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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.

65 titles

Trap

Trap

PG-132024 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 105m · Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Night Shyamalan

A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.

IMDb 5.8MC 52🍅 57%TMDB 6.25.8
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The Collector

The Collector

R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Josh Stewart, Juan Fernández, Michael Reilly Burke

Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.

IMDb 6.3MC 29🍅 30%TMDB 6.65.8
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Sorry, Charlie

Sorry, Charlie

2023 · Horror, Thriller · 75m · Colton Tran, Kathleen Kenny, Marisa Brown

A remote helpline volunteer is targeted by "The Gentleman," a stranger who lures women from their homes with a recording of a crying baby.

IMDb 5.2TMDB 6.05.7
Untraceable

Untraceable

R2008 · Thriller, Crime, Mystery · 101m · Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks

Special Agent Jennifer Marsh works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds of his crimes on his website; the more hits the site gets, the faster the victim dies. Marsh and her team must find the elusive killer before time runs out.

IMDb 6.2MC 32🍅 16%TMDB 6.25.6
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The Alphabet Murders

The Alphabet Murders

NR1965 · Comedy, Crime, Mystery · 90m · Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

IMDb 5.3TMDB 5.95.6
Play Dead

Play Dead

R2022 · Horror, Thriller · 106m · Bailee Madison, Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Turpel

Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.

IMDb 5.2🍅 67%TMDB 6.15.5
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Night of the Hunted

Night of the Hunted

2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · Camille Rowe, Aleksandar Popovic, J. John Bieler

When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.

IMDb 5.2🍅 64%TMDB 6.15.5
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Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary

Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary

R1975 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 101m · Cristina Ferrare, David Young, John Carradine

Mexican horror film about an American painter named Mary who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man in her life as well as a mysterious man in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.

IMDb 5.0TMDB 5.15.5
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A Murder of Crows

A Murder of Crows

R1999 · Thriller, Action, Crime · 102m · Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Berenger, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. After letting Russell borrow his latest manuscript, Marlowe dies of a heart attack. When Russell publishes the dead man's manuscript under his own name, he makes the best-seller list—and unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in the investigation of a grisly multiple homicide.

IMDb 6.3🍅 0%TMDB 6.15.4
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The Bat

The Bat

1959 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 80m · Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.

IMDb 6.0🍅 17%TMDB 5.95.4
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Highwaymen

Highwaymen

R2004 · Action, Thriller, Crime · 80m · Jim Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison

James Cray watched as his wife was killed by Fargo, a hit-and-run serial murderer. After severely injuring Fargo and going to prison for several years, James is now determined to avenge his wife's death. He drives across the country looking for Fargo's 1972 Cadillac Eldorado, which the now-disabled killer has turned into a rolling death trap. James' search is helped by a state traffic officer and a singer with her own agenda.

IMDb 5.6MC 49🍅 13%TMDB 5.75.3
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Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead

Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead

NR2009 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 91m · Nicki Aycox, Nick Zano, Kyle Schmid

While driving to Las Vegas for the bachelor party of her sister Melissa and her fiance Bobby, Kayla stops the car at a gas station to meet her date, Nik, a guy she met on the internet. Nik convinces her to take a secondary road under the protest of Bobby but the car breaks down. They find a house in the middle of nowhere and decide to take the car parked in the house's garage to the next city...

IMDb 5.1TMDB 5.55.2
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The January Man

The January Man

R1989 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 97m · Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. A web that includes Frank's wife, bribery, and corruption all are in the background as Nick tries to uncover the secret of where the killer will strike next, and finally must lay a trap without the police.

IMDb 5.5MC 33🍅 28%TMDB 5.15.2
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Curdled

Curdled

R1996 · Comedy, Crime, Thriller · 88m · William Baldwin, Angela Jones, Bruce Ramsay

A death-obsessed cleaning woman uncovers a clue identifying a Florida bartender for a series of socialite murders.

IMDb 5.9🍅 10%TMDB 5.85.2
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Botched

Botched

2007 · Comedy, Crime, Horror · 95m · Stephen Dorff, Sean Pertwee, Jamie Foreman

Ritchie Donovan is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper.

IMDb 5.6🍅 25%TMDB 5.65.2
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Messages Deleted

Messages Deleted

2010 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 92m · Matthew Lillard, Deborah Kara Unger, Gina Holden

A quivering voice begs to screenwriter, Joel Brandt, to pick up the phone on a message from his answering machine. Thinking it a prank, Joel deletes the message. The caller is found dead. Another caller leaves Joel a message; there is another murder...then another...then another. The killer has Joel's attention, and Joel has the attention of the police. Now the prime suspect in a series of murders, Joel discovers this psychotic killer has targeted him for a reason found within his body of work. Will Joel be able to re-write his ending, or be forced to pay the ultimate price?

IMDb 4.9TMDB 5.35.2
The Hitcher

The Hitcher

R2007 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 84m · Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton

While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to a hitchhiker. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the young couple with a knife, but Jim successfully throws him out of the car. This sets off a chain of events that will change all of their lives forever.

IMDb 5.6MC 28🍅 19%TMDB 5.95.1
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Don't Answer the Phone!

Don't Answer the Phone!

R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · James Westmoreland, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence

A Vietnam veteran that spends his days photographing pretty girls, and his nights strangling them, sets sights on the patients of a radio psychiatrist.

IMDb 4.8TMDB 4.65.1
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Awakening the Zodiac

Awakening the Zodiac

R2017 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 100m · Shane West, Leslie Bibb, Matt Craven

The story follows a down-on-their-luck couple who discovers a serial killer's film reels. They decide to take the law into their own hands, risking everything for the chance at a $100,000 reward. It isn't long until they find themselves in the killer's lethal cross-hairs.

IMDb 4.8🍅 42%TMDB 5.45.0
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Joy Ride 3

Joy Ride 3

R2014 · Thriller, Horror · 96m · Ken Kirzinger, Jesse Hutch, Benjamin Hollingsworth

Rusty Nail is back on the road again looking to punish injustice at every turn - and this time it's with a group of hotheaded street racers on their way to the Road Rally 1000. As they drive through a desolate shortcut on the way to the race, an encounter with Rusty turns sour and soon he is tracking, teasing and torturing them until the end of the road.

IMDb 4.7TMDB 5.64.9
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Don't Open Till Christmas

Don't Open Till Christmas

R1984 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 87m · Edmund Purdom, Alan Lake, Belinda Mayne

It's just days before Christmas in London, but not everyone is full of good cheer - as a maniac with a pathological hatred of Santa Claus stalks the streets, butchering any man that’s unlucky enough to be wandering around dressed as Old Saint Nick.

IMDb 4.7TMDB 4.94.9
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Return to Cabin by the Lake

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.

IMDb 4.2TMDB 4.84.9
Psycho Cop

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.

IMDb 4.4TMDB 4.44.9
Deadly Games

Deadly Games

R1982 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 95m · Jo Ann Harris, Sam Groom, Steve Railsback

A masked maniac with a penchant for a monster-themed board game is playing his own twisted game with the women of a small American town. Each time the dice are rolled, another victim meets a grisly end. Returning home to mourn the death of her murdered sister, Keegan befriends local cop Roger and reclusive cinema projectionist Billy — but soon finds herself in the killer's sights.

IMDb 4.0TMDB 3.24.9
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