
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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The Unwanted
›NR2014 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Hannah Fierman, Christen Orr, William Katt
Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.

Devil's Gate
›2018 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Milo Ventimiglia, Shawn Ashmore, Javier Botet
Set in the small town of Devil's Gate, North Dakota, the film examines the disappearance of a local woman and her young son. Schull plays an FBI agent who helps the local sheriff search for answers. Partnering with a deputy , they track down the missing woman's husband and find that nothing is as it seems.

Madman
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Gaylen Ross, Tony Nunziata, Harriet Bass
Madman Marz, an old folklore legend who murdered his family before escaping into the woods, is inadvertently summoned to a campsite to finish the spree he started decades ago.

Messengers 2: The Scarecrow
›R2009 · Horror · 94m · Norman Reedus, Heather Stephens, Claire Holt
The family man farmer John Rollins is stressed with his financial situation: the crows and the lack of irrigation are destroying his crop of corn; the bank is near closure of his mortgage; he does not have credit to fix the water pump or to buy seeds; and his marriage is in crisis and his wife Mary is giving too much attention to her friend Tommy. When John accidentally discovers a hidden compartment in the barn, he finds a creepy scarecrow but his son Michael makes him promise to destroy it. However, his neighbor Jude Weatherby visits him, gives a six-pack of beer to the abstemious John and convinces him to put the scarecrow in the cornfield. Out of the blue, the life of John changes: the crows die; the pump works again irrigating the land; and the banker responsible for the closure has an accident and dies. However, he feels that his land is possessed by something evil that is threatening his beloved family.

White Settlers
›R2014 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 83m · Pollyanna McIntosh, Lee Williams, Joanne Mitchell
Young urban couple Ed and Sarah are set to begin a new life when they move from London into an isolated borders Scottish farmhouse. After falling in love with the 19th century Castle Farm and seeing its potential as a fixer-upper they are anxious to get started on the renovations. In bed on their first night Sarah thinks she can hear noises in the darkness but Ed is disbelieving saying it’s her imagination playing tricks. Persisting in her fear they are not alone in the house, she forces Ed to investigate. When he doesn’t return after a scarily long period, she goes downstairs to investigate only to be confronted by a welcoming committee of masked intruders. As she desperately searches for Ed, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues with the mysterious assailants. But what do they want and what horrors do they have planned for the two newcomers?

Torment
›R2013 · Thriller, Horror · 82m · Katharine Isabelle, Robin Dunne, Peter DaCunha
Newlyweds Cory and Sarah Morgan take Cory's 7-year-old son Liam up to the country for some much needed family time. When it appears as if Liam has run away, psychological suspense becomes straight-out horror, as Sarah and Cory must now confront a sadistic cult-like family who have been hiding in the house all along and have taken Liam for themselves.

Older Gods
›2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 82m · Rory Wilson, Leuan Coombs, Lynsey Bennett-Thompson
After the disappearance of his troubled friend, American Chris Rivers travels to the remote Welsh countryside to investigate what happened – leading him to a dark apocalyptic cult.

Plague Town
›NR2009 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Josslyn DeCrosta, Erica Rhodes, David Lombard
An American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant children.

Dark Light
›2019 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 90m · Jessica Madsen, Ben Sullivan, Opal Littleton
A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.

Honeydew
›2021 · Horror · 106m · Sawyer Spielberg, Malin Barr, Barbara Kingsley
Strange cravings and hallucinations befall a young couple after seeking shelter in the home of an aging farmer and her peculiar son.

Slaughter
›R2009 · Thriller, Horror · 96m · Lucy Holt, Amy Shiels, David Sterne
A young woman looks to escape her abusive life by moving to her family's farm near Atlanta. Unfortunately, she learns her place of supposed comfort offers more terrifying forms of abuse.

The Bunnyman Massacre
›2014 · Horror · 90m · David Scott, Julianne Dowler, Joshua Lang
Joe and Bunnyman's adventure continue in a rural ghost town. Bunnyman's blood lust knows no bounds, as he slaughters indiscriminately anything that crosses his path. Joe is all too happy to encourage his behavior, selling the dead victims as beef jerky in his local store. In addition to Joe's body disposal problem, the local sheriff becomes suspicious with the disappearance of a few of his deputies. His investigation crosses paths with two persistent sisters, that refuse to die at the hands of Joe and Bunnyman. Some will live, and some will die, but all will be damaged..

Carver
›R2008 · Horror · 97m · Natasha Charles Parker, Erik Fones, Matt Carmody
Based on a true story, Carver depicts the real life events of five 20-something's that went camping in the mountain town of Halcyon Ridge and never returned.

The Devil's Ground
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Daryl Hannah, Leah Gibson, Luke Camilleri
While traveling from California to Bangor through a lonely road, Carrie Mitchel is advised by the gas station attendant Jimmy to rest in a hotel; however, she decides to continue driving through the night and almost hits a wounded teenage girl with blood on her face. She gives a lift to the girl and listens to the tale of her passenger and her friends.

Squealer
›R2023 · Thriller, Action, Horror · 99m · Wes Chatham, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Tyrese Gibson
When young women begin to disappear across a small town, a police officer and a street-smart social worker follow clues to a remote pig farm and discover the local butcher has been bringing his work home.

Skinned Deep
›R2004 · Comedy, Horror · 97m · Forrest J. Ackerman, Eric Bennett, Karoline Brandt
An ordinary family goes on a trip by car, but their car breaks down. The dutiful father of the family immediately sets off to get help and seems to find it with a nice elderly lady. The woman invites the whole family to dinner, but the hospitality soon turns out to be an ambush.

Slasher.com
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Jewel Shepard, R.A. Mihailoff, Ben Kaplan
After meeting online, Jack and Kristy go on a weekend getaway to the woodlands of rural Missouri. While discovering each other, they soon learn of the terrorizing horrors that the forest has in store.

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
›R1990 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Kate Hodge, Ken Foree, R.A. Mihailoff
Two college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and onto a deserted Texas road were they are stalked by the menacing Leatherface and his family.

Butchers
›2020 · Horror · 93m · Simon Phillips, Michael Swatton, Julie Mainville
A family of sadistic butchers lives deep inside the backcountry. From the dead of winter to the dog days of summer, anyone who crosses their path is dead meat.

Redneck Zombies
›NR1987 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Lisa M. DeHaven, William E. Benson, William Decker
A barrel of radioactive waste is lost out in the woods. Some demented rednecks find it and use it as part of their still. Everybody who drinks from the liquor they produced turns into a zombie.

The Violent Kind
›R2010 · Horror · 89m · Cory Knauf, Taylor Cole, Bret Roberts
One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the Northern California woods, a small group of hardened young bikers and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the girls becomes savagely possessed and a gang of "Rockabillies" seemingly from the 1950's descends upon them to collect what is growing inside her.

Sacrilege
›2020 · Horror · 83m · Tamaryn Payne, Emily Wyatt, Sian Abrahams
Four lifelong friends head to a remote lodge for a weekend of fun. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into a fight for their lives when a local Pagan cult offer them up to their Goddess as a sacrifice for the Solstice.

Bloodeaters
›R1980 · Horror · 89m · Charles McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend
After drug crops are sprayed with a chemical by a passing airplane, the growers of the crop are poisoned by the chemical and turn into zombie-like mutants.

The Deadly Bees
›1966 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman
Pop singer Vicki Robbins collapses from exhaustion while shooting ta music video; her physician prescribes a respite on Seagull Island with beekeeper Ralph Hargrove. Initially finding the Hargroves' bitter marital strife oddly relaxing, the arrival of specially-bred attack bees pushes Vicki to her survival instinct.






















