
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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The Shortcut
›R2009 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Drew Seeley, Shannon Woodward, Dave Franco
When Derek moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the warning, Derek and his friends set out to uncover the dark secret that's buried deep in the woods. But will they survive to tell it?

The Curse
›R1987 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare
Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes’ family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Hayes farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the family and other members of the community.

Patient Seven
›2016 · Thriller, Horror · 116m · Michael Ironside, Jack Plotnick, Drew Fonteiro
Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist, has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.

Scarecrows
›R1988 · Horror · 83m · Ted Vernon, Michael David Simms, Richard Vidan
Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned farm surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.

Curdled
›R1996 · Comedy, Crime, Thriller · 88m · William Baldwin, Angela Jones, Bruce Ramsay
A death-obsessed cleaning woman uncovers a clue identifying a Florida bartender for a series of socialite murders.

The Inhabitant
›NR2022 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Odessa A'zion, Leslie Bibb, Dermot Mulroney
Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.

Botched
›2007 · Comedy, Crime, Horror · 95m · Stephen Dorff, Sean Pertwee, Jamie Foreman
Ritchie Donovan is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper.

Skinwalker Ranch
›R2013 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Steve Berg, Kyle Davis, Erin Cahill
In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s eight-year-old son Cody on November 11, 2010. Close to a year later, Modern Defense Enterprises has sent a team of experts to document and investigate the mysterious occurrences, which only escalate upon their arrival. Tensions rise as the team must decide how far they will go to unlock the mysteries of “Skinwalker Ranch.” The group debates whether the answers are worth risking their lives for, or if they should just call off the investigation and leave the ranch—that is, if leaving is actually an option…

Dark Touch
›2013 · Horror · 90m · Missy Keating, Marcella Plunkett, Charlotte Flyvholm
Niamh is the lone survivor of a mysterious massacre in which the furniture and objects in her family’s isolated house took on a monstrous life of their own. The police ignore her wild stories, and the neighbours and social worker who take her into their care try to introduce her to a new life. But Niamh is unable to leave her violent past behind her, endangering everyone who crosses her path.

The Last Broadcast
›NR1998 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · David Beard, Jim Seward, Stefan Avalos
In December 1995, a four-man team from the public-access program, "Fact or Fiction", braved the New Jersey's desolate Pine Barrens determined to deliver a live broadcast of the legendary Jersey Devil. Only one came out alive. It took the jury ninety minutes to sentence the lone survivor to life in prison. One year later, a filmmaker decides to mount his own investigation...

Ed Gein
›2000 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 89m · Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Carol Mansell
The true story of Edward Gein, the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first film to Gein's tormented upbringing, his adored but domineering mother, and the 1957 arrest uncovered the most bizarre series of murders America has ever seen

Evil Aliens
›R2006 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Emily Booth, Sam Butler, Jamie Honeybourne
The sensationalist reporter Michelle Fox presents the TV show Weird World, with phony matters about UFOS and aliens. When she hears about Cat, a young woman that claims that have been abducted with her boyfriend and become pregnant by aliens, she convinces her chief to travel with a team to the remote Welsh island of Scalled to interview Cat. She invites the cameraman Ricky Anderson with his sound technician partner; the nerd expert in "ufology" and "ley lines" Gavin Gorman; the actress Candy Vixen and an obscure gay actor to prepare the matter. They get a van and wait for the low tide to reach the island, and when they find evidences that aliens are really landed in the location, the ambitious Michelle decides to film her way to fame and wealth.

Stepfather 2
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Terry O'Quinn, Meg Foster, Caroline Williams
"Stepfather" Jerry Blake escapes an insane asylum and winds up in another town, this time impersonating a marriage counselor. With a future wife and new stepson who love him, Blake eliminates anyone who stands in his way to building the perfect family.

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
›NR2012 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Aaron Poole, Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Richings
The story of Leon, an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had been living in a shrine devoted to a mysterious cult. Soon, Leon comes to suspect that his mother's oppressive spirit still lingers within her home and is using items in the house to contact him with an urgent message.

Devil's Playground
›2010 · Horror, Action · 93m · MyAnna Buring, Danny Dyer, Craig Fairbrass
As the world succumbs to a zombie apocalypse, Cole - a hardened mercenary - is chasing the one person who can provide a cure. Not only to the plague but to Cole's own incumbent destiny.

A Force of One
›PG1979 · Action, Adventure, Crime · 90m · Jennifer O'Neill, Chuck Norris, Clu Gulager
Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.

Student Bodies
›R1981 · Comedy, Horror · 86m · Kristen Riter, Matthew Goldsby, Joe Flood
This zany send-up of teen slasher flicks features a maniacal psycho known as the Breather, who stalks –and murders– promiscuous students at a suburban high school. The fanatical killer's unusual weapons include paper clips, blackboard erasers and eggplants.

Boar
›2018 · Horror · 96m · John Jarratt, Simone Buchanan, Melissa Tkautz
In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic savagery unlike any have seen before.

The Theatre Bizarre
›R2011 · Horror · 114m · Udo Kier, Virginia Newcomb, Amanda Marquardt
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.

Blackout
›2008 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Amber Tamblyn, Aidan Gillen, Armie Hammer
Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare.

The Scientist
›NR2020 · Horror, Drama · 94m · Robb Hudspeth, Kristin Keith, Addison McGarry
An unconventional scientist, struggling to care for his terminally-ill wife, embarks on a journey to develop a cure for her. However, his methods of treatment and tampering with human DNA, could lead to the extinction of humanity.

Abominable
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Matt McCoy, Haley Joel, Christien Tinsley
A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he'll not see Bigfoot again.

Horsehead
›NR2014 · Fantasy, Horror · 89m · Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Catriona MacColl, Fu'ad Aït Aattou
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home...

The Island
›R1980 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 114m · Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor
David Nau leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation in the Caribbean. When reporter Blair Maynard and his son arrive to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats, Nau and his band of raiders decide to induct them into their tribe.






















