Obscure Monster Movies [Mostly]
A list of mostly non-hollywood obscure horror movies that I personally thought looked interesting, having an interesting subject ,plot synopsis, and/or trailer.
I'm creating this list for myself to find the hidden gems of the creature feature genre, that gets far overlooked and underused in Hollywood, making the great ones rare, but the fans will take what they can get. There is so much great folklore and urban legendry that could be made into great horror movies, so I'm setting out to find them, putting all that I think could be interesting into this list and rating them all.
This is mainly a personal list so I'm not going to be particularly strict with what goes on the list. I'm mostly interested in creature features, but if a ghost, zombie, or other kind of horror movie interests me similarlly, I may add them to this list.
I'm creating this list for myself to find the hidden gems of the creature feature genre, that gets far overlooked and underused in Hollywood, making the great ones rare, but the fans will take what they can get. There is so much great folklore and urban legendry that could be made into great horror movies, so I'm setting out to find them, putting all that I think could be interesting into this list and rating them all.
This is mainly a personal list so I'm not going to be particularly strict with what goes on the list. I'm mostly interested in creature features, but if a ghost, zombie, or other kind of horror movie interests me similarlly, I may add them to this list.
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- DirectorAndré ØvredalStarsOtto JespersenRobert StoltenbergKnut NærumA group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.A very different kind of found footage movie that feels like it has a real passion behind it, for the most part this works and i put up with some of the lesser effects in the movie because i found the concept so interesting.
However, it does have a major downfall in the last 5 minutes where a guy uses a uv spotlight to fight a troll and it shoots a ball of energy that you see slowly move across the screen. Right after this they really push the found footage aspect of the movie by tryng way to hard to make you think it was all real. The movie would have been better off just using it as an interesting way to get the camera into the scenes.
Dispite that I really recommend it, its well acted, interesting, and weird. The efforts made by the creators push it far above the average found footage ghost movie. I suppose the main difference between them being that people actually cared here. - DirectorWes CravenStarsLouis JourdanAdrienne BarbeauRay WiseAfter a violent incident with a special chemical, a research scientist is turned into a swamp plant monster.Swamp thing is very enjoyable in a sort of B movie way. the effects aren't great, the acting can be a bit hammy, sure, but it just has a real charm about it. I wasn't bored once during the movie.
this doesn't require any prior knowlege of the comics at all, the narative is pretty straight forwards, even with how weird it is. I may have gotten more enjoyment out of this as a fan of comic books, but it certainly didn't feel that way while watching.
Good if you want something light and campy. - DirectorConor McMahonStarsNiamh AlgarStephen CromwellGed MurrayA couple on a trip through the Irish countryside find themselves hunted by a creature who only attacks at night.
- DirectorCliff McClellandTom ZembrodStarsLaura BaileyKaris Paige BryantTom ZembrodEight college friends gather at a remote cabin for an annual weekend of drinking and fun. When a blood-covered teenage girl crashes their party, she unwittingly brings something with her, that transforms every door of the cabin from an exit to an entrance of terror. With no place to go and nowhere to hide, paranoia flares as they wait for certain death that may take everyone of them before the morning comes.
- DirectorJonas GovaertsStarsMaurice LuijtenEvelien BosmansTitus De VoogdtOver-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced he will encounter a monster...and he does.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
- DirectorAleksander NordaasStarsSilje ReinåmoErlend NervoldJon Sigve SkardEstranged friends Leo (a crime-scene cleaner) and hired-hand Elvis are cleaning up a particularly messy casualty deep in the Norwegian woods. When Elvis accidentally finds a secret passage that leads to a subterranean living space, he also encounters Thale, a beautiful young woman who sings, but does not speak. Though they are intrigued and concerned for her, they are ill-prepared when others, tracking Thale, finally catch up to her.
- DirectorJohn GulagerStarsNavi RawatKrista AllenBalthazar GettyPatrons locked inside a bar are forced to fight monsters.
- DirectorSebastian GutierrezStarsRufus SewellCarla GuginoJim PiddockIn Ireland, two carnies abduct a mermaid and decide to take her to America. In their sea route, the seductive and mysterious creature reveals an uncontrollable darker side.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsChester MorrisTom ConwayCathy DownsA mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
- DirectorCarter SmithStarsShawn AshmoreJena MaloneJonathan TuckerA leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
- DirectorJustin BensonAaron MoorheadStarsLou Taylor PucciNadia HilkerFrancesco CarneluttiA young man in a personal tailspin flees from US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
- DirectorAkizStarsCarolyn GenzkowSina TkotschWilson GonzalezAfter attending a rave party, a teenage girl forms a bond with a strange monster as she suffers a slow chaotic mental breakdown.
- DirectorJeremy GillespieSteven KostanskiStarsAaron PooleKenneth WelshEllen WongShortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsMira SorvinoJeremy NorthamAlexander GoodwinThree years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoByun Hee-BongPark Hae-ilA monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.
- DirectorJoel AndersonStarsRosie TraynorDavid PledgerMartin SharpeStrange things start happening after a girl is found drowned in a lake.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsMarisa ParedesEduardo NoriegaFederico LuppiAfter Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsSally HawkinsOctavia SpencerMichael ShannonAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
- DirectorGareth EdwardsStarsScoot McNairyWhitney AbleMario Zuniga BenavidesSix years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
- DirectorBenni DiezStarsMatt O'LearyJessica CookLance HenriksenA fancy garden party turns into upper class prey when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven foot tall predators.
- DirectorJulia DucournauStarsGarance MarillierElla RumpfRabah Nait OufellaA young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsMatthew McConaugheyChristian BaleIzabella ScorupcoA brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.
- DirectorBrett LeonardStarsJack ThompsonMatthew Le NevezSteve BastoniAgents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRichard CarlsonJulie AdamsRichard DenningA strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.