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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Feed Me
›2022 · Horror, Comedy · 96m · Christopher Mulvin, Hannah Al Rashid, Samantha Loxley
Following the death of his wife, a broken man spirals into an abyss of night tremors and depression and finds himself in the home of a deranged cannibal who convinces him to take his own life in the most horrific way imaginable.
The Ferryman
›2007 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 100m · John Rhys-Davies, Kerry Fox, Tamer Hassan
Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht.
XX
›R2017 · Horror · 81m · Natalie Brown, Jonathan Watton, Peter DaCunha
This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.
Thanatomorphose
›2012 · Horror · 100m · Kayden Rose, David Tousignant, Émile Beaudry
Bruised from a night of rough sex, a young woman is shocked to find that her body, rather than healing itself, has inexplicably begun to rot. Swept up in the strange sensual experiences brought on by her slowly decaying form, she tries desperately to cling to her new existence — even as the putrid meat sack that was once her young body begins to literally fall off her bones...
Riding the Bullet
›R2004 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 98m · Jonathan Jackson, Barbara Hershey, David Arquette
In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. Believing he is losing his girlfriend, he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him. He receives news that his mother has had a stroke and decides to hitchhike to visit her at the hospital.
Flatliners
›PG-132017 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 111m · Elliot Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev
Five medical students, hoping to understand the mystery of what lies beyond life, embark on a dangerous experiment. When their hearts are stopped for a short period of time, they have a near-death experience…
The ABCs of Death
›NR2013 · Horror · 129m · Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Erik Audé, Iván González
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.
Ripper Untold
›2021 · Horror · 85m · Jonathan Hansler, Phil Molloy, Dawn Butler
A detective and a medical examiner join forces to solve a series of horrific murders in Victorian London - but one of them harbors a deadly secret.
Kaw
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 93m · Sean Patrick Flanery, Kristin Booth, Megan Park
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens.
Faces of Death II
›NR1981 · Horror, Documentary · 79m · Michael Carr, John Alan Schwartz, James Brady
A face-to-face confrontation with Guerrilla death squads in El Salvador, napalm bombings in Vietnam, the drugging of a monkey, a dolphin slaughter, a train disaster in India, Cambodian lepers, a death museum, a driver high on PCP and a boxer going down for his “final” count.
Cage Dive
›R2017 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Joel Hogan, Josh Potthoff, Megan Peta Hill
Three friends from California are filming an audition tape for an extreme reality game show. They document their journey to Australia where they will be doing their most dangerous activity: Shark Cage Diving. A catastrophic turn of events leaves them in baited water full of Great White Sharks, turning their recording into a blood chilling diary of survival...And death.
Faces of Death
›R1978 · Horror, Documentary · 109m · Michael Carr, Samuel Berkowitz, Mary Ellen Brighton
What question has plagued mankind more than the mystery—and terror—of death? This forbidden pursuit has driven Dr. Frances B. Gröss to the brink of madness, but in his obsession, he has amassed a uniquely comprehensive collection of films that depict life in its final, grueling moments. From the savagery of cold-blooded murder to the perverse realities of war, tragic accidents, and the everyday lives of those who collect, dissect, and bury the dead, this descent into morbidity lays bare a truth that all of us will one day face.
Faces of Death III
›1985 · Horror, Documentary · 86m · Michael Carr, John Alan Schwartz, Veronica Lakewood
Gory real-life footage of blood and guts on the German Autobahn, drug smugglers getting blown away, a parachutist landing in a crocodile pit, torture and murder in El Salvador, a PCP addict getting stoned, a videotaped rape/murder, a car thief getting ripped apart by two junkyard dogs, and much more.