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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1247 titles
The Alchemist Cookbook
›2016 · Drama, Horror, Comedy · 82m · Ty Hickson, Amari Cheatom, Fiji
Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous.
Impulse
›R1984 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 91m · Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly, Hume Cronyn
After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.
The Cat and the Canary
›PG1978 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 98m · Honor Blackman, Edward Fox, Michael Callan
A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
The Breach
›2022 · Horror · 93m · Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo, Wesley French
John Hawkins is set to retire from his post as police chief of the small town of Lone Crow, that is tucked away in the deep woods of northern Ontario. But following the discovery of a gruesome body with uncanny injuries, he’s pulled into an investigation to solve the horrifying mystery, which evades explanation.
One of Us
›2017 · Mystery, Horror, Drama · 86m · Christa B. Allen, Derek Smith, Carly Schroeder
A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader.
The Secret of Sinchanee
›2021 · Horror · 115m · Steven Grayhm, Tamara Austin, Laila Lockhart Kraner
An industrial tow truck driver suffering from insomnia returns to his childhood home after the untimely death of his father, to discover that a paranormal presence has been living in the house and haunting the sacred land it was built on.
The Velvet Vampire
›R1971 · Horror · 80m · Michael Blodgett, Sherry E. DeBoer, Celeste Yarnall
A married couple accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.
Somewhere Quiet
›NR2024 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Jennifer Kim, Kentucker Audley, Micheál Richardson
Meg is trying to readjust to normalcy after surviving a traumatic kidnapping — but her grounded sense of reality soon starts to deteriorate when she travels with her husband to his wealthy family’s isolated compound.
Place of Bones
›R2024 · Western, Thriller, Horror · 93m · Heather Graham, Tom Hopper, Corin Nemec
On a remote ranch, a mother and her daughter fight for survival when a wounded outlaw seeking refuge brings a notorious bank robber and his ruthless gang, all desperate to reclaim a stolen fortune, right to their doorstep.
Are You in the House Alone?
›NR1978 · Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie · 96m · Kathleen Beller, Blythe Danner, Tony Bill
An average high school girl's life is turned upside down after she is attacked and savagely assaulted. When a mysterious person begins leaving her threatening messages and making unsettling phone calls, Gail realizes that the nightmare is only just beginning...
Poor Pretty Eddie
›R1975 · Horror, Drama · 85m · Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a cocksure, volatile country singer.
Artik
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 76m · Chase Williamson, Jerry G. Angelo, Lauren Ashley Carter
In rural farm country, a comic book obsessed serial killer clashes with a straight edge purist over a young boy's fate.
Chosen Survivors
›PG1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel
A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, nearly two miles below the surface of the Earth. There they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a colony of thousands of bloodthirsty vampire bats finds a way into the shelter and launches a series of vicious attacks where they claim the humans one by one.
The Lighthouse
›NR2016 · Drama, History, Horror · 102m · Mark Lewis Jones, Michael Jibson, Ian Virgo
Two lighthouse keepers clash, making their duties difficult even before a freak storms hits and strands them at the lighthouse for months. Based on a true story.
Dream Eater
›NR2025 · Horror · 90m · Alex Lee Williams, Mallory Drumm, David Richard
A filmmaker documents her boyfriend's violent parasomnia during their holiday at a remote cabin in the woods.
Breaking Dawn
›R2004 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 88m · Kelly Overton, James Haven, Sarah-Jane Potts
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life on the outside tread the line between fantasy and reality as a stalker becomes known to her. She could be in danger; it could all be in her head.
ROMI
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 85m · Alexa Barajas, Juan Riedinger, Pavel Kříž
Forced to hide out at a state of the art smart home, a young woman on the run is terrorized by ROMI, its sinister digital assistant.
Doomwatch
›1972 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, John Paul
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
From DarknessSeries
›2015 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Anne-Marie Duff, Richard Rankin, Johnny Harris
The story of Claire Church, a former police officer who moves away to the remote Western Isles in an attempt to escape the past and violence that still haunts her. Soon, Claire is pulled back into an investigation she thought she long left behind, by her former lover and colleague DCI John Hind and his new DS Anthony Boyce.
FirebiteSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Rob Collins, Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Callan Mulvey
In a remote South-Australian desert mining town — a hive for the last vampire stronghold — two Indigenous Australian hunters embark on a quest to battle the last colony of vampires.
Carrie
›R2013 · Drama, Horror · 101m · Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.
Wrong Turn
›R2003 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Emmanuelle Chriqui
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
I Spit on Your Grave
›R2010 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 108m · Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Tracey Walter
A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Erica Leerhsen, Henry Rollins, Texas Battle
Retired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy hosts the simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into a nightmarish showdown when each realizes they are being hunted by an inbred family of cannibals determined to make them all dinner!