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 Devil Comes at Night
›2023 · Horror · 80m · Jason Martorino, Elias Zarou, Jeremiah Sparks
A washed up boxer searching for his inheritance must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father's farmhouse by a local cannibal cult.
Frayed
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 111m · Tony Doupe, Don Brady, Aaron Blakely
Pat Baker is a small town sheriff. His son, Kurt, is a deranged young man with a dark secret. Sheriff Baker's worst nightmare comes true when Kurt escapes from a psychiatric hospital where he was locked away for the brutal murder of his mother thirteen years earlier. Gary, a hospital security guard, sets out into the woods to stop him, but soon finds himself relentlessly hunted by the deranged psychopath intent on killing him and anyone who crosses his path. Sheriff Baker launches an intense search to find his son, only to discover that his daughter, Sara, and her friends are camping in the same woods where Kurt has escaped. Kurt's psychosis escalates, as does his vengeful killing spree, culminating in a terrifying, climactic confrontation with Kurt, the sheriff and his family.
Sorry, Charlie
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 75m · Colton Tran, Kathleen Kenny, Marisa Brown
A remote helpline volunteer is targeted by "The Gentleman," a stranger who lures women from their homes with a recording of a crying baby.
A Breed Apart
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery, Action · 100m · Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Riele Downs
When Violet accepts an invitation to a private island with some of the world's most famous social influencers, she expects a weekend of unrivaled viral opportunity. She soon becomes part of her own horrific reality show when the guests are pitted against each other to capture the island's legendary man-eating dogs before they become victims of the monstrous canines.
Buried Alive II
›1997 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 97m · Ally Sheedy, Stephen Caffrey, Tracey Needham
A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep coma that resembles death. When an accident occurs in the embalmer's office he doesn't complete the embalming process, causing her to be buried alive. Awakening from the grave, she claws her way out and seeks revenge against the two who caused her supposed demise
12 Days of Terror
›PG-132004 · Drama, Horror, TV Movie · 86m · Colin Egglesfield, Mark Dexter, Jenna Harrison
July of 1916 was a time of record heat, a polio epidemic, and a World War in Europe. But beachgoers in New Jersey are threatened by a even greater terror: a shark that has suddenly developed a taste for human flesh. Starting July 1st and lasting over a period of 12 days, the unidentified shark kills four people and seriously injures a fifth before the attacks stop, and threatens New Jersey's thriving tourist industry. Based on true events, and one of the inspirations behind Peter Benchley's Jaws.
The Evictors
›PG1979 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 92m · Vic Morrow, Michael Parks, Jessica Harper
A nice young couple move into an eerie house located in a small Louisiana town, unaware of its violent history.
Effects
›R1979 · Thriller, Horror · 84m · Joseph Pilato, Susan Chapek, John Harrison
Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.
Cabin by the Lake
›2000 · Horror, TV Movie · 91m · Judd Nelson, Hedy Burress, Susan Gibney
A screenwriter does research for his new script by actually kidnapping and drowning young girls. He then places them in his "garden" of other dead girls coming back daily to check on them. One girl narrowly escapes and the other bodies are found leading to an ingenious plot to try and capture the killer.
Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood
›R1973 · Horror · 74m · Janine Carazo, Jerome Dempsey, Daniel Dietrich
After a young man goes missing at a run-down local amusement park, his family take jobs there in an effort to uncover what happened to him and, in the process, meet a cadre of unsettling characters.
Cruel Summer
›2016 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 78m · Richard Pawulski, Danny Miller, Reece Douglas
Young Autism sufferer Danny enjoys the serenity and solitude of camping. That's all about to change when enraged teens Nicholas, Calvin and Julia find him, each with their own agenda for wanting to see Danny suffer.
Blood and Lace
›1971 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 87m · Gloria Grahame, Melody Patterson, Milton Selzer
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by a mysterious woman and her handyman, both whom she comes to suspect are hiding dark secrets.
Gog
›1954 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall
A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.
Follow Her
›NR2022 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Dani Barker, Luke Cook, Eliana Jones
An aspiring actress responds to a mysterious classified ad and finds herself trapped in her new boss's twisted revenge fantasy.
Sugar Cookies
›R1973 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 89m · Mary Woronov, Lynn Lowry, George Shannon
A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.
Beaten to Death
›NR2023 · Horror · 92m · Thomas Roach, David Tracy, Nicole Tudor
A desperate choice leads Jack down a path that leaves him beaten and bruised as he struggles against man, nature and his own insanity. Stranded in the middle of nowhere after barely surviving a horrific assault, Jack encounters one local after another and quickly learns that a sick game of cat and mouse is about to begin. Battling the deranged country psychos and the harsh landscape, Jack must go to extreme lengths to survive.
The Deep Web: Murdershow
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Aiden Howard, Kimi Alexander, Brendan Fletcher
A podcaster’s investigation of his sister’s death leads him to a grisly website, where the highest bidder decides how a chosen victim will be killed.
The Ungodly
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Wes Bentley, Beth Grant, Joanne Baron
When struggling filmmaker inadvertently records a notorious serial killer in the middle of a murderous act, he decides to use the footage to blackmail the madman into being the subject of a disturbing new documentary.
Freeway Killer
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 88m · Scott Anthony Leet, Cole Williams, Dusty Sorg
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer easily avoided police at first. But as police closed in and the killer’s pattern grew more erratic, the only question was how many more will die?
All Eyes
›2022 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Jasper Hammer, Ben Hall, Danielle Evon Ploeger
A disgraced podcast host interviews an eccentric farmer who claims to have a monster living in the woods near his house.
The ImmortalSeries
›2000 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Lorenzo Lamas, Steve Braun, April Telek
The Immortal is a Canadian television series which aired from October 2000 to June 2001 and had 22 episodes.
The Purge
›R2013 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 85m · Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
The Meg
›PG-132018 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 113m · Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
›R2004 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 94m · Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.