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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18 titles
The Fly
›R1986 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Island of Lost Souls
›NR1932 · Science Fiction, Horror · 71m · Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Eraserhead
›NR1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Ginger Snaps
›2000 · Fantasy, Horror, Drama · 108m · Katharine Isabelle, Emily Perkins, Kris Lemche
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
›2004 · Drama, Horror, Fantasy · 94m · Emily Perkins, Tatiana Maslany, Katharine Isabelle
Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost.
Poison
›NC-171991 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith
A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.
Rabid
›R1977 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Marilyn Chambers, Terri Hanauer, Frank Moore
A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into bloodthirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.
Freaked
›PG-131993 · Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · Alex Winter, Michael Stoyanov, William Sadler
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.
The Toxic Avenger
›R1984 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 82m · Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Prichard
A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.
Doomwatch
›1972 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, John Paul
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Perpetrator
›2023 · Horror · 101m · Kiah McKirnan, Alicia Silverstone, Chris Lowell
Jonny Baptiste is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie. On the event of her eighteenth birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing at her new school, a mythically feral Jonny goes after the Perpetrator.
The TommyknockersSeries
›1993 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery · 1 season · Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, E.G. Marshall
A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutants.
The Fix
›2024 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 98m · Grace Van Dien, Daniel Sharman, Keenan Arrison
When a troubled model takes a new drug at a party, she suffers a shocking transformation. Pursued by authorities and a dangerous gang, she hunts for a fix to reverse these effects, only to discover her mutations could save the human race.
Seedpeople
›R1992 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Sam Hennings, Andrea Roth, Dane Witherspoon
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
Hellmaster
›1992 · Horror · 96m · John Saxon, David Emge, Amy Raasch
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers
Nightmare Weekend
›1986 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Debbie Laster, Dale Midkiff, Debra Hunter
A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.
Septic Man
›2013 · Horror · 83m · Jason David Brown, Molly Dunsworth, Robert Maillet
A sewage worker gets trapped inside a septic tank during a water contamination crisis and undergoes a hideous transformation. To escape, he must team up with a docile Giant and confront the murdering madman known as Lord Auch.
Blackenstein
›R1973 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 87m · John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately, an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiancée) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.