
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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A Banquet
›2022 · Horror · 97m · Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes
Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.

The Gauntlet
›R2013 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 85m · Jaime Ray Newman, Warren Kole, Dustin Nguyen
A group of misfits find themselves trapped in what they believe to be an underground incinerator, and come together in the hope of discovering a way out. But they quickly realize that to get out alive, they'll each be tested in ways that are specific to their past - ways that will leave their future changed forever.

The Vineyard
›R1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · James Hong, Karen Lorre, Michael Wong
Dr. Elson Po is one of the world's most famous wine growers and has a magic potion which has kept him handsome and alive for centuries. However, the magic which rejuvenates him seems to become less and less effective. As a side project, he makes movies and invites a group of young, aspiring actors to his island for a party, believing that the young, beautiful actress, Jezebel, can be his new source of life.

Blood Moon
›2014 · Western, Horror · 90m · Shaun Dooley, George Blagden, Anna Skellern
A stagecoach full of passengers and an enigmatic gunslinger are held hostage by two outlaws on the run from the law but events take an unexpected turn when the travelers are stalked by a mythical beast that only appears on the night of a blood red moon.

Varan the Unbelievable
›1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
›1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton
Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.

Catacombs
›R1988 · Horror · 84m · Tim Van Patten, Ian Abercrombie, Jeremy West
In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher Elizabeth Magrino visits the monastery in order to do some research. What she and the current monks do not realize is that the evil hiding within the catacombs has unwittingly been released.

The Nameless Days
›2022 · Horror · 92m · Alexia Ioannides, Charles Halford, Andrew Roach
Young immigrant Rahui and his pregnant sister are attacked and separated by a demonic spirit as they embark on a dangerous trek across the U.S. border. Injured but determined to survive, Rahui must rescue his sister before the demon takes the one thing she was denied in life–a baby.

Mad Doctor of Blood Island
›NR1969 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ronald Remy
A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.

Private Number
›R2015 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Hal Ozsan, Nicholle Tom, Tom Sizemore
A series of cryptic phone messages and visions haunt a writer while he struggles to finish a novel. As they increase in intensity, he loses his grip on reality, eventually obsessing over an old mystery that will lead to horrific revelations about both him and his loyal wife.

Ruby
›R1977 · Horror · 85m · Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman, Janit Baldwin
Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.

Seizure
›PG1974 · Horror · 94m · Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Joseph Sirola
A disturbed author's house party becomes a scene of carnage when three of his homicidal creations appear.

The Night Before Halloween
›2016 · Thriller, Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Bailee Madison, Justin Kelly, Jahmil French
When a Halloween prank goes wrong, it unleashes a creature that will hunt each of the participants down and kill them, unless they can figure out how to transfer the curse to someone else.

Rocktober Blood
›1984 · Horror, Music · 88m · Tray Loren, Donna Scoggins, Cana Cockrell
A crazed rock singer returns from the dead to murder members of his former band.

Dead Men Walk
›1943 · Horror, Mystery · 64m · George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.

Curfew
›1989 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, John Putch
Two brothers whose grisly killing spree has landed them on death row plot a daring escape, breaking free from prison with vengeance in mind, and setting targets in the form of the key witnesses against them.

Aberration
›1998 · Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Pamela Gidley, Simon Bossell, Valery Nikolaev
After stealing a fortune from the Russian mob, Alex Langdon tries to hide out in a remote cabin but discovers that the area is home to a dangerous species of mutant lizards that have developed a taste for human flesh.

The Cellar
›PG-131989 · Horror · 86m · Patrick Kilpatrick, Chris Miller, Suzanne Savoy
A young boy finds an ancient Comanche monster spirit in the basement of his home. His parents don't believe him, so he must kill the monster alone.

The Gorilla
›NR1939 · Comedy, Mystery, Horror · 68m · Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, Al Ritz
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.

Dark Remains
›2005 · Horror · 91m · Cheri Christian, Greg Thompson, Scott Hodges
After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she becomes convinced her dead daughter is contacting her through the photographs.

The Strangeness
›1985 · Horror, Mystery · 93m · Dan Lunham, Terri Berland, Mark Sawicki
A group of young miners venture into the Gold Spike Mine in search of gold, even after being warned by old-time prospectors to stay away. The miners proceed into the caverns anyway and soon realize that there’s no gold in these mines, but also that they’re not alone.

Strange Nature
›2018 · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery · 100m · Tiffany Shepis, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lisa Sheridan
The first film to expose unsolved wildlife deformity outbreaks and where they may lead. Based on a true unsolved ecological mystery, thousands of hideously deformed frogs have turned up in the waters of Minnesota. As seen through the eyes of a one hit wonder single mother and her 11 year old son, a small town struggles with the unknown when the deadly mutations move beyond the ponds.

Godmonster of Indian Flats
›NR1973 · Horror, Science Fiction, Western · 89m · Christopher Brooks, Stuart Lancaster, E. Kerrigan Prescott
A mutant sheep is on the move near a ranch in the American West.

Reunion
›2020 · Horror · 95m · Julia Ormond, Emma Draper, Cohen Holloway
A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying.






















