
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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Blood Work
›R2002 · Thriller, Crime, Action · 110m · Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston
Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.

Sleepaway Camp
›R1983 · Horror · 85m · Mike Kellin, Katherine Kamhi, Paul DeAngelo
Years after a terrible boating accident, Angela is sent to Camp Arawak where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.

Fast Color
›PG-132019 · Thriller, Science Fiction · 102m · Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Saniyya Sidney, Lorraine Toussaint
A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.

Parallel
›2018 · Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror · 104m · Mark O'Brien, Martin Wallström, Georgia King
A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse", but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequences.

The Stylist
›2020 · Horror, Drama · 105m · Najarra Townsend, Brea Grant, Laura Kirk
Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.

Sick Girl
›NR2006 · Horror, TV Movie · 56m · Angela Bettis, Erin Brown, Mike McKee
A shy entomologist named Ida—whose girlfriend has left her, due to her interest in insects—develops a crush on a strange girl, Misty. After Ida receives a mysterious insect in the mail, the two women spend the night together, and Ida awakens to find that Misty has stumbled upon her insect collection and has a great interest in them herself.

FrankensteinSeries
›2004 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Alec Newman, William Hurt, Julie Delpy
A scientist brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.

Insidious: Chapter 2
›PG-132013 · Horror, Thriller · 106m · Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

Happy Death Day 2U
›PG-132019 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 100m · Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Charles Aitken
Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely different versions of themselves. When Tree discovers that Carter's roommate has been altering time, she finds herself once again the target of a masked killer. When the psychopath starts to go after her inner circle, Tree soon realizes that she must die over and over again to save everyone.

Malignant
›R2021 · Horror, Mystery · 111m · Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young
Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.

Candyman
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo
A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.

Little Evil
›2017 · Horror, Comedy · 94m · Adam Scott, Evangeline Lilly, Owen Atlas
Gary, who has just married Samantha, the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.

Boy Kills World
›R2024 · Crime, Thriller, Action · 111m · Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, H. Jon Benjamin
When his family is murdered, a deaf-mute named Boy escapes to the jungle and is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.

Come to Daddy
›R2019 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 96m · Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Michael Smiley
After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.

Cat People
›R1982 · Fantasy, Horror · 118m · Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.

Mayfair WitchesSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons · Alexandra Daddario, Tongayi Chirisa, Ben Feldman
An intuitive young neurosurgeon discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.

October FactionSeries
›TV-MA2020 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Aurora Burghart, Gabriel Darku, Tamara Taylor
Monster hunters Fred and Deloris Allen tangle with evil ... and family drama with their teenage twins. From the comics by Steve Niles and Damien Worm.

You'll Never Find Me
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Brendan Rock, Jordan Cowan, Elena Carapetis
Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave. Soon she begins to question Patrick’s intentions, while Patrick begins to question his own grip on reality...

Blue Caprice
›R2013 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 93m · Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Tim Blake Nelson
A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.

The Dead Center
›2019 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 93m · Shane Carruth, Poorna Jagannathan, Jeremy Childs
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.

The Lady Vanishes
›2013 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 86m · Tuppence Middleton, Keeley Hawes, Julian Rhind-Tutt
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.

Jekyll & Hyde
›1990 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 96m · Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Joss Ackland
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.

The Caller
›R1987 · Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller · 97m · Malcolm McDowell, Madolyn Smith Osborne
One night, an unusual stranger in need asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong about the woods.

Save Me from Everything
›2021 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 83m · Paige Henderson
This elevated horror tale follows the emotionally unstable Emmy, who is led to Ireland where a Stranger guides her investigation of a family curse and its sinister origins.






















