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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Ten Little Indians
›1965 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.
Blood Punch
›2014 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · Milo Cawthorne, Olivia Tennet, Ari Boyland
Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself drawn into a dangerous love triangle gone haywire. The couple's deadpan half-truths spin around Milton like a song on repeat. They seem to read him like an open book, until a mysterious message opens his eyes to his cursed existence. With unlimited ammunition, any hunting tool they could desire, and an ever-growing body count, for what did Milton really sign up?
Lady in White
›PG-131988 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 113m · Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.
Vicious Fun
›NR2021 · Comedy, Horror, Romance · 103m · Evan Marsh, Amber Goldfarb, Ari Millen
Joel, a caustic 1980s film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. With no other choice, Joel attempts to blend in with his homicidal surroundings or risk becoming the next victim.
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
›1960 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee
After a series of scientific experiments directed towards freeing the inner man and controlling human personalities, the kindly, generous Dr Henry Jekyll succeeds in freeing his own alter ego, Edward Hyde, a sadistic, evil creature whose pleasure is murder.
Vampire Circus
›PG1972 · Horror · 87m · Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Anthony Higgins
After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.
Creeped OutSeries
›TV-PG2017 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery · 2 seasons · Aurora Aksnes
A masked figure known as "The Curious" collects tales of dark magic, otherworldly encounters and twisted technology in this kids anthology series.
The Kiss of the Vampire
›1963 · Horror · 89m · Edward de Souza, Jennifer Daniel, Noel Willman
Honeymooning in Bavaria, a young couple becomes stranded and is forced to stay the night in the area. Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village, invites them to dinner that evening. Their association with Ravna and his charming, beautiful family is to prove disastrous.
Don't Look Under the Bed
›PG1999 · TV Movie, Family, Horror · 93m · Erin Chambers, Ty Hodges, Robin Riker
A girl calls on her brother's imaginary friend to banish a mischievous boogeyman who has framed her for his pranks.
Butterfly Kisses
›NR2018 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 91m · Seth Adam Kallick, Rachel Armiger, Reed Delisle
A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and the film crew following him into his project.
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
›PG1978 · Comedy, Crime, Mystery · 112m · George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
The Walking Dead
›1936 · Crime, Horror, Science Fiction · 66m · Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
Dude Bro Party Massacre III
›2015 · Horror, Comedy · 101m · Alec Owen, Patton Oswalt, Paul Prado
In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico's frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother's murder at the hands of the serial killer known as "Motherface."
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
›1973 · Horror, TV Movie · 74m · Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, William Demarest
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
Uncle Peckerhead
›2020 · Horror, Comedy, Music · 96m · David Bluvband, Chet Siegel, Chloe Roe
When a punk band scores their first tour, life on the road proves tough when they are joined by a man-eating demon as a roadie.
ReckoningSeries
›2019 · Drama · 1 season · Simone Kessell, Laura Gordon, Aden Young
The murder of a teenager and the hunt for a serial killer in a suburban Northern California town sets two fathers on a course of mutual destruction that will reverberate through their quiet community.
Hands of the Ripper
›R1971 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Eric Porter, Angharad Rees, Jane Merrow
A series of murders occur that mirror those committed by the Whitechapel Ripper. Through his experiments with psychoanalysis Dr Pritchard discovers a deadly violence in one of his young female patients. As he delves into the recesses of her mind he uncovers that Anna is possessed by her dead father's spirit, willing her to commit acts of gruesome savagery over which she has no control. But the most chilling revelation of all is the identity of her father: Jack the Ripper himself.
Captain Clegg
›1962 · Adventure, Crime, Thriller · 83m · Peter Cushing, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse.
Dr. Cyclops
›1940 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 76m · Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
IntrudersSeries
›TV-MA2014 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime · 1 season · Mira Sorvino, John Simm, Sonya Salomaa
Members of a secret society chase immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others.
The Return of the Vampire
›1943 · Horror · 69m · Bela Lugosi, Nina Foch, Roland Varno
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
Android Re-Enactment
›2011 · Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy · 91m · Jeff Sinasac, Adam Buller, Sarah Silverthorne
Ermus Daglek, retired Empathtek engineer, commandeers a defunct factory where he creates androids based on persons from his past and recreates a dinner party where he lost the love of his life - until they malfunction and escape.
Strange Harvest
›R2025 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 94m · Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple, Andrew Lauer
Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a cosmic force.
Thirst
›R1979 · Horror, Romance, Thriller · 95m · Chantal Contouri, Max Phipps, David Hemmings
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
