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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IT: Welcome to DerrySeries
›TV-MA2025 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Matilda Lawler
In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.
Quatermass and the Pit
›1967 · Science Fiction, Horror · 97m · Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
The Shannara ChroniclesSeries
›TV-142016 · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons · Austin Butler, Ivana Baquero, Manu Bennett
A young Healer armed with an unpredictable magic guides a runaway Elf in her perilous quest to save the peoples of the Four Lands from an age-old Demon scourge.
Whistle and I'll Come to You
›1968 · TV Movie, Horror · 42m · Michael Hordern, Ambrose Coghill, George Woodbridge
A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
From Dusk Till Dawn: The SeriesSeries
›TV-142014 · Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 3 seasons · D.J. Cotrona, Zane Holtz, Eiza González
The horror and crime thriller genres collide in this new original series from Robert Rodriguez, based on his cult grindhouse classic about bank-robbing brothers on the run, a lawman bent on bringing them to justice, the devout family caught in the cross-fire, and an ancient evil eager to feast on them all.
Trilogy of Terror
›1975 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 72m · Karen Black, Robert Burton, John Karlen
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.
The City of the Dead
›NR1960 · Mystery, Horror · 78m · Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel
In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysterious Raven's Inn to research the town's history with witchcraft.
The Last Vampyre
›1993 · Thriller, Crime, TV Movie · 102m · Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Juliet Aubrey
Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man who seems to be like a vampire.
He Never Died
›R2015 · Comedy, Drama, Fantasy · 99m · Henry Rollins, Booboo Stewart, Kate Greenhouse
Jack is a solitary man with a mysterious past. His strange habits will soon become stranger when his past catches up with him.
Horror Express
›R1972 · Horror · 87m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
Prince of Darkness
›R1987 · Horror · 102m · Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.
The Red Book Ritual: Gates of Hell
›2025 · Horror · Mario González Martí, Lizzie Gómez, Matias Miranda
Robbie embarks on a dangerous quest to contact his deceased girlfriend through a ritual that summons the dead. He heads to an abandoned house with a group of young people to perform the "Red Book Ritual." But during the summoning, supernatural forces awaken. Now they must face ancient horrors to survive.
Return To Salem's Cove
›NR2017 · Horror · 120m · Ethan Scott Grey, Michael Knopp, Clint Winters
Evil returns to Salem's Cove. It's up to the sheriff and his closest allies to save not only the town but the world from an evil force that hasn't been heard from since The Salem Witch Trials Ended. Unexplained evil acts have been happening since Salem's Cove was founded on the coast of North Carolina after the Salem Witch Trials. Paranormal activities has always been stopped and hidden from the general public by a secret order of defenders. The defenders greatest fears are about to be unleashed, not only to the people of Salem's Cove but to the rest of the world. Sheriff Ethan Grey and Lt. Gibbs must enlist help and reveal the truth about the towns best kept secret before it's too late.
It Chapter Two
›R2019 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 169m · Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
The Ritual
›R2017 · Horror, Mystery · 94m · Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
House on Eden
›R2025 · Horror · 77m · Kris Collins, Celina Myers, Jason-Christopher Mayer
Paranormal investigators Kris, Celina and their videographer Jay are rerouted to an abandoned house deep in the woods, where they find themselves facing a force unlike anything they've encountered before. As the night spirals into chaos, missing crew members and eerie phenomena hint at an ancient, malevolent presence watching their every move.
TheodosiaSeries
›TV-Y72022 · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery · 2 seasons · Eloise Little, Nana Agyeman-Bediako, Frankie Minchella
In 1906 London, 14-year-old Theodosia “Theo” Throckmorton gathers an eclectic team that includes her younger brother Henry, along with friends Will and Egyptian Princess, Safiya, to fight a powerful secret society bent on destroying the world with ancient Egyptian dark magic.
The Borderlands
›R2014 · Horror · 89m · Gordon Kennedy, Aidan McArdle, Robin Hill
Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.
Bloodstone: Subspecies II
›R1993 · Horror · 87m · Anders Hove, Denice Duff, Ion Haiduc
Continuing after the first "Subspecies", a woman who has just become a vampire tries to escape the evil vampire, Radu, who seeks her as his love interest. But she has taken the vampire family's bloodstone, and now Radu must find her to get it back. While her sister comes to Romania to save her soul. It might be too late....
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
›R2026 · Horror, Mystery · 133m · Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy
The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.
The Lair of the White Worm
›R1988 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Dead of SummerSeries
›TV-142016 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Elizabeth Lail, Ronen Rubinstein, Zelda Williams
Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn.
Dark Waters
›NR1993 · Horror, Mystery · 94m · Louise Salter, Venera Simmons, Mariya Kapnist
After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.
The Wretched
›NR2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Jamison Jones
A rebellious teenage boy, struggling with his parents' imminent divorce, encounters a terrifying evil after his next-door neighbor becomes possessed by an ancient witch that feasts on children.