
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.
The Crypt Charts
See all charts →6735 titles

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
›1977 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Claude Akins, Charles Frank, Deborah Winters
An airplane carrying coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the venomous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths, the tarantulas have already descended upon the town's only orange-processing factory. The town's citizens risk their lives to remove the tarantulas from the factory while the venomous pests are rendered motionless by the transmitted sound of buzzing bees

The Gruesome Twosome
›NR1967 · Comedy, Horror · 72m · Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell
A demented elderly woman has her mentally incompetent son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop while a persistent co-ed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them.

Dogs
›R1976 · Horror · 91m · David McCallum, Sandra McCabe, George Wyner
On the quiet campus of the remotely-located SouthWestern University, something strange is happening. All of the dogs in the area, once loyal, gentle pets, are now banding together in wild packs and hunting down their former masters. Could the strange transformation have anything to do with the secret government experiments being conducted in the school's physics laboratory? More importantly, can the dogs be stopped before it's too late?

My Little Sister
›2016 · Horror · 80m · Saverio Percudani, Sofia Pauly, Lucía Castellano
When Igor was young, he lost his father because of his little sister. He will grow up trying to find his own way of giving a new face to his past.

Devil's Diary
›NR2007 · Drama, Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Alexz Johnson, Miriam McDonald, Deanna Casaluce
When a group of small-town teenagers find the “Devil's Diary,” a book that embodies the evil of Satan by physically manifesting any evil thought that is written in it, all hell breaks loose. Unearthed after centuries of concealment, the Devil's Diary wreaks havoc and destruction on the high school students who found it, and their entire community. Can their town be saved from complete ruin?

While the Children Sleep
›2007 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 90m · Gail O'Grady, William R. Moses, Mariana Klaveno
A prosperous couple find the perfect live-in nanny but soon discover she intends to do her job to deadly perfection.

Shock 'Em Dead
›R1991 · Music, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Traci Lords, Stephen Quadros, Troy Donahue
Martin is a total loser, who nobody cares for. When he fails to get a position as guitar player in Lindsay's band and loses his job on the way, he makes a deal with a Voodoo priestess. She promises him the fulfillment of all his dreams if he swears obedience to her. He becomes a rock star and has many women - but to stay alive, he has to kill other people.

Driftwood
›R2006 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Raviv Ullman, Page Falkinburg Jr., Talan Torriero
Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16 year old David Forrester becomes obsessed with death, leading his misguided parents to send him to Driftwood, an "Attitude Adjustment Camp for Troubled Youths" run by the sadistic Captain Doug Kennedy and his brutal young henchman, Yates.

Soulkeeper
›2001 · Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy · 105m · Rodney Rowland, Kevin Patrick Walls, Jaime Bergman
Two thieves compete with a madman in their search for an ancient relic which can create an army of evil souls.

Big Monster on Campus
›1998 · Comedy, Horror · 92m · Matthew Lawrence, Ryan Reynolds, Justin Walker
A student receives a serial killer's brain in a transplant after being thrown into a pool with no water in it.

Wax
›R2014 · Horror · 88m · Jimmy Shaw, Jack Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin
A young journalist has to spend a night in Barcelona's Wax Museum to investigate paranormal activities. He has no idea Dr. Knox, an insane cannibal surgeon, hides in the museum at night.

Brute 1976
›2024 · Horror · 105m · Adriane McLean, Sarah French, Gigi Gustin
In 1976 a group of people in the desert for a photo shoot, stumble upon an abandoned town called Savage. But they are not alone. A family of masked psychopaths have claimed Savage as their own and are hell bent on living up to its name.

The Monster Maker
›1944 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell
Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.

Nightmares
›1980 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Jenny Neumann, Gary Sweet, Nina Landis
A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.

Butchers Book Two: Raghorn
›2024 · Horror · 88m · Nick Biskupek, Michael Swatton, Sam Huntsman
Book one followed a family of sadistic butchers, living in the backcountry, who see anyone that crosses their path as dead meat. In “Butchers Book Two: Raghorn,” the story continues when an accident leaves the captors in the hands of brutal cannibals who plan to hack them up for meat.

Last Gasp
›NC-171995 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Robert Patrick, Joanna Pacula, Vyto Ruginis
A ruthless real estate developer is possessed by the violent spirits of the Native American tribesmen he massacred, which force him to go on an indiscriminate killing spree against his will.

Curse of the Faceless Man
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction, Adventure · 67m · Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...

Resurrection County
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Adam Huss, Kathryn Michelle, Cassie Self
When four campers' weekend trip turns deadly, in the remote town of Enoch, they find the locals are all too happy to serve up their own brand of an eye for an eye justice.

Destination Inner Space
›1966 · Thriller, Science Fiction · 83m · Scott Brady, Sheree North, Gary Merrill
A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they attract the unwanted attention of a dangerous creature who puts the scientists and crew in danger.

Bloodsuckers from Outer Space
›1984 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Thom Meyers, Laura Ellis, Dennis Letts
A mysterious and invisible alien presence has landed in rural Texas and has started turning the nearby townspeople into white-faced, bloodthirsty killers. As the local authorities begin to investigate the strange and violent goings on, a photographer and his girlfriend find themselves trapped in the midst of an unexpected rural bloodbath, which seeks to turn them into another pair of bloodsuckers from outer space...

Island Claws
›PG1980 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Robert Lansing, Steve Hanks, Nita Talbot
A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.

One Way Trip
›2011 · Horror · 86m · Sabrina Reiter, Melanie Winiger, Herbert Leiser
Eight young people drive to the Swiss Jura region, food and tents in the trunk. It's autumn and high season for a magic mushroom that grows there - the reason for their trip. After a few problems they arrive at the desired location deep in the woods, the tents are set up, the mushrooms are collected and when it gets dark the party starts. Everything is fine until one of the youths wants to get beer and comes back with a blood-covered and smashed face. They don't know what happened but need to find help. As they discover that their car has a flat tire and their phones don't work, they seek shelter in a nearby farmhouse. But that's just where they were supposed to go. In a nerve racking countdown one after another gets killed by their dangerous haunters

Spellcaster
›1988 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Adam Ant, Richard Blade, Gail O'Grady
A group of people are killed one by one while participating at a million dollar treasure hunt in a mysterious Italian castle.

Killer Kate!
›2018 · Horror, Comedy, Thriller · 80m · Alexandra Feld, Danielle Burgess, Amaris Davidson
Kate attends her estranged sister's bachelorette party at the request of their dying father. The weekend, held at a remote cabin booked on a home sharing app, turns into a savage life-or-death struggle that pits family against family, and past against present.






















