
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

Hellions
›2015 · Horror · 80m · Chloe Rose, Rachel Wilson, Rossif Sutherland
A teen faces a night of terror when three malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.

Disaster L.A.: The Last Zombie Apocalypse Begins Here
›2014 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Justin Ray, Stefanie Estes, Jerod Meagher
After a meteor shower strikes Los Angeles, toxic smoke is released across the city causing people to physically change and become violent. A small group of survivors plans to vacate the city by heading to the coast.

Boo
›R2005 · Horror · 94m · Rachel Melvin, Dig Wayne, Dee Wallace
The friends Emmett, Freddy, Marie, Kevin and his reluctant girlfriend Jessie decide to spend the Halloween night in an abandoned hospital. Meanwhile, the younger Allan meets the old friend of his father Arlo Ray Baines and asks him to help to find his vanished sister Meg in the same spot. The two groups meet each other in the mental institution section on the haunted third floor.

Escape the Field
›R2022 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Tahirah Sharif
Six strangers suddenly awaken in a remote, endless cornfield. Stripped of their possessions, they are left with only six items: a gun with a single bullet, matches, a lantern, a knife, a compass, and a flask of water. As mysterious sirens blare in the distance and traps appear at every turn, the group realizes it’s been plunged into a cat-and-mouse game with an unseen evil, and survival depends upon solving a diabolical and deadly puzzle.

The OctoGames
›2022 · Thriller, Action, Horror · 88m · Lacy Hartselle, Cale Adcock, Luv Patel
Eight contestants compete in eight deadly, classic children's games. They seek fame beyond their wildest dreams, competing for the chance to take over the YouTube channel of the famous yet elusive masked content creator known only as "JaxPro".

Final Exam
›R1981 · Horror · 90m · Cecile Bagdadi, Joel S. Rice, Ralph Brown
In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone's final exam.

The Food of the Gods
›PG1976 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker
Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.

Creepozoids
›R1987 · Science Fiction, Horror · 72m · Linnea Quigley, Ken Abraham, Michael Aranda
Five Army deserters wander the post-apocalyptic, post-industrial LA landscape seeking shelter from an increasingly toxic environment and poisonous rain.

Killer Whale
›R2026 · Thriller, Horror, Action · 89m · Virginia Gardner, Mel Jarnson, Mitchell Hope
Follows best friends Maddie and Trish as they find themselves trapped in a remote lagoon with the dangerous killer whale named Ceto.

Hungerford
›2014 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Georgia Bradley, Sam Carter, Drew Casson
The lives of a group of teenagers are turned upside down when their town is taken over by sinister forces.

The Houses October Built 2
›NR2017 · Horror · 99m · Brandy Schaefer, Zack Andrews, Mikey Roe
Recovering from the trauma of being kidnapped last Halloween by the Blue Skeleton - a group who take "extreme haunt" to another level - five friends decide they must face their fears in order to move on. Heading back out on the road to visit more haunted house attractions, signs of the Blue Skeleton start appearing again and a new terror begins.

Crocodile 2: Death Roll
›2002 · Horror · 89m · Heidi Lenhart, Jon Sklaroff, Martin Kove
After a bank robbery, four criminals escape to Mexico, but a storm causes an accident which takes down the plane where several die in the crash. The criminals take it into their own hands to continue when one survivor is attacked and eaten by a crocodile. The criminals kill it, but from then on the mother Crocodile is on a killing spree with a goal to kill each survivor. But that is not the only worry, because they're trapped within it's world, and if it doesn't kill them, the criminals will.

Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Peyton List, Tobin Bell, Lydia Hearst
Based on Aileen Wuornos’s early life, this is the true story of America’s most notorious female serial killer, who went on a killing spree in Florida in 1989 and 1990. What few people know, is that back in 1976 a young and beautiful Aileen Wuornos arrived in Florida searching for a new life that would help her escape her tragic past, married a wealthy Yacht Club President and had the chance to start again as part of Florida’s high society... or did she?

Arachnid
›2001 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Chris Potter, Alex Reid, José Sancho
Mercer's brother, an amateur pilot, crashes on an island and is killed by a giant spider. A year later, when Mercer goes in search of him, she discovers a breed of poisonous arachnids ready to attack.

Blood Beach
›R1980 · Science Fiction, Horror · 92m · David Huffman, Marianna Hill, Burt Young
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? And is there any chance of it reproducing? Meanwhile, David Huffman and Mariana Hill are once-almost-married old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, and searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play when they were young.

The Long Night
›R2022 · Horror · 91m · Scout Taylor-Compton, Nolan Gerard Funk, Deborah Kara Unger
A devoted couple's quiet weekend takes a bizarre turn when a nightmarish cult and their maniacal leader come to fulfill an apocalyptic prophesy.

Unearthed
›R2007 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 93m · Emmanuelle Vaugier, Luke Goss, Charlie Murphy
In the desert area of Hat Creek, cows are found partially devoured and the farmers believe that a wolf is attacking the cattle. The alcoholic Sheriff Annie Flynn is called by the local farmer Rob Horn to witness the remains of an animal to request reimbursement from the government and for an accident with a tank truck that is blocking the road.

The Dungeonmaster
›PG-131984 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 73m · Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll, Leslie Wing
A computer whiz is yanked into a twisted digital world by the sadistic wizard Mestema and forced through a gauntlet of wild, deadly trials, from mutant goblins to metal mayhem, with his girlfriend’s soul on the line.

Day of Reckoning
›2017 · Science Fiction, Horror, Action · 85m · Jackson Hurst, Heather McComb, Hana Hayes
Some years ago, the world experienced a "day of reckoning" when creatures came up from below and purged humanity of evil. Now, it is happening again.

Prisoners of the Sun
›NR2013 · Mystery, Action, Adventure · 88m · John Rhys-Davies, David Charvet, Carmen Chaplin
A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse

Ozark Sharks
›R2016 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Allisyn Snyder, Michael Papajohn, Ross Britz
A picturesque family vacation to the Ozarks goes sideways when a group of bull sharks show up just in time for the big fireworks festival that the town holds every year.

The Mad Hatter
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Nick Miller, Samuel Caleb Walker, Michael Berryman
An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that haunt the home are merely servants that have fallen to inbreeding, and the Hatter himself has been dead for years. But as the students start disappearing one by one, those that remain start to question if the professor’s experiment is truly scientific...and if the Hatter didn’t just succumb to his madness, but decided to spread it...

The Victim
›R2011 · Thriller, Action, Horror · 84m · Michael Biehn, Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, Ryan Honey
Annie's life is in jeopardy after she's witnessed the horrific rape and murder of her closest friend. Fleeing from two attackers she stumbles across Kyle, a recluse living in the middle of the woods. Kyle finds the stillness of the woods comforting. The ruggedly handsome loner stays far from civilization - that is - until a single knock on his door throws his solitary life into chaos.

Evils of the Night
›R1985 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 84m · Aldo Ray, Neville Brand, Tina Louise
Sex-hungry teens are kidnapped by auto mechanics, who take them to a rural hospital run by aliens who need their blood as the key to their own longevity.
