Zoological Horror Movies.
by emertens | created - 13 Dec 2011 | updated - 20 Jun 2014 | PublicAll kind of Creature Features and Monster Movies.
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• Dinosaurs
• Giant Amoeba, Tingler, Silicates, etc.
• Black Lagoon Creature
• Abominable Snowman, Yeti, Bigfoot, Sasquatch
• People turned to fly, wasp, frog, cobra, leech, mole, etc.
• Giant Spiders, Ants, Leeches, Mollusks, etc. (1950's/60's)
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• Giant Creatures (continued)
• Godzilla
• King Kong
• Apes, Gorillas
• Cats
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• Cats (continued)
• Dogs
• Frogs, Rabbits, Bears, Sheep, (70's nature run amok...) etc.
• Tigers, Lions, Pigs, Cattle, etc.
• Bats
• Rats
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• Rats (continued)
• Alligators, Crocodiles
• Slugs, Bees, Wasps, Ants, (Bugs, Insects) etc.
• Spiders
• Snakes
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• Snakes (continued)
• Fishes, Sharks
• Octopuses
• Fantasy Creatures (Graboids, Gremlins, Dinocroc, etc.)
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• Fantasy Creatures (continued)
• Werewolfs
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• Werewolfs (continued)
• Deep Sea creatures
• Birds
• Non specific (Dr. Moreau's Creatures)
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1. The Lost World (1925)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Director: Harry O. Hoyt | Stars: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Lewis Stone
Votes: 5,826 | Gross: $1.19M
2. One Million B.C. (1940)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Tale of Prehistoric survival and love between a male and a female belonging to opposing tribes that happened to be at slightly different stages of evolution.
Directors: Hal Roach Jr., Hal Roach | Stars: Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr., Conrad Nagel
Votes: 1,685
Slurpasaurs
A very nasty en cruel "special effect", which doesn't work at all. Real life animals are dressed up as dinosaurs - and they have to fight each other very seriously. Stock footage of this movie has been used in "King Dinosaur" and "Jungle Manhunt". (See below)
3. Unknown Island (1948)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Horror, Romance
An adventure seeker and his fiancée visit an uncharted island, only to find that it is inhabited by deadly dinosaurs and other creatures ready to attack.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Virginia Grey, Phillip Reed, Richard Denning, Barton MacLane
Votes: 790
4. Two Lost Worlds (1951)
Approved | 61 min | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
When the American clipper ship "The Queen" is attacked by pirates off the Hebrides in 1830, Mate Kirk Hamilton is injured and must be put ashore at Queensland Colony, Australia, for ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Dawn | Stars: Kasey Rogers, James Arness, Bill Kennedy, Gloria Petroff
Votes: 312
5. Lost Continent (1951)
Passed | 83 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Major Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crash lands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler, John Hoyt
Votes: 1,769
6. Untamed Women (1952)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During World War II, an American bomber pilot is rescued after drifting at sea aboard a raft.
Director: W. Merle Connell | Stars: Mikel Conrad, Doris Merrick, Richard Monahan, Mark Lowell
Votes: 283
7. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 8,730 | Gross: $5.00M
8. A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
One day a young boy finds a fossil of trilobite. Together with his three friends they set off on an adventurous journey through prehistory, up to the beginning of time.
Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Vladimír Bejval, Zdenek Hustak, Josef Lukás, James Lucas
Votes: 2,505
9. King Dinosaur (1955)
Not Rated | 63 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A new planet moves into the Solar system and four scientists (two couples) are sent to explore planet Nova. In between romantic interludes, the cast faces an iguana masquerading as a Tyrannosaurus rex.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: William Bryant, Wanda Curtis, Douglas Henderson, Patti Gallagher
Votes: 1,631
Slurpasaurs
(stock footage from 'One Million B.C.')
10. The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
Approved | 79 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle are being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.
Directors: Edward Nassour, Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas, Mario Navarro
Votes: 1,880
11. The Land Unknown (1957)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Three men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson, William Reynolds, Henry Brandon
Votes: 2,047
12. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Approved | 129 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker
Votes: 19,581 | Gross: $10.00M
Slurpasaurs
13. Dinosaurus! (1960)
Unrated | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the population. A boy teams up with a Neanderthal and an irritated dinosaur try to stop the dinosaurs.
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | Stars: Ward Ramsey, Kristina Hanson, Paul Lukather, Alan Roberts
Votes: 1,701
14. The Lost World (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains
Votes: 4,476
Slurpasaurs
15. Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In 1881, in Algeria, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are fighting a duel when a comet brushing Earth takes the two men to the Moon where they discover a prehistoric civilization.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Cesare Danova, Sean McClory, Joan Staley, Danielle De Metz
Votes: 762
16. Mysterious Island (1961)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill
Votes: 8,551
17. Planeta bur (1962)
78 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cosmonauts land on the planet Venus. However, they find themselves in danger from the voracious monsters they find on it.
Director: Pavel Klushantsev | Stars: Vladimir Emelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Gennadi Vernov, Yuriy Sarantsev
Votes: 1,476
Russian dino sci-fi.
18. One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Prehistoric man Tumak is banished from his savage tribe and meets pretty Loana, who belongs to a gentler coastal tribe, but he must fight caveman Payto to win her favors.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown
Votes: 9,633
19. Sound of Horror (1966)
Unrated | 91 min | Horror
When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons.
Director: José Antonio Nieves Conde | Stars: James Philbrook, Arturo Fernández, Soledad Miranda, José Bódalo
Votes: 464
20. The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
G | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A cowboy named Tuck Kirby seeks fame and fortune by capturing an Allosaurus living in a Mexican valley and putting it in a wild west show. His star attraction, called the Gwangi, turns out to have an aversion to being shown in public.
Director: Jim O'Connolly | Stars: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith
Votes: 4,953
21. When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
G | 96 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Sanna escapes being sacrificed and meets Tara. Together, they live in a seaside tribe that worships the Sun God and survive the dangers of the creatures from the Mesozoic Era.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen, Drewe Henley
Votes: 2,886 | Gross: $0.37M
22. Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)
GP | 85 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
In the near future with a intergalactic vampire plague threatening earth, an expedition is sent to a distant galaxy in hopes of discovering the plague's source. Landing on a mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Al Adamson | Stars: John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante, Joey Benson
Votes: 1,132
23. The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Fantasy
During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron
Votes: 7,034
24. At the Earth's Core (1976)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A Victorian era scientist and his assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant
Votes: 5,478
25. The People That Time Forgot (1977)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 1919, a British expedition in the Antarctica region is searching for a lost American explorer and finds a hidden prehistoric world instead.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Patrick Wayne, Doug McClure, Sarah Douglas, Dana Gillespie
Votes: 3,507
26. The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
PG | 85 min | Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
A meteor that crashed into Oregon's Crater Lake unearths a dinosaur egg. The heat from the meteor causes the egg to hatch, and the emerging dinosaur takes to snacking on the locals.
Director: William R. Stromberg | Stars: Richard Cardella, Glen Roberts, Mark Siegel, Bob Hyman
Votes: 1,687
27. Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)
PG | 84 min | Sci-Fi, Drama
A space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. Soon the crew discovers that there are dinosaurs on the planet. The crew have to survive until they hopefully are found and rescued.
Director: James K. Shea | Stars: Mary Appleseth, Harvey Shain, Derna Wylde, Max Thayer
Votes: 1,944
28. The Last Dinosaur (1977)
Not Rated | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A wealthy big game hunter and his group become trapped in prehistoric times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur.
Directors: Alexander Grasshoff, Tsugunobu Kotani | Stars: Richard Boone, Joan Van Ark, Steven Keats, Luther Rackley
Votes: 914
29. A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell (1990)
Not Rated | 82 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
In a post-Armageddon world, a young woman finds herself in a fight for survival against mutant cavemen, dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
Director: Brett Piper | Stars: Paul Guzzi, Linda Corwin, Alex Pirnie, Mark Deshaies
Votes: 1,787
30. Carnosaur (1993)
R | 83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A genetically manipulated and very hungry dinosaur escapes from a bioengineering company and wreaks havoc on the local desert town. A security guard and a girl environmentalist try to stop both it and the company's doomsday bioweapon.
Directors: Adam Simon, Darren Patrick Moloney | Stars: Diane Ladd, Raphael Sbarge, Jennifer Runyon, Harrison Page
Votes: 4,363 | Gross: $1.75M
31. Jurassic Park (1993)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 1,067,780 | Gross: $402.45M
32. Dinosaur Island (1994)
R | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Five downed pilots must contend with hungry prehistoric beasts and lusty cave women on a lush island paradise.
Directors: Fred Olen Ray, Jim Wynorski | Stars: Ross Hagen, Richard Gabai, Antonia Dorian, Griffin Drew
Votes: 1,823
33. Carnosaur 2 (1995)
R | 83 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A team of scientists go to a nuclear mining facility to investigate a possible meltdown and instead find a large amount of cloned dinosaurs.
Director: Louis Morneau | Stars: John Savage, Cliff De Young, Don Stroud, Rick Dean
Votes: 2,248
34. Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996)
R | 85 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
International terrorists get a surprise when their cargo turns out to contain living dinosaurs. The army commando team now have to think fast, if they want to prevent the extinction of the human species, instead of the reptiles.
Director: Jonathan Winfrey | Stars: Rob Camilletti, Stephen Lee, Cyril O'Reilly, Scott Valentine
Votes: 2,066
35. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
PG-13 | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn
Votes: 444,232 | Gross: $229.09M
36. Jurassic Park III (2001)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Grant to go to Isla Sorna for a holiday, but their unexpected landing startles the island's new inhabitants.
Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 341,169 | Gross: $181.17M
37. The Lost World (2001)
TV-14 | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
An expedition leaves for the Amazon to prove the existence of dinosaurs.
Stars: Bob Hoskins, James Fox, Tom Ward, Matthew Rhys
Votes: 3,383
38. Raptor Island (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Isaacs | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Steven Bauer, Hayley DuMond, Michael Cory Davis
Votes: 1,034
39. A Sound of Thunder (2005)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A single mistake in the past, by a time travel company in the future, has devastating and unforeseen consequences.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack, Armin Rohde
Votes: 20,503 | Gross: $1.89M
40. Pterodactyl (2005)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A dormant volcano deep with the Turkish forest holds a deadly secret. Perfectly preserved, a nest of pterodactyl eggs are ready to hatch...
Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Cameron Daddo, Coolio, Amy Sloan, George Calil
Votes: 2,554
41. Planet Raptor (2007 TV Movie)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Year 2066: The raptors are not extinct and they proliferated in the quatres corners of the galaxy, leaving a very little place for humans. The only hope for the human race is a group of soldiers.
Director: Gary Jones | Stars: Steven Bauer, Vanessa Angel, Ted Raimi, Musetta Vander
Votes: 433
42. Warbirds (2008 TV Movie)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
During WWII, a pilot and her crew carry a small group of American soldiers and an unknown cargo. However they get caught in a storm and they are forced to land in what is thought to be ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Gendreau | Stars: Jamie Elle Mann, Brian Krause, Tohoru Masamune, Shauna Rappold
Votes: 1,006
43. 100 Million BC (2008 Video)
R | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A scientist leads a team of Navy SEALs back in time to the Cretaceous Period to rescue the first team he sent back during the 1940s. Things go wildly when he accidentally brings a giant dinosaur back into Los Angeles.
Director: Griff Furst | Stars: Michael Gross, Christopher Atkins, Greg Evigan, Marie Westbrook
Votes: 4,781
44. Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Family
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
Director: Eric Brevig | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Aníta Briem, Seth Meyers
Votes: 131,859 | Gross: $101.70M
45. Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 Video)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
From the Jules Verne classic, a hi-tech drilling rig must rescue a research team trapped deep below the Earth's surface. There they discover an exotic world -- rich with spectacular flora and fantastical creatures.
Directors: David Jones, Scott Wheeler | Stars: Greg Evigan, Dedee Pfeiffer, Jennifer Dorogi, Sara Tomko
Votes: 961
46. The Land That Time Forgot (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
Director: C. Thomas Howell | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Timothy Bottoms, Lindsey McKeon, Darren Dalton
Votes: 2,199
47. Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954)
Not Rated | 64 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Julie, an American on vacation in Mexico, spots a giant, one-eyed amoeba rising from the ocean, but when she tries to tell the authorities, no one believes her. She finally teams up with a marine biologist in an attempt to destroy it.
Director: Wyott Ordung | Stars: Anne Kimbell, Stuart Wade, Dick Pinner, Wyott Ordung
Votes: 1,003 | Gross: $0.12M
48. Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Approved | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn, Michael Balfour, Gil Winfield
Votes: 4,805
49. The Tingler (1959)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts
Votes: 9,468
50. The Flesh Eaters (1964)
Unrated | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of young adults trapped on a desert island find the water inhabited by a violent form of flesh-eating organisms.
Director: Jack Curtis | Stars: Martin Kosleck, Byron Sanders, Barbara Wilkin, Rita Morley
Votes: 1,414
51. Island of Terror (1966)
Unrated | 89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An isolated remote island community is threatened by an attack by tentacled silicates which liquefy and digest bone and tissue.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray, Eddie Byrne
Votes: 3,964
52. The Reptile (1966)
Approved | 90 min | Horror
In a Cornish village, various locals die from mysterious snake bites, but the coroner rules the deaths as heart attacks, until a family of newcomers starts an investigation.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett, Jacqueline Pearce
Votes: 3,963
53. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
G | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno
Votes: 34,454 | Gross: $1.30M
54. Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Passed | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Men capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 7,032
55. The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist captures the Creature and turns him into an air-breather, only for him to escape and start killing.
Director: John Sherwood | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer
Votes: 4,026
56. Jungle Manhunt (1951)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Football player Bob Miller, played by an actual football player, is lost in the jungle. Who else to find him but Jungle Jim.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Robert Waterfield, Sheila Ryan, Rick Vallin
Votes: 391
Slurpasaurs.
(stock footage from 'One Million B.C.')
57. Fury of the Congo (1951)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Sherry Moreland, William Henry, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 306
Giant Spiders
58. Killer Ape (1953)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Nasty white hunters are testing out their germ warfare weapons using wild animals in Africa ... until they run into Jungle Jim.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Carol Thurston, Max Palmer, Burt Wenland
Votes: 290
59. The Naked Jungle (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer, William Conrad
Votes: 4,407
60. The Snow Creature (1954)
Approved | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
American botanical expedition in the Himalayas stumbles across a Yeti den, capture one and transport it back to Los Angeles, where it escapes while customs officials are debating whether it is animal or human.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, Teru Shimada, Rollin Moriyama
Votes: 1,217
61. Man Beast (1956)
Approved | 67 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Connie Hayward mounts an expedition into the Himalayan Mountains looking for her brother, who has not returned from a previous trek trying to locate the Yeti, or "Abominable Snowman". ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: Rock Madison, Asa Maynor, George Skaff, Tom Maruzzi
Votes: 679
62. The Abominable Snowman (1957)
85 min | Adventure, Horror
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American scientist lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis
Votes: 4,963
63. Half Human (1958)
63 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Japanese villagers worship a monster and its son who live in an island cave. Some circus people hear about them, go to the island to capture the monster, and wind up shooting its son. Then the trouble starts.
Directors: Kenneth G. Crane, Ishirô Honda | Stars: John Carradine, Russell Thorson, Robert Karnes, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 460
64. Bigfoot (1970)
GP | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Bigfoot kidnaps some women and some bikers decide to go on a rescue mission to save them.
Director: Robert F. Slatzer | Stars: John Carradine, Joi Lansing, Judith Jordan, John Mitchum
Votes: 987
65. The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
G | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Willie E. Smith, John P. Hixon, Vern Stierman, Chuck Pierce Jr.
Votes: 3,636 | Gross: $0.34M
66. Creature from Black Lake (1976)
PG | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps encounter a Bigfoot-type creature.
Director: Joy N. Houck Jr. | Stars: Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson
Votes: 1,526
67. Shriek of the Mutilated (1974)
R | 87 min | Horror
A group of college students are led by their professor into the mountains in search of the Yeti. The students start to be killed off one by one.
Director: Michael Findlay | Stars: Alan Brock, Jennifer Stock, Tawm Ellis, Michael Harris
Votes: 1,164
68. Snowbeast (1977 TV Movie)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror
A Colorado ski resort is besieged by a sub-human beast that commits brutal murders on the slopes.
Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Logan, Clint Walker
Votes: 2,273
69. Return to Boggy Creek (1977)
G | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Two men travel deep into the woods to search for a Bigfoot-like creature called "Big Bay-Ty" which has recently been sighted near Boggy Creek. Three children secretly follow. Little do they know a hurricane is about to commence.
Director: Tom Moore | Stars: Dawn Wells, Dana Plato, David Sobiesk, Marcus Claudel
Votes: 695
70. The Capture of Bigfoot (1979)
PG | 92 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A series of killings occur, with no suspects, the locals soon decide that Bigfoot is responsible.
Director: Bill Rebane | Stars: Janus Raudkivi, Randolph Rebane, Stafford Morgan, Katherine Hopkins Nicholas
Votes: 702
71. Night of the Demon (1980)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror
An anthropologist and his students attempt to track down a Bigfoot responsible for a rash of violent murders, only to uncover something even more sinister.
Director: James C. Wasson | Stars: Michael Cutt, Joy Allen, Bob Collins, Jody Lazarus
Votes: 2,517
72. Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1983)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A professor and three of his students camp out in the wilderness to find a Bigfoot-type creature.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Charles B. Pierce, Cindy Butler, Chuck Pierce Jr., Jimmy Clem
Votes: 3,758
73. Demonwarp (1988)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by what they believe is a Bigfoot-type creature. However, they soon begin to suspect that they may have stumbled onto a nest of aliens in a hidden spacecraft.
Director: Emmett Alston | Stars: George Kennedy, David Michael O'Neill, Pamela Gilbert, Billy Jayne
Votes: 752
74. The Unknown (2005)
R | 85 min | Thriller, Action, Adventure
When a group of poachers are found dead in the deep forests of the Pacific Northwest, a mob of revenge hungry hunters pursue the beast while four high school seniors try to save it.
Director: Karl Kozak | Stars: Dylan M. McKnight, Brandon Henschel, Miles O'Keeffe, Jack Conley
Votes: 1,190
75. Abominable (2006)
R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A man, crippled in a climbing accident, returns to his cabin in the woods as part of his rehabilitation, but he wasn't prepared for the imminent onslaught.
Director: Ryan Schifrin | Stars: Matt McCoy, Haley Joel, Christien Tinsley, Karin Anna Cheung
Votes: 4,952
76. The Wild Man of the Navidad (2008)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Based on the recently acquired journals of Texan Dale S. Rogers, this vintage horror tale from IFC Films debunks history books to tell the veracious, harrowing story of a rural Texas ... See full summary »
Directors: Duane Graves, Justin Meeks | Stars: William McBride, Kyle Nelson, Michael Retzloff, Charles Robertson
Votes: 569
77. Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon (2008 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A plane flight carrying a college football team crashes in the Himalayas. Surviving the crash was only part of their problem. Trying not to become a meal for the monster lurking in the mountains will be their greater challenge.
Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Marc Menard, Carly Pope, Adam O'Byrne, Elfina Luk
Votes: 2,127
78. Assault of the Sasquatch (2009)
R | 85 min | Action, Horror
When a merciless bear poacher is caught and arrested deep in the woods of a state park, he and his truck are taken to a neglected precinct in the heart of a dying city. Unbeknownst to the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Gernhard | Stars: Kevin Shea, Greg Nutcher, Sarah J. Ahearn, Cristina Santiago
Votes: 398
79. The Fly (1958)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall
Votes: 25,680 | Gross: $3.00M
80. Return of the Fly (1959)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Philippe Delambre, the now-adult son of "The Fly", does some transportation experimentation of his own.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, David Frankham, John Sutton
Votes: 5,185
81. Curse of the Fly (1965)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Motorist Martin Delambre attempts to keep evidence of his family's bizarre experiments in teleportation hidden from his wife, who is hiding secrets of her own.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Carole Gray, Yvette Rees
Votes: 2,449
82. The Leech Woman (1960)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.
Director: Edward Dein | Stars: Coleen Gray, Grant Williams, Phillip Terry, Gloria Talbott
Votes: 2,145
83. The Wasp Woman (1959)
Not Rated | 63 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, William Roerick
Votes: 5,476
84. Cat Girl (1957)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror
Leonora Johnson is a woman who returns to her ancestral home and is told she will inherit money, but also that there is a family curse: being possessed by the spirit of a leopard in spite of her disbelieving psychiatrist Dr. Brian Marlowe.
Director: Alfred Shaughnessy | Stars: Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard, Ernest Milton
Votes: 663
85. Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Approved | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom.
Directors: Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 1,889
86. Cult of the Cobra (1955)
Approved | 82 min | Fantasy, Horror
American G.I.s who trespass on a Hindu ceremony are hunted down by a beautiful woman who has the power to transform herself into a cobra.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Faith Domergue, Richard Long, Marshall Thompson, Kathleen Hughes
Votes: 1,482
Cobra Woman
87. The Mole People (1956)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier
Votes: 3,998
88. The Alligator People (1959)
Approved | 74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A woman in a hypnotic state recounts to two doctors the details of a horrific experience from her past life that began with the mysterious and sudden disappearance of her husband.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr., George Macready
Votes: 2,510
Also: real alligators
89. The Maze (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he ... See full summary »
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery, Michael Pate
Votes: 1,263
Man turned to frog. (Sorry for the spoiler).
90. Them! (1954)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness
Votes: 24,204
Giants ants
91. The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
Approved | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
"The Monster That Challenged the World" is a 1957 horror / science fiction movie of when horde of prehistoric mollusk monsters enter the canal system of the California's Imperial Valley and terrorize the populace.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Barbara Darrow
Votes: 3,161
Giant molluscs.
92. Monster on the Campus (1958)
Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters
Votes: 2,079
Agressive Dog, Giant insect, Neanderthal Man.
93. The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Approved | 79 min | Family, Horror, Sci-Fi
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, Donald Randolph
Votes: 4,103
Giant praying mantis
94. Monster from Green Hell (1957)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientific expedition in Africa investigates wasps that have been exposed to radiation and mutated into giant, killing monsters.
Director: Kenneth G. Crane | Stars: Jim Davis, Robert Griffin, Joel Fluellen, Barbara Turner
Votes: 1,366
Giant Wasp
95. The Strange World of Planet X (1958)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
A friendly visitor from outer space warns against conducting experiments with the Earth's magnetic field, that could mutate insects into giant monsters.
Director: Gilbert Gunn | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Gaby André, Martin Benson, Alec Mango
Votes: 1,363
Britain's only giant insects movie from the fifties.
96. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton
Votes: 19,977
Tiny Man. So giant cat & giant spider.
97. Tarantula (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 10,781 | Gross: $1.10M
Giant Spider
98. Killers from Space (1954)
Passed | 71 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An atomic scientist claims he was abducted by aliens after being injured in a plane crash.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Peter Graves, James Seay, Steve Pendleton, Frank Gerstle
Votes: 2,559
Giant Insects, giant lizard (if I remember well... Have to check)
99. Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A group of gold thieves pull of a heist and flee into the snowy wilderness, only to be pursued by a horrible, spider-like monster.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, Frank Wolff, Wally Campo
Votes: 2,300
Giant Spider
100. The Spider (1958)
Passed | 73 min | Family, Horror, Sci-Fi
Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Ed Kemmer, June Kenney, Eugene Persson, Gene Roth
Votes: 3,413
Giant Spider
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