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Alligator (film)
Alligator (1980) is an American horror film directed by Lewis Teague, written by John Sayles with Frank Ray Perilli, starring Robert Forster and Robin Riker; a flushed pet alligator grows huge on hormone-laced lab animals and rampages from the sewers.
Animal (2014 film)
Animal (2014) is an American creature-feature horror film directed by Brett Simmons, written by Thommy Hutson and Catherine Trillo, starring Keke Palmer, Elizabeth Gillies, and Jeremy Sumpter; friends are stalked by a predator in the woods, with practical creature effects by Gary J. Tunnicliffe.
Bait 3D
Bait 3D, also released as Bait, is a 2012 Australian-Singaporean 3D shark thriller directed by Kimble Rendall, about tsunami survivors trapped in a flooded supermarket with great white sharks.
Bambi: The Reckoning
Bambi: The Reckoning is a 2025 British horror film directed by Dan Allen, the fourth entry in the Twisted Childhood Universe, in which a mutated deer stalks a mother and son after a car wreck; released July 25, 2025.
Bats
Bats (1999) is an American creature-feature horror film directed by Louis Morneau, written by John Logan, starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Dina Meyer; genetically altered bats attack a Texas town, grossing $10.2 million on a $5.3 million budget.
Beast (2022 American film)
Beast is a 2022 American survival horror film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Idris Elba as a widowed doctor hunted by a rogue lion in South Africa.
Beast of War
Beast of War is a 2025 Australian WWII shark survival thriller written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, inspired by the 1942 sinking of HMAS Armidale, starring Mark Coles Smith, released October 10, 2025, distinct from the 1988 Kevin Reynolds tank film.
Beware Boiúna
Beware Boiúna is a 2026 Lionsgate creature-feature horror film directed by Mike P. Nelson, starring Jessica Rothe, Kiana Madeira, and Logan Marshall-Green as an Amazon medical team stalked by a mythic hundred-foot serpent; released October 2, 2026, rated R, 104 minutes.
Birdemic: Shock and Terror
Birdemic: Shock and Terror is a 2010 independent horror film by James Nguyen, starring Alan Bagh and Whitney Moore, about killer eagles attacking Half Moon Bay; a sub-$10,000 Sundance-rejected cult 'best worst movie'.
Black Water (2007 film)
Black Water (2007 film): Australian survival thriller by David Nerlich and Andrew Traucki, based on true events, in which three tourists are stranded in a mangrove swamp by a crocodile; made for about $1.2 million, sold to 76 countries, distinct from the American film Blackwater (2007).
Blood Glacier
Blood Glacier (Blutgletscher) is a 2013 Austrian eco-horror film by Marvin Kren, also titled The Station, in which microorganisms from a melting glacier mutate Alpine wildlife into hybrid monsters; premiered at TIFF 2013, Metascore 45.
Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys
Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys is a 2014 Animal Planet TV movie by The Asylum, directed by James Cullen Bressack, starring Shannen Doherty and Christopher Lloyd as a mayor killed by lampreys.
Capsized: Blood in the Water
Capsized: Blood in the Water is Discovery Channel's first scripted Shark Week film (2019), directed by Roel Reiné and starring Josh Duhamel. It dramatizes the 1982 capsizing of the yacht Trashman, whose crew drifted for days preyed on by tiger sharks; two of five survived.
Chernobyl Diaries
Chernobyl Diaries (2012), also released as Chroniques de Tchernobyl, is a Bradley Parker horror film from Oren Peli about six tourists stranded in abandoned Pripyat; it earned $18.1 million and poor reviews (19% Tomatometer).
Crawl (2019 film)
Crawl is a 2019 American horror thriller directed by Alexandre Aja, starring Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper as a daughter and father trapped by alligators in a flooded Florida home.
Crawlers (film)
Crawlers, also known as Arachnid, is a 2026 American spider-invasion horror-thriller directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández, starring Matilda Lutz as an apartment manager fighting venomous spiders during a building quarantine; distinct from the 2020 film of the same name.
Creature 3D
Creature 3D (क्रिऐचर ३ डी) is a 2014 Hindi 3D monster horror film directed by Vikram Bhatt, starring Bipasha Basu and Imran Abbas, featuring a CGI Brahmarakshas; first Indian creature feature, released 12 September 2014 by T-Series.
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Creature from the Black Lagoon: 1954 Universal 3-D monster film directed by Jack Arnold; scientists on the Amazon encounter the Gill Man, played by Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning, first of a trilogy.
D-War
D-War (디워, Dragon Wars) is Shim Hyung-rae's 2007 South Korean sci-fi fantasy film about imugi serpents battling in Los Angeles; it drew over 8 million Korean admissions, was the first Korean film with a wide US release, and hit Netflix's global top 10 in 2026.
Dark Harvest (2023 film)
Dark Harvest (2023) is a David Slade horror film adapted by Michael Gilio from Norman Partridge's 2006 novella, about 1963 teen boys hunting Sawtooth Jack; MGM released it October 11, 2023.
Dolls (1987 film)
Dolls (1987) is a Stuart Gordon horror-comedy, written by Ed Naha and produced by Brian Yuzna for Charles Band's Empire Pictures, in which living dolls murder stranded guests at an elderly dollmaker couple's mansion.
Eight Legged Freaks
Eight Legged Freaks (originally Arac Attack) is a 2002 Warner Bros. horror comedy directed by Ellory Elkayem, starring David Arquette and Scarlett Johansson, about toxic-waste-mutated giant spiders attacking an Arizona mining town.
Feast (2005 film)
Feast (2005 film), John Gulager's horror-comedy debut from Project Greenlight season three, written by Melton and Dunstan; bar patrons battle monsters, grossing $719,135 with 56% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Frankenstein and Me
Frankenstein and Me (Frankenstein et moi) is a 1996 Canadian family fantasy-horror comedy directed by Robert Tinnell, starring Jamieson Boulanger, Burt Reynolds, Louise Fletcher, and a young Ryan Gosling; released July 12, 1996.
Graveyard Shift (1990 film)
Graveyard Shift (1990 film), also Stephen King's Graveyard Shift, is a horror movie directed by Ralph S. Singleton, based on King's Night Shift short story, about a mill crew battling rats and a mutant bat-rat creature; released October 26, 1990 by Paramount, starring David Andrews and Brad Dourif.
Hell Hole (2024 film)
Hell Hole (2024) is a Shudder creature-feature horror film by the Adams Family (John Adams, Toby Poser, Lulu Adams): Serbian fracking crew awakens a male-hosting cephalopod parasite, The Thing homage, Fantasia premiere, 83% Tomatometer.
Howl (2015 film)
Howl (2015) is a British werewolf horror film directed by Paul Hyett, starring Ed Speleers, Holly Weston, and Elliot Cowan; train passengers fight creatures after their London train stops in a forest.
Infested
Infested (Vermines) is a 2023 French spider-invasion horror film, the debut of director Sébastien Vaniček, starring Théo Christine; 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, César-nominated, streamed on Shudder as Infested.
Island of Lost Souls
Island of Lost Souls (1932) is Erle C. Kenton's Paramount pre-Code horror adaptation of H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, starring Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, and Kathleen Burke; banned in twelve countries and later acclaimed as the novel's best screen version.
It's Alive
It's Alive (1974), also known as It's Alive!, is Larry Cohen's American horror film about a mutant newborn that kills delivery-room staff and rampages through Los Angeles; scored by Bernard Herrmann, it earned $7 million and spawned two sequels.