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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143 titles
Night of the Big Heat
›1967 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
Terror Is a Man
›NR1959 · Horror · 90m · Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr
A mad scientist transforms a panther into a man-like creature that escapes and goes on a murderous rampage.
The Meg
›PG-132018 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 113m · Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Banshee Chapter
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Ted Levine, Katia Winter, Michael McMillian
On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government chemical research and the mystery of a disturbing radio signal of unknown origin.
The Kindred
›R1987 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · David Allen Brooks, Rod Steiger, Amanda Pays
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
Primal Rage
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 92m · Patrick Lowe, Cheryl Arutt, Sarah Buxton
A scientist at a Florida university inadvertently creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.
The Manster
›1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura
An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.
The Nest
›R1988 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 89m · Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
The Creature Walks Among Us
›1956 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Rex Reason, Jeff Morrow, Leigh Snowden
Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs.
The Dead Pit
›R1989 · Horror · 102m · Jeremy Slate, Cheryl Lawson, Stephen Gregory Foster
The arrival of an amnesiac patient in a psychiatric hospital somehow frees a mad doctor, who was shot and entombed with his fiendish experiments in an abandoned wing of the asylum 20 years before.
The Mutations
›R1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris
A mad scientist crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 98m · Tara Leigh, Dianna Flaherty, Katherine Romaine
A virus from outer space transforms a bio-researcher into a blood thirsty monster. But chief, Dr.Vialini doesn't like the cops and public to be involved in this secret experiment. But he becomes lunch very soon.
Swamp Thing
›PG1982 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise
Mutated by his own secret formula, Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing, a half-human, half-plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue government agent Alice Cable and defeat his evil arch nemesis...even if it costs him his life.
Curse of the Fly
›1965 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Carole Gray
The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.
Attack of the Crab Monsters
›1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 63m · Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson
A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.
Embryo
›PG1976 · Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days.
The Thaw
›2009 · Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, Aaron Ashmore
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
Frankenstein 1970
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Boris Karloff, Jana Lund, Don 'Red' Barry
The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.
The Frankenstein Syndrome
›NR2010 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Ed Lauter, Louis Mandylor, Tiffany Shepis
Young scientist Elizabeth Barnes (Tiffany Shepis) and her group of researchers are conducting illegal stem cell research, and discover a cell anomaly that has the potential to regenerate dead tissue. Unable to conduct legal human trials, the researchers turn to corpses to test their serum.
Shadowzone
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Louise Fletcher, David Beecroft, James Hong
After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping subjects are induced into a deep EDS state whereby they become portals to a parallel universe. Unfortunately this causes adverse reactions in the subject, and something gets through the portal, the consequence of which is an attrition problem.
Island Claws
›PG1980 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Robert Lansing, Steve Hanks, Nita Talbot
A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.
The Scientist
›NR2020 · Horror, Drama · 94m · Robb Hudspeth, Kristin Keith, Addison McGarry
An unconventional scientist, struggling to care for his terminally-ill wife, embarks on a journey to develop a cure for her. However, his methods of treatment and tampering with human DNA, could lead to the extinction of humanity.
Shakma
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Christopher Atkins, Amanda Wyss, Ari Meyers
A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.
The Giant Behemoth
›NR1959 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · Gene Evans, André Morell, Leigh Madison
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.