
Cinema of the Damned
A directory of horror — thousands of films and series, each scored by the Crypt Score, our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and the reviews of this coven. Hunt by sub-genre, decade, or dread.
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Tourist Trap
›PG1979 · Horror, Fantasy · 89m · Chuck Connors, Jocelyn Jones, Jon Van Ness
After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the enigmatic Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of life-like wax mannequins.

The Head Hunter
›2019 · Horror, Fantasy · 72m · Christopher Rygh, Cora Kaufman, Aisha Ricketts
On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven by a thirst for revenge, he travels wild expanses on horseback. When his second chance arrives, it’s in a way far more horrifying than he ever imagined.

GrotesquerieSeries
›TV-MA2024 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 1 season · Niecy Nash, Courtney B. Vance, Nicholas Alexander Chavez
A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.

Eyes of Laura Mars
›R1978 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 104m · Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.

House of Frankenstein
›1944 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.

Like Minds
›PG-132006 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 110m · Eddie Redmayne, Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette
A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.

Evilenko
›R2004 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 111m · Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, Ronald Pickup
For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.

Madhouse
›PG1974 · Horror, Mystery · 92m · Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after spending years in a mental institution, but the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.

I, Madman
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Jenny Wright, Clayton Rohner, Randall William Cook
A bookshop clerk starts seeing the disfigured killer from her favorite 1950s pulp novels come to life and start killing people around her.

Of Unknown Origin
›R1983 · Horror · 88m · Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence Dane
A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.

Immortality
›R1998 · Fantasy, Romance, Thriller · 98m · Jude Law, Elina Löwensohn, Timothy Spall
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.

Father's Day
›2011 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 99m · Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney
Ahab, a man obsessed with exacting a brutal, violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins John, an eager priest, and Twink, a hot-headed street hustler, on an epic quest to find and defeat this mythical monster known as Chris Fuchman AKA The Father's Day Killer.

Rasputin: The Mad Monk
›1966 · Horror · 91m · Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco
Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar's palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left... to destroy him before he destroys them all.

Dark Waters
›NR1993 · Horror, Mystery · 94m · Louise Salter, Venera Simmons, Mariya Kapnist
After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.

The Mephisto Waltz
›R1971 · Horror · 115m · Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.

Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story
›2019 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 87m · Alyson Hannigan, Daphne Hoskins, Howie Lai
High school teacher Mary Stauffer and her eight-year old daughter, Beth are held captive for 53 days by an obsessed former student. Based on a true story.

The Ghoul
›2017 · Drama, Thriller · 81m · Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Paul Kaye
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.

The Black Sleep
›NR1956 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Basil Rathbone, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair
In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...

The Psychopath
›NR1966 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Patrick Wymark, Margaret Johnston, John Standing
Four men involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of World War II are found murdered with tiny dolls beside their corpses.

True Fiction
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Sara Alicia Garcia, John Cassini, Julian Black Antelope
Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to participate in a controlled psychological experiment in fear that will serve as the basis for Caleb's next novel.

Hostile Dimensions
›2024 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Annabel Logan, Joma West, Josie Rogers
Two documentary filmmakers travel through alternate dimensions to uncover the truth about a graffiti artist who has vanished.

The Mafu Cage
›R1978 · Thriller, Horror · 102m · Lee Grant, Carol Kane, Will Geer
Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on straight, as it were, the other appears to be sinking further and further into barbarism and insanity.

HellierSeries
›2019 · Mystery, Documentary, Reality · 2 seasons · Greg Newkirk, Dana Newkirk, Connor Randall
Driven by a plea for help from a man in Appalachia under supernatural assault, a small crew of paranormal researchers find themselves in a dying coal town, where a series of strange coincidences leads them to a decades-old mystery with far-reaching implications.

Splice
›R2010 · Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.






















