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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54 titles
Scarecrow
›2002 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Todd Rex, Tim Young, Tiffany Shepis
A high school outcast who lives in a trailer with his mother finally meets a friend. He wants to ask her if they can go the next step, but then sees her kissing another boy at a party. He runs home only to find his mother having sex with a drunk. He starts yelling, but is countered by the drunk when he suffocates him and makes him look like he hung himself. The scarecrow comes in when the boy's soul is pushed into it. He goes out for revenge.
Wolves of Wall Street
›R2002 · Horror · 85m · William Gregory Lee, Elisa Donovan, Michael Bergin
Jeff Allen just got a new job in one of Manhattan's wealthiest brokerage firms, Wolfe Brothers. Here young, good-looking stockbrokers make a lot of money by being particularly cutthroat. Jeff finds out that the real secret to their success is an animal instinct that is turning him into a werewolf, but it may be too late for him to get out.
Blood Freak
›R1972 · Science Fiction, Horror · 86m · Steve Hawkes, Dana Cullivan, Heather Hughes
A biker comes upon a girl with a flat tire and offers her a ride home. He winds up at a drug party with the girl's sister, then follows her to a turkey farm owned by her father, a mad scientist. The father turns the biker into a giant turkey monster who goes after drug dealers.
The Mad Monster
›NR1942 · Horror · 77m · George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Johnny Downs
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
Mesa of Lost Women
›NR1953 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis
A mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab in Zarpa Mesa to create a race of superwomen by injecting spiders with human pituitary growth hormones. Women develop miraculous regenerative powers, but men mutate into disfigured dwarves. Spiders grow to human size and intelligence.
Zaat
›PG1971 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 100m · Marshall Grauer, Wade Popwell, Paul Galloway
A mad scientist unleashes his master plan: to transform himself into a mutated walking catfish, and gain revenge on those who have spurned him. His plans go wrong, and he becomes tempted to kidnap a nubile young woman to similarly transform her so that he can breed.