
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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Night Monster
›1942 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 72m · Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.

House of Horrors
›NR1946 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 65m · Rondo Hatton, Martin Kosleck, Robert Lowery
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.

The Head Hunter
›2019 · Horror, Fantasy · 72m · Christopher Rygh, Cora Kaufman, Aisha Ricketts
On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven by a thirst for revenge, he travels wild expanses on horseback. When his second chance arrives, it’s in a way far more horrifying than he ever imagined.

I Sell the Dead
›NR2008 · Comedy, Drama, Horror · 85m · Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Ron Perlman
18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake tells his life story to Father Francis Duffy. Before long, Arthur spills the beans on how he got started in the grim corpse peddling business with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes.

New Life
›NR2023 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 84m · Sonya Walger, Hayley Erin, Tony Amendola
A mysterious woman on the run, and the resourceful fixer assigned to bring her in. Their two unique stories inextricably link, as the stakes of the pursuit rise to apocalyptic proportions.

Lifechanger
›2018 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 84m · Lora Burke, Jack Foley, Elitsa Bako
A murderous shapeshifter sets out on a blood-soaked mission to make things right with the woman he loves.

Nadja
›R1995 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Elina Löwensohn, Suzy Amis, Galaxy Craze
In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.

Walden
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · Emile Hirsch, Shane West, Kelli Garner
Walden Dean is a stenographer, whose mind witnessed all types of injustices in the courtroom. After discovering he has a terminal illness, repressed anger deep within him surfaces -- taking justice into his own hands in the most gruesome ways imaginable.

Depraved
›2019 · Horror, Drama, Science Fiction · 114m · David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux
A field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East creates a living human out of body parts in his Brooklyn lab.

The First Deadly Sin
›R1980 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 112m · Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, David Dukes
A serial killer is stalking New York City. Inspector Edward Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?

The Raven
›R2012 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · 111m · John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

Nightwatch
›R1997 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 102m · Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.

Nightmare Cinema
›R2018 · Horror · 119m · Mickey Rourke, Sarah Elizabeth Withers, Elizabeth Reaser
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.

Old
›PG-132021 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 108m · Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

Nothing But the Night
›PG1973 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 90m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.

Maggie
›PG-132015 · Horror, Drama, Science Fiction · 95m · Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson
There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to eradicate those with the virus, Wade is pushed to the limits in an effort to protect her. Joely Richardson co-stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller.

ABCs of Death 2
›NR2014 · Horror · 124m · Eric Jacobus, Julian Barratt, Ian Virgo
Taking all that was great from the first instalment, the movie aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster-paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.

Tell-Tale
›2009 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 92m · Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, Brian Cox
A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.

Dead Heat
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 86m · Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost
Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.

All the Creatures Were Stirring
›2018 · Horror · 80m · Katie Parker, Amanda Fuller, Constance Wu
When an awkward date on Christmas Eve leads a couple into a strange theater, they're treated to a bizarre and frightening collection of Christmas stories, featuring a wide ensemble of characters doing their best to avoid the horrors of the holidays. From boring office parties and last-minute shopping, to vengeful stalkers and immortal demons, there's plenty out there to fear this holiday season.

7 Days to Live
›2000 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Nick Brimble, Renee Ackermann, Zdeněk Maryška
A grieving woman suffers terrifying visions of her own demise after she and her husband move into a country mansion.

Impuratus
›2023 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 135m · Tom Sizemore, Robert Miano, Airen DeLaMater
Police detective Clayton Douglas is summoned to a remote hospital where a mysterious Civil War veteran's outrageous deathbed confession forces him to accept the supernatural.

Siberia
›R2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 91m · Willem Dafoe, Dounia Sichov, Simon McBurney
Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light.

Boom!
›PG1968 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 113m · Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward
Secluding herself in an island mansion in the Mediterranean with her servants and nurses, the wealthy Flora "Sissy" Goforth prepares for her impending death -- and she isn't the only one who's waiting. Known for his attraction to the dying rich, poet Chris Flanders ingratiates himself with the wilting Sissy. Although her friend explains Flanders' "Angel of Death" nature to her, Sissy embraces the vulture-like Flanders.






















