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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276 titles
Graduation Day
›R1981 · Horror · 96m · Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy
After the death of a high school track star during a race, a mysterious killer in a fencing mask begins murdering her friends and teachers.
Julia
›NC-172015 · Thriller, Horror · 95m · Winter Williams (Formerly Ashley C. Williams), Tahyna MacManus, Jack Noseworthy
After suffering a brutal trauma, Julia uses an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself.
The Haunting of Sorority Row
›PG-132007 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 90m · Leighton Meester, Kailin See, Lisa Marie Caruk
Samantha Willows, a college freshman, looks to pledge a sorority. Unbeknownst to Sam, it is haunted by a former pledge taking revenge on those who wronged her.
Death Warmed Up
›1984 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Michael Hurst, Margaret Umbers, William Upjohn
A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist.
High Heel Homicide
›NC-172017 · Thriller, Horror · 81m · Carter Cruise, Brent Harvey, Mia Li
As a string of brutal murders plague the city, two undercover detectives race to solve the mystery and unmask the killer. Their only clues: each victim is a former cop and each has a blood-red letter painted on their body. How many will have to die before the killer spells out their message in blood?
Offerings
›R1989 · Horror · 95m · Loretta Leigh Bowman, Elizabeth Greene, G. Michael Smith
Ten years after he was pushed down a well, a young man kills off the neighborhood bullies who tormented him and leaves their body parts as presents for the one girl who was kind to him.
Murder Weapon
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Linnea Quigley, Lyle Waggoner, Karen Russell
Two mobster daughters leave a sanitarium, host a party inviting ex-boyfriends, who then start disappearing mysteriously.
Necromancer
›R1988 · Thriller, Horror · 88m · Elizabeth Kaitan, John Tyler, Rhonda Dorton
Julie, a college student, is sexually assaulted by two fellow students. Desperate for revenge, she makes contact with a necromancer, who begins using her demonic powers to get rid of any guy Julie hates.
Ditch Day Massacre
›2016 · Horror · 77m · Bill Oberst Jr., Katy Foley, Zach Silverman
Jenny Bilson, a high school senior, is the perfect student, a wonderful daughter to a veteran police detective and an all American Dream. But the one mistake she is unaware of making is about to haunt her in a very violent way, as her past returns for revenge.
I Know What You Did Last Summer
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 111m · Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon
When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they're forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge.
Dead in Tombstone
›R2013 · Western, Action, Fantasy · 100m · Danny Trejo, Mickey Rourke, Anthony Michael Hall
An outlaw named Guerrero Hernandez is shot in the back and killed whilst attempting to free his half-brother from a small-town prison. Making a deal with the devil, Hernandez returns from the dead to take his revenge.
Dr. Giggles
›R1992 · Horror, Comedy · 95m · Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff DeYoung
In 1957, Evan Rendell flees after his father is lynched for killing multiple patients in his effort to find a replacement heart for his ailing wife. After 35 years, Evan escapes from a mental institution and returns to town for revenge, killing off residents one by one. When Jennifer and her friends break into the Rendell house out of morbid curiosity, Evan notices Jennifer has a heart condition similar to his mother and decides to make her his final victim.
Scorned
›R2013 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 86m · AnnaLynne McCord, Viva Bianca, Billy Zane
Sadie and Kevin have decided to spend a romantic weekend together at his lake house. But when an unexpected- and unfortunate- text from her best friend Jennifer to Kevin reveals a lurid love affair between the two, Sadie spirals into a hunger for revenge.
#AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead
›2024 · Horror, Comedy, Thriller · 91m · Jade Pettyjohn, JoJo Siwa, Justin Derickson
A group of college friends rent an Airbnb for the biggest music festival of the year. But their weekend of partying quickly takes a turn, as the group is murdered one by one, in correspondence with the seven deadly sins.
Fear No Evil
›R1981 · Horror · 99m · Stefan Arngrim, Elizabeth Hoffman, Kathleen Rowe McAllen
Brilliant and aloof teenager Andrew is always the butt of his classmates' jokes — but little do they know that he is actually the demon Lucifer. As the evil wells up within him, he avenges himself in acts of demonic murder and destruction. But his foe, the archangel Gabriel, has assumed the form of 18 year old student Julie.
Living Death
›NR2006 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 85m · Greg Bryk, Kristy Swanson, Joshua Peace
Torture is the ultimate seduction when Victor, a powerful and dangerous millionaire, discovers that his beautiful wife Elizabeth (Kristy Swanson) is having a steamy affair with his best friend. And when the lovers' risky plan to get rid of him backfires, Victor's relentless anger and terrifying rage sends him over the edge on a shockingly sadistic quest for total revenge.
Devil's Domain
›NR2017 · Horror · 93m · Michael Madsen, Madi Vodane, Linda Bella
After becoming the victim of vicious cyber bullies, Lisa makes a deal with the devil to exact revenge on her tormentors.
I Spit on Your Grave 2
›R2013 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 106m · Jemma Dallender, Joe Absolom, Aleksandar Aleksiev
Broke, and in desperate need to update her portfolio, New York City model Katie calls a number from a tear-off flyer offering free photos. But this innocent attempt quickly turns into an unthinkable kidnapping nightmare where she's ripped away from everyone and everything she knows.
The Crow
›R2024 · Action, Fantasy, Horror · 111m · Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs, Danny Huston
Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
Killing Season
›R2013 · Action, Thriller · 91m · Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Milo Ventimiglia
Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, clash in the remote Smoky Mountain wilderness.
Tamara
›2005 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Jenna Dewan, Matthew Marsden, Marc Devigne
Tamara, an unattractive girl who is picked on by her peers, returns after her death as a sexy seductress to enact revenge.
Killer Workout
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Marcia Karr, David James Campbell, Fritz Matthews
Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, Rhonda runs a local gym where all of a sudden, people are being murdered.
To All a Goodnight
›R1980 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 87m · Jennifer Runyon, Forrest Swanson, Linda Gentile
A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume.
Josh Hasty's Candy Corn
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · P. J. Soles, Tony Todd, Pancho Moler
On Halloween eve in 1980, local outcast, Julien Cummings, is carelessly murdered. A vagabond witch doctor, Dr. Death, takes matters into his own hands and brings Julien back from the dead to creatively seek brutal revenge on his killers.