
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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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.

Bornless Ones
›2016 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 81m · Michael Johnston, Mark Furze, David Banks
With the help of her friends, Emily moves to a remote home to take better care of her brother, Zack who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. But what they don't know is that the house is keeping a terrifying secret that will haunt them one by one.

Chemical Wedding
›2008 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 106m · Simon Callow, John Shrapnel, Kal Weber
A shy, stuttering professor brings satanist Aleister Crowley back to life.

The Prophecy: Forsaken
›R2005 · Fantasy, Horror, Thriller · 75m · Kari Wührer, Jason Scott Lee, Tony Todd
In Bucharest, theology student Allison is still protecting the mysterious Lexicon where the last chapter about the Antichrist could the win the stalemated war in heaven for either side. Meanwhile, the evil and jealous leader of the renegade angels, Stark, forces hit-man Dylan to kill Allison to get the information about the Antichrist, but Dylan begins to fall for her, protecting her at what cost?

The Unnamable
›R1988 · Horror · 87m · Charles Klausmeyer, Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Alexandra Durrell
Students from Miskatonic University decide to spend the night in the Winthrop house, a spot widely believed to have been haunted for the past 300 years, ever since Joshua Winthrop was horribly murdered and mutilated by the hideous creature born of his wife.

Equinox
›PG1970 · Adventure, Horror · 82m · Edward Connell, Barbara Hewitt, Jack Woods
Due to their possession of an ancient mystic book, four friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic and find themselves pitched into a world of evil that overlaps their own. The film was originally made in 1967 by Dennis Muren as The Equinox: Journey into the Supernatural. Jack Woods was hired to shoot additional footage and expand on Muren's work.

Headspace
›R2005 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Olivia Hussey, William Atherton, Sean Young
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so too does the mystery of a brutal series of murders. Now, as the killer seems to set his sights on Alex, the frightened genius must use his newfound brain power to put an end to the mayhem once and for all.

Doctor Faustus
›1967 · Mystery, Drama, Horror · 93m · Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Durden
Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.

Muse
›2017 · Thriller, Horror · 107m · Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu
Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Samuel sneaks into the crime scene and there he meets Rachel who has also dreamed about the murder. Together, they will do whatever they can to discover the identity of the mystery woman, entering a terrifying world controlled by the figures who have inspired artists throughout time: the Muses.

Astral
›NR2018 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Frank Dillane, Catherine Steadman, Trevor White
A detached university student faces the consequences of astral projection when he uses it to reconnect with his dead mother.

Apollo 18
›PG-132011 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 86m · Ryan Robbins, Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.

Cellar Door
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Jordana Brewster, Scott Speedman, Laurence Fishburne
Looking for a fresh start after a miscarriage, a couple find themselves being gifted the house of their dreams with one caveat - they can never open the cellar door. Whether they can live without knowing triggers shocking consequences.

The Red Book Ritual
›2022 · Horror · 83m · Valeria San Martin, Agustin Olcese, Marlene Pedersen Chauviere
Three friends decide to play The Red Book game. What they don't know is that in the house evil is waiting to be released. A long time ago a witch died as part of a satanic ritual. Every question they ask, they get closer and closer to her. The book will reveal the answers to all your questions… but what if your host is an evil entity with a thirst for blood?

H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House
›2022 · Horror · 82m · Portia Chellelynn, Julie Anne Prescott, Andrea Collins
Graduate student Alice Gilman is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Dreams in the Witch House.

Witchcraft (Evil Encounters)
›R1988 · Horror · 95m · David Hasselhoff, Linda Blair, Catherine Hickland
A student and her photographer boyfriend visit an island off of Massachusetts to research a hotel supposedly haunted by a witch.

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
›NR2006 · Action, Adventure, Fantasy · 170m · Casper Van Dien, Leonor Varela, Malcolm McDowell
Thousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is about to change.Free -spirited archaeologist Danny Fremont (Casper Van Dien, Sleepy Hollow) is certain that if found, King Tut's Emerald Tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde, Titanic), a member of a secret society who wants the tablet to harness unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.

The Order
›R2003 · Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller · 102m · Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Benno Fürmann
For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.

Frankenstein vs. The Mummy
›2015 · Horror · 114m · Ashton Leigh, Max Rhyser, Boomer Tibbs
The mummy of a cursed pharaoh and a reanimated corpse terrorize a medical university. Only an Egyptologist and a college professor, the deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may be able to stop the creatures before it's too late.

The Dunwich Horror
›R2009 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Griff Furst, Sarah Lieving, Jeffrey Combs
In Louisiana, in the wicked Whateley House, Lavina delivers two babies whose fate is written. Ten years later, three scholars of the occult discover that one page of the “Necronomicon,” the unspeakable book, is missing and the Black Brotherhood has summoned the ancient gate keeper to free legions of evil gods and monsters from the dimension of chaos.

Retro Puppetmaster
›PG-131999 · Horror · 80m · Greg Sestero, Brigitta Dau, Stephen Blackehart
Andre Toulon, living a peaceful life as a puppeteer in pre-WWI Paris, encounters the renegade sorcerer Afzel, who has stolen the mysterious secrets of life from the dark god Sutekh.

Little Witches
›R1996 · Drama, Horror · 91m · Mimi Rose, Sheeri Rappaport, Zelda Rubinstein
When an ancient book of spells transforms 6 naughty Catholic school girls into a sexy coven of witches, all hell breaks loose. Witness the evil craft of Little Witches as the execute their devilish deeds.

Evil Toons
›R1992 · Comedy, Horror · 83m · David Carradine, Monique Gabrielle, Arte Johnson
Four sexy young girls are to clean an old house for the new owners. They get delivered an old book full of magic incantations, and while reading it they accidentally bring a cartoon character to life. The cartoon character likes the blood of young girls...

Scream of the Banshee
›2011 · Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Lance Henriksen, Lauren Holly, Edrick Browne
An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream.

Ritual
›R2002 · Horror · 111m · Jennifer Grey, Craig Sheffer, Daniel Lapaine
An American doctor encounters members of a voodoo cult when she is summoned to Jamaica to treat a wealthy man's brother.






















