
Sub-genre
Cosmic & Lovecraftian
🐙 Every cosmic & lovecraftian title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
241 titles

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 Outer LimitsSeries
›TV-PG1963 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

The Thing
›R1982 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 109m · Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

FROMSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 4 seasons · Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ricky He
Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

Evil Dead II
›R1987 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 84m · Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.

The Lighthouse
›R2019 · Drama, Fantasy, Thriller · 109m · Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

CallsSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season
Interconnected phone conversations chronicle the mysterious story of a group of strangers whose lives are thrown into disarray in the lead-up to an apocalyptic event.

Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’
›2021 · Documentary, Horror · 126m · Tim Curry, Seth Green, Richard Thomas
Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries "It" and its infamous villain Pennywise live on in the minds of horror fans around the world. This documentary captures not only the buzz the "It" saga generated in 1990 but also the lasting impact it has had on an entire generation and the horror genre at large. Several years in the making, the film features exclusive interviews with many of the cult classic's key players, from cast members Richard Thomas, Seth Green, and Tim Curry, who portrayed the notorious monster clown Pennywise, to director Tommy Lee Wallace and special effects makeup artist Bart Mixon. The documentary also boasts a wealth of archival material and never-before-seen footage.

The Call of Cthulhu
›2006 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 47m · Matt Foyer, John Bolen, Ralph Lucas
A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.

Cigarette Burns
›2005 · Horror, TV Movie · 59m · Norman Reedus, Udo Kier, Christopher Redman
With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.

Destination TruthSeries
›2007 · Documentary, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Reality · 5 seasons · Josh Gates, Jael de Pardo, Jarrod Tomassi
Destination Truth is a weekly American paranormal reality television series that premiered on June 6, 2007, on Syfy. Produced by Mandt Bros. Productions and Ping Pong Productions, the program follows paranormal researcher Josh Gates around the world to investigate claims of the supernatural, mainly in the field of cryptozoology.

The Evil Dead
›NC-171981 · Horror · 85m · Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

Dark City
›R1998 · Mystery, Science Fiction · 101m · Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

The FadesSeries
›TV-142011 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Iain De Caestecker, Daniel Kaluuya, Johnny Harris
Seventeen-year old Paul can see the spirits of the dead. When one of these restless spirits crosses back into the living world, he is forced into a fight to prevent the apocalypse.

Sleepy HollowSeries
›TV-142013 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 4 seasons · Tom Mison, Janina Gavankar, Lyndie Greenwood
Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

Archive 81Series
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Mamoudou Athie, Dina Shihabi, Evan Jonigkeit
An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.

Myths & MonstersSeries
›2017 · Documentary, Mystery · 1 season · Joanne Shortt Butler, Liz Gloyn, William Simpson
This documentary series tells the stories that have gripped imaginations for centuries and reveals the fascinating and unexpected history behind them.

The Cabin in the Woods
›R2012 · Horror, Mystery, Comedy · 95m · Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz, Chris Hemsworth
Five friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun and relaxation. As night falls, they discover that something far more unsettling is at work and that nothing about their getaway is what it seems.

They Live
›R1988 · Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · 93m · Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.

Re-Animator
›NR1985 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 86m · Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

Quatermass and the Pit
›1967 · Science Fiction, Horror · 97m · Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

Lovecraft CountrySeries
›TV-MA2020 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Wunmi Mosaku
The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.

Channel ZeroSeries
›TV-142016 · Drama · 4 seasons · Brandon Scott, Maria Sten, Steven Robertson
A horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.

The Last Wave
›PG1977 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 106m · Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.
