
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

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
›R1990 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Kate Hodge, Ken Foree, R.A. Mihailoff
Two college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and onto a deserted Texas road were they are stalked by the menacing Leatherface and his family.

Werewolves
›R2024 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, Ilfenesh Hadera
A year after a supermoon’s light activated a dormant gene, transforming humans into bloodthirsty werewolves and causing nearly a billion deaths, the nightmare resurfaces as the supermoon rises again. Two scientists attempt to stop the mutation but fail and must now struggle to reach one of their family homes.

Primeval
›R2007 · Adventure, Horror, Action · 93m · Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton, Orlando Jones
A news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.

Pandemic
›PG-132016 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 91m · Rachel Nichols, Alfie Allen, Missi Pyle
After a virus of epic proportions overwhelms the planet—with more infected than uninfected—humanity is losing its grip on survival and its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren, a doctor, arrives in Los Angeles with her crack team to lead the hunt for uncontaminated civilian survivors, but nothing can prepare them for the blood-soaked mayhem they witness as they head into the Californian streets where everything is considered a trap.

The Lair
›2022 · Horror, Action · 93m · Charlotte Kirk, Jonathan Howard, Jamie Bamber
Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.

Graveyard Shift
›R1990 · Horror · 89m · David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht
John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.

Rupture
›2016 · Thriller, Science Fiction · 102m · Noomi Rapace, Peter Stormare, Kerry Bishé
A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.

The Reef: Stalked
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Teressa Liane, Ann Truong, Saskia Archer
After her sister's murder, Nic, her younger sister and two friends seek solace through a Pacific island kayaking adventure. Hours into the trip the women are stalked by a shark and must band together, face their fears and save each other.

Butchers
›2020 · Horror · 93m · Simon Phillips, Michael Swatton, Julie Mainville
A family of sadistic butchers lives deep inside the backcountry. From the dead of winter to the dog days of summer, anyone who crosses their path is dead meat.

The Bayou
›2025 · Thriller, Horror, Action · 87m · Athena Strates, Madalena Aragão, Elisha Applebaum
Vacation turns disaster when Houston grad Kyle and her friends survive a plane crash in the desolate Louisiana everglades, only to discover there's something way more dangerous lurking in the shallows.

Catacombs
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Shannyn Sossamon, P!nk, Mihai Stănescu
A young woman in Paris goes to a party in the enormous labyrinth of limestone tunnels beneath Paris. When she becomes separated from her friends, she is convinced something is chasing her through the dark tunnels.

Exeter
›R2015 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Stephen Lang, Kelly Blatz, Brittany Curran
During an all-night, drug-fueled party at an abandoned asylum known for the horrific treatment of its patients, a group of ordinary teens decide to experiment with the occult, mysteriously leading to a violent possession. In an effort to find help, the group rushes to escape, only to find themselves locked inside with no means of communication. Tempers flare, trusts are broken and in attempt to save one of their friends possessed by the demon, the amateurs try to perform an exorcism. Instead of solving the problem, and unbeknownst to them, they unleash an even more powerful and vengeful spirit, one with a distinct motive and which wants them all dead. The teen's only chance of survival is to uncover the asylum's deep mysteries and find a way out before it's too late.

Night of the Demons
›R2009 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 93m · Monica Keena, Edward Furlong, Shannon Elizabeth
Angela is throwing a decadent Halloween party at New Orleans' infamous Broussard Mansion. But after the police break up the festivities, Maddie and a few friends stay behind. Trapped inside the locked mansion gates, the remaining guests uncover a horrifying secret and soon fall victim to seven vicious, blood-thirsty demons.

Eye of the Beholder
›R1999 · Mystery, Thriller · 109m · Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Patrick Bergin
A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.

The Jurassic Games
›2018 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 86m · Ryan Merriman, Perrey Reeves, Adam Hampton
In the near future, 10 death row convicts are forced to compete in a virtual reality game that pits them against dinosaurs and each other.

Slaughter High
›R1986 · Horror · 91m · Caroline Munro, Simon Scuddamore, Carmine Iannaccone
Eight different people are invited to their 10-year high school reunion at their now-closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is there to seek revenge.

Storage 24
›R2012 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Something nasty is lurking inside a secure storage unit. When a group of people get trapped inside, they need to find a way to get out of a building that's designed to keep things in...

Dashcam
›R2022 · Horror · 80m · Annie Hardy, Amar Chadha-Patel, Angela Enahoro
At the start of the pandemic, an indulgent and self-deluded livestreaming improv musician abandons L.A. for London, steals her ex-bandmate's car, and makes the fateful decision to give a ride to an elderly woman who is not what she seems.

Shortcut
›R2020 · Horror, Adventure, Fantasy · 80m · Jack Kane, Zanda Emlano, Zak Sutcliffe
A group of five classmates is trapped inside their school bus after an encounter with a mysterious creature on the road. Amid constant threats from the creature, the teen's anxiety increases while their survival chances decrease.

The Thinning: New World Order
›NR2018 · Action, Drama, Thriller · 89m · Logan Paul, Peyton List, Lia Marie Johnson
Blake Redding is trapped in this dark room wanting to protect his love so the only thing he will do is escape like no failed student has done before.

Inmate Zero
›2020 · Horror · 106m · Jess Chanliau, Meg Alexandra, Gabz Barker
There's a zombie outbreak after a medical trial in an international detention and medical facility on an isolated island. An ex US Special Forces/bodyguard woman inmate and a guard form a team.

The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting
›R2003 · Action, Thriller, Horror · 93m · Jake Busey, Kari Wührer, C. Thomas Howell
A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.

Creature
›R1985 · Science Fiction, Horror · 97m · Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.

The Forgotten Ones
›R2009 · Horror, Action · 84m · Jewel Staite, Justin Baldoni, Kellan Lutz
When a devastating boat crash shipwrecks a group of friends in the jungles of an uncharted island, they are savagely picked off one-by-one by a cannibalistic enemy that evolution forgot.
