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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73 titles
Doctor Blood's Coffin
›1961 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter
After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.
Revenge of the Zombies
›1943 · Horror, Comedy · 59m · John Carradine, Robert Lowery, Gale Storm
When Dr. Von Altermann's wife Lila dies mysteriously at his spooky mansion her relations suspect murder. They also suspect the doctor is turning her into a zombie, to join the army of living dead he hopes to devote to the Nazi cause. However, Lila, though dead, has developed a will of her own.
Tammy and the T-Rex
›NR1994 · Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy · 91m · Denise Richards, Paul Walker, George Pilgrim
An evil scientist implants the brain of a murdered high school student into an animatronic Tyrannosaurus, who later wreaks vengeance on the bullies who killed him, and is reunited with his sweetheart.
The Monster Maker
›1944 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell
Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
Monster Mash
›2024 · Horror, Action, Fantasy · 90m · Michael Madsen, Michelle Bauer, Ethan Daniel Corbett
Dracula, Werewolf, and the Invisible Man must work together to stop Dr. Frankenstein from creating an unstoppable monster.
Man with the Screaming Brain
›NR2005 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Bruce Campbell, Tamara Gorski, Ted Raimi
The brains of a Russian taxi driver and a wealthy businessman are brought together in one body by a mad scientist.
Mad Doctor of Blood Island
›NR1969 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ronald Remy
A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.
Wonder Women
›PG1973 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Maria De Aragon, Roberta Collins, Ross Hagen
Dr. Tsu is a brilliant surgeon with her own exotic island off the coast of Manila. Using her sexy, all-girl army of martial-arts experts, Tsu kidnaps some of the world's greatest athletes. She is able to transplant any body part, so she uses the athletes for spare parts to sell to the world's richest men. Mike Harber is a womanizing, wise-cracking insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London sent to Manila to investigate the disappearance of a jai-alai player, and becomes involved with Dr. Tsu's mad mission.
Cyst
›NR2020 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 68m · Eva Habermann, George Hardy, Greg Sestero
In the 1960s, a nurse's last day on her job is ruined when a doctor inadvertently creates a cyst monster that terrorizes the office.
Fear Chamber
›1968 · Horror · 88m · Boris Karloff, Julissa, Carlos East
The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.
The Twilight People
›PG1972 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · John Ashley, Pat Woodell, Jan Merlin
A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
The Ape Man
›NR1943 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 64m · Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford
A scientist is turned into an ape man.
The Ape
›NR1940 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 62m · Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
Blood Dolls
›R1999 · Comedy, Horror · 84m · Kristopher Logan, Debra Mayer, William Paul Burns
Virgil, an eccentric freak billionaire, spends his days being a "biological inventor." The "blood dolls," his newest creation, aid him in getting revenge on those who betrayed him.
Black Dragons
›NR1942 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 64m · Bela Lugosi, Clayton Moore, Joan Barclay
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
Frankenstein's Daughter
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Donald Murphy, Sandra Knight, John Ashley
Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
Hellmaster
›1992 · Horror · 96m · John Saxon, David Emge, Amy Raasch
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers
The Return of Swamp Thing
›PG-131989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Sarah Douglas
The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection.
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
›PG1978 · Music, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 96m · Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons
The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans into robots in his laboratory at an amusement park. It just so happens that he plans to use the KISS concert as a platform to unleash his plan on the world. KISS must use their special powers to stop him.
The Corpse Vanishes
›NR1942 · Science Fiction, Horror · 63m · Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
Maniac
›1934 · Horror · 51m · Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter, Ted Edwards
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
Konga
›1961 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!
Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
›PG1988 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 98m · Anthony Starke, George Clooney, Karen M. Waldron
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
›1967 · Horror · 83m · Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Rochelle Hudson
John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In the first, "The Witches Clock," the Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts and are warned by the town doctor of the history of witches in the community. The second story, "King of the Vampires," deals with a slight-figured killer called the King of the Vampires by Scotland Yard. The third, "Monster Raid," is about a man turned zombie when he ODs on his experimental drug. "Spark of Life" deals with a doctor Mendell obsessed with the experiments of a thrown-out professor named Erich von Frankenstein. "Count Alucard" is a variation on the Dracula story, with the Count acquiring the deed to Carfax Abbey from Harker as vampiresses and dead bodies start turning up.