--- title: "7 Best Monster Movies ..." description: "Child's Play; Fright Night; Pet Sematary; Night of the Living Dead; Predator; More ..." url: "https://movies.allwomenstalk.com/7-best-monster-movies/" category: "movies" last_updated: "2026-06-02" --- # 7 Best Monster Movies ... Different things scare different people. Similarly, people define “monster movies” in different ways. I define a monster movie as any flick that contains something that totally should not exist at all. I'll cop to fact that I'm not a huge fan of old time creature features. Rather, here's my take on the 7 best monster movies, chosen because I still scream when I watch them … and some of them still make me peek in the closet and under the bed. ## 1. Child's Play ![Child's Play](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/od/jc/cvqhb8aw54c8f5a685d4f293875657_365x500.jpg) **Price:** $10.49 at [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com?ref=allwomenstalk.com) This movie gets on the list because, at the time, I had a Kid Sister doll. And My Buddy, so she'd have someone to play with. Can you imagine? Chucky scared the living bejeebus out of me – and honestly, he still does, at least in the first one. They lost the plot with the sequels, but they scored a home run with that little monster the first time around. ## 2. Fright Night ![Fright Night](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/wn/j3/jprchyto54c8f5a79b187055227993_327x475.jpg) **Price:** $10.99 at [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com?ref=allwomenstalk.com) You want to talk about vampires? Then let's talk about Chris Sarandon. He was the worst: a suave monster that you really, really wanted to like … until he tried to suck your blood. He gave me the heebie jeebies – still does. Just not in part 2, because that was awful. ## 3. Pet Sematary ![Pet Sematary](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/ht/fp/aq7w6lc454c8f5a8b7516482947093_355x500.jpg) **Price:** $8.49 at [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com?ref=allwomenstalk.com) Oh man. I love and hate this movie. I love the book, and the movie is not nearly as good as the book … but it's still pretty good. Church and Gage are the creepiest monsters to me, because they're real. For years after seeing this, I secretly worried my buried pets or loved ones would somehow come back from the dead. Once you see #4 and #10, which I saw before seeing Pet Sematary (in retrospect, my parents should not have let my older cousin ever babysit me), you'll understand why. ## 4. Night of the Living Dead ![Night of the Living Dead](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/f3/mj/sxhtefps54c8f5aa26cf7697847146_349x500.jpg) **Price:** $4.98 at [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com?ref=allwomenstalk.com) Um, SCREAM. This was partly terrifying because it was in black and white. It always seemed to me almost like news footage – like it really happened! After learning my cousin let me watch this, my dad had a tendency to come up behind me and try to gnaw on my head, grunting, “Brains, braaains, BRAAAINS!” all the while. ...I also come from a weird family. ## 5. Predator ![Predator](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/km/ec/ual77yj354c8f5ab226e6218852132_354x500.jpg) **Price:** $15.99 at [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com?ref=allwomenstalk.com) This is why monster movies can often be different from actual horror movies. I mean, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in this. It totally wasn't a horror movie, it was like a guy movie. But that Predator was a monster and he scared me to death. To death! ## 6. IT ![IT](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/p4/ek/acinecnh54c8f5abeefb5267289477_327x475.jpg) **Price:** $5.98 at [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com?ref=allwomenstalk.com) Omg. There's a reason Stephen King is called the Master of Horror. This translated really well into a movie. I could handle the book, you know? But actually seeing Pennywise – better, seeing him brought to life by Tim Curry – scared the crap out of me. I initially watched the movie because, hi, I was little and in love with poor, doomed Jonathan Brandis. That'll teach me. ## 7. The Return of the Living Dead ![The Return of the Living Dead](https://resize.allw.mn/1028x0/filters:format(webp)/filters:quality(70)/content/p2/iv/ptvkn6mz54c8f5acef99e543922806_329x475.jpg) **Price:** $13.49 at [amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com?ref=allwomenstalk.com) This sequel was cheesy as all get out – and creepy as all get out too. I mean, there was embalming fluid and all! That could really happen! I still can't watch this, NO! Very little actually scares me. These days, I'm more bothered by psychological horrors, like The Ring. Brrrr. However, when a monster movie scares me, it scares me for life. 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