
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

Don't Look in the Basement
›R1973 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton, Robert Dracup
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.

Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia
›1977 · Horror, Thriller, War · 92m · Dyanne Thorne, Michel-René Labelle, Jean-Guy Latour
Siberia 1953: Ilsa is now working in a Gulag prison camp. Her mission is to "retrain the minds" of those who don't agree with the communists.

Bornless Ones
›2016 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 81m · Michael Johnston, Mark Furze, David Banks
With the help of her friends, Emily moves to a remote home to take better care of her brother, Zack who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. But what they don't know is that the house is keeping a terrifying secret that will haunt them one by one.

Cold Ground
›R2017 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 86m · Doug Rand, Philip Schurer, Gala Besson
1976: Two young journalists leave for the French-Swiss border to investigate a strange case of cattle mutilations and record testimonies for a TV channel. Yet, once they get there, the scientific team they were supposed to meet has gone missing. Escorted by a first-aider, a British biologist and an American forensic investigator, Melissa and David will go looking for the missing team deep into the mountains.

The Yeti
›R2026 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Brittany Allen, Eric Nelsen, Corbin Bernsen
When an oil tycoon and a famous adventurer vanish into the harsh winter of remote northern Alaska, a hand-picked rescue team endeavors to bring them home. What they don’t know is that they are trespassing on The Yeti’s territory, and the elements are the least of their worries.

Devil in the Dark
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Dan Payne, Robin Dunne, Daniel Cudmore
When estranged brothers Adam and Clint attempt to reconnect over a week-long hunting trip in remote British Columbia, they find the tables turned by a mysterious presence lurking in the forest. Convinced that they are now besieged by a supernatural presence, the siblings begrudgingly agree on only one thing: they will have to put aside their differences and work together if they plan on making it out these dark woods alive.

Reborn
›2018 · Horror · 80m · Barbara Crampton, Kayleigh Gilbert, Michael Paré
A stillborn baby girl is abducted by a deranged morgue attendant and brought back to life by electro-kinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday, traumatized Tess escapes captivity and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of horrifying violent destruction and chilling chaos behind her.

The Phoenix Incident
›NR2015 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 81m · Yuri Lowenthal, Travis Willingham, Troy Baker
A number of 'missing person' cases are reported in Phoenix, Arizona when an unexplained light appears in the sky one night in 1997.

30 Miles from Nowhere
›2018 · Horror, Comedy · 83m · Carrie Preston, Seana Kofoed, Rob Benedict
When five college pals return to rural Wisconsin for their estranged friend's funeral, what begins as an uneasy reunion becomes a terrifying fight for survival.

Killer Crocodile
›1989 · Horror · 92m · Richard Anthony Crenna, Pietro Genuardi, John Harper
A group of environmentalists arrives at a faraway tropical delta where toxic waste is being dumped. However the water also hides a giant crocodile. The corrupt local officials don't help much either.

99 Women
›R1969 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 99m · Maria Schell, Herbert Lom, Mercedes McCambridge
Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island prison. When an escape attempt goes awry, the fugitives discover that escaping can be as dangerous as remaining in the prison.

American Nightmare
›2002 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Debbie Rochon, Brandy Little, Johnny Sneed
A deranged female serial killer stalks seven young people whom phone a radio call-in show to discuss their darkest fears and a night-long game of cat-and-mouse is put into motion by the darkly sinister-looking murderess.

The Mad
›NR2007 · Horror, Comedy, Thriller · 83m · Billy Zane, Maggie Castle, Jordan Madley
A doctor and his teenage daughter are trapped in a truck stop, and terrorized by a horde of flesh-eating zombies.

Home Sweet Home
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Meghan Heffern, Marty Adams, Shaun Benson
A young married couple comes home from a date night to discover that they are imprisoned in their own house with a killer inside.

Dance of the Dead
›2005 · Horror, TV Movie, Science Fiction · 59m · Jonathan Tucker, Jessica Lowndes, Ryan McDonald
In a post-apocalyptic society, seventeen-year-old Peggy lives with her over-protective mother and works in the family restaurant. When punks enter the restaurant, and one takes an interest in her, Peggy makes a decision that will change her life forever.

Bastard
›R2015 · Horror · 82m · Rebekah Kennedy, Ellis Greer, Dan Creed
Five strangers - newlywed serial killers, a suicidal, depressed policeman, and two young runaways with a secret - become suspects and potential victims when a masked murderer makes its presence known in an isolated mountain town.

The Facility
›2012 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Aneurin Barnard, Emily Butterfield, Oliver Coleman
A group of volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horribly wrong.

Shark Killer
›2015 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Derek Theler, Erica Cerra, Paul du Toit
The services of shark killer have been engaged by his brother Jake, the head of a West Coast crime ring. The gig: kill the black-finned shark that swallowed a valuable diamond during a gang transaction.

Deadly Eyes
›R1982 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 87m · Sam Groom, Sara Botsford, Scatman Crothers
Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding on the residents of Toronto. Paul, a college basketball coach, teams up with Kelly, a local health inspector, to uncover the source of the mysterious rat attacks and they eventually try to prevent the opening of a new subway line as well as find the mutant rats nest quickly, or there will be a huge massacre of the entire city!

Mercy Falls
›2023 · Thriller, Horror · 104m · Lauren Lyle, Nicolette McKeown, James Watterson
A group of friends set off into the Scottish Highlands in search of a long lost cabin. Once far from civilization, an unforeseen tragedy befalls the group and one bad decision leads to suspicion, betrayal and murder.

Arcade
›1993 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 85m · Megan Ward, Peter Billingsley, John de Lancie
Alex Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO. However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who lose are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain "Arcade" and takes over their minds.

Deep Space
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Charles Napier, Ann Turkel, Bo Svenson
Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore bravely steps forward to crush the scary creature.

Wonder Women
›PG1973 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Maria De Aragon, Roberta Collins, Ross Hagen
Dr. Tsu is a brilliant surgeon with her own exotic island off the coast of Manila. Using her sexy, all-girl army of martial-arts experts, Tsu kidnaps some of the world's greatest athletes. She is able to transplant any body part, so she uses the athletes for spare parts to sell to the world's richest men. Mike Harber is a womanizing, wise-cracking insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London sent to Manila to investigate the disappearance of a jai-alai player, and becomes involved with Dr. Tsu's mad mission.

Last of the Living
›NR2009 · Comedy, Horror · 93m · Morgan Williams, Robert Faith, Ashleigh Southam
A contagious virus is turning everyone into zombies, and the only hope for survival lies in the hands of three couch potatoes.
