
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

Grizzly
›PG1976 · Horror, Adventure, Thriller · 91m · Christopher George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel
An eighteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into the area.

Crawlspace
›R2022 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 90m · Henry Thomas, Bradley Stryker, C. Ernst Harth
After witnessing a brutal murder in a cabin, a man hides in a crawlspace while the killers scour the property for a hidden fortune. As they draw nearer, he must decide if the crawlspace will be his tomb or the battleground in his fight for survival.

Vile
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Eric Jay Beck, April Matson, Akeem Smith
A group of people awaken to find themselves prisoners in a mysterious house with no means of escape. They are each outfitted with electronic devices attached to the base of their skulls. The chemicals that the brain produces when in pain are collected by the devices, and when it collects a predetermined amount, the doors will be opened. In order to escape, they must hurt themselves and each other.

Feast III: The Happy Finish
›R2009 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 79m · Johanna Putnam, Diane Ayala Goldner, Chelsea Richards
The survivors are saved by the mysterious prophet who seemingly has the ability to control the beasts. Along the way they get help from a karate expert.

Big Legend
›NR2018 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 89m · Kevin Makely, Todd A. Robinson, Summer Spiro
An ex-soldier ventures into the Pacific Northwest to uncover the truth behind his fiance's disappearance.

Slotherhouse
›PG-132023 · Horror, Comedy, Thriller · 93m · Lisa Ambalavanar, Sydney Craven, Andrew Horton
Emily Young, a senior, wants to be elected as her sorority's president. She adopts a cute sloth, thinking it can become the new mascot and help her win, until a string of fatalities implicate the sloth as the main suspect in the murders.

Awakening the Zodiac
›R2017 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 100m · Shane West, Leslie Bibb, Matt Craven
The story follows a down-on-their-luck couple who discovers a serial killer's film reels. They decide to take the law into their own hands, risking everything for the chance at a $100,000 reward. It isn't long until they find themselves in the killer's lethal cross-hairs.

Eat Locals
›2017 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 93m · Charlie Cox, Tony Curran, Mackenzie Crook
In a quiet countryside farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting. Others will be joining them too; Sebastian Crockett, an unwitting Essex boy who thinks he's on a promise with sexy cougar Vanessa; and a detachment of Special Forces vampire killers who have bitten off more than they can chew. This is certainly going to be a night to remember... and for some of them it will be their last.

Outpost: Black Sun
›NR2012 · Action, Horror · 101m · Catherine Steadman, Richard Coyle, Ali Craig
A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.

Crawlspace
›NR2012 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 89m · Amber Clayton, Eddie Baroo, Justin Batchelor
A group of elite soldiers sent to infiltrate and extract the lead science team from Pine Gap, Australia's top secret underground military compound, after it comes under attack from unknown forces. The mission is compromised when they encounter a young woman with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As they try to escape, the group quickly discovers all is not as it seems and the facility has become a testing ground for something far more sinister.

River of Blood
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Joseph Millson, Sarah Alexandra Marks, David Wayman
Four kayakers take the wrong river into a jungle inhabited by a tribe of merciless cannibals.

Stag Night
›R2008 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 84m · Kip Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, Breckin Meyer
Four guys on a bachelor party get off the subway at a station that shut down in the 70's and, after watching a transit cop get brutally murdered, find themselves running for their lives beneath the streets of NY.

Tone-Deaf
›R2019 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Amanda Crew, Robert Patrick, Hayley Marie Norman
A woman leaves for a quiet weekend in the country after losing her job and imploding her latest dysfunctional relationship. She rents a country house from an old-fashioned widower who’s struggling to hide his psychopathic tendencies. Soon, two generations collide with terrifying results.

Malevolence
›2004 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Jay Cohen, R. Brandon Johnson, Samantha Dark
It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery...until now.

The Final Terror
›R1983 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · John Friedrich, Adrian Zmed, Daryl Hannah
A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.

Ryde
›R2017 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 84m · Jessica Serfaty, David Wachs, Ronnie Alvarez
Technology brings us closer. Or perhaps it brings strangers, a little too close. But how much can you really trust someone? With a new ride share service, you never know who will be getting in a car with. Or if you'll ever get out.

Itsy Bitsy
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Bruce Davison, Denise Crosby, Elizabeth Roberts
A family moves into a secluded mansion where they soon find themselves being targeted by an entity taking the form of a giant spider.

Demon Wind
›R1990 · Horror · 96m · Eric Larson, Francine Lapensée, Rufus Norris
The strange and brutal deaths of Cory’s grandparents has haunted him for years. Determined to discover the truth, he has returned to the desolate region where they lived, along with a group of friends, to try and uncover the mystery. Ignoring warnings from the locals that the area is cursed, Cory and his friends soon realize that the legend is true, as the Demon Wind, possesses and destroys them, one by one, turning them into monsters from hell.

Barbarians
›2021 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Tom Cullen, Inès Spiridonov, Iwan Rheon
A civilized dinner party in a country house sees four friends, Lucas, Adam, Chloe, and Eve, coming together for a birthday celebration. As the night progresses secrets and lies force themselves into the light and polite pretensions are dropped. A knock at the door reveals three masked intruders with an agenda of their own. Will their friendship stand the test? Can they survive the night or will their secrets eventually catch up with them?

Please Don't Feed the Children
›2025 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Michelle Dockery, Zoe Colletti, Andrew Liner
After a viral outbreak ravaged the country’s adult population, a group of orphans heads south in search of a new life, only to find themselves at the mercy of a deranged woman harboring a dangerous secret.

The Curve
›R1998 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Matthew Lillard, Michael Vartan, Randall Batinkoff
Two roommates plan to kill a third to take advantage of college policy giving a 4.0 grade to a suicide's roommates.

Death Valley
›NR2021 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 93m · Jeremy Ninaber, Ethan Mitchell, Kristen Kaster
Mercenaries with nothing to lose are hired to rescue a bioengineer imprisoned in a cold war bunker. Upon entering the ominous facility, they find themselves in a fight for their lives when they come under attack from an unknown and deadly creature.

No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker
›2008 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Stephen Martines, Valerie Cruz, Mircea Monroe
A sheriff and his son who are tracking down a group of bank robbers on their way to Mexico, only to discover that they are being stalked by a far more deadly enemy — The Reeker.

Teen Lust
›R2014 · Comedy, Horror · 80m · Jesse Carere, Daryl Sabara, Annie Clark
A shy high schooler struggles to lose his virginity before the local Satanic cult can sacrifice him to the devil.
