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 Brain Eaters
›NR1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 61m · Ed Nelson, Joanna Lee, Cornelius Keefe
A huge, alien structure resembling an inverted cone, appears in the woods outside a small rural town. Sent from Washington to investigate the origin of the mysterious object, a team of investigators discovers that intelligent parasites from inside the "cone" can attach themselves to humans' nervous systems and control their minds, taking control of the authorities and workers, making communication with the outside world impossible, and leaving the responsibility of stopping the invasion up to seven people who have thus far been able to avoid possession by these creatures from parts unknown.
Flesh-Eating Mothers
›R1988 · Comedy, Horror · 89m · Robert Lee Oliver, Donatella Hecht, Neal Rosen
A venereal disease turns an entire town of two-timing mothers into cannibals!
Return to Cabin by the Lake
›2001 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Judd Nelson, Brian Krause, Dahlia Salem
Murderous screenwriter Stanley Caldwell, who incidentally is thought to be dead, returns to the scenes of his crimes.
Killer Under The Bed
›2018 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Kristy Swanson, Brec Bassinger, Madison Lawlor
New to town, a bullied teenager discovers a doll, riddled with pins, in her backyard shed. She soon comes to believe that the doll holds supernatural powers.
Snowbeast
›NR1977 · Horror · 86m · Bo Svenson, Sylvia Sidney, Yvette Mimieux
A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from the impending danger.
Seedpeople
›R1992 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Sam Hennings, Andrea Roth, Dane Witherspoon
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
Shook
›NR2021 · Horror · 88m · Daisye Tutor, Emily Goss, Nicola Posener
When Mia, a social media star, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she has to solve a series of games to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered.
The Black Water Vampire
›2014 · Horror, Mystery · 82m · Danielle Lozeau, Andrea Monier, Anthony Fanelli
A documentary film crew investigate a series of brutal killings known as the Black Water murders. As they dwelve deeper into the story, they stumble upon a horrifying secret. One they may not survive.
Memory
›R2006 · Horror · 98m · Billy Zane, Tricia Helfer, Dennis Hopper
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.
Meet the Applegates
›R1990 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · 90m · Ed Begley Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman
Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
The Ape Man
›NR1943 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 64m · Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford
A scientist is turned into an ape man.
Demonic Toys: Personal Demons
›NR2010 · Horror · 81m · Selene Luna, Michael Citriniti, Lane Compton
A group of people on a world wide search for oddities find themselves trapped in a nine hundred year old Italian castle when they accident unleash the Demonic Toys.
Jaws of Satan
›R1982 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Fritz Weaver, Gretchen Corbett, Jon Korkes
A preacher whose ancestors were Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.
Sleep No More
›2018 · Horror · 91m · Keli Price, Brea Grant, Stephen Ellis
It's 1986 and a group of grad students are close to discovering what happens to the human brain after staying awake for 200 hours, but something goes terribly wrong with a test subject. After their department is shut down, the team moves forward in secret - only this time on themselves.
Possessions
›2024 · Horror · 90m · Clive Standen, Yeardley Smith, Mason Wells
Follows a father who seeks a fresh start with his son after the loss of his wife, and purchased a storage unit facility sight unseen, but secrets buried behind the metal doors become a parent's worst nightmare.
The Wicked Within
›R2015 · Horror · 91m · Sienna Guillory, Gianni Capaldi, Enzo Cilenti
After a year passes since the sudden death of a child, a family gathering takes place whilst unexplainable events occur. Tension over peculiar circumstances cracks the veneer of cordiality and dark secrets emerge.
The Ape
›NR1940 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 62m · Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
Josh Hasty's Candy Corn
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · P. J. Soles, Tony Todd, Pancho Moler
On Halloween eve in 1980, local outcast, Julien Cummings, is carelessly murdered. A vagabond witch doctor, Dr. Death, takes matters into his own hands and brings Julien back from the dead to creatively seek brutal revenge on his killers.
Plague Town
›NR2009 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Josslyn DeCrosta, Erica Rhodes, David Lombard
An American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant children.
Psycho Cop
›R1989 · Horror · 87m · Robert R. Shafer, Jeff Qualle, Palmer Lee Todd
Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly - he likes to kill people. When he meets a group of teenagers spending their vacation in a wood hut, he decides to investigate.
Living Among Us
›NR2018 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Thomas Ian Nicholas, John Heard, Andrew Keegan
Vampires have just made themselves public! Now a group of documentarians have been granted access to spend some time with them and learn how they live and coexist with humans. But as reality sets in, the crew realize they are in for far more than they bargained for.
The Final Scream
›2019 · Horror · 92m · Kate Lister, Marc Ozall, Becca Hirani
Aspiring actress, Kia Anderson, is about to learn that the final callback for a horror Feature Film is something more than she could ever of imagined - Something sinister is awaiting for Kia.
The Mirror
›2014 · Horror · 88m · Jemma Dallender, Joshua Dickinson, Nate Fallows
There is a long-held belief that mirrors act as gateways to another dimension. ·Some also believe the looking glass plays host to a world filled with evil spirits. Such superstition has been the basis for ancient folklore legends about haunting and possession. And one tale about a supposedly haunted mirror was picked up by the media in 2012. Both the Daily Mail and Huffington Post reported on how the owners of a recently purchased antique mirror left them dogged by bad luck, financial misery, strange sightings and death-defying illness. Now writer/director Edward Boase brings that horrifying story to the screen starring Jemma Dallender (I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE 2), Joshua Dickinson and Nate Fallows (‘Whitechapel’) as flatmates who buy the same eerie antique on ebay and set up round the clock cameras in the hopes of capturing evidence of bumps in the night. You have been warned!
Blood Dolls
›R1999 · Comedy, Horror · 84m · Kristopher Logan, Debra Mayer, William Paul Burns
Virgil, an eccentric freak billionaire, spends his days being a "biological inventor." The "blood dolls," his newest creation, aid him in getting revenge on those who betrayed him.