
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 Super
›R2018 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Val Kilmer, Patrick John Flueger, Louisa Krause
A man becomes the superintendent of a large New York City apartment building where people mysteriously go missing.

Sam Was Here
›2016 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 75m · Rusty Joiner, Sigrid La Chapelle, Rhoda Pell
California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients.

The Objective
›2008 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, Jon Huertas
A team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched to a remote mountain region of Afghanistan with orders to locate an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern 'Bermuda Triangle' of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could have imagined.

Truth or Dare
›R2017 · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery · 90m · Heather Langenkamp, Alexxis Lemire, Cassie Scerbo
Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

Evidence
›R2011 · Horror · 78m · Ryan McCoy, Brett Rosenberg, Abigail Richie
Ryan is making a documentary on his friend, Brett, about camping for the first time. However, once they begin camping, they discover that there is a mysterious figure that is hunting them.

From the Dark
›2014 · Horror · 90m · Niamh Algar, Stephen Cromwell, Gerry O'Brien
A couple on a trip through the Irish countryside find themselves hunted by a creature who only attacks at night.

Carnage Park
›NR2016 · Action, Crime, Horror · 81m · Ashley Bell, Pat Healy, Darby Stanchfield
Part crime caper gone awry, part survival horror film, this 1970s set thriller depicts a harrowing fight for survival after a pair of wannabe crooks botch a bank heist and flee into the desert, where they inexplicably stumble upon Carnage Park, a remote stretch of wilderness occupied by a psychotic ex-military sniper.

Pod
›2015 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 76m · Larry Fessenden, Lauren Ashley Carter, Brian Morvant
A family intervention goes horrifically awry within the snowy confines of an isolated lake house.

Insanitarium
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Jesse Metcalfe, Kiele Sanchez, Peter Stormare
After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths.

Visiting Hours
›R1982 · Horror, Thriller · 105m · Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl
A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.

Primal
›NR2010 · Thriller, Horror · 80m · Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Will Travel
Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

Don't Grow Up
›2015 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Fergus Riordan, Madeleine Kelly, McKell David
Teenage delinquents who are living in an island youth center wake up to find themselves alone with no one to watch over them. After much partying, they realize the island has been deserted and the adults have been infected by a mysterious epidemic.

Offspring
›R2009 · Horror · 79m · Jessica Butler, Leigh Shannan Feldpausch, Holter Graham
The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he had killed them off ten years ago -- a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of cannibalistic savages. But somehow the clan survived. To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. And now the peaceful residents of this isolated town are fighting for their lives...

Talon Falls
›R2017 · Horror · 75m · Brad Bell, Fred Biggs, Lonnie Bloomburg
Four teenagers on a road trip decide to take a detour and find them selves at at haunted house halloween scream park deep in the woods of southern Kentucky. After witnessing an assortment of torture and gore. they start wondering if what they are experiencing is not a little too realistic. Before they know it each one of hem is captured and made part of the horrific attraction they originally thought was all fun and games.

Fender Bender
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Makenzie Vega, Bill Sage, Dre Davis
In a small New Mexico town, teenager Hilary gets into a fender bender and innocently exchanges her personal information with the other driver, a terrifying and bizarre serial killer who stalks the country’s endless miles of roads and streets with his old rusty car, hungrily searching for his next unsuspecting victim.

The Killing Jar
›2010 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Amber Benson, Michael Madsen, Harold Perrineau
A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.

Blood and Snow
›2023 · Science Fiction, Horror · 114m · Michael Swatton, Anne-Carolyne Binette, Vernon Wells
When researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?

War-Gods of the Deep
›NR1965 · Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror · 84m · Vincent Price, David Tomlinson, Tab Hunter
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their kidnapped friend Jill. Held captive in the underwater city by the tyrannical Captain (Vincent Price), and his crew of former smugglers, the three plot to escape...

Julia
›NC-172015 · Thriller, Horror · 95m · Winter Williams (Formerly Ashley C. Williams), Tahyna MacManus, Jack Noseworthy
After suffering a brutal trauma, Julia uses an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself.

Lost After Dark
›2014 · Horror · 85m · Alexander Calvert, Jesse Camacho, Eve Harlow
A group of teens sneak out of their high school dance to cruise around and have some unsupervised fun. When their car runs out of gas on a deserted road, they discover an old farmhouse and the cannibal killer living inside.

Trespassers
›2019 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 88m · Angela Trimbur, Janel Parrish, Jonathan Howard
Two dysfunctional couples rent a modern luxury desert home for the weekend hoping to sort out their messed-up lives. Just as they are about to settle in for a fun night, a neighbor turns up at their front door saying she has car trouble. But soon they discover the person they let into their home may have nefarious intents.

The Fix
›2024 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 98m · Grace Van Dien, Daniel Sharman, Keenan Arrison
When a troubled model takes a new drug at a party, she suffers a shocking transformation. Pursued by authorities and a dangerous gang, she hunts for a fix to reverse these effects, only to discover her mutations could save the human race.

Salvage
›NR2006 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 80m · Lauren Currie Lewis, Cody Darbe, Chris Ferry
Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it all began--untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he's ready for more blood...

Body at Brighton Rock
›R2019 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Karina Fontes, Casey Adams, Emily Althaus
When an inexperienced park ranger finds a dead body under mysterious circumstances on a remote mountain trail, she must guard it overnight until authorities can arrive, forcing her to confront some of her deepest, darkest fears.
