
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.
The Crypt Charts
See all charts →276 titles

The Burning
›R1981 · Horror · 91m · Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidentally burned him.

Prevenge
›2017 · Horror, Comedy, Drama · 89m · Alice Lowe, Jo Hartley, Kayvan Novak
A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.

Dr. Phibes Rises Again
›PG1972 · Comedy, Horror · 89m · Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp
The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife, which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways.

Rushed
›2021 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 101m · Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Robert Patrick, Jake Weary
Barbara O’Brien, an Irish Catholic mother, has her life turned upside-down when her son, a freshman in college, is involved in a tragic hazing incident. Taking justice into her own hands, she travels across the country recording mothers who have lost sons to hazing in an effort to prove the university’s liability. When she is confronted by corruption and cover ups, she seeks revenge on the one person she finds truly responsible, proving that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.

The Black Castle
›1952 · Mystery, Horror · 82m · Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally
A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.

FrankensteinSeries
›2004 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Alec Newman, William Hurt, Julie Delpy
A scientist brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.

The Strange Door
›1951 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.

The Last House on the Left
›R2009 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 113m · Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter, Sara Paxton
When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget.

The Wrath of Becky
›R2023 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Lulu Wilson, Seann William Scott, Denise Burse
Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, 16-year-old Becky attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older woman -- a kindred spirit named Elena. However, when a violent group known as the Noble Men break into their home, attack them and take their beloved dog, Becky must return to her old ways to protect herself and her loved ones.

Taste the Blood of Dracula
›R1970 · Horror · 95m · Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford
Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula's servants. In a nightly ceremony they restore the count back to life. The three men killed Dracula's servant and as a revenge, the count makes sure that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own sons.

The Invisible Woman
›1940 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 72m · Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.

Petey Wheatstraw
›R1977 · Fantasy, Action, Comedy · 99m · Rudy Ray Moore, Jimmy Lynch, Leroy Daniels
Petey Wheatstraw is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is a scaffolding on which Rudy Ray Moore's standup humor can be unfolded. Beginning life as the afterbirth to a watermelon, the young Wheatstraw becomes a martial artist, but is unable to best the evil comedy team of Leroy and Skillet, who also indulge in wholesale murder. Satan restores the comedians' victims to life, and charges Petey with the task of marrying his clock-stoppingly ugly daughter to give him a grandchild. When Petey attempts to default on the deal, he is pursued by the devil's henchmen.

Night Monster
›1942 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 72m · Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.

House of Horrors
›NR1946 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 65m · Rondo Hatton, Martin Kosleck, Robert Lowery
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.

The Monster and the Girl
›1941 · Science Fiction, Horror, Crime · 65m · Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.

Friday the 13th
›R1980 · Horror · 95m · Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

The Toxic Avenger
›R1984 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 82m · Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Prichard
A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
›R1990 · Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy · 93m · Debbie Harry, Matthew Lawrence, David Forrester
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.

Willard
›PG-132003 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 100m · Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Harring
Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother and his father's old partner, Frank. Soon it becomes clear that the brood of rodents is ready and willing to exact a vicious, deadly revenge on anyone who dares to bully their sensitive new master.

The Head Hunter
›2019 · Horror, Fantasy · 72m · Christopher Rygh, Cora Kaufman, Aisha Ricketts
On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven by a thirst for revenge, he travels wild expanses on horseback. When his second chance arrives, it’s in a way far more horrifying than he ever imagined.

Mad Heidi
›2022 · Action, Adventure, Comedy · 92m · Alice Lucy, David Schofield, Kel Matsena
In a dystopian Switzerland that has fallen under the fascist rule of an evil cheese tyrant, Swiss mountain girl Heidi transforms herself into a kick-ass female fighting force who sets out to liberate the country from a cheese-fueled machinery of hate.

House of Frankenstein
›1944 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.

Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge
›NR1992 · Horror · 82m · Guy Rolfe, Richard Lynch, Ian Abercrombie
After hearing that mystical toymaker Andre Toulon has managed to create a troupe of sentient, living puppets, Nazi underling Dr. Hess sets his sights on exploiting Toulon's powers for the glory of the Reich.

Father's Day
›2011 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 99m · Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney
Ahab, a man obsessed with exacting a brutal, violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins John, an eager priest, and Twink, a hot-headed street hustler, on an epic quest to find and defeat this mythical monster known as Chris Fuchman AKA The Father's Day Killer.






















