It Came From Beneath the Sea (Octopus horror films)

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1. It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

Not Rated | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A giant, radioactive octopus rises from the Philippine Trench to terrorize the North American Pacific Coast.

Director: Robert Gordon | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Ian Keith

Votes: 6,358

2. Altitude (2010)

R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.

Director: Kaare Andrews | Stars: Jessica Lowndes, Julianna Guill, Ryan Donowho, Landon Liboiron

Votes: 10,622

3. Tentacles (1977)

PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

36 Metascore

A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.

Director: Ovidio G. Assonitis | Stars: John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda

Votes: 4,453

4. Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009 Video)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.

Director: Jack Perez | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Debbie Gibson, Vic Chao, Jonathan Nation

Votes: 11,309

5. Octopus (2000 Video)

PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

During the Cuban Missle Crisis, a Russian sub is sunk while en route to Havana. As the sub goes down, the hold is breached and barrels full of some mysterious substance tumble out. Years ... See full summary »

Director: John Eyres | Stars: Jay Harrington, Ravil Isyanov, David Beecroft, Carolyn Lowery

Votes: 2,125

6. Eye of the Beast (2007 TV Movie)

Unrated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A young scientist arrives to a small fishing town to fight against the creature living under the water.

Director: Gary Yates | Stars: James Van Der Beek, Alexandra Castillo, Arne MacPherson, Ryan Rajendra Black

Votes: 1,449

7. Octopus 2: River of Fear (2001 Video)

R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A giant, man-eating octopus suddenly appears in the Hudson River during the Fourth of July weekend and begins to leave a trail of dead bodies behind it.

Director: Yossi Wein | Stars: Michael Reilly Burke, Meredith Morton, Fredric Lehne, John Thaddeus

Votes: 1,084

8. 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: 40,796 | Gross: $11.20M

9. The Beast (1996)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Mysterious things happen at the coast of Graves Point: An empty boat lies at the shore, divers vanish. The sea biologist Dr. Talley thinks he knows the solution of the mystery: In the depth there is a gigantic squid.

Stars: William Petersen, Karen Sillas, Charles Martin Smith, Ronald Guttman

Votes: 2,909

10. Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006 TV Movie)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Thirty years ago, Ray Reiter witnessed the brutal death of his parents at sea by a strange, octopus-like creature. Now determined to exact revenge, he joins archaeologist Nicole on a ... See full summary »

Directors: Tibor Takács, John Blush | Stars: Charlie O'Connell, Victoria Pratt, Kristi Angus, Cory Monteith

Votes: 1,297

11. Sharktopus (2010 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A half-shark and half-octopus creature created for the military creates a whole lot of terror in Mexico, while the scientist who helped to create it tries to either capture or kill it.

Director: Declan O'Brien | Stars: Eric Roberts, Kerem Bürsin, Sara Malakul Lane, Héctor Jiménez

Votes: 10,576

12. Space Amoeba (1970)

G | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A space probe is infiltrated by alien beings and then crashes on a remote Pacific atoll. A group of people discover it to be inhabited by giant mutant monsters, created by the aliens in an attempt to conquer the world.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kenji Sahara

Votes: 1,494

13. Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda (2014 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

An American scientist creates a half-pterosaur and half-barracuda creature named the pteracuda which inevitably escapes, leaving it up to the sharktopus to stop it.

Director: Kevin O'Neill | Stars: Wilhem Abreu, Keisha Shadè Akinyemi, Lorena Alemany, Eduardo Alvarez Dargam

Votes: 4,571

14. Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

Approved | 63 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Scientists become trapped on a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson, Leslie Bradley

Votes: 3,807

15. Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf (2015 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When a mad scientist hybridizes the genes of a killer whale and a wolf, this creates the whalewolf and, once again, it is up to the sharktopus to stop it.

Director: Kevin O'Neill | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Catherine Oxenberg, Jennifer Wenger, Bruna Rubio

Votes: 1,713

16. The 7 Adventures of Sinbad (2010 Video)

PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Sinbad, the original Prince of Persia, must complete seven tasks in order to save the world from catastrophe.

Directors: Ben Hayflick, Adam Silver | Stars: Patrick Muldoon, Sarah Desage, Bo Svenson, Kelly O'Leary

Votes: 1,428

17. Crabs! (2021)

80 min | Comedy, Horror

A horde of murderous crab monsters descend on a sleepy coastal town on Prom night, and only a ragtag group of outcasts can save the day.

Director: Pierce Berolzheimer | Stars: Jessica Morris, Dylan Riley Snyder, Robert Craighead, Allie Jennings

Votes: 797

18. Space Probe Taurus (1965)

Not Rated | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In the year 2000, the spaceship Hope One sets off to find new galaxies for colonization. However, an encounter with an alien being and a swarm of meteorites sends the ship streaking off course into a sea of monsters on an uncharted world.

Director: Leonard Katzman | Stars: Francine York, James Brown, Baynes Barron, Russ Bender

Votes: 550

19. Island Claws (1980)

Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.

Director: Hernan Cardenas | Stars: Robert Lansing, Steve Hanks, Nita Talbot, Jo McDonnell

Votes: 604

20. Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)

Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A young alien and a teenage earthling fall in love, and plot to stop the alien's race from using Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.

Director: Tom Graeff | Stars: David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant, Harvey B. Dunn

Votes: 3,857

21. Lobster Man from Mars (1989)

PG | 82 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A movie mogul in search of a tax shelter screens a space parody about a young woman, a mad scientist and a space monster.

Director: Stanley Sheff | Stars: Deborah Foreman, S.D. Nemeth, Anthony Hickox, Dean Jacobson

Votes: 707

22. 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: 2,885 | Gross: $0.37M

23. Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955)

Passed | 167 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Jean Evans of an international wildlife foundation has made herself at home in Africa as the elephant-riding, vine-swinging, miniskirted 'Panther Girl.' On safari to film animals, Jean ... See full summary »

Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey, Arthur Space, John Daheim

Votes: 183

Episode 1: Claw Monster

24. Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)

Unrated | 74 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella.

Directors: Curtis Harrington, Pavel Klushantsev | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Marc Shannon, Christopher Brand

Votes: 1,928

25. The Claw Monsters (1966 TV Movie)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Sci-Fi

An evil scientist in a remote jungle location cultivates giant crawfish (!) as a means of scaring trespassers away from his diamond mine. Condensed from one of the last Republic serials, "Panther Girl of the Congo". (1955).

Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey, Arthur Space, John Daheim

Votes: 14

26. Queen Crab (2015)

Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A young girl steals her dad's growth experiment infused grapes and feeds them to a pet crab. Years later, the now gigantic crustacean attacks the town!

Director: Brett Piper | Stars: Michelle Simone Miller, Kathryn Metz, Richard Lounello, A.J. DeLucia

Votes: 686

27. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

97 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The advertising director of a pharmaceutical company seeks to boost the ratings of their sponsored TV program by capturing a legendary monster in a marketing scheme as Godzilla re-emerges. (Japanese Version)

Directors: Ishirô Honda, Norman Tokar | Stars: Tadao Takashima, Yû Fujiki, Kenji Sahara, Ichirô Arishima

Votes: 1,969

28. Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Passed | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey

Votes: 3,547

29. Crustacean (2009)

92 min | Comedy, Horror

A lobster-clawed freak from a lurid sideshow wreaks a wrath of bloody horror - through a rural community so small that only two families live there - in this outrageous parody of grind ... See full summary »

Director: L.J. Dopp | Stars: Hannah Harper, Peter Atkins, Angela Berliner, Brian Sheridan

Votes: 51

30. 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: 8,546

31. The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Western

Two Secret Service agents, equipped with a wide array of gizmos, work for the government in the Old West.

Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Dick Cangey, Whitey Hughes

Votes: 6,502

Episode: The Night of the Kraken (1968) - A religious fanatic (played by Ted Knight) warns passersby at the San Francisco harbor that the city will be destroyed because of its citizens' wild ways. When a kraken (a sea monster) attacks at a pier, West tears off a piece of its tail, which is man-made. Gordon investigates by going undercover as an old salt, while West works with the U.S. Navy.

32. The War of the Gargantuas (1966)

G | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

The sole survivor of a fishing boat recounts sightings of hairy giants. A scientist investigates, revealing mutated creatures, growing from remains of a previous monster. Nearly indestructible, they battle in Tokyo until only one remains.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Russ Tamblyn, Kumi Mizuno, Kenji Sahara, Nobuo Nakamura

Votes: 3,536

33. Land of the Lost (2009)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

32 Metascore

A space-time vortex sucks scientist Rick Marshall, his assistant Holly and a survivalist Will into a world populated by dinosaurs and painfully slow creatures called Sleestaks.

Director: Brad Silberling | Stars: Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, Anna Friel, Jorma Taccone

Votes: 75,312 | Gross: $49.44M

34. Mojin: The Worm Valley (2018)

110 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Once again the legendary tomb explorer Hu Bayi is on a dangerous mission as he seeks out the Tomb of Emperor Xian, located on an island of monstrous creatures in this mystical action-adventure.

Director: Xing Fei | Stars: Heng Cai, Xuan Gu, Heng Yu, Taishen Cheng

Votes: 674 | Gross: $0.10M

35. Astonishing Tales of Terror: Rocktapussy! (2022 Video)

93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A group of everyday heroes encounter the fight of their lives in the deep mines of Northern Ontario where they unwittingly awaken an ancient giant octopus.

Director: Andrew Cymek | Stars: Brigitte Kingsley, Landy Cannon, Sara Mitich, Patrick Kwok-Choon

Votes: 366

36. Goliath Awaits (1981)

PG | 200 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A team of scientists discover a secret underwater community within the wreck of an ocean liner that sank during World War II.

Stars: Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, John Carradine

Votes: 1,199

37. Possum (2018)

85 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

64 Metascore

After returning to his childhood home, a disgraced children's puppeteer is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured his entire life.

Director: Matthew Holness | Stars: Sean Harris, Alun Armstrong, Andy Blithe, Ryan Enever

Votes: 8,970

38. Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)

Unrated | 78 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

Astronauts landing on Venus encounter dangerous creatures and almost meet some sexy Venusian women who like to sun-bathe in hip-hugging skin-tight pants and seashell brassieres.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Mamie Van Doren, Mary Marr, Paige Lee, Gennadi Vernov

Votes: 1,996

39. Devil Fish (1984)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.

Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Gianni Garko, William Berger

Votes: 3,754

40. Blood Surf (2000 Video)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Follow an MTV-style filmmaker as she and her crew shoot an expose of the latest, most dangerous craze in extreme sports: bloodsurfing. While shooting in Australia, the crew becomes prey of a vicious saltwater crocodile.

Director: James D.R. Hickox | Stars: Dax Miller, Tziporah Malkah, Duncan Regehr, Matt Borlenghi

Votes: 2,642

41. Death Ship (1980)

R | 91 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

10 Metascore

A mysterious ghostly freighter rams and sinks a modern day cruise ship whose survivors climb aboard the freighter and discover that it is a World War II Nazi torture vessel.

Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso, Sally Ann Howes

Votes: 5,696

42. Evolution (2015)

Not Rated | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

77 Metascore

The only residents of young Nicholas' sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?

Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Stars: Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Mathieu Goldfeld

Votes: 7,606

43. Ghost Ship (2002)

R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

28 Metascore

A salvage crew discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea, and soon notices that its long-dead inhabitants may still be on board.

Director: Steve Beck | Stars: Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington

Votes: 109,043 | Gross: $30.11M

44. Aquarium of the Dead (2021)

86 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

A scientific accident causes sea creatures in an aquarium to become zombies.

Director: Glenn Miller | Stars: Vivica A. Fox, Eva Ceja, D.C. Douglas, Erica Duke

Votes: 1,124

45. Clash of the Titans (1981)

PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Family

59 Metascore

Perseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.

Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith

Votes: 47,782 | Gross: $41.09M

46. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)

Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.

Director: Stuart Paton | Stars: Allen Holubar, Dan Hanlon, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton

Votes: 1,988 | Gross: $8.00M

47. Clash of the Titans (2010)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

39 Metascore

Perseus, a demigod and the son of Zeus, battles the minions of Hades and the Underworld in order to stop them from conquering Olympus and Earth.

Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng

Votes: 292,780 | Gross: $163.21M

48. Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)

Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

Welcome to Atlantis, where royal guardsmen wear uniforms that could easily be from the wardrobe of Ming the Merciless and some unfortunate slaves are turned into bovine-headed beasts.

Director: George Pal | Stars: Sal Ponti, Joyce Taylor, John Dall, William Smith

Votes: 2,147

49. The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955)

Passed | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A seaside community is terrorized by a hideous sea monster, which has been created by experiments in atomic radiation.

Director: Dan Milner | Stars: Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen, Helene Stanton

Votes: 2,059

50. The Ghost Galleon (1974)

R | 89 min | Horror

The living corpses of the Satan-worshiping Knights Templar hunt for human victims in a 16th century galleon.

Director: Amando de Ossorio | Stars: Maria Perschy, Jack Taylor, Bárbara Rey, Carlos Lemos

Votes: 2,974

51. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

G | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

83 Metascore

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre

Votes: 37,189 | Gross: $28.20M

52. Encounters of the Deep (1979)

88 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

An oceanographer diving in the Bermuda Triangle discovers an undersea world.

Director: Tonino Ricci | Stars: Andrés García, Gianni Garko, Gabriele Ferzetti, Manuel Zarzo

Votes: 97

53. Wake of the Red Witch (1948)

Approved | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

During the 1860s in the South Pacific, Capt. Ralls, skipper of the Red Witch, has a series of adventures involving sunken gold bullion, pearls, natives, an unscrupulous ship owner and a giant octopus.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Adele Mara

Votes: 2,940

54. Haunting of the Mary Celeste (2020)

74 min | Horror

Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for reasons having to do with the supernatural... See full summary »

Director: Shana Betz | Stars: Emily Swallow, Richard Roundtree, Alice Hunter, Dominic DeVore

Votes: 747

55. Beyond Atlantis (1973)

PG | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure. The islanders are just as determined to keep their sacred treasure. Complications ensue.

Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Patrick Wayne, John Ashley, Leigh Christian, Sid Haig

Votes: 767

56. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)

TV-PG | 158 min | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi

In 1886, a French marine biologist aboard an American warship is scouring the Atlantic Ocean in search of a sea monster that routinely attacks and sinks passing ships.

Stars: Michael Caine, Patrick Dempsey, Mia Sara, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Votes: 1,680

57. The Lighthouse (I) (2019)

R | 109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

83 Metascore

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes

Votes: 255,140 | Gross: $0.43M

58. The Living Skeleton (1968)

80 min | Horror

About a young woman living in a seaside town haunted by the ghosts of a ship's crew murdered by modern-day pirates.

Director: Hiroki Matsuno | Stars: Kikko Matsuoka, Yasunori Irikawa, Masumi Okada, Asao Uchida

Votes: 828

59. Amsterdamned (1988)

R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Horror

A hard-boiled police detective sets out to capture a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the canals of Amsterdam.

Director: Dick Maas | Stars: Huub Stapel, Monique van de Ven, Serge-Henri Valcke, Hidde Maas

Votes: 9,480

60. The Last Shark (1981)

PG | 88 min | Horror

James Franciscus tries to save hundreds of swimmers in a coastal resort after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing the area.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: James Franciscus, Vic Morrow, Micaela Pignatelli, Joshua Sinclair

Votes: 3,108

61. Below the Sea (1933)

Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Fay Wray, Frederik Vogeding, Esther Howard

Votes: 331

62. Killer Fish (1979)

PG | 101 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.

Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Lee Majors, Karen Black, Margaux Hemingway, Marisa Berenson

Votes: 2,382

63. The Lighthouse (I) (2016)

102 min | Thriller

58 Metascore

Based on real events which saw two lighthouse keepers stranded for months at sea in a freak storm, the film tells a tale of death, madness and isolation; a desolate trip into the heart of human darkness.

Director: Chris Crow | Stars: Mark Lewis Jones, Michael Jibson, Ian Virgo, Joshua Richards

Votes: 1,153

64. Dagon (2001)

R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.

Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez

Votes: 21,049

65. Tormented (1960)

Unrated | 75 min | Horror, Thriller

A man lets a former flame fall to her death rather than let her interfere with his new relationship, but her ghost returns to disrupt his impending nuptials.

Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Richard Carlson, Susan Gordon, Lugene Sanders, Juli Reding

Votes: 2,940

66. The Creature Below (2016)

83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A young scientist discovers a malevolent entity which sets her on a bloody descent into the jaws of insanity.

Director: Stewart Sparke | Stars: Anna Dawson, Michaela Longden, Daniel Thrace, Johnny Vivash

Votes: 1,388

67. Widow's Point (2019)

TV-MA | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An author who spends a weekend locked in a haunted lighthouse as a publicity stunt for his next book becomes a target for powerful supernatural forces.

Director: Gregory Lamberson | Stars: Craig Sheffer, KateLynn E. Newberry, Dominic Luongo, Kaelin Lamberson

Votes: 496

68. Bermuda Tentacles (2014 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When Air Force One goes down over the Bermuda Triangle, the Navy sends its best rescue team. But in saving the president, the team awakens a monster which threatens America's entire Eastern Seaboard and, ultimately, the world.

Director: Nick Lyon | Stars: Trevor Donovan, Linda Hamilton, Mya, John Savage

Votes: 2,991

69. Half Light (2006)

R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Rachel Carlson, a successful novelist moves to a small Scottish village to move on with her life after the death of her son. Strange things start to happen when she is haunted by ghosts and real life terror.

Director: Craig Rosenberg | Stars: Demi Moore, Henry Ian Cusick, Nicholas Gleaves, James Cosmo

Votes: 14,532

70. 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: 1,477

71. The Underwater City (1962)

Not Rated | 78 min | Sci-Fi

An engineer, a psychologist and several other disparate types take part in an experiment to see if people can live for extended periods of time in a city built under the ocean.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: William Lundigan, Julie Adams, Roy Roberts, Carl Benton Reid

Votes: 181

72. The Trail of the Octopus (1919)

Not Rated | 300 min | Mystery, Thriller, Action

Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!

Director: Duke Worne | Stars: Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber, William Dyer, Howard Crampton

Votes: 45

73. Dark Beacon (2017)

TV-MA | 75 min | Horror, Thriller

An abandoned paramour tracks her lover down to a distant lighthouse. When she finds her beyond hope she must find a way to save a child from the malignant spirit of her deceased father and the madness of her mother.

Director: Coz Greenop | Stars: April Pearson, Jon Campling, Toby Osmond, Kendra Mei

Votes: 1,504

74. The Vanishing (II) (2018)

R | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

64 Metascore

Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles obtain a mysterious trunk, leading to their mysterious disappearance.

Director: Kristoffer Nyholm | Stars: Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler, Emma King, Gary Lewis

Votes: 20,680

75. The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)

Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The monster, which looks like a snarling "Creature from the Black Lagoon," invades a sleepy seaside town. The lighthouse keeper, widowed and estranged from the town folk, has been secretly ... See full summary »

Director: Irvin Berwick | Stars: Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon, Frank Arvidson

Votes: 1,161

76. Below (2002)

R | 105 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

55 Metascore

Strange happenings occur on a WW II submarine.

Director: David Twohy | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, David Crow, Matthew Davis, Holt McCallany

Votes: 24,140 | Gross: $0.61M

77. City Beneath the Sea (1971 TV Movie)

G | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit the underwater city called Pacifica. They find they must defend the city against hostile alien forces.

Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Colbert, Burr DeBenning

Votes: 757

78. Bloodtide (1982)

R | 82 min | Adventure, Horror

An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.

Director: Richard Jefferies | Stars: James Earl Jones, José Ferrer, Lila Kedrova, Mary Louise Weller

Votes: 2,598

79. Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)

Unrated | 63 min | Comedy, Horror

A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson

Votes: 3,302

80. The Abyss (1989)

PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

62 Metascore

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: 193,460 | Gross: $54.46M

81. The She-Creature (1956)

Approved | 77 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror

A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Chester Morris, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller

Votes: 1,963

82. 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: 3,158

83. Sector 7 (2011)

Not Rated | 101 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A crew, drilling offshore for oil south of Jeju island, finds a lethal alien life form instead.

Director: Ji-hoon Kim | Stars: Ha Ji-Won, Ahn Sung-ki, Oh Ji-ho, Cha Ye-ryun

Votes: 2,803

84. The Thing Below (2004 Video)

R | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A top secret drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico raises a dormant alien creature from the depths. Once loose, the creature goes on a murderous rampage.

Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Billy Warlock, Kurt Max Runte, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Pete Graham

Votes: 1,158

85. Pearl of the South Pacific (1955)

Approved | 86 min | Action, Adventure

Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Dennis Morgan, David Farrar, Murvyn Vye

Votes: 363

86. The Rig (2010)

R | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.

Director: Peter Atencio | Stars: William Forsythe, Stacey Hinnen, Serah D'Laine, Marcus T. Paulk

Votes: 2,195

87. Humanoids from the Deep (1980)

R | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

49 Metascore

Humanoid sea creatures start killing a fishing town's residents, and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off.

Directors: Barbara Peeters, Jimmy T. Murakami | Stars: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub

Votes: 10,514

88. Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)

G | 105 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

When Captain Nemo saves the passengers of a sinking ship and takes them to his Utopian underwater city he discovers that not all of his guests agree to remain there forever.

Director: James Hill | Stars: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman, Luciana Paluzzi

Votes: 1,806

89. They Bite (1992)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Sea creatures come to shore and attack and mate with humans.

Director: Brett Piper | Stars: Donna Frotscher, Nick Baldasare, Christina Veronica, Charlie Barnett

Votes: 442

90. Monstroid (1980)

R | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.

Directors: Kenneth Hartford, Herbert L. Strock | Stars: James Mitchum, John Carradine, Philip Carey, Anthony Eisley

Votes: 863

91. Gamera vs. Viras (1968)

Not Rated | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Gamera the Flying Turtle falls under the spell of evil aliens, but two children free him and he returns to fight the aliens' monster, Viras.

Directors: Noriaki Yuasa, Shigeo Tanaka | Stars: Kôjirô Hongô, Tôru Takatsuka, Carl Craig, Michiko Yaegaki

Votes: 1,867

92. 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

93. 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, María Celedonio, Gary Graham

Votes: 461

94. The Mutilator (1984)

TV-MA | 86 min | Horror, Thriller

A college student, who accidentally killed his mother as a child, decides to take his friends to his father's fishing cabin during fall break, not knowing that his crazed father is stalking the place.

Directors: Buddy Cooper, John Douglass | Stars: Matt Mitler, Ruth Martinez, Bill Hitchcock, Connie Rogers

Votes: 6,211

95. Gargantua (1998 TV Movie)

Unrated | 90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Marine biologist Jack Ellway and his son Brandon are drawn to the Polynesian island of Malau to study the effects of recent seismic activity on the area's marine life. Along with the local ... See full summary »

Director: Bradford May | Stars: Adam Baldwin, Julie Carmen, Bobby Hosea, Emile Hirsch

Votes: 1,213

96. The Sea Serpent (1985)

92 min | Adventure, Horror

A serpent, created by radioactivity, threatens a Spanish coastal town.

Director: Amando de Ossorio | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Taryn Power, Jared Martin, Ray Milland

Votes: 377

97. A Perfect Getaway (2009)

R | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

63 Metascore

Two pairs of lovers on a Hawaiian vacation discover that psychopaths are stalking and murdering tourists on the islands.

Director: David Twohy | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant, Kiele Sanchez

Votes: 76,387 | Gross: $15.48M

98. The Canal (2014)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

55 Metascore

A film archivist finds his sanity crumbling after he is given an old 16mm film reel with footage from a horrific murder that occurred in the early 1900's.

Director: Ivan Kavanagh | Stars: Rupert Evans, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Hannah Hoekstra, Kelly Byrne

Votes: 14,874

99. Grabbers (2012)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

62 Metascore

When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens, the heroes discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive.

Director: Jon Wright | Stars: Killian Coyle, Stuart Graham, Michael Hough, Richard Coyle

Votes: 19,527

100. City in the Sea (1965)

Unrated | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

In 1903 Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.

Directors: Jacques Tourneur, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, Susan Hart

Votes: 2,602



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