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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.

6730 titles

Target Earth

Target Earth

1954 · Science Fiction, Horror · 75m · Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Richard Reeves

Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are Frank and Nora (who has recently attempted suicide). They meet a celebrating couple at a café, Vicki Harris and Jim Wilson. The quartet escape the robot patrol and take refuge in a large hotel. There, they encounter a new danger in Davis, a psychopathic killer.

IMDb 5.5TMDB 6.05.7
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Terror Is a Man

Terror Is a Man

NR1959 · Horror · 90m · Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr

A mad scientist transforms a panther into a man-like creature that escapes and goes on a murderous rampage.

IMDb 5.3TMDB 4.55.7
American Zombie

American Zombie

R2007 · Comedy, Horror · 96m · Austin Basis, Jane Edith Wilson, Chad Moffitt

Documents the daily lives of a small community of the living deceased who make their home in Los Angeles.

IMDb 5.0🍅 71%TMDB 4.75.7
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How to Make a Monster

How to Make a Monster

1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway

When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.

IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.75.7
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Follow Her

Follow Her

NR2022 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Dani Barker, Luke Cook, Eliana Jones

An aspiring actress responds to a mysterious classified ad and finds herself trapped in her new boss's twisted revenge fantasy.

IMDb 5.0🍅 77%TMDB 4.95.7
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Gog

Gog

1954 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall

A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.95.7
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Roman

Roman

2006 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 92m · Lucky McKee, Nectar Rose, Kristen Bell

Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with the elusive beauty (Kristen Bell) who lives in another apartment in his building complex. When a chance encounter with the young woman goes horribly wrong, a moment of frenzied desperation triggers a chilling turn of events leading to the girl's murder. As he teeters between deranged fantasy and cold reality, Roman's struggle to hide his grisly secret is further complicated by an eccentric neighbor named Eva (Nectar Rose) who develops an unlikely attraction to Roman and forces herself into his dark and tortured world.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 4.85.7
One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many

NR1944 · Comedy, Mystery, Thriller · 75m · Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi

An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.25.7
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Chompy & the Girls

Chompy & the Girls

2021 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Christy St. John, Steve Marvel, Julie Dolan

A troubled woman meets her father for the first time and their encounter goes from awkward to alarming when they witness a man swallow a little girl whole.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.75.7
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Wait Till Helen Comes

Wait Till Helen Comes

PG-132016 · Thriller, Fantasy · 81m · Maria Bello, Sophie Nélisse, Callum Keith Rennie

After a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the desperate ghost of a young girl. Based on the best selling novel by Mary Downing Hahn.

IMDb 5.0TMDB 5.45.7
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Crescendo

Crescendo

PG1970 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Joss Ackland

An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer.

IMDb 5.2TMDB 5.25.7
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Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies

R1973 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 89m · Mary Woronov, Lynn Lowry, George Shannon

A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.

IMDb 5.2TMDB 5.55.7
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Beaten to Death

Beaten to Death

NR2023 · Horror · 92m · Thomas Roach, David Tracy, Nicole Tudor

A desperate choice leads Jack down a path that leaves him beaten and bruised as he struggles against man, nature and his own insanity. Stranded in the middle of nowhere after barely surviving a horrific assault, Jack encounters one local after another and quickly learns that a sick game of cat and mouse is about to begin. Battling the deranged country psychos and the harsh landscape, Jack must go to extreme lengths to survive.

IMDb 4.8🍅 64%TMDB 5.35.7
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Dark August

Dark August

PG1976 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Kim Hunter, J.J. Barry, Carolyne Barry

A young girl is accidentally run down by a car driven by a careless city slicker. This careless injustice provokes the girl's grandfather into summoning his mystical powers and placing a death curse on the young man. Desperate to stave off the dire consequences of the hex, Barry seeks the counsel of a local psychic medium.

IMDb 5.1TMDB 5.75.7
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Meet the Hollowheads

Meet the Hollowheads

PG-131989 · Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror · 86m · John Glover, Nancy Mette, Richard Portnow

The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. Henry is hoping for a promotion at the slime factory in which he works and decides to bring his boss home for dinner and to meet the family. Henry's perverted boss doesn't know what he's up against when he tries to make advances with Mrs. Hollowhead

IMDb 5.3TMDB 5.95.7
Sorry I Killed You

Sorry I Killed You

2020 · Horror, Comedy · 99m · Jonathan Bennett, Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, Ben Kurland

A serial killer's detailed blueprints are thwarted when his would-be victims, co-workers on an office retreat, begin to turn on each other. He finds himself caught in between his own plans and the unplanned murders by the jealous, backstabbing co-workers he intends to kill.

IMDb 4.3TMDB 4.95.7
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Grim Prairie Tales

Grim Prairie Tales

R1990 · Western, Horror · 86m · James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, William Atherton

Two travelers meet on the open prairie, and pass their time together by trading stories with each other. Their tales become a sort of competition, each attempting to relate something which might disturb the other.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.85.7
Frogman

Frogman

NR2024 · Horror · 81m · Nathan Tymoshuk, Chelsey Grant, Benny Barrett

An amateur filmmaker, struggling to turn his passion into a career, returns with friends to Loveland, Ohio, the location of his first, notorious sighting of the Frogman, determined to obtain irrefutable proof that the cryptid legend exists.

IMDb 5.0🍅 82%TMDB 5.05.7
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A Beginner's Guide to Snuff

A Beginner's Guide to Snuff

2016 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Joey Kern, Luke Edwards, Bree Williamson

Two brothers, desperate to break into the world of television and film, decide to enter a horror movie contest. And what could be more horrifying than the elusive snuff film?

IMDb 5.0TMDB 5.35.7
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The Resonator: Miskatonic U

The Resonator: Miskatonic U

2021 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · Alex Keener, Dane Oliver, Christina Hélène Braa

Visionary Miskatonic University student Crawford Tillinghast follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes obsessed with completing work on the Resonator, an inter-dimensional device that opens doorways to other worlds.

IMDb 4.9TMDB 4.95.7
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The Crescent

The Crescent

2017 · Mystery, Horror · 99m · Britt Loder, Andrew Gillis, Amy Trefry

After an unexpected death in the family, a mother and son struggle to find spiritual healing at a beachfront summer home.

IMDb 4.8🍅 65%TMDB 5.75.7
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The Deep Web: Murdershow

The Deep Web: Murdershow

2024 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Aiden Howard, Kimi Alexander, Brendan Fletcher

A podcaster’s investigation of his sister’s death leads him to a grisly website, where the highest bidder decides how a chosen victim will be killed.

IMDb 4.5TMDB 5.75.7
The Ungodly

The Ungodly

R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Wes Bentley, Beth Grant, Joanne Baron

When struggling filmmaker inadvertently records a notorious serial killer in the middle of a murderous act, he decides to use the footage to blackmail the madman into being the subject of a disturbing new documentary.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.15.7
All Eyes

All Eyes

2022 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Jasper Hammer, Ben Hall, Danielle Evon Ploeger

A disgraced podcast host interviews an eccentric farmer who claims to have a monster living in the woods near his house.

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.85.7
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