10 Best Horror Movie Creature Feature Movies Since 2010

In modern cinema, nobody has given audiences such a stunning variety of creatures and monsters as Guillermo del Toro. And when looking at the past decade, it's impossible to look past del Toro's Oscar-winning The Shape of Water when discussing great creature features.

Pulling clear inspiration from Gill-man - better known as the titular Creature of the classic Creature From the Black Lagoon series - The Shape of Water is a mesmerising film that rightly took home four gongs at the 2018 Academy Awards.

This isn't a creature feature where there's an imposing, intimidating, ruthless beast at its core, though. Instead, The Shape of Water is so much more than what is so often synonymous with this particular subgenre, with Sally Hawkins and Doug Jones steering the audience through an emotional, elegant, tormented tale of unexpected love.

With Jones' humanoid amphibian, The Shape of Water served up an all-time great creature. Likewise, Hawkins' turn as mute Elisa is a powerhouse performance that proved to be the perfect accompaniment to the visual, sensual delight that was the so-called Amphibian Man.

Some will loudly laud The Shape of Water as the very best movie of the past decade, period. While that in itself is open to debate, there's no question that del Toro's picture is easily the best creature feature of that time.