
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 Manster
›1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura
An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.

Wolf Man
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth
With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.

Return of the Fly
›1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.

Xtro
›R1982 · Science Fiction, Horror · 86m · Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.

Bloodthirsty
›NR2021 · Horror · 82m · Lauren Beatty, Greg Bryk, Katharine King So
When indie singer Grey struggles to write her sophomore album, she teams up with a mysterious producer at his secluded cabin. Though their bond strengthens her music, it also starts to irreparably alter Grey’s body and mind.

Captive Wild Woman
›1943 · Horror, Science Fiction · 61m · John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

Slime City
›1988 · Horror, Drama, Fantasy · 81m · Robert C. Sabin, Mary Huner, T.J. Merrick
A student moves into a run-down building in New York City. His bizarre neighbors make a concoction in their apartment they call wine, but when he takes some of it, he turns into a deformed, murderous monster.

Swamp Thing
›PG1982 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise
Mutated by his own secret formula, Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing, a half-human, half-plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue government agent Alice Cable and defeat his evil arch nemesis...even if it costs him his life.

Horror High
›PG1973 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Pat Cardi, Austin Stoker, Rosie Holotik
A nerdy high school super whiz experiments with a chemical which will transform his guinea pig "Mr. Mumps" from a gentle pet into a ravenous monster. In a fit of rage against his tormentors at the high school, Vernon Potts goes on a killing spree, eliminating all of those who ever picked on him - the Gym Coach, the School Jock, The Creepy Janitor & his hated teacher, Ms. Grindstaff.

Roald Dahl's The Witches
›PG2020 · Comedy, Fantasy, Family · 104m · Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

The Beast Within
›R1982 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 98m · Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens
A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya out of the locals.

Sssssss
›PG1973 · Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies
David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly brewed up a serum that can transform any man into a King Cobra snake-and he plans to use it on David.

I Am Lisa
›2020 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Kristen Vaganos, Manon Halliburton, Carmen Anello
A vicious and corrupt small-town sheriff and her deputies brutalise Lisa and leave her for dead in the nearby woods. There she is bitten by a werewolf and bestowed with supernatural abilities. Can Lisa retain her humanity as she exacts revenge and cedes herself more and more to the wolf side of her personality?

Becoming
›2020 · Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller · 98m · Toby Kebbell, Penelope Mitchell, Jason Patric
A couple on a road trip through America encounter a terrifying dark force older than the country itself. An evil that transforms loved ones into someone terrifying, the entity has left a trail of murdered families going back hundreds of years.

Beast Mode
›2020 · Comedy, Horror · 87m · C. Thomas Howell, Leslie Easterbrook, James Hong
After accidentally killing his lead star, a has-been hollywood producer turns to an ancient herbal elixir, in the hope that it will save his career. He makes a dark deal that unleashes a band of bloodthirsty, shape-shifting, ferocious beasts on LA.

Bite
›2015 · Horror · 90m · Elma Begovic, Jordan Gray, Annette Wozniak
While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect. After returning home with cold feet, Casey tries to call off her wedding but before she's able to, she starts exhibiting insect like traits. Between her physical transformation and her wedding anxiety, Casey succumbs to her new instincts and begins creating a hive that not only houses her translucent eggs, but feeds on the flesh of others. As her transformation becomes complete, Casey discovers that everything can change with a single bite.

The Leech Woman
›NR1960 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Coleen Gray, Grant Williams, Phillip Terry
An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.

My Mom's a Werewolf
›PG1989 · Comedy, Horror · 88m · Susan Blakely, John Saxon, Tina Caspary
The frustrated housewife Leslie visits an animal shop to purchase a flea-collar. Unknowing that the owner is a werewolf, she accepts his invitation to lunch and later in his apartment. Through a bite in her toe he starts her slow transformation in a werewolf. Home again, she desperately tries to hide the often disgusting process from her family, but her daughter Jennifer and her - from horror magazines well educated - friend recognize what's going on, and help to kill the non-human.

Tamara
›2005 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Jenna Dewan, Matthew Marsden, Marc Devigne
Tamara, an unattractive girl who is picked on by her peers, returns after her death as a sexy seductress to enact revenge.

The Wasp Woman
›NR1959 · Science Fiction, Horror · 61m · Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Michael Mark
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
›NR2015 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 123m · Stephen Tyrone Williams, Zaraah Abrahams, Rami Malek
Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.

Harvest Lake
›NR2016 · Horror · 75m · Jason Crowe, Ellie Church, Tristan Risk
Five friends fall under the seductive influence of a libidinous, otherworldly presence that threatens to change their lives forever in this strange and erotic new film from director Scott Schirmer and producer Brian K. Williams.

Feral
›NR2018 · Thriller, Action, Drama · 90m · Scout Taylor-Compton, Olivia Luccardi, Lew Temple
A wild animal attacks six medical students on a weekend hike in the woods. One by one, they become infected with a “feral disease,” turning them into rabid, bloodthirsty creatures, and the vacation becomes a nightmare as they fight to survive each other.

Jack & Diane
›R2012 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 110m · Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Kylie Minogue
The romance between two teenage girls quickly manifests as terrifying, violent and inexplicable.






















