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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Into the Deep
›R2025 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 90m · Scout Taylor-Compton, Richard Dreyfuss, Stuart Townsend
Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a killer great white is determined not to let any of them escape its waters.
The Howling: Reborn
›R2011 · Horror · 92m · Landon Liboiron, Lindsey Shaw, Ivana Miličević
On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he has long yearned for, reclusive Eliana Wynter. But he also discovers a dark secret from his past... that he is about to become a werewolf. Now, in an effort to fight destiny and save their love as well as their lives, they must battle not only Will's growing blood lust but an army of fearsome beasts bent on killing them... and then, us all.
Don't Sleep
›NR2017 · Horror, Thriller · 101m · Cary Elwes, Dominic Sherwood, Drea de Matteo
After moving into a cottage together, two young lovers confront horrors of a forgotten childhood.
Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
›R1988 · Horror · 95m · Romy Walthall, Michael T. Weiss, Antony Hamilton
An author who was sent to the town Drakho, because of a nervous breakdown, gets wound up in a mystery revolving around demons and werewolves. She starts seeing ghosts and dismisses them as her own imagination, but when they turn out to be real she becomes suspicious of the odd town and of its past.
Python
›R2000 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Frayne Rosanoff, Robert Englund, Casper Van Dien
After a military plane crashes outside of a small American town, its cargo — a genetically engineered, sixty-foot-long python — begins stalking and killing the locals.
The Devil Below
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Alicia Sanz, Adan Canto, Will Patton
A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.
August Underground
›NR2001 · Horror · 70m · Fred Vogel, Kyle Dealman, Allen Peters
Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity piqued, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the unidentified psychopaths tape their exploits as they torment and violate a woman tied to a chair. The devastation of your morals continues throughout the entirety of the footage, while subtly revealing the killer's shattered pasts via the interaction with their victims and each other.
Road Train
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 87m · Xavier Samuel, Bob Morley, Georgina Haig
A supernatural thriller about a group of teenagers menaced by a driver-less train in the Australian outback.
Dreamcatcher
›2021 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Niki Koss, Zachary Gordon, Travis Burns
The film centers on two estranged sisters who, along with their friends, become entrenched in a 48 hour whirlwind of violence after a traumatic experience at an underground music festival.
Dark Cloud
›R2022 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 81m · Brittany Benjamin, Amanda Day, Alexys Gabrielle
Following the aftermath of a horrific accident, a woman is voluntarily subjected to artificial intelligence for rehabilitation.
Rise of the Zombies
›2012 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Mariel Hemingway, LeVar Burton, Ethan Suplee
When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heroes are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.
April Fool's Day
›R2008 · Horror · 92m · Taylor Cole, Josh Henderson, Scout Taylor-Compton
When an April Fool's Day prank turns deadly, Desiree Cartier, her brother Blaine, and five of their friends all become the targets of a twisted kill who begins hunting them down one by one.
Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!
›R1989 · Horror · 90m · Richard Beymer, Bill Moseley, Samantha Scully
Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor experimenting with ESP and other special abilities. Ricky targets a young, clairvoyant blind woman, named Laura, whom is traveling with her brother Chris, and his girlfriend Jerri to their grandmother's house for Christmas Eve, and Ricky decides to go after her, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
The Unfamiliar
›R2020 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Jemima West, Christopher Dane, Rebecca Hanssen
A British Army doctor comes back from a war, thinking that she has PTSD only to discover that there is a more daunting malevolence at work making the life that she knew unfamiliar.
The Wicked
›NR2013 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 105m · Devon Werkheiser, Nicole Forester, Justin Deeley
A Group of teenagers test the legend of an immortal witch and get more than they bargained for. It's almost Halloween and six young people, spooked but not undaunted by the folklore surrounding an old haunted house, make their way to the abode of the legendary Wicked, perhaps hoping to provoke the malevolent witch, but clearly not prepared for what they've certainly unleashed.
Embrace of the Vampire
›NR2013 · Horror · 91m · Sharon Hinnendael, Kaniehtiio Horn, C.C. Sheffield
Sharon Hinnendael stars as Charlotte, a timid and sheltered teen who has just left an all-girls Catholic school for a new life at a co-ed university. But an ancient evil has followed her here, tormenting her with disturbing nightmares and tempting her with forbidden desires. It is a hunger that can only be satiated by sensual pleasures of the flesh...and a thirst for blood. It's a battle for her soul... and one she's losing. But Charlotte is a fighter. The chaos and torment threatens to unleash her own inner beast, and anyone even close to her may find themselves embracing their own horrific fate.
Parasite
›1982 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus & his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Attack of the Giant Leeches
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
›R2006 · Comedy, Horror · 85m · Snoop Dogg, Daniella Alonso, Anson Mount
A hip hop horror anthology of three tales of terror told by the Hound of Hell (Snoop Dogg) that revolve around the residents of an inner-city neighborhood whose actions determine where they will go in the afterlife.
Aquarium of the Dead
›2021 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 86m · Vivica A. Fox, Eva Ceja, D. C. Douglas
A scientific mishap causes the species of an aquarium to become zombies.
Hydra
›2009 · TV Movie, Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Dwayne Adway, Dawn Olivieri, Texas Battle
The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transported to a deserted island where the super rich pay a fortune to hunt human prey. But this island isn't exactly deserted; it's actually home to Hydra the Beast!
Room 6
›2006 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Christine Taylor, Shane Brolly, Chloë Grace Moretz
A schoolteacher with a phobia of hospitals finds herself searching for her boyfriend inside one while teaming up with a man suffering the same ordeal that she's in.
Zombie Shark
›2015 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 90m · Cassie Steele, Jason London, Laura Cayouette
A perfect getaway weekend turns into a nightmare for four friends who find themselves fighting for their lives against an experimental shark. In order to survive they must fight sharks, zombies, and shark zombies.
The Row
›R2018 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Lala Kent, Mia Rose Frampton, Randy Couture
A killer stalks and terrorizes a group of sorority girls on a college campus.
