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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99 titles
UFO Abduction
›NR1989 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 63m · Tommy Giavocchini, Patrick Kelley, Shirly McCalla
On October 8th, 1983, the Van Heese family gathered together to celebrate the 5th birthday of Michelle, the littlest member of their household. Everything was captured on VHS by Michael McPherson and his new camcorder — including the alien invasion.
Critters
›PG-131986 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush
Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.
Lifeforce
›R1985 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 102m · Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
The Deadly Spawn
›R1983 · Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter
When a meteorite touches down in the New Jersey woods carrying a monstrous alien slug, it’s up to four teens to stop it before it’s terrifying brood consumes all life on Earth!
The Earth Dies Screaming
›1964 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price
A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
Cowboys & Aliens
›PG-132011 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 119m · Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
Crawlers
›NR2020 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 81m · Giorgia Whigham, Pepi Sonuga, Cameron Fuller
On Saint Patrick's day—a night of wild parties and drunken revelry—three unlikely friends band together to save a college town from a vicious horde of body-snatching aliens.
Remote Control
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 88m · Kevin Dillon, Deborah Goodrich, Christopher Wynne
A video store clerk stumbles onto an alien plot to take over earth by brainwashing people with a bad '50s science fiction movie. He and his friends race to stop the aliens before the tapes can be distributed world-wide.
Night of the Big Heat
›1967 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
Target Earth
›1954 · Science Fiction, Horror · 75m · Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Richard Reeves
Giant robots from Venus invade Chicago. Stranded in the deserted city are Frank and Nora (who has recently attempted suicide). They meet a celebrating couple at a café, Vicki Harris and Jim Wilson. The quartet escape the robot patrol and take refuge in a large hotel. There, they encounter a new danger in Davis, a psychopathic killer.
Alien Trespass
›PG2009 · Action, Adventure, Comedy · 90m · Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird, Dan Lauria
In 1957 a fiery object crashes into a mountaintop in the California desert, bringing the threat of disaster to Earth. Out of the flying saucer escapes a murderous creature, the Ghota, bent on destroying all life forms on the planet. A benevolent alien from the spaceship, Urp, inhabits the body of Ted Lewis, an astronomer and with the help of Tammy, a diner waitress, sets out to save mankind.
Invasion of the Saucer Men
›1957 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 69m · Steven Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin
Aliens equipped with venomous claws invade a small town, but the town's teenage population is mobilized to fight the menace.
The Puppet Masters
›R1994 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 109m · Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner
The Midwest USA is invaded by stingray-shaped alien slugs that ride on people's backs and control their minds in order to spread their dominion. Government agency reps Sam Givens, Andrew Nivens, and Mary Sefton must stop the aliens.
The Crawling Eye
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Forrest Tucker, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro
A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.
Bad Channels
›1992 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 88m · Robert Factor, Martha Quinn, Aaron Lustig
An alien determined to capture human females takes over a radio station to do it.
War of the Satellites
›1958 · Science Fiction, Horror · 66m · Dick Miller, Susan Cabot, Richard Devon
An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.
Alien: Rubicon
›PG-132024 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 90m · Michael Paré, Preston Geer, Paul Logan
An alien spacecraft lands near New York and destroys everything as it heads toward Washington D.C. If it reaches the capital, it will trigger an invasion. Scientists and the military must stop it before it's too late.
Critters 2
›PG-131988 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Don Keith Opper
Three bounty hunters from space fly back to the town of Grovers Bend, hoping to save local residents from a new batch of Critter eggs.
Invaders from Mars
›PG1986 · Horror, Science Fiction · 100m · Hunter Carson, Karen Black, Timothy Bottoms
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
The Brain
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston, David Gale
Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently – with the help of an alien organism he calls The Brain, he's using brainwashing and mind control. The only thing that stands between them and world domination is a brilliant but troubled high school student with a penchant for pranks...
Kids vs. Aliens
›NR2023 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 75m · Phoebe Rex, Dominic Mariche, Calem MacDonald
All Gary wants is to make awesome home movies with his best buds. All his older sister Samantha wants is to hang with the cool kids. When their parents head out of town one Halloween weekend, an all-time rager of a teen house party turns to terror when aliens attack, forcing the siblings to band together to survive the night.
Brain Dead
›NR2007 · Horror · 95m · Joshua Benton, Sarah Grant Brendecke, Michelle Tomlinson
A sleepy fishing port town is consumed with terror when a small crater crash-lands nearby and releases a slimy parasitic agent that transforms the residents into brain-eating zombies. Cornered in an abandoned fishing lodge, six strangers are forced to band together to stave off the blood-sucking monsters clawing the walls outside.
Invisible Invaders
›1959 · Science Fiction, Horror · 67m · John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge
Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens' weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased.
Bloodsuckers from Outer Space
›1984 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Thom Meyers, Laura Ellis, Dennis Letts
A mysterious and invisible alien presence has landed in rural Texas and has started turning the nearby townspeople into white-faced, bloodthirsty killers. As the local authorities begin to investigate the strange and violent goings on, a photographer and his girlfriend find themselves trapped in the midst of an unexpected rural bloodbath, which seeks to turn them into another pair of bloodsuckers from outer space...