
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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Tremors
›PG-131990 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter
Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.

Slither
›R2006 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 96m · Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker, Elizabeth Banks
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.

TremorsSeries
›TV-142003 · Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure · 1 season · Victor Browne, Gladise Jimenez, Marcia Strassman
Inspired by the cult classic Tremors movies, locals attempt to coexist with the monstrous, man-eating Graboids, Shriekers, and Ass-blasters, which are now on a "protected species" list.

12 Deadly DaysSeries
›2016 · Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Anna Akana, Jon Fletcher, J. Claude Deering
In the cursed town of Saturn, CA, during the 12 days leading up to Christmas, watch these interconnected tales showing the town's residents dealing will all kinds of evil.

The Monolith Monsters
›1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 77m · Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.

Eyes of Fire
›R1983 · Horror, Drama · 86m · Dennis Lipscomb, Guy Boyd, Rebecca Stanley
In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of followers, who make their way downriver to establish a new settlement of their own beyond the western frontier.

The Golem
›R2018 · Horror, Drama · 95m · Hani Furstenberg, Ishai Golan, Lenny Ravich
A re-imagining of the old mystical folklore that follows a woman and a tight-knit Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders. She conjures a dangerous creature to protect them but it may be more evil than she ever imagined.

The Return of Count Yorga
›R1971 · Horror · 97m · Robert Quarry, Mariette Hartley, Roger Perry
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.

Infestation
›R2009 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 91m · Christopher Rodriguez Marquette, Brooke Nevin, Wesley Thompson
After being stung by a giant insect, Cooper learns that these bugs are attacking the whole city. He joins forces with the survivors, in order to find a way to counter-attack.

Mulberry Street
›R2006 · Horror · 84m · Nick Damici, Tim House, Antone Pagán
A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to devolve into blood-thirsty rat creatures. Six recently evicted tenants must survive the night and protect their downtown apartment building as the city quickly spirals out of control.

Tenement
›NC-171985 · Action, Thriller, Crime · 94m · Joe Lynn, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant
A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.

The Car
›PG1977 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 96m · James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.

Eight Legged Freaks
›PG-132002 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 99m · David Arquette, Kari Wührer, Doug E. Doug
The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize an eclectic group of townspeople, including the Sheriff's young son, Mike, her daughter, Ashley, and paranoid radio announcer Harlan, into battle against the bloodthirsty eight-legged beasts.

Salem's Lot
›R2024 · Horror · 113m · Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Jordan Preston Carter
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.

Daylight's End
›2016 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 105m · Johnny Strong, Lance Henriksen, Louis Mandylor
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.

Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
›PG-132004 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Michael Gross, Sara Botsford, Billy Drago
In 1889, seventeen men die under mysterious circumstances, and spooked by recent events, the miners who populate the town leave in droves until there's nothing left but a shell of a community.

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
›1977 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Claude Akins, Charles Frank, Deborah Winters
An airplane carrying coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the venomous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths, the tarantulas have already descended upon the town's only orange-processing factory. The town's citizens risk their lives to remove the tarantulas from the factory while the venomous pests are rendered motionless by the transmitted sound of buzzing bees

Hide and Creep
›R2004 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 85m · Barry Austin, Melissa Bush, Chris Garrison
In the sleepy town of Thorsby, Alabama, no one had a life. Then the dead showed up. Now instead of just killing time the people of Thorsby are killing each other, taking up arms as the zombies take to the streets, the barbecue joints and the strip bars. Soon spaceships are flying overhead, federal agents are patrolling the grounds and a few fearless individuals are joining forces to run like hell.

Island Zero
›NR2018 · Horror · 100m · Laila Robins, Teri Reeves, Matthew Wilkas
A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realize that someone - or something - is hunting them.

Offspring
›R2009 · Horror · 79m · Jessica Butler, Leigh Shannan Feldpausch, Holter Graham
The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he had killed them off ten years ago -- a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of cannibalistic savages. But somehow the clan survived. To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. And now the peaceful residents of this isolated town are fighting for their lives...

Nightbeast
›R1982 · Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Tom Griffith, Jamie Zemarel, Karin Kardian
A creature from outer space, nightbeast, crash lands in Baltimore and starts a killing spree that quickly escelates.

Peelers
›NR2016 · Horror · 95m · Wren Walker, Caz Odin Darko, Madison J Loos
A small town strip club owner must defend her bar, her strippers and her life when violent infected patrons show up on the final closing night and all hell breaks loose.

Zombie Tidal Wave
›2019 · Action, Adventure, Science Fiction · 86m · Ian Ziering, Erich Chikashi Linzbichler, Shelton Jolivette
A fisherman contends with an ocean-borne outbreak that threatens his seaside island community.

The Mean One
›NR2022 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · David Howard Thornton, Krystle Martin, Chase Mullins
In a sleepy mountain town, Cindy witnesses the murder of her parents by a blood-thirsty green figure in a red Santa suit. Twenty years later, the Christmas-hating monster begins to terrorize the town once more. Cindy finds new purpose in stopping the creature and saving the holiday.






















