
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

Lavalantula
›2015 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 83m · Steve Guttenberg, Nia Peeples, Patrick Renna
Giant lava breathing tarantulas – Lavalantulas – erupt out of ancient volcanos in the Santa Monica Mountains, raining death and destruction upon Los Angeles. With the City of Angels on the verge of incineration, only a washed up ‘90s action hero actor stands in the way of this monstrous swarm of bloodthirsty creatures who burn their victims alive.

YellowBrickRoad
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Michael Laurino, Anessa Ramsey, Alex Draper
In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where they went was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: YELLOWBRICKROAD.

Man's Best Friend
›R1993 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 97m · Ally Sheedy, Lance Henriksen, Robert Costanzo
A genetic research facility worker exposes animal abuses there to a local TV reporter, who frees and takes in a genetically altered dog from the lab, unaware that he has a violent streak.

The Barrens
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Stephen Moyer, Mia Kirshner, Allie MacDonald
A man takes his family on a camping trip and becomes convinced they are being stalked by the legendary monster of the New Jersey Pine Barrens: the Jersey Devil.

Dracula III: Legacy
›R2005 · Horror · 86m · Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, Alexandra Wescourt
Dracula leads vampire hunters Father Uffizi and Luke back to Eastern Europe, and a country plagued by civil war.

Julia X
›NR2011 · Horror · 92m · Valerie Azlynn, Kevin Sorbo, Alicia Leigh Willis
Meeting a man on the Internet, Julia decides to see him in person, only to get abducted and branded with the letter "x" by that guy. A game of cat and mouse follows, but the story has an unexpected twist.

Abduction
›2019 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 98m · Scott Adkins, Andy On Chi-Kit, Lily Ji
A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by mysterious figures.

Charlie's Farm
›NR2014 · Horror · 93m · Tara Reid, Bill Moseley, Kane Hodder
Four friends head into the Australian Outback to investigate an urban legend about Charlie's Farm, where legend has it that an angry mob killed a sadistic family, and encounter a demented giant with a big thirst for revenge.

13 Eerie
›NR2013 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Katharine Isabelle, Michael Shanks, Brendan Fehr
Forensics students arriving on an isolated island "body farm" get to try out their CSI skills on a bunch of corpses under the watchful eye of their grumpy professor. The island used to house a state penitentiary, where the authorities were experimenting on death row inmates, and now the bodies won't stay still.

Rosewood Lane
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Rose McGowan, Luna Lauren Vélez, Ray Wise
Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the local paperboy. She thinks this is ridiculous, until she encounters the boy himself. It turns out that he is a cunning and dangerous sociopath, one who may have gruesomely killed her father - and others.

Girl at the Window
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Radha Mitchell, Ella Newton, Vince Colosimo
A troubled teenage girl who’s struggling to cope with the accidental death of her father suspects that the mysterious killer stalking her hometown is not only her neighbour but her mother’s new romantic interest.

The Stranger
›2014 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 93m · Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns
A supernatural thriller, laced by flashbacks, and set in Canada’s North-West, “The Stranger” turns on the mysterious titular figure of Martin, who comes to a small quiet town seeking to kill his wife Ana who suffers from a very dangerous decease that makes her addicted to human blood - just like himself-. However, when he arrives to the town, he discovers that Ana has been dead for a couple of years and decides to commit suicide to definitely eradicate this dangerous decease, but, before he can do it, Martin's brutally attacked by three local thugs led by Caleb, the son of a corrupt police lieutenant, and the incident suddenly starts a snowball that will plunge the community into a bloodbath.

Stay Out of the Attic
›2020 · Horror · 80m · Morgan Alexandria, Bryce Fernelius, Michael Flynn
A diverse group of ex-cons-turned-movers are convinced by their creepy client, Vern Muller, to pull an all-nighter for a generous pay bump. As the night progresses and rooms are cleared, they slowly uncover the horrors that exist inside his old Victorian mansion, which include boobytraps, human experimentation, Nazi monsters and more. Will they survive the night?

Detention of the Dead
›R2012 · Comedy, Horror · 87m · Alexa Nikolas, Christa B. Allen, Jayson Blair
A group of oddball high school students find themselves trapped in detention with their classmates having turned into a horde of Zombies.

Penance Lane
›2020 · Horror · 84m · Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, John Schneider
A hardened criminal fresh out of the joint takes a job as a handyman in a dilapidated house; but the twisted horrors he finds inside are enough to send anyone running. So why does he stay? And why are so many people drawn to Penance Lane?

Under the Bed
›R2012 · Horror · 87m · Jonny Weston, Gattlin Griffith, Musetta Vander
Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.

True Crime
›R1995 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 94m · Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Dillon, Bill Nunn
Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has an addiction to mystery novels and detective magazines, which inspire her to do her own detective work. When she starts snooping around on the case of a murderer of teenage girls, it gets her in hot water with her mentor Detective Jerry Gunn. But it also starts a team up with police cadet Tony Campbell. The two work together to find the murderer. But the closer Mary gets to solving the murder, the more danger she puts herself in of being the next victim.

Dead Again in Tombstone
›R2017 · Western, Action, Fantasy · 99m · Danny Trejo, Jake Busey, Elysia Rotaru
The devil’s outlaw and reluctant servant, Guerrero returns from the dead again in this action-packed western which promises to be one hell of a ride. Guerrero is forced to protect a stolen relic from getting into the hands of Jackson Boomer and his gang of soldiers, but Jackson will stop at nothing to raise his comrades from the dead and bring the wrath of hell upon earth. Guerrero must use all his dark powers in order to defeat Jackson and find redemption…or die again trying.

We Need to Do Something
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery · 97m · Sierra McCormick, Vinessa Shaw, Pat Healy
Seeking shelter from a storm, a family finds themselves trapped in a bathroom for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls.

Children of the Corn: Runaway
›R2018 · Horror · 82m · Marci Miller, Jake Ryan Scott, Lynn Andrews III
The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.

Black Site
›2018 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Jessica-Jane Stafford, Mike Beckingham, Lauren Ashley Carter
80's inspired John Carpenteresque Action. A young woman is forced to push past her worst fears and battle to deport an ancient entity back to where it came from. Set inside an underground military base known as The Artemis Black Site, the movie mixes an Escape From New York style survival story with Lovecraftian elements and large scale mythology building.

The Hunting
›2022 · Horror · 91m · Angela Cole, Heidi Azaro, Alan Tuskes
When a mysterious animal attack leaves a mutilated body in the forest, a conservative small town detective must enlist the help of an eager wildlife specialist to uncover the dark and disturbing truth that threatens the town.

Seventh Moon
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Dennis Chan Kwok-San, Tim Chiou, Amy Smart
Melissa and Yul, Americans honeymooning in China, come across the exotic 'Hungry Ghost' festival. When night falls, the couple end up in a remote village, and soon realize the legend is all too real. Plunged into an ancient custom they cannot comprehend, the couple must find a way to survive the night of the Seventh Moon.

Arctic Void
›2022 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 85m · Michael Weaver, Tim Griffin, Justin Huen
When the power mysteriously fails, and almost everyone vanishes from a small tourist vessel in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore, the men deteriorate in body and mind until a dark truth emerges that compels them to ally or perish.
