
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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The Frankenstein Theory
›NR2013 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Heather Stephens, Kris Lemche, Eric Zuckerman
When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, "Frankenstein," is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction...a nightmare from which there is no waking.

13Hrs
›R2010 · Horror, Action · 81m · Isabella Calthorpe, Tom Felton, Gemma Atkinson
Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.

Bleeders
›1997 · Horror, Mystery · 89m · Roy Dupuis, Kristin Lehman, Rutger Hauer
A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although his relatives were all thought to be dead, he finds them living underground.

Crawl or Die
›R2014 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror · 90m · Nicole Alonso, Torey Byrne, Tommy Ball
Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.

Uninhabited
›2010 · Thriller, Horror · 93m · Geraldine Hakewill, Bob Baines, Tasia Zalar
Harry and Beth wanted a different kind of holiday so they chartered a boat to drop them off on a remote coral island on the Great Barrier Reef. The island was idyllic, surrounded by a wide reef, covered in palms and full of birds and other wildlife. It was small and totally deserted or so they thought. But when things go missing from their camp site and they discover someone else's footprints in the sand this quickly becomes disturbing as they realize the island has a ghost! Inspired by actual events.

Evil Things
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Gail Cadden, Laurel Casillo, Morgan Hooper
On January 9, 2009, five college students left New York City for a weekend in the country. 48 hours later, all five students have simply vanished without a trace. There were no leads and no evidence - until now.

Trauma
›2004 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 94m · Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Naomie Harris
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.

The Drownsman
›2014 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 88m · Michelle Mylett, Caroline Palmer, Gemma Bird Matheson
After nearly drowning in a lake, a young girl develops an abnormal fear of water and is plagued by visions of a mysterious dark figure. A year later, in an attempt to cure her phobia and visions, her skeptical friends stage a séance and subject her to a bathtub experiment, unwittingly summoning the dark figure into the world.

Nightmare Man
›R2006 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Tiffany Shepis, Blythe Metz, Luciano Szafir
Ellen receives an exotic mask by mistake and begins to have waking nightmares and hallucinations. Her husband and doctors believe she is a paranoid schizophrenic and take her to a psychiatric ward. On the way to the hospital the car breaks down, her husband rushes off to get gas, and the Nightmare Man appears. Ellen escapes and stumbles upon a country house where two young couples are spending the weekend. They do not know if the killer is real or just a figment of Ellen's tortured mind nor if the killer is outside or already inside the house.

The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Robert Patrick, Danielle Harris, James Duval
Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil.

Speak No Evil
›2013 · Horror · 74m · Gabrielle Stone, Olivia Cavender, Carl Jensen IV
Single mother Anna fights to protect her daughter from demonically possessed children and a town gone mad.

Nailbiter
›R2013 · Horror · 82m · Joicie Appell, Emily Boresow, Jason Coffman
A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting for them underneath is another story entirely.

Dark Signal
›2016 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Siwan Morris, Gareth David-Lloyd, James Cosmo
The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her death.

The Perfect Husband
›R2014 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 85m · Gabriella Wright, Bret Roberts, Tania Bambaci
Viola and Nicola are going through a rough time. To overcome this crisis, they decide to spend a weekend in a remote cabin belonged to Nicola's parents. Just a couple of days together to heal their wounds, , but everything will take a turn for the worst, when a sneaking suspicion become pure madness. What was supposed to be a quiet trip will suddenly slip into a deadly nightmare.

Dead Within
›NR2014 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Dean Chekvala, J. Claude Deering, Rick Federman
Set six months after a deadly outbreak has all but ended the human race, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin and never opening the door. Now they don’t have a choice. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them… but what’s inside may be even more toxic than what remains outside. When it all ends, this is what remains.

Black Cab
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Nick Frost, Synnøve Karlsen, Luke Norris
Estranged couple Anne and Patrick encounter ghostly apparitions while taking a ride from a mysterious cabbie with sinister intentions.

Bad Meat
›2011 · Horror, Comedy · 92m · Dave Franco, Elisabeth Harnois, Mark Pellegrino
Six troubled teens at secluded camp for juvenile delinquents must fight for their lives after a mysterious virus transforms the guards into cannibalistic mutants.

Heartstopper
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Nathan Stephenson, James Binkley, Robert Englund
Two hospitalized young people discover that things can get even worse when the dilapidated institution is stranded by a severe storm and a maniac stalks the corridors butchering the patients and staff.

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.

Alone at Night
›NR2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Ashley Benson, Jon Foster, Sky Ferreira
Having just been through a tumultuous breakup, cam-girl Vicky retreats to a friend’s remote cabin in the woods to clear her head. But when the power goes out, she discovers something terrifying awaiting her in the dark — a masked killer who’s hellbent on bringing her night to a grisly end.

The Projected Man
›NR1966 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday, Norman Wooland
Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.

The Jungle
›2013 · Thriller, Horror · 84m · Rupert Reid, Agoes Widjaya Soedjarwo, Igusti Budianthika
A big cat conservationist and his filmmaker brother travel into the Indonesian jungle to find and document the rare and endangered Javan leopard. As they travel deeper and deeper into the jungle they come to the realisation that they are being stalked by a deadly predator.

Ghost Town
›2009 · Horror, Western, Science Fiction · 85m · Jessica Lee Rose, Randy Wayne, Gil Gerard
Reb Halland, who lives in the era of Wild West, has made a deal with the devil to gain immortality alog with his gang. Preacher McCready is trying to protect the small town by placing five totems around the town in the shape of pinnacle. One day, an collector passes by the town and sees one of the totems pinned to the earth and he decides to take it. When the man takes the totem out of ground Halland and his gang arrives and start killing everyone. The film moves to the present day when a group of college students driving back home from another city after a debate contest suddenly find themselves at this town. Soon they start to be murdered one by one, and it will be up to them to find the secret of this town and destroy Halland and his gang.

They Crawl Beneath
›2022 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Joseph Almani, Karlee Eldridge, Michael Paré
After an earthquake leaves Danny trapped and alone, his claustrophobic nightmare only gets worse when something truly horrifying emerges from the fissures in the ground, forcing him to engage in a brutal fight for his life and his sanity.






















