
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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Nightmare Man
›R2006 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Tiffany Shepis, Blythe Metz, Luciano Szafir
Ellen receives an exotic mask by mistake and begins to have waking nightmares and hallucinations. Her husband and doctors believe she is a paranoid schizophrenic and take her to a psychiatric ward. On the way to the hospital the car breaks down, her husband rushes off to get gas, and the Nightmare Man appears. Ellen escapes and stumbles upon a country house where two young couples are spending the weekend. They do not know if the killer is real or just a figment of Ellen's tortured mind nor if the killer is outside or already inside the house.

Speak No Evil
›2013 · Horror · 74m · Gabrielle Stone, Olivia Cavender, Carl Jensen IV
Single mother Anna fights to protect her daughter from demonically possessed children and a town gone mad.

The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Robert Patrick, Danielle Harris, James Duval
Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil.

The Rage
›R2007 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Andrew Divoff, Erin Brown, Ryan Hooks
A crazed scientist experimenting with a rage virus on innocent victims in a laboratory in the woods. When his monstrous subjects escape and vultures devour their remains, they became mutations seeking to feed on humans.

100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck
›2012 · Horror · 84m · Jackie Moore, Jennifer Robyn Jacobs, Steve Bencich
A group of paranormal investigators sojourned to the Chicago walk-up where deranged drifter Richard Speck systematically slew eight student nurses back in ’66, looking for restless spirits. Their unfortunate success gets shockingly documented in this fear-filled found-footage foray featuring a bright young cast.

Piranha Sharks
›2014 · Horror, Comedy, Action · 79m · Allen Sarven, Ramona Mallory, Josh Hammond
Great white sharks bio-engineered to be the size of piranhas with the purpose of living in rich peoples exotic aquariums, terrorize New York City when they get into the water supply and do what great white sharks do best.

Nailbiter
›R2013 · Horror · 82m · Joicie Appell, Emily Boresow, Jason Coffman
A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.

Haunting of the Mary Celeste
›2020 · Horror · 74m · Emily Swallow, Ava Acres, Richard Roundtree
Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for reasons having to do with the supernatural. Her theory that those on the Mary Celeste vanished into a "rift" between dimensions proves true as the boat breaks down and her crew begins to vanish one by one.

Dark Signal
›2016 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Siwan Morris, Gareth David-Lloyd, James Cosmo
The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her death.

The Perfect Husband
›R2014 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 85m · Gabriella Wright, Bret Roberts, Tania Bambaci
Viola and Nicola are going through a rough time. To overcome this crisis, they decide to spend a weekend in a remote cabin belonged to Nicola's parents. Just a couple of days together to heal their wounds, , but everything will take a turn for the worst, when a sneaking suspicion become pure madness. What was supposed to be a quiet trip will suddenly slip into a deadly nightmare.

The Bees
›PG1978 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · John Saxon, Angel Tompkins, John Carradine
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.

Phantom from Space
›1953 · Science Fiction, Horror · 73m · Noreen Nash, Harry Landers, James Seay
After a UFO sighting, a mysterious phantom in a bizarre outfit starts attacking people in San Fernando Valley.

Dead Within
›NR2014 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Dean Chekvala, J. Claude Deering, Rick Federman
Set six months after a deadly outbreak has all but ended the human race, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin and never opening the door. Now they don’t have a choice. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them… but what’s inside may be even more toxic than what remains outside. When it all ends, this is what remains.

Student Body
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Montse Hernandez, Cheyenne Haynes, Anthony Keyvan
High school student Jane Shipley seeks to mend her splintering relationship with childhood best friend Merritt, and fit in with her rebellious peers. When Jane's math teacher oversteps his bounds, an apathetic high school administration forces Jane and Merritt to take matters into their own hands, driving their relationship into further turmoil and inciting deadly consequences.

Black Cab
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Nick Frost, Synnøve Karlsen, Luke Norris
Estranged couple Anne and Patrick encounter ghostly apparitions while taking a ride from a mysterious cabbie with sinister intentions.

Sacrilege
›2020 · Horror · 83m · Tamaryn Payne, Emily Wyatt, Sian Abrahams
Four lifelong friends head to a remote lodge for a weekend of fun. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into a fight for their lives when a local Pagan cult offer them up to their Goddess as a sacrifice for the Solstice.

Lovers Lane
›2000 · Mystery, Horror · 90m · Riley Smith, Diedre Kilgore, Carter Roy
A man with a hook for a hand escapes from a mental institution to go after the children of his previous victims.

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)

Penance
›NC-172009 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Marieh Delfino, Jason Connery, Michael Rooker
A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin

Night Game
›R1989 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 95m · Roy Scheider, Karen Young, Richard Bradford
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.

Bad Meat
›2011 · Horror, Comedy · 92m · Dave Franco, Elisabeth Harnois, Mark Pellegrino
Six troubled teens at secluded camp for juvenile delinquents must fight for their lives after a mysterious virus transforms the guards into cannibalistic mutants.

Shed of the Dead
›2019 · Comedy, Horror · 86m · Spencer Brown, Ewen MacIntosh, Lauren Socha
Trevor is 'between jobs'. He spends his days avoiding his nagging heifer of a wife by hiding out in his allotment shed and painting figurines for his wargames with his agoraphobic friend, Graham, and dreaming of his heroic alter-ego, the battle mage Casimir the Destroyer. When Mr Parsons, one of the other allotment tenants, petitions to have Trevor removed from his disgrace of a plot (he's not there to grow stuff!) an argument ensues that leaves Trevor with a corpse to hide. Unfortunately, this untimely accident coincides with the zombie apocalypse and Mr Parsons' return is just the beginnings of Trevor's problems. More pressing is whether or not he should try and save his wife and her beautiful best friend, who both he and Graham have a thing for.

Bloodeaters
›R1980 · Horror · 89m · Charles McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend
After drug crops are sprayed with a chemical by a passing airplane, the growers of the crop are poisoned by the chemical and turn into zombie-like mutants.

The Deadly Bees
›1966 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman
Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting ta music video; her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with beekeeper Ralph Hargrove. Initially finding the Hargroves' bitter marital strife oddly relaxing, the arrival of specially-bred attack bees pushes Vicki to her survival instinct.






















