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
And Soon the Darkness
›PG1970 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 99m · Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
›NR1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 69m · Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Blue Caprice
›R2013 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 93m · Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Tim Blake Nelson
A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.
Slash/Back
›2022 · Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · 87m · Tasiana Shirley, Alexis Vincent-Wolfe, Nalajoss Ellsworth
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
Lowlifes
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Amanda Fix, Matthew MacCaull, Brenna Llewellyn
The survival instincts of a road-tripping family are put to the test when they have no other choice but to stay the night at a remote homestead.
Vice Squad
›R1982 · Crime, Thriller, Drama · 97m · Season Hubley, Gary Swanson, Wings Hauser
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
When a Stranger Calls Back
›R1993 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 94m · Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen
A retired detective and a crisis-center counselor hunt a killer stalking a coed.
Blade: The SeriesSeries
›TV-142006 · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Sticky Fingaz, Jill Wagner, Nelson Lee
Blade is a half-man, half-vampire who employs his extraordinary powers in a crusade to save mankind from the demonic creatures who walk the night. Set in Detroit, Blade investigates the vampire house of Chthon. Along the way he forms an uneasy alliance with Krista Starr, a former military veteran who becomes entrenched in the world of vampires while investigating the murder of her twin brother.
The Documentary
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Aaron Bowden, Jake B. Miller, Tristin Rupp
D. stalks Sandra but she doesn't know it. She does think that D. is a documentary filmmaker having her be in film about conquering fear. Little does she know that D. is not who he claims to be, and far worse.
Rituals
›R1977 · Horror, Adventure · 99m · Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell
Five doctors go camping in the remote woods of Northern Ontario. When their boots are stolen they begin to suspect they are being stalked.
Nature of the Beast
›R1995 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · 91m · Lance Henriksen, Eric Roberts, Brion James
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
K-Shop
›2016 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 115m · Ziad Abaza, Scot Williams, Darren Morfitt
After his father is killed in an altercation with drunken thugs, Salah's world is plunged into darkness. Forced into running the family kebab shop alone, Salah struggles to manage the increasingly rowdy night life and when a fight with an angry customer goes fatally wrong, he finds himself with a dead body on his hands. With no faith in the authorities Salah disposes of the body in the one place he knows best… the kebabs.
Night of the Reaper
›2025 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Jessica Clement, Ryan Robbins, Summer H. Howell
A college student returns home for the weekend and reluctantly takes a babysitting job after a local babysitter is brutally murdered. When the town’s sheriff receives chilling evidence that the killing wasn’t an isolated incident, a deadly night unfolds as a masked killer sets the stage for another attack.
Van Diemen's Land
›2009 · Drama, History, Thriller · 104m · Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft
The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.
The Lady Vanishes
›2013 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 86m · Tuppence Middleton, Keeley Hawes, Julian Rhind-Tutt
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
Raging Grace
›2023 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 100m · Leanne Best, Max Eigenmann, Jaeden Paige Boadilla
An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a careworker for a seemingly terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she’s strived for and holds dear.
Leaving D.C.
›2013 · Mystery, Drama, Horror · 77m · Karin Crighton, Josh Criss, Jeff Manney
After 20 years of living in Washington, D.C., Mark Klein seeks much-needed solace by moving to the remote wilds of West Virginia. To ease his loneliness, he sends regular video updates to members of his OCD-support group back in the city. But Mark gradually realizes that despite his new, isolated setting, he may not be alone. From the endless woods surrounding his home, something else is watching.
House of Horrors
›NR1946 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 65m · Rondo Hatton, Martin Kosleck, Robert Lowery
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
The Monster and the Girl
›1941 · Science Fiction, Horror, Crime · 65m · Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
When Michael Calls
›1972 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 73m · Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Douglas
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
ColdwaterSeries
›2025 · Drama, Crime · 1 season · Andrew Lincoln, Ewen Bremner, Eve Myles
A man in the midst of a mid-life crisis moves his family to a remote Scottish village, only to find himself entangled in a dangerous friendship with a sinister neighbour.
30 Days of Night: Dust to DustSeries
›TV-MA2008 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Mimi Michaels, Christopher Stapleton, Shawnee Smith
A month after the events of 30 Days of Night (2007), prison nurse Sara Maguire is attacked by a vampire during a prisoner transfer and begins to turn, while her ex-cop brother Nick hunts for her, encountering escaped vampire hunter George Fowler along the way.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
›PG-132018 · Science Fiction, Action, Adventure · 143m · Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
Resident Evil
›R2002 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 100m · Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.