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
Whistle and I'll Come to You
›1968 · TV Movie, Horror · 42m · Michael Hordern, Ambrose Coghill, George Woodbridge
A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
Gemini Home EntertainmentSeries
›TV-142019 · Mystery, Documentary · 2 seasons · Remy Abode, Remy Abode, Jack
Gemini Home Entertainment is a found-footage–style analog horror web series presented as recovered public-access broadcasts, educational tapes, and emergency alerts from a corrupted media archive. Using lo-fi VHS aesthetics and ominous interruptions, it implies a hidden history of cosmic threats and government cover-ups. The series is widely regarded as one of the most influential examples of analog horror on YouTube.
Prometheus
›R2012 · Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror · 124m · Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Annihilation
›R2018 · Science Fiction, Horror · 115m · Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
The Mist
›R2007 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 126m · Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of CuriositiesSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season
Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.
Quatermass 2
›1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Brian Donlevy, John Longden, William Franklyn
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
In the Mouth of Madness
›R1995 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow
An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
Spring
›2014 · Horror, Romance, Science Fiction · 110m · Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Nick Nevern
A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
Altered States
›R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 103m · William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.
Rabbits
›2002 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 43m · Scott Coffey, Laura Harring, Naomi Watts
A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the rabbits also make contact with their “leader”.
Messiah of Evil
›R1975 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Joy Bang
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
ItSeries
›TV-141990 · Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Tim Curry, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher
In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight against an ancient shape-shifting alien who poses as a child-killing clown, while also dealing with bullies and abusive parents. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the creature once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
Hellraiser
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Sean Chapman
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
The Endless
›NR2017 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 112m · Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.
From Dusk Till Dawn: The SeriesSeries
›TV-142014 · Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 3 seasons · D.J. Cotrona, Zane Holtz, Eiza González
The horror and crime thriller genres collide in this new original series from Robert Rodriguez, based on his cult grindhouse classic about bank-robbing brothers on the run, a lawman bent on bringing them to justice, the devout family caught in the cross-fire, and an ancient evil eager to feast on them all.
The RiverSeries
›TV-MA2012 · Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Bruce Greenwood, Joe Anderson, Leslie Hope
Wildlife expert and TV personality Emmet Cole sets course around the world with his wife, Tess, and son, Lincoln, while filming what would become one of the most popular shows in television. After he goes missing deep in the Amazon, his family, friends and crew set out on a mysterious and deadly journey to find him.
The Haunted Palace
›1963 · Horror · 87m · Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr.
A man and his wife claim the mansion of his warlock ancestor burned alive in 1765.
The Whisperer in Darkness
›2011 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 104m · Matt Foyer, Autumn Wendel, Stephen Blackehart
Folklore professor Albert Wilmarth investigates legends of strange creatures in the most remote hills of Vermont. His enquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks behind the legends.
Descendent
›2025 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 93m · Ross Marquand, Sarah Bolger, Susan Wilder
After a traumatic brain injury triggers terrifying visions of extraterrestrials and a newfound talent for drawing, a father-to-be begins to question his reality and becomes obsessed with the need to protect his family from an unseen threat.
Sleep Has Her House
›NR2017 · Mystery, Horror · 90m
The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.
mother!
›R2017 · Horror, Drama · 121m · Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Phantasm
›R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
Man Finds Tape
›2025 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 86m · Kelsey Pribilski, William Magnuson, John Gholson
Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.