
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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Shallow Grave
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Tony March, Lisa Stahl, Tom Law
When four young college girls stumble upon a murder, they find themselves targeted by a killer who will stop at nothing to silence them.

Love Me Deadly
›R1973 · Horror, Drama · 95m · Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Lyle Waggoner, Christopher Stone
A young socialite struggling to control her necrophiliac urges is torn between her affection for a kind businessman and the mortician who supplies her with bodies.

The Attic
›PG1980 · Horror · 101m · Carrie Snodgress, Ray Milland, Ruth Cox
A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at altar. She fantasizes his death and finds joy only with her pet monkey. When the monkey disappears, a shocking past is revealed.

Deadline
›1980 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 90m · Stephen Young, Sharon Masters, Marvin Goldhar
A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.

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›2025 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 110m · Arielle Kebbel, Theo Rossi, Jake McLaughlin
After a terrifying encounter at an abandoned government test site, a small town family man begins seeing haunting visions of a past that threatens to destroy his present.

Assault
›R1971 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 91m · Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones
After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.

Who's Watching Oliver
›R2018 · Horror, TV Movie · 87m · Russell Geoffrey Banks, Sara Malakul Lane, Margaret Roche
The story of a mentally unstable loner lost in a life forced upon him. By night Oliver aimlessly wanders the streets and bars on what can only be described as a truly shocking and humiliating killing spree. His only savior and possible way out of a life he is desperate to escape comes in the form of the beautiful Sophia with her sweet eccentricity and naivety to the danger she has put herself in.

The Bad Seed
›1985 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 100m · Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, David Carradine
Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she herself is the daughter of a convicted killer, Christine becomes convinced that sweet little Rachel is a "bad seed" - an inherent killer who feels no remorse because she doesn't know any better.

Lady Usher
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Theresa Santiago, Billie D. Merritt, John Tupy
An updated re-telling based in the Gothic South with the Usher Family, led by Mother. The family has been cursed by madness, unrequited love and when Roderick comes home with his girlfriend Morgan, it spells the beginning of the end as her sister Madeline will stop at nothing to prevent their marriage as Morgan fights to take Roderick away from the madness that is the House of Usher.

The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan
›NR2018 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 84m · Anna Stromberg, Burt Grinstead, Maureen Keiller
An unedited memory card from a camera shows Leah Sullivan's school project about a cold case murder that doesn't seem to be so cold after all.

Stalked by My Doctor: Patient's Revenge
›2018 · Thriller, TV Movie, Horror · 88m · Eric Roberts, Anna Marie Dobbins, Brianna Joy Chomer
After being found not guilty for his crimes, Dr. Albert Beck takes a teaching job at a university, where his blossoming relationship with a student is threatened when one of his previous victims begins a campaign of terror against him.

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›2008 · Action, Horror, Mystery · 96m · Rachel Miner, Christian Kane, Polly Shannon
A modern day Bonnie and Clyde - with a twist - that follows two lovers down a path of destruction, mayhem, and murder as they live in a world where it is acceptable to take whatever they want with murderous consequences.

Night Life
›R1989 · Horror, Comedy · 92m · Scott Grimes, John Astin, Cheryl Pollak
Archie works part-time at his uncle's mortuary and is harassed by a few of the popular kids because of it. His harassers die in an automobile accident, and the bodies are taken to his uncle's mortuary. Archie is pulling a late night at the mortuary when he sees a storm brewing. Lightening strikes! They're alive! The preppie bullies continue to torment him...as zombies!

My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 3
›2012 · Horror, TV Movie · 84m · Lauren McKnight, Kirsten Zien, Ryan Sypek
As she leaves for art school in New York, Skye gets a phone call from Alex. Skye hasn't heard from Alex in two years, but before she can move on with her life she needs to tie up some loose ends. Unfortunately, someone else has the same idea, and they're stalking and slashing their way through Alex's Sweet 16 party at her grandparents' isolated estate.

Dante's CoveSeries
›TV-MA2005 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Soap · 3 seasons · Tracy Scoggins, William Gregory Lee, Gregory Michael
A young gay couple must overcome dark, mystical forces conspiring against them, starting with a vengeful 19th century witch and her cheating warlock fiance.

Legend of the Werewolf
›1975 · Horror · 85m · Peter Cushing, Ron Moody, Hugh Griffith
In 19th-century Paris, a man raised by wolves works at a travelling circus, but on full moon nights, he transforms into a dangerous beast. Professor Paul Cataflanque is in charge of hunting him down as the young man develops an obsession for a prostitute.

Ganymede
›2023 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 97m · Jordan Doww, Pablo Castelblanco, David Koechner
After a small-town wrestling star develops a crush on an openly gay classmate, he is stalked by a grotesque creature that invades his thoughts as he navigates his feelings and struggles to live up to his legacy-obsessed family.

Arnold
›PG1973 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 94m · Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester
Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.

The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer
›1993 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 99m · Carl Crew, Christopher 'CJ' Smith, Donna Stewart Bowen
Based on the life of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and ate many of them before he was caught in 1991.

Stalker
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Sophie Skelton, Stuart Brennan, Bret Hart
Rose Hepburn, a young actor working in horror movies, returns to her empty hotel. Forced to use the old freight elevator, it jolts to a halt on the twelfth floor, leaving her trapped with an unusual stranger. Left with no mobile phone signal as a storm approaches, tensions escalate and suspicions rise when Rose discovers the identity of the mysterious man is Daniel Reed, a camera operator on her latest movie, who is seemingly obsessed with her. As the elevator hangs precariously high about to plunge down at any minute, some harsh truths and actions start unfolding.

Rose: A Love Story
›2020 · Horror · 86m · Sophie Rundle, Matt Stokoe, Olive Gray
The story of a young couple living alone in the woods, who must contend with a life-altering illness that manifests itself in a violent and terrifying way. Rose’s disease is a vampiric, parasitic thirst for blood. As her hunger grows, all humanity seems to give way to a feral violence that harms both her and those around her. Their loving relationship strains under the burden of Rose’s illness, and it is only a matter of time until the secluded life that they have built is upended entirely.

Night of Fear
›1973 · Horror, Thriller · 54m · Norman Yemm, Carla Hoogeveen, Mike Dorsey
A young girl who has just spent an afternoon playing tennis and making love with a man, gets accidentally run off the road by a truck. Ending up on a dead-end dirt road, her car gets stuck in a ditch, where she starts getting terrorized by a drooling, gibbering psycho, who also has a colony of rats.

The House That Would Not Die
›NR1970 · Horror, TV Movie · 74m · Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Egan, Michael Anderson Jr.
A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.

Summer Scars
›2007 · Drama, Horror · 73m · Kevin Howarth, Ciaran Joyce, Amy Harvey
A group of teens are faced with a life-changing experience when they meet a deranged drifter.






















