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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Toad Road
›NR2013 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 76m · James Davidson, Sara Anne Jones, Jim Driscoll
Stuck in a dead end town, young James kills time with his druggie friends, engaging in debauched chemical intake to the point of unconsciousness, until he meets Sara, a sweet new arrival to their group. However, Sara wants James to take her further into the world of narcotics experimentation (just as James was contemplating abandoning this lifestyle), and she also wants him to introduce her to the sinister local legend of Toad Road, a spot deep in the forest that is apparently home to the Seven Gates of Hell.
Blood River
›2009 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · Andrew Howard, Tess Panzer, Ian Duncan
A psychological thriller following a successful young married couple on their way to visit family. After a blowout on a desolate stretch of highway in Nevada, they head to the next town only to discover it long abandoned. Here they meet a mysterious stranger who seems to know decidedly more than he is sharing.
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
›NR1996 · Comedy, Family, TV Movie · 91m · Ann Magnuson, Bug Hall, Mary Woronov
The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie missing his home in Transylvania. Soon the entire family bands together to teach the young boy everything great about the holiday season.
Habit
›2017 · Horror · 90m · William Ash, Jessica Barden, Roxanne Pallett
Manchester, the present. Michael divides his time between the job center and the pub. A chance meeting with Lee, an introduction to her Uncle Ian and a heavy night on the lash lead to a job working the door at a Northern Quarter massage parlor. After witnessing the violent death of one of the punters, Michael experiences blood-drenched flashbacks and feels himself being sucked into a twilight world that he doesn't understand but that is irresistibly attractive. When he eventually finds out what goes on in the room below Cloud 9, Michaels' life will never be the same again.
1313: Bigfoot Island
›NR2012 · Horror, Thriller · 75m · Adam Ballantyne, Nick Chernoff, Kathryn Collins
On an island in the Pacific Northwest, a young woman calls to ancient spirits in order to right the wrongs inflicted on her. For this she summons the mythical beast that has long been rumored to roam the verdant forests. Nearby, a young man readies a cabin for the arrival of his friends. They’ve been coming to this place every year since they were kids, to relax and shape up before the start of a new college year. Only this time, they’re about to meet their worst nightmare.
The Ghoul
›1975 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Peter Cushing, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastedo
In 1920s England, former clergyman Dr Lawrence keeps his cannibal son locked in the attic after the young man is exposed to savage practices in India. When an auto race is held at the estate, Lawrence worries that his son may escape and terrorise the youth.
Silent Hours
›2021 · Thriller, Mystery · 155m · James Weber Brown, Indira Varma, Dervla Kirwan
Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered.
Luther the Geek
›NR1989 · Horror, Comedy · 80m · Edward Terry, Joan Roth, Stacy Haiduk
A psychotic killer convicted of multiple murders is released on parole after spending twenty years in prison. His psychosis immediately takes over and he goes on a killing spree.
Beyond the Door III
›1989 · Horror · 94m · Mary Kohnert, Bo Svenson, Victoria Zinny
A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to Europe to see a ritual. With a satanist/professor with them, he lures them into deadly traps to become sacrifices to Satan. One co-ed is a virgin, the main key to bring Satan back to life. But can the co-ed lose her virginity before Satan controls the world?
Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge
›NR2022 · Horror, Comedy · 99m · Jeremy King, Zoe Graham, Byron Brown
Following the events of the original with the survivors attending the funeral of “Rad Chad” Buckley, which quickly devolves into an elaborate series of death traps centered around Chad’s favorite films, forcing the guests to band together and use the rules of horror to survive the bloody game.
Blades
›R1988 · Horror, Comedy · 98m · Robert North, Jeremy Whelan, Victoria Scott D'Angelo
A peaceful country club becomes the hunting ground for a demonically possessed lawnmower with a taste for human flesh.
Ghost Game
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Kia Dorsey, Zaen Haidar, Sam Lukowski
As part of an internet challenge to live undetected in a stranger’s home, a daring couple target an infamous haunted house and endure a series of chilling incidents as they witness a family descending into madness.
Blood Bath
›NR1966 · Horror · 62m · William Campbell, Sandra Knight, Karl Schanzer
A painter of morbid art, who becomes a murderous vampire by night and kills young women, attempts a daytime relationship with a woman who resembles a former love and is also the sister of one of his victims.
Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
›R1992 · Comedy, Horror · 100m · Karen Black, Pat Morita, Kristine Rose
A devil-worshiping woman sends out her four beautiful nieces to lure men back to her place so they can be killed, ground up and sold as meat pies.
Die Screaming Marianne
›1971 · Thriller, Crime, Drama · 101m · Susan George, Barry Evans, Christopher Sandford
After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands to inherit a large sum of money and also a number of documents containing information that will incriminate her father, who was a crooked judge. While her father wants the documents, her sister wants the money and they will each stop at nothing, even murder, to get what they want.
Slime City
›1988 · Horror, Drama, Fantasy · 81m · Robert C. Sabin, Mary Huner, T.J. Merrick
A student moves into a run-down building in New York City. His bizarre neighbors make a concoction in their apartment they call wine, but when he takes some of it, he turns into a deformed, murderous monster.
Slaughter of the Innocents
›1993 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 103m · Scott Glenn, Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, Sheila Tousey
A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic mohab nut who believes he's been chosen by god to be a new Noah.
Revealer
›2022 · Horror · 86m · Caito Aase, Shaina Schrooten, Bishop Stevens
Tensions rise when a stripper and religious protester are trapped together in a peep show booth and must come together to survive the apocalypse in 1980s Chicago.
The Frozen Dead
›NR1966 · Science Fiction, Horror · 95m · Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.
Wake
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Fivel Stewart, Jake Holley, Sarab Kamoo
A struggling actress tracks down the star of a movie she hopes will be remade, only to uncover dark secrets.
Extracurricular
›2020 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Keenan Tracey, Spencer MacPherson, Brittany Raymond
Miriam, Derek, Ian, and Jenny are overachieving high school students doing everything by the book. Straight As, sports, yearbook, band, and – when coursework allows – planning and executing elaborate murders.
The Triangle
›2016 · Mystery, Horror · 94m · Andrew Rizzo, Lee Rizzo, Brick Patrick
Three filmmakers receive an unsettling postcard from an estranged friend living in a secluded commune. The filmmakers take their cameras into the wilderness of Montana to document the mysterious inner workings of the group. On their disconcerting road to self-sufficiency, witnessing something more shocking than they ever imagined.
The Siren
›2019 · Fantasy, Horror · 78m · Evan Dumouchel, Margaret Ying Drake, MacLeod Andrews
Tom, a mute man is on retreat to an isolated lakehouse where he meets Al, who is mourning the recent death of his husband. Starting off rather friendly, Tom and Al’s rapport slowly changes as the former befriends a mysterious woman named Nina, for whom Al can’t shake his negative suspicions.
Pandemonium
›PG1982 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 82m · Carol Kane, Tom Smothers, Candice Azzara
A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
