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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46 titles
Humane
›R2024 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 93m · Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Sebastian Chacon
In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
Year 10
›2024 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Toby Goodger, Duncan Lacroix, Hannah Khalique-Brown
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
Would You Rather
›NR2013 · Thriller, Horror · 93m · Brittany Snow, Jeffrey Combs, Jonny Coyne
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather" hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
The Severed Arm
›R1973 · Horror · 91m · Deborah Walley, David G. Cannon, Paul Carr
Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one.
Slashers
›2001 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 99m · Sarah Joslyn Crowder, Tony Curtis Blondell, Kieran Keller
Japan's number one extreme reality show is having it's first all-American special! Six lucky contestants, chosen from thousands of applicants, will have the chance to win millions of dollars, and all they have to do is stay alive!
Sleepwalkers
›R1992 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 89m · Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.
The Price We Pay
›R2023 · Action, Thriller, Mystery · 85m · Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Gigi Zumbado
After a pawn shop robbery goes askew, two criminals take refuge at a remote farmhouse to try to let the heat die down, but find something much more menacing.
Deadtime Stories 2
›R2011 · Horror · 77m · Nick Mancuso, Amy Marsalis, Jeff Monahan
An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Gorge" hikers are trapped in a cave-in must make a gruesome choice. In "On Sabbath Hill," a woman is driven to suicide but remains to torment her lover. In "Dust," a security guard is driven to murderous measures to use a strange dust that cures his wife's cancer.
Triggered
›R2020 · Horror, Action · 90m · Liesl Ahlers, Reine Swart, Sean Cameron Michael
Nine friends, all harboring a dark secret, go camping in the woods. After a wild night of partying, they wake up with suicide bombs strapped to their chests, all with varying times on their countdown clocks. They decide to work out how to disarm the bombs or find help - until they discover they can 'take' one another's time by killing each other.
Dead Season
›NR2012 · Horror, Action · 88m · Scott Peat, Marissa Merrill, James C. Burns
It has been over one year since the start of the outbreak. Our society has collapsed and the world has descended into chaos. Elvis and Tweeter are two of the last people left alive, and band together to flee the United States for a remote island somewhere in the Caribbean. On the island, they find a new community struggling to hold out against an army of corpses. They can join this band of survivors-- but only if they can do what must be done for the good of the group.
DarkGame
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 101m · Ed Westwick, Andrew P. Stephen, Natalya Tsvetkova
A determined detective is in a race against time to stop a twisted game show on the dark web, where captives are forced to compete for their lives.
Stay Out Stay Alive
›2019 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 83m · Barbara Crampton, Sage Mears, Brie Mattson
After an earthquake uncovers an abandoned goldmine, a hiker falls in and is trapped, forcing friends to grapple with a moral dilemma that spirals into madness.
Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!
›NR2017 · Horror, Crime · 86m · Richard Grieco, Sara Malakul Lane, Margaret O'Brien
On Halloween, an all girl rock-n-roll band called “Kill Pussy Kill” ventures out to play their biggest show to date. However, before hitting the road they manage to unwittingly upset a man. Unfortunately, this man turns out to be an evil genius dead set on revenge. The evil genius manages to lure the girls into his Hell House and when they wake up from being gassed, they find themselves trapped inside an inescapable room filled with a vicious variety of devices that can kill them as well as a variety of weapons that can be used on each other. The rules are simple: advance through all three rooms and you are allowed to go free. The catch is, in order to make it to the next room, someone must die!
Choose or Die
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 85m · Iola Evans, Asa Butterfield, Robert Englund
In pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, a broke college dropout decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced with dangerous choices and reality-warping challenges. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she realizes she’s no longer playing for the money but for her life.
Dead Within
›NR2014 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Dean Chekvala, J. Claude Deering, Rick Federman
Set six months after a deadly outbreak has all but ended the human race, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin and never opening the door. Now they don’t have a choice. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them… but what’s inside may be even more toxic than what remains outside. When it all ends, this is what remains.
The Last Sect
›2006 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · David Carradine, Natalie Brown, Deborah Odell
A seductively lethal vampire sect leader has been battling famed vampire hunter Van Helsing's descendent for decades. But now she and her bloodthirsty followers face extinction unless they can find a willing victim who will ensure their future survival. It's up to Van Helsing to stop the blood from flowing in this thrilling, action-packed duel to the death!
The Call
›NR2020 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Lin Shaye, Tobin Bell, Chester Rushing
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it.
Funhouse
›R2019 · Horror · 106m · Valter Skarsgård, Khamisa Wilsher, Gigi Saul Guerrero
When 8 celebrities from around the globe are invited to compete in an online reality show, they soon realize that they are playing for their very lives, as those voted off suffer horrific consequences, broadcast live to the entire world.
Die In One Day
›R2017 · Horror, Thriller · 79m · Kateryna Korchynska, David White, Mirko D'Antona
Richard is desperate: he must try to get back his daughter taken away from him by his ex-wife who reduced him to poverty. When he meets Sasha, an aspiring actress, he believes he has found a way out. The girl, in fact, convinces him to participate in a 24-hour theater game with a rich cash prize. Richard, however, does not know that he is about to take part in a bloody show...
Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon
›NR2008 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 85m · Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, Carly Pope, Ona Grauer
Surviving the plane crash was only the beginning ... After their plane crashes into uncharted territory in the Himalayas, the survivors set out to find help in the freezing cold. As the days pass and with no sign of a rescue, tensions begin to mount. The survivors wrestle with their consciences as they realise that in order to survive, they must use the bodies of the dead as food. But when it appears that something else is already feeding upon the dead, the survivors realise that their biggest danger is not hunger but something infinitely more sinister: a legendary Yeti is stalking them and is moving in for the kill. Can they outsmart the beast or will they die trying?
Anaconda 3: Offspring
›R2008 · Horror, Adventure, Thriller · 91m · David Hasselhoff, Crystal Allen, John Rhys-Davies
A mercenary-for-hire accepts a mission from a billionaire to capture a dangerous snake that could possibly help cure a terminal illness.
Hellraiser: Revelations
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 75m · Steven Brand, Nick Eversman, Tracey Fairaway
Two friends in Mexico discover the Lament Configuration and unleash Pinhead, but one decides to try to survive by swapping himself with someone else. Once they go missing, family members go in search of them, but find Pinhead instead.