
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

Black Rock
›R2012 · Thriller, Horror · 79m · Katie Aselton, Lake Bell, Kate Bosworth
Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.

Altitude
›R2010 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Jessica Lowndes, Julianna Guill, Ryan Donowho
After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.

Contracted: Phase II
›2015 · Horror, Thriller · 78m · Matt Mercer, Marianna Palka, Morgan Peter Brown
Picking up directly where the previous film left off, the story follows Riley, one of the last people to come in contact with Samantha, as he scrambles to track down those responsible for the outbreak before the highly contagious disease not only consumes his body, but the world as we know it.

Joy Ride 3
›R2014 · Thriller, Horror · 96m · Ken Kirzinger, Jesse Hutch, Benjamin Hollingsworth
Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000. As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, an encounter with Rusty turns sour and soon he is tracking, teasing and torturing them until the end of the road.

Margaux
›R2022 · Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Jedidiah Goodacre, Madison Pettis, Vanessa Morgan
As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux's plans to eliminate her tenants one way or another. Time begins to run out as the group desperately tries to survive and outsmart the smart home.

Alone
›R2020 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 92m · Tyler Posey, Summer Spiro, Donald Sutherland
When an outbreak hits, Aidan barricades himself inside his apartment and starts rationing food. His complex is overrun by infected Screamers, and with the world falling apart into chaos, he is left completely alone fighting for his life.

Preservation
›NR2014 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Pablo Schreiber, Aaron Staton, Wrenn Schmidt
Three family members head deep into the woods for a hunting trip that doubles as a distraction from their troubles at home. When all of their gear is stolen, they turn on each other, but soon realize there are much more treacherous forces at work.

Madman
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Gaylen Ross, Tony Nunziata, Harriet Bass
Madman Marz, an old folklore legend who murdered his family before escaping into the woods, is inadvertently summoned to a campsite to finish the spree he started decades ago.

Messengers 2: The Scarecrow
›R2009 · Horror · 94m · Norman Reedus, Heather Stephens, Claire Holt
The family man farmer John Rollins is stressed with his financial situation: the crows and the lack of irrigation are destroying his crop of corn; the bank is near closure of his mortgage; he does not have credit to fix the water pump or to buy seeds; and his marriage is in crisis and his wife Mary is giving too much attention to her friend Tommy. When John accidentally discovers a hidden compartment in the barn, he finds a creepy scarecrow but his son Michael makes him promise to destroy it. However, his neighbor Jude Weatherby visits him, gives a six-pack of beer to the abstemious John and convinces him to put the scarecrow in the cornfield. Out of the blue, the life of John changes: the crows die; the pump works again irrigating the land; and the banker responsible for the closure has an accident and dies. However, he feels that his land is possessed by something evil that is threatening his beloved family.

The Forsaken
›R2001 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko
A young man is in a race against time as he searches for a cure after becoming infected with a virus that will eventually turn him into a blood-sucking vampire.

The Human Race
›2013 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 87m · Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Eddie McGee, Brianna Lauren Jackson
A cancer survivor, an amputee, several immigrants, and many others are snatched from a Los Angeles street and forced to take part in a deadly race.

Hideaway
›R1995 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 103m · Jeff Goldblum, Christine Lahti, Alicia Silverstone
Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless hours. But Hatch does not come back unchanged. He begins to suffer horrible visions of murder -- only to find out the visions are the sights of a serial killer.

Screamers: The Hunting
›R2009 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Gina Holden, Jana Pallaske, Lance Henriksen
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost.

Mother's Day
›NR1980 · Action, Horror, Comedy · 91m · Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce
Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?

Penny Dreadful
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Rachel Miner, Mimi Rogers, Chad Todhunter
Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist; the intention is to help her overcome her phobia, an intense fear of cars. Unexpected events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true.

Inbred
›R2011 · Comedy, Horror · 90m · Jo Hartley, Seamus O'Neill, James Doherty
Four young offenders and their workers spend a weekend in the remote Yorkshire village of Mortlake, which prides on keeping itself to itself. A minor incident with locals rapidly escalates into a blood-soaked, deliriously warped nightmare.

Rest Stop: Don't Look Back
›NR2008 · Horror · 89m · Richard Tillman, Jessie Ward, Graham Norris
One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the stretch of old highway with a mysterious Rest Stop, where they find themselves in the same predicament as Nicole and Jesse: confronting a madman.

A Sacrifice
›R2024 · Thriller, Horror · 94m · Eric Bana, Sadie Sink, Sylvia Hoeks
American social psychologist Ben Monroe investigates a local cult connected to a disturbing event. While he immerses himself into his work, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy, gets involved with a mysterious local boy, who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene. As these two worlds head towards an intersection, Mazzy finds herself in great danger and Ben will need to race against the clock to save her.

The Zodiac
›R2005 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 92m · Justin Chambers, Robin Tunney, Rory Culkin
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.

Decoys
›R2004 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 95m · Kim Poirier, Stefanie von Pfetten, Corey Sevier
Luke and Roger are just another couple of college guys trying to lose their virginity. But when Luke sees something unusual, he begins to suspect that the girls on campus aren't exactly...human.

Triggered
›R2020 · Horror, Action · 90m · Liesl Ahlers, Reine Swart, Sean Cameron Michael
Nine friends, all harboring a dark secret, go camping in the woods. After a wild night of partying, they wake up with suicide bombs strapped to their chests, all with varying times on their countdown clocks. They decide to work out how to disarm the bombs or find help - until they discover they can 'take' one another's time by killing each other.

The Monkey's Paw
›NR2013 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · C.J. Thomason, Stephen Lang, Michelle Pierce
After Jake Tilton is given a mystical "monkey's paw" talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, he finds his world turned upside down after his first two wishes result in his malevolent coworker, Tony Cobb, being resurrected from the dead. When Cobb pressures Jake into using the final wish to reunite Cobb with his son, his intimidation quickly escalates into relentless murder - forcing Jake to outwit his psychotic friend and save his remaining loved ones.

The Toolbox Murders
›R1978 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, Wesley Eure
A serial killer, plagued by the memory of a fatal car accident, uses various tools to murder female tenants of a Los Angeles apartment complex, then abducts a teenaged girl who lives there with her family. When the police express doubt that the murders are connected to the girl's disappearance, her brother sets out to search for her on his own.

Nails
›2017 · Horror · 85m · Shauna Macdonald, Ross Noble, Steve Wall
Paralyzed after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family when she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room.
