
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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Mandrake
›NR2022 · Horror · 85m · Deirdre Mullins, Derbhle Crotty, Paul Kennedy
A probation officer, Cathy Madden, is tasked with rehabilitating a notorious killer named 'Bloody' Mary Laidlaw back into society following a two-decade sentence.

Cry_Wolf
›PG-132005 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jared Padalecki
After a local woman is murdered, a group of teenage liars create a warning e-mail of a serial killer named “The Wolf”, coming on the next full moon. The teens describe each death method The Wolf uses, but when the described victims actually do start turning up dead, suddenly no one knows where the lies end and the truth begins.

Dead Sea
›2024 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Isabel Gravitt, Alexander Wraith, Dean Cameron
Stranded in the open sea after a fatal accident, a young woman and her two friends are rescued by a fishing vessel's captain, unaware that the ship harbors a chilling secret.

The Girl Who Got Away
›2021 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 117m · Lexi Johnson, Chukwudi Iwuji, Kaye Tuckerman
A female serial killer who killed four young girls is sent away to prison, but a fifth victim escaped with her life. Twenty years later, the killer escapes and begins hunting for the one who got away.

Gone
›R2006 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 88m · Scott Mechlowicz, Amelia Warner, Shaun Evans
A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Australian outback become involved with a mysterious and charismatic American whose motive for imposing his friendship upon them becomes increasingly suspect and sinister.

A Horrible Way to Die
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Brandon Carroll, AJ Bowen, Amy Seimetz
An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.

Eaten Alive
›1976 · Horror · 91m · Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones
A psychotic redneck owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, where he murders those who upset him or his business, and then feeds their remains to his pet crocodile in the swamp beside his hotel.

Even Lambs Have Teeth
›2015 · Thriller, Horror · 78m · Kirsten Zien, Tiera Skovbye, Darren Mann
Two young women terrorized by a group of small town psychos seek revenge on their tormentors.

Naked Fear
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · Joe Mantegna, Danielle De Luca, Evan Adrian
Diana arrives in a town to start a new job. She's threatened into working as an exotic dancer. She's later kidnapped and let loose naked in the wilderness as prey for the psycho hunter, like many women before her. Will she survive?

Parasomnia
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Cherilyn Wilson, Sean Young, Patrick Kilpatrick
Laura Baxter is a young woman, literally a "sleeping beauty," who suffers from a medical condition called "parasomnia." A childhood accident victim, she is actually sleeping her life away, awakening briefly on rare occasions. Art student Danny Sloan falls in love with her, unaware that her hospital neighbor, a terrifying mass murderer and mesmerist named Byron Volpe has other, more sinister plans.

Strays
›1991 · Horror, TV Movie · 83m · Kathleen Quinlan, Timothy Busfield, Claudia Christian
A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.

Perpetrator
›2023 · Horror · 101m · Kiah McKirnan, Alicia Silverstone, Chris Lowell
Jonny Baptiste is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie. On the event of her eighteenth birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing at her new school, a mythically feral Jonny goes after the Perpetrator.

Sleepstalker
›R1995 · Horror · 105m · Michael Harris, Jay Underwood, Kathryn Morris
Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer

Crawlspace
›2013 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Sterling Beaumon, Morgan Bertsch, Raleigh Holmes
The Gates family dream house turns quickly into a nightmare when their life is disturbed by the deranged previous owner who plots to retake his home and the Gates children for his own - hiding in the house attic and methodically taking out all those that stand in his way.

Nightmare Radio: The Night Stalker
›2023 · Horror · 78m · Paula Brasca, Agustin Olcese, Valeria San Martin
A late-night radio DJ with a program where people call to tell her real horror stories, soon will find out how far an obsessed fan is willing to go.

Wax
›R2014 · Horror · 88m · Jimmy Shaw, Jack Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin
A young journalist has to spend a night in Barcelona's Wax Museum to investigate paranormal activities. He has no idea Dr. Knox, an insane cannibal surgeon, hides in the museum at night.

Virtuosity
›R1995 · Action, Crime, Science Fiction · 106m · Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Kelly Lynch
The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can stop him.

The Owners
›2020 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

Clinical
›2017 · Thriller, Horror · 104m · Vinessa Shaw, Kevin Rahm, Aaron Stanford
A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.

Summer Camp
›2016 · Horror · 81m · Maiara Walsh, Diego Boneta, Jocelin Donahue
A group of people have just signed up to be camp Councillors at a foreign country. They expect the camp to be the place for a memorable summer. Instead, something strange is going on and some of the campers begin to act strange. Things go terribly wrong real fast as a terrible game of tag has the campers running for their lives or going after the campers.

Beneath Us
›R2020 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Lynn Collins, Rigo Sanchez, Josue Aguirre
The American Dream becomes a nightmare for a group of undocumented day laborers hired by a wealthy couple. What they expect to be their biggest payday turns into a terrifying fight for survival.

Blood Moon
›2014 · Western, Horror · 90m · Shaun Dooley, George Blagden, Anna Skellern
A stagecoach full of passengers and an enigmatic gunslinger are held hostage by two outlaws on the run from the law but events take an unexpected turn when the travelers are stalked by a mythical beast that only appears on the night of a blood red moon.

Aberration
›1998 · Horror, Science Fiction · 94m · Pamela Gidley, Simon Bossell, Valery Nikolaev
After stealing a fortune from the Russian mob, Alex Langdon tries to hide out in a remote cabin but discovers that the area is home to a dangerous species of mutant lizards that have developed a taste for human flesh.

Bone Cold
›NR2023 · Thriller, Action, Horror · 109m · Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jonathan Stoddard, Jennifer Khoe
An experienced Black Ops sniper attempts a nightmarish escape after a failed mission, tracked by enemy soldiers hellbent on revenge, and also hunted by something sinister and monstrous, hungry and determined.






















