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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Black BirdSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Crime · 1 season · Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Sepideh Moafi
As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.
The FallSeries
›TV-MA2013 · Drama, Crime · 3 seasons · Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Niamh McGrady
When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.
ManhuntSeries
›TV-MA2017 · Crime, Mystery · 2 seasons · Gethin Anthony, Arliss Howard, Kelly Jenrette
Inspired by actual events, this true crime anthology series takes a deep dive into the dark, twisted minds of terrorists and follows the brave souls who hunt them down.
Ripper StreetSeries
›TV-MA2012 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 5 seasons · Matthew Macfadyen, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.
The Outer LimitsSeries
›TV-PG1963 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
Eerie, IndianaSeries
›TV-Y71991 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy · 1 season · Omri Katz, Justin Shenkarow, Mary-Margaret Humes
Teenage weirdness investigator Marshall Teller adventures through his new small-town home with his friends, geeky Simon Holmes and mysterious Dash X.
So WeirdSeries
›1999 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Kids · 3 seasons · Mackenzie Phillips, Alexz Johnson, Patrick Levis
Fourteen-year-old Fi Phillips investigates the paranormal while touring the country in a bus with her widowed rock-star mom and her skeptical brother, Jack. At the beginning of Season 3, Fi passed the job of case cracker to a songbird named Annie
Get Out
›R2017 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 104m · Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Black Swan
›R2010 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 108m · Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
WednesdaySeries
›TV-142022 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Comedy · 3 seasons · Jenna Ortega, Steve Buscemi, Emma Myers
Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates twisted mysteries while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy.
The Thing
›R1982 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 109m · Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Halloween
›R1978 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Night of the Living Dead
›NR1968 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 96m · Judith O'Dea, Duane Jones, Marilyn Eastman
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
Good OmensSeries
›TV-MA2019 · Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons · Michael Sheen, David Tennant
Aziraphale and Crowley, of Heaven and Hell respectively, have grown rather fond of the Earth. So it's terrible news that it's about to end. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing. The Four Horsemen are ready to ride. Everything is going according to the Divine Plan...except that someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Can our heroes find him and stop Armageddon before it's too late?
Dexter: New BloodSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Crime · 1 season · Michael C. Hall, Jack Alcott, Julia Jones
10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, we find him living under an assumed name in the small town of Iron Lake, New York. Dexter may be embracing his new life, but in the wake of unexpected events in this close-knit community, his Dark Passenger beckons.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
›1956 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 80m · Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
›1962 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 135m · Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Tales from the CryptSeries
›TV-MA1989 · Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 7 seasons · John Kassir
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
The Addams FamilySeries
›TV-G1964 · Comedy, Family · 2 seasons · Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
›NR1939 · Drama, Romance, Horror · 117m · Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
The Unknown
›NR1927 · Drama, Thriller, Romance · 68m · Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder—a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
The Almighty JohnsonsSeries
›2011 · Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons · Timothy Balme, Dean O'Gorman, Shane Cortese
The four Johnson brothers have inherited the powers of the Norse gods. Because the gods lived eons ago, however, time has diluted the powers. The unique ability that each brother possesses isn't very strong, and they still have the same desires and faults that mortals do. Their lives include sibling rivalry, trying to get girls, and hanging out; but they also want to be stronger, and so they embark on a quest to fulfill an ancient prophecy in hope of gaining the full strength of their abilities.
CarmillaSeries
›TV-PG2014 · Drama, Comedy · 4 seasons · Elise Bauman, Natasha Negovanlis, Annie Briggs
Laura Hollis, a newly enrolled college student at Silas University, shares a room with Betty, who mysteriously disappears all of a sudden. Little does Laura know that after this fateful night, nothing will be the same in her life, starting with meeting her new roommate from hell, Carmilla Karnstein. "Carmilla" is a single-camera, scripted transmedia series that puts a modern spin on the cult classic Gothic vampire novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. It's a story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire.
WandaVisionSeries
›TV-142021 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn
Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.