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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131 titles
Comedown
›2012 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Adam Deacon, Sophie Stuckey, Jessica Barden
Six friends, who've known each other from childhood, break into the tower block they lived in as kids, now deserted and condemned, to rig-up a pirate radio station, get high and party. When one of the group goes missing, her friends begin to search the dark interior of the tower and soon realize that they are not alone: a resident psychopath lurks in the shadows and is hunting them down, taking them out, one-by-one.
The Hunters
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 111m · Steven Waddington, Tony Becker, Dianna Agron
Alice and her friends are approaching the end of the school year where their dead-end lives will end, and the chance of a new life will begin. Before heading off to college they spend one last day together in the woods, the one part of town that has always been off limits to them growing up. As they stumble upon what they thought was an abandoned fort only to find the walls dripping in blood and decomposing body parts lying around, they are startled to learn they are now a part of an undercover investigation. After being told to get out of the woods they realize they're trapped, for the Hunters, who call the fort home, never let anyone out alive.
Bottom Feeder
›PG-132007 · Science Fiction, Horror · 86m · Tom Sizemore, Wendy Anderson, Richard Fitzpatrick
A group of utility workers are trapped in a series of tunnels which, unfortunately, contain a scientist mutated by his own creation. The creature feeds instantly on a rat, becoming what it has eaten.
Killing Season
›R2013 · Action, Thriller · 91m · Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Milo Ventimiglia
Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, clash in the remote Smoky Mountain wilderness.
Black Rock
›R2012 · Thriller, Horror · 79m · Katie Aselton, Lake Bell, Kate Bosworth
Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.
The Forsaken
›R2001 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko
A young man is in a race against time as he searches for a cure after becoming infected with a virus that will eventually turn him into a blood-sucking vampire.
Quarries
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Nicole Marie Johnson, Carrie Finklea, Leisha Hailey
To escape her abusive boyfriend, Kat joins a wilderness expedition with a group of women, all of whom are struggling with the uncertainty of life. What was supposed to be an opportunity for personal discovery quickly becomes a fight for survival, forcing each one to discover the strength within themselves that they didn't even know they possessed. While being brazenly chased by a pack of predators, the strong quickly set themselves apart from the weak. In a battle of will, stamina, and heart, these very virtues present themselves at the most crucial moment. With death looming, each is left with what is truly important - the strength within oneself.
Backwoods
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 85m · Haylie Duff, Ryan Merriman, Mark Rolston
A group of friends embark on a camping trip for a ten-year high school reunion. Their celebration soon turns into a battle for survival when they realize that the locals, who are not what they seem, are hunting them down.
Tempus Tormentum
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Tyhr Trubiak, Virine Bahadoosingh, Dan Grapko
A drifter passing through a small town is drugged by three masked psychopaths and forced into a bizarre game of cat and mouse. He is chased through a series of more and more bizarre events until, in the end, he finds that this evening of terror has lasting consequences. It’s a feel bad film, nasty and brutish, red in tooth and claw.
Sweatshop
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Ashley Kay, Peyton Wetzel, Brent Himes
A group of friends break into an abandoned factory in order to throw a impromptu party; unaware that it is not as empty as they originally believed.
Scarce
›2008 · Horror · 93m · Steve Warren, Gary Fischer, Chris Warrilow
SCARCE depicts the gruesome fate of three lost snowboarders trapped at an isolated forest cabin owned by two menacing locals who harvest human flesh. As the day of the slaughter nears, they attempt to escape barefoot through the frozen wilderness.
Prowl
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Ruta Gedmintas, Joshua Bowman, Perdita Weeks
Amber dreams of escaping her small town existence and persuades her friends to accompany her to find an apartment in the big city. When their transportation breaks down, she and her friends gratefully accept a ride in the back of a semi. But when the driver refuses to stop and they discover the cargo is hundreds of cartons of blood, they panic. Their panic turns to terror when the truck disgorges them into a dark, abandoned warehouse where blood-thirsty creatures learn to hunt human prey, which, the friends realize, is what they now are... Written by Svetlio Svilenov
LD 50 Lethal Dose
›2003 · Horror · 97m · Katharine Towne, Mel B, Tom Hardy
Re-formed by a coded message to their web site, a group of animal rights activists set off to free an imprisoned colleague from a terrifying ordeal. Their rescue mission leads them to a disused lab, but what should have been a simple raid turns into a series of twisted and mind bending incidents where the free and the caged switch places, in this tormented psychological horror.
Sutures
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Andrew Prine, Jason London, Carlos Lauchu
A group of longtime friends converge on a fatal course with destiny when they cross paths with Alexander Tatum, a mercenary surgeon. He is a hunter with the keen skill of one who has also been hunted. Prey turned predator. The victims quickly realize that Alexander is just the beginning of their problems, as they find themselves enmeshed in a fight for survival against a sociopath business man and his demonic staff, who will stop at nothing to prevail in the sale of Black Market Body Parts.
See No Evil
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Glenn Jacobs, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Luke Pegler
A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel but little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain band together to survive against the brutal killer.
Shortcut
›R2020 · Horror, Adventure, Fantasy · 80m · Jack Kane, Zanda Emlano, Zak Sutcliffe
A group of five classmates is trapped inside their school bus after an encounter with a mysterious creature on the road. Amid constant threats from the creature, the teen's anxiety increases while their survival chances decrease.
The Forgotten Ones
›R2009 · Horror, Action · 84m · Jewel Staite, Justin Baldoni, Kellan Lutz
When a devastating boat crash shipwrecks a group of friends in the jungles of an uncharted island, they are savagely picked off one-by-one by a cannibalistic enemy that evolution forgot.
Modern Vampires
›R1998 · Action, Horror, Comedy · 91m · Casper Van Dien, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Rod Steiger
A vampire hunter in southern California discovers that his son has been murdered by a gang of the undead and thus goes on a quest for revenge.
Drifter
›2016 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 86m · Aria Emory, Drew Harwood, Monique Rosario
A pair of outlaw brothers seek temporary refuge in a desolate town inhabited by a small family of psychotic cannibalistic lunatics
Blood Runs Cold
›R2011 · Horror · 80m · Hanna Oldenburg, Ralf Beck, Elin Hugoson
An ax-wielding maniac turns a quiet retreat into a grisly nightmare for a woman and her friends.
The Maze
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Shalaina Castle, Brandon Sean Pearson, Clare Niederpruem
Five friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night and decide to play a harmless game of tag. Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along. As they wander aimlessly through the maze the murderer follows closely behind, taunting them and watching their every move. The game turns deadly when the kids decide to separate and weaken their chances of survival. When the mutilated body of the maze owner is found they realize that something is terribly wrong. As they race to find the entrance of the maze, the murderer cleverly forces them to follow the path that he wants. Manipulating everyone to his vicious will, the killer taunts his victims and leads them further into the depths of the maze. After succumbing to hours of torture will anyone make it out of the maze...alive?
Simon Says
›2007 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Crispin Glover, Margo Harshman, Greg Cipes
Five college friends choose to spend their vacation debauching at the riverside. They find the perfect place to camp out, but end up crossing paths with twin brothers, Simon and Stanley. The twins then begins to knock off the campers in some extremely creative (and extremely gruesome) ways.
Humongous
›R1982 · Horror · 94m · Janet Julian, David Wallace, John Wildman
The monstrous offspring of a violent crime grows up in seclusion on a remote island, where a boatful of hapless teens have shipwrecked, unaware of what's lurking in the woods.
Triassic Hunt
›2021 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 86m · Michael Paré, Linnea Quigley, Sienna Farall
When two genetically created dinosaurs end up on the loose, it's up to a team of rag tag mercenaries to capture them. When the realize that the dinosaurs are bred as smart as humans, the game of cat and mouse turns for the worst.