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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GoosebumpsSeries
›TV-142023 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Mystery · 1 season · Zack Morris, Isa Briones, Miles McKenna
A group of five high schoolers embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle – while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents' past.
What Josiah Saw
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 120m · Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl, Scott Haze
A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.
Session 9
›R2001 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 100m · Peter Mullan, David Caruso, Stephen Gevedon
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
RequiemSeries
›TV-MA2018 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Lydia Wilson, Joel Fry, Joanna Scanlan
In 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small Welsh village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of rising cello star Matilda Gray commits suicide, without apparent reason. Among her possessions, Matilda discovers tantalising evidence, linking her mother to the Welsh girl's disappearance all those years ago.
The Hideout
›2007 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 100m · Laura Morante, Rita Tushingham, Burt Young
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
The Little Things
›R2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · 128m · Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto
Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
›PG-131971 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Ghost Story
›R1981 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 110m · Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
Forget Me Not
›R2009 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 103m · Carly Schroeder, Cody Linley, Micah Alberti
It's graduation weekend, and Sandy Channing, the popular class president of her small-town high school, should be enjoying the time of her life. But when her friends start disappearing, Sandy discovers they have unwittingly awakened the vengeful spirit of a girl they wronged long ago. Fighting for her sanity, Sandy must unlock a dark secret from her own past before it's too late.
So Cold the River
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 93m · Bethany Joy Lenz, Alysia Reiner, Katie Sarife
A documentary filmmaker's research on a town's mysterious benefactor unearths an unexplained evil while staying at a local resort.
The Legend of Lucy Keyes
›2006 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Julie Delpy, Justin Theroux, Brooke Adams
When an urban family moves to a rural New England town with secrets, little do they know that their new house holds a history of tragic sorrow.
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
›R2013 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 101m · Chad Michael Murray, Katee Sackhoff, Abigail Spencer
A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.
Behind the Wall
›2008 · Thriller, Horror · 94m · Lindy Booth, Lawrence Dane, James Thomas
In this chilling, atmospheric thriller, Katelyn (Lindy Booth) seeks answers about the brutal murder that claimed her mother's life 20 years ago in the lighthouse where they lived, a crime for which her grief-and-guilt-crazed father has long held the blame. When developers descend on the abandoned lighthouse and begin to vanish mysteriously, Katelyn comes face-to-face with the evil haunts the family's former abode.
Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Nate Dushku, Bill Moseley, Danielle Harris
Local teens have long commemorated the death of 'Mary Hatchet' - a girl who took an ax and killed her family in the 1970s - with the aptly named Blood Night. But things never got truly bloody until Mary's ghost decided to make an appearance. Dead bodies are piling up, and Mary seems to be calling the shots. But there are secrets about her past that have yet to be uncovered.
The Toybox
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 81m · Mischa Barton, Denise Richards, Greg Violand
An estranged family take a trip to the desert in their used RV and become stranded and isolated in the scorching terrain. They soon learn their RV holds terrible, haunting secrets, and it starts killing them off one by one.
The Poltergeist of Borley Forest
›2016 · Horror · 103m · Marina Petrano, Christopher Ingle, Rhea Rossiter
On a night of teenage partying in the woods, Paige unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that plunge her into a waking nightmare. Tormented by terrifying and increasingly violent supernatural visitations, Paige starts digging into the past and uncovers a sinister secret, buried for decades. Behind the force that now haunts her is a malevolent entity of unspeakable evil. As its power grows and her friends fall prey to its savagery, can she (or anyone) stop The Poltergeist of Borley Forest?
Asylum of Fear
›2018 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 79m · Maurice Demus, Callie Stephens, Michael Medford
A team of paranormal investigators go on one last job to a haunted mental institution where children have reportedly gone missing. While searching for evidence of what is haunting the abandoned building, they stumble upon clues that reveal what made the former head doctor snap and go on a killing spree through the halls decades earlier. Unfortunately, the more they uncover, the more they struggle to make it out of the asylum alive because something inside wants that mystery to stay dead and buried.