
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

Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes
›R2006 · Horror, Fantasy · 95m · Doug Bradley, Lance Henriksen, Douglas Roberts
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.

Red Sands
›R2009 · Action, Horror, War · 89m · Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge
A group of U.S. soldiers on a mission in the Middle East find themselves with nothing to do in their free time. Out of sheer boredom they end up destroying an old statue in the desert, only to unleash a horrific entity.

Debug
›PG-132014 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Jeananne Goossen, Adrian Holmes, Adam Butcher
Six young computer hackers sent to work on a derelict space freighter, are forced to match wits with a vengeful artificial intelligence that would kill to be human.

The Outwaters
›NR2023 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 110m · Robbie Banfitch, Angela Basolis, Scott Schamell
Deep in the Mojave desert, under a scorching blood-red sun, four travelers have set up camp to make art. One fateful night, the group is thrust into a feverish tornado of flayed flesh and mind-boggling monstrosities, the likes of which mere humans simply cannot fathom.

The Pale Door
›R2020 · Horror, Western · 96m · Noah Segan, Melora Walters, Zachary Knighton
The Dalton gang escape to a nearby town after a train robbery goes south, but they are met by a coven of witches with sinister plans for the unsuspecting outlaws.

Doppelganger
›R1993 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 104m · Drew Barrymore, George Newbern, Dennis Christopher
After being implicated in a murder, a young woman flees New York City and moves to Los Angeles, where she rents a room from a writer. They begin an affair, but it seems she's been followed by a homicidal duplicate of herself.

Girls Against Boys
›R2012 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 87m · Danielle Panabaker, Nicole LaLiberte, Liam Aiken
After a series of bad experiences with men, Shae teams up with her co-worker, Lu, who has a simple, deadly way of dealing with the opposite sex.

Super Hybrid
›2011 · Horror · 95m · Shannon Beckner, Oded Fehr, Ryan Kennedy
Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The on-call mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of its own. With hundreds of horsepower and two tons of reinforced steel at its command, it's a seemingly unstoppable killing machine capable of outrunning -- and outwitting -- humans.

Kaw
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 93m · Sean Patrick Flanery, Kristin Booth, Megan Park
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens.

Route 666
›R2001 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 86m · Lou Diamond Phillips, Lori Petty, Steven Williams
Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catch up with him and rescue him just before a group of hitmen can manage to silence him for good. In the course of getting Smith away from the mafia thugs, the pair of agents assigned to protect him turn onto an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed 'Route 666' after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang. As the three continue on their way, they soon discover just what happened to the chain gang, and how the highway earned its name.

The Angry Red Planet
›NR1959 · Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror · 83m · Gerald Mohr, Naura Hayden, Les Tremayne
The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?

Alien Apocalypse
›2005 · Drama, Horror, Comedy · 88m · Bruce Campbell, Renée O'Connor, Remington Franklin
An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a revolution to free the human slaves from their alien masters.

Breathing Room
›R2008 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Ailsa Marshall, Michael McLafferty, David Higlen
Thrown naked into a desolate room with thirteen strangers, Tonya discovers that she is the final contestant in a deadly game. Restrained by lethal electronic collars, the players must utilize hints and tools from a box marked "pieces" to find both an exit and the reason for their abduction. One by one the players are eliminated as their "curfew" begins and the lights go out. With each dead body comes another clue, which they use to discover that one of them is the killer. The question is ... which one?

13Hrs
›R2010 · Horror, Action · 81m · Isabella Calthorpe, Tom Felton, Gemma Atkinson
Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.

Bleeders
›1997 · Horror, Mystery · 89m · Roy Dupuis, Kristin Lehman, Rutger Hauer
A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although his relatives were all thought to be dead, he finds them living underground.

Crawl or Die
›R2014 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 90m · Nicole Alonso, Torey Byrne, Tommy Ball
Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.

Roadkill
›R2011 · Horror, TV Movie · 88m · Kacey Barnfield, Stephen Rea, Eliza Bennett
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.

Uninhabited
›2010 · Thriller, Horror · 93m · Geraldine Hakewill, Bob Baines, Tasia Zalar
Harry and Beth wanted a different kind of holiday so they chartered a boat to drop them off on a remote coral island on the Great Barrier Reef. The island was idyllic, surrounded by a wide reef, covered in palms and full of birds and other wildlife. It was small and totally deserted or so they thought. But when things go missing from their camp site and they discover someone else's footprints in the sand this quickly becomes disturbing as they realize the island has a ghost! Inspired by actual events.

The Driver
›R2019 · Horror, Action · 97m · Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra, Noelani Dacascos
After a plague of the undead decimates human life on Earth, a former hit man (Mark Dacascos), his wife, and daughter live quietly in a survivalist compound. But when their base is attacked, a massive explosion summons a swarm of the undead. They escape and must seek out the Haven, a rumored sanctuary up north, while the father teaches his daughter to shoot, drive, and survive before time runs out.

The Beast of Hollow Mountain
›1956 · Western, Science Fiction, Horror · 81m · Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas
An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.

Evil Things
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Gail Cadden, Laurel Casillo, Morgan Hooper
On January 9, 2009, five college students left New York City for a weekend in the country. 48 hours later, all five students have simply vanished without a trace. There were no leads and no evidence - until now.

The Violent Kind
›R2010 · Horror · 89m · Cory Knauf, Taylor Cole, Bret Roberts
One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the Northern California woods, a small group of hardened young bikers and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the girls becomes savagely possessed and a gang of "Rockabillies" seemingly from the 1950's descends upon them to collect what is growing inside her.

The Young Cannibals
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Megan Purvis, Samuel Freeman, Hannah Louise Howell
Seven friends summon a monster when they are tricked into eating burgers made of human flesh.

Gremlin
›NR2017 · Horror · 90m · Adam Hampton, Kristy K. Boone, Katie Burgess
A man receives a mysterious box containing a terrible secret, a creature that will kill everyone else in his family unless he passes it on to someone he loves to continue its never-ending circulation.
