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
Act of Vengeance
›R1974 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 90m · Jo Ann Harris, Peter Brown, Jennifer Lee Pryor
A woman is sexually assaulted by a serial rapist wearing a hockey mask. She and other victims form a squad that targets would-be rapists, all the while searching for the mask wearing maniac that raped them all.
Chop
›2011 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 98m · Will Keenan, Timothy Muskatell, Ricardo Gray
Lance Reed is forced by a psychotic stranger to confront his duplicitous past. Seeking retribution for a crime, the man forces Lance to reveal his inner most secrets by systematically removing his limbs.
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
›1986 · Horror · 97m · John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Bottoms, Irene Miracle
There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive. Some people find themselves being hunted by the starving monkeys and must do whatever they can to stay alive.
Somewhere Quiet
›NR2024 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Jennifer Kim, Kentucker Audley, Micheál Richardson
Meg is trying to readjust to normalcy after surviving a traumatic kidnapping — but her grounded sense of reality soon starts to deteriorate when she travels with her husband to his wealthy family’s isolated compound.
Place of Bones
›R2024 · Western, Thriller, Horror · 93m · Heather Graham, Tom Hopper, Corin Nemec
On a remote ranch, a mother and her daughter fight for survival when a wounded outlaw seeking refuge brings a notorious bank robber and his ruthless gang, all desperate to reclaim a stolen fortune, right to their doorstep.
Are You in the House Alone?
›NR1978 · Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie · 96m · Kathleen Beller, Blythe Danner, Tony Bill
An average high school girl's life is turned upside down after she is attacked and savagely assaulted. When a mysterious person begins leaving her threatening messages and making unsettling phone calls, Gail realizes that the nightmare is only just beginning...
Poor Pretty Eddie
›R1975 · Horror, Drama · 85m · Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a cocksure, volatile country singer.
The Girl in Black Stockings
›1957 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 75m · Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren
Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Ames, the hotel's bitter, crippled proprietor, visiting lawyer David Hewson and his secretary, Beth -- is the culprit, even as murders continue to take place.
Tenement
›NC-171985 · Action, Thriller, Crime · 94m · Joe Lynn, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant
A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.
The Current Occupant
›NR2020 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 86m · Barry Watson, Sonita Henry, Marvin Jones III
Trapped in a mysterious psychiatric ward, a man with no memory comes to believe that he’s the President of the United States and the subject of a diabolical political conspiracy. As the asylum’s soul-crushing forces bear down on him, he fights to preserve his sanity and escape so that he can return to power.
The Girl in the WoodsSeries
›TV-PG2021 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Stefanie Scott, Sofia Bryant, Misha Osherovich
Carrie is a mysterious warrior who escaped from a cult-like colony that guards the world from monsters hidden behind a secret door in the woods.
Artik
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 76m · Chase Williamson, Jerry G. Angelo, Lauren Ashley Carter
In rural farm country, a comic book obsessed serial killer clashes with a straight edge purist over a young boy's fate.
Chosen Survivors
›PG1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel
A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, nearly two miles below the surface of the Earth. There they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a colony of thousands of bloodthirsty vampire bats finds a way into the shelter and launches a series of vicious attacks where they claim the humans one by one.
The Lighthouse
›NR2016 · Drama, History, Horror · 102m · Mark Lewis Jones, Michael Jibson, Ian Virgo
Two lighthouse keepers clash, making their duties difficult even before a freak storms hits and strands them at the lighthouse for months. Based on a true story.
Breaking Dawn
›R2004 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 88m · Kelly Overton, James Haven, Sarah-Jane Potts
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life on the outside tread the line between fantasy and reality as a stalker becomes known to her. She could be in danger; it could all be in her head.
Escape the NightSeries
›TV-142016 · Mystery, Reality · 5 seasons · Joey Graceffa
Welcome to "Escape the Night." In this surreality competition series, hosted by Joey Graceffa, 10 guests are invited from the modern world to attend a dinner at his newly acquired mansion estate, which has been locked in the 1920's; when America was roaring... roaring with madness. This is a dinner party to die for. No one is safe.
ROMI
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 85m · Alexa Barajas, Juan Riedinger, Pavel Kříž
Forced to hide out at a state of the art smart home, a young woman on the run is terrorized by ROMI, its sinister digital assistant.
Eight Eyes
›2023 · Horror · 88m · Emily Sweet, Bradford Thomas, Bruno Veljanovski
At the breaking point of their dysfunctional marriage, Cass and Gav take a trip through Serbia. After meeting a mysterious local, Saint Peter, who eagerly offers to be their guide, the couple embarks on an impromptu sightseeing expedition that soon takes a series of sinister turns.
Delivered
›NR2020 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 80m · Natalie Paul, Tina Majorino, Micah Joe Parker
A pregnant woman’s life is upended when she realizes someone close to her has darker plans for her and the baby.
From DarknessSeries
›2015 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Anne-Marie Duff, Richard Rankin, Johnny Harris
The story of Claire Church, a former police officer who moves away to the remote Western Isles in an attempt to escape the past and violence that still haunts her. Soon, Claire is pulled back into an investigation she thought she long left behind, by her former lover and colleague DCI John Hind and his new DS Anthony Boyce.
Jennifer
›PG1978 · Horror · 90m · Lisa Pelikan, Bert Convy, Nina Foch
Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes!
FirebiteSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Rob Collins, Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Callan Mulvey
In a remote South-Australian desert mining town — a hive for the last vampire stronghold — two Indigenous Australian hunters embark on a quest to battle the last colony of vampires.
30 Days of Night: Blood TrailsSeries
›TV-MA2007 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Trip Hope, Marilyn Johnson, Geoff Stirling Jr.
Set two days before the events of 30 Days of Night (2007), George is a young addict who makes a living seeking covert information for Judith, the weary but wise New Orleans vampire hunter.
Old
›PG-132021 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 108m · Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.