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 Mummy
›NR1932 · Horror, Fantasy · 73m · Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
The Thing from Another World
›NR1951 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Are You Afraid of the Dark?Series
›TV-Y71992 · Mystery, Kids, Drama · 7 seasons · Daniel DeSanto, David Deveau, Vanessa Lengies
This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.
The Fly
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror, Drama · 94m · David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price
Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.
Carnival of Souls
›NR1962 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 78m · Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Sidney Berger
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.
AbsentiaSeries
›TV-MA2017 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Stana Katic, Patrick Heusinger, Neil Jackson
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
The Pit and the Pendulum
›1961 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 80m · Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
The PassageSeries
›TV-142019 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama · 1 season · Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Saniyya Sidney, Caroline Chikezie
A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing crisis.
PrimevalSeries
›TV-142007 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama · 5 seasons · Ciarán McMenamin, Ben Mansfield, Andrew-Lee Potts
When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.
I Walked with a Zombie
›NR1943 · Mystery, Horror, Drama · 69m · James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
The Black Cat
›1934 · Horror, Thriller · 65m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
CrossSeries
›TV-MA2024 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Aldis Hodge, Isaiah Mustafa, Juanita Jennings
Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.
Quatermass and the Pit
›1967 · Science Fiction, Horror · 97m · Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
ChapelwaiteSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Adrien Brody, Emily Hampshire, Jennifer Ens
In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.
Ghost AdventuresSeries
›TV-142008 · Reality · 26 seasons · Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin
Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans and his crew, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin, search for haunted locations both domestically and internationally. During their investigations, Zak and crew acquaint themselves with the general area; interview locals about the hauntings; and go face-to-face with the evil spirits who reportedly haunt these locations.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›NR1920 · Horror, Science Fiction, Drama · 79m · John Barrymore, Brandon Hurst, Martha Mansfield
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
Mystery of the Wax Museum
›1933 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 78m · Lionel Atwill, Glenda Farrell, Allen Vincent
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.
While the City Sleeps
›NR1956 · Thriller, Drama · 100m · Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
Based on a True StorySeries
›TV-MA2023 · Comedy, Drama · 2 seasons · Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina, Tom Bateman
The lives of a realtor, a plumber and a former tennis star unexpectedly collide, exposing America’s obsession with true crime, murder and the slow-close toilet seat.
SurfaceSeries
›TV-PG2005 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Lake Bell, Jay R. Ferguson, Carter Jenkins
A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teenage boy find their lives changed when a new and often dangerous sea life species emerges, while the government tries to keep the affair under wraps.
The Honeymoon Killers
›R1970 · Crime, Drama, Romance · 108m · Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man who seduces lonely single women, kills them and then takes their money. She poses as Ray's sister and joins Ray on a wild killing spree, fueled by her lingering concern that Ray will leave her for one of his marks.
The Dark Mirror
›1946 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 85m · Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
The Twilight ZoneSeries
›TV-PG2002 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Forest Whitaker
A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.
The Ghost Breakers
›NR1940 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 85m · Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
