
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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Slapface
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · August Maturo, Mike Manning, Libe Barer
A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a relationship with a dangerous monster.

Doctor Sleep
›R2002 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 108m · Goran Višnjić, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson
While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.

Halloween
›R2007 · Horror · 110m · Malcolm McDowell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane
The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

Boarding School
›R2018 · Horror, Mystery · 111m · Luke Prael, Sterling Jerins, Nadia Alexander
When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except for six other teenage misfits and two menacing and mysterious teachers. As events become increasingly horrific, Jacob must conquer his fears to find the strength to survive.

Braid
›2019 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 85m · Madeline Brewer, Imogen Waterhouse, Sarah Hay
Two drug dealers on the lam seek refuge inside their mentally unstable friend’s mansion. But in order to stay, they have to participate in her elaborate, and increasingly dangerous, game of permanent make-believe.

The Cleaning Lady
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Alexis Kendra, Stelio Savante, Rachel Alig
In a bid to distract herself from an affair, a narcissistic woman befriends a cleaning lady with burn scars, but she soon discovers that the scars may be more than skin deep.

Nothing But the Night
›PG1973 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 90m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.

Hannibal Rising
›R2007 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 121m · Gaspard Ulliel, Aaran Thomas, Gong Li
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.

Silent Night, Deadly Night
›R1984 · Thriller, Horror · 79m · Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick
After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

Christmas Evil
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull
Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood!

The Watch
›2008 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 90m · Clea DuVall, James A. Woods, Elizabeth Whitmere
Cassie, a psych student, was kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcise her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once she's alone, strange things start happening. Or is she just paranoid? Cassie is terrified that her past may be coming back to haunt her.

Hypochondriac
›NR2022 · Horror, Drama · 96m · Zach Villa, Devon Graye, Madeline Zima
A young potter’s life devolves into chaos as he loses function of his body while being haunted by the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma.

Insidious: The Last Key
›PG-132018 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

The Return
›2020 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Richard Harmon, Sara Thompson, Marina Stephenson Kerr
After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.

Saint Catherine
›2024 · Horror · 86m · Raymond E. Lee, Pachi Lucas, Julia Kraiselburd
An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.

Spoonful of Sugar
›NR2022 · Horror · 94m · Morgan Saylor, Kat Foster, Myko Olivier
Millicent, working on her thesis about children with severe allergies, is hired to babysit little Johnny, a sickly, mute child who suffers from every allergy under the sun. As she discovers Johnny’s dark family secrets, things begin to become unhinged.

Habit
›2017 · Horror · 90m · William Ash, Jessica Barden, Roxanne Pallett
Manchester, the present. Michael divides his time between the job center and the pub. A chance meeting with Lee, an introduction to her Uncle Ian and a heavy night on the lash lead to a job working the door at a Northern Quarter massage parlor. After witnessing the violent death of one of the punters, Michael experiences blood-drenched flashbacks and feels himself being sucked into a twilight world that he doesn't understand but that is irresistibly attractive. When he eventually finds out what goes on in the room below Cloud 9, Michaels' life will never be the same again.

Hide and Seek
›R2005 · Horror, Mystery · 101m · Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen
David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named 'Charlie', but it isn't long before 'Charlie' develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter's growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realisation that 'Charlie' isn't just a figment of Emily's imagination.

Stickman
›2017 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Hayley Law, Sara Alicia Garcia, Zoé De Grand Maison
The thing that waits under your bed, hides in the closet, stalks your dreams… is waiting for you. At least Emma Wright knew that at the age of 7 when she was wrongly accused of murdering her sister. Emma knew it was the Stickman. After years of isolation she finally has her demons under control and is released.

Wrinkles the Clown
›2019 · Documentary, Horror, Comedy · 75m · Wrinkles the Clown, Lillian Grubbs, D.B. Lambert
In Florida, parents can hire Wrinkles the Clown to scare their misbehaving children.

Return of the Tooth Fairy
›NR2020 · Horror · 91m · Jake Watkins, Katie McKenna, Gus Fithen
The Tooth Fairy is back. 15 years after the events of the first movie, Corey, now grown up but mentally scarred has gone to a class reunion. However, the Tooth Fairy is back, and this time - You better have flossed properly.

Don't Go in the House
›R1979 · Horror · 82m · Dan Grimaldi, Robert Carnegie, Ruth Dardick
As a child, Donald was tormented by his mother who used fire as a punishment. Now a deranged adult, Donald stalks women at clubs, then takes them home where he kills them with a flamethrower.

Oracle
›2023 · Horror · 85m · Ryan Destiny, Heather Graham, Ariel Martin
A young woman accepts a job on a property with a traumatic history. Upon her arrival, she soon realizes that the nightmares of her childhood are connected to the evil in the house.

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.






















