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
Wrestlemaniac
›NR2006 · Horror · 75m · Adam Huss, Catherine Wreford, Miguel Ángel López Díaz
On their way to Cabo San Lucas, the cast and crew of a low-budget film get lost and come upon "La Sangre De Dios", a ghost town with a spine-tingling legend about an insane Mexican wrestler. One by one, the cast and crew are snatched, beaten and dragged to a bloody death. The few left alive must figure out how to beat the wrestler at his own deadly game, or die trying.
Outbreak
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 88m · Billy Burke, Alyshia Ochse, Taylor Handley
A State Park Ranger and his wife, grappling with the disappearance of their teenage son, face a mysterious outbreak that threatens not only their relationship, but in the end, their grip on reality.
The Corridor
›NR2012 · Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller · 99m · Matthew Amyotte, Nigel Bennett, Stephen Chambers
Friends on a weekend excursion take a path into a forest that leads to death and destruction.
Shredder
›R2003 · Comedy, Horror · 86m · Scott Weinger, Lindsey McKeon, Juleah Weikel
At an exclusive, secluded North American ski resort up on Mount Rocky Summit, brutal slashing, severing and beheading on a group of teenagers are taking place and are believed to be the work of a mysterious skier dressed in black.
The Aftermath
›NR1982 · Action, Adventure, Science Fiction · 95m · Steve Barkett, Lynne Margulies, Sid Haig
After a lengthy space mission, two astronauts return to an Earth transformed by nuclear war. As renegade gangs and mutants rule Los Angeles, the astronauts join two pretty women and a couple of kids in a growing resistance movement.
Blackburn
›R2015 · Horror · 84m · Lochlyn Munro, Emilie Ullerup, Calum Worthy
A forest fire and rock-slide trap five bickering college friends in a small Alaskan ghost town with a horrifying history. When they seek refuge inside the torched ruins of Blackburn Asylum they must fight to survive as the angry inhabitants slaughter the friends one-by-one.
Extinction: The G.M.O. Chronicles
›2011 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 114m · Daniel Buder, Luise Bähr, Jerry Coyle
A Retrovirus, which was conceived as a tool for industrial genetic engineering, has gotten out of control and is spreading rapidly. While it crosses all organisms within our ecological system completely indiscriminately (mixing plant with animal and humans) most plants prove more resistant because of their complex DNA. However, the simple genes of the plants lead humans to become grotesque mutations, in most cases even to death. Within one week, 90% of mankind are either extinct or no longer human. However, a small fraction of the earth?s population remains immune to the virus and must survive in this new and constantly changing ecological system. Tom cellar is one the survivors and on an old military base in the Eifel he has entrenched himself. Further survivors come together and succeed in carving out a life in this new world. But the GMOs - the ?genetically modified organisms? - constantly develop themselves further, and soon the fence of the base offers no more protection.
Mimesis
›R2011 · Horror · 95m · Sid Haig, Courtney Gains, Lauren Mae Shafer
A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.
Berserker
›R1987 · Horror · 85m · Joseph Alan Johnson, Greg Dawson, Valerie Sheldon
Six young adults in the woods run afoul of a berserker, a viking warrior who dons the fur and snout of a bear, and are slain in turn by him.
Comedown
›2012 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Adam Deacon, Sophie Stuckey, Jessica Barden
Six friends, who've known each other from childhood, break into the tower block they lived in as kids, now deserted and condemned, to rig-up a pirate radio station, get high and party. When one of the group goes missing, her friends begin to search the dark interior of the tower and soon realize that they are not alone: a resident psychopath lurks in the shadows and is hunting them down, taking them out, one-by-one.
Dead Meat
›NR2004 · Comedy, Action, Horror · 78m · Marian Araujo, David Muyllaert, Eoin Whelan
A couple's vacation to Ireland transforms into a nightmare as a virus spreads from slaughtered animals to humans, causing the dead to rise and feast on the living.
Death Screams
›1982 · Horror · 88m · Susan Kiger, Martin Tucker, William T. Hicks
Late one night, a young couple are brutally murdered at a make-out spot by an unseen assailant, their bodies tossed into the nearby river. As the lifeless lovers drift slowly downstream, the residents of the town excitedly prepare themselves for their annual carnival, unaware that a machete-wielding maniac with a twisted grudge is lurking in their midst. When a group of teen revellers plan a late-night after party down in the local cemetery, they unwittingly set the stage for a bloodbath.
The Brotherhood of Satan
›1971 · Horror · 92m · Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Charles Bateman
A family is trapped in a desert town by a cult of senior-citizens who recruit the town's children to worship Satan.
Watchers II
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Marc Singer, Tracy Scoggins, Mary Woronov
A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.
Hallowed Ground
›NR2007 · Horror · 83m · Jaimie Alexander, Brian McNamara, Ethan Phillips
After she becomes stranded in a small town, a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher and that she is an integral part of his impending - and terrifying - rebirth.
The Fearway
›NR2023 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Shannon Dalonzo, Eileen Dietz, Simon Phillips
A young couple travelling down the freeway seem to be unable to get off the road after being hunted by someone intent on keeping them on the road.
The Rambler
›R2013 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Dermot Mulroney, Lindsay Pulsipher, Natasha Lyonne
After being released from prison, a man known as The Rambler stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts a dangerous journey through treacherous back roads and small towns en route to reconnecting with his long lost brother.
The Levenger Tapes
›2013 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Johanna Braddy, Lili Mirojnick, Morgan Krantz
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.
Wolf Mountain
›R2022 · Action, Horror · 94m · Keli Price, Tobin Bell, Malu Trevejo
Aj and his brother revisit the spot where their parents were killed. But legend has it there is something mysterious roaming these woods.
The Hunters
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 111m · Steven Waddington, Tony Becker, Dianna Agron
Alice and her friends are approaching the end of the school year where their dead-end lives will end, and the chance of a new life will begin. Before heading off to college they spend one last day together in the woods, the one part of town that has always been off limits to them growing up. As they stumble upon what they thought was an abandoned fort only to find the walls dripping in blood and decomposing body parts lying around, they are startled to learn they are now a part of an undercover investigation. After being told to get out of the woods they realize they're trapped, for the Hunters, who call the fort home, never let anyone out alive.
Scarecrows
›2017 · Horror · 80m · Hannah Gordon, Mike Taylor, Umed Amin
Teenagers are kidnapped and made into scarecrows, that are left to die in the crop fields.
The Afflicted
›NR2011 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Leslie Easterbrook, Kane Hodder, J.D. Hart
A story of incomprehensible abuse delivered by an explosively violent mother of four. Journey through the mind of a child that experiences a living hell, defined and defended by the twisted religious beliefs of her mother.
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp
›R2003 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Katy Woodruff, Tyler Sedustine, Kelly Gunning
Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are murdered. Someone is hunting them through the pitch-black Forest and is determined to kill them all. Could Trevor Moorhouse be back?!
Animalistic
›2015 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 74m · Hanna Oldenburg, Torbjörn Andersson, Ralf Beck
Emma is kidnapped and imprisoned by a trio of psychopaths.