Horror Favorites: Monster Movies
Last Updated: June 6, 2021
We love a good monster movie, especially ones that are unpredictable and terrifying. Monsters can be giant or small, alien or natural, they can surround you or come from within. Below are our favorite monster movies.
Alien Invaders
The Blob (1958)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Alien (1979)
The Thing (1982)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Signs (2002)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Slither (2006)
The Fourth Kind (2009)
Dark Skies (2013)
Extraterrestrial (2014)
A Quiet Place (2018)
A Quiet Place 2 (2021)
Nature’s Finest
The Birds (1963)
Jaws (1975)
Piranha (1978)
Cujo (1983)
Twister (1996)
Anaconda (1997)
Open Water (2003)
The Happening (2008)
The Ruins (2008)
Frozen (2010)
Crawl (2019)
Not So Gentle Giants
Them! (1954)
Godzilla (1954)
Jurassic Park (1993)
King Kong (2005)
The Host (2006)
Cloverfield (2008)
Pacific Rim (2013)
Colossal (2016)
Rampage (2018)
And the Itty Bitty Terrors
Gremlins (1984)
Ghoulies (1985)
Critters (1986)
Arachnophobia (1990)
The Reaping (2007)
Water Creatures
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Loch Ness Horror (1981)
Leviathan (1989)
The Host (2016)
The Shape of Water (2017)
Sweetheart (2019)
Sea Fever (2019)
Underwater (2020)
Cryptids
Wendigo (2001)
Mothman Prophecies (2001)
Leeds Point (2008)
The Barrens (2012)
Indigenous (2014)
The Mothman of Point Pleasant (2017)
Shortcut (2020)
Ancient Beings
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Sinister (2012)
Ritual (2017)
It (2017)
It: Chapter II (2019)
Urban Legends
Candyman (1992)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Bye Bye Man (2017)
Slenderman (2018)
Mercy Black (2019)
Mythical
Leprechaun (1993)
Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)
Dagon (2001)
Darkness Falls (2003)
The Hallow (2005)
Boogeyman (2005)
Pans Labyrinth (2006)
The Mist (2007)
Under the Shadow (2015)
Krampus (2015)
The Mimic (2017)
Mutants
The Society (1989)
Wrong Turn (2003)
The Descent (2005)
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (201)
Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
The Montauk Chronicles (2015)
The Lodgers (2017)
Stay Out of the Fucking Attic (2021)
The Monster Within
The Fly (1986)
Under the Skin (2013)
They Look Like People (2015)
Split (2016)
Us (2019)
The Invisible Man (2020)
And two movies where we never see the monster at all…
Pontypool (2008)
Most people assume zombies (including us; we put this on our list of favorite zombie movies) but- as we have only recently learned, the creators of Pontypool argue that they are not zombies. They are “conversationalists.” Still we never do see them and yet…
Bird Box (2018)
They might be aliens invading the Earth. They might be mutants come to take revenge on mankind. Or perhaps a supernatural curse. We aren’t sure. All we know if that you can’t look or you’ll die. This really creates a world of suspense for Sandy B, as she attempts to survive this strange apocalypse.
