
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 Human Race
›2013 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 87m · Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Eddie McGee, Brianna Lauren Jackson
A cancer survivor, an amputee, several immigrants, and many others are snatched from a Los Angeles street and forced to take part in a deadly race.

Hideaway
›R1995 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 103m · Jeff Goldblum, Christine Lahti, Alicia Silverstone
Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless hours. But Hatch does not come back unchanged. He begins to suffer horrible visions of murder -- only to find out the visions are the sights of a serial killer.

The Banishing
›NR2021 · Horror · 97m · Jessica Brown Findlay, John Heffernan, John Lynch
In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they discover their new home holds a horrifying secret.

Screamers: The Hunting
›R2009 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Gina Holden, Jana Pallaske, Lance Henriksen
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost.

Mother's Day
›NR1980 · Action, Horror, Comedy · 91m · Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce
Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?

Penny Dreadful
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Rachel Miner, Mimi Rogers, Chad Todhunter
Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist; the intention is to help her overcome her phobia, an intense fear of cars. Unexpected events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true.

Rawhead Rex
›R1986 · Horror · 89m · David Dukes, Niall Tóibín, Cora Lunny
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.

Inbred
›R2011 · Comedy, Horror · 90m · Jo Hartley, Seamus O'Neill, James Doherty
Four young offenders and their workers spend a weekend in the remote Yorkshire village of Mortlake, which prides on keeping itself to itself. A minor incident with locals rapidly escalates into a blood-soaked, deliriously warped nightmare.

All Hallows' Eve 2
›2015 · Horror · 90m · Andrea Monier, Damien Monier, Griffin Gluck
A woman finds a VHS tape on her doorstep that shows a series of gruesome tales that could be real. But the true danger is the pumpkin-faced killer that's using the tape to find his next victim.

Rest Stop: Don't Look Back
›NR2008 · Horror · 89m · Richard Tillman, Jessie Ward, Graham Norris
One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the stretch of old highway with a mysterious Rest Stop, where they find themselves in the same predicament as Nicole and Jesse: confronting a madman.

A Sacrifice
›R2024 · Thriller, Horror · 94m · Eric Bana, Sadie Sink, Sylvia Hoeks
American social psychologist Ben Monroe investigates a local cult connected to a disturbing event. While he immerses himself into his work, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy, gets involved with a mysterious local boy, who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene. As these two worlds head towards an intersection, Mazzy finds herself in great danger and Ben will need to race against the clock to save her.

The Zodiac
›R2005 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 92m · Justin Chambers, Robin Tunney, Rory Culkin
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.

Dolly Dearest
›R1991 · Horror · 93m · Denise Crosby, Sam Bottoms, Rip Torn
An American family moves to Mexico to fabricate dolls, but their toy factory happens to be next to a Sanzian grave and the toys come into possession of an old, malicious spirit.

Triggered
›R2020 · Horror, Action · 90m · Liesl Ahlers, Reine Swart, Sean Cameron Michael
Nine friends, all harboring a dark secret, go camping in the woods. After a wild night of partying, they wake up with suicide bombs strapped to their chests, all with varying times on their countdown clocks. They decide to work out how to disarm the bombs or find help - until they discover they can 'take' one another's time by killing each other.

The 100 Candles Game
›2020 · Horror · 100m · Magui Bravi, Clara Kovacic, James Wright
A group of friends must confront their fears in a terrifying game. They must sit by the other players in a circle made of a hundred candles, take one of them and tell a horror story. As stories are told and candles blown out, strange events will start to happen. They will feel strange presences around them, lurking in the shadows. But they MUST NOT leave the game or else a terrible curse will fall upon them...

Decoys
›R2004 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 95m · Kim Poirier, Stefanie von Pfetten, Corey Sevier
Luke and Roger are just another couple of college guys trying to lose their virginity. But when Luke sees something unusual, he begins to suspect that the girls on campus aren't exactly...human.

The Monkey's Paw
›NR2013 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · C.J. Thomason, Stephen Lang, Michelle Pierce
After Jake Tilton is given a mystical "monkey's paw" talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, he finds his world turned upside down after his first two wishes result in his malevolent coworker, Tony Cobb, being resurrected from the dead. When Cobb pressures Jake into using the final wish to reunite Cobb with his son, his intimidation quickly escalates into relentless murder - forcing Jake to outwit his psychotic friend and save his remaining loved ones.

The Wasp Woman
›NR1959 · Science Fiction, Horror · 61m · Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Michael Mark
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

Slice
›R2018 · Comedy, Horror · 82m · Chance the Rapper, Zazie Beetz, Katherine Cunningham
In a spooky small town, when a slew of pizza delivery boys are slain on the job, two daring survivors set out to catch the culprits behind the cryptic crime spree.

The Scary of Sixty-First
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 81m · Betsey Brown, Madeline Quinn, Dasha Nekrasova
Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.

The Toolbox Murders
›R1978 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, Wesley Eure
A serial killer, plagued by the memory of a fatal car accident, uses various tools to murder female tenants of a Los Angeles apartment complex, then abducts a teenaged girl who lives there with her family. When the police express doubt that the murders are connected to the girl's disappearance, her brother sets out to search for her on his own.

Nails
›2017 · Horror · 85m · Shauna Macdonald, Ross Noble, Steve Wall
Paralyzed after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family when she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room.

Witches in the Woods
›2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Hannah Kasulka, Craig Arnold, Sasha Clements
A group of students head off for a snowboarding adventure on an untouched piece of land. When their SUV mysteriously stalls in a brutal snowstorm they are not only faced with the reality of freezing to death but a fate even more horrifying. For they have become stranded in Stoughton Valley, home of some Witch Trials even more horrendous than Salem, and are being hunted by a supernatural creature determined to keep them there.

The Tripper
›R2006 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Richmond Arquette
A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.






















