
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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Murders in the Rue Morgue
›1932 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 61m · Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi, Leon Ames
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.

Blood Punch
›2014 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · Milo Cawthorne, Olivia Tennet, Ari Boyland
Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself drawn into a dangerous love triangle gone haywire. The couple's deadpan half-truths spin around Milton like a song on repeat. They seem to read him like an open book, until a mysterious message opens his eyes to his cursed existence. With unlimited ammunition, any hunting tool they could desire, and an ever-growing body count, for what did Milton really sign up?

Butterfly Kisses
›NR2018 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 91m · Seth Adam Kallick, Rachel Armiger, Reed Delisle
A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and the film crew following him into his project.

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
›1973 · Horror, TV Movie · 74m · Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, William Demarest
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.

ReckoningSeries
›2019 · Drama · 1 season · Simone Kessell, Laura Gordon, Aden Young
The murder of a teenager and the hunt for a serial killer in a suburban Northern California town sets two fathers on a course of mutual destruction that will reverberate through their quiet community.

Strange Harvest
›R2025 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 94m · Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple, Andrew Lauer
Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a cosmic force.

Android Re-Enactment
›2011 · Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy · 91m · Jeff Sinasac, Adam Buller, Sarah Silverthorne
Ermus Daglek, retired Empathtek engineer, commandeers a defunct factory where he creates androids based on persons from his past and recreates a dinner party where he lost the love of his life - until they malfunction and escape.

Bad Ronald
›NR1974 · TV Movie, Drama, Thriller · 74m · Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch
When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.

Bluebeard
›NR1944 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 72m · John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?

The Magician
›1926 · Drama, Horror, Fantasy · 79m · Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Firmin Gémier
A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.

The Strangler
›1964 · Horror · 89m · Victor Buono, David McLean, Diane Sayer
An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.

Hannibal
›R2001 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 131m · Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

In the Heart of the Sea
›PG-132015 · Thriller, Drama, Adventure · 122m · Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

The House That Jack Built
›R2018 · Drama, Horror, Crime · 152m · Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

From Hell
›R2001 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 122m · Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

Unsane
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

Psycho II
›R1983 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 113m · Anthony Perkins, Meg Tilly, Vera Miles
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?

The Hunger
›R1983 · Horror, Drama · 97m · Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.

A Dark Song
›NR2016 · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery · 100m · Catherine Walker, Steve Oram, Mark Huberman
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

Tightrope
›R1984 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 115m · Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

Dracula
›R1979 · Romance, Drama, Fantasy · 109m · Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence
In 1913, charming, seductive and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride.

Phantom of the Opera
›NR1943 · Horror, Romance · 89m · Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.

The Gorgon
›NR1964 · Horror, Fantasy · 83m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. A professor has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise.

Frankenstein Created Woman
›1967 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.






















