Throughout the years , there have been swell ogre movies from the Universal Horror film , featuring goliath like Dracula , The Wolf Man , and Frankenstein ’s Monster , to the giant monster movies , with creatures like King King and Godzilla . However , what really offers horror fans a dainty are the freaky monstrosity movies .

While the Universal Monsters are scary and the gargantuan fiend are dreaded , the freaky monster movies feature creatures that are both yucky and horrifying , creepy and chilling all at the same time . These monsters often push bound and remain living rent - loose in viewers ' judgement long after the terminal credits rove .

Colossal (2016) - 6.2

In 2016 , a black comedy horror sci - fi film about an extremely eccentric monster hit calledColossal . The movie also had a big dramatis personae , with Anne Hathaway leading the way as an unemployed writer who accidentally manifests a jumbo beast while also deal with alcoholism . While the moving picture was not a financial succeeder andflopped heavily in theaters , it was a vital dearie , arrive first at the Toronto International Film Festival and has all the instrument to be a cult classic for years to come in .

Basket Case (1982) - 6.2

In 1982 , Frank Henenlotter created his masterpiece with the movieBasket Case . The exploitation horror movie featured a man seeking revenge for being remove unwillingly from his conjoined twinned brother . The photographic film ’s title comes from the fact that this man , Duane , carry a basketball hoop where his deformed matching Belial lives . Both twins are out for revenge against the doctors that separated them in a gory and bizarre movie .

The Hills Have Eyes (1977) - 6.3

Before creating Freddy Krueger , Wes Craven create a very different kind of freaky monsterin his 1977 classicThe Hills Have centre . The pic plays on the veneration of atomic testing in the United States . It has a fellowship move around on holiday terrorized by a mutant folk living in the hills of Nevada . The pitcher’s mound the great unwashed were all mutated due to the nuclear examination in the area and had become cannibalistic as the picture turned into a state of war between the two families , with only one surviving .

The People Under The Stairs (1991) - 6.4

Wes Craven was back with another freaky original horror monster movie in 1991 withThe People Under the Stairs . While scary and outrageous , this movie was also in darkness funny , with the situation allow Craven ’s movie to keep its knife hard plant in its cheek .

The People Under the Stairswas about a youthful son and two domicile burglars trammel in a house that go to a strange duo . When they go into a hidden room under the stairs , they come up something horrific and substantiate they might never get out live .

Nightbreed (1990) - 6.6

Horror novelist Clive Barkerdirected his own freaky monster storyNightbreedin 1990 , based on his novellaCabal . It was a rare freak motion-picture show because the monsters were the good guy wire , creatures who wanted to be left alone but hunt down and massacred by mankind who hate and feared them . The kaleidoscope of animal Craven make up for this movie was both grotesque and freaky as they fight for those home and lives .

The Babadook (2014) - 6.8

The Babadook , liberate in 2014 , wasan Australian " monster " moviethat was an allegory for deep , real - mankind issuing . Based on the 2005 short movie by director Jennifer Kent , The Babadookis about a mother elevate her six - year - one-time Logos Samuel alone after her husband ’s death . Her boy has become an insomniac and believes a monster is after him , so he starts to build up weapon system to contend the creature . The entire movie is an allegory for grief , and the monster is the trauma that has the mother almost destroy what is left of her sept .

The Brood (1979) - 6.9

David Cronenberg has manoeuvre some of the most disturbing motion-picture show in story , and the one that might top the tilt is his 1979 repugnance movieThe Brood . This is a body horror motion-picture show about a hubby and married woman whose relationship is fracture , and the hurting and suffering   manifests itself on their daughter .

This freaky monster movie ended up censored in the United States until wakeless edits and cuts were made . The creatures spawned by Nola are disturbing , horrifying , and freaky existence that have made this a massively popular cult movie .

The Descent (2005) - 7.2

The Descentwas a British horror movie issue in 2005 by managing director Neil Marshall . The movie starts with a dire moment when some ally are on vacation together , and an auto accident ends tragically . A year later , the women are on another vacation , and the revulsion from the chance event still librate on them . However , things worsen when they end up immobilize in a cave with   freaky monsters   who have lived and mutated to survive there . The termination of this repulsion moviealso shows that not everything is as it seemed .

The Fly (1986) - 7.6

A remaking is   only sometimes better than the original movie , but inDavid Cronenberg’sThe Fly , that is precisely what take place . The original 1958 movie with Vincent Price is a classic , but the 1986 version with Jeff Goldblum is a masterpiece of gory dead body repulsion . The movie meet an eccentric scientist ( Goldblum ) trying to create teleportation auto , but when it drop dead wrong , he cease up morph into a fly - fauna and has no idea how to cure himself .

The Thing (1982) - 8.1

Another remaking that was better than the original , John Carpenter’sThe Thing , was a remake ofThe Thing From Another World . Both were about an alien invader in the Arctic , but Carpenter ’s edition was a moving-picture show with one of the freakiest monsters in all movie history . The alien could take the form and form of anyone it killed , meaning no one in the Arctic post knew who they could trust . However , when it was flushed out , the monster was one of the most horrendous brute in any repugnance movie .

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10 Best Freaky Monster Movies, Ranked By IMDb

Colossal

Basket Case (1982)

A bald man grimaces in a grassy field in The Hills Have Eyes.

Daddy in gimp suit in The People Under The Stairs (1991)

Clive Barker Nightbreed

Babadook

Still from The Brood

Two characters stuck in a cave in The Descent

The Fly

The Blair Thing in John Carpenter’s The Thing