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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45 titles
Deadly Descent
›2013 · Fantasy, Horror · 90m · Adrian Paul, Lauren O'Neil, Nicholas Boulton
Friends go on a snowy adventure and come face to face with a deadly creature.
Destination: Infestation
›PG-132007 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 87m · Jessalyn Gilsig, Antonio Sabàto Jr., Serge Houde
While on a flight home from Colombia, the plane that Dr. Carrie Ross and her daughter are on is attacked by bullet ants whose sting is the most painful and deadliest on the planet. Joining forces with air marshal Ethan Hart, Dr. Ross, an entomologist, tries desperately to save the flight from disaster. In the end, their struggle brings them closer together and offers the couple hope for the future.
Empire of the Ants
›PG1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson
A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed. After the group arrives on a small island, they find it has been overrun by giant mutated ants, brought on by the dumping of toxic waste in the area.
Xtinction: Predator X
›2010 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 90m · Mark Sheppard, Elena Lyons, Lochlyn Munro
When her father seemingly goes missing, divorcee Laura LeCrois is forced to return home after a 20-year hiatus. However, home is not the way Laura remembers it. Her father is in major debt with the bank, her ex-boyfriend is the town sheriff, and her ex-husband has quit his job as a world-renowned professor who is now suspiciously buying up swampland in the area. In an effort to save the swamp and to pass the time, Laura decides to work the dying family business giving boat tours of the Louisiana swamp. But on her first sunset tour, deep in the swamp, Laura and her passengers witness two Bayou swamp rats toss a squirming body into a gator pit, only the gators aren't the ones that feast on the flesh. Instead it's the most terrifying creature Laura has ever seen...
Into the Deep
›R2025 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 90m · Scout Taylor-Compton, Richard Dreyfuss, Stuart Townsend
Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a killer great white is determined not to let any of them escape its waters.
Python
›R2000 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Frayne Rosanoff, Robert Englund, Casper Van Dien
After a military plane crashes outside of a small American town, its cargo — a genetically engineered, sixty-foot-long python — begins stalking and killing the locals.
Python 2
›PG-132002 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · William Zabka, Dana Ashbrook, Alex Jolig
A man, his business partner, and his wife are enlisted to transport an unknown object from a Russian military base, only to discover that the object is a giant, genetically-altered python.
Extinction
›2014 · Thriller, Adventure · 100m · Ben Loyd-Holmes, Sarah Mac, Neil Newbon
Deep in the Amazon jungle a group of scientists are on a dangerous mission. When their guide suddenly abandons them, they find themselves in a savage and hostile environment. However, things turn deadly when they find they are in the middle of a hunting ground for a pack of prehistoric predators long thought extinct.
The Flood
›R2023 · Action, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Casper Van Dien, Nicky Whelan, Louis Mandylor
A horde of giant hungry alligators is unleashed on a group of in-transit prisoners and their guards after a massive hurricane floods Louisiana.
Lake Placid: Legacy
›R2018 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 93m · Katherine Barrell, Tim Rozon, Luke Newton
A group of young explorers discover a secret area hidden from all maps and GPS devices. When they reach the center of the lake, they discover an abandoned facility that houses one of the largest, and deadliest apex-predators known to man.
Ice Sharks
›2016 · TV Movie, Adventure, Action · 85m · Edward DeRuiter, Jenna Parker, Kaiwi Lyman
A new breed of aggressive, ravenous sharks cracks the frozen ocean floor of an Arctic research station, devouring all who fall through. As the station sinks into frigid waters, those alive must fashion makeshift weapons or suffer the same fate.
Raging Sharks
›2005 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Corin Nemec, Vanessa Angel, Corbin Bernsen
An oceanic observation station is in desperate trouble after a sudden shark attack wrecked the oxygen supply. The accompanying ship, a coast guard cruiser, and other ships in and around the Bermuda triangle are attacked as well. The US Navy sends a submarine to investigate, but soon they too are under attack.
Shark Night 3D
›PG-132011 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack
A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.
Octopus
›PG-132000 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Jay Harrington, David Beecroft, Carolyn Lowery
During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An unknown object attacks and disables the sub with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks, among them the sub destroyed 38 years ago. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength! The only way out is the emergency submersible and a passing cruise ship. Above or below the water, there is no escape from the monster mutant octopus with a nuclear diet...
Ice Spiders
›R2007 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 90m · Patrick Muldoon, Charles Halford, Thomas Calabro
When a young ski team training for the Olympics arrives at the remote and isolated Lost Mountain Ski Resort to focus on training, they're thrilled to find a retired Olympic skier is there to help them train. But their plans are halted when a scientist working at a nearby government lab arrives with the horrifying news that a top secret Government project has produced giant spiders and they have escaped, killing and eating everything in sight.
Megalodon
›PG-132018 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 90m · Michael Madsen, Scott C. Roe, Ego Mikitas
A military vessel on the search for an unidentified submersible finds themselves face to face with a giant shark, forced to use only what they have on board to defend themselves from the monstrous beast.
Malibu Shark Attack
›2009 · Horror, Action, TV Movie · 87m · Peta Wilson, Chelan Simmons, Sonya Salomaa
An underwater earthquake generates a tsunami that strikes Malibu, bringing a hunting pack of prehistoric-looking goblin sharks to the surface. Although the beach is evacuated before the big wave strikes, a group of lifeguards and a crew of construction workers are stranded in the high water and have to fight the sharks to get to dry land.
Poseidon Rex
›2014 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 76m · Brian Krause, Anne McDaniels, Steven Helmkamp
Jackson Slate, famous treasure hunter, is out to find the legendary Lost Gold Of Cortez in the open waters off a secluded island in the Caribbean Sea. Using dynamite to blast his way through centuries of silt, new chasms are created reaching miles below the ancient ocean floor. From here, an ancient evil is released, that quickly, savagely, and without warning, destroys Jackson s boat and kills his crew. The sole survivor of the carnage, Jackson teams up with marine biologist, Sarah, to venture back to the site and investigate the horrific events. They extract an egg from the darkest depths of the ocean and take it back to the lab to investigate. But when it hatches, they realise they have awaken a deadly prehistoric monster, the P-Rex, which will stop at nothing until the entire island is destroyed...
Jurassic Prey
›NR2015 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 71m · Danielle Donahue, Jeff Kirkendall, Bob Dennis
A woman steals money from her mob boss husband hoping to start a new life with her lover. Meanwhile, a washed-up former child star and his buddies rob a bank with a police detective hot on their trail. Through a twist of fate, these people all find themselves at a remote cabin, unaware that recent construction work has unleashed a ferocious creature which now roams the surrounding area!
Sharks in Venice
›2008 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 88m · Stephen Baldwin, Vanessa Johansson, Hilda van der Meulen
The seemingly tranquil waterways of Venice are terrorized by the perfect killing machine. In search of his father who has mysteriously disappeared diving in the city, David stumbles across the cryptic trail leading to the long-lost fortune of the Medici. As the unwitting pawn in a Mafia plot to recover the treasure, David's girlfriend is kidnapped at gunpoint, plunging him into a desperate race against time. If he has any hope of saving her he must enter the deadly waters. Can David out-gun the Mafia assassins and survive the voracious sharks laying in wait beneath the surface, or will he succumb to the same fate as his father?
2-Headed Shark Attack
›R2012 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 90m · Carmen Electra, Charlie O'Connell, Brooke Hogan
A Semester at Sea ship is attacked and sunk by a mutated two-headed shark, and the survivors seek refuge on a deserted atoll. The coeds, however, are no longer safe when the atoll starts flooding.
