
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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Killer High
›PG-132018 · Horror, Comedy, TV Movie · 87m · Kacey Rohl, Humberly González, Asha Bromfield
Sabrina's perfectly planned high school reunion goes south when a monster keeps killing all the guests.

Auntie Lee's Meat Pies
›R1992 · Comedy, Horror · 100m · Karen Black, Pat Morita, Kristine Rose
A devil-worshiping woman sends out her four beautiful nieces to lure men back to her place so they can be killed, ground up and sold as meat pies.

SuperstitionSeries
›TV-142017 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Brad James, Morgana Van Peebles
The Mosley family keeps the secrets and dark history of a town located on the outskirts of New Orleans that is also a landing patch for the world's darkest manifestations of fear, guided into the world by a mysterious malefactor named The Dredge.

Phoenix Forgotten
›PG-132017 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 87m · Florence Hartigan, Luke Spencer Roberts, Chelsea Lopez
Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.

It's a Wonderful Knife
›R2023 · Horror, Comedy · 87m · Jane Widdop, Jess McLeod, Joel McHale
Winnie's life is less than wonderful one year after saving her town from a psychotic killer on Christmas Eve. When she wishes she was never born, she finds herself magically transported to a nightmarish parallel universe. With the murderous maniac now back, she must team up with a misfit to identify the culprit and get back to her own reality.

The Beast Within
›R1982 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 98m · Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens
A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya out of the locals.

Offseason
›2022 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 83m · Jocelin Donahue, Joe Swanberg, Richard Brake
Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave has been vandalized, Marie travels to the desolate island town where she's buried. Just as she arrives, the island closes for the season, leaving Marie trapped in a nightmare.

The Darker the Lake
›2022 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · 100m · Elyse Levesque, Veronica Ferres, Gina Stiebitz
When strange, supernatural murders suddenly become the talk a peaceful town, two detectives must solve a deadly game, but will the myth of this game reveal secrets too close to home.

Devil's Diary
›NR2007 · Drama, Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Alexz Johnson, Miriam McDonald, Deanna Casaluce
When a group of small-town teenagers find the “Devil's Diary,” a book that embodies the evil of Satan by physically manifesting any evil thought that is written in it, all hell breaks loose. Unearthed after centuries of concealment, the Devil's Diary wreaks havoc and destruction on the high school students who found it, and their entire community. Can their town be saved from complete ruin?

House of Wax
›R2005 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 113m · Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

The Shortcut
›R2009 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Drew Seeley, Shannon Woodward, Dave Franco
When Derek moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the warning, Derek and his friends set out to uncover the dark secret that's buried deep in the woods. But will they survive to tell it?

Fingerprints
›R2006 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Leah Pipes, Josh Henderson, Kristin Cavallari
Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.

Along Came the Devil II
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Bruce Davison, Laura Slade Wiggins, Mark Ashworth
After receiving an unsettling voicemail, Jordan (Wiggins) returns home, looking for answers, only to find her estranged father and even more questions. A demonic force has attached itself to the town and no one is safe. The only one who seems to know anything is the small town's Reverend.

The Visitation
›PG-132006 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 103m · Edward Furlong, Kelly Lynch, Randy Travis
In Antioch, the former Father Travis Jordan lost his faith on God three years ago when his beloved wife was murdered and the criminals never found. Suddenly, miracles happen in the little town: the son of the newcomer and veterinary Morgan Elliot survives a car accident without a single scratch; Travis's dog Max revives after being buried; a paraplegic walks; a wounded woman and her father with b

Children of the Night
›R1991 · Horror · 92m · Karen Black, Peter DeLuise, Ami Dolenz
In the quiet little town of Allburg, friends Lucy and Cindy are on the verge of going away to college when they partake in a cleansing ritual by swimming in an abandoned church crypt. After Lucy accidentally drops her crucifix in the water, it drifts down and awakens the ancient vampire Czakyr, who becomes thirsty for Lucy's virgin blood.

Night of the Missing
›NR2023 · Horror · 73m · Meredith Thomas, Jill Awbrey, Gigi Gustin
Set on a stormy night on Christmas Eve, a small town female sheriff who secretly is a serial killer gets a visit from a mysterious woman who tells four bizarre stories.

Strange Nature
›2018 · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery · 100m · Tiffany Shepis, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lisa Sheridan
The first film to expose unsolved wildlife deformity outbreaks and where they may lead. Based on a true unsolved ecological mystery, thousands of hideously deformed frogs have turned up in the waters of Minnesota. As seen through the eyes of a one hit wonder single mother and her 11 year old son, a small town struggles with the unknown when the deadly mutations move beyond the ponds.

Lady Psycho Killer
›2015 · Horror, Drama, Comedy · 82m · Kate Daly, Dennis Andres, Josh Dolphin
A doe-eyed knife-wielding killer is on the loose in a small town slicing and dicing men of questionable intent left and right. As her brutality leaves a town littered with corpses, her unquenchable blood-lust is lost on her young lover who is willing to pursue her regardless of the obvious warning signs of psychosis. Will he meet his end at the end of her blade? She decides who lives or dies!

Regression
›R2015 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 106m · Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson, David Thewlis
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.

The Reaping
›R2007 · Horror · 99m · Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.

Sleepwalkers
›R1992 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 89m · Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.

The Dunwich Horror
›R1970 · Horror · 88m · Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley
Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previous night. He is turned away by Wilbur, the family's insidious heir, who has plans for the young girl. But Armitage won't be deterred. Through conversations with the locals, he soon unearths the Whateleys' darkest secret — as well as a great evil.

Graduation Day
›R1981 · Horror · 96m · Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy
After the death of a high school track star during a race, a mysterious killer in a fencing mask begins murdering her friends and teachers.

Stranger in Our House
›PG-131979 · Horror, TV Movie · 99m · Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate
After a country family of five take in charming cousin Julie, whose parents recently died in a car crash, their teenage daughter Rachel grows to suspect that Julie has a sinister agenda.






















