
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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Not Forgotten
›R2009 · Thriller, Horror · 100m · Simon Baker, Paz Vega, Michael DeLorenzo
Set in a Tex-Mex border town, Not Forgotten is a classic psychological thriller about Jack and Amaya Bishop, a couple who must come to terms with their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter. It is a tale taut with intrigue and steeped in Latino mysticism, where the line between what's real and what's imagined becomes hopelessly blurred.

Castle Freak
›2020 · Horror · 106m · Clair Catherine, Jake Horowitz, Chris Galust
After she’s permanently blinded in a tragic car accident, Rebecca receives some bizarre news: her long-lost mother has recently passed away, leaving her their family’s ancestral castle in rural Albania. Traveling to the estate with a group of friends, Rebecca hopes it will be an opportunity for her to reconnect with a past she never knew and a mother who seemingly left her behind. When mysterious events begin to occur and her friends begin to die, Rebecca must unravel the secrets of her family’s history before she too falls prey to the Castle Freak.

Red Christmas
›R2016 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Dee Wallace, Geoff Morrell, Sam Campbell
A mother must protect her family on Christmas Day from a demented stranger who is hell bent on tearing them apart.

Slash
›R2002 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Steve Railsback, James O'Shea, Zuleikha Robinson
A rock band gets stuck on a haunted farm while visiting its lead singer's family.

Haunting of the Queen Mary
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 125m · Alice Eve, Joel Fry, Nell Hudson
When photographers Erin and Patrick are brought aboard the ship with their young son Lukas, they unleash a series of events that entwines their family with the ship’s dark past. As the terror unfolds around them they begin to realise there is more to this sumptuous ocean liner than meets the eye: its remarkable legacy masking violent secrets.

13Hrs
›R2010 · Horror, Action · 81m · Isabella Calthorpe, Tom Felton, Gemma Atkinson
Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.

Bleeders
›1997 · Horror, Mystery · 89m · Roy Dupuis, Kristin Lehman, Rutger Hauer
A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although his relatives were all thought to be dead, he finds them living underground.

Texas Chainsaw 3D
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Trey Songz
A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars.

The Tank
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Luciane Buchanan, Matt Whelan, Jaya Beach-Robertson
In 1978 Oregon, Ben and Jules inherit an abandoned coastal property from Ben's late mother, who's never mentioned it. The untouched house has been kept a secret for 40 years and comes with a beautiful private cove and beach. Jules searches for answers while Ben unwittingly awakens a fiercely protective creature.

Witchcraft
›R1988 · Horror · 95m · Anat Topol, Gary Sloan, Mary Shelley
A new mother and her child move into her mother-in-law's dark old mansion. She soon begns to suspect that neither the house nor her mother-in-law are quite what they seem to be.

The Beast Within
›R2024 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 97m · Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings, Caoilinn Springall
Ten-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of an ancient forest. After witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret that they've so desperately tried to conceal.

The Visitor
›NR2022 · Horror, Mystery · 86m · Finn Jones, Jessica McNamee, Donna Biscoe
After a series of tragedies including the death of his father-in-law, Robert and his wife Maia leave their home in London to move back to her childhood home. But when Robert discovers an old portrait in the attic of a man who is his spitting image, he goes down a rabbit hole to discover the identity of this mysterious doppelganger known only as the visitor. It isn’t long until he realizes – where the visitor goes, death follows.

Lake Dead
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Kelsey Crane, Kelsey Wedeen, Vanessa Viola
Three sisters and a group of their friends take a trip to the home of the recently deceased grandfather -- who died a particularly grisly death -- to learn more about the promise of an inheritance, only to encounter a family of psychos who have taken up residence in the old man's cabin.

All Light Will End
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Sarah Butler, Andy Buckley, Katie Garfield
When a capricious young author with a dark secret returns home for her brother's graduation, she finds herself haunted by the past and tormented by night terrors.

Chain Reaction
›2006 · Horror · 101m · Christopher Kriesa, Martina Ittenbach, Simon Newby
A prison bus with over a dozen criminals on board has an accident and rams another car, in which Dr. Douglas Madsen was on his way home. Most of the prisoners die. Four of them survive, one of them severely injured. After having killed all the guards, they head for the woods. They take Dr. Douglas Madsen hostage. Suddenly a huge house appears in the middle of the woods. The leader of the group, Arthur, emphasizes that he will kill Douglas and every single member of the "family" if his wounded brother would die. Meanwhile some members of the family show strange behavior, and very soon mayhem breaks loose.

They're Inside
›NR2019 · Horror · 83m · Karli Hall, Amanda Kathleen Ward, Sascha Ghafoor
When two sisters go to an isolated cabin in the woods to film a passion project, family secrets start to get in the way, as do masked strangers filming a passion project of their own.

The Hex
›2020 · Horror, Drama · 82m · Coco Lloyd, Mari Molefe van Heerden, Mary-Ann Barlow
A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother's secrets connected to a South African witch doctor's curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister depths.

Xtinction: Predator X
›2010 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 90m · Mark Sheppard, Elena Lyons, Lochlyn Munro
When her father seemingly goes missing, divorcee Laura LeCrois is forced to return home after a 20-year hiatus. However, home is not the way Laura remembers it. Her father is in major debt with the bank, her ex-boyfriend is the town sheriff, and her ex-husband has quit his job as a world-renowned professor who is now suspiciously buying up swampland in the area. In an effort to save the swamp and to pass the time, Laura decides to work the dying family business giving boat tours of the Louisiana swamp. But on her first sunset tour, deep in the swamp, Laura and her passengers witness two Bayou swamp rats toss a squirming body into a gator pit, only the gators aren't the ones that feast on the flesh. Instead it's the most terrifying creature Laura has ever seen...

Elves
›1989 · Horror · 89m · Dan Haggerty, Julie Austin, Deanna Lund
While conducting a pagan ritual in the woods with her friends, Kirsten inadvertently awakens the spirit of a demonic Christmas elf involved in a neo-Nazi plot to bring about the master race. After the rent-a-Santa in her department store is murdered, an unemployed, alcoholic ex-cop takes the job and the two set out to unravel the mystery.

Ring Around the Rosie
›2006 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 87m · Gina Philips, Tom Sizemore, Randall Batinkoff
While spending time at her grandparent's secluded summerhouse to clean up the place after her grandmother's death, a young woman is plagued by horrible visions and dreams of tragic past events.

The Invoking
›NR2013 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Trin Miller, Brandon Anthony, Andi Norris
After inheriting a house from the family she never knew, Samantha Harris and three friends head to rural Sader Ridge to inspect the property. Soon after arriving, Sam begins to experience horrific visions of savage brutality and unspeakable evil. Plagued by the sinister forces closing in around her, Sam descends into a waking nightmare when the demons from her past refuse to stay buried any longer.

Demon Eye
›2019 · Horror · 87m · Darren Day, Liam Fox, Kate James
A young woman returns to her father's country house in the moors following his mysterious death and finds a cursed amulet, connected to local witchcraft. She unlocks two deadly demons, who haunt her.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
›R1993 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Kane Hodder, John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan
Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches.

The Devil Inside
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth
In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.






















