
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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Roadgames
›PG1981 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 101m · Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.

The Creep TapesSeries
›TV-MA2024 · Mystery, Drama · 3 seasons · Mark Duplass
A secluded serial killer lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer's questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake.

The Addiction
›NR1995 · Drama, Horror · 82m · Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.

Creep
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice, Katie Aselton
Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

Copycat
›R1995 · Thriller, Crime, Mystery · 124m · Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

The Howling
›R1981 · Horror · 91m · Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

Dangerous Animals
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston
A savvy and free-spirited surfer is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer. Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

Hunter Hunter
›NR2020 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 93m · Camille Sullivan, Summer H. Howell, Devon Sawa
A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the remote wilderness, but they soon become increasingly worried when their peaceful existence is disrupted.

Hannibal
›R2001 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 131m · Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

From Hell
›R2001 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 122m · Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

Rogue
›R2007 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 99m · Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington
When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.

The Hunger
›R1983 · Horror, Drama · 97m · Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.

Tightrope
›R1984 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 115m · Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

The Vampire Lovers
›R1970 · Horror · 91m · Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, George Cole
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.

See No Evil
›PG1971 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Mia Farrow, Dorothy Alison, Robin Bailey
In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.

A Study in Terror
›NR1965 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 95m · John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.

Play Dead
›2025 · Horror · 72m · Paula Brasca, Damián Del Castillo, Marta Quarleri
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.

Murders in the Zoo
›1933 · Crime, Horror · 62m · Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.

Ultraman: The Ultimate HeroSeries
›1993 · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Kane Kosugi, Harrison Page, Robyn Bliley
The members of WINR (pronounced "Winner") respond when members of the alien Baltan race attack Earth, but the Baltans are only fended off when a gigantic alien, Ultraman Powered, joins with WINR member Kenichi Kai and gives him the power to metamorphose into Ultraman in times of danger. At the end of the first episode Ultraman declares that the Baltans were not completely defeated and that he will remain on Earth to continue the fight. WINR and Ultraman destroy numerous other monsters, but WINR learns that the Baltans were arranging all the battles to learn Ultraman's strengths and weaknesses

The Call
›R2013 · Crime, Thriller · 96m · Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Morris Chestnut
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

The Hills Have Eyes
›R1977 · Horror · 90m · Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer
Taking an ill-advised detour en-route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their RV breaks down in the middle of the desert. Stranded, they find themselves at the mercy of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills.

The Tunnel
›NR2011 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 90m · Bel Deliá, Luke Arnold, Andy Rodoreda
An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.

Wolfen
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 115m · Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.

The Night Stalker
›2016 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 89m · Bellamy Young, Lou Diamond Phillips, Alice Rietveld
An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.






















