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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Beauty and the BeastSeries
›TV-PG1987 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime, Drama · 3 seasons · Ron Perlman, Roy Dotrice, Jay Acovone
Savvy Assistant District Attorney Catherine Chandler is saved by a noble, beast-like man named Vincent, who lives in a secret, utopian community beneath New York City. They share a psychic bond, and he protects her from above.
Widow's BaySeries
›TV-MA2026 · Drama, Comedy, Mystery · 2 seasons · Matthew Rhys, Kate O'Flynn, Kevin Carroll
The mayor of a New England town resolves to turn it into the next tourist hot spot, despite local warnings that it's cursed.
Pretty Little Liars: Original SinSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery · 2 seasons · Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Maia Reficco
Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a group of disparate teen girls finds themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin their parents committed two decades ago, as well as their own.
The Quatermass Xperiment
›1955 · Science Fiction, Horror · 82m · Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth, David King-Wood
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
The Worst WitchSeries
›TV-Y72017 · Kids, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 4 seasons · Lydia Page, Megan Hughes, Tamara Smart
Mayhem and mishaps follow young witch Mildred Hubble wherever she goes. She just can't help it! But with her friends' help, Mildred always manages to avoid disaster just in time.
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
›1953 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.
The Comedy of Terrors
›1964 · Comedy, Horror, Crime · 84m · Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
The ReturnedSeries
›TV-142015 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Kevin Alejandro, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Agnes Bruckner
A small town that is turned upside down when several local people, who have long been presumed dead, suddenly reappear; their presence creates both positive and negative consequences. As families are reunited, the lives of those who were left behind are challenged both physically and emotionally.
Mute Witness
›R1995 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 95m · Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards
When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dilapidated Moscow movie studio late one night, she thinks she witnesses the making of a snuff film. Thus begins a night of terror.
Images
›R1972 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 101m · Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi
While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming increasingly unstable, resulting in paranoia, hallucinations, and visions of a doppelgänger.
The Plague of the Zombies
›1966 · Horror, Mystery · 91m · André Morell, Brook Williams, Diane Clare
Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. He discovers that one of the squires is a disciple of Haitian witchcraft and using dark magic to resurrect the dead. As the plan to create undead servants unravels, the squire unleashes his zombie army on the unsuspecting village.
Quatermass 2
›1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Brian Donlevy, John Longden, William Franklyn
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
The Curse of the Cat People
›1944 · Fantasy, Drama, Horror · 70m · Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
The Sons of Sam: A Descent into DarknessSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Maury Terry, Paul Giamatti, David Berkowitz
The Son of Sam case grew into a lifelong obsession for journalist Maury Terry, who became convinced that the murders were linked to a Satanic cult.
The Leopard Man
›NR1943 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 66m · Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
The Enfield HauntingSeries
›2015 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Timothy Spall, Matthew Macfadyen, Juliet Stevenson
A three part dramatization of the terrifying and bizarre real events that took place at an ordinary house in Enfield during the autumn of 1977. Adapted from Guy Lyon Playfair's book This House is Haunted.
Multiple Maniacs
›1970 · Comedy, Crime, Horror · 97m · Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
The King Tide
›2024 · Mystery, Fantasy, Thriller · 103m · Frances Fisher, Clayne Crawford, Lara Jean Chorostecki
After the mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into civil war, torn over the belief that the child is the next saviour.
Night of the Eagle
›NR1962 · Horror · 90m · Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston
A woman who may be a witch defends her husband from forces attempting to harm him.
The Nine Lives of Chloe KingSeries
›TV-PG2011 · Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Skyler Samuels, Gracie Gillam, Ki Hong Lee
Chloe King is looking forward to celebrating her birthday with her friends and single mother, just like every other year... that is until she starts developing heightened abilities and discovers she's being pursued by a mysterious figure. Chloe soon learns she's part of an ancient race which has been hunted by human assassins for millennia —and that she may be their only hope for ultimate survival.
The Spider Woman
›NR1943 · Mystery, Crime, Thriller · 63m · Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.
The Cat and the Canary
›1939 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 73m · Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal
Relatives gather at a haunted mansion for a will reading where the sole heir is threatened by a clause that could disinherit her if she goes mad, all while a homicidal maniac escapes nearby.
Hysteria!Series
›TV-MA2024 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Julie Bowen, Anna Camp, Emjay Anthony
When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the "Satanic Panic" of the late 1980s, a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts realize they can capitalize on the town's sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reported "supernatural activity" triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them.
HexSeries
›2004 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 2 seasons · Jemima Rooper, Jamie Davis, Laura Pyper
Shy college student Cassie Hughes only wants to be accepted by others, but is only truly loved by her best friend Thelma Bates. Cassie later discovers that she possesses dangerous powers, and is being drawn into a world far beyond her control. And the man that she should fear the most manages to find a way into her heart.