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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Seven in Heaven
›PG-132018 · Horror · 94m · Travis Tope, Haley Ramm, Jacinda Barrett
Teenagers Jude and June spend seven minutes in a locked closet and emerge in a hostile and dangerous alternate world.
Lucky
›2020 · Fantasy, Horror, Mystery · 83m · Brea Grant, Leith M. Burke, Dhruv Uday Singh
May, a self help author with all the answers, suddenly finds herself stalked by a masked man who mysteriously reappears every night. Even when she kills him. May struggles to get help from the people around her as she fights to stay alive. Is this paranoia, or is she doomed to accept her new reality?
Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature
›R2001 · Horror, Fantasy, TV Movie · 91m · Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Jim Piddock
Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads towards the mythical Forbidden Islands, the mermaid begins to display its deadly side.
Monster Portal
›2022 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 80m · Sian Altman, Sarah Alexandra Marks, Louis James
A young woman inherits her estranged father's estate after his mysterious death. Once she and her friends arrive at the mansion, they discover that the home is on an old cemetery, which has the power of opening a portal to another realm, which contains the creatures foretold to the world by writer H.P. Lovecraft.
Followed
›R2020 · Horror, Mystery · 96m · Matthew Solomon, Tim Drier, Kelsey Griswold
Social media influencer, 'DropTheMike', seeks thrills and stardom in the most horrific places. When he’s offered the possibility of a lucrative sponsorship, he takes his online channel to one of the most haunted hotels in America. What begins as a fun challenge accompanied by friends descends into a personal hell, begging the timely question: how far would you go to pursue internet fame?
Alien Trespass
›PG2009 · Action, Adventure, Comedy · 90m · Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird, Dan Lauria
In 1957 a fiery object crashes into a mountaintop in the California desert, bringing the threat of disaster to Earth. Out of the flying saucer escapes a murderous creature, the Ghota, bent on destroying all life forms on the planet. A benevolent alien from the spaceship, Urp, inhabits the body of Ted Lewis, an astronomer and with the help of Tammy, a diner waitress, sets out to save mankind.
Road Games
›2015 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de la Baume, Frédéric Pierrot
When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety’s sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against their better judgment to take up an offer to stay the night at a mysterious elderly couple’s mansion…
8
›NR2020 · Horror · 99m · Tshamano Sebe, Inge Beckmann, Keita Luna
An old man, fated to collect souls for eternity, seeks atonement after trading his daughter's soul.
Let Her Out
›2016 · Horror · 89m · Alanna LeVierge, Nina Kiri, Adam Christie
Twenty-three years after her hooker mother tried to kill her in the womb Helen remains damaged psychological goods. A mindset that gets worse when she suffers a traumatic head injury in an accident. Awakening in hospital, it’s discovered Helen has a tumour growth in her brain causing her to experience dark visions, disembodied voices and the omnipresence of a strange young woman. Soon, lost in a walking nightmare, in which nothing is what it seems, and her vicious actions barely remembered, it becomes crystal clear that whatever is inside her cracked psyche will stop at nothing to get out.
The Beast Must Die
›PG1974 · Horror, Mystery · 93m · Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark
Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.
The Passion of Darkly Noon
›R1995 · Mystery, Drama, Thriller · 99m · Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd, Viggo Mortensen
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.
The Devil Bat
›NR1940 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 68m · Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
Bed of the Dead
›2016 · Horror · 88m · Colin Price, Alysa King, Gwenlyn Cumyn
Four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where leaving means suffering a gruesome death. Plagued with frightening hallucinations, they must figure out the bed's secrets before they are ultimately picked off one by one.
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
›2010 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 71m · Eric Bossick, Akiko Monou, Yuko Nakamura
When the son of an American man and a Japanese women is killed in a car crash, the man transforms into a rageful metallic being thirsty of blood and vengance.
Man Vs.
›2015 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Chris Diamantopoulos, Chloe Bradt, Michael Cram
As host of his own hit TV series, 'MAN VS', Doug Woods is forced to fend for himself for five days in remote locations with no crew, food, or water, only the cameras he carries on his back to film his experiences. Doug's in the remote woods for a routine episode, until he's awoken by an earth-shaking crash. Things get weirder as it becomes clear Doug isn't alone. Someone or something is watching him.
Curse of the Crimson Altar
›R1968 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, Mark Eden
When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.
Evil Ed
›1995 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · Johan Rudebeck, Per Löfberg, Olof Rhodin
Edward is a friendly, harmless film editor in the splatter and gore department of a horror film company. Ed is assigned to work on the new Loose Limbs series of horror films after the previous editor killed himself with a hand grenade. Later his reality begins to twist and distort into a horrifying world where nothing is as it seems. Soon enough this turns Ed into Evil Ed!
Year 10
›2024 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Toby Goodger, Duncan Lacroix, Hannah Khalique-Brown
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
The Kindred
›R1987 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · David Allen Brooks, Rod Steiger, Amanda Pays
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
Hippopotamus
›2018 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 77m · Ingvild Deila, Stuart Mortimer, Tom Lincoln
Ruby wakes from a bad dream to find herself in a real life nightmare. She's trapped in a basement, her legs are broken and she can't remember who she is or how she got there. Her kidnapper, Tom, tells her she will remain captive until she falls in love with him. Ruby is focused on trying to escape until Tom starts helping her to remember her past and she begins to question everything.
Scanner Cop
›R1994 · Science Fiction, Horror, Action · 94m · Daniel Quinn, Darlanne Fluegel, Richard Grove
Rookie cop Sam Staziak has a unique gift: he is a Scanner, which gives him the power to read the thoughts of others, and also to inflict great bodily harm. When a mad scientist begins using mind control to murder police officers, Sam realizes that only he and his unique gift can put an end to the mayhem.
The Children
›R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers, Gale Garnett
A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
›2020 · Horror, Drama · 93m · Catherine Walker, Jared Abrahamson, Hannah Emily Anderson
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.
Day the World Ended
›1955 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Paul Birch
After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.