
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

Hollow Man II
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 91m · Christian Slater, Laura Regan, Peter Facinelli
After the mysterious death of scientist Dr. Devin Villiers, Det. Frank Turner and his partner are assigned to protect Villiers' colleague, who revealed that a veteran soldier was subjected to an experiment with the objective of creating the ultimate national security weapon... an undetectable soldier. The experiment failed – with disastrous side effects.

7 Guardians of the Tomb
›PG-132018 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 90m · Li Bingbing, Kellan Lutz, Kelsey Grammer
An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000 year old nightmare - a secret that should have remained buried.

Most Likely to Die
›2015 · Horror · 81m · Heather Morris, Ryan Doom, Perez Hilton
A group of former classmates gather for a pre-party at one of their homes the night before their 10-year high school reunion, and one by one, they are brutally slain in a manner befitting each's senior yearbook superlative.

Crocodile
›R2000 · Horror · 94m · Mark McLachlan, Caitlin Martin, Chris Solari
Eight college students board a houseboat for spring break that promises to be the best of their young lives...how many will survive?

Beneath the Darkness
›R2012 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 96m · Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller, Aimee Teegarden
After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.

Critters Attack!
›R2020 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Tashiana Washington, Ava Preston, Jack Fulton
Mysterious alien Critters have crash-landed in a small college town, devouring every living thing they encounter. Drea and the kids she's babysitting must try desperately to save themselves from the ravenous, rolling beasts. Will Drea discover her inner badass, and will it be enough to stop the Critter onslaught?

Chain Letter
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Nikki Reed, Keith David, Michael Bailey Smith
Six friends receive a mysterious chain letter via text messaging and in their email accounts from a maniac who's hunting down teenagers who fail to forward his online chain letter. Who knew they should take the threats in the chain letter seriously? Or that chain letters using the teens' favorite technologies to track them can kill? This maniacal game pits friend against friend as they race to beat rules that seem impossible to escape. Break the chain, lose a life. Do you pass it on? Does friendship mean anything?

Empire of the Ants
›PG1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson
A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.

The Gracefield Incident
›PG-132017 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 95m · Alexandre Nachi, Mathieu Ratthe, Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon
On August 16, 2013, the Supreme Court mandated the CIA to declassify files that had been kept secret for the past 75 years. Visual records of documented paranormal events were released to the public. The following incident took place in Gracefield, Quebec.

Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders
›R2022 · Thriller, Horror · 96m · Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Will Sasso, Jon Voight
A family reunion at a remote mansion takes a lethal turn when they are trapped inside and forced to play a deadly survival game where only one will make it out alive.

The Toybox
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Mischa Barton, Denise Richards, Greg Violand
An estranged family take a trip to the desert in their used RV and become stranded and isolated in the scorching terrain. They soon learn their RV holds terrible, haunting secrets, and it starts killing them off one by one.

House
›R2008 · Horror · 101m · Michael Madsen, Reynaldo Rosales, Heidi Dippold
Trying to recover from the nearly marriage-breaking stress following the death of their child, Jack and Stephanie spontaneously take off on a road trip. But when their car breaks down in a remote area, they find themselves in a horrific nightmare. Seeking shelter in a house, they soon realize that more danger lurks inside than outside in this spine-chiller based on Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti's best-seller.

Spiders
›2000 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 94m · Lana Parrilla, Josh Green, Oliver Macready
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.

Swamp Shark
›R2011 · Action, Adventure, Comedy · 85m · Kristy Swanson, Robert Davi, D. B. Sweeney
Open on gorgeous swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin in the summer. Lots of beautiful teens are at the beach the weekend before Gator Fest. That night an animal smuggling deal goes wrong and a large sea creature escapes into a swampy backwoods river. At the McDaniel's "Gator Shack" restaurant, a local, Jackson is drunk, and gets mangled to bits. The town sheriff blames the carnage on the McDaniel's "escaped" pack of gators and tries hauling them off to jail. Rachel McDaniel, head of the family, claims to have seen the fin of a shark! Rachel and her family, along with the help of a mysterious stranger, Charlie, take on the Swampshark and the law to clear their names, save Rachel's kid sister Krystal and prevent the unwitting folks at the upcoming Gator Fest from being torn to shreds by a beast the likes of which no one has ever seen!

Zombie Night
›NR2013 · Horror · 88m · Daryl Hannah, Anthony Michael Hall, Rachel Fox
Zombies come out at night and two families must survive until morning.

Blood Widow
›2014 · Horror · 84m · Danielle Lilley, Brandon Kyle Peters, Christopher de Padua
Laurie and Hugh are a successful young couple who have just closed on a weekend home away from the city. Unbeknownst to them, the neighboring property contains the crumbling remains of a boarding school that was shuttered in the wake of an unspeakable massacre. The sole survivor of that massacre still resides in the ruins of the school, hiding from the world and wanting only to be left alone. When Laurie and Hugh's friends explore the property, they have no idea that they disturbed an emotionally-broken killing machine: The Blood Widow.

Don't Go in the Woods
›R1981 · Horror · 82m · Jack McClelland, Mary Gail Artz, James P. Hayden
Four backpackers decide to take a hike in the mountains of Utah. But within the woods lurks a killer. But who...or what...is it? The lazy local sheriff blames bears. But the escalating body count seems to point to a human killer. Ignoring the warning signs, our campers remain lost in the woods...alone...awaiting their fate.

Corbin Nash
›2018 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Dean S. Jagger, Fernanda Romero, Malcolm McDowell
A rogue police detective in search of his parents' killer is murdered and reborn the ultimate killer.

Pulse 3
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Rider Strong, Noureen DeWulf, Karley Scott Collins
Seven years after the last attack by the "soulless ghosts" who haunted the human race twice before, the world is left void of all deadly electronics that almost destroyed it... or so we thought. Living a primitive existence on the outskirts of the city, human survivors are surviving without any trace of technology. That is until 16 year old Justine enters the city and, letting her curiosity get the best of her, opens a working laptop and unknowingly unleashes the most terrifying attack the survivors have ever faced. In a world already torn and without hope, can humanity make it through the toughest struggle of all time?

Mongolian Death Worm
›2010 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 90m · Sean Patrick Flanery, Victoria Pratt, George Cheung
When an American oil company sets up an experimental drilling plant out in the vast deserts of Mongolia, they awaken a nest. The deadly creatures begin to breed and spread, devouring everyone in their path. The only person who can stop them is treasure hunter and adventure seeker who spent his life searching for a legendary tomb, fabled to be protected by the Death Worms. He knows he must do what he can to kill the creatures, but stopping these monsters may mean destroying his life's work forever!

DNA
›1997 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 97m · Mark Dacascos, Jürgen Prochnow, Robin McKee
A mad scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life, and only his former assistant Ash Mattley and CIA operative Claire Sommers can stop it.

The Chosen
›2015 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Kian Lawley, Elizabeth Keener, Angelica Rose Torres
When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.

Zone of the Dead
›R2011 · Horror, Action · 101m · Ken Foree, Kristina Klebe, Emilio Roso
A police-escorted prisoner transport supervised by Interpol sets off to Belgrade. The route leads the transport through Pančevo, where they encounter an ecological disaster and infected people who are trying to kill them. Interpol agents Mortimer Reyes and Mina Milius soon realize that their only chance for escape from the zombie hordes lies in allying with the dangerous, mysterious prisoner.

Candy Stripers
›R2006 · Horror · 89m · Deanna Brooks, Brianna Berman, Sarah McGuire
After a car crash, Tammy and injured basketball players are hospitalized. When a nurse kisses dying Tammy, an alien infection spreads through the hospital staff and patients. The facility is quarantined as infected people seek sugar.
