Best Creature Movies List
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Shrek (2001)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $267.65M Lead Role: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, | Director: After his swamp is filled with magical creatures, Shrek agrees to rescue Princess Fiona for a villainous lord in order to get his land back. |
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How to Train Your Dragon (2010)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $217.39M Lead Role: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson, | Director: A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. |
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The Shape of Water (2017)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 87 | Earnings: $50.66M Lead Role: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones, | Director: Guillermo del Toro, At 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. |
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Pacific Rim (2013)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $101.79M Lead Role: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, | Director: Guillermo del Toro, As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse. |
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The Mist (2007)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 58 | Earnings: $25.59M Lead Role: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, | Director: Frank Darabont, A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives. |
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $75.75M Lead Role: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Alexander, | Director: Guillermo del Toro, The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures. |
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Godzilla (2014)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 62 | Earnings: $200.66M Lead Role: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe, | Director: Gareth Edwards, The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity. |
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Over the Hedge (2006)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $155.02M Lead Role: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, | Director: A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating...and learns a lesson about family himself. |
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Tremors (1990)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $16.67M Lead Role: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, | Director: Ron Underwood, Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one. |
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $77.22M Lead Role: Max Records, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker, Pepita Emmerichs, | Director: Spike Jonze, Yearning for escape and adventure, a young boy runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king. |
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Fright Night (2011)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $18.30M Lead Role: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, David Tennant, Toni Collette, | Director: Craig Gillespie, After a new neighbor moved into the house next door, Charley discovers that he is an ancient vampire and goes in search for the help of Peter Vincent, a famous "vampire killer" to save his neighborhood from the creature. |
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Blood Tea and Red String (2006)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: null Lead Role: | Director: Christiane Cegavske, A handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire. |
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The Water Horse (2007)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $40.41M Lead Role: Emily Watson, David Morrissey, Alex Etel, Bruce Allpress, | Director: Jay Russell, A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend. |
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Pitch Black (2000)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 49 | Earnings: $39.24M Lead Role: Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Vin Diesel, Keith David, | Director: David Twohy, A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur. |
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La región salvaje (2016)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 72 | Earnings: $0.02M Lead Role: Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza, Eden Villavicencio, | Director: Amat Escalante, A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction. |
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Colossal (2016)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 70 | Earnings: $3.02M Lead Role: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson, | Director: Nacho Vigalondo, Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City, and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon. |
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John Carter (2012)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 51 | Earnings: $73.06M Lead Role: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton, | Director: Andrew Stanton, Transported to Barsoom, a Civil War vet discovers a barren planet seemingly inhabited by 12-foot tall barbarians. Finding himself prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Woola and a princess in desperate need of a savior. |
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 62 | Earnings: $71.15M Lead Role: Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker, | Director: Mark Waters, Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. |
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Early Man (2018)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $8.27M Lead Role: Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall, | Director: Nick Park, Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home. |
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Smallfoot (2018)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: $81.47M Lead Role: Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common, | Director: A Yeti is convinced that the elusive creatures known as "humans" really do exist. |
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