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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Daughter of Darkness
›R1990 · TV Movie, Horror · 93m · Anthony Perkins, Mia Sara, Jack Coleman
An atmospheric, sub-hallucinogenic venture into the world of the unknown. The enigma facing a young woman is the identity of her father. Unfortunately for her, she becomes drawn into a small Romanian underworld of brooding menace, darkness, torture chambers, and vampires.
Insidious: The Last Key
›PG-132018 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.
The Return
›2020 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Richard Harmon, Sara Thompson, Marina Stephenson Kerr
After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.
The Radleys
›R2024 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 115m · Damian Lewis, Kelly Macdonald, Bo Bragason
A seemingly ordinary family harbors a dark secret: they are vampires. They choose not to drink blood despite their natural cravings, but one day, their truth comes to light.
Demons of the Mind
›R1972 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Robert Hardy, Shane Briant, Gillian Hills
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Living Dark: The Story of Ted the Caver
›2013 · Horror · 97m · Chris Cleveland, Matthew Alan, Mark Hayter
Two brothers, reunited for their father's funeral, stumble upon the entrance to a nearby cave. Here, they are slowly forced to confront the true, nightmarish cause of their father's death. Based on the popular Ted the Caver internet legend.
The Apology
›NR2022 · Thriller, Horror · 91m · Anna Gunn, Linus Roache, Janeane Garofalo
Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, a recovering alcoholic is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration when her estranged ex-brother-in-law arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret.
Cries in the Night
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Kay Hawtrey, Lesleh Donaldson, Barry Morse
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
My Animal
›R2023 · Horror, Romance, Fantasy · 99m · Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Amandla Stenberg, Heidi von Palleske
Tormented by a hidden family curse, Heather lives in seclusion on the outskirts of a small town. When she falls for the rebellious Jonny, their connection threatens to unravel Heather's suppressed desires, tempting her to unleash the animal within.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
›PG-132013 · Fantasy, Action, Mystery · 130m · Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan
In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters and enters Downworld, an alternate realm filled with demons, vampires, and a host of other creatures. Clary and her companions must find and protect an ancient cup that holds the key to her mother's future.
The Abandoned
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden, Valentin Ganev
Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.
Mortuary
›R1982 · Horror · 92m · Mary Elizabeth McDonough, David Wallace, Bill Paxton
A young woman investigates the seemingly accidental death of her father, revealing many unsettling secrets and putting her in mortal danger.
Grandmother's House
›1988 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Eric Foster, Kim Valentine, Len Lesser
Recently orphaned teenagers David and Lynn are sent to California to live with their grandparents who they discover are harboring a terrifying secret.
The Demon Disorder
›2024 · Horror · 86m · John Noble, Charles Cottier, Christian Willis
The pasts of three brothers and their deceased father collide when a deep, dark family secret is unearthed, leading to a case of revenge from beyond the grave.
The Ghost Within
›2023 · Horror · 103m · Michaela Longden, Rebecca Phillipson, Tom Millen
A young woman revisits her family home desperate to discover her sister Evie's murderer 20 years before. After a series of terrifying encounters with Evie's ghost at 09:09pm, Margot knows she must fight to learn the truth once and for all.
Two on a Guillotine
›NR1965 · Mystery, Horror · 107m · Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?
12 Feet Deep
›NR2018 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Nora-Jane Noone, Alexandra Park, Diane Farr
Two sisters are trapped under the fiberglass cover of an Olympic sized public pool and must brave the cold and each other to survive the harrowing night.
The Inhabitant
›NR2022 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Odessa A'zion, Leslie Bibb, Dermot Mulroney
Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
Horsehead
›NR2014 · Fantasy, Horror · 89m · Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Catriona MacColl, Fu'ad Aït Aattou
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origin of her nightmares. Following the death of her maternal grandmother she hardly knew, Jessica reluctantly returns to the family home. Jessica then begins to wander in a nightmarish world inhabited by twisted versions of her family members. She gradually improves her skills as a lucid dreamer and investigates to solve the mystery that gnaws her and haunts the family home...
Black Hollow Cage
›2017 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama · 116m · Lowena McDonell, Haydée Lysander, Julian Nicholson
A girl who lives in a secluded house with her father and her dog finds a mysterious black cube in the woods with the ability to change the past.
The Bleeding House
›2011 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 85m · Alexandra Chando, Patrick Breen, Charlie Hewson
The Smiths -- a family with a secret past -- are visited by a sweet-talking southern gentleman who is looking for small town humanity. But they'll soon find out that kindness towards strangers is not always rewarded, and the secretive stranger will find redemption does not always come easy.
The Invitation
›PG-132022 · Horror, Thriller · 105m · Nathalie Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty, Sean Pertwee
After the death of her mother, Evie is approached by an unknown cousin who invites her to a lavish wedding in the English countryside. Soon, she realizes a gothic conspiracy is afoot and must fight for survival as she uncovers twisted secrets in her family’s history.
Jessabelle
›PG-132014 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, Joelle Carter
A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.
Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin
›R2021 · Horror, Mystery · 98m · Emily Bader, Ari Notartomaso, Alexa Shae Niziak
Margot is a documentary filmmaker looking to meet her long-lost mother and extended family in a secluded Amish community. She and her film crew soon realize the family that welcomes them into their home might be hiding a sinister secret.
