
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 Skeleton Key
›PG-132005 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 104m · Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

War Machine
›R2026 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 110m · Alan Ritchson, Dennis Quaid, Stephan James
On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.

The Last House on the Left
›R2009 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 113m · Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter, Sara Paxton
When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget.

Kiss the Girls
›R1997 · Thriller, Crime, Mystery · 115m · Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.

Candyman
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo
A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.

The Frozen Ground
›R2013 · Thriller, Crime · 105m · Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.

The Mothman Prophecies
›PG-132002 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 119m · Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to the sleepy West Virginia town of Point Pleasant, whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.

13 Sins
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Mark Webber, Devon Graye, Tom Bower
Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden-camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.

Black Phone 2
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 114m · Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw
Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the Black Phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space
›PG-131988 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson
Aliens disguised as clowns crash land on Earth in a rural town to capture unsuspecting victims in cotton candy cocoons for later consumption.

The Room
›NR2019 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 99m · Olga Kurylenko, Kevin Janssens, Francis Chapman
Kate and Matt discover that a part of their house can grant wishes. In the wake of two miscarriages, what they want most is a child.

Little Evil
›2017 · Horror, Comedy · 94m · Adam Scott, Evangeline Lilly, Owen Atlas
Gary, who has just married Samantha, the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.

Till Death
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Megan Fox, Eoin Macken, Aml Ameen
After a romantic evening at their secluded lake house, a woman wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her late spouse's twisted plan.

The Arrival
›PG-131996 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 115m · Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

Boy Kills World
›R2024 · Crime, Thriller, Action · 111m · Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, H. Jon Benjamin
When his family is murdered, a deaf-mute named Boy escapes to the jungle and is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.

Twilight Zone: The Movie
›PG1983 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 101m · Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Scatman Crothers
An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."

Splinter
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 82m · Jill Wagner, Charles Baker, Rachel Kerbs
When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. Along the way, they encounter an increasingly terrifying horde of parasites, and if any of them intend to survive, they'll have to outsmart the deadly organisms.

The Girl Next Door
›R2007 · Thriller, Crime, Drama · 91m · Blythe Auffarth, Daniel Manche, Michael Zegen
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy whose life will be changed forever.

Bad Samaritan
›R2018 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 111m · David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Kerry Condon
A thief makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are no longer how he expected.

John Dies at the End
›R2013 · Horror, Comedy · 99m · Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti
A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.

I Saw the TV Glow
›PG-132024 · Horror, Drama · 100m · Justice Smith, Jack Haven, Ian Foreman
In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.

Werewolves Within
›R2021 · Horror, Comedy · 96m · Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil
When a proposed pipeline creates hostilities between residents of a small town, a newly-arrived forest ranger must keep the peace after a snowstorm confines the townspeople to an old lodge. But when a mysterious creature begins terrorizing the group, their worst tendencies and prejudices rise to the surface, and it is up to the ranger to keep the residents alive, both from each other and the monster which plagues them.

Cruising
›R1980 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 102m · Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

We Are What We Are
›R2013 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 105m · Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner
The Parkers, reclusive people who cling to ancient customs, find their secret lives threatened when a torrential downpour and the death of the family matriarch forces daughters Iris and Rose to assume special responsibilities.






















