
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

Cheat
›2023 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Corin Clay, Mick Thyer, April Clark
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.

Daddy's Little Girl
›2014 · Horror, Thriller · 107m · Billi Baker, Michael Thomson, Allira Jaques
After the police find Derek’s daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is ‘part of the family.’ With careful research into the history of torture, Derek prepares himself and his basement for a week of brutal tactics that will make his daughter’s killer feel the pain that he has inflicted upon so many others. In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it’s the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest.

Gwen
›2018 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 84m · Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Maxine Peake, Richard Harrington
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.

Motherly
›2022 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Lora Burke, Tessa Kozma, Kristen MacCulloch
Kate and her daughter Beth live alone in an isolated farmhouse in the woods, but when Kate slowly begins to suspect that something sinister is happening, her motherly instincts are put to the test.

Acolytes
›2009 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Sebastian Gregory
Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.

The Monster That Challenged the World
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.

The Night Visitor
›PG1971 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 106m · Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Liv Ullmann
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.

House of Whipcord
›1974 · Horror · 102m · Barbara Markham, Patrick Barr, Ray Brooks
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.

Culture Shock
›NR2019 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 91m · Martha Higareda, Shawn Ashmore, Richard Cabral
A young Mexican woman crosses the border in search of the American dream, only to instead find her worst nightmare lying within.

Lisa
›PG-131990 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 95m · Staci Keanan, Cheryl Ladd, D.W. Moffett
A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a stranger who is, unbeknownst to her, a serial killer.

Macabre
›1958 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 72m · William Prince, Jacqueline Scott, Jim Backus
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with mere hours to find and rescue her.

RagdollSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 1 season · Lucy Hale, Ali Cook, Henry Lloyd-Hughes
Detectives look to untangle the case of the Ragdoll Killer, who has killed six people and sewn their bodies into the shape of one grotesque body nicknamed the Ragdoll.

Death Game
›R1977 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, Seymour Cassel
George Manning is a well-to-do businessman, husband, and father. While his family is away on his birthday, he invites a pair of rain-soaked young women into his house to wait out an evening thunderstorm. The two girls seduce Manning and ultimately kidnap and torture him in his own home.

The Magnetic Monster
›NR1953 · Science Fiction, Horror · 76m · Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Leo Britt
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.

Relentless
›R1989 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 92m · Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi
Two Los Angeles police detectives hunt for a serial killer who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.

Queens of the Dead
›2025 · Horror, Comedy · 101m · Katy O'Brian, Jaquel Spivey, Nina West
When a zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, & frenemies must put aside their drama and use their unique skills to fight against the brain-thirsty, scrolling undead.

Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
›NR1985 · Crime, Action, Thriller · 84m · Brian Schulz, Robert Rickman, John Manfredi
Jack Stryker took two bullets in the leg in Vietnam and was carried back by one of his men. When he returns, he tries to live a quiet life in his cabin and go back out with his girlfriend, Sally.

Banshee
›R2006 · Crime, Thriller, TV Movie · 95m · Taryn Manning, Romano Orzari, Michael Lombardi
A city's most-notorious car thief must use all the skills at her disposal to evade a serial killer who wants to make her his next victim.

Shallow Grave
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Tony March, Lisa Stahl, Tom Law
When four young college girls stumble upon a murder, they find themselves targeted by a killer who will stop at nothing to silence them.

Who's Watching Oliver
›R2018 · Horror, TV Movie · 87m · Russell Geoffrey Banks, Sara Malakul Lane, Margaret Roche
The story of a mentally unstable loner lost in a life forced upon him. By night Oliver aimlessly wanders the streets and bars on what can only be described as a truly shocking and humiliating killing spree. His only savior and possible way out of a life he is desperate to escape comes in the form of the beautiful Sophia with her sweet eccentricity and naivety to the danger she has put herself in.

Assault
›R1971 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 91m · Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones
After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.

The Bad Seed
›1985 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 100m · Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, David Carradine
Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she herself is the daughter of a convicted killer, Christine becomes convinced that sweet little Rachel is a "bad seed" - an inherent killer who feels no remorse because she doesn't know any better.

The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan
›NR2018 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 84m · Anna Stromberg, Burt Grinstead, Maureen Keiller
An unedited memory card from a camera shows Leah Sullivan's school project about a cold case murder that doesn't seem to be so cold after all.

Hide
›2008 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 96m · Rachel Miner, Christian Kane, Polly Shannon
A modern day Bonnie and Clyde - with a twist - that follows two lovers down a path of destruction, mayhem, and murder as they live in a world where it is acceptable to take whatever they want with murderous consequences.
