There’s no shortage of great monster movies from cinematic history, and plenty of them are widely celebrated. Look at the likes of King Kong and Godzilla, for example, and primarily if you want to explore giant monster (or kaiju) flicks. But then there are great movies focused on somewhat smaller monsters, too, like (debatably) Jaws and Universal Monster movies like Dracula and Frankenstein.
So, what follows is an attempt to look at monster movies that are either overlooked or…