With the release of Dog Soldiers this year, and Ginger Snaps last year, the number of decent werewolf movies has pretty much doubled (previous examples being essentially limited to An American Werewolf in London, and The Howling).

The number of vampire films which are actually any good is similarly limited: some of the very early Hammer, Near Dark and The Lost Boys (although both have dated somewhat), Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula (a decent vampire movie, but not Bram Stoker's Dracula by a long shot).

As for other monster movies - and I'm talking supernatural creatures of the night, rather than Godzilla and friends, which is a whole other thing - you can pretty much count on the fingers of one hand the good ones: Hammer's first Frankenstein, The Mummy; maybe a couple more.

What other horror-monster films are worth the time and the effort to sit through? Also, which might have been fondly remembered if you had not watched them again as a grown-up? And which felt like a 'could have been great', yet fell short of the mark?