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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352 titles
Mask Maker
›R2011 · Horror · 90m · Nikki DeLoach, Stephen Colletti, Anabella Casanova
A lucky couple hits the jackpot when they purchase a 19th century plantation home for pennies on the dollar. Determined to get rich quick, they invite their friends up for the weekend to celebrate their good fortune. It’s quickly apparent that the plantation home’s former residents have not left and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives!
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›PG2008 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Dougray Scott, Krista Bridges, Tom Skerritt
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-regarded physician whose evenings are spent researching a rare and sacred Amazonian flower so potent it's said to literally separate the soul, giving life to man's Dark Self. The obsessive experiments to isolate its psychotropic properties happen to coincide with a series of brutal murders gripping the city with fear. Jekyll knows it's no coincidence. While his nights are lost to him, he awakens with bloody mementos and violent memories of the screams of his victims.
Death Warmed Up
›1984 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Michael Hurst, Margaret Umbers, William Upjohn
A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist.
Blind Date
›R1984 · Horror, Thriller · 106m · Joseph Bottoms, Kirstie Alley, James Daughton
A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental device which allows him to see with the aid of a computer interface and brain electrodes. Meanwhile, a taxi driver is taking young women up to their apartments, giving them gas, and performing a little fatal amateur surgery on them. Their paths inevitably converge, and the blind man must try to stop the psychopath.
The Grief Tourist
›2013 · Thriller, Drama · 84m · Melanie Griffith, Michael Cudlitz, Pruitt Taylor Vince
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...
Kryptic
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 102m · Chloe Pirrie, Jeff Gladstone, Jason Deline
A woman’s search for a missing cryptzoologist leads to her own riveting cosmic quest for identity.
Hypnotic
›2021 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 89m · Kate Siegel, Jason O'Mara, Dulé Hill
A young woman seeking self-improvement enlists the help of a renowned hypnotist but, after a handful of intense sessions, discovers unexpected and deadly consequences.
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
›R1995 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O'Leary
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.
Shallow Ground
›R2005 · Horror · 97m · Timothy V. Murphy, Lindsey Stoddart, Rocky Marquette
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered.
Rosario
›R2025 · Horror · 88m · Emeraude Toubia, José Zúñiga, David Dastmalchian
Wall Street stockbroker Rosario Fuentes returns to her grandmother's apartment after her sudden death. While sorting through her belongings, Rosario discovers a hidden chamber that's filled with occult artifacts tied to dark generational rituals. As supernatural occurrences begin to plague her, she must confront her family's buried secrets and face the truth about the sacrifices and choices they made.
Run Rabbit Run
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Sarah Snook, Lily LaTorre, Damon Herriman
Sarah is a fertility doctor with a firm understanding of the cycle of life. When she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter Mia, she must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.
Breaking at the Edge
›2013 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Rebecca Da Costa, Milo Ventimiglia, Andie MacDowell
A pregnant woman fears for her unborn child's life if she doesn't avenge a supernatural entity.
Gates of Darkness
›2019 · Horror · 91m · Randy Shelly, Tobin Bell, John Savage
A teen endures a terrifying exorcism in the hopes of unlocking shocking secrets about the church and his family.
The Man in the Shadows
›NR2017 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Sarah Jurgens, Alison Louder, Rebecca Amzallag
A newlywed photographer is stalked by a dark man in a brimmed hat who followers her from her nightmares. Sanity slipping, she meets a mysterious man claiming to know the shocking secrets of the Hat Man.
The Unwanted
›NR2014 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Hannah Fierman, Christen Orr, William Katt
Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.
The Twilight People
›PG1972 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · John Ashley, Pat Woodell, Jan Merlin
A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
The Caretaker
›2016 · Thriller, Horror · 80m · Meegan Warner, Sondra Blake, Sophia Santi
A young woman returns home to care for her gravely ill grandmother, only to begin sleepwalking and envisioning spirits.
Queen of the Damned
›R2002 · Fantasy, Horror, Romance · 101m · Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau
Vampire Lestat awakens from his slumber and becomes a rock star. But chaos strikes when his music awakens Akasha, the vampire queen, who may not rest until she makes Lestat her new king.
There's Someone Inside Your House
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery · 96m · Sydney Park, Théodore Pellerin, Asjha Cooper
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer's identity before they become victims themselves.
CharmedSeries
›TV-142018 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 4 seasons · Melonie Díaz, Sarah Jeffery, Rupert Evans
Set in the fictional college town of Hilltowne, Charmed follows the lives of three sisters, Macy, Mel and Maggie Vera who, after the tragic death of their mother, discover they are three of the most powerful witches of all time.
Hideaway
›R1995 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 103m · Jeff Goldblum, Christine Lahti, Alicia Silverstone
Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless hours. But Hatch does not come back unchanged. He begins to suffer horrible visions of murder -- only to find out the visions are the sights of a serial killer.
Killer Workout
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Marcia Karr, David James Campbell, Fritz Matthews
Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, Rhonda runs a local gym where all of a sudden, people are being murdered.
Cheerleader Camp
›R1988 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Betsy Russell, Leif Garrett, Lucinda Dickey
A cheerleader named Alison is plagued by nightmares about the upcoming all-state finals and attends a summer training camp with her teammates. When a number of deaths start occurring at the camp, Alison's nightmares turn twisted and brutal, and she begins to believe that she may be responsible for the mayhem.
Dead Souls
›R2012 · Horror · 93m · Bill Moseley, Jesse James, Magda Apanowicz
On his 18th birthday, Johnny finds out that he's come into an inheritance - and his family were a lot stranger than he ever knew...
