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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Stranger ThingsSeries
›TV-142016 · Action & Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 5 seasons · Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
IT: Welcome to DerrySeries
›TV-MA2025 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Matilda Lawler
In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.
Trick 'r Treat
›R2007 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 82m · Brian Cox, Quinn Lord, Anna Paquin
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.
Celia
›1989 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 103m · Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Mary-Anne Fahey
In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let her play with the kids next door because their parents are communists. Then her pet bunny is taken away because of rabbit overpopulation. And, more traumatizing yet, when her grandmother dies, she's the one to discover the corpse. To cope, she retreats into elaborate fantasies.
Lady in White
›PG-131988 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 113m · Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.
Black Phone 2
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 114m · Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw
Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the Black Phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.
The Good Son
›R1993 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 87m · Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood, Wendy Crewson
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Life of Belle
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 73m · Syrenne Robinson, Zachary Robinson, Sarah Mae Robinson
This is the true story of how on July 18th, 2018 an 8 year old Annabelle Starnes went missing. What was found in the home would shock this small town of South Carolina.
The Hole in the Ground
›R2019 · Horror · 90m · Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, James Cosmo
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
Whisper
›2007 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Blake Woodruff, Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
Child's Play
›R2019 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Mark Hamill, Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman
Karen, a single mother, gifts her son Andy a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic.
The Hollow Child
›NR2018 · Horror · 92m · Jess McLeod, Hannah Cheramy, John Emmet Tracy
Samantha has lived her whole life in different foster homes. Now living in a small town, she never feels like she quite fits in, even with her own current foster family who might adopt her, or the boy who follows her around doing her classwork. So, it’s perhaps natural that she doesn’t know what to do with a curious tagalong little sister named Olivia. One day, Sam callously ditches Olivia, who wanders off into the woods on her own and disappears.
Deadware
›PG-132021 · Horror · 68m · Sarah Froelich, Ali Alkhafaji, Christine Brown
In 1999, two friends use a webcam for the first time and stumble across a mysterious browser game that may be haunted.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
›R2010 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Jackie Earle Haley
Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.
The Beast Within
›R2024 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 97m · Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings, Caoilinn Springall
Ten-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of an ancient forest. After witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret that they've so desperately tried to conceal.
Berber
›2026 · Horror · 41m · Dane Bachman, Elaina Bachman, Tim Bachman
A child searches for his missing sister in a suburban home.