Cinema of the Damned

NR1986 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

IMDb 7.0MC 80🍅 89%TMDB 6.7☠ 7.2

TV-142021 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Paul Bernardo, Karla Homolka

Three schoolgirl murders. Two killers hiding in plain sight. Six video tapes that horrify the world and lead to one of the most controversial murder trials in modern history: one that left a nation shamed, victims denied justice, and a serial killer roaming free in Canada today. Over the course four parts, THE KEN AND BARBIE KILLERS: THE LOST MURDER TAPES follows the extraordinary twists and turns of the case and trial of glamour couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the "demonic duo of dark kink", who quickly became the most notorious killers in Canadian history.

IMDb 7.2TMDB 7.9☠ 7.0

R2007 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 97m · Elliot Page, Catherine Keener, Hayley McFarland

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

IMDb 7.2🍅 40%TMDB 7.3☠ 6.7

2016 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 108m · Ashleigh Cummings, Emma Booth, Stephen Curry

When Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple, she soon observes the dynamic between her captors and quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.

2023 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Ron McFall, Sharon Sellitto, Steve Matthews

In a riveting character-led narrative full of unimaginable twists and turns normally reserved for fiction, detectives discover two depraved men who killed at least 25 people in pursuit of their macabre sexual fantasy to enslave young women at a remote cabin in the woods, and who documented their horrifying crimes. All these years later, mystery still swirls around the facts of this case and the possible involvement of a third person, whose story the show will seek to uncover.

IMDb 7.1TMDB 5.8☠ 6.7

NR2011 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 95m · Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

IMDb 6.4MC 67🍅 79%TMDB 6.2☠ 6.5

R2022 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Stefanie Estes, Olivia Luccardi, Eleanore Pienta

Taking place in real time, elementary school teacher Emily organizes a mixer of like-minded women, but an altercation between a woman from Emily’s past and the group leads to a volatile chain of events.

IMDb 6.2MC 82TMDB 6.4☠ 6.5

TV-141993 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Kate Reid, Brian Dennehy, Randy Quaid

Murder in the Heartland tells the grotesque true story of Charlie Starkweather, 19, who killed 11 people in Nebraska in 1957-58, and his 14-year-old girlfriend,

NR2021 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 94m · Jim Cummings, Virginia Newcomb, PJ McCabe

An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data.

IMDb 6.1MC 72🍅 92%TMDB 6.0☠ 6.4

R1983 · Drama, Thriller · 105m · Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.

IMDb 6.3MC 60🍅 77%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.4

R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Mark Webber, Devon Graye, Tom Bower

Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden-camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.

IMDb 6.3MC 44🍅 65%TMDB 6.3☠ 6.2

R2008 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Milo Ventimiglia, Alyssa Milano, Michael Weston

Medical student Ted Grey graduates at the top of his class and quickly joins an elite pathology program, whose top students invite him into their circle. There he uncovers a gruesome secret: They play a game in which one tries to commit the perfect, undetectable murder, then the others compete to determine the victim's cause of death.

IMDb 5.9MC 55🍅 46%TMDB 5.7☠ 5.8

NR2012 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 103m · Gavin Brown, Ethan Philbeck, Phyllis Munro

Marty is the ideal fifth grader—he gets good grades, listens to his teachers and doesn't start trouble in class. But a darkness is beginning to fall over Marty's life, the kids at school won't stop picking on him, his parents just don't seem to understand him, and now Marty must grapple with a terrible secret that threatens to destroy life as he knows it—his big brother is a serial killer.

IMDb 5.8MC 41🍅 71%TMDB 6.3☠ 5.8

2007 · Comedy, Drama, Horror · 94m · Jay Baruchel, Rose Byrne, Graham Greene

A young man inherits a nearly bankrupt funeral home from his estranged father. He falls in love with the alluring young mortician, only to find out she's offing people to keep the place in business!

IMDb 6.0🍅 33%TMDB 5.9☠ 5.7

2016 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Jennifer Fraser, Farhang Ghajar, Jon Gates

A couple plots to murder a random stranger just for the thrill of it, but things turn ugly when one of them decides not to go through with it.

IMDb 5.2TMDB 4.6☠ 5.6

1971 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Michael Gough, Yvonne Mitchell, Sharon Gurney

A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.

IMDb 5.2TMDB 5.3☠ 5.6

R2021 · Horror, Fantasy · 92m · Gideon Adlon, Abigail Cowen, Elizabeth Mitchell

In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.

IMDb 4.9🍅 63%TMDB 6.6☠ 5.5

2011 · Drama, Horror · 120m · Kevin Zegers, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Yu Aoi

An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood.

IMDb 5.2TMDB 6.0☠ 5.5

2022 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 122m · Jake Busey, Ginger Lynn Allen, Susan Priver

Inspired by the terrifying story of Robert 'Willy' Pickton, the pig farmer cum prolific lady killer whose horrific crimes shocked the world, PIG KILLER graphically depicts the rape, torture, slaughter and dismemberment of forty-nine young women on a pig farm. With his herculean hog, Balthazar, by his side, Willy and his menagerie of colorful cohorts terrorize Vancouver's seedy downtown until his arrest which uncovered a horrific series of brutal Canadian murders.

IMDb 3.8TMDB 5.0☠ 5.3

2012 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 91m · Jason Vail, Nicholas Wilder, Sarah Schoofs

Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around him. Dan has the solution... something Tom's got to see to believe... tonight. What Dan shows him leaves Tom unsettled, flooding his mind with disturbing images, and binding the two friends together with its ugly secret.

IMDb 3.9🍅 50%TMDB 3.7☠ 4.8

NR2007 · Horror · 85m · Fred Vogel, Cristie Whiles, Shelby Vogel

Has someone ever handed you a movie, not telling you one thing about it, only telling you to watch it. What if that tape was the personal home video of two sociopaths on a killing spree? This is their home movie, for their eyes-only. This is August Underground's Penance. The third and final film in the AU franchise directed by Fred Vogel and starring Cristie "Crusty" Whiles. Penance shows the dark decline of the two nameless killers from the previous films as they continue to videotape their madness on their path to destruction.

IMDb 3.6TMDB 3.9☠ 4.4