
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 Seeding
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Scott Haze, Kate Lyn Sheil, Charlie Avink
When a hiker gets lost in the desert, a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.

The Suckling
›1990 · Horror · 89m · Frank Rivera, Marie Michaels, Gerald Preger
A woman goes to a back alley abortion clinic, only to have her aborted fetus attack her, her boyfriend, and everyone else at the clinic.

Arcade
›1993 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 85m · Megan Ward, Peter Billingsley, John de Lancie
Alex Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO. However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who lose are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain "Arcade" and takes over their minds.

Cannibal Troll
›2021 · Horror · 85m · Georgina Jane, Zuza Tehanu, Barbara Dabson
A group of friends on a camping trip, for the bride to be' s hen do, find themselves hunted down by a man eating cannibal troll in the woodland. They are hunted, captured and locked up in the Trolls torture chamber being forced to undergo a variety of challenges in order to escape their fate.

Blackburn
›R2015 · Horror · 84m · Lochlyn Munro, Emilie Ullerup, Calum Worthy
A forest fire and rock-slide trap five bickering college friends in a small Alaskan ghost town with a horrifying history. When they seek refuge inside the torched ruins of Blackburn Asylum they must fight to survive as the angry inhabitants slaughter the friends one-by-one.

Mimesis
›R2011 · Horror · 95m · Sid Haig, Courtney Gains, Lauren Mae Shafer
A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.

The Fearway
›NR2023 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Shannon Dalonzo, Eileen Dietz, Simon Phillips
A young couple travelling down the freeway seem to be unable to get off the road after being hunted by someone intent on keeping them on the road.

Ditched
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Marika Sila, Kris Loranger, Lee Lopez
An ambulance transferring dangerous convicts crashes in the middle of nowhere. It soon becomes clear that the crash was no accident, and the survivors are being stalked by a killer. Just 30 feet to the road, but will anyone reach it alive?

The Vault
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · James Franco, Taryn Manning, Francesca Eastwood
Two estranged sisters are forced to rob a bank in order to save their brother. But this is no ordinary bank.

Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!
›NR2017 · Horror, Crime · 86m · Richard Grieco, Sara Malakul Lane, Margaret O'Brien
On Halloween, an all girl rock-n-roll band called “Kill Pussy Kill” ventures out to play their biggest show to date. However, before hitting the road they manage to unwittingly upset a man. Unfortunately, this man turns out to be an evil genius dead set on revenge. The evil genius manages to lure the girls into his Hell House and when they wake up from being gassed, they find themselves trapped inside an inescapable room filled with a vicious variety of devices that can kill them as well as a variety of weapons that can be used on each other. The rules are simple: advance through all three rooms and you are allowed to go free. The catch is, in order to make it to the next room, someone must die!

Scarce
›2008 · Horror · 93m · Steve Warren, Gary Fischer, Chris Warrilow
SCARCE depicts the gruesome fate of three lost snowboarders trapped at an isolated forest cabin owned by two menacing locals who harvest human flesh. As the day of the slaughter nears, they attempt to escape barefoot through the frozen wilderness.

Escape: Puzzle of Fear
›2020 · Thriller, Horror · 83m · Tommy Nash, Aubrey Reynolds, Omar Gooding
Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results.

Havenhurst
›2016 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 80m · Julie Benz, Fionnula Flanagan, Belle Shouse
A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil.

Spookies
›R1986 · Horror · 85m · Felix Ward, Maria Pechukas, Dan Scott
Taking a wrong turn, travelers find themselves trapped in a mysterious house. One horror after another threatens them, as the sorcerer who lives within needs sacrifices to give eternal life to his beautiful bride.

Inoperable
›2017 · Horror · 85m · Danielle Harris, Jeff Denton, Katie Keene
A young woman wakes up in a seemingly evacuated hospital with a hurricane approaching that has awakened malevolent forces inside. She realizes she must escape the hospital before the hurricane passes, or she will be trapped there forever.

The Task
›R2011 · Horror · 90m · Alexandra Staden, Victor McGuire, Adam Rayner
Something diabolical is taking place on the set of "The Task" a new reality show in which players complete terrifying missions within the confines of an abandoned prison hoping to win a hefty cash prize. As six young students explore their new environment, malicious spirits make their presence known in the most gruesome ways imaginable, Unable to escape the labyrinthine prison, the contestants become unwitting pawns caught at the centre of a blood-soaked night of terror.

Submerged
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Jonathan Bennett, Talulah Riley, Tim Daly
A limo ride turns hellish as several kidnappers set their sights on the young people inside.

Spirit Trap
›R2005 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Billie Piper, Luke Mably, Sam Troughton
When five young students move into an old unoccupied mansion an inexplicable chain of events is set into motion as a mysterious spirit clock begins to tick again. As the story unfolds, revealing each student's dark secrets, the boundary between the real world and the afterlife is no longer clear. Will they find a way to escape or will they be trapped with the spirits forever?

Clown
›NR2019 · Horror · 87m · Kasia Szarek, Micavrie Amaia, Marqus Bobesich
A group of teens fights for their lives as they find themselves trapped in a fun-house, stalked by a killer clown who won't rest until every last one of them is dead.

House
›R2008 · Horror · 101m · Michael Madsen, Reynaldo Rosales, Heidi Dippold
Trying to recover from the nearly marriage-breaking stress following the death of their child, Jack and Stephanie spontaneously take off on a road trip. But when their car breaks down in a remote area, they find themselves in a horrific nightmare. Seeking shelter in a house, they soon realize that more danger lurks inside than outside in this spine-chiller based on Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti's best-seller.

Lake Fear
›2014 · Horror, Comedy · 89m · Jessica Willis, Shanon Snedden, Joshua Winch
Four girls go to a cabin in the woods, which is inhabited by evil. This cabin then ensnares them in a labyrinth of macabre as they must battle their way out.

The Snare
›NR2017 · Thriller, Horror · 93m · Eaoifa Forward, Daniel Paton, Rachel Warren
Three friends head to the seafront for a drunken weekend, only to be imprisoned on the top floor of their holiday apartment by a malevolent paranormal force.

Curse of the Nun
›R2018 · Horror · 80m · Lacy Hartselle, Jonathan Everett, Rae Hunt
A damaged young woman is looking forward to moving to a beautiful new home, but the spirit of a deranged nun wants her to stay right where she is.

Disquiet
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 85m · Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rachelle Goulding, Elyse Levesque
After a near-fatal car accident, Sam wakes to discover he is trapped in an abandoned hospital by mysterious and sinister forces that have no intention of letting him leave…






















