
Sub-genre
Survival
🪓 Every survival title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
2812 titles

The Crater Lake Monster
›PG1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Richard Cardella, Glen Roberts, Mark Siegel
The heat of a meteor crashing into the lake incubates a prehistoric egg, which grows into a plesiosaur-like monster that terrifies the community.

Osombie
›2012 · Horror, Action · 92m · Eve Mauro, Corey Sevier, Walter A. Carmona
Following the 9/11 attacks, the war on terror against Afghanistan continues. With the Taliban insurgents hiding out in the mountains however, they become increasingly difficult for the US military to engage. The solution is to try and flush them out by adding low level chemicals to the water supply. Little do the USA know however that enemy scientists have adapted the chemicals to make their own formula, one that can bring the dead back to life.

Bundy and the Green River Killer
›2019 · Crime, Thriller, Drama · 85m · Jared Nelson, Richard Mark, Lux Kapsaski
A police detective consults with incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy to help him catch The Green River Killer. Based on terrifying true life elements which inspired Silence of the Lambs. In 1984, police in Washington State are investigating a spate of serial murders committed by a mysterious man known as The Green River Killer. With no leads to go on, the detective in charge of the case consults with psychologists in an attempt to get inside the mind of the killer. But when that doesn't produce a positive result and the killings continue, the detective realizes that the only way to understand what makes a serial killer tick is to meet one. So he visits the imprisoned Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.

The Mangler Reborn
›2005 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Aimee Brooks, Reggie Bannister, Weston Blakesley
A decade after the original mangler massacre, an obsessed repairman resurrects the cursed machine and unleashes another bloody, murderous reign of terror.

Ibiza Undead
›R2016 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 95m · Cara Theobold, Emily Atack, Algina Lipskis
Three best friends - Alex, Az and Jim - head to Ibiza for their first lad's holiday. Unfortunately, tagging along is Alex's unimpressed ex-girlfriend Ellie. Arriving on the island, the lads dump Ellie with Alex's sister Liz, and her friend Zara, and head to San Antonio to start their week of sun, sea and debauchery. Soon they end up in a club, run by local gangster Karl, where the attractions aren't all alive - they're zombies! Due to Jim's drunken antics the zombies escape, and soon all hell breaks loose and no one on the party island is safe.

Demons Never Die
›2011 · Horror · 93m · Robert Sheehan, Ashley Walters, Shanika Warren-Markland
When a young girl takes her own life, Archie and the other Suicide Kids decide to follow her lead and form a pact. But as the group begin to die on by one, Archie realizes that they have all become the target of a masked killer and that his commitment to death has become a terrifying fight for survival and a battle to protect the girl he loves. But who's the killer?

Zombie Wars
›2007 · Horror · 80m · Adam Mayfield, Alissa Koenig, Jim Hazelton
Fifty years after a world-wide zombie epidemic had begun, a small group of rebel soldiers learn that intelligent zombies have begun breeding humans for food. The soldiers plan an all-out war to rid the Earth of the flesh-eating monsters for good, as the rest of the surviving world's population struggles to survive against the zombie hordes.

Terror at Tenkiller
›R1986 · Horror · 87m · Michael Shamus Wiles, Stacey Logan, Michele Merchant
Leslie and Janna are a couple of attractive young ladies who decide to go on vacation at a remote cabin in the woods. However, things go nightmarishly awry after a dangerous maniac shows up in the area and starts bumping folks off. Will anyone survive the terror at Tenkiller?

Lake Alice
›R2018 · Horror · 80m · Brando Eaton, Michael Shamus Wiles, Peter O'Brien
The Thomas family goes out to their forest cabin to celebrate Christmas together with their daughter and her boyfriend. But their first festive period together may be their last…

Wolf Town
›R2011 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 90m · Levi Fiehler, Alicia Ziegler, Josh Kelly
Kyle, a shy college student finds himself and three of his friends trapped in an old western ghost town by a pack of ferocious wolves and has to overcome his personal fears to confront the wolves and lead his friends to safety.

Empire of the Sharks
›2018 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 90m · John Savage, Jack Armstrong, Thandi Sebe
On a future earth where 98% of the surface is underwater, a Warlord who controls an army of sharks meets his match when he captures the daughter of a mysterious shark caller who must learn to marshal a supernatural ability if she is to free her people from the Warlord's dominion.

Pet Graveyard
›2019 · Horror · 98m · Rita Siddiqui, Andrew Hollingworth, Kate Milner Evans
A group of teens are tormented by the Grim Reaper and his pet after undergoing an experiment that allows them to revisit the dead.

The Crypt
›2009 · Horror · 84m · Sarah Oh, Mike Ranallo, Cristen Irene
Six young criminals break into hidden catacombs underneath their town and attempt to steal jewelry buried from the "Great Depression" only to find inhabitants guarding the precious belongings. After being trapped in this dark maze of crypts the group tries to escape alive.

Tribal: Get Out Alive
›2020 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 86m · Zara Phythian, Ross O'Hennessy, Rachel Warren
After retiring from active duty, former elite military operative Caitlin Ross now runs a private security firm. She, however, becomes the target when her private security firm accepts a contract from a young millionaire.

Deadly Descent
›2013 · Fantasy, Horror · 90m · Adrian Paul, Lauren O'Neil, Nicholas Boulton
Friends go on a snowy adventure and come face to face with a deadly creature.

Destination: Infestation
›PG-132007 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 87m · Jessalyn Gilsig, Antonio Sabàto Jr., Serge Houde
While on a flight home from Colombia, the plane that Dr. Carrie Ross and her daughter are on is attacked by bullet ants whose sting is the most painful and deadliest on the planet. Joining forces with air marshal Ethan Hart, Dr. Ross, an entomologist, tries desperately to save the flight from disaster. In the end, their struggle brings them closer together and offers the couple hope for the future.

The Retreat
›R2005 · Horror · 90m · Melissa Schuman, Scott Vickaryous, Shanti Lowry
A group of college students travels to the cottage of their psychology professor Barren in an isolated island as a reward of their teamwork in the research of Barren. They expect to spend the weekend with lots of sex, but a serial-killer turns their party in a nightmare.

Megalodon: The Frenzy
›2023 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 82m · Eric Roberts, Caroline Williams, Jessica Chancellor
When a frenzy of five Megalodons torment the open ocean, the stakes have never been higher.

The Bye Bye Man
›PG-132017 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Cressida Bonas
When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

Cell
›R2016 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 98m · John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.

Day of the Dead
›R2008 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Mena Suvari, Stark Sands, Michael Welch
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead, a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.

The Farm
›NC-172019 · Horror · 80m · Nora Yessayan, Alec Gaylord, Ken Volok
The young couple Nora and Alec are on their way back from a long road trip. In a desert town they want to take a break, but when they wake up the next morning, they are no longer in the motel where they had actually checked in. Overnight, the by a group of crazed killers wearing animal masks, have been abducted. What would happen if people were treated like cattle for slaughter? On the farm, this horrific idea comes true. As Nora and Alec soon find out, they are not the only ones locked in cages, fattened up and fed only to be slaughtered, disemboweled and eaten as a delicacy by their torturers. For the young couple begins a fight for bare survival.

Cage Dive
›R2017 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Joel Hogan, Josh Potthoff, Megan Peta Hill
Three friends from California are filming an audition tape for an extreme reality game show. They document their journey to Australia where they will be doing their most dangerous activity: Shark Cage Diving. A catastrophic turn of events leaves them in baited water full of Great White Sharks, turning their recording into a blood chilling diary of survival...And death.

Redcon-1
›2018 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 117m · Oris Erhuero, Carlos Gallardo, Mark Strange
After a zombie apocalypse spreads from a London prison, the UK is brought to its knees. The spread of the virus is temporarily contained but, without a cure, it’s only a matter of time before it breaks its boundaries and the biggest problem of all… any zombies with combat skills are now enhanced. With the South East of England quarantined from the rest of the world using fortified borders, intelligence finds that the scientist responsible for the outbreak is alive and well in London. With his recovery being the only hope of a cure, a squad of eight Special Forces soldiers is sent on a suicide mission to the city, now ruled by the undead, with a single task: get him out alive within 72 hours by any means necessary. What emerges is an unlikely pairing on a course to save humanity against ever-rising odds.
