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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143 titles
The Unborn
›R1991 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Brooke Adams, Jeff Hayenga, James Karen
Joy turns to horror when a pregnant mother discovers the nightmarish truth behind her doctor's unexpected success in helping her conceive.
Closer to God
›2014 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 81m · Jeremy Childs, Shelean Newman, Shannon Hoppe
A man on the cutting edge of science becomes the first to successfully clone a person, but events unravel when the news leaks out before his team could prepare for what's to come.
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
›1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton
Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.
The Cloverfield Paradox
›PG-132018 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 102m · Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daniel Brühl, Chris O'Dowd
Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Blood and Snow
›2023 · Science Fiction, Horror · 114m · Michael Swatton, Anne-Carolyne Binette, Vernon Wells
When researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
›1957 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 76m · Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell
A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf.
The Cyclops
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 66m · James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney Jr.
A test pilot is missing and a search party is sent out in the jungles of Mexico; however, while searching they uncover a monster in the jungle who became this way due to a dose of radioactivity.
Project: Metalbeast
›R1995 · Horror · 92m · Kim Delaney, Barry Bostwick, Kane Hodder
With the medical breakthrough of a metal-based synthetic skin called "bio-ferron" the prospect for pioneering surgeries for burn victims and cancer patients seems set to occur but for the warped head scientist in charge...it's a opportunist chance to reactivate a long forgotten classified project...that has been left frozen in a set of cryogenic chambers deep beneath the bowels of government laboratory. Convincing the other in the research team to start work on putting this living 'metal' skin on corpses, he now has the perfect test patients waiting on ice for them to work on. But there was a reason three of these stiffs in particular where left to chill. Due to an experiment gone bad these three only look human on the outside and none of them are as dead as everyone believes they are.
Moontrap
›R1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell, Robert Kurcz
The Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary precautions.
The Terror Within
›1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · George Kennedy, Andrew Stevens, Starr Andreeff
Experiments in biological warfare have destroyed all but a few remnants of the human race. Alone in a lab, eight students work feverishly to create a vaccine before they are forced outside in search for food. It is then that the surviving scientists discover creatures mutated by the plague. Now they prepare to do battle against their worst fear: The Terror Within.
The Mole People
›1956 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a five millennia-old mutant Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.
Spasms
›R1983 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Peter Fonda, Oliver Reed, Kerrie Keane
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.
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.
The Fly II
›R1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 105m · Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
The Wasp Woman
›NR1959 · Science Fiction, Horror · 61m · Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Michael Mark
The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.
Scared to Death
›R1980 · Science Fiction, Horror · 93m · John Stinson, Diana Davidson, Jonathan David Moses
A series of hideous murders is taking place, and Inspector Capell and cop-turned-novelist Lonergan are investigating. The murders are found to be the work of an out-of-control experiment in genetic engineering. The two men must descend into the city's sewer systems to destroy the horrific miscreation. It won't be hard to find, as it's already looking for its next victims...
Metamorphosis
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Gene LeBrock, Catherine Baranov, Harry Cason
A geneticists working on a drug to stop ageing tries it upon himself with horrendous consequences.
Triassic World
›2018 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Shellie Sterling, Hayley J Williams, Joseph Michael Harris
In the future, scientists found a way to grow human organs inside dinosaurs to harvest them for profit. But when the dinosaurs break out, the scientists that created them have to find ways undo the terrible mistakes they have done.
Razortooth
›2007 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Kathleen LaGue, Doug Swander, Matt Holly
When four college students trek to the Everglades to conduct extra-credit research for their biology professor, they become prey to a huge man-eating eel with nasty incisors that’s been terrorizing a nearby Florida community, based on a true story concerning an exotic species of eels that are released in the southeast from Asia. They breathe air and can survive on land.
The Hideous Sun Demon
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 74m · Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson
After exposure to radiation, an atomic research scientist finds himself changing into a murderous, lizard-like creature every time he is exposed to sunlight.
Harbinger Down
›2015 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Lance Henriksen, Matt Winston, Camille Balsamo
A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of human companionship.
Growth
›NR2010 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 90m · Mircea Monroe, Christopher Shand, Brian Krause
In 1989, a breakthrough in "advanced parasitic research" on Cuttyhunk Island gave scientists a jump in human evolution. Initial tests proved promising, as subjects experienced heightened physical and mental strength and awareness. But - something in the experiment went horribly wrong, and the island mysteriously lost three quarters of its population.
Indestructible Man
›1956 · Crime, Horror, Science Fiction · 72m · Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr
A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his former partners, and deal similarly with anyone else who gets in his way.
Spawn of the Slithis
›PG1978 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Alan Blanchard, Judy Motulsky, J.C. Claire
A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.