
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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Crescent City
›R2024 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · 103m · Terrence Howard, Esai Morales, Nicky Whelan
When a ruthless serial killer terrorizes a small Southern town, everyone becomes a suspect -- including local authorities. As the body count rises and the dark mystery deepens, the chief detective becomes haunted by the horrors of his past.

The Amityville Terror
›2016 · Horror · 84m · Nicole Tompkins, Kaiwi Lyman, Kim Nielsen
When a new family moves to an old house in Amityville, they are tormented and tortured by an evil spirit living in the home while trapped by the malicious townspeople who want to keep them there.

Hellgate
›R1989 · Comedy, Horror · 91m · Ron Palillo, Abigail Wolcott, Carel Trichardt
A motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the life back to dead objects. He uses it to re-animate his daughter. He lets her seduce any young man that comes to visit the small town and then kills them. Four young students, two boys and two girls spend a vacation near the town, Hellgate. They hear about the story and get involved.

Nothing Left to Fear
›R2013 · Horror · 100m · Clancy Brown, James Tupper, Anne Heche
Wendy, her husband Dan and their kids have just moved to the small town of Stull, Kansas, where Dan is the new pastor. But in this sleepy community of friendly neighbors, a horrific series of occurrences awaits them: Their teenage daughter is being tormented by grisly visions. Her younger sister has been marked for a depraved ritual. And deep within the heartland darkness, one of The Seven Gates of Hell demands the blood of the innocent to unleash the creatures of the damned.

Beneath the Darkness
›R2012 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 96m · Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller, Aimee Teegarden
After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.

Swamp Shark
›R2011 · Action, Adventure, Comedy · 85m · Kristy Swanson, Robert Davi, D. B. Sweeney
Open on gorgeous swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin in the summer. Lots of beautiful teens are at the beach the weekend before Gator Fest. That night an animal smuggling deal goes wrong and a large sea creature escapes into a swampy backwoods river. At the McDaniel's "Gator Shack" restaurant, a local, Jackson is drunk, and gets mangled to bits. The town sheriff blames the carnage on the McDaniel's "escaped" pack of gators and tries hauling them off to jail. Rachel McDaniel, head of the family, claims to have seen the fin of a shark! Rachel and her family, along with the help of a mysterious stranger, Charlie, take on the Swampshark and the law to clear their names, save Rachel's kid sister Krystal and prevent the unwitting folks at the upcoming Gator Fest from being torn to shreds by a beast the likes of which no one has ever seen!

The Graves
›R2010 · Horror, Thriller, Adventure · 88m · Clare Grant, Bill Moseley, Amanda Wyss
Two inseparable sister's visit to a remote mine town turns into a mind-bending fight for survival against menaces both human and supernatural.

Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
›R1988 · Horror · 95m · Romy Walthall, Michael T. Weiss, Antony Hamilton
An author who was sent to the town Drakho, because of a nervous breakdown, gets wound up in a mystery revolving around demons and werewolves. She starts seeing ghosts and dismisses them as her own imagination, but when they turn out to be real she becomes suspicious of the odd town and of its past.

The Birds II: Land's End
›R1994 · Horror, TV Movie · 86m · Brad Johnson, Chelsea Field, James Naughton
Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can complete work on his thesis. Everything couldn’t seem more picturesque about their new, seaside home… that is, except for the increasing number of aggressively behaving birds.

Playback
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Johnny Pacar, Ambyr Childers, Christian Slater
While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.

Scar
›NR2007 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 84m · Angela Bettis, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Devon Graye
Joan Burrows returns to her hometown for her niece's graduation, only to be confronted by the serial killer she thought she offed years ago -- after he kidnapped and tormented her and her best friend.

The Emeryville Experiments
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Rebecca Chulew, Don Daro, Tess Cline
When their car crashes, 4 college kids seek help in Emeryville - a dilapidated village. New comers discover that place was once a ground for clinical experiments gone awry and plot an escape. They find themselves hunted by crazies.

Lake Placid 3
›R2010 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 93m · Colin Ferguson, Yancy Butler, Kirsty Mitchell
A game warden moves his family to Lake Placid, once the site of deadly crocodile attacks. Locals assure him the crocs are gone, but his mischievous young son finds a few baby crocs and begins feeding them. They quickly grow into very big adults and start attacking the game warden's family and nearby town.

Ghost Shark
›2013 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Mackenzie Rosman, Shawn C. Phillips, Richard Moll
A coastal town is plagued by a supernatural man-eating shark. A ghost hunter joins forces with a sea captain to uncover the secrets of the area's dark past and find a way to exorcise the spectral predator.

The Amityville Playhouse
›2015 · Horror · 99m · Monèle LeStrat, Linden Baker, Kennie Benoit
Following the tragic death of her parents Fawn Harriman discovers she has inherited a theatre in the town of Amityville. She, along with 3 friends, decides to spend the weekend there looking the place over. Meanwhile one of her High School teachers begins an investigation into the village's past and makes a connection with something that goes back beyond recorded history.

I Know Who Killed Me
›R2007 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 106m · Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough
An idyllic small town is rocked when Aubrey Fleming, a bright and promising young woman, is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer. When she manages to escape, the traumatized girl who regains consciousness in the hospital insists that she is not who they think she is and that the real Aubrey Fleming is still in mortal danger.

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
›R1999 · Horror, Mystery · 82m · Nancy Allen, Natalie Ramsey, Paul Popowich
A girl called Hannah goes back to her hometown (Gatlin) to find her mother but on the way she picks up a strange man who fore-shadows her life with a passage from the bible. When she gets there she wakes up Isaac from a coma he has been in for 19 years. Isaac is awake and wants to fulfil the final prophecy.

Children of the Living Dead
›2001 · Horror · 90m · Tom Savini, Damien Luvara, Jamie McCoy
Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town, Matthew Michaels only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface, this small town is anything but calm and peaceful. Firstly, he learns that his new property is located on the site of a graveyard, which all the townsfolk regard as an evil place that must never be visited. He then discovers that years earlier the town had suffered an infestation of the living dead ...zombies who prey on human flesh. One zombie, the infamous Abbot Hayes, escaped destruction. As the construction team begin degging, they unleash the thing the townsfolk fear the most, the wrath of Abbot Hayes and the awakening of ... The Children of the Living Dead.

Troll 2
›PG-131990 · Horror, Fantasy · 95m · Michael Stephenson, George Hardy, Margo Prey
When young Joshua learns that he will be going on vacation with his family to a small town called Nilbog, he protests adamantly. He is warned by the spirit of his deceased grandfather that goblins populate the town. His parents, Michael and Diana, dismiss his apprehensions, but soon learn to appreciate their son's warnings. Guided by his grandfather's ghost, will Joshua and his family stand a chance in fighting off these evil beings?

Howling: New Moon Rising
›R1995 · Horror · 90m · John Ramsden, Ernest Kester, Clive Turner
A number of vicious murders occur in a small California town after a motorcycle-riding stranger arrives. The gruesome slayings look disturbingly like the work of a werewolf. Meanwhile, in another nearby town, police are hot on the trail of a killer they believe is a werewolf.

Capps Crossing: Wrong Side of Dead
›R2026 · Horror, Thriller · Beverly D'Angelo, Sabina Gadecki, Sarah Elizabeth Withers
When a behavioral science major investigates murders at Capps Crossing, she finds herself trapped in a twisted web of lies surrounding the local ranger and his son.

The Town That Takes
›NR2026 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 93m · Britt Bankhead, Miles Mussenden, Grace Patterson
After his young son vanishes during a family road trip through a remote backwoods town, a desperate father joins forces with two detectives to uncover the terrifying truth behind the legend of CROATOAN. As the town's dark secrets unravel, they realize something ancient is hunting children.






















