
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

Raised by Wolves
›2014 · Horror · 76m · Evan Crooks, Monty Geer, Leore Hayon
When a group of friends come across an abandoned house in the barren desert, what follows is a terrifying tale of evil possession causing the friends to slowly turn against each other.

Cruel Peter
›2020 · Horror · 95m · Angelica Alleruzzo, Antonio Alveario, Aran Bevan
It is Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean. Peter, the 13 year-old son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children, animals and servants. One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten. Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city.

Shadowzone
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Louise Fletcher, David Beecroft, James Hong
After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping subjects are induced into a deep EDS state whereby they become portals to a parallel universe. Unfortunately this causes adverse reactions in the subject, and something gets through the portal, the consequence of which is an attrition problem.

Nightmare at Noon
›R1988 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, George Kennedy
Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.

Crawlspace
›2013 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Sterling Beaumon, Morgan Bertsch, Raleigh Holmes
The Gates family dream house turns quickly into a nightmare when their life is disturbed by the deranged previous owner who plots to retake his home and the Gates children for his own - hiding in the house attic and methodically taking out all those that stand in his way.

Destroyer
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Lyle Alzado, Deborah Foreman, Clayton Rohner
A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick, but find that a certain somebody is disrupting their shooting schedule...

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
›1977 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Claude Akins, Charles Frank, Deborah Winters
An airplane carrying coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the venomous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths, the tarantulas have already descended upon the town's only orange-processing factory. The town's citizens risk their lives to remove the tarantulas from the factory while the venomous pests are rendered motionless by the transmitted sound of buzzing bees

Nightmare Radio: The Night Stalker
›2023 · Horror · 78m · Paula Brasca, Agustin Olcese, Valeria San Martin
A late-night radio DJ with a program where people call to tell her real horror stories, soon will find out how far an obsessed fan is willing to go.

Dogs
›R1976 · Horror · 91m · David McCallum, Sandra McCabe, George Wyner
On the quiet campus of the remotely-located SouthWestern University, something strange is happening. All of the dogs in the area, once loyal, gentle pets, are now banding together in wild packs and hunting down their former masters. Could the strange transformation have anything to do with the secret government experiments being conducted in the school's physics laboratory? More importantly, can the dogs be stopped before it's too late?

Driftwood
›R2006 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Raviv Ullman, Page Falkinburg Jr., Talan Torriero
Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16 year old David Forrester becomes obsessed with death, leading his misguided parents to send him to Driftwood, an "Attitude Adjustment Camp for Troubled Youths" run by the sadistic Captain Doug Kennedy and his brutal young henchman, Yates.

While the Children Sleep
›2007 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 90m · Gail O'Grady, William R. Moses, Mariana Klaveno
A prosperous couple find the perfect live-in nanny but soon discover she intends to do her job to deadly perfection.

Brute 1976
›2024 · Horror · 105m · Adriane McLean, Sarah French, Gigi Gustin
In 1976 a group of people in the desert for a photo shoot, stumble upon an abandoned town called Savage. But they are not alone. A family of masked psychopaths have claimed Savage as their own and are hell bent on living up to its name.

Destination Inner Space
›1966 · Thriller, Science Fiction · 83m · Scott Brady, Sheree North, Gary Merrill
A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they attract the unwanted attention of a dangerous creature who puts the scientists and crew in danger.

Butchers Book Two: Raghorn
›2024 · Horror · 88m · Nick Biskupek, Michael Swatton, Sam Huntsman
Book one followed a family of sadistic butchers, living in the backcountry, who see anyone that crosses their path as dead meat. In “Butchers Book Two: Raghorn,” the story continues when an accident leaves the captors in the hands of brutal cannibals who plan to hack them up for meat.

Resurrection County
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Adam Huss, Kathryn Michelle, Cassie Self
When four campers' weekend trip turns deadly, in the remote town of Enoch, they find the locals are all too happy to serve up their own brand of an eye for an eye justice.

Creature from Black Lake
›PG1976 · Mystery, Horror, Drama · 95m · Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple
When the word gets out of a mysterious Bigfoot-type creature, two researchers come to a small town to study and hopefully discover the true nature of the beast. With some help from the locals, the two men to learn that the creature may be a very angry and murderous missing link.

Killer Kate!
›2018 · Horror, Comedy, Thriller · 80m · Alexandra Feld, Danielle Burgess, Amaris Davidson
Kate attends her estranged sister's bachelorette party at the request of their dying father. The weekend, held at a remote cabin booked on a home sharing app, turns into a savage life-or-death struggle that pits family against family, and past against present.

HellKat
›2021 · Action, Thriller, Horror · 79m · Abi Casson Thompson, Adrian Bouchet, Sarah T. Cohen
A fallen MMA fighter must win a netherworld no-holds-barred death tournament against man, beast and demon to save her soul.

One Way Trip
›2011 · Horror · 86m · Sabrina Reiter, Melanie Winiger, Herbert Leiser
Eight young people drive to the Swiss Jura region, food and tents in the trunk. It's autumn and high season for a magic mushroom that grows there - the reason for their trip. After a few problems they arrive at the desired location deep in the woods, the tents are set up, the mushrooms are collected and when it gets dark the party starts. Everything is fine until one of the youths wants to get beer and comes back with a blood-covered and smashed face. They don't know what happened but need to find help. As they discover that their car has a flat tire and their phones don't work, they seek shelter in a nearby farmhouse. But that's just where they were supposed to go. In a nerve racking countdown one after another gets killed by their dangerous haunters

Among the Living
›NR2022 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 85m · Dean Michael Gregory, George Newton, Melissa Worsey
Stranded in the aftermath of a deadly outbreak, a brother fights to protect his sister while he desperately searches to find refuge and avoid an infected population with a thirst for blood.

Island Claws
›PG1980 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Robert Lansing, Steve Hanks, Nita Talbot
A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.

Dead Hooker in a Trunk
›2009 · Horror · 92m · Rikki Gagne, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
Set in beautiful Vancouver, four friends set out on an everyday errand and end up in a fight for their lives when they discover the body of a dead hooker left in their trunk.

Island of Blood
›1982 · Horror · 82m · Marie-Alise Recasner, Rick Dean, Ron Gardner
The cast and crew of a low budget movie, filming on an island, are murdered one by one in accordance with the lethal lyrics of a punk rock song.

Viking: The Berserkers
›2014 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Sol Heras, Anthony Baines, Kezia Burrows
The Hunger Games heads back to the Dark Ages when a group of five young Saxons is captured by a clan of fearsome Viking warriors and used as prey in a ritualistic manhunt. High on a potion that turns them "berserk" the brutal hunters are soon on the scent of the terrified youngsters in a desperate battle for survival from the ritualistic manhunt. Written and directed by Welsh film-maker Antony Smith.
