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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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
›NR1936 · Drama, Crime, Horror · 76m · Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Singer
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.
Eye for an Eye
›2025 · Horror · 101m · Whitney Peak, Golda Rosheuvel, Finn Bennett
Anna, grieving the sudden death of her parents, relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother she has never met. Isolated, vulnerable, and in need of friends, she finds brief solace in the company of two local teens. But when she becomes complicit to their unforgivable act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr. Sandman – the twisted soul of a tormented child who haunts bullies’ dreams before feasting on their eyeballs when they finally wake - Anna must right her wrong before becoming a victim of this gruesome curse.
For the Sake of Vicious
›2021 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 80m · Lora Burke, Nick Smyth, Colin Paradine
An overworked nurse returns home to find a maniac hiding out with a bruised and beaten hostage. When an unexpected wave of violent intruders descend upon her home, it becomes a fight for survival.
Sun Choke
›2015 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Sarah Hagan, Barbara Crampton, Sara Malakul Lane
Janie’s just trying to get well. As she recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an obsession with a stranger, Janie's buried demons begin to surface.
Maniac
›NR1963 · Crime, Mystery, Horror · 86m · Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
›R1970 · Comedy, Horror · 102m · Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells, Pat Heywood
A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnap bums and hippies, forcing them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape endure ritualistic murder.
The Blackwell Ghost 2
›2018 · Horror · 68m · Turner Clay
A filmmaker decides to turn the camera back on and returns to his investigation of the Blackwell Ghost in this sequel documentary. After being provided with new information from someone who knew Mrs. Blackwell personally, the filmmaker begins to follow clues that ultimately bring him back to the haunted house for one final stay. A documentary that shows actual ghost footage captured on camera.
Night Watch
›PG1973 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 99m · Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
The First Deadly Sin
›R1980 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 112m · Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, David Dukes
A serial killer is stalking New York City. Inspector Edward Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?
Blood & Donuts
›1995 · Horror, Comedy · 90m · Gordon Currie, Louis Ferreira, Helene Clarkson
In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut shop. Boya does not drink human blood anymore but rats and pigeons blood instead. While in the donut shop, Boya befriends and protects the taxi driver Earl, who is having trouble with two criminals, and falls in love for the waitress Molly. Meanwhile, his former passion of 1969, Rita, who misses her lost youth, is trying to locate him.
VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media
›2016 · Documentary, Comedy, History · 72m · Lloyd Kaufman, Ellen Muth, Juliette Danielle
This lively documentary explores the rise and fall of physical media from the origin of film all the way through the video store era into digital media, focusing on B-movie and cult films. With icons like Joe Bob Briggs (MonsterVision), Lloyd Kaufman (Toxic Avenger), Greg Sestero (The Room), Debbie Rochon (Return to Nuke 'Em High), Deborah Reed (Troll 2), Mark Frazer (Samurai Cop), James Nguyen (Birdemic) and many others.
The Colossus of New York
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger
A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...
Scream for Help
›R1984 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 90m · Rachael Kelly, David Allen Brooks, Marie Masters
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
The Maze
›1953 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 80m · Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Katherine Emery
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.
Life of Belle
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 73m · Syrenne Robinson, Zachary Robinson, Sarah Mae Robinson
This is the true story of how on July 18th, 2018 an 8 year old Annabelle Starnes went missing. What was found in the home would shock this small town of South Carolina.
I Am a Ghost
›2012 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 74m · Jeannie Barroga, Anna Ishida, Rick Burkhardt
Emily, a troubled spirit, haunts her own house every day, wondering why she can't leave. With the help of Sylvia, a clairvoyant hired to rid the house of spirits, Emily is forced into a 'patient/therapist' relationship, uncovering disturbing mysteries about her past that may help her move on to 'the next place
Drawn Into the Night
›2022 · Horror, Thriller · 67m · Jessica Sonneborn, Michael McLafferty, Paulie Redding
While investigating the disappearance of several high school girls, an undercover cop posing as a student finds herself fighting for her life.
The Disappeared
›2008 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Alex Jennings
Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
Undocumented
›2010 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Scott Mechlowicz, Alona Tal, Yancey Arias
A documentary film crew runs afoul of sadistic radicals when they follow illegal immigrants sneaking over the U.S. border.
The Mask
›1961 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins, Anne Collings
A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.
The Comeback
›1978 · Horror, Mystery · 100m · Jack Jones, Pamela Stephenson, David Doyle
A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. His ex-wife is brutally murdered, and the killer may be stalking him next.
The Mad Ghoul
›1943 · Science Fiction, Horror · 65m · George Zucco, David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
Cult of the Cobra
›1955 · Horror · 82m · Faith Domergue, Richard Long, Marshall Thompson
While stationed in Asia, six American G.I.'s witness the secret ritual of Lamians (worshipers of women who can change into serpents). When discovered by the cult, the High Lamian Priest vows that "the Cobra Goddess will avenge herself". Once back in the United States, a mysterious woman enters into their lives and accidents begin to happen. The shadow of a cobra is seen just before each death.
The Possession of Joel Delaney
›R1972 · Horror · 105m · Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, Michael Hordern
An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.