
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

D-Tox
›R2002 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 96m · Sylvester Stallone, Polly Walker, Charles S. Dutton
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and enables a killer on the inside to get busy.

Sorority Row
›R2009 · Horror, Mystery · 101m · Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis
When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, when after graduation a mysterious killer goes after the five of them and anyone who knows their secret.

Extraterrestrial
›NR2014 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Brittany Allen, Melanie Papalia, Jesse Moss
Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they investigate, the friends stumble across an alien spacecraft, and its inhabitants have not arrived in peace.

The Contract
›R2006 · Drama, Action, Thriller · 96m · Morgan Freeman, John Cusack, Alice Krige
Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.

The Watcher
›R2000 · Mystery, Thriller · 96m · James Spader, Keanu Reeves, Marisa Tomei
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.

The Rage: Carrie 2
›R1999 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 105m · Emily Bergl, Jason London, Amy Irving
A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her cutthroat telekinetic powers.

Rattlesnake
›2019 · Thriller, Drama, Mystery · 85m · Carmen Ejogo, Theo Rossi, Emma Greenwell
After a mysterious woman saves her daughter from a deadly snakebite, a single mother must repay the debt by killing a stranger before sundown.

The Breed
›R2006 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Michelle Rodriguez, Taryn Manning, Eric Lively
Brothers John and Matt have inherited an island cabin from their recently deceased uncle. Along with Matt's girlfriend, Nicki, and other mutual friends, the siblings travel to the cabin for a relaxing weekend getaway. But, not long after arriving, the group is besieged by ravenous dogs. They watch in horror as another vacationer, Luke, is eaten alive. Soon, they discover a training facility where the dogs have been bred to kill.

The Vault
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · James Franco, Taryn Manning, Francesca Eastwood
Two estranged sisters are forced to rob a bank in order to save their brother. But this is no ordinary bank.

Alien Abduction
›NR2014 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 85m · Katherine Sigismund, Corey Eid, Riley Polanski
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.

The Astronaut
›PG-132025 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 90m · Kate Mara, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Luna
After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA’s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening around the property, she fears that something extraterrestrial has followed her back to Earth

Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
›NR1975 · Thriller, War, Horror · 97m · Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo
Ilsa, a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners, strives to prove that women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the frontlines.

Welcome Home
›R2018 · Thriller, Horror · 98m · Aaron Paul, Emily Ratajkowski, Riccardo Scamarcio
A couple try to repair their damaged union in an Italian vacation paradise. Then they discover the owner's intentions.

The Final
›R2010 · Thriller, Horror · 93m · Marc Donato, Jascha Washington, Whitney Hoy
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.

Animal
›NR2014 · Thriller, Horror · 82m · Joey Lauren Adams, Elizabeth Gillies, Paul Iacono
When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing predator. Holed up in an isolated cabin, tensions mount as long-buried secrets are revealed. As the body count rises, the group must put their differences aside and fight for survival.

The Reckoning
›2021 · Horror, Drama · 111m · Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steven Waddington
In the aftermath of the Great Plague and amidst the subsequent witch-hunts against women, a young widow grapples with the tragic death of her husband in a society completely consumed by fear and death. Because she rejects the advances of her landlord, she is falsely accused of being a witch and thrown in jail for a crime she didn’t commit. She must endure physical persecution at the hands of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter and face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind.

Train
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Thora Birch, Gideon Emery, Gloria Votsis
After a night of wild partying and missing their train, the group of students is invited to board another which happens to be heading their way. Once on board, members of the team begin to go missing, and their would-be saviors claim to have no idea what could have happened to them... When they discover the truth, it is too late to escape and they must fight for their lives against their captors to put an end to their ride to hell.

Walled In
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Mischa Barton, Cameron Bright, Deborah Kara Unger
Having finally secured her first assignment from her family's demolition business, Sam Walczak is sent to supervise the destruction of an apartment house, only to discover a group of tenants still living in the condemned building. One such tenant, Jimmy, tells Sam an urban legend about a serial murderer who used to live in the building and entomb his victims in the walls. What's worse, the dead are believed to still harass the residents to this day.

Jackals
›NR2017 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Stephen Dorff, Johnathon Schaech, Deborah Kara Unger
Set in the 1980s, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.

Indigenous
›R2014 · Horror · 86m · Zachary Soetenga, Lindsey McKeon, Sofia Pernas
A group of five American friends on the cusp of adulthood travel to Panama to relax and reconnect. They befriend a local woman in their hotel bar—and despite some ominous whispers—she goes against the specific instructions of her brother and brings the Americans on a daytrip into the pristine falls at the nearby jungle. What begins as an innocent outing to a picturesque waterfall quickly turns terrifying after she suddenly goes missing. As night closes in, the friends realize too late the truth behind the rumors—the legendary, blood-sucking Chupacabra is now stalking them.

The Hoarder
›2015 · Thriller, Horror · 86m · Mischa Barton, Robert Knepper, Emily Atack
Ella discovers a terrifying secret when she becomes trapped in an underground storage facility. To survive she must join forces with a group of strangers, each with something to hide.

Dark Light
›2019 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 90m · Jessica Madsen, Ben Sullivan, Opal Littleton
A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.

The Tortured
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 78m · Erika Christensen, Jesse Metcalfe, Bill Moseley
An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.

Mimic: Sentinel
›R2003 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 77m · Alexis Dziena, Tudorel Filimon, Rebecca Mader
A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
