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.
2813 titles
The Damned
›R2025 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 89m · Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Siobhan Finneran
A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village.
Blood Quantum
›NR2019 · Horror · 98m · Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
Superhost
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Sara Canning, Osric Chau, Gracie Gillam
Two travel vloggers check into a vacation rental with a host that will do anything for a good review.
Vampyres
›R1974 · Horror · 88m · Marianne Morris, Anulka Dziubinska, Murray Brown
A duo of bisexual female vampires prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce and murder in the English countryside.
Dust Devil
›R1992 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 103m · Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Marianne Sägebrecht
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Just Before Dawn
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Chris Lemmon
In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.
Wake Up
›2024 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 80m · Turlough Convery, Benny O. Arthur, Jacqueline Moré
A group of young activists set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a home superstore as it closes. But their plan goes terribly wrong when they become trapped inside and must face a deranged security guard with a gruesome passion for primitive hunting. As the night fills with violence and terror, the teenagers find themselves in a desperate fight for their lives.
Last Straw
›2024 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 81m · Jessica Belkin, Jeremy Sisto, Taylor Kowalski
A rural roadside diner becomes the host of a maniacal killing spree – leaving a young waitress to clean up the mess. After hard-headed Nancy fires the staff at her dad’s diner, she decides to cover the last shift of the night by herself. Little does she know, she is far from alone. The day is coming back to haunt her and when things begin to spiral out of control, she must fight for her life over the course of one long night.
Willard
›PG1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Sondra Locke
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
Dead End Drive-In
›R1986 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 87m · Ned Manning, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford
In the future, a health nut and his tag-along girlfriend become trapped in a drive-in theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths.
Happy Hunting
›NR2017 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Martin Dingle Wall, Ken Lally, Kenny Wormald
An alcoholic drifter must battle withdrawal and psychotic rednecks after he becomes the target of a deranged sporting event.
The Minus Man
›R1999 · Drama, Thriller · 111m · Owen Wilson, Janeane Garofalo, Brian Cox
When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. Despite his easy charm, Vann is merely a reflection of what those he encounters want him to be. Soon, as locals start to disappear, it becomes clear that an eerie subtraction is at work in the sleepy hamlet.
Stalked by My Doctor: The Return
›2016 · Thriller, TV Movie, Horror · 97m · Eric Roberts, Claire Blackwelder, Hilary Greer
Dr. Beck, who has changed his name, saves a young teenage girl drowning in Mexico, whom he falls in love with. As always, there are some complications in his way, but he has plans to possibly get past them and get the girl of his dreams.
Dead Shack
›2017 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 85m · Matthew Nelson-Mahood, Lizzie Boys, Gabriel LaBelle
On a weekend getaway at a rundown cabin in the woods, Jason, a cautious teen, his crude best friend Colin and his fearless older sister Summer are forced to work together, grow up and save their hard-partying parents from their predatory neighbor intent on feeding them all to her undead family.
I Drink Your Blood
›R1971 · Horror · 83m · Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, Jadin Wong, Rhonda Fultz
A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy, whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them, tries to get even - with deadly results.
Spiral
›PG-132007 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 90m · Joel David Moore, Amber Tamblyn, Zachary Levi
A reclusive telemarketer has only one semblance of a friend: His telecommuter boss. But the telemarketer's social circle seems to improve greatly when a whimsical co-worker enters his life. Only, as he begins to sketch his new friend's portrait, disturbing "voices" from the phone man's past threaten to lead him into a network of destruction.
Who Invited Them
›2022 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 80m · Ryan Hansen, Melissa Tang, Timothy Granaderos
Adam and Margo's housewarming party goes well enough except there's this one mysterious couple lingering after the other guests have left.
White of the Eye
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller · 111m · David Keith, Cathy Moriarty, Art Evans
In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his wife starts to uncover startling truths...
The BeastSeries
›TV-PG1996 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · William L. Petersen, Karen Sillas, Charles Martin Smith
Mysterious deaths and unexplained disappearances begin to occur in the small seaport village of Graves Point. When a large, strange claw is discovered on an empty raft washing up on the shore, marine biologist Dr. Herbert Talley identifies it as belonging to a rare giant squid.
Lady in a Cage
›1964 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 94m · Olivia de Havilland, James Caan, Jennifer Billingsley
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Fair Game
›R1986 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Cassandra Delaney, Peter Ford, Garry Who
A young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback is in for trouble when she is confronted by three kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill the animals in the sanctuary, and when they see how attractive the owner is, they decide to have a little "fun" with her, too. Turns out that they may get a bit more "fun" than they bargained for.
The Oak Room
›2020 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 89m · RJ Mitte, Peter Outerbridge, Ari Millen
During a raging snowstorm, a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. When he offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night's events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses and shocking violence.
Knuckleball
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Munro Chambers, Michael Ironside, Kathleen Munroe
Alone, and targeted on an isolated farm, 12 year old Henry finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of terror, and a dark family legacy, when his secretive grandfather dies suddenly in the night.
Malicious
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 91m · Kevin Interdonato, Nick Baillie, Melissa Anschutz
The McCabe family's weekend getaway is turned upside down when a mysterious stranger knocks on their door.