
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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Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood
›R1973 · Horror · 74m · Janine Carazo, Jerome Dempsey, Daniel Dietrich
After a young man goes missing at a run-down local amusement park, his family take jobs there in an effort to uncover what happened to him and, in the process, meet a cadre of unsettling characters.

Run Sweetheart Run
›2020 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · Ella Balinska, Pilou Asbæk, Clark Gregg
A woman runs for her life though the streets of Los Angeles after her blind date suddenly turns violent.

Witchboard
›R1986 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 98m · Todd Allen, Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols
Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.

Count Yorga, Vampire
›PG-131970 · Horror · 93m · Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy
Posing as a hip medium, a bloodthirsty old-world undead gent attracts young lovelies to his mansion by holding séances in modern-day Los Angeles.

The Godsend
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence
An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she appears.

Bowery at Midnight
›NR1942 · Crime, Horror, Action · 62m · Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.

You Shall Not Sleep Tonight
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 79m · Greg Lucey, Dan Bronchinson, John C. Forman
A boy is haunted by terrifying nightmares where a monster lurks inside the closet. To his relief, his father appears in the middle of the night helping him to face his fears. But the boy will begin to question the true nature of these apparitions, having to face the truth about his father's destiny and the evil force that threatens to consume him.

Skinner
›R1993 · Horror · 90m · Ted Raimi, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake
A man rents a room in a couple's house and roams the streets at night looking for victims to skin, while constantly being followed by a junkie he mutilated who is now looking for revenge.

Toolbox Murders
›R2004 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Rance Howard
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades, but when renovations start, a series of murders take place.

Matriarch
›R2022 · Horror · 85m · Jemima Rooper, Kate Dickie, Sarah Paul
Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.

Devils of Darkness
›NR1965 · Horror · 88m · William Sylvester, Hubert Noël, Carole Gray
A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.

Disconnected
›1984 · Horror · 82m · Frances Sherman, Mark Walker, Carl Koch
Lovely young Alicia starts receiving bizarre and disturbing phone calls after breaking up with her boyfriend Mike who she suspects is cheating on her with her twin sister Barbara Ann. Alicia meets and befriends amiable, but awkward film nerd Franklin, who alas turns out to be a total psycho with a penchant for carving up nubile ladies. But is Franklin the nutter responsible for those distressing phone calls?

Amulet
›R2020 · Horror · 99m · Carla Juri, Alec Secăreanu, Imelda Staunton
Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for Magda, Tomaz cannot ignore his suspicion that something insidious might also be living alongside them.

Wax
›R2014 · Horror · 88m · Jimmy Shaw, Jack Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin
A young journalist has to spend a night in Barcelona's Wax Museum to investigate paranormal activities. He has no idea Dr. Knox, an insane cannibal surgeon, hides in the museum at night.

The Owners
›2020 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

The Shortcut
›R2009 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Drew Seeley, Shannon Woodward, Dave Franco
When Derek moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the warning, Derek and his friends set out to uncover the dark secret that's buried deep in the woods. But will they survive to tell it?

The Guardian
›R1990 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 92m · Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell
Phil and Kate select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child, but the seemingly lovely Camilla is not what she appears to be...

So Cold the River
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 93m · Bethany Joy Lenz, Alysia Reiner, Katie Sarife
A documentary filmmaker's research on a town's mysterious benefactor unearths an unexplained evil while staying at a local resort.

The Bell Keeper
›2023 · Horror, Action · 92m · Randy Couture, Kathleen Kenny, Reid Miller
A group of friends travel to a secluded campsite to film a documentary. What they find is something much more sinister than they could have ever imagined.

Bordello of Blood
›R1996 · Horror, Comedy · 87m · Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart
Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.

Cult Killer
›R2024 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 105m · Alice Eve, Antonio Banderas, Shelley Hennig
A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.

The Possession of David O'Reilly
›2010 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Giles Alderson, Francesca Fowler, Zoe Richards
A supernatural shockumentary about a demonic presence in a young couple's home in London.

The Halfway House
›R2004 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Mary Woronov, Janet Tracy Keijser, Shawn Savage
Young girls are disappearing in and around the Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls.

The Scary of Sixty-First
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 81m · Betsey Brown, Madeline Quinn, Dasha Nekrasova
Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.






















