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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Better Watch Out
›R2017 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 89m · Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Ed Oxenbould
On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.
Summer of 84
›NR2018 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 106m · Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery
After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.
Rose RedSeries
›TV-PG2002 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Nancy Travis, Matt Keeslar, Kimberly J. Brown
Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, commissions a team of psychics and a gifted autistic girl to find out the truth about an old, supposedly haunted mansion called Rose Red.
Daughters of Darkness
›R1971 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet
Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.
The Raven
›1935 · Horror, Crime · 61m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.
Doctor X
›1932 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 76m · Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
Man Finds Tape
›2025 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 86m · Kelsey Pribilski, William Magnuson, John Gholson
Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.
Lake Michigan Monster
›2018 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · 78m · Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Beulah Peters, Erick West
An eccentric sea captain assembles a motley ship crew in a revenge mission to slay the sea monster lurking in Lake Michigan that killed his father.
The Black Cat
›2007 · Horror, TV Movie · 58m · Jeffrey Combs, Elyse Levesque, Aron Tager
The Black Cat, set in 1840 Philadelphia, has the great writer Edgar Allan Poe, struggling with alcoholism, writers block, as well as being out of ideas, short on cash, and tormented by his wife Virginia's black cat that will either destroy his life or inspire him to write one of his most famous stories.
The Last Vampyre
›1993 · Thriller, Crime, TV Movie · 102m · Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Juliet Aubrey
Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.
ThorneSeries
›2010 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · David Morrissey, Eddie Marsan, Aidan Gillen
Thorne is a television drama series which debuted on Sky1 in the UK on 10 October 2010. Based on Mark Billingham's novels, the six-episode serial stars David Morrissey in the title role of Detective Inspector Tom Thorne. Part one, Sleepyhead, follows Thorne, who, while investigating a series of attacks on young women, is dragged back into the nightmares of his past as he races to find a killer. Part two, Scaredycat, sees two women murdered within hours of one another near St Pancras station, but in different ways. When a connection is made with two other murders which occurred months before, but also on the same day, Thorne realises two serial killers may be in a macabre partnership.
The Hunt for the Zodiac KillerSeries
›TV-142017 · Documentary, Crime, Reality · 1 season · Sal LaBarbera, Craig P. Bauer, Michael Butterfield
A look at the hunt for California's Zodiac Killer, who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and early '70s.
Halloween
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller · 106m · Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Stonehearst Asylum
›PG-132014 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 112m · Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Copycat
›R1995 · Thriller, Crime, Mystery · 124m · Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Hell House LLC
›NR2015 · Horror, Mystery · 91m · Danny Bellini, Ryan Jennifer Jones, Gore Abrams
Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.
Dangerous Animals
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston
A savvy and free-spirited surfer is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer. Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
No Man of God
›NR2021 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 100m · Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino
The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.
The Medusa Touch
›1978 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 109m · Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›1941 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 113m · Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Birth/Rebirth
›R2023 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 99m · Marin Ireland, Judy Reyes, A.J. Lister
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
The House That Dripped Blood
›PG1971 · Horror, Mystery · 102m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
The ABC MurdersSeries
›TV-142018 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · John Malkovich, Rupert Grint, Eamon Farren
1933. Hercule Poirot, older and greyer, receives letters threatening murder. The sender signs themselves only as “A.B.C.” When he takes the letters to the police looking for help, Hercule finds all his old friends have moved on. But soon there is a murder and the once-great detective must take matters into his own hands.
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
›R1981 · Thriller, Horror · 96m · Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, Bo Svenson
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.