
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

Astral
›NR2018 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Frank Dillane, Catherine Steadman, Trevor White
A detached university student faces the consequences of astral projection when he uses it to reconnect with his dead mother.

The Wizard of Gore
›R2007 · Mystery, Horror · 94m · Kip Pardue, Bijou Phillips, Crispin Glover
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.

Older Gods
›2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 82m · Rory Wilson, Leuan Coombs, Lynsey Bennett-Thompson
After the disappearance of his troubled friend, American Chris Rivers travels to the remote Welsh countryside to investigate what happened – leading him to a dark apocalyptic cult.

They Remain
›2018 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 102m · William Jackson Harper, Rebecca Henderson, Malcolm Mills
Two scientists investigate the root of environmental changes and strange animal behavior at a remote site where a cult committed atrocities. The isolated location, the unraveling of their relationship, and the biome itself begin to lead them down a path of doom where primeval forces threaten to consume them. An adaptation of Laird Barron's short story "–30–".

The Deep Ones
›2021 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Gina La Piana, Robert Miano, Johann Urb
A married couple rents a beachside Airbnb, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. They soon discover they are in the grip of a mysterious cult and their ancient sea god.

Harvest Lake
›NR2016 · Horror · 75m · Jason Crowe, Ellie Church, Tristan Risk
Five friends fall under the seductive influence of a libidinous, otherworldly presence that threatens to change their lives forever in this strange and erotic new film from director Scott Schirmer and producer Brian K. Williams.

The Astronaut
›PG-132025 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 90m · Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Luna
After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA’s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening around the property, she fears that something extraterrestrial has followed her back to Earth

YellowBrickRoad
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Michael Laurino, Anessa Ramsey, Alex Draper
In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where they went was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: YELLOWBRICKROAD.

Black Site
›2018 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Jessica-Jane Stafford, Mike Beckingham, Lauren Ashley Carter
80's inspired John Carpenteresque Action. A young woman is forced to push past her worst fears and battle to deport an ancient entity back to where it came from. Set inside an underground military base known as The Artemis Black Site, the movie mixes an Escape From New York style survival story with Lovecraftian elements and large scale mythology building.

Arctic Void
›2022 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 85m · Michael Weaver, Tim Griffin, Justin Huen
When the power mysteriously fails, and almost everyone vanishes from a small tourist vessel in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore, the men deteriorate in body and mind until a dark truth emerges that compels them to ally or perish.

The Axiom
›R2019 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 98m · Hattie Smith, Zac Titus, Nicole Dambro
At the risk of her group's safety, a young woman travels into a National Forest where her sister has become trapped in a multi-dimensional world of monsters.

H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House
›2022 · Horror · 82m · Portia Chellelynn, Julie Anne Prescott, Andrea Collins
Graduate student Alice Gilman is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Dreams in the Witch House.

Mr. Jones
›PG-132013 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 90m · Jon Foster, Rachel O'Meara, Mark Steger
Scott (Jon Foster) is a filmmaker in need of inspiration. He and his girlfriend Penny (Sarah Jones) move into a desolate house hoping to make a breakthrough. Then they discover their neighbor, the elusive Mr. Jones. Famous for his haunting sculptures, Mr. Jones has remained a mystery to the world. Scott and Penny, convinced that they have found the perfect film subject, sneak into his workshop and realize that their curiosity may have chilling consequences. Who is Mr. Jones?

Nightworld
›2017 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Jason London, Robert Englund, Gianni Capaldi
When former LAPD officer Brett Anderson takes a job as head of security at an old apartment building in Sofia, Bulgaria, he soon begins to experience a series of bizarre and terrifying events. Soon after delving into the building's sinister history and investigate its shadowy owners and past employees, Brett uncovers a malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels of the building that will do anything to be set free into our world.

Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story
›R2015 · Horror · 91m · Christopher Rodriguez Marquette, Alexandra Breckenridge, Jake McDorman
A small town news team discovers a box of videotapes wherein a faceless figure, dressed in a dark suit, haunts and torments a family...slowly driving them insane. Soon after, they realize that the 'Operator' has begun to stalk them as well.

Red Sands
›R2009 · Action, Horror, War · 89m · Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge
A group of U.S. soldiers on a mission in the Middle East find themselves with nothing to do in their free time. Out of sheer boredom they end up destroying an old statue in the desert, only to unleash a horrific entity.

The Outwaters
›NR2023 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 110m · Robbie Banfitch, Angela Basolis, Scott Schamell
Deep in the Mojave desert, under a scorching blood-red sun, four travelers have set up camp to make art. One fateful night, the group is thrust into a feverish tornado of flayed flesh and mind-boggling monstrosities, the likes of which mere humans simply cannot fathom.

Haunting of the Mary Celeste
›2020 · Horror · 74m · Emily Swallow, Ava Acres, Richard Roundtree
Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for reasons having to do with the supernatural. Her theory that those on the Mary Celeste vanished into a "rift" between dimensions proves true as the boat breaks down and her crew begins to vanish one by one.

Crystal Skulls
›2014 · Adventure, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 88m · Richard Burgi, Wendy Glenn, Sam Redford
A millionaire philanthropist collects the famous Crystal Skulls trying to tap into their ancient powers. It is up to a team lead by a college professor whose father disappeared searching for the 13th skull to save the world when the first 12 skulls are united and reek havoc on the earth without the control of the 13th skull.

Be Afraid
›2017 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 99m · Brian Krause, Jaimi Paige, Louis Herthum
Not long after John Chambers and his family arrive at their new home in a small country town of Pennsylvania, John begins to experience sleep paralysis. Lying there paralyzed, trapped within his own nightmare, other-worldly beings visit John. They are entities which exist in the darkest shadows of the night and can only be seen out of the corner of one's eye. These encounters begin to haunt John, transforming to complete terror as he discovers the entities' sole purpose... the abduction of his seven year old son. In the end, John will uncover the town's horrific secret, a portal on his land, and make one last attempt to save his son before the shadow people permanently take him away to their world.

Lurking Fear
›R1994 · Horror, Crime · 77m · Jon Finch, Blake Adams, Ashley Laurence
The storm-swept and depopulated town of Leffert’s Corners has been terrorized for decades by grotesque creatures that breed in the depths beneath the local cemetery. A group of townspeople have hatched a last-ditch plan to destroy the ghoul-infested graveyard, but their mission is interrupted by the arrival of a band of violent thieves intent on retrieving money hidden in one of the graves.

The Creature Below
›2017 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Anna Dawson, Michaela Longden, Johnny Vivash
A young scientist discovers a malevolent entity which sets her on a bloody descent into the jaws of insanity.

The Dunwich Horror
›R2009 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Griff Furst, Sarah Lieving, Jeffrey Combs
In Louisiana, in the wicked Whateley House, Lavina delivers two babies whose fate is written. Ten years later, three scholars of the occult discover that one page of the “Necronomicon,” the unspeakable book, is missing and the Black Brotherhood has summoned the ancient gate keeper to free legions of evil gods and monsters from the dimension of chaos.

Mandrake
›2010 · Horror, TV Movie · 89m · Max Martini, Betsy Russell, Benito Martinez
An expedition led by adventurer Darren McCall and funded by the wealthy Harry Vargas braves the impenetrable jungle to retrieve a fabled bejeweled dagger from an ancient burial ground. But pulling the dagger from its rightful resting place awakens the long-dormant plant creature - part plant, part animal, and all bloodthirsty -- and sends it on a feeding frenzy from which there seems scant hope of survival or escape...
