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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Doctor Sleep
›R2002 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 108m · Goran Višnjić, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson
While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.
Gwen
›2018 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 84m · Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Maxine Peake, Richard Harrington
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
Motherly
›2022 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Lora Burke, Tessa Kozma, Kristen MacCulloch
Kate and her daughter Beth live alone in an isolated farmhouse in the woods, but when Kate slowly begins to suspect that something sinister is happening, her motherly instincts are put to the test.
Acolytes
›2009 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Sebastian Gregory
Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.
The Earth Dies Screaming
›1964 · Horror, Science Fiction · 62m · Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price
A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
›R1975 · Horror, Mystery · 105m · Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O'Neill, Margot Kidder
When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon finds his previous incarnation's wife.
The Vagrant
›R1992 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell
A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.
School Spirit
›NR2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 84m · Annie Q. Riegel, Corey Fogelmanis, Jessi Case
A group of social outcasts, stuck in weekend detention, find themselves stalked by their school’s urban legend who is set on killing bad students.
The Werewolf
›NR1956 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Steven Ritch, Don Megowan, Joyce Holden
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
Silent Scream
›1979 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Rebecca Balding, Barbara Steele, Yvonne De Carlo
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered
The Night Visitor
›PG1971 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 106m · Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Liv Ullmann
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
The Monster That Challenged the World
›NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
House of Whipcord
›1974 · Horror · 102m · Barbara Markham, Patrick Barr, Ray Brooks
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.
Monster on the Campus
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelacanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.
Ed and His Dead Mother
›PG-131993 · Comedy, Horror · 93m · Steve Buscemi, Ned Beatty, John Glover
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket
›G2016 · TV Movie, Mystery, Family · 92m · Bailee Madison, Robert Capron, Mavrick Moreno
Vacationing on historic Nantucket Island, a teenage mystery writer and her friends must outwit two scheming thieves to solve the secret behind a legendary ghost story.
Culture Shock
›NR2019 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 91m · Martha Higareda, Shawn Ashmore, Richard Cabral
A young Mexican woman crosses the border in search of the American dream, only to instead find her worst nightmare lying within.
Lisa
›PG-131990 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 95m · Staci Keanan, Cheryl Ladd, D.W. Moffett
A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a stranger who is, unbeknownst to her, a serial killer.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
›PG-131971 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Harlequin
›PG1980 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 95m · Robert Powell, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan
Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events.
The Barber
›2002 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 94m · Malcolm McDowell, Jeremy Ratchford, Garwin Sanford
In the small town of Revelstoke, Alaska, local barber Dexter is surprised to learn that the body of Lucy Waters has been discovered. Having killed this woman, days ago, he hoped her body wouldn't be found until spring. Through the eyes of a serial killer, we discover the chilling layer of a weary town whose only concern is another long, dark winter.
Macabre
›1958 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 72m · William Prince, Jacqueline Scott, Jim Backus
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with mere hours to find and rescue her.
Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
›NR2012 · Horror, Comedy · 79m · Thure Lindhardt, Georgina Reilly, Alain Goulem
A once-famous painter rediscovers inspiration when he befriends a sleepwalking cannibal.
RagdollSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 1 season · Lucy Hale, Ali Cook, Henry Lloyd-Hughes
Detectives look to untangle the case of the Ragdoll Killer, who has killed six people and sewn their bodies into the shape of one grotesque body nicknamed the Ragdoll.