
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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Body Snatchers
›R1993 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.

Don't Let Go
›R2019 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 107m · David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Mykelti Williamson
A detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.

The Vigil
›PG-132020 · Horror, Mystery · 88m · Dave Davis, Lynn Cohen, Menashe Lustig
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
›R1990 · Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy · 93m · Debbie Harry, Matthew Lawrence, David Forrester
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.

Nightbooks
›NR2021 · Fantasy, Horror, Family · 101m · Winslow Fegley, Lidya Jewett, Krysten Ritter
Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.

Black Water
›R2008 · Adventure, Drama, Horror · 90m · Maeve Dermody, Diana Glenn, Andy Rodoreda
Based on true events, Grace, her boyfriend Adam, and her younger sister, Lee, are on holiday in Northern Australia when they decide to take a tour down a river. As they drift into a swamp, their boat suddenly capsizes. Stranded in the flooded swamp, the three tourists must figure out what to do to survive as they realize they are being watched through the black water.

Willard
›PG-132003 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 100m · Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Harring
Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother and his father's old partner, Frank. Soon it becomes clear that the brood of rodents is ready and willing to exact a vicious, deadly revenge on anyone who dares to bully their sensitive new master.

Let Us Prey
›R2014 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Liam Cunningham, Niall Greig Fulton, Pollyanna McIntosh
Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the bitter-and-twisted who all think that, really, they deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they're there by accident and that, with a little luck, life is going to get better. Wrong, on both counts. Six is about to arrive - and All Hell Will Break Loose!

The IrregularsSeries
›TV-142021 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Royce Pierreson, McKell David
In Victorian London, a gang of troubled street teens are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.

The ShiningSeries
›TV-141997 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Rebecca De Mornay, Steven Weber, Wil Horneff
A new caretaker moves with his family into the mysterious Overlook Hotel for the winter.

Two Evil Eyes
›R1990 · Horror · 120m · Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Ramy Zada
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.

Tourist Trap
›PG1979 · Horror, Fantasy · 89m · Chuck Connors, Jocelyn Jones, Jon Van Ness
After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the enigmatic Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of life-like wax mannequins.

The Head Hunter
›2019 · Horror, Fantasy · 72m · Christopher Rygh, Cora Kaufman, Aisha Ricketts
On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven by a thirst for revenge, he travels wild expanses on horseback. When his second chance arrives, it’s in a way far more horrifying than he ever imagined.

Possum
›2018 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 85m · Sean Harris, Alun Armstrong, Andy Blithe
A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.

Intruder
›R1989 · Horror, Mystery · 88m · Elizabeth Cox, Renée Estevez, Dan Hicks
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.

The Lair of the White Worm
›R1988 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.

V/H/S/Beyond
›NR2024 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 114m · Brian Baker, Trevor Dow, Gerry Eng
The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/H/S ever.

Snow White: A Tale of Terror
›R1997 · Fantasy, Horror · 100m · Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Monica Keena
When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her life, Lili finds herself lost in a dark forest, where living happily ever after seems unlikely.

Motel Hell
›R1980 · Comedy, Horror · 102m · Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons
Farmer Vincent Smith and his sister Ida run a motel attached to a farm where they capture unsuspecting travelers, bury them alive, fatten them up and then harvest their bodies as ingredients for his famous brand of "smoked meats."

GrotesquerieSeries
›TV-MA2024 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 1 season · Niecy Nash, Courtney B. Vance, Nicholas Alexander Chavez
A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community, and Detective Lois Tryon feels they are eerily personal, as if someone—or something—is taunting her.

Mad Heidi
›2022 · Action, Adventure, Comedy · 92m · Alice Lucy, David Schofield, Kel Matsena
In a dystopian Switzerland that has fallen under the fascist rule of an evil cheese tyrant, Swiss mountain girl Heidi transforms herself into a kick-ass female fighting force who sets out to liberate the country from a cheese-fueled machinery of hate.

Borderland
›R2007 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 105m · Brian Presley, Rider Strong, Jake Muxworthy
Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.

Caveat
›NR2021 · Horror, Mystery · 88m · Jonathan French, Leila Sykes, Ben Caplan
A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.

Castle Freak
›R1996 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 90m · Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Jonathan Fuller
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.






















