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 Fields
›2011 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Tara Reid, Cloris Leachman, Brian Anthony Wilson
Tells the story of a young boy and his family who are terrorized by an unseen presence.
The Chill Factor
›1993 · Horror · 90m · Dawn Laurrie, Aaron Kjenaas, Connie Snyder
A group of snowmobilers become trapped on a lake, and hole up in an abandoned camp once used by a satanic cult for its rituals.
The Oregonian
›2011 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 81m · Lindsay Pulsipher, Robert Longstreet, Matt Olsen
A girl gets in a car accident and wanders through the woods, encountering all kinds of nightmarish things.
Teacher's Pet
›R2000 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Jsu Garcia, Katherine Kendall
Psychopath Debbie Strand escapes from a mental institution for the criminally insane and takes the identity of a co-ed she meets and sets herself up on a college campus where she once again begins killing students who get in the way of her obsession with her former high school teacher Sam Deckner now teaching at the college.
Don't Let Them In
›2020 · Horror · 81m · Michelle Luther, Amanda Hunt, Aidan O'Neill
A home invasion horror movie in the vein of You're Next and The Purge, about a group of people under siege by masked intruders in an abandoned hotel.
High Plains Invaders
›2009 · Western, Science Fiction, Horror · 87m · James Marsters, Cindy Sampson, Sebastian Knapp
In the lawless heart of the Old West, notorious outlaw Sam Phoenix stands at the gallows, moments from justice—or so it seems. But when an unearthly terror descends on the town without warning, everything changes. As chaos erupts and survival becomes the only law, Phoenix finds himself facing a threat far deadlier than any posse. Something not of this world has arrived… and it’s just getting started.
Boogeyman
›2012 · Horror · 85m · Eddie McClintock, Amy Bailey, Emma Samms
A group of young boys inadvertently free the creature from captivity. Going on a rampage, the Boogeyman, whose origin dates back to the time of Genesis, targets an innocent child – whose father is the town Sheriff.
Living Death
›NR2006 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 85m · Greg Bryk, Kristy Swanson, Joshua Peace
Torture is the ultimate seduction when Victor, a powerful and dangerous millionaire, discovers that his beautiful wife Elizabeth (Kristy Swanson) is having a steamy affair with his best friend. And when the lovers' risky plan to get rid of him backfires, Victor's relentless anger and terrifying rage sends him over the edge on a shockingly sadistic quest for total revenge.
Silent Predators
›1999 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 91m · Harry Hamlin, Shannon Sturges, David Spielberg
In 1979, a delivery truck makes its way up a lonely southern California highway in a storm, bound for the San Diego Zoo with a deadly tropical rattlesnake as cargo. When the truck suffers a blowout, the driver loses control and hits a tree, shattering the snake's aquarium in the back and the window separating the snake from the driver. The snake slithers into the front of the truck, kills the driver with its bite and then moves off into the forest. Flash forward to 1999. The small southern California town of San Vicente has grown from 6,000 to 30,000, and the rattler, which escaped nearby years ago, has bred. There are now 25,000 of these hybrid rattlesnakes, and they are slowly making their way downhill into the town, attracted by the movement of the blasting as the town paves its way toward progress. Progress, in this case, brings terror, in this tale originally penned by John Carpenter.
Trip with the Teacher
›R1975 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Zalman King, Brenda Fogarty, Cathy Worthington
A high-school field trip takes a nightmarish turn when the students' bus breaks down and thugs come to their aid.
American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore
›2015 · Horror · 73m · Ashley Lynn Caputo, Lilly Dickenson, Scott Gabbey
A couple of young women are abducted and become the unwilling stars of a snuff film, wherein they are brutally tortured.
Blood Tracks
›1985 · Horror · 89m · Jeff Harding, Michael Fitzpatrick, Naomi Kaneda
A film crew producing a rock music video decides to shoot at an abandoned factory above the snow line. When an avalanche strands them, a murderous family living in the factory attacks and kills many of them.
Playdate
›NR2012 · Thriller, TV Movie, Horror · 82m · Marguerite Moreau, Richard Ruccolo, Abby Brammell
A new family moves into the house next door to the Valentine family. While they become fast friends, Emilie Valentine starts to notice bruises and odd behavior from the two sons in the new family. Are they victims of child abuse? Or are there twists and turns to finding out the real reason?
Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End
›2013 · Action, Drama, Thriller · 88m · David A.R. White, Ray Wise, Brian Bosworth
Josh McManus, a traveling salesman with a cloudy past, finds himself in a dusty West Texas town at the wrong time. After a crippling series of earthquakes throws the entire world into chaos, a traveling salesman will have to fight his way through a vicious outlaw biker gang known as the Barbarians to get home to his family.
Sick for Toys
›NR2018 · Horror · 90m · Camille Montgomery, Jon Paul Burkhart, David Gunning
Roy is the nice guy who finishes last. Sick of his current situation, he accepts an invitation to have Christmas dinner with the beautiful and strangely alluring Emilia. Once at dinner, Roy realizes that Emilia and her oddball brother Edward are not what they seem.
Bottom Feeder
›PG-132007 · Science Fiction, Horror · 86m · Tom Sizemore, Wendy Anderson, Richard Fitzpatrick
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
Dark Mountain
›2013 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 82m · Sage Howard, Andrew Simpson, Shelby Stehlin
In March of 2011, three filmmakers disappeared in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona while documenting their search for the Lost Dutchman mine. Their bodies were never found... but their camera was.
The Twilight People
›PG1972 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · John Ashley, Pat Woodell, Jan Merlin
A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
Vampire Boys 2: The New Brood
›NR2013 · Horror · 75m · David Alanson Bradberry, Addison Graham, Rob Hoflund
The vampires are back in town but this time there’s a new brood. Chisel-jawed Jon Euler steams up the screen as brood leader Jasin in this hot sequel to the wildly popular original. This time his vengeful ex-lover Demetrius (ripped dreamboat Rob Hoflund) is out to get Jasin and brings along his coven to boot. Jasin and Caleb’s eternal love is put to the test when Jasin’s jilted lover Demetrius returns to get this revenge. Demetrius plots to destroy Jasin by creating an army of vampires — unwilling victims recruited from the local boxing gym. Tara, reeling from her own rejection by Jasin, is eventually compelled by Demetrius to join him in his quest.
Deadtime Stories 2
›R2011 · Horror · 77m · Nick Mancuso, Amy Marsalis, Jeff Monahan
An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Gorge" hikers are trapped in a cave-in must make a gruesome choice. In "On Sabbath Hill," a woman is driven to suicide but remains to torment her lover. In "Dust," a security guard is driven to murderous measures to use a strange dust that cures his wife's cancer.
Death Do Us Part
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Emilie Ullerup, Julia Benson, Peter Benson
A couple's pre-wedding party takes a deadly turn when an unknown assailant begins killing the guests one by one.
GetEven
›1993 · Action, Thriller · 89m · John De Hart, Wings Hauser, William Smith
The Corruption of The System is given a swift lopsided kick by Vigilante Justice as a Disgraced Former Cop emerges from exile, automatic weapons blazing and mediocre martial arts akimbo, to bring down a murderous satanic cult headed by his former partner. His only allies? A boatload of swagger and one leggy blonde.
Bad Reputation
›R2005 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Angelique Hennessy, Kristina Conzen, Danielle Noble
A high school girl wrongly branded as the school slut embraces her 'bad reputation' and takes revenge on the kids who have made her life a living hell.
Knock Knock
›R2015 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 99m · Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo, Ana de Armas
When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.