Cinema of the Damned
A directory of horror — thousands of films and series, each scored by the Crypt Score, our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and the reviews of this coven. Hunt by sub-genre, decade, or dread.
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The Twilight ZoneSeries
›TV-PG1959 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 5 seasons · Rod Serling
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Dexter: ResurrectionSeries
›TV-MA2025 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 2 seasons · Michael C. Hall, Jack Alcott, Uma Thurman
Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma to find Harrison gone without a trace. Realizing the weight of what he put his son through, Dexter sets out for New York City, determined to find him and make things right. But closure won't come easy. When Miami Metro's Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast. As father and son navigate their own darkness in the city that never sleeps, they soon find themselves deeper than they ever imagined - and that the only way out is together.
True DetectiveSeries
›TV-MA2014 · Drama, Mystery · 4 seasons · Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob BriggsSeries
›NR2019 · Comedy, Talk · 7 seasons
The World’s Foremost Drive-in Movie Critic – actually he’s pretty much the world’s only Drive-in Critic – Joe Bob Briggs brings his iconic swagger to this firebrand of horror and drive-in cinema offering honest appreciation, hilarious insight, inside stories and of course, the Drive-in totals.
The Silence of the Lambs
›R1991 · Crime, Thriller, Drama · 119m · Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Psycho
›R1960 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 109m · Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Black MirrorSeries
›TV-MA2011 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 7 seasons
Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.
Twin PeaksSeries
›TV-MA1990 · Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Kyle MacLachlan
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
Stranger ThingsSeries
›TV-142016 · Action & Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 5 seasons · Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Alien
›R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 117m · Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
DexterSeries
›TV-MA2006 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 8 seasons · Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Geoff Pierson
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
The X-FilesSeries
›TV-141993 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime · 11 seasons · David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
MINDHUNTERSeries
›TV-MA2017 · Drama, Crime · 2 seasons · Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
›2009 · Horror, Science Fiction, Drama · 62m · David Tennant, Lindsay Duncan, Peter O'Brien
In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.
The BoysSeries
›TV-MA2019 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure · 5 seasons · Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr
A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
Aliens
›R1986 · Action, Thriller, Science Fiction · 137m · Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
HannibalSeries
›TV-MA2013 · Drama, Crime · 3 seasons · Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
The Haunting of Hill HouseSeries
›TV-MA2018 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Siegel
Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
What We Do in the ShadowsSeries
›TV-MA2019 · Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 6 seasons · Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou
A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Garth Marenghi's DarkplaceSeries
›2004 · Comedy, Mystery, Action & Adventure · 1 season · Matthew Holness, Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade
When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez, fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed, and woman Liz Asher, Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin. From the chilling pen of best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi comes this lost masterpiece of televisual terror. Dare you enter Garth's Darkplace?
Kolchak: The Night StalkerSeries
›TV-PG1974 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or even science fiction, including fantastic creatures.
Se7en
›R1995 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 127m · Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
SupernaturalSeries
›TV-142005 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 15 seasons · Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
FringeSeries
›TV-142008 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 5 seasons · Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Jasika Nicole
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.