
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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Meet Me There
›2014 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Dustin Runnels, Lisa Friedrich, Micheal Foulk
After several years of sexual dysfunction, Ada and her boyfriend, Calvin travel to her hometown in rural Oklahoma in hopes of piecing together her fragmented childhood memories. They find their answers, but can they find their way back home?

Night Shadows
›R1984 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 99m · Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, Jody Medford
When brothers Josh and Mike go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. Mike soon disappears as well, leaving Josh to team up with the local sheriff and school teacher to find him in a town that’s hiding a dark, twisted secret.

All Through the House
›NR2015 · Horror · 80m · Jessica Cameron, Ashley Mary Nunes, Melynda Kiring
A deranged masked Santa-Slayer comes to town for some yuletide-terror. He leaves behind a bloody trail of mutilated bodies as he hunts his way to the front steps of the town's most feared and notorious home.

The Parish
›NR2021 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Sanae Loutsis, Bill Oberst Jr., Angela DiMarco
Strange events plague a recently widowed woman and her young daughter when they move to a small town.

A Return to Salem's Lot
›R1987 · Horror, Comedy · 100m · Michael Moriarty, Samuel Fuller, Andrew Duggan
Anthropologist Joe Weber takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot, unaware of its vampire population. When the inhabitants reveal their secret, they seek Weber to write a bible for them.

Sunrise
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Alex Pettyfer, Guy Pearce, Olwen Fouéré
When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a vampire who feeds on blood and fear. After he is befriended by a kind immigrant family, the instinctive killer is faced with a choice between revenge and redemption.

Speak No Evil
›2013 · Horror · 74m · Gabrielle Stone, Olivia Cavender, Carl Jensen IV
Single mother Anna fights to protect her daughter from demonically possessed children and a town gone mad.

Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
›R1989 · Comedy, Horror · 86m · Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff
Riding around on their motorbikes, a gang of tough women bikers are the only thing that stands between a crowd of zombies, which have been accidentally let out of their secure cave, and those still alive in the town.

Silent Warnings
›2003 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 87m · Stephen Baldwin, A.J. Buckley, Billy Zane
In a small Oregon town, mysterious crop circles have begun appearing in Joe's corn fields. When Joe's cousin, his five college friends and local Sheriff Willingham happen upon the otherworldly designs, they unleash unfathomable terror.

A Demon Within
›2017 · Horror, Drama, Romance · 91m · Charlene Amoia, Clint Glenn Hummel, Patricia Ashley
A skeptical, small town doctor is forced to confront his personal demons in order to save the life of a teenage girl who has become possessed in his family's old house.

A Night to Dismember
›NR1983 · Horror · 69m · Samantha Fox, Diane Cummins, Saul Meth
A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.

Brutal
›R2007 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Crystal Stone, Eric Lange, Sarah Thompson
In a small town, a serial killer mutilates the bodies of his victims and leaves a flower on the corpses. The sheriff and his wife/deputy investigate the murders while trying to keep from alarming the citizens. They team up with an autistic hound dog trainer to try to track the killer.

Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
›R1995 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 88m · Ami Dolenz, Andrew Robinson, Soleil Moon Frye
Thrill-seeking teenagers resurrect a demon from his grave and a bloody rampage for revenge begins.

The Call
›NR2020 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Lin Shaye, Tobin Bell, Chester Rushing
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it.

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
›R2023 · Horror · 87m · Jackson White, Forrest Goodluck, Jack Mulhern
In 1969, young Jud Crandall has dreams of leaving his hometown behind, but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that forever binds him to Ludlow.

Venom
›R2005 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Agnes Bruckner, Jonathan Jackson, Laura Ramsey
A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in his pursuit of new victims.

Mortuary
›R2005 · Horror · 94m · Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi, Bug Hall
A family moves to a small California town where they plan on starting a new life running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, suspected to be on haunted ground.

The Curse of Downers Grove
›2015 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 89m · Bella Heathcote, Lucas Till, Helen Slater
The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?

Way of the Wicked
›R2014 · Thriller · 92m · Vinnie Jones, Emily Tennant, Jake Croker
Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange supernatural power, may be involved. Slater plays a man of the cloth who aids the cop on his mission.

Beneath Still Waters
›2005 · Horror · 92m · Michael McKell, Raquel Meroño, Charlotte Salt
Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.

Bad Candy
›NR2021 · Horror · 104m · Zach Galligan, Corey Taylor, Derek Russo
On Halloween night in New Salem, Radio DJs Chilly Billy and Paul tell a twisted anthology of terrifying local myths. Residents of the small-town experience horrifying paranormal encounters that lead them to a grim end.

Ghost in the Graveyard
›2019 · Horror, Drama · 92m · Kelli Berglund, Jake Busey, Olivia Larsen
A small town comes under the thumb of Martha, a ghost who returns to haunt the children who witnessed her death during a "game" of Ghost in the Graveyard as young children.

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
›R1992 · Horror · 92m · Terence Knox, Paul Scherrer, Ryan Bollman
When a tabloid reporter and his son travel to a quiet Midwestern town to investigate a gruesome massacre, they fall victim to a possessed orphan named Micah.

The Hollow
›NR2015 · Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Stephanie Hunt, Sarah Dugdale, Alisha Newton
It's Halloween eve on Shelter Island, and the small town is preparing for a killer storm. But the dark clouds gathering over the island are bringing with them a curse one-hundred years in waiting. As the woods give birth to an ungodly and insatiable creature of fire, bones, and earth, three sisters must scramble to stay alive through the long dark night of the Hollow. For it's not something you can kill. It's only something you can try and survive.






















