
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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I Will Follow You Into the Dark
›NR2012 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 107m · Mischa Barton, Ryan Eggold, Leah Pipes
A woman reeling from the death of her parents becomes attached to an alluring man whose sudden disappearance sends her and her friends into a haunted high-rise to find him.

Scarecrow
›2002 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Todd Rex, Tim Young, Tiffany Shepis
A high school outcast who lives in a trailer with his mother finally meets a friend. He wants to ask her if they can go the next step, but then sees her kissing another boy at a party. He runs home only to find his mother having sex with a drunk. He starts yelling, but is countered by the drunk when he suffocates him and makes him look like he hung himself. The scarecrow comes in when the boy's soul is pushed into it. He goes out for revenge.

Terror Train
›2022 · Horror · 90m · Robyn Alomar, Mary Walsh, Nadine Bhabha
Alana and a group of college seniors board a party train for a Halloween-themed bash, but their fun spirals into fear when a mysterious assailant begins killing the passengers one-by-one.

Crowsnest
›2012 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 84m · Mittita Barber, Aslam Husain, Victor Zinck Jr.
In late summer of 2011, five young friends on a road trip went missing after being attacked by nomadic cannibals in a huge RV. Video was recorded by the victims & recovered by police as evidence in their still-unsolved murders.

The Falling
›R1986 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Dennis Christopher, Martin Hewitt, Lynn-Holly Johnson
Three young friends who are on vacation in Spain and a NASA scientist must join forces to save themselves and the rest of the world from an alien menace.

The Fear
›1995 · Horror · 102m · Eddie Bowz, Heather Medway, Ann Turkel
Richard, a college student who has decided to focus his attention on the study of fear, invites a group of friends up to his family's secluded mountain cabin for the weekend. Soon, a lifelike, wooden carving of a man begins stalking and killing them.

Snakehead Swamp
›R2014 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Ayla Kell, Dave Davis, Terri Garber
A horrifying hybrid of genetic science and nature has taken over the Louisiana bayou, leaving terror in its wake! In the heat of the summer, what began as an day of boating and bikinis changes drastically when a school of genetically enhanced snakehead fish finds their way into Black Briar Swamp.

Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver
›NR2011 · Horror, Comedy · 78m · William Butler, Paris Wagner, Jacqui Holland
The gingerdead man travels back in time to 1976 and carries out an epic disco killing spree.

Spirit Trap
›R2005 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Billie Piper, Luke Mably, Sam Troughton
When five young students move into an old unoccupied mansion an inexplicable chain of events is set into motion as a mysterious spirit clock begins to tick again. As the story unfolds, revealing each student's dark secrets, the boundary between the real world and the afterlife is no longer clear. Will they find a way to escape or will they be trapped with the spirits forever?

The Brotherhood
›2001 · Horror · 86m · Sam Page, Josh Hammond, Bradley Stryker
A college freshman goes to a frat party and wakes up with a strange thirst for blood. He soon discovers the fraternity is actually secret society of vampires and that he is their newest recruit.

Deadly Weekend
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Sara Jean Underwood, Bruster Phoenix Sampson, Patricia Rosales
Two young couples take one last trip to the country before moving to different cities. Unfortunately, when secrets come out and jealously takes a toll the weekend takes an unexpected and deadly turn for the worst.

The Harbinger
›PG-132022 · Thriller, Mystery, Drama · 114m · Madeleine McGraw, Irene Bedard, Teal Redmann
A family moves their troubled daughter to a small town, where people suspect she is responsible for a series of mysterious deaths. Fearing something evil followed them, the tormented parents must do whatever it takes to save their daughter.

A Resurrection
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Mischa Barton, Devon Sawa, Michael Clarke Duncan
A down to earth school psychologist tries to help a mentally ill student who actually believes his brother is coming back from the grave for revenge on the students who killed him.

Biohazard
›R1985 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Aldo Ray, Angelique Pettyjohn, William Fair
A group of skeptical government officials headed by General Randolph are brought to a remote laboratory for a demonstration in "Psychic Materialization", a successful side effect of an experimental drug. But the project scientists had warned that not enough testing had been completed to access safety concerns. In a freak accident during the demonstration to the politicians, a vicious creature is created! Unable to contain the monster, it unleashes unbelievable havoc & destruction against mankind! Reproducing itself at an alarming rate, and all known weapons seemingly powerless against the creature, the scientists are gravely concerned for the survival of mankind!

Skeleton Crew
›NR2009 · Horror · 90m · Rita Suomalainen, Steve Porter, Anna Alkiomaa
Back in the early 1970s, at a mental institution near the Russian border, a crazed doctor, Dr. Anderson assumed the persona of "the Auteur," and began murdering his patients while filming the atrocities. Thirty years later, an American film crew has arrived at the hospital to shoot a horror film based on those awful events. The director, Steven, is determined to make the film as realistic as possible, a goal that doesn't seem too far-fetched when his Finnish sound men discover a hidden room in the hospital basement. There, perfectly preserved, are the original snuff films shot by "the Auteur". As Steven's obsession grows, his cast and crew begin to fear for his sanity. But this is only the beginning, because when Steven discovers actual camera used by "the Auteur", he assumes the role of the murderous doctor and the real slaughter begins.

The Legend of Halloween Jack
›R2018 · Horror · 84m · Colin Holt, Doug Cooper, Jason Gregg
On Halloween night, a serial killer returns from the dead to take revenge on the vigilantes who put him to death one year earlier.

The Creature Below
›2017 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Anna Dawson, Michaela Longden, Johnny Vivash
A young scientist discovers a malevolent entity which sets her on a bloody descent into the jaws of insanity.

Staunton Hill
›NR2009 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Kathy Lamkin, Cristen Coppen, David Rountree
When a group of hikers take off for a weekend of fun and adventure in remote mountain region, they unwittingly stumble across the Staunton family - for whom the hill is named - and find themselves at the mercy of a depraved, diabolical brood that will stop at nothing to rid their property of these "trespassers." The only law on Staunton's Hill is the law of the Stauntons...and, in this case, the penalty for defying that law is death.

Cherry Tree
›2015 · Horror · 85m · Naomi Battrick, Sam Hazeldine, Anna Walton
Faith’s world is turned upside down after she finds out that her beloved father is dying. When the mysteriously alluring Sissy Young becomes her field hockey coach, Faith finds a compassionate spirit and much-needed mother figure. Little does she know that Sissy is the head of a centuries-old witches’ coven that uses the fruit of an ancient cherry tree in a secret ritual that restores life to the dead and dying. Offering to cure her father in exchange for a child, Sissy strikes a bargain with Faith, who suddenly finds herself pregnant with a baby that’s growing at an alarming rate. But with the clock to the child’s birth ticking down and the true intention of Sissy’s plans for humanity becoming more apparent, Faith and her father must stand together in order to save both their lives.

The Lodge
›2008 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Deanna Cramer, Liz Jones, Elizabeth Kell
A young couple's weekend getaway at a secluded mountain ranch becomes an unfathomable nightmare when they discover the truth about the caretaker.

The Seamstress
›R2009 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 85m · Lance Henriksen, Kailin See, David Kopp
The Seamstress was brought into being by the desperate curse of an innocent woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the hideously-mutilated specter hunts a small group of friends who become trapped on the island where she died.

Uncaged
›2016 · Horror, Comedy · 95m · Gene Jones, Ben Getz, Kyle Kirkpatrick
After nights of sleepwalking, a troubled teen straps a camera to himself and discovers a sinister truth.

Silent Retreat
›2016 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 92m · Donny Boaz, Rebecca Summers, Danilo Di Julio
Six members of a media company go on a weekend business retreat at an isolated lodge in the woods. When one of the members goes missing, they discover that the lodge was formerly a private mental institution that had been shut down after allegations of devious misconduct. One by one, they fall victim to the dark secrets buried at the lodge.

Wolvesbayne
›2009 · TV Movie, Fantasy, Horror · 87m · Jeremy London, Christy Carlson Romano, Yancy Butler
A supernatural thriller that follows Russel Bayne who quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and human hunters after being bitten by a werewolf. To make matters worse, it seems a civil war has erupted among the vampires, with a clan breaking from the others in a quest to return a vampire goddess back to power.






















