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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Jack's Back
›1988 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 97m · James Spader, Cynthia Gibb, Jim Haynie
A young doctor is suspected when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. However, when the doctor himself is murdered, his identical twin brother claims to have seen visions of the true killer.
The Horror of Frankenstein
›R1970 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson
Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.
Spiral
›PG-132007 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 90m · Joel David Moore, Amber Tamblyn, Zachary Levi
A reclusive telemarketer has only one semblance of a friend: His telecommuter boss. But the telemarketer's social circle seems to improve greatly when a whimsical co-worker enters his life. Only, as he begins to sketch his new friend's portrait, disturbing "voices" from the phone man's past threaten to lead him into a network of destruction.
House of Dark Shadows
›PG1970 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 97m · Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott
Barnabas Collins searches for a cure for vampirism in order to marry a woman resembling his long-lost fiancée Josette.
Who Invited Them
›2022 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 80m · Ryan Hansen, Melissa Tang, Timothy Granaderos
Adam and Margo's housewarming party goes well enough except there's this one mysterious couple lingering after the other guests have left.
White of the Eye
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller · 111m · David Keith, Cathy Moriarty, Art Evans
In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his wife starts to uncover startling truths...
Love Object
›R2004 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 88m · Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Udo Kier
The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki", an anatomically accurate silicone sex doll he orders over the Internet.
The BeastSeries
›TV-PG1996 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · William L. Petersen, Karen Sillas, Charles Martin Smith
Mysterious deaths and unexplained disappearances begin to occur in the small seaport village of Graves Point. When a large, strange claw is discovered on an empty raft washing up on the shore, marine biologist Dr. Herbert Talley identifies it as belonging to a rare giant squid.
Martyrs Lane
›2022 · Horror · 97m · Kiera Thompson, Denise Gough, Sienna Sayer
Leah, 10, has terrible nightmares. Her mother seems distant somehow, lost in her thoughts. A small, nightly visitor brings Leah comfort, but soon Leah will realize that her little visitor offers knowledge that might be very, very dangerous.
Lady in a Cage
›1964 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 94m · Olivia de Havilland, James Caan, Jennifer Billingsley
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Bloodlust: Subspecies III
›R1994 · Horror · 83m · Anders Hove, Denice Duff, Kevin Spirtas
Still in the thrall of the evil vampire Radu, Michelle yearns to be taught the skills of the vampire. Meanwhile, her sister Becky tries to free her from his evil clutches, and this time, she's brought some help.
Die, Monster, Die!
›1965 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Suzan Farmer
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
Schlock
›PG1973 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 80m · John Landis, Saul Kahan, Joseph Piantadosi
A quiet suburb in Southern California is terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd.
Fear in the Night
›PG1972 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 94m · Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Judy Geeson
It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?
Enys Men
›NR2023 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe
A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
Fair Game
›R1986 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Cassandra Delaney, Peter Ford, Garry Who
A young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback is in for trouble when she is confronted by three kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill the animals in the sanctuary, and when they see how attractive the owner is, they decide to have a little "fun" with her, too. Turns out that they may get a bit more "fun" than they bargained for.
Depraved
›2019 · Horror, Drama, Science Fiction · 114m · David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux
A field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East creates a living human out of body parts in his Brooklyn lab.
The Oak Room
›2020 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 89m · RJ Mitte, Peter Outerbridge, Ari Millen
During a raging snowstorm, a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. When he offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night's events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses and shocking violence.
The Cabinet of Caligari
›NR1962 · Horror, Thriller · 106m · Glynis Johns, Dan O'Herlihy, Richard Davalos
A delirious young woman feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman.
Pure
›2019 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 90m · Jahkara Smith, McKaley Miller, Scott Porter
Teen girls perform a secret ritual at a Purity Retreat and, when one of them begins to see a supernatural entity, the terrifying question becomes what is more dangerous: the demon they’ve unleashed, or the pressure of their controlling fathers.
Knuckleball
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Munro Chambers, Michael Ironside, Kathleen Munroe
Alone, and targeted on an isolated farm, 12 year old Henry finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of terror, and a dark family legacy, when his secretive grandfather dies suddenly in the night.
The Moor
›2024 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 120m · Sophia La Porta, David Edward-Robertson, Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips
Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted moor he believes is his son's final resting place.
The Phoenix Tapes '97
›2016 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 67m · Turner Clay, Peter Miller
In 1997, four campers went missing during the Phoenix Lights incident and their bodies were never found. The Phoenix Tapes 97 is comprised of their final footage. This film is dedicated to the lives lost during the events displayed. To their families and friends and to the authorities who continue to search for answers. The tapes were found by Dustin Miller's father two years after Dustin was mysteriously shot and killed at a traffic stop in Texas. Peter Miller believes his son was acting as a whistleblower and had smuggled the tapes from his classified government agency in an effort to expose the truth as to what really happened to the four missing campers seen in the tapes. After searching every newspaper and media publication around Phoenix during that time period, we only found one initial announcement that four campers were reported missing, as well as a formal police report folder with local PD but the folder had no files inside.
Malicious
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 91m · Kevin Interdonato, Nick Baillie, Melissa Anschutz
The McCabe family's weekend getaway is turned upside down when a mysterious stranger knocks on their door.