
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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Kalifornia
›R1993 · Thriller, Crime · 118m · Brad Pitt, David Duchovny, Juliette Lewis
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.

The House of the Devil
›R2009 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov
A young college student who’s struggling financially takes a strange babysitting job which coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.

Boston Strangler
›R2023 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 113m · Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper
Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.

Mayhem
›NR2017 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 87m · Steven Yeun, Samara Weaving, Steven Brand
A virus spreads through an office complex causing white collar workers to act out their worst impulses.

Rogue
›R2007 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 99m · Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington
When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.

Psycho II
›R1983 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 113m · Anthony Perkins, Meg Tilly, Vera Miles
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?

Last Shift
›R2014 · Horror, Mystery · 87m · Juliana Harkavy, Joshua Mikel, Hank Stone
Rookie police officer Jessica Loren has been assigned the last shift at a closing police station and must wait for a hazmat crew to collect biomedical evidence. Ordered not to leave the station under any circumstances, Jessica comes to learn that it's more than just an outdated station, it's home to the ultimate embodiment of evil and his devoted bloodthirsty followers. Jessica is left to fend for herself in the Devil's playground.

The Hunger
›R1983 · Horror, Drama · 97m · Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.

Deathgasm
›NR2015 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Milo Cawthorne, Kimberley Crossman, Sam Berkley
Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.

Excision
›NR2012 · Drama, Horror, Comedy · 81m · AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter
Pauline, a disturbed, outcast teenager, has a fascination with surgery and experiences violent, psychosexual fantasies, all while aspiring to a career in medicine.

A Dark Song
›NR2016 · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery · 100m · Catherine Walker, Steve Oram, Mark Huberman
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

Lords of Chaos
›R2018 · Drama, Music, Thriller · 118m · Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer
A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.

The Wolf of Snow Hollow
›R2020 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster
Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves.

Shadows and Fog
›PG-131991 · Comedy, Mystery, Crime · 85m · Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Berberian Sound Studio
›2012 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 92m · Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Cosimo Fusco
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

Tightrope
›R1984 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 115m · Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

The Midnight ClubSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd
Inside a hospice for terminally ill teens, members of an exclusive club make a chilling pact: The first to die must send a sign from beyond the grave.

First KillSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Sarah Catherine Hook, Imani Lewis, Elizabeth Mitchell
Falling in love is tricky for teens Juliette and Calliope: One's a vampire, the other's a vampire hunter — and both are ready to make their first kill.

Alice, Sweet Alice
›R1976 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 108m · Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?

Brain Damage
›R1988 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 86m · Rick Hearst, Jennifer Lowry, Gordon MacDonald
Brian comes under the addictive spell of a parasite with the ability to induce euphoric hallucinations in its hosts.

The Battery
›2012 · Drama, Horror · 101m · Jeremy Gardner, Adam Cronheim, Niels Bolle
In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey are trying to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outwit the batter, the one who hits the ball. And the batter in this case just happens to be a zombie. Tough Ben and gentle Mickey frequently disagree on the best way to go about the situation. Then they suddenly hear a human voice through their walkie-talkies. Is salvation nearby, like Mickey thinks, or is Ben’s suspicion justified?

You Kill Me
›R2007 · Comedy, Crime, Thriller · 90m · Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Luke Wilson
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

A Field in England
›NR2013 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 90m · Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley, Richard Glover
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

Dracula
›R1979 · Romance, Drama, Fantasy · 109m · Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence
In 1913, charming, seductive and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride.






















