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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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
›PG1978 · Science Fiction, Horror · 116m · Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
Village of the Damned
›NR1960 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
Quatermass 2
›1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 85m · Brian Donlevy, John Longden, William Franklyn
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
The Blob
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 95m · Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Alan Dexter
Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.
War of the Worlds
›PG-132005 · Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction · 117m · Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Slither
›R2006 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 96m · Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker, Elizabeth Banks
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Night of the Creeps
›R1986 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 88m · Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
Invaders from Mars
›1953 · Science Fiction, Horror · 78m · Jimmy Hunt, Arthur Franz, Helena Carter
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
The Faculty
›R1998 · Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
Bad Taste
›NR1987 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 91m · Terry Potter, Pete O'Herne, Craig Smith
A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country’s Astro-Investigation and Defense Service (AIaDS) is called in to deal with the problem. Things are complicated due to Giles, an aid worker who comes to Kaihoro the same day to collect change from the residents. He is captured by the aliens, and AIaDS stages a rescue mission that quickly becomes an all-out assault on the aliens’ headquarters.
AnimorphsSeries
›TV-Y71998 · Drama, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons · Shawn Ashmore, Brooke Nevin, Paulo Costanzo
Five kids are given the power to morph into any creature they wish to help them fight villainous Visser Three and his fellow Yeerks, a breed of parasitic aliens threatening Earth.
Ultraman: The Ultimate HeroSeries
›1993 · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Kane Kosugi, Harrison Page, Robyn Bliley
The members of WINR (pronounced "Winner") respond when members of the alien Baltan race attack Earth, but the Baltans are only fended off when a gigantic alien, Ultraman Powered, joins with WINR member Kenichi Kai and gives him the power to metamorphose into Ultraman in times of danger. At the end of the first episode Ultraman declares that the Baltans were not completely defeated and that he will remain on Earth to continue the fight. WINR and Ultraman destroy numerous other monsters, but WINR learns that the Baltans were arranging all the battles to learn Ultraman's strengths and weaknesses
Ultraman: Towards the FutureSeries
›1990 · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Dore Kraus, Gia Carides, Ralph Cotterill
Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are members of the first manned expedition to Mars, and on the red planet find a giant slug-like monster, Goudes/Gudis. Shindo is pinned by a rockslide and Haggard tries to escape in their ship but is blown up by Gudis. Suddenly a giant warrior, Ultraman Great, arrives and fights Goudes, but when Ultraman is on the verge of victory Goudes changes into a virus and travels to Earth where it mutates other creatures into monsters and awakens existing ones. Needing a human host to survive on Earth, Ultraman joins with Jack, allowing him to become the mighty alien when all seems lost. He joins UMA in order to help them battle the monsters.
Snatchers
›2019 · Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy · 97m · Mary Nepi, Gabrielle Elyse, Austin Fryberger
After status-obsessed teen Sara has sex for the first time, she wakes up the next day nine months pregnant-with an alien.
The Man from Planet X
›1951 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 70m · Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond
While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.
Ick
›R2025 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Brandon Routh, Malina Weissman, Harrison Cone
Science teacher Hank’s life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects that a new student may be his daughter—all while facing an alien threat in their town.
No One Will Save You
›PG-132023 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Kaitlyn Dever, Elizabeth Kaluev, Zack Duhame
A lonely woman battles extraterrestrials who threaten her future while forcing her to face her past.
The Blob
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
Grabbers
›R2012 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Thriller · 94m · Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey
Something sinister has come to the shores of Erin Island, unbeknownst to the quaint population of this sleepy fishing village resting somewhere off Ireland’s coast. First, some fishermen go missing. Then there is the rash of whale carcasses suddenly washing up on the beach. When the murders start, it’s up to two mismatched cops – an irresponsible alcoholic and his new partner, a by-the-book woman from the mainland – to protect the townsfolk from the giant, bloodsucking, tentacled aliens that prey upon them. Their only weapon, they discover, is booze. If they want to survive the creatures’ onslaught, everyone will have to get very, very drunk!
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
›PG-131988 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson
Aliens disguised as clowns crash land on Earth in a rural town to capture unsuspecting victims in cotton candy cocoons for later consumption.
The Arrival
›PG-131996 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 115m · Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
Not of This Earth
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 67m · Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones
An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nuclear radiation, is sent to Earth to acquire fresh human blood for his people.
V/H/S/Beyond
›NR2024 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 114m · Brian Baker, Trevor Dow, Gerry Eng
The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/H/S ever.