes home to a pack of flesh-eating denizens of the living dead in this darkly comic horror tale. Martin (David Ryan) and Helena ( ...
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| 24. Deep Rising (year: 1998) |
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Stephen Somers wrote and directed this $50 million science-fiction action-thriller. Set in the South China Sea, the story has been described as a cros ...
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| 25. Demon Knight (year: 1994) |
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This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the infamous EC horror comics of ...
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| 26. Dog Soldiers (year: 2002) |
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British director Neil Marshall's directorial debut Dog Soldiers resurrects and embraces the low-budget horror-comedy. Sergeant Harry Wells (Sean Pertw ...
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| 27. Doom (year: 2005) |
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One of the most popular and influential video games ever makes its way to the big screen in this sci-fi thriller. A coalition of Earth's scientific an ...
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| 28. Dragon Wars (year: 2007) |
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Korean director Shim Hyung-Rae's monster movie D-War begins with a lengthy prologue, in which an antique dealer named Jack (Robert Forster) watches a ...
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| 29. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (year: 1969) |
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The key image of this film occurs early on, as a hideous monster removes its face, only to reveal itself as Baron Frankenstein in a mask. Hammer's fif ...
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| 30. Ginger Snaps (year: 2000) |
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In the generic Canadian suburb of Bailey Downs live Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), 15-year-old sisters committed to introve ...
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| 31. Godmonster of Indian Flats (year: 1973) |
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Virginia City, NV, is home to the Comstock Lode, a mine that struck big in the latter half of the 19th century. One hundred years later and the city l ...
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| 32. Godzilla (year: 1998) |
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Dedicated to Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910-1997), who produced the 1954 original and sequels, the Devlin/Emmerich interpretation displays a redesign of Godzil ...
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| 33. Gremlins (year: 1984) |
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"Don't expose him to bright light. Don't ever get him wet. And don't ever, ever feed him after midnight." This sage advice is ignored midway ...
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| 34. Grindhouse (year: 2007) |
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Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino and Sin City director Robert Rodriguez join forces to offer a cinematic tribute to the blood-soaked exploitation ...
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| 35. Hellboy (year: 2004) |
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Mike Mignola's acclaimed comic book series about a creature from Hades who joins the battle against evil arrives on the screen in vivid form in this a ...
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| 36. Horrors of War (year: 2006) |
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As co-directed by neophytes Peter John Ross and John Whitney, the low-budget opus Horrors of War represents an ambitious attempt to meld into a cohesi ...
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| 37. Humanoids From the Deep (year: 1980) |
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This gory, scary low-budget shocker from the Roger Corman stable concerns the battle over a salmon cannery in a Pacific Northwest town. Genetically tr ...
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| 38. Island of Terror (year: 1966) |
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At a cancer research lab off the coast of Ireland, a group of scientists dies under mysterious circumstances. Before anyone notices their demise, the ...
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| 39. It (year: 1990) |
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Originally titled Stephen King's It, this two-part TV movie first aired on November 18 and 20, 1990. The story starts in Maine, where a small child is ...
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| 40. It! The Terror from Beyond Space (year: 1958) |
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One of the best of the medium-budgeted science fiction flicks of the 1950s, It! The Terror from Beyond Space is set in "the future" (1973, t ...
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| 41. Jaws (year: 1975) |
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Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the New Hollywood popcorn blockbuster while frig ...
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| 42. Jeepers Creepers (year: 2001) |
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Writer/director Victor Salva returns to his horror roots with this teen-slasher genre flick, one of several 2001 films produced by Francis Ford Coppol ...
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| 43. Kibakichi (year: 2004) |
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A man who can summon up his inner beast seeks to save others consigned to the same fate in this offbeat fusion of action and horror. Kibakichi is a Yo ...
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| 44. King Kong (year: 1933) |
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| 45. La Casa del Terror (year: 1959) |
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An insane scientist attempts to bring a mummy back to life, not realizing that the bandages were actually disguising not a mummy, but a werewolf. This ...
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| 46. Land of the Dead (year: 2005) |
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George A. Romero, who revolutionized the American horror film in 1968 with the instant classic Night of the Living Dead, returns to his dystopian zomb ...
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| 47. Leprechaun in the Hood (year: 2000) |
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Everyone's favorite bloodthirsty Irish gnome invades the world of hip-hop in the fifth film in the Leprechaun series. Stray Bullet, Butch, and Postmas ...
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| 48. Loch Ness Terror (year: 2007) |
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A cryptozoologist in search of the infamous Loch Ness monster discovers that the malevolent, forty-foot long reptile from Scotland has traveled to Lak ...
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| 49. Mega Snake (year: 2007) |
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A man is forced to overcome his lifelong fear of snakes in order to protect his town from a mythical serpent that is growing at an alarming rate and s ...
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| 50. Megalodon (year: 2004) |
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The horror film Megalodon begins as a large corporation begins using a powerful drill in order to look for oil in Greenland. The company disregards th ...
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