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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Rescue MeSeries
›TV-MA2004 · Drama · 7 seasons · Denis Leary, Adam Ferrara, Andrea Roth
The aftermath of 9/11 has left the firefighters of the NYFD traumatized, and no one more so than Tommy Gavin. Recently separated from his wife and their three kids, Tommy drifts between sorrow and anger as he tries to shake the recurring nightmares of his fallen comrades, especially his late cousin, Jimmy Keefe. Working alongside veterans like Lt. “Lou” Shea, Franco Rivera and Sean Garrity, and rookie Mike Lombardi, Tommy battles alcohol and drugs as he struggles to remain first and foremost a New York City firefighter.
Midnight MassSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Hamish Linklater, Zach Gilford, Kate Siegel
The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.
Smile 2
›R2024 · Horror, Music, Mystery · 127m · Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage
About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.
From Hell
›R2001 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 122m · Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
You Kill Me
›R2007 · Comedy, Crime, Thriller · 90m · Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Luke Wilson
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
Jekyll & Hyde
›1990 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 96m · Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Joss Ackland
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.
Bliss
›2019 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 80m · Dora Madison, Tru Collins, Rhys Wakefield
In need of creative inspiration, a professionally stagnant and hard-partying Los Angeles artist recklessly indulges in a series of drug binges. As the narcotics fly out of control, so does her newfound and inexplicable, yet unquenchable, craving for blood.
The Stuff
›R1985 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 86m · Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
Repo! The Genetic Opera
›R2008 · Music, Science Fiction, Horror · 98m · Alexa PenaVega, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Stewart Head
By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan — and those unable to fulfill their plans have their organs repossessed. In the midst of this, a sickly teenager discovers a shocking secret about herself, her father, and their connection to GeneCo.
30 Days of Night: Blood TrailsSeries
›TV-MA2007 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Trip Hope, Marilyn Johnson, Geoff Stirling Jr.
Set two days before the events of 30 Days of Night (2007), George is a young addict who makes a living seeking covert information for Judith, the weary but wise New Orleans vampire hunter.
Slime City
›1988 · Horror, Drama, Fantasy · 81m · Robert C. Sabin, Mary Huner, T.J. Merrick
A student moves into a run-down building in New York City. His bizarre neighbors make a concoction in their apartment they call wine, but when he takes some of it, he turns into a deformed, murderous monster.
Matriarch
›R2022 · Horror · 85m · Jemima Rooper, Kate Dickie, Sarah Paul
Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.
Dreamland
›2019 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 92m · Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Henry Rollins
On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stonecold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.
The Theatre Bizarre
›R2011 · Horror · 114m · Udo Kier, Virginia Newcomb, Amanda Marquardt
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
›NR2025 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 89m · Megan Placito, Martin Portlock, Kit Green
Wendy Darling strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from the clutches of the evil Peter Pan who intends to send him to Neverland. Along the way she meets a twisted Tinkerbell, who is hooked on what she thinks is fairy dust.
The Eternal
›R1998 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Alison Elliott, Jared Harris, Christopher Walken
An alcoholic American couple travel to Ireland with their son so he can meet his grandmother but they walk in on their crazed uncle who is in the midst of reviving a centuries-old Druid witch.
Charles Band's Evil Bong
›R2006 · Comedy, Horror · 84m · David Weidoff, John Patrick Jordan, Mitch Eakins
Straight-laced nerd Alistair moves into a college dorm with hardcore marijuana users, who order an old giant bong that proves to have strange magical powers, which sends people to a bizarre drugged-out alternate realm from which there is no easy escape.
