
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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100 Feet
›R2008 · Horror · 105m · Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.

Grave of the Vampire
›PG1972 · Horror · 91m · William Smith, Michael Pataki, Lyn Peters
Vampire Caleb Croft has awakened from his unholy slumber -- with an insatiable lust for blood and the pleasures of the flesh.

Sleepstalker
›R1995 · Horror · 105m · Michael Harris, Jay Underwood, Kathryn Morris
Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer

Cruel Peter
›2020 · Horror · 95m · Angelica Alleruzzo, Antonio Alveario, Aran Bevan
It is Christmas 1908 in Messina, one of the richest merchant cities of the Mediterranean. Peter, the 13 year-old son of a rich English family is notorious for his cruelty to children, animals and servants. One night he is ambushed and wakes up in a coffin underground in the city's Gothic cemetery, buried in retaliation for his callousness by a servant boy from his mother's estate. When a powerful earthquake razes Messina to the ground, Peter is trapped and his whereabouts are forgotten. Until a century later an English archaeologist and his daughter arrive in the city.

Darkman II: The Return of Durant
›R1995 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Larry Drake, Arnold Vosloo, Kim Delaney
Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.

Captain Hook: The Cursed Tides
›2025 · Adventure, Action, Horror · 90m · Sean Cronin, Ewen Weatherburn, Cameron Ashplant
In the aftermath of a devastating defeat by his archnemesis Admiral Smee, Captain Hook finds refuge in the coastal town of Eldritch Landing.

Blade: The Iron Cross
›G2020 · Horror, War · 70m · Tania Fox, Vincent Cusimano, Roy Abramsohn
When the malevolent Dr. Hauser, the Third Reich's maddest scientist, rises again with murder and mayhem on his mind, psychic journalist Elisa Ivanov awakens her own angel of death in Blade.

Curfew
›1989 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Kyle Richards, Wendell Wellman, John Putch
Two brothers whose grisly killing spree has landed them on death row plot a daring escape, breaking free from prison with vengeance in mind, and setting targets in the form of the key witnesses against them.

Little Necro Red
›2019 · Horror · 75m · Victoria Hopkins, Lucy Drive, Peter Cogrove
Angela's daughter, Annie (aka "Little Red"), mysteriously disappeared, but the police never found her body.

Friday the 13th
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Jared Padalecki, Travis Van Winkle, Danielle Panabaker
A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

Dementia 13
›NR2017 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 83m · Julia Campanelli, Ana Isabelle, Marianne Noscheze
A vengeful ghost, a mysterious killer, and a family where everyone has a secret converge in one night of terror in this remake of Francis Ford Coppola's first feature film.

The Quantum Devil
›2023 · Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy · 90m · Neil Dickson, Tyler Tackett, Ariadna Cabrol
A team of scientists face dangerous consequences after they conduct a clandestine experiment to breach the quantum barrier and travel to another dimension.

Amusement
›R2008 · Horror, Mystery · 85m · Keir O'Donnell, Tad Hilgenbrink, Katheryn Winnick
While being interrogated by a police psychiatrist, the near-catatonic Tabitha tries to explain why she and two of her childhood friends are being hunted by a serial killer. The truth that's dying to come out weaves together three tragic secrets from their past. Two of the girls' boyfriends become unwitting targets in their deadly game.

Pernicious
›2015 · Horror · 93m · Ciara Hanna, Emily O'Brien, Jackie Moore
It was supposed to be an adventure of a lifetime as three young girls spend the summer in Thailand. But their adventure quickly becomes a nightmare when the trio unleashes the spirit of a murdered child with only one thing on her mind – revenge.

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.

Grotesque
›R1988 · Horror · 89m · Linda Blair, Tab Hunter, Donna Wilkes
A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of murderous creature is chasing them...

American Horror House
›2012 · Horror, TV Movie · 85m · Alessandra Torresani, Morgan Fairchild, Salina Duplessis
On Halloween night, a sorority house is overrun with ghosts, while a vengeful housemother goes on a killing spree.

Triloquist
›R2008 · Horror · 90m · Paydin LoPachin, Rocky Marquette, Bruce Weitz
In 1993, in Hollywood, California, a decadent ventriloquist overdoses and dies, leaving her two children to be sent to a foster house with their dummy. Their lives become a nightmare of abuse and murder, to be avenged by a wrathful dummy.

Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud
›R2007 · Horror, Fantasy, TV Movie · 95m · Lance Henriksen, Rob Freeman, Amy Manson
During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster Pumpkinhead, and resurrects it seek revenge on the family. Despite being warned away by the ghost of Ed Harley, his vengeance plan starts out, and the Hatfield family is soon under siege by the powerful demon. Not accepting the legend of the creature and believing their arch-rivals are the real cause, the two families attempt to go to war, only to be stopped when Pumpkinhead attacks the Hatfield house. Putting aside their differences, they band together to stave off the creature before it's vengeance pact is completed.

Jill Rips
›R2000 · Thriller · 94m · Dolph Lundgren, Danielle Brett, Sandi Ross
A tough guy goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance into the hardcore world of S&M, to find out who's responsible for the death of his brother.

976-EVIL
›R1988 · Horror · 92m · Stephen Geoffreys, Patrick O'Bryan, Sandy Dennis
A bullied unpopular high school student named Hoax finds an ad for 976-EVIL, a number that provides daily 'horrorscopes'. But when he calls the number he gains demonic powers, which he uses to seek vengeance against those who bullied him.

Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes
›R2006 · Horror, Fantasy · 95m · Doug Bradley, Lance Henriksen, Douglas Roberts
He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.

Cradle of Fear
›2001 · Horror · 120m · Emily Booth, Dani Filth, David McEwen
A gruesome homage to the cult Amicus anthology Asylum, Cradle of Fear unfolds four screamplays all linked by the unspeakable need of an incarcerated child killer to wreak vengeance on those responsible for his imprisonment. Helped by deranged angel Dani Filth, who leaves a trail of charnel house death in his crimson wake, the cannibal convict forces two Goth vamps to endure a one night stand from hell, two tough female robbers to see through each other, an obscenely rich coke-head to chop up more than a few lines and an internet surfer to descend into madness when he uncovers the ultimate web depravity.

Inkubus
›R2011 · Horror · 82m · Robert Englund, William Forsythe, Jonathan Silverman
Inkubus tells the story of a skeleton crew working the final shift at a soon to be demolished police station. The night takes a gruesome turn when the demon, Inkubus, calmly walks into the station holding the severed head of a murdered girl. Inkubus toys with the crew, allowing himself to be restrained, and begins to proudly confess to his litany of crimes, some dating back to the Middle Ages. Why? Inkubus has a score to settle with the one detective that almost put him away some thirteen years ago. To their dismay, the cops quickly become pawns in Inkubus' brutal crowning achievement of murder, gore, and mayhem. They ultimately realize it's his world, they only die in it. Written by Anonymous (www.imdb.com)






















