Every creature feature movie streaming on MGM+ in the US right now — 25 films ranked by rating, checked against MGM+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MGM+ US
Directed by George A. Romero
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRomero's documentary-style realism and social subtext transform zombies from supernatural monsters into a mirror of societal collapse.
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
Directed by Lewis Teague
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCujo's slow-burn rabies descent transforms familiar companionship into visceral horror—the genre's cruelest inversion.
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Directed by Roger Donaldson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSpecies weaponizes biological body-horror and creature reproduction as genuine threat—the alien design remains visually unsettling.
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
Directed by Don Taylor
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMoreau's hybrid creatures embody the creature feature's core fear—evolution perverted into grotesque chimeras challenging human superiority.
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.
Directed by Peter Hyams
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Relic weaponizes evolutionary biology as monster origin, grounding fantastic terror in pseudo-scientific plausibility.
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.
Directed by Victor Salva
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJeepers Creepers 2 perfects the unstoppable-force-versus-trapped-prey dynamic that defines creature feature tension.
When their bus is crippled on the side of a deserted road, a team of high school athletes discover an opponent they cannot defeat – and may not survive.
Directed by Kevin Connor
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLost World setting resurrects dinosaurs as the ultimate creature feature justification: prehistoric survivors demand discovery narratives.
During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British passenger ship and takes the survivors aboard. After getting lost in fog, the submarine surfaces near the unknown island of Caprona, a lost world where they find dinosaurs and Neanderthals.
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Devil Bat channels mad-scientist obsession into creature creation, establishing the vengeful-experiment archetype.
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
Directed by Frank Marshall
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa, where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk.
Directed by Greydon Clark
Sandy and Greg are teenagers who go camping, despite warnings not to, with their friends. They soon encounter aliens, who are using the area as a hunting ground.
Directed by Jeff Lieberman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSquirm weaponizes swarm behavior and electrical mutation, proving scale escalation makes mundane creatures terrifying.
A violent electrical storm topples power lines into the rain soaked earth that is home for an aggressive breed of worms. The high voltage causes the worms to mutate into larger, hostile hordes of man-eating worms that lie in wait for the residents of Fly Creek.
Directed by Herb Wallerstein
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSnowbeast captures isolated-location stalking that makes creature features survivable only through resourcefulness.
A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from the impending danger.
Directed by Marcus Dunstan
After their school bus crashes, a group of high school students is thrown into a terrifying fight for survival as they try to take down a group of unhuman savages… before they kill each other first.
Directed by Bert I. Gordon
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Food of the Gods' giant-wasp sequences demonstrate how insect-swarm logic creates mathematically unstoppable threats.
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.
Directed by Monte Hellman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBeast from Haunted Cave merges Gothic atmosphere with creature design, proving monsters thrive in atmospheric dread.
A gold thief and his gang use a skier's lodge and meet a monster covered with cobwebs.
Directed by Bert I. Gordon
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEmpire of the Ants transforms radiation-mutation into organized, weaponized intelligence—intelligence amplifies creature menace.
A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.
Directed by Ray Kellogg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Killer Shrews' size-inversion concept creates asymmetric combat dynamics that redefine predator-prey relationships.
Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who when they have run out of small animals to eat, turn on the humans.
Directed by Kim Kee-duk
✦ MovieMuse AI takeYongary channels Godzilla's kaiju template through creature-as-urban-destroyer, making atomic mutation tangible.
Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.
Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTentacles' unseen predator creates the creature feature's most effective device: what we cannot see terrorizes maximally.
Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. Turner begins to suspect that the company which builds a tunnel beneath the bay might have poisoned the environment and caused an octopus to mutate to giant dimensions...
Directed by Sidney W. Pink
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReptilicus' regeneration gimmick transforms the monster into an unkillable force, pure survival-horror essence.
A portion of the tail of a prehistoric reptile is discovered in Denmark. It regenerates into the entire reptile, which proceeds to destroy buildings and property and generally make a nuisance of itself. It can fly, swim, and walk, and has impenetrable scales, which makes it difficult to kill.
Directed by Ray Kellogg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Giant Gila Monster scales naturalistic creature physics to apocalyptic proportions—oversizing the believable.
A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chomping on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. Only Chase Winstead, a quick-thinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out.
Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAttack of the Giant Leeches anchors creature horror in swamp ecology, making environmental displacement credible.
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
Directed by Roger Corman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCreature from the Haunted Sea subverts expectations by making the legend literal, validating folklore fears.
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.
Directed by Arch Hall Sr.
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEegah's caveman-as-creature frames atavistic regression as the genre's primordial terror source.
Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage.
Directed by Richard Ashe
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTrack of the Moon Beast weaponizes transformation body-horror, making the creature a victim-turned-threat.
Professor "Johnny Longbow" Salina, a man who really knows his stews, introduces Paul Carlson to the practical-joking Kathy Nolan. Paul and Kathy seem to hit it off rather well but, during a meteor storm, a meteorite fragment strikes Paul, burying itself deep in his skull, which has the unpleasant side-effect of causing Paul to mutate into a giant reptilian monster at night and go on murderous rampages. It turns out that this sort of thing has happened before, when Professor Salina rediscovers ancient Native American paintings detailing a similar event many centuries ago. Kathy, however, still loves Paul, and tries to save him.
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