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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Berserk!
›NR1967 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 96m · Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Heidi
›NR2014 · Horror · 93m · Samuel Brian, Joei Fulco, Joey Bell
After discovering a mysterious doll in an attic, two high school friends are increasingly plagued by a series of disturbing and unexplained events.
Special Effects
›R1984 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 106m · Zoë Lund, Eric Bogosian, Brad Rijn
Reality and illusion collide as megalomaniacal filmmaker Chris Neville murders a young would-be actress, then sets about making a feature about the deed, casting the deceased's clueless husband as the patsy, and finding a dead ringer to play the late actress.
The Redeemer: Son of Satan!
›1978 · Horror · 84m · Damien Knight, Jeannetta Arnette, Nick Carter
Six people are trapped within the confines of their old high school during their 10th high school reunion with a psychotic, masked preacher who kills them off for their sinful lives they have made for themselves.
Crash and Burn
›R1990 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Action · 85m · Paul Ganus, Megan Ward, Ralph Waite
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm".
Goddess of Love
›2015 · Mystery, Drama, Thriller · 96m · Alexis Kendra, Elizabeth Sandy, Monda Scott
Enter into a baroque vortex of madness when an emotionally unstable woman is shattered after tremendous heartbreak. Brian was the love of Venus’ life and the thought of him having an affair with another woman begins her volatile descent into the dark side of psychosexual insanity.
The Mutations
›R1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris
A mad scientist crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
Ghosts of the Ozarks
›2022 · Western, Horror, Mystery · 100m · Thomas Hobson, Tara Perry, Phil Morris
In 1866, a young doctor is summoned by his uncle to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover upon his arrival that the utopian paradise is not all that it seems to be.
The Survivor
›1981 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 98m · Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten
When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disaster. Meanwhile mysterious deaths occur in the community and only a psychic, in touch with the supernatural, can help the pilot unravel the mystery surrounding the doomed plane.
Satan's School for Girls
›R1973 · Mystery, Horror, TV Movie · 78m · Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Lloyd Bochner
Within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls is Elizabeth Sayers, a new student who, under an assumed name, hopes to learn the truth behind her younger sister's apparent suicide. Our heroine soon learns that the school is in the clutches of a coven of witches called 'The Five' — and that she herself has the right satanic qualities to enable The Five to take over the world!
Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 98m · Tara Leigh, Dianna Flaherty, Katherine Romaine
A virus from outer space transforms a bio-researcher into a blood thirsty monster. But chief, Dr.Vialini doesn't like the cops and public to be involved in this secret experiment. But he becomes lunch very soon.
Antisocial 2
›2015 · Horror · 90m · Michelle Mylett, Stephen Bogaert, Josette Halpert
Years after having her newborn child stolen from her, Sam searches a world infested with infected users from the Social Redroom website. After befriending a young girl named Bean, Sam is captured and locked in a facility dedicated to finding a cure for the Redroom Virus. Trapped and tortured, Sam tries to escape the facility before an impending update on the Redroom site hits 100% and unleashes its final phase of the attack.
Hell High
›R1989 · Horror · 84m · Maureen Mooney, Christopher Stryker, Christopher Cousins
A teacher still haunted by the death of two teens that she accidentally caused as a young girl goes berserk when four teens start harassing her and then attack her in her home.
Skinner
›R1993 · Horror · 90m · Ted Raimi, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake
A man rents a room in a couple's house and roams the streets at night looking for victims to skin, while constantly being followed by a junkie he mutilated who is now looking for revenge.
Discopath
›2013 · Crime, Horror · 81m · Jérémie Earp, Sandrine Bisson, Ingrid Falaise
The mid-70's: A timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music....disco. Unable to control his murderous impulses that stem from a traumatic childhood experience, Duane Lewis transforms into a dangerous serial killer exiled to Montreal.
The Other Side
›R2006 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Nathan Mobley, Jaimie Alexander, Cory Rouse
Samuel North (Nathan Mobley) escapes from Hell to find the person who murdered him, but a team of invincible bounty hunters called REAPERS are sent from the Netherworld to bring him back.
War of the Satellites
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 66m · Dick Miller, Susan Cabot, Richard Devon
An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
The Taint
›2011 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 75m · Drew Bolduc, Colleen Walsh, Cody Crenshaw
The water is tainted. The Taint poisons the minds of men. It turns them into raging misogynists: monsters who want nothing more than to crush women's heads with rocks (or other objects). When society is transformed into a land of sadistic violence and horrible brutality, it is up to Phil O'Ginny and his hot friend, Misandra, to combat the horrible evil that is The Taint. Can they survive a world brimming with castration and endless head crushing?!
The Insatiable
›PG-132006 · Comedy, Horror, Romance · 103m · Sean Patrick Flanery, Michael Biehn, Charlotte Ayanna
A drab, run-of-the-mill guy witnesses a vampiress devour a bum and becomes so infatuated with her, he tracks her down and traps her in a basement so she can't kill again.
Captive Wild Woman
›1943 · Horror, Science Fiction · 61m · John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
Rush Week
›1989 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 96m · Pamela Ludwig, Dean Hamilton, Roy Thinnes
An ambitious young journalist working for her college newspaper becomes intrigued by the recent string of disappearances of several female students, which she believes to be connected to an on-campus murder that happened the previous year during the college's raucous Rush Week.
Apprentice to Murder
›PG-131988 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara
Pennsylvania, 1928. Billy Kelly, a sixteen-year old boy, meets a mysterious traveler claiming he's the messenger of God. Falling under under the spell of this "doctor" Reese, he will soon discover Reese has murderous plans for his future. Based on a true story.
Midnight Ride
›1990 · Thriller, Action, Horror · 93m · Michael Dudikoff, Mark Hamill, Robert Mitchum
A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin McKay she'll wish she never did as she's plunged into a nightmare and the grip of a psychotic killer.
Secret Santa
›2018 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 89m · Michael Rady, Drew Lynch, Debra Sullivan
An unknown assailant spikes a family's Christmas punch with a military-grade drug, leaving them fighting to survive the night.