
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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Bed Rest
›R2023 · Horror · 90m · Melissa Barrera, Guy Burnet, Edie Inksetter
After struggling to start a family, Julie Rivers becomes pregnant and moves into a new home with her husband. She's ordered to mandatory bed rest, and begins seeing ghostly happenings throughout the house.

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 105m · Maika Monroe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Raúl Castillo
Suburban couple Caitlin and Miguel hire the seemingly sweet Polly to take care of their newborn baby. But Polly's true motives have little to do with singing lullabies.

Madres
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Ariana Guerra, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Elpidia Carrillo
A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it's related to a legendary curse or something more nefarious.

Matriarch
›R2018 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Charlie Blackwood, Julie Hannan, Scott Vickers
A pregnant woman and her husband are taken in by a farmer and his wife after crashing their car in the Scottish countryside. Once inside, they realize their hosts’ daughter is a missing child from the news years earlier. Things take a sinister twist when the farmer and his wife inform the couple they intend to keep their baby once born.

The Other
›2025 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Olivia Macklin, Dylan McTee, Avangeline Friedlander
Unable to conceive, a couple seeks to build a family with a young orphan, survivor of tragic childhood. But their act of love turns to horror when they realize the violence in their foster's past has returned to destroy the new family.

The Seventh Sign
›R1988 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 97m · Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow
Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse by bloodying rivers, egging on plagues and following scripture word for word.

The Nameless Days
›2022 · Horror · 92m · Alexia Ioannides, Charles Halford, Andrew Roach
Young immigrant Rahui and his pregnant sister are attacked and separated by a demonic spirit as they embark on a dangerous trek across the U.S. border. Injured but determined to survive, Rahui must rescue his sister before the demon takes the one thing she was denied in life–a baby.

Ruby
›R1977 · Horror · 85m · Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman, Janit Baldwin
Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.

Strange Nature
›2018 · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery · 100m · Tiffany Shepis, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lisa Sheridan
The first film to expose unsolved wildlife deformity outbreaks and where they may lead. Based on a true unsolved ecological mystery, thousands of hideously deformed frogs have turned up in the waters of Minnesota. As seen through the eyes of a one hit wonder single mother and her 11 year old son, a small town struggles with the unknown when the deadly mutations move beyond the ponds.

Reunion
›2020 · Horror · 95m · Julia Ormond, Emma Draper, Cohen Holloway
A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying.

Desolation
›2017 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 78m · Jaimi Paige, Toby Nichols, Alyshia Ochse
A mother takes her son on a trip into remote wilderness to scatter his father's ashes; they must confront their worst fears when a lone hiker begins following them.

Ghost Son
›R2007 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Laura Harring, John Hannah, Pete Postlethwaite
A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.

St. Agatha
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Sabrina Kern, Carolyn Hennesy, Courtney Halverson
St. Agatha is set in the 1950s in small town Georgia. A pregnant con woman named Agatha is on the run and seeks refuge in a convent hidden in deafening isolation. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark lair where silence is forced. Ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of will power Agatha has is tested. She soon learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the odd people that lurk inside its halls. Agatha must now find a way to discover the unyielding strength needed to escape and save her baby before she’s caged behind these walls forever.

Baby Ruby
›2023 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 93m · Noémie Merlant, Kit Harington, Camila Canó-Flaviá
After welcoming her baby, Ruby, home, the tightly scripted world of lifestyle influencer Jo starts to unravel. As increasingly sinister happenings mount, Jo is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems.

The Curse of La Llorona
›R2019 · Horror · 93m · Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velásquez
In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.

XX
›R2017 · Horror · 81m · Natalie Brown, Jonathan Watton, Peter DaCunha
This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.

Monstrous
›PG-132022 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Christina Ricci, Santino Barnard, Don Baldaramos
Laura, traumatized by an abusive relationship, runs away from her former husband with her seven-year-old son Cody. But in their new, idyllic and remote sanctuary, they find they have another, bigger and more terrifying monster to deal with…

First Born
›2007 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Elisabeth Shue, Steven Mackintosh, Kathleen Chalfant
Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dreams, she's always been a bit edgy. A C-section drives her over the edge, making her see things in a different light. A creepy babysitter doesn't make things any better. She begins seeing things, trusts no one, as she goes into self-destruct mode.

Breaking at the Edge
›2013 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Rebecca Da Costa, Milo Ventimiglia, Andie MacDowell
A pregnant woman fears for her unborn child's life if she doesn't avenge a supernatural entity.

The Deliverance
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 111m · Andra Day, Glenn Close, Anthony B. Jenkins
Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.

Visions
›R2015 · Horror, Mystery · 82m · Isla Fisher, Anson Mount, Gillian Jacobs
After moving to a vineyard with her family, a pregnant woman experiences horrifying visions.

Rattlesnake
›2019 · Thriller, Drama, Mystery · 85m · Carmen Ejogo, Theo Rossi, Emma Greenwell
After a mysterious woman saves her daughter from a deadly snakebite, a single mother must repay the debt by killing a stranger before sundown.

False Positive
›R2021 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Ilana Glazer, Justin Theroux, Pierce Brosnan
After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy and Adrian finally find their dream fertility doctor in the illustrious Dr. Hindle. But after becoming pregnant with a healthy baby girl, Lucy begins to notice something sinister through Hindle's gleaming charm, and she sets out to uncover the unsettling truth about him.

Dark Light
›2019 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 90m · Jessica Madsen, Ben Sullivan, Opal Littleton
A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.






















