
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 Thinning
›2016 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 84m · Logan Paul, Peyton List, Lia Marie Johnson
In a post-apocalyptic future where population control is dictated by a high-school aptitude test, two students discover the test is smoke and mirrors hiding a larger conspiracy.

The Houses October Built
›2014 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Brandy Schaefer, Zack Andrews, Bobby Roe
Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them…

Willow Creek
›NR2013 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 80m · Alexie Gilmore, Bryce Johnson, Peter Jason
Looking to make a splash online with his research videos into the existence of Bigfoot, Jim and his girlfriend Kelly take a camping trip to the small town of Willow Creek, California, and the surrounding mountains where the infamous footage of the supposed sasquatch was filmed.

Nine Dead
›R2010 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 98m · Melissa Joan Hart, John Terry, Chip Bent
Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?

Bad Moon
›R1996 · Horror · 80m · Mariel Hemingway, Michael Paré, Mason Gamble
One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.

We Summon the Darkness
›R2020 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Logan Miller
Three best friends attending a heavy-metal show cross paths with sadistic killers after they travel to a secluded country home for an after party.

Blood Fest
›2018 · Comedy, Horror · 93m · Robbie Kay, Seychelle Gabriel, Jacob Batalon
Fans flock to a festival celebrating the most iconic horror movies, only to discover that the charismatic showman behind the event has a diabolical agenda.

Christmas Bloody Christmas
›2022 · Horror · 87m · Riley Dandy, Sam Delich, Jonah Ray Rodrigues
It's Christmas Eve and Tori just wants to get drunk and party, but when a robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampant killing spree through her small town, she's forced into a battle for survival.

Desperation
›R2006 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 131m · Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Annabeth Gish
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.

Deathwatch
›R2002 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Jamie Bell, Rúaidhrí Conroy, Mike Downey
In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other.

Dead Sea
›2024 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Isabel Gravitt, Alexander Wraith, Dean Cameron
Stranded in the open sea after a fatal accident, a young woman and her two friends are rescued by a fishing vessel's captain, unaware that the ship harbors a chilling secret.

Ticks
›R1993 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Rosalind Allen, Ami Dolenz, Seth Green
Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.

A Murder of Crows
›R1999 · Thriller, Action, Crime · 102m · Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Berenger, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. After letting Russell borrow his latest manuscript, Marlowe dies of a heart attack. When Russell publishes the dead man's manuscript under his own name, he makes the best-seller list—and unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in the investigation of a grisly multiple homicide.

John and the Hole
›NR2021 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 103m · Charlie Shotwell, Taissa Farmiga, Jennifer Ehle
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker — a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants.

Demonic Toys
›R1992 · Horror, Comedy · 83m · Tracy Scoggins, Bentley Mitchum, Daniel Cerny
While on a stakeout, Judith Gray, a beautiful, tough cop, is trapped inside a warehouse full of toys that have been awakened to murderous life by a strange child of darkness.

Panic Button
›2011 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Scarlett Alice Johnson, Jack Gordon, Michael Jibson
Four young men have won a trip with their favorite social network. On board the private plane that took him to New York, they are invited to participate in an in-flight entertainment: a new online gaming experience. But this is no ordinary Thurs Trapped at 30,000 feet, they will play for their lives and those of their families. They will discover the hard way that put his life online can have dire consequences...

13 Cameras
›2016 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 87m · Brianne Moncrief, PJ McCabe, Neville Archambault
Newlyweds Claire and Ryan have just moved into a new house. Both are hoping Claire’s pregnancy will be the cement needed to hold their already fraying relationship together. Little do they know their marital issues are the least of their problems. For unbeknownst to them, their scruffy, sleazy and lascivious landlord has installed numerous miniature cameras all over their home and has been spying on them from Day One. Then Ryan begins an office affair, and the landlord kits out the secret basement with chains and soundproofing. Something is going to give in this suburban shocker packed with nasty surprises.

Open 24 Hours
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · Vanessa Grasse, Emily Tennant, Brendan Fletcher
After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station. The isolation triggers her anxiety and hallucinations, with devastatingly gory results.

The Clinic
›R2010 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Andy Whitfield, Tabrett Bethell, Freya Stafford
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?

Hangman
›2015 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Jeremy Sisto, Kate Ashfield, Ty Simpkins
Returning from vacation, the Miller family find their home has been broken into. After cleaning up the mess they continue with their lives, shaking off the feeling of being violated. But little do they know the nightmare has just begun.

The Girl Who Got Away
›2021 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 117m · Lexi Johnson, Chukwudi Iwuji, Kaye Tuckerman
A female serial killer who killed four young girls is sent away to prison, but a fifth victim escaped with her life. Twenty years later, the killer escapes and begins hunting for the one who got away.

Kill Theory
›2009 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 82m · Don McManus, Ryanne Duzich, Teddy Dunn
While celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.

Vinyan
›R2008 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell, Petch Osathanugrah
Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.

Monster Man
›2003 · Horror, Comedy · 95m · Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich, Aimee Brooks
Two guys and a female hitchhiker are terrorized by a monstrous looking man driving a giant monster truck.
