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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44 titles
Slaughter of the Innocents
›1993 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 103m · Scott Glenn, Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, Sheila Tousey
A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic mohab nut who believes he's been chosen by god to be a new Noah.
Children of the Corn
›R1984 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong
A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.
Blood Diner
›NR1987 · Horror, Comedy · 88m · Rick Burks, Carl Crew, Roger Dauer
Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of a new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.
The Curse
›R1987 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare
Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes’ family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Hayes farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the family and other members of the community.
The Dead Next Door
›NR1989 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 84m · Peter Ferry, Bogdan Pecic, Michael Grossi
The government sets up a zombie squad after an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses. The team head off to Ohio to try and find a cure but soon run into a crazy cult of zombie lovers who are set on preserving the walking dead as they believe it's God's will.
Timber Falls
›2007 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Josh Randall, Brianna Brown, Nick Searcy
A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.
Sawney: Flesh of Man
›2012 · Horror · 89m · Elizabeth Brown, Lisa Cameron, Lindsay Cromar
Religious psychopath Sawney stalks Scotland abducting unholy souls for his communion of sacrifices. With his insane family of inbred killers, Sawney tortures and eats their victims saving the best morsels for a chained-up figure in their cavernous Highlands lair. As the Missing Persons list rises investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. After his fiancée is kidnapped by the cannibal clan Hamish investigates the heinous crimes on his own with disastrous results. For there’s something he doesn’t know about the case that’s crucial to solving it…
Hallowed Ground
›NR2007 · Horror · 83m · Jaimie Alexander, Brian McNamara, Ethan Phillips
After she becomes stranded in a small town, a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher and that she is an integral part of his impending - and terrifying - rebirth.
The Afflicted
›NR2011 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Leslie Easterbrook, Kane Hodder, J.D. Hart
A story of incomprehensible abuse delivered by an explosively violent mother of four. Journey through the mind of a child that experiences a living hell, defined and defended by the twisted religious beliefs of her mother.
Children of the Corn: Runaway
›R2018 · Horror · 82m · Marci Miller, Jake Ryan Scott, Lynn Andrews III
The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
›R1995 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Daniel Cerny, Ron Melendez, Jim Metzler
After a couple adopts a pair of orphaned brothers, it becomes alarmingly clear the boys are much more than they seem.
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
›R1996 · Horror · 85m · Naomi Watts, Brent Jennings, Samaria Graham
A bright young medical student must solve the frightening mystery that plagues the children of a small Midwestern town.
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
›R1992 · Horror · 92m · Terence Knox, Paul Scherrer, Ryan Bollman
When a tabloid reporter and his son travel to a quiet Midwestern town to investigate a gruesome massacre, they fall victim to a possessed orphan named Micah.
Children of the Corn: Genesis
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Kelen Coleman, Tim Rock, Billy Drago
Tim and Allie seek shelter in a remote desert compound after becoming lost and stranded. A strange Manson-like character, Preacher, reluctantly allows them inside with strict orders to be gone by morning and not wander "where you are not invited."
Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil
›R1992 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Nicole De Boer, J. H. Wyman, Joy Tanner
Thirty years after slashing a Hamilton High couple on Prom Night 1957, psychotic priest Father Jonas gets loose from the chapel basement where the other church fathers had been secretly keeping him locked up and drugged.
The Wicker Man
›PG-132006 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 102m · Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan
A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
›R1998 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Stacy Galina, Alexis Arquette, Adam Wylie
Six college students take a wrong turn and find themselves lost in a strangely deserted rural town... only to discover that this deceptively quiet place hides a murderous cult of children.
Children of the Corn: Revelation
›R2001 · Horror · 82m · Claudette Mink, Kyle Cassie, Michael Ironside
When calls to her grandmother go unanswered, Jamie Lowell uncovers the truth behind her mysterious disappearance.
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
›R1999 · Horror, Mystery · 82m · Nancy Allen, Natalie Ramsey, Paul Popowich
A girl called Hannah goes back to her hometown (Gatlin) to find her mother but on the way she picks up a strange man who fore-shadows her life with a passage from the bible. When she gets there she wakes up Isaac from a coma he has been in for 19 years. Isaac is awake and wants to fulfil the final prophecy.
Godhead
›2026 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Al Warren, Sarah Coffey, Kimball Farley
Eccentric twins proclaim themselves prophets to a priest, blurring reality and delusion as they involve him in their supposed divine mission.