
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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Wait Till Helen Comes
›PG-132016 · Thriller, Fantasy · 81m · Maria Bello, Sophie Nélisse, Callum Keith Rennie
After a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the desperate ghost of a young girl. Based on the best selling novel by Mary Downing Hahn.

Husk
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Devon Graye, Wes Chatham, C.J. Thomason
A group of friends stranded near a desolate cornfield find shelter in an old farmhouse, though they soon discover the dwelling is the center of a supernatural ritual.

Blood
›2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 108m · Michelle Monaghan, Skeet Ulrich, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong
Jess, a newly separated mother and nurse, moves into her old family farmhouse with Tyler, her teenage daughter, and Owen, her eight-year-old son. One night, the family dog senses something in the woods and runs off to find it. He returns a couple of days later and attacks Owen, savagely biting him before Jess is able to intervene. Owen is rushed to the hospital. His condition worsens, and no one can figure out why... until Jess discovers a disturbing cure...

Dark Encounter
›2019 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 97m · Laura Fraser, Mel Raido, Sid Phoenix
A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appear to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family. What they don't realize is that these 'beings' will lead the family to the truth behind the little girl's disturbing disappearance.

House of 1000 Corpses
›R2003 · Horror · 89m · Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

They're Watching
›2016 · Thriller, Comedy, Horror · 95m · Brigid Brannagh, Carrie Genzel, David Alpay
An American TV crew gets trapped in a centuries-old web of revenge, horror, and blood, when their home improvement show is attacked by angry Eastern European villagers out to kill the show's star.

Re-Cut
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Ross Kohn, Meredith Phillips, Austin Basis
When twin girls are found dead in their family’s barn, reality star turned TV-reporter Meredith Phillips and her de-facto camera crew are dispatched to rural Wisconsin to investigate the gruesome deaths. In their relentless drive to break the story, the reporters become entangled in a deadly mystery and uncover the small town’s shocking secret. Edited together from the crew’s multiple cameras, the film documents their struggle to survive the most terrifying night of their lives and becomes the only evidence of a crime too horrific to imagine.

Something Evil
›1972 · Horror, TV Movie · 73m · Sandy Dennis, Darren McGavin, Ralph Bellamy
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.

Apprentice to Murder
›PG-131988 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara
Pennsylvania, 1928. Billy Kelly, a sixteen-year old boy, meets a mysterious traveler claiming he's the messenger of God. Falling under under the spell of this "doctor" Reese, he will soon discover Reese has murderous plans for his future. Based on a true story.

Mandrake
›NR2022 · Horror · 85m · Deirdre Mullins, Derbhle Crotty, Paul Kennedy
A probation officer, Cathy Madden, is tasked with rehabilitating a notorious killer named 'Bloody' Mary Laidlaw back into society following a two-decade sentence.

Children of the Corn
›R1984 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong
A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.

Lord of Misrule
›NR2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 104m · Tuppence Middleton, Jane Wood, Evie Templeton
When the daughter of the town's new priest goes missing during the harvest festival, a desperate search begins, uncovering the town's dark history and resurfacing tales of a mysterious, malevolent spirit that demands sacrifice.

Matriarch
›R2022 · Horror · 85m · Jemima Rooper, Kate Dickie, Sarah Paul
Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.

The Daisy Chain
›2008 · Horror, Drama · 89m · Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh, Mhairi Anderson
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.

Blood Beat
›R1983 · Horror · 86m · Helen Benton, Terry Brown, Dana Day
Sarah and her boyfriend have decided to spend Christmas at his home in rural Wisconsin. However, upon arriving, she begins to feel a strange presence around her, and a mysterious figure garbed in a Samurai outfit begins murdering the townsfolk.

The Watcher in the Woods
›2017 · Horror, TV Movie · 87m · Anjelica Huston, Nicholas Galitzine, Dixie Egerickx
Mrs. Aylwood is a distraught mother since her daughter, Karen, vanished in the English countryside over 20 years ago. When the Carstairs family move into the Aylwood manor for the summer, strange occurrences begin to unnerve the family and Jan begins to suspect that they are linked to Karen's disappearance. As Jan unravels the dark past hidden by the townspeople, she delves further into the mystery and deeper into danger, but now it might be too late to escape the Watcher in the Woods.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.

Trailer Park of Terror
›R2008 · Horror · 98m · Nichole Hiltz, Lew Temple, Jeanette Brox
Six troubled high school students and their chaperon, an optimistic youth ministries Pastor, return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains. During a raging storm, their bus crashes, hopelessly stranding them in the middle of the Trucker's Triangle, a forgotten locus of consummate evil in the middle of nowhere.

The Legend of Boggy Creek
›G1972 · Adventure, Mystery, Horror · 87m · Vern Stierman, Chuck Pierce Jr., William Stumpp
A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas.

Matriarch
›R2018 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Charlie Blackwood, Julie Hannan, Scott Vickers
A pregnant woman and her husband are taken in by a farmer and his wife after crashing their car in the Scottish countryside. Once inside, they realize their hosts’ daughter is a missing child from the news years earlier. Things take a sinister twist when the farmer and his wife inform the couple they intend to keep their baby once born.

Blackwood
›2014 · Thriller, Horror · 100m · Ed Stoppard, Sophia Myles, Greg Wise
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally look to be going Ben's way. Until, that is, he starts to feel that something isn't quite right in the house. Finding himself plagued by spectral visions, Ben becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind a local mystery that appears to be putting the lives of his family in danger

Pig Killer
›2022 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 122m · Jake Busey, Ginger Lynn Allen, Susan Priver
Inspired by the terrifying story of Robert 'Willy' Pickton, the pig farmer cum prolific lady killer whose horrific crimes shocked the world, PIG KILLER graphically depicts the rape, torture, slaughter and dismemberment of forty-nine young women on a pig farm. With his herculean hog, Balthazar, by his side, Willy and his menagerie of colorful cohorts terrorize Vancouver's seedy downtown until his arrest which uncovered a horrific series of brutal Canadian murders.

Butchers Book Two: Raghorn
›2024 · Horror · 88m · Nick Biskupek, Michael Swatton, Sam Huntsman
Book one followed a family of sadistic butchers, living in the backcountry, who see anyone that crosses their path as dead meat. In “Butchers Book Two: Raghorn,” the story continues when an accident leaves the captors in the hands of brutal cannibals who plan to hack them up for meat.

The Owners
›2020 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.






















