
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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Nightmares
›1980 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Jenny Neumann, Gary Sweet, Nina Landis
A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.

Dark Touch
›2013 · Horror · 90m · Missy Keating, Marcella Plunkett, Charlotte Flyvholm
Niamh is the lone survivor of a mysterious massacre in which the furniture and objects in her family’s isolated house took on a monstrous life of their own. The police ignore her wild stories, and the neighbours and social worker who take her into their care try to introduce her to a new life. But Niamh is unable to leave her violent past behind her, endangering everyone who crosses her path.

Hospital Massacre
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Barbi Benton, Charles Lucia, Jon Van Ness
When Susan was a little girl, she rejected the Valentine of a lovestruck classmate. Decades later, she’s come to the hospital for a routine medical examination, and finds herself trapped in a bizarre nightmare, made all the worse as her vengeful childhood valentine, disguised among the hospital staff, begins murdering everyone in his path as a means of proving his undying ‘romantic’ obsession…

Housewife
›2017 · Horror · 82m · Clémentine Poidatz, David Sakurai, Alicia Kapudağ
Housewife is centered on Holly whose mother murdered her sister and father when she was seven. 20 years later and slowly losing her grip on the difference between reality and nightmares, she runs into a celebrity psychic who claims that he is destined to help her.

Sound of Violence
›2021 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 94m · Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger
As a child, the brutal murder of her family made Alexis regain her hearing along with synesthetic abilities. Now as an adult, she finds solace in the sounds of bodily harm. But when she’s told she might lose her hearing again, she escalates her gruesome sound experiments in a quest to compose her masterpiece.

Twisted Nightmare
›R1987 · Horror · 94m · Rhonda Gray, Cleve Hall, Robert Padilla
A group of teenagers win a trip to a summer camp they had attended as children. However, soon after they get there they begin to disappear one by one. The survivors suspect that the disappearances may be connected to the death of a handicapped child at the camp years before.

Five Nights at Freddy's
›PG-132023 · Horror, Thriller · 110m · Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail
Recently fired and desperate for work, a troubled young man named Mike agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. But he soon discovers that nothing at Freddy's is what it seems.

Boogeyman 2
›NR2007 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Danielle Savre, Matt Cohen, Chrissy Calhoun
A young woman attempts to cure her phobia of the boogeyman by checking herself into a mental health facility, only to realize too late that she is now helplessly trapped with her own greatest fear.

Mercy Black
›PG-132019 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Daniella Pineda, Austin Amelio, Elle LaMont
A woman is sent to a mental institution after stabbing her classmate in an attempt to conjure an evil spirit called, Mercy Black. Fifteen years later she's released, and must save her nephew, who has become obsessed with the phenomenon.

Abigail Haunting
›2020 · Horror · 85m · Chelsea Jurkiewicz, Austin Collazo, Brenda Daly
After escaping the clutches of an abusive relationship, Katie reluctantly returns to the foster home she grew up in. Little does she know, her foster mother Marge is harboring a sinister secret dating back a decade. Now, Katie finds herself caught up in a horrifying family drama while confronting an angry spirit named Abigail.

Offerings
›R1989 · Horror · 95m · Loretta Leigh Bowman, Elizabeth Greene, G. Michael Smith
Ten years after he was pushed down a well, a young man kills off the neighborhood bullies who tormented him and leaves their body parts as presents for the one girl who was kind to him.

Devil's Whisper
›2017 · Horror · 85m · Luca Oriel, Rick Ravanello, Marcos A. Ferraez
Devil's Whisper is a supernatural horror film about demonic possession but at its core it's a psychological thriller about repressed memories, childhood trauma and the cycle of abuse.

Sledgehammer
›1983 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Ted Prior, Linda McGill, John Eastman
A young boy murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later, a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
›R2021 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 107m · Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell
Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

Amusement
›R2008 · Horror, Mystery · 85m · Keir O'Donnell, Tad Hilgenbrink, Katheryn Winnick
While being interrogated by a police psychiatrist, the near-catatonic Tabitha tries to explain why she and two of her childhood friends are being hunted by a serial killer. The truth that's dying to come out weaves together three tragic secrets from their past. Two of the girls' boyfriends become unwitting targets in their deadly game.

Bereavement
›R2010 · Crime, Horror · 103m · Michael Biehn, Alexandra Daddario, Nolan Gerard Funk
In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors. Chosen at random, his victim's screams were drowned out by the rural countryside. For five years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery, until 17 year old Allison Miller comes to live with her Uncle, Jonathan. While exploring her new surroundings, Allison discovers things aren't quite right at the farmhouse down the road. Her curiosity disturbs a hornet's nest of evil and despair that once torn open, can never be closed.

Ice Cream Man
›R1995 · Comedy, Horror · 84m · Clint Howard, Justin Isfeld, Anndi McAfee
Young Gregory Tudor sees his local ice cream man murdered and later grows up to inherit his business, opting to inject gruesome ingredients—including human body parts—into his frozen confections. When one of the neighborhood boys goes missing, the local kids suspect Gregory and band together to get to the bottom of things.

Malevolence
›2004 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Jay Cohen, R. Brandon Johnson, Samantha Dark
It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery...until now.

Bagman
›PG-132024 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Sam Claflin, Antonia Thomas, Caréll Vincent Rhoden
For centuries and across cultures, parents have warned their children of the legendary Bagman, who snatches innocent children and stuffs them into his vile, rotting bag—never to be seen again. Patrick McKee narrowly escaped such an encounter as a boy, which left him with lasting scars throughout his adulthood. Now, Patrick’s childhood tormentor has returned, threatening the safety of his wife Karina and son Jake.

Prey
›PG-132019 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Logan Miller, Kristine Froseth, Jolene Anderson
After being put on a supposedly uninhabited island as a form of behavioral rehabilitation, a high school senior finds that he's not alone on the island, and that getting discovered could be deadly.

The Crooked Man
›2016 · Horror · 87m · Michael Jai White, Angelique Rivera, Cameron Jebo
While at a slumber party, twelve-year-old Olivia is blamed for the horrific and mysterious death of her friend after singing a song, created by a reclusive mastermind, Milo, which summons a demonic figure known as “The Crooked Man.” Returning to her hometown six years later, a string of unusual deaths lead Olivia to believe that she’s still being haunted by whatever she saw that fateful night. Once you sing the rhyme, everyone in the house is cursed to die by his hands.

The Day the World Ended
›2001 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Nastassja Kinski, Bobby Edner, Randy Quaid
A school psychologist investigates the death of a student's mother and finds the boy believes he is the son of an alien being.

Doll Graveyard
›2005 · Horror · 71m · Jared Kusnitz, Gabrielle Lynn, Kristyn Green
It's 1905 when 12 year old Sophia plays all by herself in her big, creepy house with only four handmade dolls as friends. When her abusive father has finally had enough, he forces her to bury them in the backyard. But, after she "slips" and breaks her neck, dad buries her right along with the dolls. 100 years later, the Fillbrook family moves into the very same house.

The Sandman
›2017 · Horror · 90m · Haylie Duff, Tobin Bell, Shaun Sipos
A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her.






















