Cinema of the Damned

R2005 · Drama, Horror, Crime · 111m · Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie

The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.

IMDb 6.7MC 54🍅 54%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.5

R2010 · Drama, History, Horror · 102m · Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Carice van Houten

As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.

IMDb 6.4MC 71🍅 72%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.5

2017 · Crime, Thriller, Comedy · 98m · Nicki Micheaux, Mark Burnham, Jon Oswald

The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong.

IMDb 6.2MC 66🍅 91%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.5

R1983 · Drama, Thriller · 105m · Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.

IMDb 6.3MC 60🍅 77%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.4

2023 · Horror · 93m · Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, John Adams

A family of murderous sideshow performers traverse the harsh conditions of a Depression-era America in a bloody deal with the Devil.

IMDb 5.4🍅 100%TMDB 5.0☠ 6.4

NR1914 · Drama, Horror · 83m · Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.

IMDb 6.4TMDB 5.9☠ 6.4

2018 · Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror · 104m · Mark O'Brien, Martin Wallström, Georgia King

A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse", but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequences.

IMDb 5.9🍅 82%TMDB 6.0☠ 6.3

1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee

Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Bonner looks about 40; he's really 104 years old. But people are starting to get suspicious, and he may not make 200.

IMDb 6.3🍅 60%TMDB 5.8☠ 6.3

NC-171977 · Horror, Comedy, Crime · 105m · Carroll Baker, Perry King, Susan Tyrrell

Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work after he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a hit, since she prefers using women, but decides to try him on a trial basis. Meanwhile, the cop she pays off wants an arrest to make it look like he's doing his job, but Hazel doesn't want to sacrifice any of her "associates". The sleazy side of life is explored in this delightfully dark and deadpan film.

IMDb 6.0🍅 67%TMDB 6.5☠ 6.3

NC-171965 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Hal Hopper, Antoinette Cristiani, John Furlong

In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney, traveling from Michigan to California, stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she's married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.

1967 · Horror · 100m · Burgess Meredith, Jack Palance, Beverly Adams

A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman Dr Diabolo, to warn people of foreseeable evil. One by one, skeptics stand before the Fate Atropos to preview the greed and violence hiding behind their respectable façades.

IMDb 6.1TMDB 6.2☠ 6.2

1990 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 96m · Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Joss Ackland

Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.

IMDb 6.1TMDB 5.9☠ 6.2

R2014 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Liam Cunningham, Niall Greig Fulton, Pollyanna McIntosh

Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the bitter-and-twisted who all think that, really, they deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they're there by accident and that, with a little luck, life is going to get better. Wrong, on both counts. Six is about to arrive - and All Hell Will Break Loose!

IMDb 5.8🍅 77%TMDB 5.7☠ 6.1

R1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.

IMDb 6.3MC 37🍅 67%TMDB 6.2☠ 6.1

R1968 · Horror · 91m · Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen

A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend's scarred face by murdering other women and extracting fluids from their pituitary gland. However, the effects only last for a short time, so he has to kill more and more women. It is ultimately a killing spree which ends with considerable death and disaster.

R2016 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 76m · Quinn Shephard, Erin Wilhelmi, Susan Kellermann

Soon after moving in with her aging aunt Dora, Adele meets Beth, seductive and mysterious, who tests the limits of Adele's moral ground and sends her spiraling down a psychologically unstable and phantasmagoric path.

IMDb 5.4🍅 83%TMDB 5.3☠ 6.1

1994 · Horror, Romance, Fantasy · 81m · Angela Featherstone, Daniel Markel, Nicholas Worth

A bored female demon ventures to the surface world to punish the wicked before they enter her hellish domain.

IMDb 5.9TMDB 5.5☠ 6.1

2017 · Comedy, Thriller, Horror · 80m · Mim Shaikh, Javier Botet, Mandeep Dhillon

An oily, amoral estate agent is preyed upon by one of his victims, who quietly moves into his flat and, unseen, begins a deliciously malicious campaign of revenge.

IMDb 5.5🍅 77%TMDB 5.3☠ 6.1

R2009 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 95m · Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder

Every seven years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No. 1 Assassin, which itself carries the legendary million dollar-a-bullet price tag.

IMDb 6.0TMDB 5.9☠ 6.0

R1970 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson

Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.

IMDb 5.8🍅 67%TMDB 5.9☠ 6.0

1943 · Science Fiction, Horror · 65m · George Zucco, David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers

A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.

IMDb 5.8TMDB 6.0☠ 6.0

2009 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Sebastian Gregory

Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.

R1973 · Horror, Drama · 95m · Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Lyle Waggoner, Christopher Stone

A young socialite struggling to control her necrophiliac urges is torn between her affection for a kind businessman and the mortician who supplies her with bodies.

R2008 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Milo Ventimiglia, Alyssa Milano, Michael Weston

Medical student Ted Grey graduates at the top of his class and quickly joins an elite pathology program, whose top students invite him into their circle. There he uncovers a gruesome secret: They play a game in which one tries to commit the perfect, undetectable murder, then the others compete to determine the victim's cause of death.

IMDb 5.9MC 55🍅 46%TMDB 5.7☠ 5.8