
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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Witchfinder General
›NR1968 · Drama, History, Horror · 87m · Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Robert Russell
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.

The Bad Seed
›NR1956 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 129m · Patty McCormack, Nancy Kelly, Henry Jones
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

Are You Afraid of the Dark?Series
›TV-PG2019 · Mystery · 3 seasons · Conor Sherry, Telci Huynh, Luca Padovan
Each season of this horror anthology series follows a different group of kids, members of the Midnight Society, as they discover terrifying curses and creatures.

The Boston Strangler
›R1968 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · 116m · Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.

Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy TapesSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Documentary · 1 season · John Wayne Gacy, Sam Amirante, Greg Bedoe
He dined with the powerful. He preyed on the vulnerable. Beneath a smiling exterior was the horrifying darkness of a sadistic serial killer.

The Last Wave
›PG1977 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 106m · Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
›1965 · Horror · 98m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle
Five train passengers are joined by a mysterious fortuneteller who offers to read Tarot. A quintet of stories unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a vengeful werewolf; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarises music from a voodoo ceremony; and a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.

The CurseSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Comedy, Drama · 1 season · Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder, Benny Safdie
An alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show.

SwarmSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Crime, Comedy, Drama · 1 season · Dominique Fishback
Murder. Sex. Music. This is not a work of fiction.

The Seventh Victim
›1943 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 71m · Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Jean Brooks
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.

Strait-Jacket
›NR1964 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 93m · Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

The Devil-Doll
›1936 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton
Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
›G1966 · Comedy, Family, Mystery · 90m · Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.

The RipperSeries
›TV-MA2020 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Alan Whitehouse, Keith Hellawell, Bruce Jones
For five years, from 1975 to 1980, the Yorkshire Ripper murders cast a dark shadow over the lives of women in the North of England. 13 women were dead and the police seemed incapable of catching the killer. No one felt safe – and every man was a suspect.

The Pembrokeshire MurdersSeries
›TV-142021 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Luke Evans, Keith Allen, Caroline Berry
Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.

SurrealEstateSeries
›TV-142021 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons · Tim Rozon, Sarah Levy, Maurice Dean Wint
Aided by his own remarkable abilities and an eclectic team of associates, real estate agent Luke Roman specializes in “metaphysically engaged properties,” aka haunted houses. Together they investigate, clear and close the houses nobody else can.

The GatesSeries
›TV-142010 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Rhona Mitra, Frank Grillo, Marisol Nichols
Like most families that settle inside The Gates, the Monahans are unmoored from a complicated life they abandoned in Chicago. There's something very different about this place, almost... haunting. Named the new police chief of The Gates, Nick Monahan is about to be tangled up in a mystery where he will begin to piece together the dark truth about their new home, and the supernatural elements that lurk behind the shadows of The Gates.

CrazyheadSeries
›2016 · Comedy · 1 season · Cara Theobold, Susan Wokoma, Arinzé Kene
Amy and Raquel attempt to navigate their way through the choppy waters of their early twenties whilst simultaneously kicking the ass of some seriously gnarly demons. What could possibly go wrong?

Eye CandySeries
›TV-142015 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Victoria Justice, Casey Deidrick, Kiersey Clemons
Tech genius Lindy, convinced by her roommate to begin online dating, begins to suspect that one of her mysterious suitors may be a deadly cyber stalker. When her friends at the elusive cyber-police uncover a potential serial killer in Manhattan, all signs point to one of Lindy’s dates. Teaming up with this band of hackers Lindy works to solve the murders while unleashing her own style of justice on the streets of New York City.

ProfilerSeries
›TV-141996 · Crime, Drama · 4 seasons · Jamie Luner, Robert Davi, Julian McMahon
Rachel Burke is a criminal profiler, one of the best, actually. She, along with a sophisticated team of specialists on the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force in Atlanta, investigates crimes throughout the country. Together, they solve the toughest of cases while trying to live their lives as best they can.

The Horror of Dolores RoachSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Drama, Comedy · 1 season · Justina Machado, Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike
After an unjust 16-year prison sentence, Dolores Roach returns to a gentrified Washington Heights, where she reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis, who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, “Magic Hands” Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive.

Catching KillersSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Documentary, Crime · 3 seasons
The investigators behind infamous serial killer cases reveal the harrowing, chilling details of their extraordinary efforts in this true crime series.

Susie Q
›G1996 · Comedy, Drama, Family · 83m · Amy Jo Johnson, Justin Whalin, Shelley Long
The ghost of a girl who died in 1955 appears to a troubled teen living in her old house.

Topper Returns
›1941 · Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery · 88m · Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.






















