
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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The Objective
›2008 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, Jon Huertas
A team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched to a remote mountain region of Afghanistan with orders to locate an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern 'Bermuda Triangle' of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could have imagined.

31
›R2016 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · Sheri Moon Zombie, Richard Brake, Meg Foster
Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.

Feast III: The Happy Finish
›R2009 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 79m · Johanna Putnam, Diane Ayala Goldner, Chelsea Richards
The survivors are saved by the mysterious prophet who seemingly has the ability to control the beasts. Along the way they get help from a karate expert.

Wrestlemaniac
›NR2006 · Horror · 75m · Adam Huss, Catherine Wreford, Miguel Ángel López Díaz
On their way to Cabo San Lucas, the cast and crew of a low-budget film get lost and come upon "La Sangre De Dios", a ghost town with a spine-tingling legend about an insane Mexican wrestler. One by one, the cast and crew are snatched, beaten and dragged to a bloody death. The few left alive must figure out how to beat the wrestler at his own deadly game, or die trying.

High Plains Invaders
›2009 · Western, Science Fiction, Horror · 87m · James Marsters, Cindy Sampson, Sebastian Knapp
In the lawless heart of the Old West, notorious outlaw Sam Phoenix stands at the gallows, moments from justice—or so it seems. But when an unearthly terror descends on the town without warning, everything changes. As chaos erupts and survival becomes the only law, Phoenix finds himself facing a threat far deadlier than any posse. Something not of this world has arrived… and it’s just getting started.

Dawn of the Beast
›2021 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Adrian Burke, Ariella Mastroianni, Anna Shields
Aiming to find the Bigfoot, a group of graduate students venture deep into an area of the Northeastern wilderness known for its strange creature sightings. Soon, they learn that there is a much more sinister evil lurking in the woods, the Wendigo, and once the spirit knows you’re there, they will come for you. Who will survive in a battle between the two most notorious monsters of the forest?

Tempus Tormentum
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Tyhr Trubiak, Virine Bahadoosingh, Dan Grapko
A drifter passing through a small town is drugged by three masked psychopaths and forced into a bizarre game of cat and mouse. He is chased through a series of more and more bizarre events until, in the end, he finds that this evening of terror has lasting consequences. It’s a feel bad film, nasty and brutish, red in tooth and claw.

Lavalantula
›2015 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 83m · Steve Guttenberg, Nia Peeples, Patrick Renna
Giant lava breathing tarantulas – Lavalantulas – erupt out of ancient volcanos in the Santa Monica Mountains, raining death and destruction upon Los Angeles. With the City of Angels on the verge of incineration, only a washed up ‘90s action hero actor stands in the way of this monstrous swarm of bloodthirsty creatures who burn their victims alive.

The Dead Hate the Living!
›R2000 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Eric Clawson, Jamie Donahue, Brett Beardslee
When a renegade band of young filmmakers break into an abandoned hospital to make their horror epic, they stumble upon a real dead body and decide to use it in their movie. They accidentally bring it back to life, open a portal to a dead world that releases dozens of other zombies, then struggle for their lives in a desperate attempt to flee from the creatures who apparently have them hopelessly trapped in the hospital.

Sand Serpents
›2009 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Jason Gedrick, Tamara Hope, Elias Toufexis
Jason Gedrick and a small group of Marines are stranded in the remote Afghan desert. But it ain't the Taliban that's worrying them, it's these giant refugees from Tremors. In fact the big worms prove to be an ally of sorts by doing better against the Taliban than themselves but battling these enemies is something not covered in their training.

The Remaining
›PG-132014 · Thriller, Horror · 88m · Alexa PenaVega, Johnny Pacar, Shaun Sipos
When a group of close-knit friends assemble for the marriage of Skylar and Dan, they have no idea they will witness The Rapture and face a series of catastrophic events turning the celebration into a life-or-death struggle.

War of the Dead
›2011 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 86m · Andrew Tiernan, Mikko Leppilampi, Jouko Ahola
Captain Martin Stone is leading a finely-trained, elite platoon of Allied soldiers as they attack an enemy bunker. Underestimating their enemy's strength, they are quickly beaten back into the forest. As they try to regroup, they are suddenly attacked by the same soldiers they had just killed a few minutes earlier. Forced to flee deeper into Russian territory, they discover one of war's most terrifying secrets and realize they have woken up a far more deadlier enemy.

Antibody
›2002 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Lance Henriksen, Robin Givens, William Zabka
After a terrorist with an implanted nuclear detonator gets shot, a team of scientists must defuse the bomb by miniaturizing themselves and going into his bloodstream. His organism's antibodies start to mass against them.

All Fun and Games
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 76m · Asa Butterfield, Natalia Dyer, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth
A group of Salem teens discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon that forces them to play gruesome, deadly versions of childhood games where there can be no winners, only survivors.

The Dungeonmaster
›PG-131984 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 73m · Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll, Leslie Wing
A computer whiz is yanked into a twisted digital world by the sadistic wizard Mestema and forced through a gauntlet of wild, deadly trials, from mutant goblins to metal mayhem, with his girlfriend’s soul on the line.

Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan
›R2013 · Horror, Fantasy · 90m · Dan Haggerty, Joe Estevez, Amber Connor
Kids at a first-time offenders' boot camp discover the legend of lumberjack Paul Bunyan is real, but is much more horrifying than they could have imagined. They incur the wrath of the 15-foot monstrous giant, who was banished from town 100 years ago and thought dead.

Warbirds
›PG2008 · Horror · 85m · Jamie Elle Mann, Stephanie Honoré, Shauna Rappold
In the midst of World War 2, a OSS officer leads a group of female pilots on a mission to deliver a secret weapon, only to crash land on an island in the Pacific after an encounter with a deadly storm. On the island, they must not only contend with a small band of Japanese soldiers but the native inhabitants of the island as well - vicious prehistoric Pterodons.

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
›R2007 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 94m · David Paetkau, Sam Trammell, Steven Pasquale
After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation.

Jason X
›R2001 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Kane Hodder, Jeff Geddis, Lexa Doig
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!

Monster Hunters
›2020 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 87m · Tom Sizemore, Connie Jo Sechrist, Anthony Jensen
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a secret branch of the government specializing in alien weaponry. But with the team untested in actual combat, the battle for Earth will be brutal.

Megalodon: The Frenzy
›2023 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 82m · Eric Roberts, Caroline Williams, Jessica Chancellor
When a frenzy of five Megalodons torment the open ocean, the stakes have never been higher.

Sharknado
›R2013 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 87m · Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard
A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin sets out with his friends Baz and Nova to rescue his estranged wife April and teenage daughter Claudia.

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Jensen Daggett, Sharlene Martin, Scott Reeves
Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned.

Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
›2015 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 88m · Ian Ziering, Cassie Scerbo, Frankie Muniz
The sharks take bite out of the East Coast when the sharknado hits Washington, D.C. and Orlando, Florida.






















