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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Roar
›1981 · Adventure, Comedy, Horror · 95m · Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, John Marshall
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.
Baghead
›R2008 · Comedy, Drama, Horror · 84m · Steve Zissis, Ross Partridge, Greta Gerwig
Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?
House of the Long Shadows
›PG1983 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 100m · Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.
Blue Caprice
›R2013 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 93m · Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Tim Blake Nelson
A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.
Slash/Back
›2022 · Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · 87m · Tasiana Shirley, Alexis Vincent-Wolfe, Nalajoss Ellsworth
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
Lowlifes
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Amanda Fix, Matthew MacCaull, Brenna Llewellyn
The survival instincts of a road-tripping family are put to the test when they have no other choice but to stay the night at a remote homestead.
Full Circle
›R1978 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 98m · Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti
After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and moves into an old Victorian home in London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.
X: The Unknown
›1956 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 81m · Dean Jagger, Leo McKern, William Lucas
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
Rituals
›R1977 · Horror, Adventure · 99m · Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell
Five doctors go camping in the remote woods of Northern Ontario. When their boots are stolen they begin to suspect they are being stalked.
Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural
›PG1974 · Horror · 85m · Lesley Gilb Taplin, Cheryl Smith, William Whitton
A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police, only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee, receives a letter stating that her father is near death and that he needs to see her. Sneaking away at night from her minister guardian, Lila embarks on a terrifying journey...
Nature of the Beast
›R1995 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · 91m · Lance Henriksen, Eric Roberts, Brion James
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
Night of the Reaper
›2025 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Jessica Clement, Ryan Robbins, Summer H. Howell
A college student returns home for the weekend and reluctantly takes a babysitting job after a local babysitter is brutally murdered. When the town’s sheriff receives chilling evidence that the killing wasn’t an isolated incident, a deadly night unfolds as a masked killer sets the stage for another attack.
The Hideout
›2007 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 100m · Laura Morante, Rita Tushingham, Burt Young
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
The Lady Vanishes
›2013 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 86m · Tuppence Middleton, Keeley Hawes, Julian Rhind-Tutt
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
Van Diemen's Land
›2009 · Drama, History, Thriller · 104m · Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft
The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.
Leaving D.C.
›2013 · Mystery, Drama, Horror · 77m · Karin Crighton, Josh Criss, Jeff Manney
After 20 years of living in Washington, D.C., Mark Klein seeks much-needed solace by moving to the remote wilds of West Virginia. To ease his loneliness, he sends regular video updates to members of his OCD-support group back in the city. But Mark gradually realizes that despite his new, isolated setting, he may not be alone. From the endless woods surrounding his home, something else is watching.
The Caller
›R1987 · Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller · 97m · Malcolm McDowell, Madolyn Smith Osborne
One night, an unusual stranger in need asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong about the woods.
Night Monster
›1942 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 72m · Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Sounds Like
›2006 · Horror, TV Movie · 58m · Chris Bauer, Laura Margolis, Nicholas Elia
Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive him insane.
The Mannequin
›NR2025 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 85m · Isabella Gómez, Lindsay LaVanchy, Shireen Lai
A stylist assistant investigates her sister's death in a historic LA building, only to face a vengeful ghost of a serial killer who dismembered victims decades ago. She must escape before she's next.
Scream, Pretty Peggy
›NR1973 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 74m · Ted Bessell, Sian Barbara Allen, Bette Davis
A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.
ColdwaterSeries
›2025 · Drama, Crime · 1 season · Andrew Lincoln, Ewen Bremner, Eve Myles
A man in the midst of a mid-life crisis moves his family to a remote Scottish village, only to find himself entangled in a dangerous friendship with a sinister neighbour.
Tales from the VoidSeries
›TV-MA2024 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season
An episodic horror anthology series based on the most viral and haunting stories from the r/NoSleep community
A Cure for Wellness
›R2017 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 146m · Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.