
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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13 Cameras
›2016 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 87m · Brianne Moncrief, PJ McCabe, Neville Archambault
Newlyweds Claire and Ryan have just moved into a new house. Both are hoping Claire’s pregnancy will be the cement needed to hold their already fraying relationship together. Little do they know their marital issues are the least of their problems. For unbeknownst to them, their scruffy, sleazy and lascivious landlord has installed numerous miniature cameras all over their home and has been spying on them from Day One. Then Ryan begins an office affair, and the landlord kits out the secret basement with chains and soundproofing. Something is going to give in this suburban shocker packed with nasty surprises.

Kolobos
›R1999 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Amy Weber, Donny Terranova, Nichole Pelerine
Five young individuals agree to live in an isolated lodge together and have their daily activities filmed. But soon the house is locked down and they each run into the murderous clutches of a faceless serial killer who may not be working alone.

Schizoid
›R1980 · Horror, Mystery · 89m · Klaus Kinski, Donna Wilkes, Marianna Hill
When Dr. Pieter Fales' patients start receiving ominous letters and getting murdered by an unknown black-clad assailant, he and his daughter both come under suspicion.

Observance
›PG-132016 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 90m · Brendan Cowell, John Jarratt, Louisa Mignone
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.

Windows
›R1980 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 96m · Talia Shire, Elizabeth Ashley, Joe Cortese
Emily Hollander becomes the subject of a lesbian obsession at the hands of Andrea Glassen, her next-door neighbour.

Lady Beware
›R1987 · Romance, Thriller, Horror · 112m · Diane Lane, Michael Woods, Cotter Smith
A department store window dresser starts being stalked by a married man who’s obsessed with her.

The Wizard of Gore
›R1970 · Horror · 95m · Ray Sager, Judy Cler, Wayne Ratay
A talk show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician who has the ability to hypnotize and control people's thoughts in order to stage gory onstage illusions using his powers of mindbending.

Gags the Clown
›R2019 · Horror, Comedy · 89m · Lauren Ashley Carter, Tracy Perez, Aaron Christensen
It's been eight days since the clown first showed up in Green Bay, WI. Now, over the course of one night, four different groups of people cross paths with the clown everyone calls "Gags" and his true intentions are finally revealed.

Wax
›R2014 · Horror · 88m · Jimmy Shaw, Jack Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin
A young journalist has to spend a night in Barcelona's Wax Museum to investigate paranormal activities. He has no idea Dr. Knox, an insane cannibal surgeon, hides in the museum at night.

Patrick
›NR2013 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 96m · Rachel Griffiths, Charles Dance, Sharni Vinson
Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life.

The Theatre Bizarre
›R2011 · Horror · 114m · Udo Kier, Virginia Newcomb, Amanda Marquardt
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.

American Nightmares
›NR2018 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Clarence Williams III, Vivica A. Fox, Madeleine Coghlan
Two voyeuristic nerds are hacking the devices of people as they themselves are hacked by the feed from story tellers Mister Malevolent and Mystic Woman who have seven moralistic horror stories to tell.

Psycho IV: The Beginning
›R1990 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 96m · Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas, Olivia Hussey
When he hears talk radio host Fran Ambrose discussing the topic of matricide, Norman calls in under a false name to tell his story.

Don't Answer the Phone!
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · James Westmoreland, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence
A Vietnam veteran that spends his days photographing pretty girls, and his nights strangling them, sets sights on the patients of a radio psychiatrist.

House on Bare Mountain
›NR1962 · Comedy, Horror · 62m · Bob Cresse, Laine Carlin, Leticia Cooper
The Wolfman, Dracula and Frankenstein spy on a girls' school in the mountains, where most of the girls spend their time sunbathing in the nude, nude exercises and nude art classes. The monsters finally invade the school…

Vacancy 2: The First Cut
›R2008 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 86m · Agnes Bruckner, Joe Reegan, Gwendoline Yeo
Three young people check into the Meadow View Inn for a night's rest, fully unaware of the inn's sick-minded employees and their nefarious intentions.

American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore
›2015 · Horror · 73m · Ashley Lynn Caputo, Lilly Dickenson, Scott Gabbey
A couple of young women are abducted and become the unwilling stars of a snuff film, wherein they are brutally tortured.

Ratter
›NR2015 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 80m · Ashley Benson, Matt McGorry, Rebecca Naomi Jones
Emma is a young and beautiful graduate student just starting a new life in New York City. Like most people her age, she is always connected - her phone and laptop are constant companions, documenting her most intimate moments. What she doesn't realize is that she's sharing her life with an uninvited and dangerous guest. A hacker is following Emma’s every move. When the voyeuristic thrill of watching her digitally isn't enough, the situation escalates to a dangerous and terrifying level.

All Hallows' Eve 2
›2015 · Horror · 90m · Andrea Monier, Damien Monier, Griffin Gluck
A woman finds a VHS tape on her doorstep that shows a series of gruesome tales that could be real. But the true danger is the pumpkin-faced killer that's using the tape to find his next victim.

Crawlspace
›R1986 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Klaus Kinski, Talia Balsam, Barbara Whinnery
A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.

The Wizard of Gore
›R2007 · Mystery, Horror · 94m · Kip Pardue, Bijou Phillips, Crispin Glover
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.

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.

Lucky Bastard
›NC-172014 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 94m · Betsy Rue, Don McManus, Chris Wylde
Lucky Bastard is a "found footage" thriller about a porn website run by Mike (Don McManus) that invites fans to have sex with porn stars. Jay Paulson plays Dave, an eager young fan given a chance to have sex with the fabulous Ashley Saint (Betsy Rue). But everyone gets more than they bargained for in the seemingly mild-mannered Dave... with gruesome results. The film is captured by the "Lucky Bastard" porn cameras for a fresh take on the "found footage" genre

Welcome Home
›R2018 · Thriller, Horror · 98m · Aaron Paul, Emily Ratajkowski, Riccardo Scamarcio
A couple try to repair their damaged union in an Italian vacation paradise. Then they discover the owner's intentions.






















