
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

Attack of the Beast Creatures
›1985 · Horror, Fantasy · 82m · Robert Nolfi, Julia Rust, Robert Lengyel
A terrible storm at sea turns an ocean liner's luxury voyage into a nightmare! Those lucky enough to survive the sinking ship soon find themselves stranded on an uncharted island. A living hell breaks loose when the survivors encounter gruesome, flesh-eating Beast Creatures!

Creatures the World Forgot
›PG1971 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Julie Ege, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Tony Bonner
As the first nomadic tribes wander across the vast wilderness of the infant planet they confront hostilities created by the harsh environment and each other. After a massive volcanic eruption a tribal chief is killed and his two sons fight for supremacy, not only for the leadership of the tribe but also for the love of a beautiful young woman. The age-old battlegrounds of rivalry, envy and passion are explored in this tale of prehistoric adventure.

Sick Girl
›2007 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 83m · Leslie Andrews, Charlie Trepany, John McGarr
Izzy is raising her younger brother, Kevin, by herself. Their parents are deceased and her older brother, Rusty, is away in the Marines. When Izzy learns that her little brother is being bullied at school, she does what any unstable, psychopathic, homicidal sister would do.

6:45
›R2021 · Thriller, Horror · 93m · Michael Reed, Augie Duke, Thomas G. Waites
A couple embarks on a weekend getaway only to find the island curiously deserted. After stumbling upon the town’s dark secret, they trigger a time loop, forcing them to relive a demented cycle of terror with seemingly no means of escape.

Babysitter Must Die
›2021 · Horror, Comedy · 72m · Riley Scott, Scarlett Hazen, Nathan Stevens
Members of a cult invade the home of a wealthy family, but they didn't count on a resourceful babysitter who's armed with a variety of weapons.

Starve
›2014 · Thriller, Horror · 98m · Bobby Campo, Mariah Bonner, Cooper Huckabee
While researching an urban legend on feral children, three friends find themselves trapped in an abandoned high school, where they are confronted with an evil more sinister than the legend itself.

Break
›2009 · Action, Horror · 87m · Lili Schackert, Esther Maaß, Ralph Willmann
Four young girls head out into the Canadian woods for some outdoors fun. They wind up running into 2 brutal and sadistically inhuman rednecks. A blood-soaked fight for survival ensues.

Why Hide?
›NR2018 · Comedy, Horror · 85m · Charlotte Atkinson, Elsie Bennett, Lorna Brown
A diverse group of friends gather for the festive season in a remote lodge but soon plans go awry. One of the friends goes missing and the truth behind why the lodge was booked for the holiday is disclosed. Christmas quickly turns to chaos and a bloody nightmare ensues.

Children of Sorrow
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Bill Oberst Jr., Hannah Levien, Whitney Nielsen
Simon Leach is a very, very sick man. Thriving on despair, pain, and panic, he unites a group of broken and desperate people in the middle of the desert. He showers them with the love and affection they’re so desperate for, but Simon has a much greater plan for his followers.

Ditch Day Massacre
›2016 · Horror · 77m · Bill Oberst Jr., Katy Foley, Zach Silverman
Jenny Bilson, a high school senior, is the perfect student, a wonderful daughter to a veteran police detective and an all American Dream. But the one mistake she is unaware of making is about to haunt her in a very violent way, as her past returns for revenge.

Big Freaking Rat
›2020 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 85m · Caroline Abbott, Nino Aldi, Boyce LeGrande
Ranger Brody, with the help of his nephew and niece, is preparing to open the brand-new campground for the season. Everything is in order and the camp seems peaceful until a giant rat, mutated from multiple dumping of toxic wastes, begins killing the campers and rangers.

Bite Marks
›R2011 · Comedy, Horror · 82m · Stephen Geoffreys, Benjamin Lutz, Windham Beacham
Truck-driver Brewster takes over his missing brother's delivery of a load of coffins to a funeral home. He picks up hitchhiking gay couple Cary and Vogel whose relationship is in trouble to help him stay awake but when his GPS leads them into a deserted junkyard, his truck breaks down, stranding them. Night falls, and the coffins reveal blood-thirty vampires. Now the mismatched trio must barricade themselves in the cab of the truck and try to survive until dawn...

City of Dead Men
›2014 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Diego Boneta, Jackson Rathbone, María Pachón Mesa
An American traveling in South America ends up living with a group of misfits at an abandoned hospital with a troubling past.

Blind Waters
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Meghan Carrasquillo, Noam Sigler, Francisco Angelini
An unrelenting shark turns a couple's dream vacation into a nightmare when they are stranded at sea and forced to fight for their lives.

Mutant Hunt
›1987 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 76m · Rick Gianasi, Mary Fahey, Ron Reynaldi
In New York City sometime in the near future, Z, the evil chairman of the Inteltrax Corporation, has taken a small army of cyborgs designed to perform hazardous tasks and altered them to kill humans for pleasure. The inventor of the cyborgs, Dr. Paul Haynes, is held captive, and his sister Darla seeks the aid of Matt Riker, an expert in high-tech weaponry and martial arts.

Phantom Racer
›2009 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 86m · Jackson Berlin, Adam Battrick, Greg Evigan
Seventeen years after being killed in a fiery accident, a racing car driver returns from the dead to seek vengeance on his enemies.

Night Screams
›1987 · Horror · 84m · Joseph Paul Manno, Ron Thomas, Randy Lundsford
A football star throws a party for his friends. Two insane killers escape from a nearby asylum on that same night, and in their efforts to elude authorities, wind up at the party.

The Bell Keeper
›2023 · Horror, Action · 92m · Randy Couture, Kathleen Kenny, Reid Miller
A group of friends travel to a secluded campsite to film a documentary. What they find is something much more sinister than they could have ever imagined.

Reed's Point
›2022 · Horror · 77m · Joe Estevez, Julia Kelly, Sasha Anne
A vehicle crash in the Pine Barrens leads to a missing teen which raises conspiracy theories about the infamous Jersey Devil legend. On the anniversary of the crash, Sarah Franklin, convinced her cousin Kelsey is alive, goes out to the crash site with Alex, Kelsey's boyfriend, to investigate. Things go downhill quickly as Sarah and Alex uncover what really lurks in the woods.

Resident Evil: Retribution
›R2012 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
›R2021 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 107m · Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell
Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

Spiral: From the Book of Saw
›R2021 · Horror, Mystery · 93m · Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Max Minghella
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

House at the End of the Street
›PG-132012 · Horror, Thriller · 101m · Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Nolan Gerard Funk
A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.

The Silence
›PG-132019 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 91m · Stanley Tucci, Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto
With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.
