Cinema of the Damned

R2007 · Drama, Horror · 116m · Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

IMDb 7.3MC 83🍅 86%TMDB 7.2☠ 7.5

R2020 · Horror, Comedy, Action · 94m · Ben O'Toole, Meg Fraser, Caroline Craig

A man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell... only to arrive somewhere much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified conscience.

IMDb 6.6MC 52🍅 91%TMDB 6.5☠ 6.7

R1999 · Adventure, Western, Horror · 101m · Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette

After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

IMDb 6.9MC 46🍅 52%TMDB 6.8☠ 6.6

PG-132015 · Thriller, Drama, Adventure · 122m · Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

IMDb 6.9MC 47🍅 42%TMDB 6.8☠ 6.5

2001 · Documentary, Thriller, Crime · 60m · Richard Morgan, Phil Morrison, Robert K. Ressler

This documentary examines a selection of real life serial killers and compares them to the fictional Hannibal Lecter.

R1974 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Rupert Davies, Sheila Keith, Deborah Fairfax

In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for society and released. However, in Dorothy's case the doctors may have jumped the gun a bit. Edmund and eldest daughter, Jackie, try to discover just how far Mother's bloodlust has taken her. Meanwhile, youngest daughter Debbie begins to explore the crazy roots of her family tree as fully as possible.

IMDb 6.2TMDB 6.4☠ 6.2

R1980 · Comedy, Horror · 102m · Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons

Farmer Vincent Smith and his sister Ida run a motel attached to a farm where they capture unsuspecting travelers, bury them alive, fatten them up and then harvest their bodies as ingredients for his famous brand of "smoked meats."

IMDb 6.0MC 64🍅 63%TMDB 5.8☠ 6.1

2007 · Crime, Horror · 81m · Anthony Alviano, Jean-Marc Fontaine, Paul Fowles

Two desperate filmmakers began a documentary about a cannibalistic serial killer. What follows is their actual footage.

1993 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 99m · Carl Crew, Christopher 'CJ' Smith, Donna Stewart Bowen

Based on the life of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and ate many of them before he was caught in 1991.

R2002 · Horror, Comedy · 99m · John McConnell, Mark McLachlan, Melissa Morgan

A cannibal caterer kills various young women in preparation for a ritual feast for a long-dormant Egyptian goddess that has him under its control.

R2007 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 121m · Gaspard Ulliel, Aaran Thomas, Gong Li

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.

IMDb 6.1MC 35🍅 16%TMDB 6.3☠ 5.6

2017 · Action, Horror, Comedy · 83m · Steven Hubbell, Casey O'Keefe, Gwen Van Dam

When Michael Briskett meets the perfect woman, his ideal Christmas dream comes true when she invites him to her family's holiday celebration. Dreams shattered, Michael struggles to survive once he realizes HE will be Christmas dinner.

IMDb 5.3TMDB 4.8☠ 5.6

R1986 · Horror, Comedy · 100m · Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Jim Siedow

A radio host is victimised by the notorious cannibal family while a former Texas Marshal hunts them.

IMDb 5.6MC 42🍅 50%TMDB 5.7☠ 5.5

R1992 · Comedy, Horror · 100m · Karen Black, Pat Morita, Kristine Rose

A devil-worshiping woman sends out her four beautiful nieces to lure men back to her place so they can be killed, ground up and sold as meat pies.

IMDb 5.1TMDB 4.9☠ 5.5

R2008 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Nathan Phillips, Leigh Whannell, Bille Brown

An extinct species, the Tasmanian tiger. A long-forgotten legend, “The Pieman” aka Alexander Pearce, who was hanged for cannibalism in 1824. Both had a desperate need to survive; both could have living descendants within the Tasmanian bush. Four hikers venture deep into isolated territory to find one of these legends, but which one will they come upon first?

NR1987 · Horror, Comedy · 88m · Rick Burks, Carl Crew, Roger Dauer

Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of a new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.

IMDb 5.3🍅 50%TMDB 5.4☠ 5.3

2024 · Horror · 88m · Nick Biskupek, Michael Swatton, Sam Huntsman

Book one followed a family of sadistic butchers, living in the backcountry, who see anyone that crosses their path as dead meat. In “Butchers Book Two: Raghorn,” the story continues when an accident leaves the captors in the hands of brutal cannibals who plan to hack them up for meat.

IMDb 4.0TMDB 5.1☠ 5.3

R2017 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 119m · Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Yolonda Ross

After being exiled to a fenced-off wasteland, Arlen is kidnapped by a group of cannibals and goes on a journey to reunite a missing girl with her father.

IMDb 5.2MC 62🍅 45%TMDB 5.3☠ 5.2

NR2015 · Comedy, Horror · 98m · Michael Weston, Jimmi Simpson, Sutton Foster

It's All Hallow's Eve. A trio of costumed misfits with very special dietary requirements seizes a Mexican cantina and force the staff to engage in a late night of gaming, food and libations. The only caveat is what's on the menu.

IMDb 5.4🍅 30%TMDB 5.4☠ 5.2

2010 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 87m · Tiffany Shepis, Danielle Harris, Brian Krause

A small independent news crew investigates a series of unexplained disappearances in a small Midwestern county. They find themselves interviewing a man who possesses an all too intimate knowledge of the details of "The County Line Cannibal" - Cyrus.

R1973 · Comedy, Horror · 84m · Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Ronald Ulrich

A young couple spend the night in a restaurant, only to find out that it is haunted by three dead women who hunger for human flesh.

IMDb 4.6TMDB 4.5☠ 5.1

2012 · Horror · 89m · Elizabeth Brown, Lisa Cameron, Lindsay Cromar

Religious psychopath Sawney stalks Scotland abducting unholy souls for his communion of sacrifices. With his insane family of inbred killers, Sawney tortures and eats their victims saving the best morsels for a chained-up figure in their cavernous Highlands lair. As the Missing Persons list rises investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. After his fiancée is kidnapped by the cannibal clan Hamish investigates the heinous crimes on his own with disastrous results. For there’s something he doesn’t know about the case that’s crucial to solving it…

IMDb 4.6TMDB 4.8☠ 5.1

R1966 · Comedy, Horror · 63m · Ray Dannis, Warrene Ott, James Westmoreland

An undertaker befriends a pair of motorcycle-riding, knife-wielding, psycho restaurant owners who kill people for body parts to use in their blue-plate daily specials.

IMDb 4.5TMDB 4.8☠ 5.1

R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Jennifer Pudavick, Tenika Davis, Terra Vnesa

A group of friends take refuge in a deserted sanatorium after they are left stranded in a snowstorm. Later, the place becomes a death trap when man-eating cannibals surround them.

IMDb 4.6🍅 67%TMDB 5.7☠ 5.0