
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.
2812 titles

Roadgames
›PG1981 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 101m · Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.

The Damned
›NR1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors
An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
›1969 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 101m · Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.

Deep WaterSeries
›2016 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Noah Taylor, Yael Stone, William McInnes
Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned a brutal murder case in Bondi, where they begin to uncover mounting evidence to suggest the killing is connected to a spate of unexplained deaths, "suicides" and disappearances of gay men throughout the 80s and 90s. Haunted by the disappearance of her teenage brother, Tori's fascination with the case soon turns to fixation. When more ritualistic murders occur with the same bizarre signature, Tori and Nick will need to put their relationships, their careers and their lives on the line to finally reveal the truth.

Clearcut
›R1991 · Thriller, Horror, Western · 98m · Ron Lea, Graham Greene, Michael Hogan
A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.

People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial KillerSeries
›TV-142024 · Crime, Documentary · 2 seasons · Wendy Naugle
There are precious few individuals who have managed to survive their encounters with serial killers. Anchored by People Magazine's in-depth reporting, these survivors share their terrifying and intensely emotional experiences with unimaginable evil.

War of the Worlds
›PG-132005 · Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction · 117m · Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

Law Abiding Citizen
›R2009 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · 109m · Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

Con Air
›R1997 · Action, Thriller, Crime · 116m · Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

Overlord
›R2018 · Horror, War, Science Fiction · 110m · Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbæk
On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.

You're Next
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 94m · Sharni Vinson, Nicholas Tucci, Wendy Glenn
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

Saw X
›R2023 · Horror, Mystery · 118m · Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Between the events of 'Saw' and 'Saw II', a sick and desperate John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer, only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through devious, deranged, and ingenious traps.

Eden Lake
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Jack O'Connell
When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.

Better Watch Out
›R2017 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 89m · Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Ed Oxenbould
On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.

Arachnophobia
›PG-131990 · Comedy, Horror · 109m · Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.

Summer of 84
›NR2018 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 106m · Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery
After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.

Hidden
›R2015 · Thriller, Horror · 83m · Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Emily Alyn Lind
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.

Z NationSeries
›TV-142014 · Mystery, Action & Adventure, Drama · 5 seasons · Keith Allan, Kellita Smith, Anastasia Baranova
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.

An American Crime
›R2007 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 97m · Elliot Page, Catherine Keener, Hayley McFarland
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

Radius
›2017 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 93m · Diego Klattenhoff, Charlotte Sullivan, Brett Donahue
Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.

Dead End
›R2003 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Ray Wise, Alexandra Holden, Lin Shaye
On Christmas Eve, while driving to see his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.

Summer of Sam
›R1999 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 142m · John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Hounds of Love
›2016 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 108m · Ashleigh Cummings, Emma Booth, Stephen Curry
When Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple, she soon observes the dynamic between her captors and quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.

Bloody Hell
›R2020 · Horror, Comedy, Action · 94m · Ben O'Toole, Meg Fraser, Caroline Craig
A man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell... only to arrive somewhere much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified conscience.
