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 Reading
›2023 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 96m · Mo'Nique, Chasity Sereal, Denisha Hardeman
After a deadly home invasion, Emma (Mo'Nique Hicks) copes by writing a book, but when a young psychic and her team perform a reading in her home, a new terror is unleashed.
Lasso
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Sean Patrick Flanery, Lindsey Morgan, Andrew Jacobs
The story of Simon and Kit, two young leaders of an Active Senior adventure tour group that take a day trip out to a small-town Rodeo located deep in the woods. Their lives are turned upside down when they find themselves fighting to stay alive against a group of psycho, bloodthirsty cowboys from the local rodeo.
Killers
›1996 · Action, Thriller, Horror · 87m · Dave Larsen, David Gunn, Burke Morgan
Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.
The Bloodhound
›2020 · Horror, Mystery · 71m · Liam Aiken, Joe Adler, Annalise Basso
A visit to a wealthy and reclusive friend lands a young man in a world of fear and despair.
Disappearance
›2002 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 92m · Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Jer Adrianne Lelliott
A family driving through Nevada decides to take some snapshots at an out-of-the-way ghost town named Weaver, and horrible things start happening.
Crucible of Horror
›1971 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Michael Gough, Yvonne Mitchell, Sharon Gurney
A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.
The Glow
›PG-132002 · TV Movie, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Portia De Rossi, Dean Cain, Hal Linden
A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.
Steel and Lace
›R1991 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Clare Wren, Bruce Davison, Stacy Haiduk
After her attackers go free, Gaily Morton, the victim of a vicious assault, commits suicide. Her vengeful brother, brilliant robotics engineer and scientist, Dr. Albert Morton, decides to use his skills to enact vengeance, transplanting his sister's brain into a humanoid cyborg with bone-crushing strength and an array of built-in torture devices...
Chasing Ghosts
›2005 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 119m · Michael Madsen, Corey Large, Shannyn Sossamon
A serial killer targeting the city's mobsters taunts police with clues and photos left behind at the crime scenes. A veteran cop takes on a rookie partner hoping to crack one last case before retiring. As the web of deception and lies unravels, the truth slowly begins to reveal itself.
Mom
›R1990 · Comedy, Horror · 95m · Mark Thomas Miller, Jeanne Bates, Brion James
During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, turning her into a hungry werewolf. Now her adult son must try to prevent the both of them from doing any more harm.
Rockula
›PG-131990 · Horror, Comedy, Music · 87m · Dean Cameron, Toni Basil, Thomas Dolby
Ralph is a sexually frustrated vampire who suffers from a peculiar curse. He's condemned for eternity to watch his one true love, Mona, be murdered by a pirate wielding a ham bone. But now? Now it's 1990, and Ralph is determined to break Mona's cycle of reincarnation. His first order of business is winning her affections, which he does by starting Rockula: a rock band that's sure to stake a claim on her heart.
Daughter of Darkness
›R1990 · TV Movie, Horror · 93m · Anthony Perkins, Mia Sara, Jack Coleman
An atmospheric, sub-hallucinogenic venture into the world of the unknown. The enigma facing a young woman is the identity of her father. Unfortunately for her, she becomes drawn into a small Romanian underworld of brooding menace, darkness, torture chambers, and vampires.
Hypochondriac
›NR2022 · Horror, Drama · 96m · Zach Villa, Devon Graye, Madeline Zima
A young potter’s life devolves into chaos as he loses function of his body while being haunted by the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma.
Zombies on Broadway
›NR1945 · Comedy, Horror · 69m · Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Bela Lugosi
Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
Lost Things
›R2004 · Thriller, Horror · 83m · Leon Ford, Charlie Garber, Lenka Kripac
Four teenagers; Gary (Leon Ford), Brad (Chalie Garber), Emily (Lenka Kripac) and Tracey (Alex Vaughan) travel to a desert paradisiacal beach and spend the weekend together. When they arrive, they meet the older Zippo (Steve Le Marquand), and experience a sense of Déjà vu with weird events, feeling that they had previously been in that place. That Saturday, they start to realize that they are actually trapped in a nightmare.
The Penny Dreadful Picture Show
›R2013 · Horror · 101m · Eliza Swenson, Craig Blair, Theodore Bouloukos
Daffy undead gal Penny Dreadful, her smitten zombie buddy Ned, and lycanthrope Wolfboy relate three tales of terror in an old rundown movie theater: A young couple find themselves being stalked by a lethal jack-in-the-box in "Slash-in-the-Box;" mousy young lady Alice tries to figure out what exactly happened to her last night in "The Morning After;" and a group of friends encounter an eccentric backwoods family after their van breaks down in the middle of nowhere in "The Slaughter House."
Medusa's Venom
›2023 · Horror · 83m · Becca Hirani, Sarah T. Cohen, Connor Powles
The beast is back and her venom is deadlier than ever. When newcomer Lola is welcomed into Medusa's circle, she endures a ritual to bring her closer to her new sisters.
Blood Salvage
›R1990 · Horror, Comedy · 98m · Danny Nelson, Lori Birdsong, Christian Hesler
Twisted tale about a crazy, preaching redneck named Jake who kidnaps people off the highway and performs sick medical experiments on them. He then proceeds to sell their organs on the black market to Mr. Stone. Everything is fine until he kidnaps the handicapped April and finds that she is harder to control than the others.
Bone Daddy
›1998 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 90m · Rutger Hauer, Barbara Williams, R.H. Thomson
Doctor Palmer, a former pathologist, wrote a fictional book based on his real cases. In the book, the madman gets caught, but in reality he is still uncaught. After the book is released, Palmer's editor is kidnapped. Palmer soon is sent a present containing a page of his book, and a bone from his editor. Together with the police, Palmer tries to find his editor, who might still be alive. In addition, his own son becomes one of the main suspects. Written by Julian Reischl
Here Come the Munsters
›1995 · Horror, Comedy, Family · 96m · Edward Herrmann, Veronica Hamel, Robert Morse
The Munsters come to America to search for Herman's brother-in-law Norman Hyde, only to find out that he has turned himself into Brent Jekyll, who is running for congress, and Grandpa must make a formula to change Norman back.
Crash!
›PG1976 · Horror · 89m · José Ferrer, Sue Lyon, John Ericson
After a professor is crippled in a car accident, he blames his wife for the ordeal and attempts to have her killed using the same means. Now hospitalized with amnesia, she appears to be protected by a tiny voodoo trinket that she still clutches in her hand, which possesses her car and other objects, causing mayhem throughout the city.
Blood Conscious
›2021 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 80m · Nick Damici, Lenny Thomas, DeShawn White
A vacationing family turns the tables on a mass shooter who claims to be fighting demonic forces.
Nightalk
›2022 · Thriller, Romance, Mystery · 89m · Ashley Bryant, Al Mukadam, Ted Hallett
A female cop goes undercover on a phone-sex app to solve a murder investigation as she risks becoming the killer's next victim.
Clinger
›2015 · Comedy, Horror · 81m · Vincent Martella, June Laporte, Julia Aks
When her possessive high school boyfriend dies in a gruesome accident, Fern Petersen's life is thrown into turmoil. Things go from bad to worse when he returns as a love-sick ghost to kill her so they can be together for eternity.