
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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The Man in My Basement
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 115m · Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe, Anna Diop
Down on his luck, Charles Blakey agrees to rent his basement to a mysterious stranger, unaware he may be letting in a force much darker than he imagined.

Bride of the Gorilla
›1951 · Horror · 70m · Raymond Burr, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr.
The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?

Kill Game
›NR2015 · Horror · 102m · Pierson Fodé, Joe Adler, Michael Galante
In Grace Arbor the answers are never clear. Who is underneath the mask? This is the story of a group of high school kids - all popular, good looking, "most likely to succeed" types - who amuse themselves by pulling pranks on unsuspecting students and teachers. At their core lies a cruelty and shallowness which comes with the territory of privilege. One night, a prank goes horribly wrong, a teenager is killed, and the gang covers it up as a drowning accident but five years later, their lives are turned upside down when a local is killed by a serial killer wearing a haunting Marilyn Monroe mask. Soon, the gang are killed one by one in manners mirroring the pranks they pulled in high school. Is it revenge? Is it karma?

Pillow Party Massacre
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Laura Welsh, Neil Green, Jon Meggison
After a bullying incident leads to tragedy, four former High school friends reconnect at a vacation home where a maniacal killer stalks the night.

Grave Halloween
›R2013 · TV Movie, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Cassi Thomson, Graham Wardle, Kaitlyn Leeb
After inadvertently unleashing an ancient curse, a documentary crew of American exchange students is haunted by angry spirits in Japan's infamous Suicide Forest.

The Beast in the Cellar
›1971 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, John Hamill
Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two nearby sisters realise they might understand what's happening.

Summoned
›PG-132013 · TV Movie, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Cuba Gooding Jr., Ashley Scott, Bailey Chase
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.

Escape: Puzzle of Fear
›2020 · Thriller, Horror · 83m · Tommy Nash, Aubrey Reynolds, Omar Gooding
Hot-shot Hollywood agent Matthew Blake has a dark past. He thinks that he is on his way to a double date with his oldest friend to a new Escape Room in Los Angeles. When the couples are locked into the Escape Room, Matthew quickly finds himself at the center of a revenge plot meant to right the wrongs of his past, with deadly results.

The Lullaby
›2018 · Horror · 86m · Reine Swart, Deanre Reiners, Thandi Puren
Returning to her home town, overwhelmed by the birth of her firstborn, nineteen-year-old Chloe van Heerden tries to come to terms with motherhood. Despite the support from her own mother, Chloe struggles with the demands of caring for a newborn child. The incessant crying of her baby, the growing sense of guilt and paranoia send her into a dark depression. With a heightened urge to protect her son, she sees danger everywhere.

Psycho
›R1998 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 104m · Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Some Kind of Hate
›2015 · Horror, Fantasy · 82m · Ronen Rubinstein, Sierra McCormick, Gracie Gillam
When troubled teen Lincoln is subjected to severe bullying, he accidentally conjures the vengeful ghost of Moira Karp. Once a teenage girl pushed to suicide, Moira is now an unstoppable force on a mission of gruesome retribution. But when she goes too far, Lincoln must prevent her from spiraling out of control.

Roadkill
›R2011 · Horror, TV Movie · 88m · Kacey Barnfield, Stephen Rea, Eliza Bennett
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.

Trauma
›2004 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 94m · Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Naomie Harris
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.

The Traveler
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · John Cassini, Val Kilmer, Camille Sullivan
On a dark Christmas Eve in a small town, the lone Sheriffs on the night shift encounter a mysterious man who goes by the name of Mr. Nobody. As the night progresses, the Sheriffs discover that this isn't just a nobody, but a vengeful killer whose past threatens to haunt them all.

Red Mist
›NR2008 · Thriller, Horror · 98m · Arielle Kebbel, Sarah Carter, Stephen Dillane
A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition.

Asylum
›R2008 · Horror · 93m · Sarah Roemer, Mark Rolston, Jake Muxworthy
The teenager Madison McBride is traumatized by the loss of her deranged father when she was nine years old and the suicide of her beloved brother Brandon one year ago. She decides to join the Richard Miller University, where Brandon committed suicide, to overcome her demons. While walking to her dorm, she meets the weird janitor Wilbur Mackey that tells her that the place is haunted.

Dark Summer
›2015 · Thriller, Horror · 81m · Keir Gilchrist, Stella Maeve, Maestro Harrell
Follows the tale of a 17-year-old on house arrest for the summer. When his mother is away on business, a horrifying incident occurs, followed by an even more terrifying presence in the house.

Return to Silent Hill
›R2026 · Mystery, Drama, Horror · 106m · Jeremy Irvine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Ljiljana Velimirov
When James receives a mysterious letter from his lost love Mary, he is drawn to Silent Hill—a once-familiar town now consumed by darkness. As he searches for her, James faces monstrous creatures and unravels a terrifying truth that will push him to the edge of his sanity.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
›R2000 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Kim Director, Jeffrey Donovan, Erica Leerhsen
A group of college students decide to take part in a witch hunt tour inspired by a horror movie. As the adventure goes awry, the students realise that an evil being has followed them home.

Mr. Jingles
›R2006 · Horror · 80m · Dr. Rudy Hatfield, Kelli Jensen, Karen Turner
Determined to make the guilty parties pay for what they did, Mr. Jingles goes on a bloody killing spree, wreaking grisly havoc on the families of those who put him behind bars. But the homicidal clown had one witness who got away - and spent years in an institution trying to erase the gory memories. Now she is back and ready to join society again - but someone else is planning a very different homecoming!






















