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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Glorious
›2022 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 79m · Ryan Kwanten, J.K. Simmons, Sylvia Grace Crim
After a breakup, Wes ends up at a remote rest stop. He finds himself locked inside the bathroom with a mysterious figure speaking from an adjacent stall. Soon Wes realizes he is involved in a situation more terrible than he could imagine.
Daddy's Head
›2024 · Horror · 92m · Julia Brown, Nathaniel Martello-White, Charles Aitken
A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.
The 4th Floor
›R1999 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Juliette Lewis, William Hurt, Shelley Duvall
A woman inherits a rent-controlled apartment and is terrorized by a neighbor.
Beast of War
›R2025 · Thriller, Action, War · 87m · Mark Coles Smith, Joel Nankervis, Sam Delich
When their boat sinks while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a troop of young Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark.
Night Shift
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Phoebe Tonkin, Lamorne Morris, Madison Hu
A young woman working her first night shift at a remote motel begins to suspect that she is being followed by a dangerous character from her past. As the night progresses and increasingly supernatural events occur, she quickly finds out that nothing is what it appears to be.
Campfire Tales
›R1997 · Horror · 88m · James Marsden, Jay R. Ferguson, Christine Taylor
Anthology of famous, scary urban legends done with a modern twist.
Room for Rent
›2019 · Thriller, Horror · 81m · Lin Shaye, Oliver Rayon, Valeska Miller
Lonely widow Joyce rents out a room in her house and becomes dangerously obsessed with one of her guests.
The Bunker
›2001 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 95m · Jason Flemyng, Andrew Tiernan, Christopher Fairbank
In 1944, in the Belgian - German border, seven German soldiers survive an American attack in the front and lock themselves in a bunker to protect the position. Under siege by the enemy and with little ammunition, they decide to explore underground tunnels to seek supplies and find an escape route. While in the tunnel, weird things happen with the group.
Fright
›PG1971 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Susan George, Honor Blackman, Ian Bannen
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child's biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.
Slapface
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · August Maturo, Mike Manning, Libe Barer
A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a relationship with a dangerous monster.
Motherly
›2022 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Lora Burke, Tessa Kozma, Kristen MacCulloch
Kate and her daughter Beth live alone in an isolated farmhouse in the woods, but when Kate slowly begins to suspect that something sinister is happening, her motherly instincts are put to the test.
Gwen
›2018 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 84m · Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Maxine Peake, Richard Harrington
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
Silent Scream
›1979 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Rebecca Balding, Barbara Steele, Yvonne De Carlo
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered
The Night Visitor
›PG1971 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 106m · Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Liv Ullmann
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
The Shuttered Room
›1967 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 99m · Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed
In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants her to avoid the family curse. Years later Susannah, now married, persuades her husband to spend a holiday in the abandoned mill. Once on the island, Susannah and Mike soon find themselves exposed to the hostility of a gang of thugs led by Ethan, Susannah's brutal cousin.
The Flesh Eaters
›1964 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Martin Kosleck, Byron Sanders, Barbara Wilkin
An alcoholic actress, her personal assistant, and their pilot are downed on a secluded isle by bad weather, where a renegade Nazi scientist is using ocean life to develop a solvent for human flesh. The tiny flesh-eating sea critters that result certainly give our heroes a run for their money - and lives.
Who's Watching Oliver
›R2018 · Horror, TV Movie · 87m · Russell Geoffrey Banks, Sara Malakul Lane, Margaret Roche
The story of a mentally unstable loner lost in a life forced upon him. By night Oliver aimlessly wanders the streets and bars on what can only be described as a truly shocking and humiliating killing spree. His only savior and possible way out of a life he is desperate to escape comes in the form of the beautiful Sophia with her sweet eccentricity and naivety to the danger she has put herself in.
Lady Usher
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Theresa Santiago, Billie D. Merritt, John Tupy
An updated re-telling based in the Gothic South with the Usher Family, led by Mother. The family has been cursed by madness, unrequited love and when Roderick comes home with his girlfriend Morgan, it spells the beginning of the end as her sister Madeline will stop at nothing to prevent their marriage as Morgan fights to take Roderick away from the madness that is the House of Usher.
My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 3
›2012 · Horror, TV Movie · 84m · Lauren McKnight, Kirsten Zien, Ryan Sypek
As she leaves for art school in New York, Skye gets a phone call from Alex. Skye hasn't heard from Alex in two years, but before she can move on with her life she needs to tie up some loose ends. Unfortunately, someone else has the same idea, and they're stalking and slashing their way through Alex's Sweet 16 party at her grandparents' isolated estate.
Stalker
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Sophie Skelton, Stuart Brennan, Bret Hart
Rose Hepburn, a young actor working in horror movies, returns to her empty hotel. Forced to use the old freight elevator, it jolts to a halt on the twelfth floor, leaving her trapped with an unusual stranger. Left with no mobile phone signal as a storm approaches, tensions escalate and suspicions rise when Rose discovers the identity of the mysterious man is Daniel Reed, a camera operator on her latest movie, who is seemingly obsessed with her. As the elevator hangs precariously high about to plunge down at any minute, some harsh truths and actions start unfolding.
Rose: A Love Story
›2020 · Horror · 86m · Sophie Rundle, Matt Stokoe, Olive Gray
The story of a young couple living alone in the woods, who must contend with a life-altering illness that manifests itself in a violent and terrifying way. Rose’s disease is a vampiric, parasitic thirst for blood. As her hunger grows, all humanity seems to give way to a feral violence that harms both her and those around her. Their loving relationship strains under the burden of Rose’s illness, and it is only a matter of time until the secluded life that they have built is upended entirely.
The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer
›1993 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 99m · Carl Crew, Christopher 'CJ' Smith, Donna Stewart Bowen
Based on the life of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and ate many of them before he was caught in 1991.
Night of Fear
›1973 · Horror, Thriller · 54m · Norman Yemm, Carla Hoogeveen, Mike Dorsey
A young girl who has just spent an afternoon playing tennis and making love with a man, gets accidentally run off the road by a truck. Ending up on a dead-end dirt road, her car gets stuck in a ditch, where she starts getting terrorized by a drooling, gibbering psycho, who also has a colony of rats.
Underwater
›PG-132020 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 95m · Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Mamoudou Athie
After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.