
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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The Institute
›R2017 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 98m · Allie Gallerani, James Franco, Joe Pease
In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.

Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation
›2012 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 88m · Andrew Divoff, Sarah Lieving, Jeffrey Combs
After inheriting the family mortuary, a pyrophobic mortician accidentally exposes hundreds of un-cremated bodies to toxic medical waste. As the corpses re-animate, the mortician's inheritance-seeking younger brother unexpectantly shows up, stumbling upon a full zombie outbreak!

The Legend of La Llorona
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Autumn Reeser, Antonio Cupo, Danny Trejo
While vacationing in Mexico, a couple discovers their son's disappearance is tied to a supernatural curse.

Playback
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Johnny Pacar, Ambyr Childers, Christian Slater
While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.

Pulse 2: Afterlife
›R2008 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Jamie Bamber, Georgina Rylance, Karley Scott Collins
The world has been reshaped by the invasion of ghosts via the wireless internet. Cities are deserted, technology has been destroyed and the few remaining human beings eschew anything electrical in order to avoid a confrontation with the soulless ghosts that now wander the planet. Most of the ghosts are doomed to a repetitive loop of something they did while they were still despairing humans (a man repeatedly hangs himself, for example), but there are some ghosts so locked in denial, they do not know they are dead. They continue to haunt their homes, wrapped in fear that their souls will soon be torn from them.

The Rig
›2010 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · William Forsythe, Stacey Hinnen, Serah D'Laine
In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.

Dinosaur Hotel
›2021 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 80m · Chelsea Greenwood, Aimee Marie Higham, Alexander John
Sienna is desperate to win a large cash prize in a secret underground game show. However, Dinosaur's begin to hunt her down for the entertainment of the rich and wealthy. Can she be the last to survive the horrific night to win the prize?

Popeye's Revenge
›R2025 · Horror · 79m · Steven Murphy, Emily Mogilner, Connor Powles
The legend of Popeye haunts a group of counsellors as they intend to open a summer camp.

Scar
›NR2007 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 84m · Angela Bettis, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Devon Graye
Joan Burrows returns to her hometown for her niece's graduation, only to be confronted by the serial killer she thought she offed years ago -- after he kidnapped and tormented her and her best friend.

Dinocroc vs. Supergator
›NR2010 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 80m · David Carradine, Rib Hillis, Amy Holt
On a lush tropical island, working under a secret government charter, Martin Drake has not only grown sprawling acres of giant vegetables, but inadvertently spawned two mammoth reptiles as well. Now they've broken free of their enclosures, and Drake has only one option: kill the creatures before word gets back to Washington and they close him down. When Drake's first team of well-armed mercenaries gets wiped out within hours of setting down in the jungle, he turns to one lone hunter, The Cajun, to go in single-handedly. But will The Cajun be cunning enough to find the creatures and destroy them before they turn the blue waters red with the blood of tourists. The only hope is to bring the monsters together and make them fight. When one emerges victorious, that will be the time to strike and kill the other. It's a risky plan, but ultimately the only one that may work. One of David Carradine's last movies.

Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf
›2015 · Science Fiction, Horror, TV Movie · 83m · Casper Van Dien, Catherine Oxenberg, Jennifer Wenger
When a mad scientist mixes the genes of a killer whale and a wolf, it creates the Whalewolf, and it's up to Sharktopus to stop it.

Octopus
›PG-132000 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Jay Harrington, David Beecroft, Carolyn Lowery
During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An unknown object attacks and disables the sub with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks, among them the sub destroyed 38 years ago. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength! The only way out is the emergency submersible and a passing cruise ship. Above or below the water, there is no escape from the monster mutant octopus with a nuclear diet...

Nazi Overlord
›NR2018 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 88m · Tom Sizemore, Dominique Swain, Anthony Jensen
A D-Day rescue mission turns ugly when a band of Allied soldiers battle with horrific experiments created by the Nazis.

The Redwood Massacre
›R2014 · Horror · 82m · Mark Wood, Lisa Cameron, Lisa Livingstone
‘THE REDWOOD MASSACRE’ is about five adventurous friends, visiting the legendary murder site of Redwood. It has all the hallmarks of being an exciting and thrilling camping weekend away. They soon discover they’re not the only people in the mysterious location. The fun camping expedition soon turns into a nightmare as they are sadistically stalked by a mysterious unseen killer.

Curse of the Nun
›R2018 · Horror · 80m · Lacy Hartselle, Jonathan Everett, Rae Hunt
A damaged young woman is looking forward to moving to a beautiful new home, but the spirit of a deranged nun wants her to stay right where she is.

Episode 50
›2011 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 78m · Josh Folan, Natalie Wetta, Keithen Hergott
Teaming up for the first time for a special episode of a supernatural reality TV show, two rival crews get more then they bargained for when they make physical contact with a ferocious spirit of terrifying power. They must band together before it destroys them all. After 49 killer episodes…this is the true story of what happened on episode 50.

Revenge of the Dead
›1959 · Horror · 69m · Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Valda Hansen
Reports of strange activities out by the Old Willow's place signal new adventures for Kelton the Cop & Co. An apparent mystic, Dr. Acula is engaging in rituals designed to raise the dead. But he may get more than he bargained for...

Don't Look Up
›R2009 · Horror · 98m · Reshad Strik, Henry Thomas, Carmen Chaplin
While filming in Transylvania, a crew unearths celluloid images of a woman’s murder and unleashes the wrath of evil spirits.

Creature from the Haunted Sea
›NR1961 · Horror, Comedy · 61m · Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

The Haunting of Margam Castle
›2020 · Horror · 81m · Caroline Munro, Jane Merrow, Derren Nesbitt
A team of American parapsychologists travel to Wales to conduct a study of Margam Castle, one of the UK's most haunted buildings.

The Curse of the Komodo
›PG-132004 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Gail Harris, Paul Logan, Tim Abell
Genetically-engineered Komodo dragons have become ginormous creatures hunting people on a remote tropical island. A small group of scientists must stop the dragons before they escape the island and destroy the rest of the world.

The Sound
›2017 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 92m · Rose McGowan, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Eklund
A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.

Carnosaur 3: Primal Species
›R1996 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Scott Valentine, Janet Gunn, Rick Dean
International terrorists get a surprise when their cargo turns out to contain living dinosaurs. The army commando team now have to think fast, if they want to prevent the extinction of the human species, instead of the reptiles.

Snow Falls
›R2023 · Horror · 80m · Victoria Moroles, Johnny Berchtold, Colton Tran
After a winter storm strands five friends in a remote cabin with no power and little food, disorientation slowly claims their sanity as each of them succumbs to a fear that the snow itself may be contaminated or somehow evil.






















