
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 Children
›R2008 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 84m · Eva Birthistle, Hannah Tointon, Stephen Campbell Moore
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.

Summer Scars
›2007 · Drama, Horror · 73m · Kevin Howarth, Ciaran Joyce, Amy Harvey
A group of teens are faced with a life-changing experience when they meet a deranged drifter.

We're All Going to the World's Fair
›NR2022 · Horror, Drama · 86m · Anna Cobb, Michael J Rogers, May Leitz
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.

Emelie
›NR2016 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Sarah Bolger, Susan Pourfar, Chris Beetem
After their regular babysitter cancels, the Thompson family turns to her friend, Anna to supervise their children while the parents go out to celebrate their anniversary. At first Anna seems like a dream come true to the kids, allowing them to eat extra cookies and play with things that are usually off-limits, but as her behaviour becomes increasingly odd, the kids soon find out that her intentions are dark and twisted—and she is not who she seems to be.

The Premonition
›PG1976 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 94m · Sharon Farrell, Edward Bell, Danielle Brisebois
When a deranged woman and her carny boyfriend plot to abduct her biological daughter from the girl's foster parents, the foster mother is plagued by premonitions and psychic visions.

Blood and Lace
›1971 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 87m · Gloria Grahame, Melody Patterson, Milton Selzer
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by a mysterious woman and her handyman, both whom she comes to suspect are hiding dark secrets.

Cooties
›R2014 · Comedy, Horror, Action · 88m · Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson
A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.

Dread
›R2009 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 108m · Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans, Hanne Steen
Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.

Mom
›R1990 · Comedy, Horror · 95m · Mark Thomas Miller, Jeanne Bates, Brion James
During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, turning her into a hungry werewolf. Now her adult son must try to prevent the both of them from doing any more harm.

John and the Hole
›NR2021 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 103m · Charlie Shotwell, Taissa Farmiga, Jennifer Ehle
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker — a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants.

Inner Demons
›2014 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 85m · Morgan McClellan, Lara Vosburgh, Colleen McGrann
INNER DEMONS follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her - with symptoms that straddle the disturbing and scary intersection between insanity, addiction and true possession.

Dark Touch
›2013 · Horror · 90m · Missy Keating, Marcella Plunkett, Charlotte Flyvholm
Niamh is the lone survivor of a mysterious massacre in which the furniture and objects in her family’s isolated house took on a monstrous life of their own. The police ignore her wild stories, and the neighbours and social worker who take her into their care try to introduce her to a new life. But Niamh is unable to leave her violent past behind her, endangering everyone who crosses her path.

Don't Grow Up
›2015 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Fergus Riordan, Madeleine Kelly, McKell David
Teenage delinquents who are living in an island youth center wake up to find themselves alone with no one to watch over them. After much partying, they realize the island has been deserted and the adults have been infected by a mysterious epidemic.

Blood of Dracula
›1957 · Horror · 69m · Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis, Gail Ganley
A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.

The Fly II
›R1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 105m · Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.

Child's Play 3
›R1991 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Justin Whalin, Brad Dourif, Perrey Reeves
Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, teen Andy Barclay is placed in a military school, and the spirit of Chucky returns to renew his quest and seek vengeance after being recreated from a mass of melted plastic.

The Walking Dead: World BeyondSeries
›TV-MA2020 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons · Aliyah Royale, Alexa Mansour, Hal Cumpston
A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world receive a message that inspires them to leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to find the one man who can possibly save the world.

Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story
›R2025 · Horror · 89m · Titus Welliver, Jocelin Donahue, Brady Hepner
Max and Rudy Van Helsing have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham. Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior. But when they begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father’s history with Dracula, their world unravels, forcing them to confront the terrifying legacy they were never meant to inherit.

Prowl
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Ruta Gedmintas, Joshua Bowman, Perdita Weeks
Amber dreams of escaping her small town existence and persuades her friends to accompany her to find an apartment in the big city. When their transportation breaks down, she and her friends gratefully accept a ride in the back of a semi. But when the driver refuses to stop and they discover the cargo is hundreds of cartons of blood, they panic. Their panic turns to terror when the truck disgorges them into a dark, abandoned warehouse where blood-thirsty creatures learn to hunt human prey, which, the friends realize, is what they now are... Written by Svetlio Svilenov

The Plague
›R2006 · Thriller, Horror · 88m · James Van Der Beek, Ivana Miličević, Brad Hunt
Ten years have passed since the world's children fell into a coma. Tonight they're waking up and all hell is breaking loose. An unholy battle between the generations is being waged, and time is not on the side of adults.

The Calling
›2000 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Laura Harris, Richard Lintern, Francis Magee
On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist

June
›2015 · Science Fiction, Horror · 84m · Casper Van Dien, Victoria Pratt, Addy Miller
June is different from all other nine-year old girls. She is an orphan hiding a secret. Bad things happen when she gets upset, supernatural things. June has been in many foster homes usually leaving them destroyed. But this time it will be different. June has a new foster home and she really likes her new parents. She will have to face the force within her to protect her new parents and to save herself.

They Found Hell
›2015 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Chris Schellenger, Katy Reece, Austin Scott
When a group of gifted college students run a secret teleportation experiment, they accidentally open a portal to another dimension, trapping them in Hell. One by one they are hunted, tortured and killed by the denizens of Hell who are bent on stealing their souls.

The Child Remains
›2017 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 107m · Suzanne Clément, Allan Hawco, Shelley Thompson
An expectant couple's intimate weekend turns to terror as they discover their secluded country inn is a haunted maternity home where infants and mothers were murdered.






















