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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The Flesh and Blood Show
›R1972 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Jenny Hanley, Ray Brooks, Luan Peters
Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac.
Sorry, Charlie
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 75m · Colton Tran, Kathleen Kenny, Marisa Brown
A remote helpline volunteer is targeted by "The Gentleman," a stranger who lures women from their homes with a recording of a crying baby.
Buried Alive II
›1997 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 97m · Ally Sheedy, Stephen Caffrey, Tracey Needham
A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep coma that resembles death. When an accident occurs in the embalmer's office he doesn't complete the embalming process, causing her to be buried alive. Awakening from the grave, she claws her way out and seeks revenge against the two who caused her supposed demise
A Breed Apart
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery, Action · 100m · Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Riele Downs
When Violet accepts an invitation to a private island with some of the world's most famous social influencers, she expects a weekend of unrivaled viral opportunity. She soon becomes part of her own horrific reality show when the guests are pitted against each other to capture the island's legendary man-eating dogs before they become victims of the monstrous canines.
Nothing But the Night
›PG1973 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 90m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.
The Exorcism of Hannah Stevenson
›2022 · Fantasy, Horror · 75m · Hannah Rose, Tom Hogan, Edward Gist
Hannah and Matt, a young couple on their first holiday together, quickly discover that they may not see eye-to-eye. Feeling as though she let her boyfriend down, Hannah enlists the help of a mysterious gypsy woman, in the hope that the couple's troubles can be overcome. However, when Matt wakes to find his girlfriend has disappeared, the gypsy woman's sinister intentions become all too clear.
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
›R2002 · Horror, Comedy · 99m · John McConnell, Mark McLachlan, Melissa Morgan
A cannibal caterer kills various young women in preparation for a ritual feast for a long-dormant Egyptian goddess that has him under its control.
Circus of Fear
›1966 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 91m · Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
Residue
›2017 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 82m · Costas Mandylor, James Clayton, Taylor Hickson
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.
The Climax
›1944 · Music, Horror, Thriller · 86m · Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
12 Days of Terror
›PG-132004 · Drama, Horror, TV Movie · 86m · Colin Egglesfield, Mark Dexter, Jenna Harrison
July of 1916 was a time of record heat, a polio epidemic, and a World War in Europe. But beachgoers in New Jersey are threatened by a even greater terror: a shark that has suddenly developed a taste for human flesh. Starting July 1st and lasting over a period of 12 days, the unidentified shark kills four people and seriously injures a fifth before the attacks stop, and threatens New Jersey's thriving tourist industry. Based on true events, and one of the inspirations behind Peter Benchley's Jaws.
The Premonition
›PG1976 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 94m · Sharon Farrell, Edward Bell, Danielle Brisebois
When a deranged woman and her carny boyfriend plot to abduct her biological daughter from the girl's foster parents, the foster mother is plagued by premonitions and psychic visions.
The Midnight Swim
›2015 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 87m · Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Lafleur, Aleksa Palladino
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home. They find themselves unable to let go and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake.
The Harbinger
›2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 87m · Gabby Beans, Emily Davis, Stephanie Roth Haberle
Monique leaves her family quarantine to help a friend who’s suffering from terrible nightmares - but she learns too late that the bad dreams are contagious, along with the demon behind them.
Summer of Blood
›2014 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Onur Tukel, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Dakota Goldhor
Lousy lover and egocentric Eric Sparrow is dumped by his girlfriend after rejecting her marital proposal. After a few failed dates his luck turns when a chance encounter with a vampire turns him into a sex god.
The Evictors
›PG1979 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 92m · Vic Morrow, Michael Parks, Jessica Harper
A nice young couple move into an eerie house located in a small Louisiana town, unaware of its violent history.
Strigoi
›2009 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · 101m · Roxana Guttman, Cătălin Paraschiv, Rudy Rosenfeld
When the villagers killed Constantin Tirescu, they thought it was justice. Vlad Cozma thinks it was murder. Now, Constantin thinks pickles might go nice with blood.
Effects
›R1979 · Thriller, Horror · 84m · Joseph Pilato, Susan Chapek, John Harrison
Some crew members of a company shooting a horror film begin to suspect that the "killings" in the movie are real, and that they are actually making a "snuff" film.
Cabin by the Lake
›2000 · Horror, TV Movie · 91m · Judd Nelson, Hedy Burress, Susan Gibney
A screenwriter does research for his new script by actually kidnapping and drowning young girls. He then places them in his "garden" of other dead girls coming back daily to check on them. One girl narrowly escapes and the other bodies are found leading to an ingenious plot to try and capture the killer.
Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood
›R1973 · Horror · 74m · Janine Carazo, Jerome Dempsey, Daniel Dietrich
After a young man goes missing at a run-down local amusement park, his family take jobs there in an effort to uncover what happened to him and, in the process, meet a cadre of unsettling characters.
Files of the UnexplainedSeries
›TV-142024 · Documentary, Crime, Mystery · 1 season · Tijuana Ricks
Eerie encounters, bizarre disappearances, haunting events and more perplexing phenomena are explored in this chilling investigative docuseries.
Mansion of the Doomed
›R1976 · Horror · 86m · Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame, Lance Henriksen
An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car-accident he caused.
Cruel Summer
›2016 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 78m · Richard Pawulski, Danny Miller, Reece Douglas
Young Autism sufferer Danny enjoys the serenity and solitude of camping. That's all about to change when enraged teens Nicholas, Calvin and Julia find him, each with their own agenda for wanting to see Danny suffer.
Blood and Lace
›1971 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 87m · Gloria Grahame, Melody Patterson, Milton Selzer
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by a mysterious woman and her handyman, both whom she comes to suspect are hiding dark secrets.
