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Ithaqua (film)
Ithaqua is a 2026 Canadian survival horror film directed by Casey Walker for Hammer Films, starring Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Durand, and Michael Pitt. Set in 1821 at a fur-trade outpost, it adapts August Derleth's Lovecraftian creature and is Hammer's first original monster in 60 years.
Kraken (2026 film)
Kraken (2026) is a Norwegian monster action film directed by Pål Øie, starring Sara Khorami as marine biologist Johanne Berge investigating a mythical sea creature in Sognefjorden; distinct from the 2026 French and Spanish films of the same name.
Matango
Matango (マタンゴ), aka Attack of the Mushroom People, is Ishirō Honda's 1963 Toho horror film about seven castaways transformed by a mutant fungus, adapted from Hodgson's "The Voice in the Night".
Night of the Bloody Apes
Night of the Bloody Apes (La horripilante bestia humana) is a 1969 Mexican horror film by René Cardona, remaking his Doctor of Doom; a gorilla-heart transplant turns a surgeon's son into a killer beast.
Nightbreed
Nightbreed is Clive Barker's 1990 horror-fantasy film adapting his novel Cabal, starring Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, and director David Cronenberg as serial killer Dr. Decker; a studio-recut flop that became a cult classic restored as The Cabal Cut and the 2014 Director's Cut.
Orang Ikan
Orang Ikan (aka Monster Island) is a 2024 creature horror film directed by Mike Wiluan, a Singapore-Indonesia-Japan-UK co-production in which a Japanese soldier and a British POW stranded in 1942 are hunted by a fish-man of Malay folklore.
Primate (2025 film)
Primate (2025 film) is a Johannes Roberts horror film for Paramount about a rabid pet chimp attacking friends at a Hawaiian villa; premiered at Fantastic Fest, released January 9, 2026, grossing $41.2 million.
Python (film)
Python (2000) is an American made-for-TV creature-feature horror film directed by Richard Clabaugh, starring Robert Englund, Casper Van Dien, and William Zabka, about a genetically engineered giant python loose after a military plane crash; it spawned Python 2 (2002).
Q: The Winged Serpent
Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) is Larry Cohen's cult monster film in which the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl nests atop New York's Chrysler Building; Michael Moriarty, David Carradine, and Richard Roundtree star, with stop-motion effects by David Allen.
Rawhead Rex
Rawhead Rex (1986/1987) is a folk horror film directed by George Pavlou, adapted by Clive Barker from his Books of Blood story, shot in County Wicklow, Ireland, starring David Dukes; Barker disowned it.
Rogue (2007 film)
Rogue (2007) is Greg McLean's Australian creature-feature horror about tourists trapped on a tidal mud island by a giant crocodile in Kakadu, starring Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell, and Sam Worthington; it won the 2007 AFI Visual Effects award.
Shark Night
Shark Night, marketed as Shark Night 3D, is a 2011 American horror film directed by David R. Ellis, about college students attacked by sharks in a Louisiana lake.
Skeletons (2027 film)
Skeletons is an upcoming American creature horror film directed by JT Mollner and starring Brie Larson, scheduled for release by Sony Pictures on June 4, 2027.
Sleep No More (film)
Sleep No More (Monster Pabrik Rambut) is Edwin's 2026 Indonesian horror-fantasy film about sisters investigating their mother's death in a wig factory; it premiered in Berlinale Special Midnight and is unrelated to Punchdrunk's immersive play of the same name.
Splinter (2008 film)
Splinter (2008) is an American horror film, Toby Wilkins's feature debut, starring Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, and Paulo Costanzo. Parasite creature feature set at an Oklahoma gas station; 82 minutes, Magnet Releasing, six Screamfest 2008 awards, $522,497 worldwide gross.
Sting (film)
Sting (2024) is an Australian creature-feature horror film written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, in which 12-year-old Charlotte's alien pet spider grows into a giant man-eater in a Brooklyn apartment building; released April 12, 2024, with Weta Workshop practical effects.
The Abominable Snowman (1957 film)
The Abominable Snowman (1957) is a Hammer black-and-white horror film directed by Val Guest, written by Nigel Kneale from his BBC teleplay The Creature, starring Peter Cushing and Forrest Tucker as rival Yeti hunters in the Himalayas.
The Birds (film)
The Birds is Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 horror thriller, scripted by Evan Hunter from Daphne du Maurier's 1952 story, in which birds attack Bodega Bay without motive. Starring Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor, it earned a 95% Tomatometer and National Film Registry status.
The Black Scorpion
The Black Scorpion is a 1957 Warner Bros. giant-monster film directed by Edward Ludwig, starring Richard Denning and Mara Corday, with stop-motion scorpions animated by Willis O'Brien and Pete Peterson; distinct from the 1995 Black Scorpion superhero film.
The Killing Tree (film)
The Killing Tree, aka Demonic Christmas Tree, is a 2022 British horror comedy directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield in which an executed serial killer's soul is resurrected inside a Christmas tree; 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Leopard Man
The Leopard Man (1943) is a Val Lewton-produced, Jacques Tourneur-directed RKO horror film, the third of their collaborations, adapted from Cornell Woolrich's Black Alibi, about killings blamed on an escaped leopard that are actually a human killer's work.
The Monster (2016 film)
The Monster (2016) is a horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino, starring Zoe Kazan and Ella Ballentine as a stranded mother and daughter stalked by a creature; released by A24, 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Reef (2010 film)
The Reef (2010) is an Australian survival thriller by Andrew Traucki, also known simply as Reef, about capsized sailors stalked by a great white, based on the 1983 Ray Boundy trawler disaster and shot with real sharks.
The Relic
The Relic is a 1997 American horror film directed by Peter Hyams, based on the novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, about a monster loose in a Chicago museum.
The Reptile
The Reptile (1966) is a Hammer Films horror directed by John Gilling, written by Anthony Hinds, starring Noel Willman, Ray Barrett, and Jacqueline Pearce as a cursed snake woman in Cornwall; shot back to back with The Plague of the Zombies and released with Rasputin the Mad Monk.
The Ruins (film)
The Ruins (2008) is a horror film directed by Carter Smith, adapted by Scott B. Smith from his 2006 novel, starring Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, and Joe Anderson as tourists trapped by carnivorous vines at a Mayan ruin; released April 4, 2008, R, 91 minutes.
The Sand
The Sand (2015), also released as Killer Beach or Blood Sand, is an American horror sci-fi comedy directed by Isaac Gabaeff: hung-over students trapped on a beach where a tentacled creature under the sand devours anyone who touches it.
The Silence (2019 film)
The Silence (2019) is a Netflix horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, adapted from Tim Lebbon's 2015 novel, starring Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka as a family fleeing sound-hunting creatures called vesps and a cult; released April 10, 2019, poorly reviewed.
The Yeti (film)
The Yeti is a 2026 American horror-adventure film, also billed as a monster movie, directed and written by Gene Gallerano and William Pisciotta; set in 1947 Alaska, a rescue team hunts a prehistoric Yeti. Released by Well Go USA April 4, 2026; unrelated to Netflix's Chris Pine film Yeti.
Troll 2
Troll 2 is a 1990 Italian horror comedy directed by Claudio Fragasso and starring Michael Stephenson, about a vacation family trapped by vegetarian goblins in the town of Nilbog.