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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271 titles
Rufus
›2012 · Drama, Horror · 110m · Rory J. Saper, Christina Jastrzembska, Tom Carey
Rufus is a shy and lonely boy determined to make a new start. Sure he has some quirks. So what if he likes the taste of blood? It's not like he's addicted. When a cunning vampire hunter slips into town searching for the fountain of youth, Rufus fears his darkest secret is about to be revealed.
Wer
›R2013 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · A.J. Cook, Sebastian Roché, Simon Quarterman
A defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye.
Hush
›2008 · Thriller, Horror, Action · 91m · William Ash, Christine Bottomley, Andreas Wisniewski
A young couple on a motorway journey are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver when they see something disturbing in the back of his vehicle.
Angel
›R1984 · Action, Crime, Thriller · 93m · Donna Wilkes, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell
Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.
Fear City
›R1984 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · 95m · Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia
Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.
RagdollSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 1 season · Lucy Hale, Ali Cook, Henry Lloyd-Hughes
Detectives look to untangle the case of the Ragdoll Killer, who has killed six people and sewn their bodies into the shape of one grotesque body nicknamed the Ragdoll.
Bit
›2019 · Horror, Comedy · 94m · Diana Hopper, Nicole Maines, Zolee Griggs
A transgender teenage girl on summer vacation in LA fights to survive after she falls in with four queer feminist vampires, who try to rid the city's streets of predatory men.
Straight On Till Morning
›R1972 · Thriller, Mystery · 96m · Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant, Katya Wyeth
Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a vicious serial killer.
Relentless
›R1989 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 92m · Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi
Two Los Angeles police detectives hunt for a serial killer who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
Hide
›2008 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 96m · Rachel Miner, Christian Kane, Polly Shannon
A modern day Bonnie and Clyde - with a twist - that follows two lovers down a path of destruction, mayhem, and murder as they live in a world where it is acceptable to take whatever they want with murderous consequences.
The Silencing
›R2020 · Thriller, Action, Crime · 93m · Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle Wallis, Zahn McClarnon
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
The Factory
›R2012 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · 108m · John Cusack, Jennifer Carpenter, Mae Whitman
An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.
Satan's Little Helper
›R2005 · Horror, Comedy · 100m · Alexander Brickel, Katheryn Winnick, Stephen Graham
A naïve young boy unknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer.
Suck
›R2009 · Comedy, Horror, Music · 91m · Malcolm McDowell, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins
The film follows a petty rock band called the Winners, consisting of vocalist Joey Winner, bassist Jennifer, guitarist Tyler, drummer Sam, and French-Canadian roadie Hugo, along with their sleazy manager Jeff, as they tour across Canada and the USA after Jennifer is turned into a vampire by Queeny. Meanwhile, a vampire hunter who is afraid of the dark named Eddie Van Helsing quickly chases them down.
Blood Vessel
›2020 · Horror, Fantasy, War · 93m · Nathan Phillips, Alyssa Sutherland, Robert Taylor
Near the end of World War II, the survivors of a torpedoed hospital ship cling to life aboard a crowded lifeboat. With no food, water, or shelter, all seems lost – until an eerily silent German minesweeper drifts ominously towards them, giving them one last chance at survival. As our motley crew explores the ship, it becomes all too clear that some diabolical fate has befallen its German crew. The mystery only deepens when they encounter a young Romanian girl, apparently the sole survivor, who leads them to a locked room in the bowels of the vessel.
15 Cameras
›NR2023 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Will Madden, Angela Wong Carbone, James Babson
A couple buys a house from The Slumlord Tapes, infamous for hidden cameras and a psycho landlord. It's not as safe as they tell themselves.
The Velvet Vampire
›R1971 · Horror · 80m · Michael Blodgett, Sherry E. DeBoer, Celeste Yarnall
A married couple accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
›1986 · Horror · 97m · John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Bottoms, Irene Miracle
There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive. Some people find themselves being hunted by the starving monkeys and must do whatever they can to stay alive.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
›R1998 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.
Taking Lives
›R2004 · Thriller · 103m · Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.
The Furies
›R2019 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 82m · Airlie Dodds, Linda Ngo, Taylor Ferguson
A young woman faces her darkest fears with seven other unwilling participants in a deadly game — a game that can only have one winner.
Link
›R1986 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Elisabeth Shue, Terence Stamp, Steven Finch
Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.
Ruin Me
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Marcienne Dwyer, Matt Dellapina, Chris Hill
Six strangers sign up for a slasher movie re-enactment, in which they are dropped into the woods and pursued by knife wielding assassins. But when the body count becomes real, Alexandra must unravel the mystery of who is responsible if she wants to survive the ordeal.
Exposé
›1976 · Thriller, Horror · 84m · Udo Kier, Linda Hayden, Fiona Richmond
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.