
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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Cry_Wolf
›PG-132005 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jared Padalecki
After a local woman is murdered, a group of teenage liars create a warning e-mail of a serial killer named “The Wolf”, coming on the next full moon. The teens describe each death method The Wolf uses, but when the described victims actually do start turning up dead, suddenly no one knows where the lies end and the truth begins.

The Possession of Michael King
›R2014 · Horror · 83m · Shane Johnson, Ella Anderson, Cara Pifko
The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker Michael King (Shane Johnson), who doesn’t believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the supernatural, making himself the center of the experiment – allowing demonologists, necromancers, and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest and darkest spells and rituals they can find on him – in the hopes that when they fail, he’ll once and for all have proof that religion, spiritualism, and the paranormal are nothing more than myth. But something does happen. An evil and horrifying force has taken over Michael King. And it will not let him go.

Cameron's Closet
›R1988 · Horror · 87m · Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Scott Curtis
A father who experiments with his son's psychokinetic powers is unaware that these experiments have released a demon from hell which lives in his son's closet, preparing to take over the young boy's soul.

Subservience
›R2024 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 105m · Megan Fox, Michele Morrone, Madeline Zima
With his wife out sick, a struggling father brings home a lifelike AI, only to have his self-aware new help want everything her new family has to offer... Like the affection of her owner and she'll kill to get it.

Brainscan
›R1994 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, T. Ryder Smith
A lonely teenage horror fan and video gamer plays a new immersive and hypnotic computer game where he becomes a psychopathic killer, but when he emerges, he finds that the murder has actually happened.

Nightmare at Noon
›R1988 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, George Kennedy
Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.

Escape from Tomorrow
›NR2013 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 90m · Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.

Malicious
›2018 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Bojana Novaković, Josh Stewart, Delroy Lindo
A young college professor and his pregnant wife unwittingly release a malevolent entity with murderous intentions.

Closer to God
›2014 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 81m · Jeremy Childs, Shelean Newman, Shannon Hoppe
A man on the cutting edge of science becomes the first to successfully clone a person, but events unravel when the news leaks out before his team could prepare for what's to come.

The Witch Files
›NR2018 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Britt Flatmo, Paget Brewster, Holly Taylor
A coven of young women with incredible powers and difficult pasts discovers that they are able to make their every wish come true. Things, however, take a dangerous turn when they discover that their newly-found abilities come with a price and that they may not be as in control as they think.

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.

Seizure
›PG1974 · Horror · 94m · Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Joseph Sirola
A disturbed author's house party becomes a scene of carnage when three of his homicidal creations appear.

Exorcismus
›2010 · Thriller, Horror · 98m · Doug Bradley, Stephen Billington, Sophie Vavasseur
Fifteen-year-old Emma Evans is like any other teenage girl; she thinks that her parents don't understand her. She longs for independence and a life free of family ties and responsibilities and she is prepared to do anything to achieve it. But one day she will be forced to face up to the consequences of her actions.Life seems to be carrying on as normal, until one day Emma starts experiencing frightening fits. Her parents are convinced that her problems are either medical or psychological, but when doctors' tests are unable to draw any conclusions, the family is forced to look elsewhere for answers.It all started off as a bit of fun, Emma never really believed it, but the truth is there is something dark and sinister within her, and it won't take long to surface.

Baby Ruby
›2023 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 93m · Noémie Merlant, Kit Harington, Camila Canó-Flaviá
After welcoming her baby, Ruby, home, the tightly scripted world of lifestyle influencer Jo starts to unravel. As increasingly sinister happenings mount, Jo is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems.

Spontaneous Combustion
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 97m · Brad Dourif, Cynthia Bain, Jon Cypher
A young man learns that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before his birth, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

I Was a Teenage Werewolf
›1957 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 76m · Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell
A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf.

Boy Eats Girl
›R2005 · Comedy, Horror · 80m · Samantha Mumba, David Leon, Tadhg Murphy
A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved.

The Facility
›2012 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Aneurin Barnard, Emily Butterfield, Oliver Coleman
A group of volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horribly wrong.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›PG2008 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Dougray Scott, Krista Bridges, Tom Skerritt
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-regarded physician whose evenings are spent researching a rare and sacred Amazonian flower so potent it's said to literally separate the soul, giving life to man's Dark Self. The obsessive experiments to isolate its psychotropic properties happen to coincide with a series of brutal murders gripping the city with fear. Jekyll knows it's no coincidence. While his nights are lost to him, he awakens with bloody mementos and violent memories of the screams of his victims.

Hypnotic
›2021 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 89m · Kate Siegel, Jason O'Mara, Dulé Hill
A young woman seeking self-improvement enlists the help of a renowned hypnotist but, after a handful of intense sessions, discovers unexpected and deadly consequences.

Maximum Overdrive
›R1986 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 98m · Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.

Altitude
›R2010 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Jessica Lowndes, Julianna Guill, Ryan Donowho
After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.

Margaux
›R2022 · Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Jedidiah Goodacre, Madison Pettis, Vanessa Morgan
As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux's plans to eliminate her tenants one way or another. Time begins to run out as the group desperately tries to survive and outsmart the smart home.

The Evil in Us
›2016 · Horror · 91m · Tatyana Forrest, Debs Howard, Ian Collins
While on a fourth of July holiday, six best friends fall victim to the insidious plan of a terrorist organization when they unknowingly take a bio-active drug that transforms them into bloodthirsty cannibals.






















