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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Jack the RipperSeries
›NR1988 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 1 season · Michael Caine, Jane Seymour, Lewis Collins
Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders.
Beauty and the BeastSeries
›TV-PG1987 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime, Drama · 3 seasons · Ron Perlman, Roy Dotrice, Jay Acovone
Savvy Assistant District Attorney Catherine Chandler is saved by a noble, beast-like man named Vincent, who lives in a secret, utopian community beneath New York City. They share a psychic bond, and he protects her from above.
The Flesh and the Fiends
›NR1960 · Horror · 94m · Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, George Rose
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
WreckSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Comedy, Mystery · 2 seasons · Oscar Kennedy, Thaddea Graham, Alice Nokes
Aboard the mega cruise ship Sacramentum, 20-year-old new recruit, Jamie, infiltrates the 3000-strong crew in a desperate race to find his missing sister. She was working aboard the same vessel on a previous tour and vanished mid-charter.
Kalifornia
›R1993 · Thriller, Crime · 118m · Brad Pitt, David Duchovny, Juliette Lewis
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Get Duked!
›R2019 · Comedy, Action, Horror · 87m · Lewis Gribben, Rian Gordon, Viraj Juneja
An anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy that follows four city boys on a wilderness trek as they try to escape a mysterious huntsman.
A Study in Terror
›NR1965 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 95m · John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.
Society
›R1990 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 100m · Billy Warlock, Connie Danese, Ben Slack
Bill Whitney is worried that he is different to his sister and parents. They mix with other upper-class people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing.
Vampire AcademySeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Sisi Stringer, Daniela Nieves, Kieron Moore
In a world of privilege and glamour, two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society. Based on the young adult novels by Richelle Mead.
Lost Girls
›R2020 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Lola Kirke
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.
The Possession of Joel Delaney
›R1972 · Horror · 105m · Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, Michael Hordern
An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.
Monster Party
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Sam Strike, Erin Moriarty, Kian Lawley
Three teenage thieves infiltrate a mansion dinner party, unaware that it is secretly being hosted by a serial killer cult for the social elite.
Satanic Panic
›2019 · Horror, Comedy · 89m · Hayley Griffith, Rebecca Romijn, Arden Myrin
A pizza delivery girl is suddenly in for the fight of her young life when encountering a group of Satanists in need of a virgin to ritually sacrifice.
Curdled
›R1996 · Comedy, Crime, Thriller · 88m · William Baldwin, Angela Jones, Bruce Ramsay
A death-obsessed cleaning woman uncovers a clue identifying a Florida bartender for a series of socialite murders.
Ripper Untold
›2021 · Horror · 85m · Jonathan Hansler, Phil Molloy, Dawn Butler
A detective and a medical examiner join forces to solve a series of horrific murders in Victorian London - but one of them harbors a deadly secret.