
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

Shrooms
›NR2007 · Horror, Mystery · 84m · Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch
A group of American teens comes to Ireland to visit a friend who takes them on a camping trip in search of the local, fabled magic mushrooms. When the psychedelics start taking hold, the panicked friends are attacked by ghostly creatures; but how can they determine whether what they are experiencing is reality or hallucination?

Monsters: Dark Continent
›R2014 · Thriller, Drama, Science Fiction · 119m · Johnny Harris, Sam Keeley, Joe Dempsie
Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to protect US interests from the Monsters, but the war is far from being won.

Cabin Fever: Patient Zero
›NR2014 · Horror · 91m · Jillian Murray, Mitch Ryan, Lydia Hearst
A group of friends head to a deserted Caribbean island for a surprise overnight bachelor party only to discover that the island isn't deserted. It's actually the home to a secret medical facility. Not only that, there's something wrong with the water surrounding the island...

Prey
›2024 · Action, Thriller, Horror · 86m · Ryan Phillippe, Emile Hirsch, Mena Suvari
A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their lives.

Skinwalkers
›PG-132006 · Fantasy, Action, Horror · 110m · Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra
Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-red crescent moon. They are SKINWALKERS. They feed on our flesh and thirst for the taste of human blood. The red moon signals each pack, divided by principles, hell bent to survive an ancient prophecy.

Vampires: Los Muertos
›R2002 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 93m · Jon Bon Jovi, Cristián de la Fuente, Diego Luna
Tough-as-nails vampire hunter Derek Bliss is on the hunt for "suckers" in the heart of Mexico when he receives a new assignment from a mysterious client. Thrown together with a group of slayers, including sexy Zooey, who may or may not be one of the undead. Derek and company are up against a growing number of fast-moving, bloodthirsty vampires and their elusive and powerful leader.

Zombie Apocalypse
›R2011 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Ving Rhames, Taryn Manning, Johnny Pacar
Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.

Mimic 2
›R2001 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 82m · Alix Koromzay, Bruno Campos, Gaven E. Lucas
Detective Klaski investigates the death and mutilation of three men and soon crosses paths with Remy, an entomologist. Soon, he discovers that she is being stalked by a giant shape-shifting insect who is bent on taking over New York.

Mary
›R2019 · Horror, Mystery · 84m · Gary Oldman, Emily Mortimer, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
A struggling family buys an old ship at auction with high hopes of starting a charter business, only to discover her horrifying secrets on the isolated open waters.

The Swarm
›PG1978 · Science Fiction, Horror · 116m · Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.

Monster Hunters
›2020 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 87m · Tom Sizemore, Connie Jo Sechrist, Anthony Jensen
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a secret branch of the government specializing in alien weaponry. But with the team untested in actual combat, the battle for Earth will be brutal.

Blood Monkey
›2007 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 88m · F. Murray Abraham, Matt Ryan, Amy Manson
Six American grad students have arrived in Africa to study apes with a renowned professor. But after setting up camp in a jungle clearing, they soon become witness to the carnage inflicted by the strange and remote species.

Kill Switch
›R2008 · Action, Thriller, Crime · 92m · Steven Seagal, Holly Dignard, Chris Thomas King
A troubled and violent detective investigates a series of serial killer murders in Memphis, Tennessee.

Inseminoid
›1981 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Robin Clarke, Jennifer Ashley, Stephanie Beacham
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.

Paintball
›R2009 · Thriller, Action, Horror · 86m · Brendan Mackey, Jennifer Matter, Patrick Regis
Eight strangers engaged in an intense game of experts-only paintball find their friendly game taking a terrifying turn when one member of the team begins playing by a different set of rules. It started as a remote raw battle of wits and wiles set against the backdrop of majestic wilderness. With each shot fired, the stakes grew higher. But something horrible has happened, and what was once a team sport has become a relentless struggle for individual survival. The danger growing by the minute, the combatants gradually come to realize that their greatest adversary may be the very game they set out to play.

Alligator 2: The Mutation
›1991 · Horror, Action · 92m · Joseph Bologna, Dee Wallace, Richard Lynch
A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake.

Alien Invasion
›2023 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Sarah T. Cohen, Amber Doig-Thorne, May Kelly
A group of friends find a large egg, but little do they know it contains an unwelcome predator. Now they must stop it from reaching civilization.

The Killer Shrews
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis
Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who when they have run out of small animals to eat, turn on the humans.

The Hollow
›NR2015 · Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Stephanie Hunt, Sarah Dugdale, Alisha Newton
It's Halloween eve on Shelter Island, and the small town is preparing for a killer storm. But the dark clouds gathering over the island are bringing with them a curse one-hundred years in waiting. As the woods give birth to an ungodly and insatiable creature of fire, bones, and earth, three sisters must scramble to stay alive through the long dark night of the Hollow. For it's not something you can kill. It's only something you can try and survive.

A Werewolf in England
›2020 · Horror, Comedy · 85m · Reece Connolly, Tim Cartwright, Natalie Martins
In Victorian-Era England, a Parish Councillor and criminal take refuge from a storm, at a remote countryside Inn. Forced to stay the night, they soon uncover a deadly pact between the strange Innkeepers and the flesh-hungry werewolves that inhabit the surrounding woodlands... now, as the werewolves close in, the guests must band together and fight tooth and nail to survive the night!

Trucks
›R1997 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 99m · Timothy Busfield, Brenda Bakke, Aidan Devine
A group of seemingly humanistic trucks takeover a truck stop and starts killing everything in sight. The remaining townsfolk must band together and come up with a way to murder the inanimate objects, a seemingly difficult task considering the abnormal circumstances.

Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys
›2014 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 90m · Shannen Doherty, Jason Brooks, Zack Ward
After chomping through the fish population, thousands of starved lampreys begin attacking the citizens of a sleepy lake town, and the community scrambles to stay alive.

The Second Arrival
›R1998 · Science Fiction, Horror · 105m · Patrick Muldoon, Jane Sibbett, Michael Sarrazin
After Zane Ziminski is found dead five people received envelopes with details of an alien invasion. This group of five includes 3 scientists, Zane's brother Jack, and a reporter. Quickly, the group is down to three and then Jack and Bridget, the reporter. With a small piece of alien technology, they must escape from the aliens, who take human form, and try to convince others that aliens exist.

The Zombie Diaries
›R2006 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 81m · Russell Jones, Craig Stovin, Jonnie Hurn
In the early part of the 21st Century, an unknown virus began spreading among the populous. Within weeks it had engulfed the entire planet, from the smallest communities to the greatest cities. Upon the death of its host, the virus would reanimate the corpse until it was no longer able to support itself. Soon the planet was infested with a new threat - the undead. So begins our journey into the dystopian world of the zombie diaries.
