
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 Hideous Sun Demon
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson
After exposure to radiation, an atomic research scientist finds himself changing into a murderous, lizard-like creature every time he is exposed to sunlight.

100 Tears
›NC-172007 · Horror · 91m · Raine Brown, Joe Davison, Georgia Chris
After being accused of crimes he did not commit, a lonely circus performer exacts his revenge on those who unjustly condemned him. The act sparks something inside of him which he cannot stop and now, years later, his inner-demons have truly surfaced. Part urban legend, part tabloid sensationalism... he is now an unstoppable murderous juggernaut, fueled only by hate.

Cold & Dark
›2005 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Luke Goss, Kevin Howarth, Matt Lucas
When Detective Mortimer Shade is somehow killed in a freezer, a parasite called a grail possesses his body, revives him, but he needs blood to stay alive. His partner John Dark accepts the new situation and together they become vigilantes, judging and killing the bad guys, with Shade sucking their blood with his claw. However, Dark notes that Shade is losing the rest of his humanity and becoming a monster, being aware and afraid of the danger Shade represents to mankind and trying to stop him.

Medusa
›2020 · Horror, Drama, Fantasy · 90m · Megan Purvis, Sarah T. Cohen, Nicola Wright
After being bitten by a lethal snake, a young woman experiences changes in her senses and appearance, as she sheds her old self and slowly turns into a deadly weapon.

Faust: Love of the Damned
›2000 · Horror, Fantasy, Action · 98m · Mark Frost, Isabel Brook, Jennifer Rope
An artist sells his soul to the mysterious M in order to get revenge on the people who killed his girlfriend. Soon, he realises everything has a price, and he is transformed into a horned demon with a passion for killing.

War of the Colossal Beast
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Duncan 'Dean' Parkin
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very angry.

Monsters: Dark Continent
›R2014 · Thriller, Drama, Science Fiction · 119m · Johnny Harris, Sam Keeley, Joe Dempsie
Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to protect US interests from the Monsters, but the war is far from being won.

Battledogs
›2013 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Craig Sheffer, Kate Vernon, Dennis Haysbert
When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue general uses the disease to create an army of super-soldiers.

Strange Blood
›2015 · Science Fiction, Horror · 84m · Robert Brettenaugh, Alexandra Bard, James Adam Lim
When a brilliant but obsessive scientist goes to extremes to develop a universal cure for all disease, he finds himself infected with a bizarre parasite that begins to transform him into a bloodthirsty madman. Time running out, he must find a way to stop the monster that is growing within and prevent the rest of the world from being "cured."

Species II
›R1998 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 93m · Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.

Corbin Nash
›2018 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Dean S. Jagger, Fernanda Romero, Malcolm McDowell
A rogue police detective in search of his parents' killer is murdered and reborn the ultimate killer.

The Incredible Melting Man
›R1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.

Pulse 2: Afterlife
›R2008 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Jamie Bamber, Georgina Rylance, Karley Scott Collins
The world has been reshaped by the invasion of ghosts via the wireless internet. Cities are deserted, technology has been destroyed and the few remaining human beings eschew anything electrical in order to avoid a confrontation with the soulless ghosts that now wander the planet. Most of the ghosts are doomed to a repetitive loop of something they did while they were still despairing humans (a man repeatedly hangs himself, for example), but there are some ghosts so locked in denial, they do not know they are dead. They continue to haunt their homes, wrapped in fear that their souls will soon be torn from them.






















