Cinema of the Damned

R2010 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 108m · Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel

A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

IMDb 8.0MC 79🍅 85%TMDB 7.7☠ 8.0

1973 · Comedy, Horror · 104m · Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

IMDb 7.1MC 81🍅 88%TMDB 6.7☠ 7.3

1953 · Horror, Crime · 88m · Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk

A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

IMDb 7.0MC 68🍅 93%TMDB 6.9☠ 7.1

R2000 · Drama, Horror · 95m · John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."

IMDb 6.9MC 71🍅 82%TMDB 6.7☠ 7.0

NR1959 · Comedy, Horror · 66m · Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone

Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

IMDb 6.7🍅 69%TMDB 6.6☠ 6.7

NR2022 · Drama, Comedy, Horror · 112m · Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie, Ariane Labed

At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas and gastrointestinal disorders.

IMDb 5.8MC 79🍅 85%TMDB 5.6☠ 6.2

NR1946 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 65m · Rondo Hatton, Martin Kosleck, Robert Lowery

An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.

IMDb 6.1TMDB 6.1☠ 6.2

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.

IMDb 5.9MC 53🍅 86%TMDB 5.7☠ 6.1

R2024 · Horror · 94m · Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet, Tom York

Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her project take on a life of their own.

IMDb 5.6MC 65🍅 91%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.0

2014 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Paz de la Huerta, Samantha Hill, Laurence R. Harvey

A one-time (and now one-handed) master film editor toiling in the cinematic sweatshops of 1970s Italy becomes the prime suspect in a series of brutal murders.

IMDb 6.0🍅 58%TMDB 5.6☠ 6.0

NR2012 · Horror, Comedy · 79m · Thure Lindhardt, Georgina Reilly, Alain Goulem

A once-famous painter rediscovers inspiration when he befriends a sleepwalking cannibal.

IMDb 5.7MC 57🍅 60%TMDB 6.0☠ 5.9

1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 73m · Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway

When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.

IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.7☠ 5.7

1979 · Horror · 101m · Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

IMDb 5.2MC 66🍅 64%TMDB 5.1☠ 5.5

2020 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · William Holstead, Grace Courtney, Helen Mackay

Reckless Jack Travis is an irreverent horror writer notorious for scaring audiences. But as he obsesses over creating a new theatre show set in a haunted Scottish castle, demonic disturbances from deep within the walls begin to prey on his troubled daughter. When the alarming supernatural forces start to close in on him too, Jack is forced to reckon with the terrifying consequences of creating such a dark and macabre play. But will he realise the danger of unearthing a historic curse and stop writing before he damns himself, his personal sanity and those he loves forever?

IMDb 3.6🍅 56%TMDB 4.9☠ 5.0

2017 · Thriller, Horror · 107m · Elliot Cowan, Franka Potente, Ana Ularu

Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Samuel sneaks into the crime scene and there he meets Rachel who has also dreamed about the murder. Together, they will do whatever they can to discover the identity of the mystery woman, entering a terrifying world controlled by the figures who have inspired artists throughout time: the Muses.

R2023 · Horror, Thriller · 78m · Frank Grillo, Will Peltz, Sarah Dumont

While a couple creates an audition tape for an up-and-coming Charles Manson film, the dark events of the audition material slowly slip into their reality as they find themselves intertwined in an occult leader's sinister plot.

IMDb 3.2TMDB 4.2☠ 4.9