
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

They Found Hell
›2015 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Chris Schellenger, Katy Reece, Austin Scott
When a group of gifted college students run a secret teleportation experiment, they accidentally open a portal to another dimension, trapping them in Hell. One by one they are hunted, tortured and killed by the denizens of Hell who are bent on stealing their souls.

The Loch Ness Horror
›2023 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Becca Hirani, Tara MacGowran, May Kelly
A vanished submarine prompts a rescue operation that leads to the Loch Ness monster. Having escaped the Loch, the creature unleashes decades of pent-up aggression on those it encounters.

Vulgar
›R2002 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Brian O'Halloran, Bryan Johnson, Jerry Lewkowitz
Vulgar is about a man who is a children's clown but has not been getting much luck lately. He lives in a cheap apartment which he can't even afford. Bums are constantly sleeping in his run down car and crashing on his lawn. He has a nagging mother who lives in a nursing home, and his best friend is a moocher. One day he comes up with the idea to become a bachelor clown.

Welcome to Willits
›2016 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Bill Sage, Dolph Lundgren, Rory Culkin
Deep in the Northern California woods, in the heart of the notorious Emerald Triangle, lies a remote cabin. The residents struggle to fight off the repeated attacks and abductions by mysterious creatures that have plagued them for years. When a local pot farmer is caught up with a wayward group of campers, the situation quickly escalates into total carnage.

Hoax
›2019 · Horror · 96m · Adrienne Barbeau, Brian Thompson, Ben Browder
An investigation into a camping trip gone wrong turns into a fight for survival when a team, including a brilliant primate specialist and led by a ruthless television producer, must come to grips with the possible existence of Bigfoot.

Skinned Deep
›R2004 · Comedy, Horror · 97m · Forrest J. Ackerman, Eric Bennett, Karoline Brandt
An ordinary family goes on a trip by car, but their car breaks down. The dutiful father of the family immediately sets off to get help and seems to find it with a nice elderly lady. The woman invites the whole family to dinner, but the hospitality soon turns out to be an ambush.

Goblin
›2010 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 92m · Gil Bellows, Tracy Spiridakos, Camille Sullivan
Every Halloween, a small hamlet in the deep woods is visited by a fierce goblin, intent on capturing infants and brutally murdering anyone in its path.

The Nest
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Dee Wallace, Sarah Navratil, Kevin Patrick Murphy
As a mother becomes suspicious that her daughter may be infected by a parasitic creature, she is thrust into a nightmare as the people she trusts most push her into a chasm of drug addiction, self-destruction, and devastating sacrifice.

The Executioners
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Natalie Burn, Jemma Dallender, Rachel Rosenstein
Four female friends spend the night in a mansion. Their joy is quickly shattered when three men break in and cruelly attack them. As the night takes a darker turn, they find themselves relishing in the violence they had once suffered.

Attack of the Meth Gator
›2024 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 85m · LaRonn Marzett, Ray Acevedo, Vanessa Tamayo
On a small island in the Florida Everglades, a DEA agent and a local sheriff gather a team of locals to take down a giant meth-fueled alligator.

All I Need
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Melvin, Leah McKendrick
The paths of a desperate man and an imprisoned young woman cross unexpectedly in the den of a mysterious killer.

Creep Van
›NR2012 · Horror · 90m · Brian Kolodziej, Amy Wehrell, Gerald Emerick
When Campbell, a vehicle-less 20-something slacker, innocently makes the mistake of answering a FOR SALE sign placed on a dilapidated van, suspense and action take over as he is suddenly caught-up in a deadly game of cat and mouse that puts everyone close to him in mortal danger.

Lost Colony: The Legend of Roanoke
›R2007 · TV Movie, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Adrian Paul, Frida Farrell, Rhett Giles
English colonists arriving on Roanoke Island in 1587 find the fort built years before deserted. Soon after, members of the colony begin to die in horrible ways. Before returning to England for provisions, leader John White puts his son-in-law Ananais Dare in charge, and Dare realizes the island is haunted by Norse spirits. Enlisting the aid of a friendly Native American, Dare attempts to free the spirits from their earthly captivity before the entire colony is lost.

Plague
›R2015 · Drama, Horror · 86m · Tegan Crowley, Scott Marcus, Don Bridges
An independent Australian horror/drama that explores the societal norms that break down among a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. Ravenous hordes of infected zombies terrorize the survivors, but it is the horror within their own sanctuary that they must fear the most.

Black Swarm
›2007 · Horror, Action · 89m · Sebastien Roberts, Sarah Allen, Jayne Heitmeyer
A widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her daughter Kelsey. There she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's blind friend Beverly; an entomologist, Katherine is summoned to help with the investigation, along with Devin, Jane's brother-in-law and former boyfriend. Meanwhile, Kelsey befriends Eli, a scientist who has developed genetically modified wasps to the army as a weapon, and who is now trying to revert the process. When the wasps attack Black Stone, Jane, Devin and Eli team-up to attempt to destroy the swarm.

Vampires: Out for Blood
›2004 · Action, Fantasy, Horror · 95m · Kevin Dillon, Vanessa Angel, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
In the dark, throbbing world of underground raves, people are vanishing without a trace and Detective Hank Holten is the only one who knows the terrible truth. Vampires.

The Dead Hate the Living!
›R2000 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Eric Clawson, Jamie Donahue, Brett Beardslee
When a renegade band of young filmmakers break into an abandoned hospital to make their horror epic, they stumble upon a real dead body and decide to use it in their movie. They accidentally bring it back to life, open a portal to a dead world that releases dozens of other zombies, then struggle for their lives in a desperate attempt to flee from the creatures who apparently have them hopelessly trapped in the hospital.

7 Witches
›NR2017 · Horror, Thriller · 75m · Persephone Apostolou, Megan Hensley, Macall Gordon
As their big day approaches Cate and Cody should be celebrating, they've got their family with them, they've rented an island for the big day, but unbeknownst to them their wedding falls on the day when a 100 year old curse comes to fruition. Instead of celebrating they find themselves fighting for their lives as a coven of witches rise for revenge.

Memorial Valley Massacre
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · John Kerry, Mark Mears, John Caso
Campers on a holiday are terrorized by an axe-wielding maniac.

Rise of the Gargoyles
›PG-132009 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 94m · Eric Balfour, Caroline Néron, Justin Salinger
Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!).

The Dark
›R1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel
At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.

Animals
›2008 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Marc Blucas, Naveen Andrews, Nicki Aycox
Syd Jarrett is an unsuspecting, down-and-out man in a washed-up hick town who gets pulled into a sub-culture of blood-hungry creatures. He encounters Vic, a renegade whose animal instincts are stronger than his human ones. As things begin to get even worse, Jarrett realizes that his best chance for happiness, and survival, lies in his true love for Jane.

The Terror Experiment
›R2010 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 83m · C. Thomas Howell, Judd Nelson, Jason London
When terrorist action releases a secret government virus in the Houston Federal building, the employees become aggressive and homicidal. Federal officials quarantine the building to wipe out the infected and control the story, but a small group of uninfected are fighting to get out.

The Dead Outside
›2008 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Sandra Louise Douglas, Alton Milne, Sharon Osdin
A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. Drug-resistance has mutated the virus into a ravaging psychological plague, rendering the 'the dying' desperate, paranoid and violent
