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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Boys from County Hell
›NR2021 · Horror, Comedy · 89m · Jack Rowan, Nigel O'Neill, Louisa Harland
A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
The Horror at 37,000 Feet
›1973 · TV Movie, Horror, Drama · 74m · Chuck Connors, Buddy Ebsen, Tammy Grimes
A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas.
Lady Terminator
›1988 · Action, Horror, Fantasy · 81m · Barbara Anne Constable, Christopher J. Hart, Claudia Angelique Rademaker
The spirit of an ancient evil queen possesses the body of a young anthropological student, who then goes on a murderous rampage.
Wishmaster
›R1997 · Horror, Fantasy · 90m · Angus Scrimm, Andrew Divoff, Tammy Lauren
The Djinn, having been released from his ancient prison, seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
Gammera the Invincible
›1966 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 86m · Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, Diane Findlay
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.
The Runestone
›R1991 · Horror, Adventure · 105m · Peter Riegert, Joan Severance, William Hickey
A New York detective takes the case of a bulletproof monster sprung to life from Viking legend.
The Outing
›R1987 · Horror · 87m · Deborah Winters, James Huston, Andra St. Ivanyi
A group of high schoolers decide to stay in a natural museum after closing hours, but a newly acquired and mysterious lamp hiding a deadly force will turn the fun into horror.
Berserker
›R1987 · Horror · 85m · Joseph Alan Johnson, Greg Dawson, Valerie Sheldon
Six young adults in the woods run afoul of a berserker, a viking warrior who dons the fur and snout of a bear, and are slain in turn by him.
Dracula's Widow
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Sylvia Kristel, Josef Sommer, Lenny Von Dohlen
Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.
Rawhead Rex
›R1986 · Horror · 89m · David Dukes, Niall Tóibín, Cora Lunny
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
Scourge
›2008 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 92m · Robyn Ledoux, Nic Rhind, Russell Ferrier
The ancient creature, The Scourge, long confined in a church, wreaks havoc in a small town. Bodies accumulate as Scott and Jessie, rekindling their love, become the town's last defense against the unleashed menace.
Rumpelstiltskin
›R1995 · Horror · 87m · Kim Johnston Ulrich, Tommy Blaze, Allyce Beasley
In the 1400s, Rumpelstiltskin is imprisoned inside a small jade figurine. In modern-day Los Angeles, the recently widowed wife of a police officer, with baby in tow, finds her way into a witch's shop and purchases a certain figurine, resulting in the cackling beast being freed and demanding possession of the baby.
Rise of the Gargoyles
›PG-132009 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 94m · Eric Balfour, Caroline Néron, Justin Salinger
Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!).
Manticore
›2005 · Action, Fantasy, Horror · 88m · Robert Beltran, Jeff Fahey, Chase Masterson
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, a US Army Squad is sent to a small Iraqi town to locate a missing news crew, only to find the residents of the town dead and a living weapon of mass destruction, a Manticore, awakened from its long slumber by a terrorist leader wanting to rid his land of the American invaders at any price.
Dracula 2000
›R2000 · Horror · 99m · Gerard Butler, Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller
When a team of techno-savvy thieves break into a high-security vault, they don't discover priceless works of art... they find a crypt unopened for 100 years.
Ghost Town
›2009 · Horror, Western, Science Fiction · 85m · Jessica Lee Rose, Randy Wayne, Gil Gerard
Reb Halland, who lives in the era of Wild West, has made a deal with the devil to gain immortality alog with his gang. Preacher McCready is trying to protect the small town by placing five totems around the town in the shape of pinnacle. One day, an collector passes by the town and sees one of the totems pinned to the earth and he decides to take it. When the man takes the totem out of ground Halland and his gang arrives and start killing everyone. The film moves to the present day when a group of college students driving back home from another city after a debate contest suddenly find themselves at this town. Soon they start to be murdered one by one, and it will be up to them to find the secret of this town and destroy Halland and his gang.
Basilisk: The Serpent King
›NR2006 · Action, Horror, TV Movie · 88m · Jeremy London, Wendy Carter, Cleavant Derricks
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by modern archaeologist Harrison 'Harry' McColl's expedition. Despite a cryptic warning from tribal locals, everything goes to his Colorado university's museum. It's all exhibited during another eclipse, which leads to the monster reviving. Harry and some of his friends must try to petrify the monster again.
Scream of the Banshee
›2011 · Horror, TV Movie · 90m · Lance Henriksen, Lauren Holly, Edrick Browne
An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its bone-splitting scream.
Orcs!
›2011 · Action, Horror · 80m · Adam Johnson, Maclain Nelson, Brad Johnson
Faced with extinction, two park rangers are forced to defend the national park against hordes of rampaging orcs. Ancient and long forgotten, these orcs are unleashed from the depths of the mountains, and they won't stop until we're all dead.
The Devil's Tomb
›R2009 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Winstone, Ron Perlman
Captain Mack leads an elite military unit on a search for a missing scientist, and comes face-to-face with an an ancient evil lying beneath the Middle Eastern desert. Evil that is not of this world. Evil that should never be unearthed.
The Dark Lurking
›R2010 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Philippe Deseck, Ozzie Devrish, Anthony Edwards
The eight remaining survivors of a secret research facility barricade themselves away from a horde of ancient and deadly creatures
Sometimes They Come Back... for More
›R1998 · Horror · 90m · Clayton Rohner, Faith Ford, Damian Chapa
A rescue team investigates a silent Antarctic base, only to uncover a hellish force raising the dead—turning the frozen outpost into a blood-soaked battleground where the corpses don’t stay buried.