
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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A Bucket of Blood
›NR1959 · Comedy, Horror · 66m · Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone
Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

Twins of Evil
›R1971 · Horror · 87m · Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Madeleine Collinson
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.

Redux Redux
›R2025 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 109m · Michaela McManus, Stella Marcus, Jeremy Holm
In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer again and again. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity begins to slip away—until the cycle is disrupted when she rescues Mia, a sharp-witted teenager already marked by the killer.

The Raven
›1935 · Horror, Crime · 61m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.

Mark of the Vampire
›1935 · Mystery, Horror · 60m · Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi
Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications pointing to a vampire assault. The victim's friend, Baron Otto, and the physician who analyzes the body, are certain that the vampire is the mysterious Count Mora or his daughter. Receiving little help from the law, Professor Zelen, an expert in the occult, is called in to assist with their investigation.

Stephen King's Kingdom HospitalSeries
›TV-142004 · Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Allison Hossack, Bruce Davison, Janet Wright
Kingdom is a hospital whose bizarre population includes a brilliant surgeon who lives in the basement, a nearly blind security guard and a nurse who regularly faints at the sight of blood. But when patients and staff hear the voice of a girl crying through the halls and a patient destined for life as a paraplegic miraculously recovers, they are dismissive of any suggestion of mysticism or unseen powers... at their own peril.

The Amusement Park
›NR1975 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 54m · Lincoln Maazel, Harry Albacker, Phyllis Casterwiler
An elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the midst of a hellish nightmare.

Carry On Screaming!
›1966 · Comedy, Horror · 97m · Harry H. Corbett, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale
The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for him, Detective Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue!

Night Tide
›NR1961 · Thriller, Mystery, Romance · 84m · Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir
A young sailor falls in love with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As they become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007.

Doctor X
›1932 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 76m · Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

Paranoiac
›1963 · Thriller, Horror · 80m · Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell
Eleven years ago, the wealthy Ashby family was shattered when Mr and Mrs Ashby died in an airplane crash and their grieving son Tony committed suicide. All who remains is cruel Simon, an alcoholic in desperate need of funds; his mentally fragile sister Eleanor; and his protective aunt Harriet. Simon is just weeks away from receiving his inheritance, but there's a hitch in his plans when the long-believed dead Tony suddenly arrives.

Time After TimeSeries
›TV-142017 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Freddie Stroma, Joshua Bowman, Genesis Rodriguez
A young H.G. Wells time travels to modern day New York City in pursuit of the charismatic—yet secretly psychopathic—Dr. John Stevenson, better known as "Jack the Ripper," following the doctor's brazen escape from the Victorian London authorities.

Nightmare
›NR1964 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 83m · David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden
A young woman is plagued by nightmares of her asylum-patient mother. Upon returning to her family home, the nightmares become real when she sees a strange woman pacing the halls.

Bodycam
›2026 · Horror · 75m · Jaime M. Callica, Sean Rogerson, Catherine Lough Haggquist
A call to a quiet suburban home unleashes unthinkable carnage when two officers mistakenly shoot a man and his infant child, spiraling the tragedy into a fierce, unrelenting fall into the unknown.

Ganja & Hess
›R1973 · Drama, Horror · 113m · Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

A Nasty Piece of Work
›NR2019 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 77m · Julian Sands, Dustin Milligan, Angela Sarafyan
A mid-level corporate employee finds out he’s not getting the Christmas bonus he was expecting, but his boss invites him to earn a promotion by beating his professional rival in a violent competition.

American GothicSeries
›TV-142016 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Juliet Rylance, Antony Starr, Virginia Madsen
A prominent Boston family attempts to redefine itself in the wake of a chilling discovery that links their recently deceased patriarch to a string of murders spanning decades — amid the mounting suspicion that one of them may have been his accomplice.

The Dead FilesSeries
›TV-PG2011 · Documentary, Reality · 15 seasons · Steve DiSchiavi, Amy Allan, Cindy Kaza
Psychic medium Amy Allan and former NYPD homicide detective Steve DiSchiavi investigate locations that are reported to be haunted.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
›1949 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 84m · Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).

Jekyll and HydeSeries
›NR2015 · Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Michael Karim, Stephanie Hyam, Natalie Gumede
Inspired by the original novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde is set in 1930s London and follows Robert Jekyll, the grandson of Henry Jekyll, on his quest to discover his real identity, his true family history and the nature of his ‘curse’ – which his foster father, Dr Vishal Najaran, is controlling with medication. His journey takes him into a dark and unforgiving place, as his alter ego seems capable of anything. At the same time there are shadowy forces trying to find Jekyll and the source of his powers.

Kingdom Hospital
›2004 · Horror · 608m · Jamie Harrold, Diane Ladd, Bruce Davison
Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died.

The Beldham
›2025 · Horror · 85m · Patricia Heaton, Corbin Bernsen, Katie Parker
At the edge of postpartum psychosis, new mother Harper moves in with her own mother at their family's rural farmhouse. Soon she finds herself hunted by a threatening monster who has designs on her child.

Celia
›1989 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 103m · Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Mary-Anne Fahey
In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let her play with the kids next door because their parents are communists. Then her pet bunny is taken away because of rabbit overpopulation. And, more traumatizing yet, when her grandmother dies, she's the one to discover the corpse. To cope, she retreats into elaborate fantasies.

Heirs of the NightSeries
›2019 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery · 2 seasons
1889: the five remaining vampire clans in Europe are training to survive. In their midst is 14-year-old Alisa who has the power to choose between eternal life as a vampire or for all vampires to live as humans.






















