
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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Opus
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 104m · Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis
A young writer is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Surrounded by the star's cult of sycophants and intoxicated journalists, she finds herself in the middle of his twisted plan.

Happy Birthday to Me
›R1981 · Horror, Mystery · 110m · Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane
Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.

Laid to Rest
›R2009 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Bobbi Sue Luther, Kevin Gage, Lena Headey
A young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she must fight to survive.

Deadly Blessing
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Susan Buckner
When a former member of a religious cult dies in a mysterious accident, Martha, who now lives alone and close to the cult's church, begins to fear for her life and the lives of her visiting friends.

Fear, Inc.
›R2016 · Horror, Comedy, Thriller · 92m · Lucas Neff, Caitlin Stasey, Christopher Rodriguez Marquette
Horror junkie Joe Foster gets to live out his ultimate scary movie fantasy courtesy of Fear Inc., a company that specializes in giving you the fright of your life. But as lines blur between what is and is not part of the game, Joe's dream come true begins to look more like a nightmare.

Play Dead
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller · 106m · Bailee Madison, Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Turpel
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.

The Puppet Masters
›R1994 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 109m · Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner
The Midwest USA is invaded by stingray-shaped alien slugs that ride on people's backs and control their minds in order to spread their dominion. Government agency reps Sam Givens, Andrew Nivens, and Mary Sefton must stop the aliens.

Hell Night
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 101m · Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten, Peter Barton
As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family.

Daylight's End
›2016 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 105m · Johnny Strong, Lance Henriksen, Louis Mandylor
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.

Babysitter Wanted
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Tina Houtz, Sarah Thompson, Kristen Dalton
When she takes a job babysitting a young boy for a night at his family's remote farmhouse, sweet college co-ed Angie Albright becomes the target of a scar-covered creep making mysterious phone calls and prowling outside the windows. Angie gets the drop on the would-be killer, but quickly discovers that her nightmare has just begun.

The Driller Killer
›1979 · Horror · 101m · Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

Hunted
›2021 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Lucie Debay, Arieh Worthalter, Ciaran O'Brien
A woman flees two serial killers who are hot on her heels in a forest.

Beyond the Gates
›NR2016 · Adventure, Horror · 84m · Graham Skipper, Chase Williamson, Barbara Crampton
Two estranged brothers reunite at their missing father's video store to liquidate the property and sell off his assets. As they dig through the store, they find a VCR board game titled 'Beyond the Gates' that holds a connection to their father's disappearance and deadly consequences for anyone who plays it.

After
›PG-132012 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 90m · Steven Strait, Karolina Wydra, Sandra Ellis Lafferty
When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation. As strange events begin to unfold, they start to question whether the town they know so well is really what it seems.

The Devil's Doorway
›2018 · Horror, Drama · 76m · Lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen
In the autumn of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.

Night of the Hunted
›2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · Camille Rowe, Aleksandar Popovic, J. John Bieler
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.

Appendage
›R2023 · Horror · 94m · Hadley Robinson, Emily Hampshire, Kausar Mohammed
After hitting a breaking point, Hannah's inner thoughts physicalize into a monstrous creature that threatens to upend her life.

Fear Below
›R2025 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 85m · Hermione Corfield, Jake Ryan, Josh McConville
A rag-tag team of divers attempting to salvage a sunken car from a river are thwarted by a highly aggressive bull shark.

Borderline
›R2025 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Samara Weaving, Ray Nicholson, Jimmie Fails
After escaping from a mental hospital, a violent sociopath named Paul begins a dangerous rampage targeting Sofia, a world-famous pop star. Obsessed with her, he takes Sofia hostage in her own home, acting under the delusional belief that they are getting married. Paul is desperate to prove his devotion, leading to a tense and unpredictable situation.

Ted Bundy
›2002 · Crime, Horror · 99m · Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss, Tracey Walter
Seattle, 1974. Ted Bundy gives into his violent passions and embarks on a cross country killing spree, leaving a trail of raped, tortured, murdered, dismembered, and defiled corpses in his wake…

Crimewave
›PG-131985 · Comedy, Crime, Horror · 83m · Reed Birney, Louise Lasser, Sheree J. Wilson
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
›1958 · Science Fiction, Drama, Horror · 66m · Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers
When an abused wife grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt, she goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.

They're Watching
›2016 · Thriller, Comedy, Horror · 95m · Brigid Brannagh, Carrie Genzel, David Alpay
An American TV crew gets trapped in a centuries-old web of revenge, horror, and blood, when their home improvement show is attacked by angry Eastern European villagers out to kill the show's star.

Madhouse
›R2004 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Joshua Leonard, Jordan Ladd, Natasha Lyonne
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.






















