
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

Dark Country
›R2009 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Thomas Jane, Lauren German, Ron Perlman
Two honeymooners rescue a mysterious car crash survivor in the Las Vegas desert. But their decision to save the man becomes increasingly regrettable when he turns on them, forcing the newlyweds to do the unthinkable.

Static
›NR2012 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Milo Ventimiglia, Sarah Shahi, William Mapother
A couple facing marital problems after losing their child finds their life together further complicated by a mysterious visitor.

Elevator
›NR2013 · Thriller, Horror · 84m · Christopher Backus, Anita Briem, John Getz
Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no escape and no promise of rescue. As the tension in the elevator mounts the unthinkable soon becomes the only reasonable solution.

Mine Games
›2012 · Thriller, Horror · 88m · Alex Meraz, Briana Evigan, Julianna Guill
A group of young friends make an incomprehensible discovery in an abandoned mine, but the more they try to change the future, the more they seal their fate.

Dying Breed
›R2008 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Nathan Phillips, Leigh Whannell, Bille Brown
An extinct species, the Tasmanian tiger. A long-forgotten legend, “The Pieman” aka Alexander Pearce, who was hanged for cannibalism in 1824. Both had a desperate need to survive; both could have living descendants within the Tasmanian bush. Four hikers venture deep into isolated territory to find one of these legends, but which one will they come upon first?

Big Bad Wolf
›R2006 · Horror, Comedy · 95m · Trevor Duke-Moretz, Richard Tyson, Kimberly J. Brown
In Cameron, a group of hunters is attacked by a wild animal, and Charlie Cowley survives, but sees his brother Scott dying. Seven years later, his teenage nephew Derek Cowley steals the key of his stepfather's cabin in the isolated Fire Road 13, and travels with four classmates and his friend Sam to spend the weekend having a party with booze and sex. However, they are attacked by a Beast that kills his friends in a sadistic way. Sam and Derek survive, and they suspect that his stepfather, Mitchell Toblat, is a werewolf. When Charlie meets Derek and Sam, they decide to collect evidence to prove that Mitchell is the Beast and kill him, but Mitchell discovers their plot and chases the trio.

Rumours
›R2024 · Comedy, Horror · 104m · Cate Blanchett, Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird
En route to the annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

DeadHeads
›R2011 · Adventure, Comedy, Horror · 95m · Michael McKiddy, Ross Kidder, Markus Taylor
Two inexplicably coherent zombies awake amidst a zombie attack and decide to take a road trip to find the one's lost love, unaware they are being chased by the agents of a ruthless company with its own agenda.

Gone
›R2006 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 88m · Scott Mechlowicz, Amelia Warner, Shaun Evans
A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Australian outback become involved with a mysterious and charismatic American whose motive for imposing his friendship upon them becomes increasingly suspect and sinister.

T.I.M.
›2023 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 101m · Eamon Farren, Georgina Campbell, Nathaniel Parker
Prosthetics scientist Abi and her adulterous husband Paul adjust to life outside the city as Abi begins working for high-tech company Integrate, developing a humanoid AI - T.I.M.

Nine Miles Down
›R2009 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 86m · Adrian Paul, Kate Nauta, Meredith Ostrom
In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. A security patrolman battles through the high winds to investigate why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the site had recently been taken over by a multi-national research team intent on drilling deeper into the earth’s crust than ever before.

Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt
›2004 · Action, Horror · 90m · Julian Sands, Elsa Pataky, John Sharian
A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara (Elsa Pataky) falls in love with travelling vendor Manuel Romasanta, she is at first besotted with him - but soon begins to be suspicious of him. What has happened to her sister, who - after being escorted by Romasanta to the city - seems to have disappeared forever.

Urban Explorer
›2011 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Nathalie Kelley, Klaus Stiglmeier, Nick Eversman
Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city. When their guide has a bad fall, two of the girls in the group frantically set off to seek help while Denis, the young American, stays behind. Armin, a former East German border guard suddenly appears from nowhere. Out of sheer desperation, Denis allows Armin to lead them and their unconscious guide to safety and it is at this moment that Denis realizes he has just made the biggest mistake of his life!

The Hive
›R2015 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Kathryn Prescott, Gabriel Basso, Sean Gunn
An amnesiac must reach back into his mind for memories that will help him save the love of his life before a virus completely takes over.

Mindwarp
›R1992 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Bruce Campbell, Angus Scrimm, Marta Martin
Revolting mutants hunt human outcasts and underground fighters (Bruce Campbell, Marta Alicia) in a future world of mind control.

The Mill
›R2023 · Science Fiction, Horror · 106m · Lil Rel Howery, Pat Healy, Karen Obilom
A businessman wakes up beside an ancient grist mill situated in the center of an open-air prison cell with no idea how he got there. Forced to work as a beast of burden to stay alive, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child.

A Horrible Way to Die
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Brandon Carroll, AJ Bowen, Amy Seimetz
An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.

Kids vs. Aliens
›NR2023 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 75m · Phoebe Rex, Dominic Mariche, Calem MacDonald
All Gary wants is to make awesome home movies with his best buds. All his older sister Samantha wants is to hang with the cool kids. When their parents head out of town one Halloween weekend, an all-time rager of a teen house party turns to terror when aliens attack, forcing the siblings to band together to survive the night.

The Apology
›NR2022 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Anna Gunn, Linus Roache, Janeane Garofalo
Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, a recovering alcoholic is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration when her estranged ex-brother-in-law arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret.

Attack of the Crab Monsters
›1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 63m · Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson
A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.

Hard Luck
›2006 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 101m · Wesley Snipes, Jackie Quinones, Cybill Shepherd
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.

Book of Monsters
›NR2019 · Comedy, Horror, Action · 84m · Lyndsey Craine, Michaela Longden, Lizzie Stanton
Sophie's 18th birthday becomes a bloodbath when monsters descend upon her house, devouring the guests and killing anyone who tries to leave. To survive the night, Sophie must face her destiny: monsters are real and she's the only one who can stop them.

Dead Ant
›NR2017 · Comedy, Horror · 87m · Tom Arnold, Rhys Coiro, Jake Busey
When the 1989 "one-hit-wonder" glam-metal band "Sonic Grave" embark on a trip to Coachella in hopes of a comeback, their peyote trip pit stop in Joshua Tree incites an "unworldly" vicious attack, and they must "rock" themselves out of harms way.

The Retreat
›2021 · Thriller, Horror · 82m · Tommie-Amber Pirie, Sarah Allen, Rossif Sutherland
Renee and Valerie, a couple at a cross roads in their relationship, leave the city to spend the week at a remote cabin with friends. But when they arrive, their friends are nowhere to be found. As they stumble through their relationship woes, they discover they are being hunted by a group of militant extremists who are determined to exterminate them.
