
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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In Their Skin
›NR2012 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Selma Blair, Joshua Close, James D'Arcy
A couple and their young son retreat to their woodland vacation home, only to face sinister neighbors who intend to kill them and steal their identities.

Strays
›1991 · Horror, TV Movie · 83m · Kathleen Quinlan, Timothy Busfield, Claudia Christian
A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.

A Savannah Haunting
›2022 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 103m · Gena Shaw, Dean J. West, Tommi Rose
Based on true events and filmed in the actual haunted house upon which the script is based, A Savannah Haunting is a chilling supernatural thriller about a family that is torn apart by evil forces inside their new home.

The Strangers: Prey at Night
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Bailee Madison, Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson
A family's road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked killers pay them a visit to test the family's every limit as they struggle to survive.

They Reach
›2020 · Adventure, Horror · 88m · Mary Madaline Roe, Morgan Chandler, Eden Campbell
In 1979, a young girl stumbles upon a possessed tape player. She unknowingly unleashes a demonic entity that haunts her family while slowly dragging the small town of Clarkston to Hell.

The Millennium Bug
›2011 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · John Charles Meyer, Jessica Simons, Christine Haeberman
When the Haskin family seeks refuge from Y2K hysteria in the isolated forests of the Sierra Diablos mountains, madness and terror find them there. Abducted by a vicious hillbilly clan, the Haskins fight for survival, but neither they nor the hillbilly Crawfords can comprehend the monstrous nightmare about to erupt from the bowels of the earth.

The Other Side of the Door
›R2016 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sisto, Sofia Rosinsky
Grieving over the loss of her son, a mother struggles with her feelings for her daughter and her husband. She seeks out a ritual that allows her say goodbye to her dead child, opening the veil between the world of the dead and the living. Her daughter becomes the focus of terror. She must now protect against the evil that was once her beloved son.

When the Lights Went Out
›2012 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 86m · Steven Waddington, Kate Ashfield, Jo Hartley
Yorkshire, 1974, the Maynard family moves into their dream house. It's a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken nightmare as the family discovers a horrifying truth, a truth that will make the history books. The house is already occupied by the most violent poltergeist ever documented, a poltergeist that will tear you from your bed as you sleep and drag you helplessly into the darkness.

The Deliverance
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 111m · Andra Day, Glenn Close, Anthony B. Jenkins
Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.

Torment
›R2013 · Thriller, Horror · 82m · Katharine Isabelle, Robin Dunne, Peter DaCunha
Newlyweds Cory and Sarah Morgan take Cory's 7-year-old son Liam up to the country for some much needed family time. When it appears as if Liam has run away, psychological suspense becomes straight-out horror, as Sarah and Cory must now confront a sadistic cult-like family who have been hiding in the house all along and have taken Liam for themselves.

Grotesque
›R1988 · Horror · 89m · Linda Blair, Tab Hunter, Donna Wilkes
A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of murderous creature is chasing them...

Hate Crime
›2012 · Crime, Horror · 72m · Jody Barton, Nicholas Adam Clark, Greg Depetro
A Jewish family, new to the neighborhood, are recording their youngest son's birthday celebrations on video when their home is suddenly invaded by a band of meth-head Neo-Nazis.

Poltergeist
›PG-132015 · Horror · 93m · Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Saxon Sharbino
A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare
›1995 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 85m · Robert Hays, Nancy Stafford, Ryan Phillippe
When bees attack an isolated country house, a family must stick together to survive.

Bloat
›R2025 · Horror · 87m · Ben McKenzie, Bojana Novaković, Sawyer Jones
After a near-death drowning accident, a young boy's family is horrified to discover he has become possessed by a legendary demon from the depths of the lake. As the family races against time to save the boy's soul, the evil monster inside the child tears the family apart as it seeks to destroy everyone in its path.

Keep Watching
›2017 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 90m · Bella Thorne, Chandler Riggs, Natalie Martinez
A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers all over the world, who are compelled to KEEP WATCHING... not knowing if what they're seeing is real, or staged.

Amityville: The Evil Escapes
›R1989 · Horror, TV Movie · 95m · Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Fredric Lehne
After moving into their matriarch's gothic seaside mansion, the Evans family soon becomes host to an uninvited demonic force in the form of a mysterious lamp that once resided in the Amityville house.

Paranormal Entity
›PG2009 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 88m · Erin Marie Hogan, Fia Perera, Norman Saleet
Thomas Finley has been arrested for the murder of his nineteen-year old sister, Samantha and fifty-two year old, Edgar Lauren, a Professor and paranormal investigator. Police were called to the scene by Thomas himself in the early hours of the morning, finding him inside with his sister's body cradled in his arms. In his statement given in police custody, Thomas claimed that the victims were attacked by a demonic entity of unknown origin. Days later, he committed suicide. It is the opinion of those closely related to the family that a video found at the scene be shown to the public as a final testament to what actually happened inside the Finley home in those final days.

The Harbinger
›PG-132022 · Thriller, Mystery, Drama · 114m · Madeleine McGraw, Irene Bedard, Teal Redmann
A family moves their troubled daughter to a small town, where people suspect she is responsible for a series of mysterious deaths. Fearing something evil followed them, the tormented parents must do whatever it takes to save their daughter.

The Amityville Terror
›2016 · Horror · 84m · Nicole Tompkins, Kaiwi Lyman, Kim Nielsen
When a new family moves to an old house in Amityville, they are tormented and tortured by an evil spirit living in the home while trapped by the malicious townspeople who want to keep them there.

History of Evil
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Jackie Cruz, Paul Wesley, Rhonda Johnson Dents
A family on the run from a corrupt state takes refuge in a safe house with an evil past — a terrifying last stop on a near-future Underground Railroad.

The Chosen
›2015 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Kian Lawley, Elizabeth Keener, Angelica Rose Torres
When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.

The Day Time Ended
›1980 · Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror · 80m · Jim Davis, Christopher Mitchum, Dorothy Malone
Deep in the desert, a rural American family is forced to endure a night of inter-dimensional, extra terrestrial terror when a UFO appears over their home.

A Haunting in Salem
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Bill Oberst Jr., Courtney Abbiati, Jenna Stone
When the new sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts discovers that he is the victim of a centuries-old curse, he must protect his family from the vengeful ghosts that torment his home.






















