
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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Puppet Master 5
›R1994 · Horror · 82m · Gordon Currie, Chandra West, Ian Ogilvy
Sutekh, the dark pharaoh from another dimension, sends his own puppet, Totem, to continue his quest to kill Rick and steal the magic which animates the puppets.

The Manitou
›PG1978 · Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.

Hell Hole
›2024 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Toby Poser, John Adams, Max Portman
Far away, in the desolate Serbian wilderness, a U.S.-led fracking crew uncover a dormant monster gestating inside a centuries-old French soldier. Now awakened and exposed in its most dangerously fragile state, it tears through the men on the grounds in search of a new womb.

Rise of the Mummy
›2021 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Abi Casson Thompson, Arthur Boan, Amanda-Jade Tyler
A group of archaeology students awaken an ancient mummy. After being trapped in a time loop, the only way they can escape, is to defeat the mummy. As the body count rises, it seems the Mummy has to collect the souls of those who woke him to be able to walk the earth - for good.

Wild Eyed and Wicked
›PG-132024 · Horror, Fantasy, Drama · 99m · Molly Kunz, Michael X. Sommers, Colleen Camp
Lily Pierce is sick of being haunted. She decides to reconnect with her estranged father, a disgraced history professor, and learn how to draw upon a time of steel and blade when armor-clad knights rode out and dueled their monsters to the death.

Soulkeeper
›2001 · Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy · 105m · Rodney Rowland, Kevin Patrick Walls, Jaime Bergman
Two thieves compete with a madman in their search for an ancient relic which can create an army of evil souls.

The Cellar
›2022 · Horror, Mystery · 94m · Elisha Cuthbert, Eoin Macken, Dylan Fitzmaurice-Brady
When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.

The Jack in the Box Rises
›2024 · Horror · 92m · Nicholas Anscombe, Isabella Colby Browne, Derek Nelson
When a creepy Jack-in-the-Box is discovered and opened on the grounds of an exclusive girls' school, six brave students soon enter a fight to the finish against the unleashed demon.

Becoming
›2020 · Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller · 98m · Toby Kebbell, Penelope Mitchell, Jason Patric
A couple on a road trip through America encounter a terrifying dark force older than the country itself. An evil that transforms loved ones into someone terrifying, the entity has left a trail of murdered families going back hundreds of years.

Call Girl of Cthulhu
›2014 · Comedy, Horror · 92m · Melissa LaMartina, David Phillip Carollo, Nicolette le Faye
When a virginal artist falls in love with a call girl, she turns out to be the chosen bride of the alien god Cthulhu. To save her, he must stop an ancient cult from summoning their god and destroying mankind.

The Roost
›NR2005 · Horror · 80m · Karl Jacob, Vanessa Horneff, Sean Reid
Following a near-death car accident, four friends on their way to a Halloween wedding, venture to a secluded farm for help. Little do they know however, they will soon disturb an ancient evil with far more ghastly plans in store for them...

Catacombs
›R1988 · Horror · 84m · Tim Van Patten, Ian Abercrombie, Jeremy West
In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher Elizabeth Magrino visits the monastery in order to do some research. What she and the current monks do not realize is that the evil hiding within the catacombs has unwittingly been released.

The Cellar
›PG-131989 · Horror · 86m · Patrick Kilpatrick, Chris Miller, Suzanne Savoy
A young boy finds an ancient Comanche monster spirit in the basement of his home. His parents don't believe him, so he must kill the monster alone.

The Millennium Bug
›2011 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · John Charles Meyer, Jessica Simons, Christine Haeberman
When the Haskin family seeks refuge from Y2K hysteria in the isolated forests of the Sierra Diablos mountains, madness and terror find them there. Abducted by a vicious hillbilly clan, the Haskins fight for survival, but neither they nor the hillbilly Crawfords can comprehend the monstrous nightmare about to erupt from the bowels of the earth.

The Nun
›R2018 · Horror · 96m · Taissa Farmiga, Demián Bichir, Bonnie Aarons
A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.

The New Daughter
›PG-132009 · Horror, Thriller · 108m · Kevin Costner, Ivana Baquero, Gattlin Griffith
John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering puberty.

The Objective
›2008 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, Jon Huertas
A team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched to a remote mountain region of Afghanistan with orders to locate an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern 'Bermuda Triangle' of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could have imagined.

The Dunwich Horror
›R1970 · Horror · 88m · Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He is turned away by Wilbur, the family's insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won't be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret — as well as a great evil.

Primal
›NR2010 · Thriller, Horror · 80m · Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Will Travel
Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

Room 203
›NR2022 · Horror · 104m · Francesca Xuereb, Viktoria Vinyarska, Scott Gremillion
Two female roommates were tormented by the vengeful spirits dwelling in their gothic-style, rented apartment, which contains an ornate centerpiece.

11th Hour Cleaning
›2022 · Horror · 72m · Chloe Brooks, Edward Finlay, Ed Morrone
A group of crime scene cleaners struggle to escape a murder house after becoming trapped by an ancient Nordic demon that is hell-bent on driving them insane.

The Ferryman
›2007 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 100m · John Rhys-Davies, Kerry Fox, Tamer Hassan
Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht.

The Haunting at Saint Joseph's
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Tim Spriggs, Melissa Brattoni, Brandon Krum
An engaged Muslim doctor, her fiancé, and their friends go on a holiday at St. Joseph’s Guesthouse, unaware that it was the site of a sacrifice of an innocent centuries before. They soon come to believe that it's haunted and causing them to go crazy, as their emotions spiral out of control.

Revelation
›2001 · Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · 111m · James D'Arcy, Natasha Wightman, Terence Stamp
Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, the puzzling relic has suddenly reappeared in the present day, bringing with it a terrible secret that could spell doom for all of mankind. Now it's up to Magnus Martel to subvert a murderous secret society and uncover the truth behind the ancient treasure.






















