
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

Fall Down Dead
›2007 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Dominique Swain, Udo Kier, Mehmet Günsür
A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer. One night, in the middle of a blackout, seven strangers become trapped in an office building as the killer hunts for Christie Wallace, the woman that can identify him.

The Invoking
›NR2013 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Trin Miller, Brandon Anthony, Andi Norris
After inheriting a house from the family she never knew, Samantha Harris and three friends head to rural Sader Ridge to inspect the property. Soon after arriving, Sam begins to experience horrific visions of savage brutality and unspeakable evil. Plagued by the sinister forces closing in around her, Sam descends into a waking nightmare when the demons from her past refuse to stay buried any longer.

Hillside Cannibals
›2006 · Horror · 83m · Heather Conforto, Tom Nagel, Vaz Andreas
A group of teenagers in the desert become the prey of cannibalistic inbreds who live in the nearby hillside.

Snow White: A Deadly Summer
›2012 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Shanley Caswell, Maureen McCormick, Eric Roberts
A troubled teenage girl finds herself in a web of lies and deceit when her stepmother attempts to murder her by sending her to a discipline camp.

Brotherhood of Blood
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Victoria Pratt, Jason Connery, Ken Foree
Driven by vengeance, thirsty for blood... and damned to hell! Guarded by vampires and chained in a dark cellar by the mighty vampire King Pashek, crack vampire hunter Carrie Rieger's time is running out.her relentless quest to crush the world's undead scourge has brought her to the home of Pashek. But she is not here to hill him. Instead she wishes to join forces with her immortal enemies in an effort to rise up against an even more terrifying threat, one that would chill the soul of even the most blood-thirsty vampire; the mighty vampire demon Vlad Kossel.Thought to have been killed many hundreds of years ago, Kossel has now returned to wreak bloody vengeance on his kind before enslaving humanity. He will destroy everything in his path and there is only one hunter who can stop him...

In the Year 2889
›1969 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 80m · Paul Petersen, Quinn O'Hara, Charla Doherty
The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against the outside world. Beyond a dense mist, other survivors, radiated and mutant, grow hungry.

The Black Demon
›R2023 · Thriller, Horror · 101m · Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Julio Cesar Cedillo
Oilman Paul Sturges' idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Stranded and under constant attack, Paul and his family must somehow find a way to get his family back to shore alive before it strikes again in this epic battle between humans and nature.

Shark Night 3D
›PG-132011 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack
A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.

Gallowwalkers
›R2012 · Action, Horror, Western · 90m · Wesley Snipes, Riley Smith, Tanit Phoenix
When a nun broke her covenant with God to save the life of her unborn son, Aman, he was cursed for life. As an adult, Aman has killed those who have crossed him. But his curse brings his victims back to life and they pursue him for revenge, so Aman enlists a young gunman to fight by his side against his undead victims.

Martyrs
›NR2015 · Horror, Mystery · 86m · Troian Bellisario, Bailey Noble, Kate Burton
A woman and her childhood friend seek out revenge on those who victimized and abused them.

Safer at Home
›2021 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 82m · Jocelyn Hudon, Emma Lahana, Alisa Allapach
Two years into the pandemic, a group of friends throw an online party with a night of games, drinking and drugs. After taking an ecstasy pill, things go terribly wrong and the safety of their home becomes more terrifying than the raging chaos outside.

The Bunker Game
›NR2022 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Gaia Weiss, Mark Ryder, Makita Samba
Laura, 25, is an actress in a L.A.R.P. (Live Action Role Playing) Game, where the participants play the survivors of an atomic war who live underground in a sealed bunker. After several mysterious accidents, the game is interrupted and the players leave the bunker while the staff remain behind to investigate the disappearance of Greg, the mastermind of the game. They soon find themselves trapped inside and in peril as they begin to die in mysterious ways and the group realizes that someone or something paranormal is playing a twisted game with them which quickly plunges into a terrifying fight for survival.

Beneath
›2013 · Horror · 90m · Daniel Zovatto, Bonnie Dennison, Jonny Orsini
Six high school seniors celebrating with day's excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed as they fight their way back to shore.

5-Headed Shark Attack
›2017 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Chris Bruno, Nikki Alexis Howard, Lindsay Sawyer
A beautiful island is home to thousands of species of aquatic life. Now there is a new species: the 5-Headed Shark is all heads and teeth. Shaped like a demented starfish, this monster terrorizes the open ocean before invading the beaches of Puerto Rico, endangering the once peaceful island paradise.

The Institute
›R2017 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 98m · Allie Gallerani, James Franco, Joe Pease
In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.

Pulse 2: Afterlife
›R2008 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Jamie Bamber, Georgina Rylance, Karley Scott Collins
The world has been reshaped by the invasion of ghosts via the wireless internet. Cities are deserted, technology has been destroyed and the few remaining human beings eschew anything electrical in order to avoid a confrontation with the soulless ghosts that now wander the planet. Most of the ghosts are doomed to a repetitive loop of something they did while they were still despairing humans (a man repeatedly hangs himself, for example), but there are some ghosts so locked in denial, they do not know they are dead. They continue to haunt their homes, wrapped in fear that their souls will soon be torn from them.

The Rig
›2010 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · William Forsythe, Stacey Hinnen, Serah D'Laine
In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.

Dinosaur Hotel
›2021 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 80m · Chelsea Greenwood, Aimee Marie Higham, Alexander John
Sienna is desperate to win a large cash prize in a secret underground game show. However, Dinosaur's begin to hunt her down for the entertainment of the rich and wealthy. Can she be the last to survive the horrific night to win the prize?

Scar
›NR2007 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 84m · Angela Bettis, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Devon Graye
Joan Burrows returns to her hometown for her niece's graduation, only to be confronted by the serial killer she thought she offed years ago -- after he kidnapped and tormented her and her best friend.

Octopus
›PG-132000 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Jay Harrington, David Beecroft, Carolyn Lowery
During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An unknown object attacks and disables the sub with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks, among them the sub destroyed 38 years ago. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength! The only way out is the emergency submersible and a passing cruise ship. Above or below the water, there is no escape from the monster mutant octopus with a nuclear diet...

Nazi Overlord
›NR2018 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 88m · Tom Sizemore, Dominique Swain, Anthony Jensen
A D-Day rescue mission turns ugly when a band of Allied soldiers battle with horrific experiments created by the Nazis.

The Redwood Massacre
›R2014 · Horror · 82m · Mark Wood, Lisa Cameron, Lisa Livingstone
‘THE REDWOOD MASSACRE’ is about five adventurous friends, visiting the legendary murder site of Redwood. It has all the hallmarks of being an exciting and thrilling camping weekend away. They soon discover they’re not the only people in the mysterious location. The fun camping expedition soon turns into a nightmare as they are sadistically stalked by a mysterious unseen killer.

The Curse of the Komodo
›PG-132004 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Gail Harris, Paul Logan, Tim Abell
Genetically-engineered Komodo dragons have become ginormous creatures hunting people on a remote tropical island. A small group of scientists must stop the dragons before they escape the island and destroy the rest of the world.

Carnosaur 3: Primal Species
›R1996 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Scott Valentine, Janet Gunn, Rick Dean
International terrorists get a surprise when their cargo turns out to contain living dinosaurs. The army commando team now have to think fast, if they want to prevent the extinction of the human species, instead of the reptiles.
