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
Shark Side of the Moon
›R2022 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Maxi Witrak, Ego Mikitas, Michael Marcel
Decades ago, the USSR developed unkillable sharks and launched them to the moon. Today, a team of American astronauts will endure the fight of their lives.
Minotaur
›R2006 · Horror, Adventure, Fantasy · 93m · Tom Hardy, Michelle Van Der Water, Tony Todd
Long ago in the Iron Age, a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations, the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the loss of his love in an earlier sacrifice is convinced that the beast isn't real and that his girl still lives as a slave within the palace.
Into the Deep
›R2025 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 90m · Scout Taylor-Compton, Richard Dreyfuss, Stuart Townsend
Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a killer great white is determined not to let any of them escape its waters.
The Howling: Reborn
›R2011 · Horror · 92m · Landon Liboiron, Lindsey Shaw, Ivana Miličević
On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he has long yearned for, reclusive Eliana Wynter. But he also discovers a dark secret from his past... that he is about to become a werewolf. Now, in an effort to fight destiny and save their love as well as their lives, they must battle not only Will's growing blood lust but an army of fearsome beasts bent on killing them... and then, us all.
The Devil Below
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Alicia Sanz, Adan Canto, Will Patton
A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.
Road Train
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 87m · Xavier Samuel, Bob Morley, Georgina Haig
A supernatural thriller about a group of teenagers menaced by a driver-less train in the Australian outback.
Dreamcatcher
›2021 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Niki Koss, Zachary Gordon, Travis Burns
The film centers on two estranged sisters who, along with their friends, become entrenched in a 48 hour whirlwind of violence after a traumatic experience at an underground music festival.
Rise of the Zombies
›2012 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Mariel Hemingway, LeVar Burton, Ethan Suplee
When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heroes are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.
The Wicked
›NR2013 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 105m · Devon Werkheiser, Nicole Forester, Justin Deeley
A Group of teenagers test the legend of an immortal witch and get more than they bargained for. It's almost Halloween and six young people, spooked but not undaunted by the folklore surrounding an old haunted house, make their way to the abode of the legendary Wicked, perhaps hoping to provoke the malevolent witch, but clearly not prepared for what they've certainly unleashed.
Parasite
›1982 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus & his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Attack of the Giant Leeches
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
Aquarium of the Dead
›2021 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 86m · Vivica A. Fox, Eva Ceja, D. C. Douglas
A scientific mishap causes the species of an aquarium to become zombies.
Hydra
›2009 · TV Movie, Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Dwayne Adway, Dawn Olivieri, Texas Battle
The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transported to a deserted island where the super rich pay a fortune to hunt human prey. But this island isn't exactly deserted; it's actually home to Hydra the Beast!
The Row
›R2018 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Lala Kent, Mia Rose Frampton, Randy Couture
A killer stalks and terrorizes a group of sorority girls on a college campus.
The Black Hole
›PG2006 · Science Fiction, Thriller, TV Movie · 90m · Kristy Swanson, Judd Nelson, David Selby
It's 2 A.M. in St. Louis when a routine scientific experiment goes terribly wrong and an explosion shakes the city. A scientific team investigates, clashing with an intergalactic, voltage-devouring creature that vaporizes them.
The Bone Snatcher
›R2003 · Science Fiction, Horror · 90m · Scott Bairstow, Rachel Shelley, Warrick Grier
After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
›2015 · TV Movie, Science Fiction, Action · 84m · Dominique Swain, Traci Lords, Christine Nguyen
When a fracking mishap accidentally rips apart the earth’s crust, the resulting hole opens up a gaping underground water way to a vast and mysterious ocean somewhere deep below. Instantly, giant prehistoric sharks begin wending their way upward toward a murky bog in the heart of the Arkansas Bayou. Unfortunately, for a group of female prisoners on a work detail in the swamp, the deadly sharks attack without warning – pinning a hapless group of intended victims in a small deserted cabin in the heart of the wetlands. Death may be the only means of escape!
Elves
›1989 · Horror · 89m · Dan Haggerty, Julie Austin, Deanna Lund
While conducting a pagan ritual in the woods with her friends, Kirsten inadvertently awakens the spirit of a demonic Christmas elf involved in a neo-Nazi plot to bring about the master race. After the rent-a-Santa in her department store is murdered, an unemployed, alcoholic ex-cop takes the job and the two set out to unravel the mystery.
Hangar 10
›2014 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Danny Shayler, Abbie Salt, Robert Curtis
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their navigation equipment failing, they find themselves facing a terrifying encounter with an unforgiving alien presence.
Hidden 3D
›2011 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Sean Clement, Simonetta Solder, Jordan Hayes
Following the death of celebrated scientist Susan Carter, her son Brian is surprised to inherit her controversial experimental addiction treatment center. When he and some friends visit the property, they uncover a terrifying and deadly secret.
Dead 7
›2016 · Comedy, Horror, Western · 89m · Nick Carter, Carrie Keagan, Joey Fatone
A ragtag group of gunslingers try to make their way in a post-apocalyptic world. The twist to this world is that it’s just not barren and dangerous, it’s also filled with flesh-eating zombies. The gunslingers will find themselves stranded in a town and forced to make a choice on either to save the citizens of the town or save themselves.
Spring Break Shark Attack
›2005 · Action, Drama, Horror · 88m · Shannon Lucio, Riley Smith, Justin Baldoni
A young teenager travels to Florida, unknowing that a group of dangerous tiger sharks are ravaging the beach.
Spiders II: Breeding Ground
›2001 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Stephanie Niznik, Greg Cromer, Daniel Quinn
Happy couple Jason and Alexandra lose their sail yacht in a storm and are grateful to get picked up by Captain Jim Bigelow's commercial carrier. Suspicious about the ship's doctor and realizing the ship is improbably empty and the radio not broken as the crew claims, Jason starts snooping around. Bodies on meat-hooks, genetic experimentation and giant spiders are what he finds.
Alienator
›R1990 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 93m · Jan-Michael Vincent, John Phillip Law, Teagan Clive
A space commander sends a female android to Earth to destroy an escaped convict.
