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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Just Cause
›R1995 · Action, Drama, Mystery · 102m · Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Blair Underwood
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
Jennifer Eight
›R1992 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 124m · Andy Garcia, Lance Henriksen, Uma Thurman
John Berlin, a big-city cop from LA moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, Berlin meets a young blind woman named Helena, whom he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose—and only John knows it.
Raising Cain
›R1992 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer
Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings. Meanwhile, his wife Jenny rekindles an old love affair, placing herself in the crosshairs of her increasingly unstable husband.
Bad Match
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Jack Cutmore-Scott, Lili Simmons, Brandon Scott
An internet-dating playboy's life spirals out of control after meeting a woman online.
Son of Dracula
›1943 · Horror · 77m · Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
Willard
›PG1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Bruce Davison, Ernest Borgnine, Sondra Locke
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
Stalked by My Doctor: The Return
›2016 · Thriller, TV Movie, Horror · 97m · Eric Roberts, Claire Blackwelder, Hilary Greer
Dr. Beck, who has changed his name, saves a young teenage girl drowning in Mexico, whom he falls in love with. As always, there are some complications in his way, but he has plans to possibly get past them and get the girl of his dreams.
Jack's Back
›1988 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 97m · James Spader, Cynthia Gibb, Jim Haynie
A young doctor is suspected when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. However, when the doctor himself is murdered, his identical twin brother claims to have seen visions of the true killer.
Spiral
›PG-132007 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 90m · Joel David Moore, Amber Tamblyn, Zachary Levi
A reclusive telemarketer has only one semblance of a friend: His telecommuter boss. But the telemarketer's social circle seems to improve greatly when a whimsical co-worker enters his life. Only, as he begins to sketch his new friend's portrait, disturbing "voices" from the phone man's past threaten to lead him into a network of destruction.
House of Dark Shadows
›PG1970 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 97m · Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott
Barnabas Collins searches for a cure for vampirism in order to marry a woman resembling his long-lost fiancée Josette.
White of the Eye
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller · 111m · David Keith, Cathy Moriarty, Art Evans
In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his wife starts to uncover startling truths...
Love Object
›R2004 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 88m · Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Udo Kier
The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki", an anatomically accurate silicone sex doll he orders over the Internet.
Sun Choke
›2015 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Sarah Hagan, Barbara Crampton, Sara Malakul Lane
Janie’s just trying to get well. As she recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an obsession with a stranger, Janie's buried demons begin to surface.
The Blackwell Ghost 2
›2018 · Horror · 68m · Turner Clay
A filmmaker decides to turn the camera back on and returns to his investigation of the Blackwell Ghost in this sequel documentary. After being provided with new information from someone who knew Mrs. Blackwell personally, the filmmaker begins to follow clues that ultimately bring him back to the haunted house for one final stay. A documentary that shows actual ghost footage captured on camera.
Night Watch
›PG1973 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 99m · Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
The First Deadly Sin
›R1980 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 112m · Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, David Dukes
A serial killer is stalking New York City. Inspector Edward Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?
The Mask
›1961 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins, Anne Collings
A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.
The Comeback
›1978 · Horror, Mystery · 100m · Jack Jones, Pamela Stephenson, David Doyle
A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. His ex-wife is brutally murdered, and the killer may be stalking him next.
Afraid of the Dark
›R1991 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 91m · Ben Keyworth, James Fox, Fanny Ardant
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
The Hunt for the BTK Killer
›2005 · TV Movie, Crime, Thriller · 82m · Robert Forster, Michael Michele, Maury Chaykin
After 31 years at-large, detectives in Wichita, Kansas hone in on the serial killer known as BTK.
The Black Door
›2001 · Horror · 96m · Sergio Gallinaro, Staci Tara Moore, Kevin Blatch
Seattle, USA, 1999. At the demand of MEG, a camera crew investigates the strange course of events that brought STEVEN H., her boyfriend, to be hospitalized. Steven's condition is serious. His body has been severely lacerated by an unknown assailant. The doctors think it could be a wild animal, or maybe even a man with extremely long and hard nails. Steven is also suffering from a mysterious infection that spreads inside him at an alarming speed...
Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss
›2020 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Kate Micucci, Sam Huntington, Taika Waititi
A small-town couple finds the perfect apartment in the big city, except there's one catch: the apartment is home to the ritualistic suicides of a deranged cult.
The Hypnotic Eye
›1960 · Horror · 79m · Jacques Bergerac, Merry Anders, Marcia Henderson
A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of young, attractive women committing various forms of self-mutilation.
Theatre of Death
›1967 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Christopher Lee, Julian Glover, Lelia Goldoni
The Theatre of Death in Paris specialises in horror presentations. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attraction to one of the performers. When bloodless bodies start showing up all over town he realises there could be links with the theatre.
