
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 Devil Conspiracy
›R2023 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 111m · Alice Orr-Ewing, Joe Doyle, Eveline Hall
A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ, putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate offering to the devil. The Archangel Michael comes to earth and will stop at nothing to end the devil’s conspiracy.

The Frankenstein Theory
›NR2013 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Heather Stephens, Kris Lemche, Eric Zuckerman
When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, "Frankenstein," is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction...a nightmare from which there is no waking.

Frankenstein vs. The Mummy
›2015 · Horror · 114m · Ashton Leigh, Max Rhyser, Boomer Tibbs
The mummy of a cursed pharaoh and a reanimated corpse terrorize a medical university. Only an Egyptologist and a college professor, the deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may be able to stop the creatures before it's too late.

The Bees
›PG1978 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · John Saxon, Angel Tompkins, John Carradine
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.

4 Horsemen: Apocalypse
›2022 · Science Fiction, Horror, TV Movie · 86m · Dominique Swain, Arie Thompson, Eric St. John
A small team of scientists must race against time to stop what seems to be a cascade of global disasters signaling the possible apocalypse and end of days.

Biohazard
›R1985 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Aldo Ray, Angelique Pettyjohn, William Fair
A group of skeptical government officials headed by General Randolph are brought to a remote laboratory for a demonstration in "Psychic Materialization", a successful side effect of an experimental drug. But the project scientists had warned that not enough testing had been completed to access safety concerns. In a freak accident during the demonstration to the politicians, a vicious creature is created! Unable to contain the monster, it unleashes unbelievable havoc & destruction against mankind! Reproducing itself at an alarming rate, and all known weapons seemingly powerless against the creature, the scientists are gravely concerned for the survival of mankind!

Swarmed
›PG-132005 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Carol Alt, Jonathan Malen, Maria Brooks
Residents of a small town find themselves battling a swarm of wasps which has been sprayed by a super pesticide.

Piranha
›R1995 · Horror, TV Movie · 89m · William Katt, Alexandra Paul, Monte Markham
Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in their path. Can they prevent the flesh-eating piranhas from escaping into the ocean and spawning?

Mind Ripper
›R1995 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Lance Henriksen, Claire Stansfield, John Diehl
A top secret experiment intended to produce a superhuman has gone terribly wrong. Now the creators, trapped in a remote desert outpost, are being pursued ruthlessly by their creation.

Alien Terminator
›R1996 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · Maria Ford, Rodger Halston, Lisa Boyle
Five miles below the Earth's surface, a group of scientists is working in self-imposed isolation, perfecting a series of DNA experiments that could literally change the world. But when one of those experiments goes awry, it unleashes a nearly immortal organism--one capable of instant regeneration, and with an insatiable appetite for living flesh. Soon, nothing can contain the creature, and with the lab's life support systems quickly shutting down, the scientists grimly prepare for their final battle... A small group of scientists are working in self-imposed isolation below the Earth's surface. They are all working to create DNA which could change the world, but one of the scientists have been given an secret assignment, and when the assignment goes wrong, all hell breaks lose. The new creation is now aboard the ship and will destroy anyone who gets in its way, as it moves towards the surface.

Arachnia
›2003 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Rob Monkiewicz, Irene Joseph, David Bunce
When a small research plane carrying a group of science students and their professor crash-lands in the middle of nowhere, the survivors go to a nearby farmhouse to look for help but soon find themselves besieged by giant mutant spiders.

Locusts: The 8th Plague
›R2005 · Drama, Horror · 88m · Dan Cortese, Julie Benz, David Keith
A group of scientists try to stop a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that escape from a top secret government lab in the USA Midwest.

Supergator
›2007 · Horror · 91m · Brad Johnson, Kelly McGillis, Josh Kelly
Geologists encounter a giant alligator while investigating an active volcano in Hawaii.

Up from the Depths
›R1979 · Horror · 85m · Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Virgil Frye
The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from its slumber. The fish voraciously helps itself to a tourist buffet. Now it is open season for the local fishermen to find and kill the creature.

The Killer Shrews
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis
Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who when they have run out of small animals to eat, turn on the humans.

Deep Shock
›2003 · Action, Adventure, Horror · 93m · David Keith, Simmone Mackinnon, Mark Sheppard
When an unknown underwater object disables an American nuclear-powered submarine and attacks a submerged Arctic research complex, a scientific expedition flies to the North Pole to investigate these incidents as well as the sudden, inexplicable rise in temperature that threatens to melt the ice cap and flood the surface of the world.

Octaman
›1971 · Horror, Science Fiction · 76m · Pier Angeli, Kerwin Mathews, Jeff Morrow
A scientific team in Mexico discover a pool of unusual baby "octopus-like" specimens. Gathering a few for analysis back at the lab, it is soon discovered that the critters belong to a gangly six-foot half man/half octopus-like creature, that's pretty angry and wants her 'babies' returned…

Strange Blood
›2015 · Science Fiction, Horror · 84m · Robert Brettenaugh, Alexandra Bard, James Adam Lim
When a brilliant but obsessive scientist goes to extremes to develop a universal cure for all disease, he finds himself infected with a bizarre parasite that begins to transform him into a bloodthirsty madman. Time running out, he must find a way to stop the monster that is growing within and prevent the rest of the world from being "cured."

Blackenstein
›R1973 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 87m · John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately, an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiancée) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.

Time Walker
›PG1982 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Ben Murphy, Nina Axelrod, Kevin Brophy
From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institute of Sciences where X-rays reveal five diamond-like crystals hidden within the coffin. Technician Peter Sharpe steals the crystals but doesn't notice that the powerful X-ray has revived a green fungus. When the coffin is opened at a university press conference, the reporters uncover more than they bargained for. The mummy has disappeared... and the Time Walker is alive again!

Zontar: The Thing from Venus
›1967 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 80m · John Agar, Susan Bjurman, Tony Huston
A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to "help solve man's problems". However, as soon as Zontar arrives on Earth, it quickly becomes obvious that the three-eyed, bat-winged, skeletal black creature has a hidden agenda.

Species II
›R1998 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 93m · Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.

Species: The Awakening
›NR2007 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 98m · Helena Mattsson, Ben Cross, Dominic Keating
A scientist, Dr Hollander, takes his niece Miranda to Mexico in an attempt to reverse the effects of the alien DNA he used to create her. However the treatment goes horribly wrong, and sets Miranda on a killing spree as she sets out to find a mate.

Night of the Blood Beast
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · John Baer, Angela Greene, Ed Nelson
An astronaut returns to Earth as the no-pulse host of an alien monster's embryos; he is discovered by a loony farmer who find ways to feed his new critter.






















