Monster Movies

The ABCs of 100 Monster Movies:

(I have seen the 55 movies in bold.)

Includes my top picks for 13 monsters of Spooktober – the 31 days of October leading to Halloween, plus two more days to add the Day of the Dead, November 2.

    • Imbolc (Candlemas) – February 1
    • Spring Equinox (Ostara) – March 20/21
    • St. George’s Eve – April 22
    • Walpurgisnacht (Saint  Walpurgis Night) – April 30
    • Beltane (May Day) – May 1
    • World Dracula Day – May 26
    • Summer Solstice (Midsummer / Litha) – June 20/21
    • Lughnasadh (Lammas) – August 1
    • Autumn Equinox (Mabon) – September 20/21
    • Devil’s Night – October 30
    • Halloween – October 31
    • Samhain (All Hallows) – November 1
    • Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) – November 2
    • Winter Solstice (Midwinter / Yule) – December 20/21
King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1933)
A: Ape
    1. Merian C. Cooper’s King Kong (1933)
    2. The Son of Kong (1933)
    3. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
    4. King Kong Escapes (1967)
    5. King Kong (1976)
    6. King Kong Lives (1986)
    7. Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005)
    8. Kong: Skull Island (2017)
    9. Godzilla vs. Kong (2020)
    10. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
B: Brute/Mad Scientist
    • Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886 book)
      • Universal’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)
      • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
    • Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831 book)
      • Universal’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
      • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Batman (1989)
Batman (1989)
C: Clown/Carnival
    • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
    • Carnival of Souls (1962)
    • Batman’s Joker
      • Batman (1989)
      • Dark Knight (2008)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
D: Demon
    • Disney’s Fantasia “Night on Bald Mountain” (1941)
    • Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957)
    • William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist (1972)
    • The Ninth Gate (1999)
Jack the Ripper (1959)
E: Evil Killer
    • Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
    • Fritz Lang’s M (1931)
    • Halloween (1978)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
F: Frankenstein’s Monster
    • Universal’s Frankenstein (1931)
    • Universal’s Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
    • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
G: Ghost
    • Washington Irving’s The Headless Horseman (1820 short story)
      1. The Headless Horseman (1922)
      2. Disney’s The Adventure of Ichabod (1949)
      3. Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (1999)
      4. Headless Horseman (2007)
    • Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera (1909 novel)
      1. Phantom of the Opera (1925)
      2. Universal’s The Phantom of the Opera (1943)
      3. The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
      4. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
    • Haunted Houses
      1. The Uninvited (1944)
      2. The Innocents (1961)
    • Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959 novel)
      1. House on Haunted Hill (1963) (Vincent Price)
      2. The Haunting (1999)
    • Stephen King’s Ghost Stories
      1. The Shining (1980)
      2. Doctor Sleep (2019)
    • Poltergeist & The Conjuring
      1. Poltergeist (1982)
      2. The Conjuring (2013)
    • Ghostbusters
      1. Ghostbusters (1984)
      2. Ghostbusters II (1989)
      3. Ghostbusters (2016)
      4. Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
      5. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
H: Hybrid Humanoid
    • H.G. Wells’ 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau
      1. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
      2. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
      3. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
    • Universal’s Cheela The Ape Woman
      1. Captive Wild Woman (1943)
      2. Jungle Woman (1944)
      3. Jungle Captive (1945)
    • George Langelaan’s 1957 short story The Fly
      1. The Fly (1958)
      2. The Fly (1986)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Invisible Man (1933)
I: Invisible Man
    • Universal/H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man (1933)
    • John Carpenter’s Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
    • The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
    • Universal’s The Invisible Man (2020)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
J: Jurassic/Dinosaur
    • Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World
      1. The Lost World (1925)
      2. The Lost World (1960)
      3. The Lost World (1992)
    • 1950s Dinosaur Movies
      1. Lost Continent (1951)
      2. The Land Unknown (1957)
    • Ray Harryhausen Dinosaur Movies
      1. One Million Years B.C. (1966)
      2. The Valley of the Gwangi (1969)
    • Edgar Rice Burroughs’s 1918 Caspak Island novels
      1. The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
      2. At the Earth’s Core (1976)
      3. The People That Time Forgot (1977)
    • Jurassic Park Trilogy
      1. Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park (1993)
      2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
      3. Jurassic Park III (2001)
    • Jules Verne’s
      1. Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
      2. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
    • Sid and Marty Krofft’s Land of the Lost
      1. Land of the Lost (2009)
    • Jurassic World
      1. Jurassic World (2015)
      2. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
      3. Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
      4. Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
Godzilla (1954)
Godzilla (1954)
K: Kaiju
    • Early
      1. Ishirō Honda’s Godzilla (1954)
      2. Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster (1964)
      3. Destroy All Monsters (1968)
    • 1990s
      1. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
      2. Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth (1992)
    • 2000s
      1. Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
        (2001)
      2. Cloverfield (2008)
    • 2010s
      1. Pacific Rim (2013)
      2. Shin Godzilla (Godzilla: Resurgence) (2016)
    • 2020s
      1. Godzilla Minus One (2023)
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Wolf Man (1941)
L: Lycan/Werewolf
    • Early Werewolf Movies
      1. Wolf Blood (1925)
      2. Universal’s Werewolf of London (1935)
      3. Universal’s She-Wolf of London (1946)
    • Universal Classics
      1. The Wolf Man (1941)
      2. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
    • Comedy Werewolf Movies
      1. Teen Wolf (1985)
      2. Werewolves Within (2021)
    • Hammer Werewolf Movie
      1. The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
    • The Howling Series
      1. The Howling (1981)
    • An American Werewolf Movies
      1. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
      2. An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
    • Ginger Snaps Movies
      1. Ginger Snaps (2000)
      2. Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
      3. Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
    • 2000s Movies
      1. Dog Soldiers (2002)
      2. Cursed (2005)
    • Universal’s Wolfman Reboot
      1. Universal’s The Wolfman (2010)
    • Red Riding Hood Werewolf Movies
      1. Red: Werewolf Hunter (2010)
      2. Red Riding Hood (2011)
    • 2020s Movies
      1. Werewolves Within (2021)
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy (1999)
M: Mummy
    • Universal/Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Mummy (1932)
    • Hammer Horror’s The Mummy (1959)
    • Universal’s The Mummy (1999)
    • Universal’s The Mummy (2017)
Mary Shelley/Universal’s Frankenstein (1931)
Mary Shelley/Universal’s Frankenstein (1931) – angry mob of villagers run amok with pitchforks and torches
N: Nature Runs Amok
    • Them! (1954)
    • Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963)
    • Stephen King’s Cujo (1983)
    • Arachnophobia (1990)
Gremlins (1984)
O: Orcish

(Gremlin, Goblin, Ogre, Troll, etc.)

    • Twilight Zone “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (1963)
    • Gremlins (1984)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
P: Poe – Edgar Allan Poe
    • Universal’s Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
    • Universal’s The Black Cat (1934)
    • The Raven (1963)
    • The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Q: Cthulhu/H.P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon
    • The Haunted Palace (1963)
    • Re-Animator (1985)
    • Necronomicon (1993)
    • Call of Cthulhu (2005)
The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920)
R: Robot/Golem
    • The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920)
    • The Golem: The Legend of Prague (1936)
    • The Limehouse Golem (2016)
    • The Golem (2018)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
S: Skeleton
    • Ray Harryhausen’s Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
    • Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness (1992)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
T: Titan
    • Hammer Horror’s The Gorgon (1964)
    • Ray Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans (1981)
    • Clash of the Titans (2010)
    • Wrath of the Titans (2012)
Jaws (1975)
U: Underwater Menace
    • Universal’s Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
    • Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1956)
    • Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975)
    • The Host (2006)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
V: Voodoo
    • Sugar Hill (1974)
    • Wes Craven’s The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
    • Eve’s Bayou (1997)
    • The Skeleton Key (2005)
The Witch (2015)
W: Witch
    • Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (1922)
    • Arthur Miller’s The Crucible (1996)
    • The Craft (1996)
    • The Witch (2015)
Aliens (1986)
Aliens (1986)
X: Xtra-Terrestrial Monsters
    • The Blob (1958)
    • The Thing (1982)
    • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
    • Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979)
Exists (2014)
Y: Yeti

(Sasquatch, Bigfoot, & Abominable Snowman)

    • The Abominable Snowman (1957)
    • The Legend Of Boggy Creek (1972)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Z: Zombie
    1. William Seabrook’s White Zombie (1932)
    2. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
    3. George A. Romero’s
      • Night of the Living Dead (1968)
      • Dawn of the Dead (1978)
      • Day of the Dead (1985)
    4. Peter Jackson’s Braindead (Dead Alive) (1992)
    5. 28 Days Later (2002)
    6. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
    7. Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead (2004)
    8. James Gunn’s Slither (2006)
    9. Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror (2007)
    10. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
    11. Zombieland (2009)
    12. World War Z (2013)
    13. Ojuju (2014)
    14. Train to Busan (2016)
    15. The Girl With All the Gifts (2016)
    16. One Cut of the Dead (2017)
    17. Blood Quantum (2019)
    18. Attack of the Corn Zombies (2023)