
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

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
›R2009 · Fantasy, Action, Thriller · 92m · Rhona Mitra, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen
A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja, courageous Lucian leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor. Determined to break the king's enslavement of his people, Lucian faces off against the Death Dealer army in a bid for Lycan independence.

Friday the 13th
›R1980 · Horror · 95m · Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

Event Horizon
›R1997 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 96m · Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.

Devil
›PG-132010 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 80m · Chris Messina, Bojana Novaković, Jenny O'Hara
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.

The Little Things
›R2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · 128m · Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto
Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.

Pandorum
›R2009 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 108m · Ben Foster, Dennis Quaid, Cam Gigandet
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.

Halloween II
›R1981 · Horror · 92m · Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.

Vacancy
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.

Wolf Creek
›R2005 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.

Cujo
›R1983 · Drama, Horror · 93m · Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Tremors II: Aftershocks
›PG-131996 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 100m · Fred Ward, Helen Shaver, Chris Gartin
Earl Bassett's celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he's recruited by a Mexican oil company whose workers have found more than they bargained for under the soil.

Assassination Nation
›2018 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 108m · Odessa Young, Hari Nef, ABRA
After an anonymous hacker begins leaking the private data of thousands living in a small American town, the townspeople spiral into madness, with four high school seniors at the center of the maelstrom.

The Hole
›R2001 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 102m · Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Keira Knightley
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.

Piranha
›R1978 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 94m · Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Becky
›R2020 · Thriller, Horror, Action · 93m · Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.

Southbound
›NR2015 · Fantasy, Thriller, Horror · 89m · Fabianne Therese, Larry Fessenden, Kate Beahan
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.

The Toxic Avenger
›R1984 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 82m · Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Prichard
A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.

The Reef
›R2010 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Damian Walshe-Howling, Zoe Naylor, Adrienne Pickering
A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.

The Woman
›R2011 · Drama, Horror · 102m · Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridgers, Angela Bettis
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.

The Vanishing
›R1993 · Thriller, Drama, Mystery · 109m · Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, Nancy Travis
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.

Below
›R2002 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 105m · Bruce Greenwood, Matthew Davis, Holt McCallany
In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine USS Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell-shocked crew, trapped together in the sub's narrow corridors and constricted spaces, this is about to become a journey into the sensory delusions, mental deceptions and runaway fears that lurk just below the surface of the ocean.

The Sacrament
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen, Kentucker Audley
Two journalists set out to document their friend's journey to reunite with his estranged sister. They track her to an undisclosed location where they are welcomed into the remote world of "Eden Parish," a self-sustained rural utopia composed of nearly two hundred members and overseen by a mysterious leader known only as "Father." It quickly becomes evident to the newcomers that this paradise may not be as it seems. Eden Parish harbors a twisted secret. What started as just another documentary shoot soon becomes a fight for survival.

Body Snatchers
›R1993 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.

Don't Let Go
›R2019 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 107m · David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Mykelti Williamson
A detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.
