
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

Alive
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Thomas Cocquerel, Camille Stopps, Angus Macfadyen
A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their true identity.

Home Movie
›R2008 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 77m · Adrian Pasdar, Cady McClain, Amber Joy Williams
Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film every holiday and special family event. To the Poe's horror their home movies reveal an increasing malice and evil within their children.

Seven in Heaven
›PG-132018 · Horror · 94m · Travis Tope, Haley Ramm, Jacinda Barrett
Teenagers Jude and June spend seven minutes in a locked closet and emerge in a hostile and dangerous alternate world.

The Heretics
›2017 · Horror, Fantasy · 87m · Nina Kiri, Ry Barrett, Jorja Cadence
A young girl is abducted by a man, who claims that a cult is hunting her. His goal is to protect her until sunrise but while restrained, the young girl falls deathly ill. While her friends and family search for her, the source of her illness becomes more and more apparent. She’s not sick…she’s changing.

Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature
›R2001 · Horror, Fantasy, TV Movie · 91m · Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Jim Piddock
Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads towards the mythical Forbidden Islands, the mermaid begins to display its deadly side.

Road Games
›2015 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de la Baume, Frédéric Pierrot
When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety’s sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against their better judgment to take up an offer to stay the night at a mysterious elderly couple’s mansion…

The Beast Must Die
›PG1974 · Horror, Mystery · 93m · Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark
Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.

Man Vs.
›2015 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Chris Diamantopoulos, Chloe Bradt, Michael Cram
As host of his own hit TV series, 'MAN VS', Doug Woods is forced to fend for himself for five days in remote locations with no crew, food, or water, only the cameras he carries on his back to film his experiences. Doug's in the remote woods for a routine episode, until he's awoken by an earth-shaking crash. Things get weirder as it becomes clear Doug isn't alone. Someone or something is watching him.

Year 10
›2024 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Toby Goodger, Duncan Lacroix, Hannah Khalique-Brown
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.

Hippopotamus
›2018 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 77m · Ingvild Deila, Stuart Mortimer, Tom Lincoln
Ruby wakes from a bad dream to find herself in a real life nightmare. She's trapped in a basement, her legs are broken and she can't remember who she is or how she got there. Her kidnapper, Tom, tells her she will remain captive until she falls in love with him. Ruby is focused on trying to escape until Tom starts helping her to remember her past and she begins to question everything.

Day the World Ended
›1955 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Paul Birch
After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.

Estranged
›2015 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · James Cosmo, Amy Manson, Nora-Jane Noone
Due to a near-fatal accident that has left her incapacitated and depleted of her long-term memory, a temporarily wheelchair-bound woman returns home after being abroad for six years accompanied by her bohemian boyfriend, the apparent cause of the accident. Unable to remember her family or her own childhood, she sets out, with the help of her boyfriend, to find the reason for her leaving all those years ago and quickly discovers her relatives may not be as loving as she’d thought

Madhouse
›R1981 · Horror · 93m · Patricia Mickey, Allison Biggers, Michael MacRae
A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday.

Fresh Meat
›2012 · Comedy, Horror · 91m · Temuera Morrison, Nicola Kawana, Hannah Tevita
A dysfunctional gang of criminals takes a middle class Māori family hostage and discovers too late that they are cannibals.

After Midnight
›R1989 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Jillian McWhirter, Pamela Adlon, Ramy Zada
A college professor teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear" brings his students (including a psychic) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house. The second has four trendy teenage girls getting lost in a bad part of town and chased by a pack of vicious dogs. Last, a woman on crutches confronting a stalker at the answering service where she works the night shift.

Gargoyles
›NR1972 · Fantasy, Horror, TV Movie · 74m · Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall
After receiving word about a mysterious carcass/skeleton unearthed in the Arizona desert, a father and his daughter decide to remove it from the burial grounds for further study. Once they do so, they, as well as the town, are besieged by a colony of gargoyles living in some nearby caverns.

Baphomet
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 72m · Colin Ward, Rebecca Weaver, Matthan Harris
An American family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter's pregnancy. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult leader, Henrik Brandr, unexpectedly visits their ranch. Henrik offers to pay the family a large sum for ownership of their land. Jacob Richardson, the father, rejects the offer due to the priceless sentimental value of the ranch. Henrik, displeased, begins to put devastating curses on the Richardsons, trying to force them off their land - even if it means murdering them. After suffering unexplainable tragedies, the Richardsons seek help from Marybeth, a white witch high priestess. They soon discover a terrible secret about their house, revealing why their land is so valuable to the cult. They realize they must protect their house from the cult at all costs, and a violent battle between good and evil ensues.

The Fan
›R1981 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Maureen Stapleton
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with rejection, the fan strikes out in increasingly violent ways.

Heart of Midnight
›R1988 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 93m · Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brenda Vaccaro, Jack Hallett
A young woman who is getting back on her feet after a mental breakdown, Carol Rivers discovers that her late uncle has left her a rundown nightclub. Carol decides to renovate the venue, but, in the process, uncovers dark secrets about the club and her dead relative. After a series of disturbing events, Carol becomes increasingly unstable, but she finds some measure of comfort in Sharpe, an enigmatic older detective.

Bitter Feast
›2010 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 95m · Mario Batali, Joshua Leonard, Megan Hilty
A celebrity chef exacts revenge on a food blogger who torpedoes his career.

Full Eclipse
›1993 · Horror, Action, TV Movie · 97m · Mario Van Peebles, Patsy Kensit, Bruce Payne
The LA police department have a special team of officers with a talent for reducing big-time crime. The team leader has an excellent track record for crime reduction in other big cities, but his methods are unconventional, and so is he - he's a werewolf.

Nightman
›2023 · Thriller, Horror · 101m · Zara Devlin, Eoin Duffy, Mark Huberman
A young pregnant woman discovers that her perfect boyfriend may be a dangerous sleepwalker when she finds out of strange disappearances and murders taking place in the region.

The Killing Floor
›2007 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 94m · Marc Blucas, Shiri Appleby, Reiko Aylesworth
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.

Primal Rage
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 92m · Patrick Lowe, Cheryl Arutt, Sarah Buxton
A scientist at a Florida university inadvertently creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.
