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
Tempus Tormentum
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Tyhr Trubiak, Virine Bahadoosingh, Dan Grapko
A drifter passing through a small town is drugged by three masked psychopaths and forced into a bizarre game of cat and mouse. He is chased through a series of more and more bizarre events until, in the end, he finds that this evening of terror has lasting consequences. It’s a feel bad film, nasty and brutish, red in tooth and claw.
House of Fears
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Corri English, Sandra McCoy, Corey Sevier
The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out.
The Hillside Strangler
›R2004 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Allison Lange, Nicholas Turturro, C. Thomas Howell
Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the cousins decide to start an escort agency. After violently killing a prostitute they thought had betrayed them, Kenneth and Angelo begin committing a series of crimes that become a media sensation.
Severed
›R2005 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Paul Campbell, Julian Christopher, Michael Teigen
A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...
Grotesque
›R1988 · Horror · 89m · Linda Blair, Tab Hunter, Donna Wilkes
A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of murderous creature is chasing them...
Scared to Death
›R1980 · Science Fiction, Horror · 93m · John Stinson, Diana Davidson, Jonathan David Moses
A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating. The murders are found to be the work of an out-of-control experiment in genetic engineering. The two men must descend into the city's sewer systems to destroy the horrific miscreation. It won't be hard to find, as it's already looking for its next victims...
The Resurrection of Charles Manson
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 78m · Frank Grillo, Will Peltz, Sarah Dumont
While a couple creates an audition tape for an up-and-coming Charles Manson film, the dark events of the audition material slowly slip into their reality as they find themselves intertwined in an occult leader's sinister plot.
Sisters of Death
›PG1976 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 87m · Arthur Franz, Claudia Jennings, Sherry Boucher
During an all-girl secret society initiation, one of the new members is killed playing Russian Roulette. Many years later the survivors are invited for a reunion to a lavish estate, which turns out to be owned by the crazed father of the girl who died.
Code Red
›2013 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Paul Logan, Borislav Iliev, Velizar Binev
A female doctor struggling to find her daughter after a long lost World War II biological weapon explodes on a U.S. military base in Bulgaria, turning people into mutant zombies.
Larva
›R2005 · Horror, TV Movie, Science Fiction · 96m · Vincent Ventresca, Rachel Hunter, William Forsythe
In Host, Missouri, the newcomer Dr. of Veterinary Science Eli Rudkus is called by the farmer Jacob Long to exam one of his cows. The veterinarian finds a strange parasite in the animal and sends it to a friend in the Department of Agriculture for research. Later, he finds the same parasite in a creek and he summons the population for a meeting, warning that the cause might be the animal food. However, Fletcher Odermatt, the wealthy owner of the local Host Tender Meals that has been providing free animal food for the farmers, brings his lawyer Hayley Anderson and discredits Eli. When a huge mutant parasite attacks Eli and Jacob, they discover that the meals are actually an experimental genetic cocktail that is growing parasites inside the cattle and people. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dark Moon Rising
›R2009 · Horror · 124m · Chris Divecchio, Ginny Weirick, Max Ryan
Small-town girl meets mysterious drifter boy, they fall in love. Only in this case, the boy brings with him a family curse and unimaginable horror that rains hell upon the small town
Natty Knocks
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Bill Moseley, Danielle Harris, Robert Englund
On Halloween Eve, Britt and the kids she is babysitting have to survive the horror of serial killer Abner Honeywell, who is himself the traumatized son of B-movie horror legend "Natty Knocks".
Star Runners
›2009 · TV Movie, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Connor Trinneer, James Kyson, Toni Trucks
Two space smugglers are caught by the government and told if they deliver a crate to a certain location the charges will be forgotten. Turns out the crate is the key to a cover up and other parties want it to.
Warhouse
›2013 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Joseph Morgan, Matt Ryan, William Troughton
Royal Marine A.J Budd awakes in a mysterious house and is forced to fight for his life everyday against grotesque inhuman opponents. Trapped alone in an unchanging prison of unbreakable routines, he must kill every day or die himself. As days stretch into years, the isolation and unceasing violence threaten his very soul.
Redwood
›2017 · Horror · 80m · Nicholas Brendon, Mike Beckingham, Muzz Khan
A couple hiking out in the woods, disturb a nest of vampires.
Harvest Lake
›NR2016 · Horror · 75m · Jason Crowe, Ellie Church, Tristan Risk
Five friends fall under the seductive influence of a libidinous, otherworldly presence that threatens to change their lives forever in this strange and erotic new film from director Scott Schirmer and producer Brian K. Williams.
Scurry
›2025 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 96m · Jamie Costa, Emalia, Indianna Sparke
Two strangers find themselves trapped underground when the city is attacked by a monstrous threat. Badly injured with limited resources they must navigate a treacherous, narrowing tunnel in hopes of finding an exit.
Shiver
›2012 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Danielle Harris, John Jarratt, Casper Van Dien
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
Ditched
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Marika Sila, Kris Loranger, Lee Lopez
An ambulance transferring dangerous convicts crashes in the middle of nowhere. It soon becomes clear that the crash was no accident, and the survivors are being stalked by a killer. Just 30 feet to the road, but will anyone reach it alive?
Scourge
›2008 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 92m · Robyn Ledoux, Nic Rhind, Russell Ferrier
The ancient creature, The Scourge, long confined in a church, wreaks havoc in a small town. Bodies accumulate as Scott and Jessie, rekindling their love, become the town's last defense against the unleashed menace.
Minutes to Midnight
›NR2018 · Horror, Action · 91m · William Baldwin, Richard Grieco, Bill Moseley
On the cusp of New Year's Eve, seven friends and a mysterious backpacker converge at a desolate ski lodge in the mountains when they are systematically hunted down by ruthless masked men with a cryptic agenda.
Gangsters, Guns and Zombies
›2012 · Horror · 88m · Vincent Jerome, Huggy Leaver, Fabrizio Santino
Q, Tony, Danny, and Steve think the police are their biggest problem after they pull off a robbery. But when the dead rise from the grave, they have to hide out with a woman and her grandmother in a fortified windmill.
Rattlers
›PG1976 · Horror · 82m · Sam Chew Jr., Elisabeth Chauvet, Dan Priest
A herpetologist investigating a series of fatal rattlesnake attacks discovers that the creatures have been infected by a mysterious nerve gas disposed of in the desert by the military.
Evil Feed
›R2013 · Action, Horror · 90m · Laci J. Mailey, Terry Chen, Alain Chanoine
A group of young martial artists infiltrate an underground pit fighting ring where the loser is chopped up and served in a Chinese restaurant.