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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Don't Let Them In
›2020 · Horror · 81m · Michelle Luther, Amanda Hunt, Aidan O'Neill
A home invasion horror movie in the vein of You're Next and The Purge, about a group of people under siege by masked intruders in an abandoned hotel.
Boogeyman
›2012 · Horror · 85m · Eddie McClintock, Amy Bailey, Emma Samms
A group of young boys inadvertently free the creature from captivity. Going on a rampage, the Boogeyman, whose origin dates back to the time of Genesis, targets an innocent child – whose father is the town Sheriff.
Deadtime Stories
›R2009 · Horror · 77m · George A. Romero, Amy Marsalis, Marty Schiff
An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Valley of the Shadow," a woman searches for her missing husband in the jungles of South America, only to be in great danger herself. In "Wet," a lonely man finds an empty box on the beach and opens it, with disastrous results. In "House Call," a doctor is called to a rural farm house to diagnose a strange ailment. This segment is a short film directed by Tom Savini in 2004 as a failed television pilot.
Teacher's Pet
›R2000 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Jsu Garcia, Katherine Kendall
Psychopath Debbie Strand escapes from a mental institution for the criminally insane and takes the identity of a co-ed she meets and sets herself up on a college campus where she once again begins killing students who get in the way of her obsession with her former high school teacher Sam Deckner now teaching at the college.
Trip with the Teacher
›R1975 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Zalman King, Brenda Fogarty, Cathy Worthington
A high-school field trip takes a nightmarish turn when the students' bus breaks down and thugs come to their aid.
Silent Predators
›1999 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 91m · Harry Hamlin, Shannon Sturges, David Spielberg
In 1979, a delivery truck makes its way up a lonely southern California highway in a storm, bound for the San Diego Zoo with a deadly tropical rattlesnake as cargo. When the truck suffers a blowout, the driver loses control and hits a tree, shattering the snake's aquarium in the back and the window separating the snake from the driver. The snake slithers into the front of the truck, kills the driver with its bite and then moves off into the forest. Flash forward to 1999. The small southern California town of San Vicente has grown from 6,000 to 30,000, and the rattler, which escaped nearby years ago, has bred. There are now 25,000 of these hybrid rattlesnakes, and they are slowly making their way downhill into the town, attracted by the movement of the blasting as the town paves its way toward progress. Progress, in this case, brings terror, in this tale originally penned by John Carpenter.
Living Death
›NR2006 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 85m · Greg Bryk, Kristy Swanson, Joshua Peace
Torture is the ultimate seduction when Victor, a powerful and dangerous millionaire, discovers that his beautiful wife Elizabeth (Kristy Swanson) is having a steamy affair with his best friend. And when the lovers' risky plan to get rid of him backfires, Victor's relentless anger and terrifying rage sends him over the edge on a shockingly sadistic quest for total revenge.
American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore
›2015 · Horror · 73m · Ashley Lynn Caputo, Lilly Dickenson, Scott Gabbey
A couple of young women are abducted and become the unwilling stars of a snuff film, wherein they are brutally tortured.
Devil's Domain
›NR2017 · Horror · 93m · Michael Madsen, Madi Vodane, Linda Bella
After becoming the victim of vicious cyber bullies, Lisa makes a deal with the devil to exact revenge on her tormentors.
Fear Chamber
›1968 · Horror · 88m · Boris Karloff, Julissa, Carlos East
The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.
Blood Tracks
›1985 · Horror · 89m · Jeff Harding, Michael Fitzpatrick, Naomi Kaneda
A film crew producing a rock music video decides to shoot at an abandoned factory above the snow line. When an avalanche strands them, a murderous family living in the factory attacks and kills many of them.
House of Purgatory
›2016 · Thriller, Horror · 75m · Torey Adkins, Brian Krause, Anne Leighton
Four teenagers go looking for a legendary haunted house that gives you money back for every floor you can complete. Once finding it, they realize the house is much more terrifying than a normal Halloween attraction - the house knows each of their secrets and one by one uses them against the teens.
Playdate
›NR2012 · Thriller, TV Movie, Horror · 82m · Marguerite Moreau, Richard Ruccolo, Abby Brammell
A new family moves into the house next door to the Valentine family. While they become fast friends, Emilie Valentine starts to notice bruises and odd behavior from the two sons in the new family. Are they victims of child abuse? Or are there twists and turns to finding out the real reason?
Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End
›2013 · Action, Drama, Thriller · 88m · David A.R. White, Ray Wise, Brian Bosworth
Josh McManus, a traveling salesman with a cloudy past, finds himself in a dusty West Texas town at the wrong time. After a crippling series of earthquakes throws the entire world into chaos, a traveling salesman will have to fight his way through a vicious outlaw biker gang known as the Barbarians to get home to his family.
Doctor Faustus
›1967 · Mystery, Drama, Horror · 93m · Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Durden
Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.
The Halfway House
›R2004 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Mary Woronov, Janet Tracy Keijser, Shawn Savage
Young girls are disappearing in and around the Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls.
The Unwanted
›NR2014 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Hannah Fierman, Christen Orr, William Katt
Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.
Sick for Toys
›NR2018 · Horror · 90m · Camille Montgomery, Jon Paul Burkhart, David Gunning
Roy is the nice guy who finishes last. Sick of his current situation, he accepts an invitation to have Christmas dinner with the beautiful and strangely alluring Emilia. Once at dinner, Roy realizes that Emilia and her oddball brother Edward are not what they seem.
Massacre on Aisle 12
›2016 · Comedy, Horror · 83m · Chad Ridgely, Michael Buonomo, Jim Klock
A hardware store employee's first night on the job is disrupted by the discovery of a dead body and a duffel bag full of cash. He and his co-workers soon descend into madness as they try to figure out a solution to their predicament in this unsettling horror comedy.
Dark Mountain
›2013 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 82m · Sage Howard, Andrew Simpson, Shelby Stehlin
In March of 2011, three filmmakers disappeared in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona while documenting their search for the Lost Dutchman mine. Their bodies were never found... but their camera was.
Bottom Feeder
›PG-132007 · Science Fiction, Horror · 86m · Tom Sizemore, Wendy Anderson, Richard Fitzpatrick
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
Bad Reputation
›R2005 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Angelique Hennessy, Kristina Conzen, Danielle Noble
A high school girl wrongly branded as the school slut embraces her 'bad reputation' and takes revenge on the kids who have made her life a living hell.
Find Me
›R2014 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 87m · Cameron Bender, Kathryn Lyn, Rachelle Dimaria
Before boxes are unpacked in their new home, newlyweds Tim and Emily, find themselves playing a very creepy game of hide and seek with a vengeful spirit.
GetEven
›1993 · Action, Thriller · 89m · John De Hart, Wings Hauser, William Smith
The Corruption of The System is given a swift lopsided kick by Vigilante Justice as a Disgraced Former Cop emerges from exile, automatic weapons blazing and mediocre martial arts akimbo, to bring down a murderous satanic cult headed by his former partner. His only allies? A boatload of swagger and one leggy blonde.