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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Svengali
›NR1931 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 81m · John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
The LochSeries
›TV-142017 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Laura Fraser, Siobhan Finneran, Don Gilet
The search for a serial killer becomes a matter of life and death for detective Annie Redford, who is trying to cope with her first murder case.
Twisted Nerve
›PG1968 · Thriller, Horror · 112m · Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
Black Friday
›1940 · Science Fiction, Crime, Horror · 70m · Stanley Ridges, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
Apartment Zero
›R1989 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 124m · Colin Firth, Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan
In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.
Dead Mail
›2024 · Crime, Thriller, Music · 102m · Sterling Macer Jr., John Fleck, Tomas Boykin
An ominous help note finds its way to a 1980s post office, connecting a dead letter investigator to a kidnapped keyboard technician.
The Beast with Five Fingers
›1947 · Mystery, Horror · 88m · Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
Point PleasantSeries
›TV-142005 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 1 season · Elisabeth Harnois, Grant Show, Sam Page
A series of supernatural events begins in a small coastal New Jersey town after the arrival of a mysterious teenage girl, who apparently has the ability to influence the people and events around her.
See No Evil: The Moors MurdersSeries
›2006 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Maxine Peake, Sean Harris, Joanne Froggatt
See No Evil: The Moors Murders is a British two-part television serial directed by Christopher Menaul. It was produced by Granada Television and broadcast on ITV during May 2006. It tells the story of the Moors Murders, which were committed during the 1960s by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, from the view of Hindley's sister Maureen Smith and her husband David.
Zomboat!Series
›TV-MA2019 · Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Leah Brotherhead, Cara Theobold, Ryan McKen
We follow two sisters contending with the recent zombie apocalypse.
The Swerve
›2018 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 96m · Azura Skye, Bryce Pinkham, Ashley Bell
The dark secrets of Holly's seemingly perfect life are exposed when an unwanted intruder spins her life out of control forever.
StagSeries
›2016 · Comedy, Mystery · 1 season · Jim Howick, Stephen Campbell Moore, JJ Feild
An obnoxious group of friends struggle to survive the stag weekend from hell as a deer-hunting expedition in the Scottish highlands quickly turns messy.
Amazing Stories
›1986 · TV Movie, Fantasy, Horror · 111m · Kevin Costner, Christopher Lloyd, Casey Siemaszko
A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy, and Go to the Head of the Class.
Mother of Flies
›2025 · Horror · 92m · Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, John Adams
When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods... but every cure has costs.
In Vitro
›R2025 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 88m · Talia Zucker, Ashley Zukerman, Daniel Ciurte
On an isolated cattle farm, a couple experimenting with biotechnology have their lives upended when they discover a disturbing presence on their property.
Breathing In
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 105m · Michele Burgers, Sven Ruygrok, Jamie-Lee Money
1901, South Africa. As the Second Anglo-Boer War rages on, a wounded General seeks refuge in the small home of a woman and her young daughter. As the hurt man settles in, he begins noticing that something is off about the two women, particularly the daughter, and before long, he’ll learn the real reason for why they’ve invited him and for how they’ve survived on their own for so long.
More Things That Happened
›2007 · Horror, Drama · 75m · Karolina Gruszka, William Maier, Peter J. Lucas
A collection of deleted scenes from David Lynch's 2006 surrealist horror INLAND EMPIRE.
Celebrity Ghost StoriesSeries
›TV-PG2009 · Reality, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery · 5 seasons
Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From encounters with ghosts and angry spirits to haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first person narratives from our favorite stars delivers a brand new way of experiencing the thrills and chills of the addictive world of the paranormal.
Kindred SpiritsSeries
›TV-142016 · Reality, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 7 seasons · Adam Berry, Amy Bruni, Chip Coffey
Ghost hunters Adam Berry and Amy Bruni help real families who claim to be bedeviled by paranormal activity in their homes.
The Capture of the Green River KillerSeries
›2008 · Drama · 1 season · Tom Cavanagh, Currie Graham, Amy Davidson
Detective David Reichert begins a relentless search for a serial killer in Washington state.
Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New YorkSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Matt Foreman, Michael Ferreri, Bea Hanson
In the early 1990s, with homophobia and hate crimes on the rise as the AIDS crisis worsens, a serial killer preys upon gay men in New York City, infiltrating queer nightlife to find his victims.
The Little VampireSeries
›1986 · Mystery · 1 season · Christopher Stanton, Joel Dacks, Marsha Moreau
The Little Vampire is a 13-episode children’s television series based on Angela Sommer-Bodenburg’s books The Little Vampire and The Little Vampire Moves In. The series was produced in 1985 as a Canadian-German-British co-production by Norflicks Productions Ltd. (Canada), Polyphon Film- und Fernsehgesellschaft (Germany), and TVS (United Kingdom), and first aired in 1986. It follows a young boy whose ordinary life changes after befriending a young vampire and becoming involved in a secret nocturnal world of adventure, friendship, and light-hearted supernatural escapades.
Hammer House of Mystery and SuspenseSeries
›1984 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season
A short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. Co-produced by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, it is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all episodes feature American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It first broadcast in the UK on ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various regions.
Horror's GreatestSeries
›2024 · Documentary · 2 seasons · David Dastmalchian
A deep dive into everything we love about horror — from fresh looks at classics to unearthing scores of hidden gems, this series has something for every fright film enthusiast.