
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

Matriarch
›R2018 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Charlie Blackwood, Julie Hannan, Scott Vickers
A pregnant woman and her husband are taken in by a farmer and his wife after crashing their car in the Scottish countryside. Once inside, they realize their hosts’ daughter is a missing child from the news years earlier. Things take a sinister twist when the farmer and his wife inform the couple they intend to keep their baby once born.

Cherry Tree Lane
›R2010 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 77m · Rachael Blake, Jennie Jacques, Tom Kane
Prosperous professional couple Mike and Christine are settling in for a standard evening of wine, TV and low-level marital hostility when a ring on their doorbell changes everything. Turns out their son Sebastian is in a little trouble with some local boys, who are quite prepared to camp out and wait for him to get home ... the resulting culture-clash chamber drama is raw, revealing and nerve-splittingly tense.

Island of the Dolls
›2023 · Horror · 78m · Howard J. Dave, Abi Casson Thompson, Beatrice Fletcher
A group of people go to the legendary Island of the Dolls to learn the deadly truth.

Devil Times Five
›R1974 · Horror · 88m · Sorrell Booke, Gene Evans, Taylor Lacher
Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.

The Other
›2025 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Olivia Macklin, Dylan McTee, Avangeline Friedlander
Unable to conceive, a couple seeks to build a family with a young orphan, survivor of tragic childhood. But their act of love turns to horror when they realize the violence in their foster's past has returned to destroy the new family.

The Lesson
›2015 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Robert Hands, Evan Bendall, Michaela Prchalová
Two schoolboy delinquents learn a lesson that they will never forget when a teacher at the end of his tether decides to abduct them.

Strays
›1991 · Horror, TV Movie · 83m · Kathleen Quinlan, Timothy Busfield, Claudia Christian
A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.

I Am Lisa
›2020 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Kristen Vaganos, Manon Halliburton, Carmen Anello
A vicious and corrupt small-town sheriff and her deputies brutalise Lisa and leave her for dead in the nearby woods. There she is bitten by a werewolf and bestowed with supernatural abilities. Can Lisa retain her humanity as she exacts revenge and cedes herself more and more to the wolf side of her personality?

Terminal Invasion
›R2002 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 90m · Bruce Campbell, Chase Masterson, Jason Jones
Aliens in human disguise commandeer a rural airport during a snowstorm. To survive, the people trapped inside must determine which of their own is not of this Earth.

Killdozer
›1974 · TV Movie, Science Fiction, Thriller · 74m · Clint Walker, Carl Betz, Neville Brand
A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage.

Perkins' 14
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Patrick O'Kane, Shayla Beesley, Richard Brake
Ronald Perkins builds an army of 14 people brainwashed through cult-like methods to protect him from his parents' killers. When Perkins is imprisoned, the police unwittingly unleash his followers on a small town and they've only got one thing on their mind: "Kill for Mr. Perkins."

Carnifex
›2022 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Alexandra Park, Sisi Stringer, Harry Greenwood
An aspiring documentarian and two conservationists who venture into the Outback to record the animals displaced by bushfires where they discover a terrifying new species.

Twisted
›R2026 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Djimon Hounsou, Lauren LaVera, Mia Healey
Two millennials make quick money by leasing incredible New York City apartments they don’t own to people who don’t know they are being scammed. The con works brilliantly until they run into an apartment owner with a dark secret who flips the game on them.

It Happened at Lakewood Manor
›1977 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Robert Foxworth, Lynda Day George, Gerald Gordon
A lakeside resort comes under attack by a seemingly infinite hoard of flesh-eating ants.

Hell Hole
›2024 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Toby Poser, John Adams, Max Portman
Far away, in the desolate Serbian wilderness, a U.S.-led fracking crew uncover a dormant monster gestating inside a centuries-old French soldier. Now awakened and exposed in its most dangerously fragile state, it tears through the men on the grounds in search of a new womb.

Rise of the Mummy
›2021 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Abi Casson Thompson, Arthur Boan, Amanda-Jade Tyler
A group of archaeology students awaken an ancient mummy. After being trapped in a time loop, the only way they can escape, is to defeat the mummy. As the body count rises, it seems the Mummy has to collect the souls of those who woke him to be able to walk the earth - for good.

Evil Laugh
›R1986 · Horror · 87m · Ashlyn Gere, Steven Baio, Tony Griffin
A group of medical students take a weekend to fix up an old house where a mass murder occurred 10 years earlier.

Removal
›R2010 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Billy Burke, Mark Kelly, Osgood Perkins
Witnessing a murder and a suicide caused Cole to have hallucinations that cost him his marriage and job. Now working as a cleaner he must clean a stately home outside of the city, owned by the sadistic Henry.

Hellblazers
›2022 · Horror, Action · 84m · Ed Morrone, Crash Buist, Tony Todd
An evil cult unleashes a monster on a small south-western town that refuses to go down without a fight.

Taeter City
›2012 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 72m · Monica Muñoz, Riccardo Valentini, Santiago Ortaez
In Taeter City, there is no crime. Using Zeed radio waves, the city’s dictatorship cause criminals to commit suicide. Their corpses are processed and sold as fast-food by conglomerates who nourish the ravenous populace. It was a perfect system…until Zeed started making the criminals stronger…

Sleepstalker
›R1995 · Horror · 105m · Michael Harris, Jay Underwood, Kathryn Morris
Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer

Trancers 6: Life After Deth
›R2002 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 85m · Zette Sullivan, Jennifer Capo, Robert Donavan
In a return to the groundbreaking original film's premise, Jack Deth is back - traveling back in time and into the body of his own daughter, Josephine, on a mission to save her life and save the world from the most lethal Trancers yet. Jack/Jo must adapt and survive being a girl while avoiding many assassination attempts by more powerful and dangerous zombie-like Trancers than he's ever faced before.

Pig Killer
›2022 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 122m · Jake Busey, Ginger Lynn Allen, Susan Priver
Inspired by the terrifying story of Robert 'Willy' Pickton, the pig farmer cum prolific lady killer whose horrific crimes shocked the world, PIG KILLER graphically depicts the rape, torture, slaughter and dismemberment of forty-nine young women on a pig farm. With his herculean hog, Balthazar, by his side, Willy and his menagerie of colorful cohorts terrorize Vancouver's seedy downtown until his arrest which uncovered a horrific series of brutal Canadian murders.

Antidote
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Louis Mandylor, Ashlynn Yennie, Scott Alin
A young woman is held captive in an underground medical facility where selected individuals are perpetually mutilated and then healed using an experimental miracle drug: a panacea.
