
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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Death Spa
›1988 · Horror · 87m · William Bumiller, Brenda Bakke, Shari Shattuck
Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients.

The First Power
›R1990 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober
A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession.

Mortuary
›R1982 · Horror · 92m · Mary Elizabeth McDonough, David Wallace, Bill Paxton
A young woman investigates the seemingly accidental death of her father, revealing many unsettling secrets and putting her in mortal danger.

The Mummy's Ghost
›1944 · Horror, Fantasy · 60m · Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Robert Lowery
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...

Parasomnia
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Cherilyn Wilson, Sean Young, Patrick Kilpatrick
Laura Baxter is a young woman, literally a "sleeping beauty," who suffers from a medical condition called "parasomnia." A childhood accident victim, she is actually sleeping her life away, awakening briefly on rare occasions. Art student Danny Sloan falls in love with her, unaware that her hospital neighbor, a terrifying mass murderer and mesmerist named Byron Volpe has other, more sinister plans.

Witchboard 2
›R1993 · Mystery, Horror · 98m · Ami Dolenz, Timothy Gibbs, Laraine Newman
A young woman starts receiving messages through a Ouija board, claiming to be from the former occupant of her apartment.

The Curse of Buckout Road
›2017 · Horror · 97m · Evan Ross, Henry Czerny, Dominique Provost-Chalkley
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.

Blackwood
›2014 · Thriller, Horror · 100m · Ed Stoppard, Sophia Myles, Greg Wise
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally look to be going Ben's way. Until, that is, he starts to feel that something isn't quite right in the house. Finding himself plagued by spectral visions, Ben becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind a local mystery that appears to be putting the lives of his family in danger

Frankenstein 1970
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Boris Karloff, Jana Lund, Don 'Red' Barry
The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.

2:13
›NR2009 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 96m · Mark Thompson, Mark Pellegrino, Teri Polo
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer leaves on the faces of his victims. He must face his own demons along with the killer to save his small eroding existence.

Morgan: Killer Doll
›2025 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · Bix Krieger, Shelby Wright, Michael Paré
Things go awry when Astrid doesn't share the same feelings for her longtime best friend, Darcy.

Crawlspace
›2013 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Sterling Beaumon, Morgan Bertsch, Raleigh Holmes
The Gates family dream house turns quickly into a nightmare when their life is disturbed by the deranged previous owner who plots to retake his home and the Gates children for his own - hiding in the house attic and methodically taking out all those that stand in his way.

The Darker the Lake
›2022 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · 100m · Elyse Levesque, Veronica Ferres, Gina Stiebitz
When strange, supernatural murders suddenly become the talk a peaceful town, two detectives must solve a deadly game, but will the myth of this game reveal secrets too close to home.

Nightmare Radio: The Night Stalker
›2023 · Horror · 78m · Paula Brasca, Agustin Olcese, Valeria San Martin
A late-night radio DJ with a program where people call to tell her real horror stories, soon will find out how far an obsessed fan is willing to go.

My Little Sister
›2016 · Horror · 80m · Saverio Percudani, Sofia Pauly, Lucía Castellano
When Igor was young, he lost his father because of his little sister. He will grow up trying to find his own way of giving a new face to his past.

Shock 'Em Dead
›R1991 · Music, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Traci Lords, Stephen Quadros, Troy Donahue
Martin is a total loser, who nobody cares for. When he fails to get a position as guitar player in Lindsay's band and loses his job on the way, he makes a deal with a Voodoo priestess. She promises him the fulfillment of all his dreams if he swears obedience to her. He becomes a rock star and has many women - but to stay alive, he has to kill other people.

While the Children Sleep
›2007 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 90m · Gail O'Grady, William R. Moses, Mariana Klaveno
A prosperous couple find the perfect live-in nanny but soon discover she intends to do her job to deadly perfection.

Wax
›R2014 · Horror · 88m · Jimmy Shaw, Jack Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin
A young journalist has to spend a night in Barcelona's Wax Museum to investigate paranormal activities. He has no idea Dr. Knox, an insane cannibal surgeon, hides in the museum at night.

Nightmares
›1980 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Jenny Neumann, Gary Sweet, Nina Landis
A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.

Orca
›PG1977 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist, and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.

Shelby Oaks
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery · 91m · Camille Sullivan, Sarah Durn, Brendan Sexton III
A woman's obsessive search for her missing sister leads her into a terrifying mystery at the hands of an unknown evil.

Escape from Tomorrow
›NR2013 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 90m · Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.

The TommyknockersSeries
›1993 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery · 1 season · Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, E.G. Marshall
A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutants.

Patrick
›NR2013 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 96m · Rachel Griffiths, Charles Dance, Sharni Vinson
Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life.






















