
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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From Hell
›R2001 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 122m · Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

Death Becomes Her
›PG-131992 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · 104m · Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.

1922
›2017 · Horror, Crime, Drama · 102m · Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

The Crazies
›R2010 · Mystery, Horror, Action · 101m · Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.

The Faculty
›R1998 · Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.

The Pale Blue Eye
›R2022 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 128m · Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.

Fright Night
›R2011 · Horror, Comedy · 106m · Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Toni Collette
A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and magician.

Spectral
›PG-132016 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Action · 109m · James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Gonzalo Menendez
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.

Ghost WhispererSeries
›TV-PG2005 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 5 seasons · Jennifer Love Hewitt, Camryn Manheim, Jamie Kennedy
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.

Freaky
›R2020 · Horror, Comedy · 102m · Kathryn Newton, Vince Vaughn, Celeste O'Connor
A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.

Unsane
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

Wes Craven's New Nightmare
›R1994 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 112m · Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

The Devil's Rejects
›R2005 · Drama, Horror, Crime · 111m · Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.

The Taking of Deborah Logan
›R2014 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 90m · Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, Michelle Ang
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all.

The Final Girls
›PG-132015 · Comedy, Horror · 91m · Taissa Farmiga, Malin Åkerman, Nina Dobrev
A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.

The 'Burbs
›PG1989 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 102m · Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.

Kinds of Kindness
›R2024 · Comedy, Drama, Horror · 164m · Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

ShadowhuntersSeries
›TV-142016 · Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons · Katherine McNamara, Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Rosende
When Clary Fray's mother has disappeared, Clary joins a band of Shadowhunters; demon killing hunters, and gets caught up in a plan to save the world.

Prince of Darkness
›R1987 · Horror · 102m · Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.

Black Death
›R2010 · Drama, History, Horror · 102m · Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Carice van Houten
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.

Byzantium
›R2013 · Drama, Fantasy, Thriller · 118m · Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.

Bad Taste
›NR1987 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 91m · Terry Potter, Pete O'Herne, Craig Smith
A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country’s Astro-Investigation and Defense Service (AIaDS) is called in to deal with the problem. Things are complicated due to Giles, an aid worker who comes to Kaihoro the same day to collect change from the residents. He is captured by the aliens, and AIaDS stages a rescue mission that quickly becomes an all-out assault on the aliens’ headquarters.

Kill List
›NR2011 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 95m · Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

Stake Land
›R2010 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 98m · Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Danielle Harris
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.






















