
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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Lord of Illusions
›R1995 · Horror, Fantasy, Drama · 109m · Scott Bakula, Kevin J. O'Connor, Famke Janssen
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.

The Golem
›R2018 · Horror, Drama · 95m · Hani Furstenberg, Ishai Golan, Lenny Ravich
A re-imagining of the old mystical folklore that follows a woman and a tight-knit Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders. She conjures a dangerous creature to protect them but it may be more evil than she ever imagined.

The Resurrected
›1991 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 105m · John Terry, Jane Sibbett, Chris Sarandon
Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.

Nocturne
›NR2020 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Sydney Sweeney, Madison Iseman, Jacques Colimon
Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate.

Necronomicon
›R1993 · Horror · 96m · Jeffrey Combs, Tony Azito, Juan Fernández
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".

The Alchemist Cookbook
›2016 · Drama, Horror, Comedy · 82m · Ty Hickson, Amari Cheatom, Fiji
Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous.

Residue
›2017 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 82m · Costas Mandylor, James Clayton, Taylor Hickson
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.

Banshee Chapter
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Ted Levine, Katia Winter, Michael McMillian
On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government chemical research and the mystery of a disturbing radio signal of unknown origin.

Black Mountain Side
›NR2016 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 99m · Shane Twerdun, Michael Dickson, Carl Toftfelt
A group of archaeologists working in Northern Canada uncover a strange structure dating over ten thousand years before the present. The team soon finds themselves isolated when their communication systems fail and they begin to feel the effects of solitude.

The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter
›R1992 · Horror · 104m · Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Charles Klausmeyer, Maria Ford
A creature of demonic nature, too hideous to have a name, once again terrorizes the college kids that summoned it.

Whistle
›R2026 · Horror, Mystery · 100m · Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, Sky Yang
A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down.

Puppetmaster
›R1989 · Horror · 88m · Paul Le Mat, William Hickey, Irene Miracle
After being contacted by their mysterious former colleague, four psychics arrive at a secluded hotel where they are stalked by a group of murderous puppets.

The Prophecy: Uprising
›R2005 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Sean Pertwee, John Light, Kari Wührer
There exists an ancient manuscript still writing itself called the Lexicon. It supposedly tells of the coming of the Anti-Christ, and happens to fall into the hands of an unsuspecting woman. Now, she is being pursued by angels intent on obtaining the information from the book.

The Last Boy on Earth
›2024 · Science Fiction, Horror, Adventure · 97m · Camilo Levigne, Hugo Quiril, Raymond E. Lee
In a distant future, a mysterious boy becomes the central figure in the search for a new hope. Who is this kid? Why is everyone looking for it? Sometimes it is better not to know certain answers…

Sphinx
›PG1981 · Adventure, Mystery, Thriller · 118m · Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, Maurice Ronet
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!

Books of Blood
›NR2020 · Horror, Science Fiction · 107m · Britt Robertson, Freda Foh Shen, Nicholas Campbell
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.

The Home
›R2025 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Pete Davidson, John Glover, Mugga
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.

Cellar Dweller
›R1988 · Fantasy, Horror · 77m · Debrah Farentino, Yvonne De Carlo, Jeffrey Combs
A comic book artist Whitney Taylor is doomed to repeat history in a most grotesque way when she unleashes a demon after drawing it.

The 7th Dimension
›2010 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 95m · Kelly Adams, Jonathan Rhodes, Lucy Evans
Two young women arrive at a curious penthouse apartment, led by one's crush on her tutor. However, her love interest doesn't live alone. He's part of a trio of computer hackers about to embark on the ultimate job on the world's most mysterious mainframe. Whilst doing so, they unlock more than they bargain for with supernatural and ultimately fatal results. Can this seemingly insignificant chain of events, which have thrown this group together, be construed as fate? Can the beacon provide a signal of hope or is it a web of manipulation, paranoia and ultimately... murder?

Lord of Tears
›2013 · Drama, Horror · 100m · David Schofield, Alexandra Nicole Hulme, Euan Douglas
Lord of Tears tells the story of James Findlay, a school teacher plagued by recurring nightmares of a mysterious and unsettling entity. Suspecting that his visions are linked to a dark incident in his past, James returns to his childhood home, a notorious mansion in the Scottish Highlands, where he uncovers the disturbing truth behind his dreams, and must fight to survive the brutal consequences of his curiosity.

The Ghostmaker
›2011 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Aaron Dean Eisenberg, Liz Fenning, J. Walter Holland
A group of college friends discover a 15th century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the "Box of Shadows" soon brings out the group's most dangerous impulses and desires. The friends find themselves pulled into a world of evil where they learn the line between life and death is there for a reason.

Ghost Project
›2023 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Juan Cruz Rolla, Laura Casale, Zhongbo Li Zhang
Three young programmers come across an abandoned technology meant to detect supernatural presence. They reverse engineer the tech and create an app for their phones which allows them to see ghosts, thus endangering their own lives.

Down a Dark Hall
›PG-132018 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 96m · AnnaSophia Robb, Uma Thurman, Isabelle Fuhrman
Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.

The Dunwich Horror
›R1970 · Horror · 88m · Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He is turned away by Wilbur, the family's insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won't be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret — as well as a great evil.






















