
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 Puppet Masters
›R1994 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 109m · Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner
The Midwest USA is invaded by stingray-shaped alien slugs that ride on people's backs and control their minds in order to spread their dominion. Government agency reps Sam Givens, Andrew Nivens, and Mary Sefton must stop the aliens.

Hell Night
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 101m · Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten, Peter Barton
As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family.

Daylight's End
›2016 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 105m · Johnny Strong, Lance Henriksen, Louis Mandylor
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.

Babysitter Wanted
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Tina Houtz, Sarah Thompson, Kristen Dalton
When she takes a job babysitting a young boy for a night at his family's remote farmhouse, sweet college co-ed Angie Albright becomes the target of a scar-covered creep making mysterious phone calls and prowling outside the windows. Angie gets the drop on the would-be killer, but quickly discovers that her nightmare has just begun.

Hunted
›2021 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Lucie Debay, Arieh Worthalter, Ciaran O'Brien
A woman flees two serial killers who are hot on her heels in a forest.

Night of the Hunted
›2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · Camille Rowe, Aleksandar Popovic, J. John Bieler
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.

Fear Below
›R2025 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 85m · Hermione Corfield, Jake Ryan, Josh McConville
A rag-tag team of divers attempting to salvage a sunken car from a river are thwarted by a highly aggressive bull shark.

Borderline
›R2025 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Samara Weaving, Ray Nicholson, Jimmie Fails
After escaping from a mental hospital, a violent sociopath named Paul begins a dangerous rampage targeting Sofia, a world-famous pop star. Obsessed with her, he takes Sofia hostage in her own home, acting under the delusional belief that they are getting married. Paul is desperate to prove his devotion, leading to a tense and unpredictable situation.

They're Watching
›2016 · Thriller, Comedy, Horror · 95m · Brigid Brannagh, Carrie Genzel, David Alpay
An American TV crew gets trapped in a centuries-old web of revenge, horror, and blood, when their home improvement show is attacked by angry Eastern European villagers out to kill the show's star.

The Exterminator
›R1980 · Action, Crime, Drama · 98m · Robert Ginty, Christopher George, Samantha Eggar
When a man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York, he transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a war zone.

Ben
›PG1972 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.

Pledge
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 77m · Zachery Byrd, Phillip Andre Botello, Aaron Dalla Villa
Three friends pledge a fraternity that's deadly serious about its secret rituals, turning their rush into a race for survival.

Shock Waves
›PG1977 · Horror, Science Fiction, War · 85m · Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Brooke Adams
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.

Re-Cut
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Ross Kohn, Meredith Phillips, Austin Basis
When twin girls are found dead in their family’s barn, reality star turned TV-reporter Meredith Phillips and her de-facto camera crew are dispatched to rural Wisconsin to investigate the gruesome deaths. In their relentless drive to break the story, the reporters become entangled in a deadly mystery and uncover the small town’s shocking secret. Edited together from the crew’s multiple cameras, the film documents their struggle to survive the most terrifying night of their lives and becomes the only evidence of a crime too horrific to imagine.

Horror in the High Desert
›2021 · Horror, Mystery · 80m · Tonya Williams Ogden, Eric Mencis, Errol Porter
In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.

Nightmare Beach
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Nicolas De Toth, Sarah Buxton, Rawley Valverde
In Miami, Florida, biker gang leader Edward "Diablo" Santer is about to be executed for murder when he proclaims his innocence and vows revenge from the grave. When a mysterious biker comes to town during Spring Break festivities, leaving several teenagers electrocuted to death, some begin to suspect that Santer has made good on his promise.

The Ranger
›NR2018 · Horror · 80m · Chloë Levine, Jeremy Holm, Granit Lahu
After a run-in with the cops at a punk show goes sideways, Chelsea and her pals flee the city in search of a place to lay low. Running to the security of an old, abandoned family cabin in the woods, they fall under the watchful eye of an overzealous park ranger who holds a secret from Chelsea's past.

Venom
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, however, when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and terrorizes both them and their hostages.

Ravage
›2020 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Robert Longstreet, Bruce Dern
When a nature photographer explains to the Police how she fought her way out of the Watchatoomy Valley, they dismiss her crazed and violent story as a meth-induced nightmare. But when they discover that she's telling the truth, it's too late.

Hall
›2022 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Carolina Bartczak, Yumiko Shaku, Mark Gibson
When a hotel hallway is ravaged by a dreadful airborne virus, pregnant Japanese runaway wife Naomi is tragically thrust into the fight of her life. After getting infected, she is forced to crawl her way through other helpless victims to escape. In the room next door to her is Val, a mother trapped in a toxic marriage, who must also navigate her way out of the hotel corridor through the long and narrow stretch of isolated carnage, desperately looking for her young daughter Kelly. Will these two women avoid the debilitating sickness and get out alive?

Gnaw
›NR2017 · Horror · 99m · Penelope Mitchell, Kyle Gass, Chris Johnson
Jennifer Conrad is a small-town girl starting over in the big city. Fleeing an abusive relationship, all she wants is a chance to begin again. But it is hard to start over when something is eating you while you sleep . . . one painful bite at a time.

Warning Sign
›R1985 · Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller · 99m · Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.

Shadow Puppets
›PG-132007 · Horror · 103m · James Marsters, Tony Todd, Jolene Blalock
Director Michael Winnick's chilling tale stars James Marsters as Jack, one of eight captives who awaken in an abandoned asylum not knowing who they are or why they are together. They discover that they've been used in an experiment to erase disturbing memories, but instead, a murderous creature has been unleashed. Reaching out from the shadows, the monster hunts the eight strangers as they race to escape the asylum.

The Park
›R2023 · Action, Drama, Horror · 80m · Chloe Guidry, Nhedrick Jabier, Carmina Garay
A dystopian coming-of-age movie focused on three kids who find themselves in an abandoned amusement park, aiming to unite whoever remains. With dangers lurking around every corner, they will do whatever it takes to survive their hellish Neverland.
