
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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Deadly Games
›R1982 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 95m · Jo Ann Harris, Sam Groom, Steve Railsback
A masked maniac with a penchant for a monster-themed board game is playing his own twisted game with the women of a small American town. Each time the dice are rolled, another victim meets a grisly end. Returning home to mourn the death of her murdered sister, Keegan befriends local cop Roger and reclusive cinema projectionist Billy — but soon finds herself in the killer's sights.

The Dorm
›2014 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 80m · Alexis Knapp, Cassie Steele, Max Lloyd-Jones
Vivian begins college as a shy, self-consciousness freshman, but she begins a complete transformation after becoming a dorm mate of the popular Sarah.

Vampire Clan
›2002 · Horror · 87m · Drew Fuller, Alexandra Breckenridge, Timothy Lee DePriest
Five friends welcome real life vampirism into their lives. They cut their own wrists and let their friends drink from them. Rod, the leader, and a very psychotic young guy, ends up killing Heathers parents and stealing their car to go on a crazy raod trip. His behaviour begins to frighten his friends, though they went along with it at first. All end up in prison except Heather.

Anaconda
›PG-131997 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight
A 'National Geographic' film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest — and deadliest — snake.

The Haunted Mansion
›PG2003 · Thriller, Fantasy, Comedy · 88m · Eddie Murphy, Marsha Thomason, Terence Stamp
Workaholic Jim Evers and his wife/business partner Sara get a call one night from a mansion owner, Edward Gracey, who wants to sell his house. Once the Evers family arrive at the mansion, a torrential thunderstorm of mysterious origin strands them with the brooding, eccentric Gracey, his mysterious butler, and a variety of residents both seen and unseen.

The Watcher
›R2000 · Mystery, Thriller · 96m · James Spader, Keanu Reeves, Marisa Tomei
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.

Walled In
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Mischa Barton, Cameron Bright, Deborah Kara Unger
Having finally secured her first assignment from her family's demolition business, Sam Walczak is sent to supervise the destruction of an apartment house, only to discover a group of tenants still living in the condemned building. One such tenant, Jimmy, tells Sam an urban legend about a serial murderer who used to live in the building and entomb his victims in the walls. What's worse, the dead are believed to still harass the residents to this day.

YellowBrickRoad
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Michael Laurino, Anessa Ramsey, Alex Draper
In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where they went was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: YELLOWBRICKROAD.

Man's Best Friend
›R1993 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 97m · Ally Sheedy, Lance Henriksen, Robert Costanzo
A genetic research facility worker exposes animal abuses there to a local TV reporter, who frees and takes in a genetically altered dog from the lab, unaware that he has a violent streak.

True Crime
›R1995 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 94m · Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Dillon, Bill Nunn
Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has an addiction to mystery novels and detective magazines, which inspire her to do her own detective work. When she starts snooping around on the case of a murderer of teenage girls, it gets her in hot water with her mentor Detective Jerry Gunn. But it also starts a team up with police cadet Tony Campbell. The two work together to find the murderer. But the closer Mary gets to solving the murder, the more danger she puts herself in of being the next victim.

Undefeatable
›1993 · Action, Thriller · 90m · Cynthia Rothrock, Don Niam, John Miller
The film follows Kristi Jones who, along with her gang, take part in Mafia-run street fights to earn money for her sister's college education. Kristi's sister hopes to become a doctor and pay for Kristi's education.

Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes
›R2012 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Drew Rausch, Rich McDonald, Noah Weisberg
Sean Reynolds, a highly acclaimed investigative journalist (who strongly believed in paranormal phenomena), destroyed his career when the most watched episode of his reality show, based on paranormal phenomena, turned out to be a hoax. Sean saw a news report on a "Bigfoot Hunter" (Carl Drybeck) who claimed to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch. He believes Drybeck is a phony and decides to create a new show that reveals people's paranormal claims as hoaxes. Sean assembles his old film crew and heads to Northern California's "Lost Coast" to meet with and interview Drybeck. Obsessed, Sean is staking his comeback, his life and the lives of his documentary film crew on proving Drybeck's claim to be a hoax.

Blood Hook
›R1987 · Horror, Comedy, Thriller · 92m · Mark Jacobs, Lisa Jane Todd, Patrick Danz
During a local fishing contest, people are being mysteriously dragged into the lake and killed by a giant fish hook. After a sufficient number of deaths, the killer is finally revealed.

B.T.K.
›2008 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Kane Hodder, Amy Lyndon, Odessa Rae
A story based on real-life serial killer Dennis L. Rader, who systematically tortured and killed his victims for over two decades and evaded the police for over 30 years, all while leading a seemingly normal life as a husband, father, security officer and church president.

Ripper's Revenge
›2023 · Thriller, Horror, History · 85m · Chris Bell, Rachel Warren, Ayvianna Snow
One year on from the notorious Ripper murders, London is terrorised once again by a series of brutal killings. When gruesome letters from the Ripper begin landing on his desk, an innocent reporter finds himself drawn into a deadly mystery, threatening the lives of everyone around him.

H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House
›2022 · Horror · 82m · Portia Chellelynn, Julie Anne Prescott, Andrea Collins
Graduate student Alice Gilman is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Dreams in the Witch House.

Gut
›2012 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 91m · Jason Vail, Nicholas Wilder, Sarah Schoofs
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around him. Dan has the solution... something Tom's got to see to believe... tonight. What Dan shows him leaves Tom unsettled, flooding his mind with disturbing images, and binding the two friends together with its ugly secret.

Dark Tower
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 92m · Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Carol Lynley
An architect, a security chief, a parapsychologist and an exorcist face evil in a Barcelona skyscraper.

Paradise Cove
›R2021 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 103m · Todd Grinnell, Kristin Bauer, Mena Suvari
A contractor and his wife move to Malibu to flip his mother’s beach house, but are terrorized by the deranged homeless lady living under the house.

The Snowman
›R2017 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · 119m · Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

The Haunting
›PG-131999 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 113m · Liam Neeson, Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Dr. David Marrow invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself — and they soon see the true nature of its horror.

Hellraiser: Bloodline
›R1996 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 86m · Bruce Ramsay, Valentina Vargas, Doug Bradley
Three generations of the same family deal with the consequences of unleashing the forces of hell.

Shattered
›R2022 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 92m · Cameron Monaghan, Lilly Krug, Frank Grillo
Chris, a wealthy divorcee, lives in a high-tech house of his own design in Montana. His life changes when he meets Sky, a mysterious young woman who draws him out of his shell and moves in after Chris is injured.

Trick
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 101m · Omar Epps, Tom Atkins, Jamie Kennedy
A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.






















