Cinema of the Damned
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13 titles
Cold Storage
›R2026 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 99m · Georgina Campbell, Joe Keery, Sosie Bacon
When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.
Alligator
›R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
Doomwatch
›1972 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, John Paul
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
C.H.U.D.
›R1984 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
Prophecy
›PG1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 102m · Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante
When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to mediate. Chief John Hawks insists the loggers are poisoning the water supply, and, though company man Isley denies it, the Vernes can't ignore the strangely mutated wildlife roaming the woods. Robert captures a bear cub for testing and soon finds himself the target of an angry mutant grizzly.
The Rats
›2002 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 94m · Mädchen Amick, Vincent Spano, Shawn Michael Howard
A clan of evil rats overtakes a Manhattan department store and threatens to overrun the city.
Class of Nuke 'Em High
›R1986 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 86m · Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton, Robert Prichard
The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.
Uninvited
›PG-131988 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Toni Hudson, Rob Estes, Alex Cord
A sinister corporation loses control of a house cat infected with a genetically-engineered virus. The death-toll rises during the mutant feline's rampage, and eventually, it finds its way on board a ship of a criminal king-pin.
Bloodlust Zombies
›2011 · Horror, Comedy · 76m · Alexis Texas, Janice Marie, Adam Danoff
A military weapons manufacturer creates a chemical weapon that causes victims to become blood-lusting killers. A lab accident causes the building to go into lock-down and the employees are trapped inside with the crazed killers.
Dark Waters
›2003 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 93m · Lorenzo Lamas, Simmone Mackinnon, Jeffrey Gorman
Unusually vicious and aggressive sharks attack an oil rig in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. Dane Quatrell and a team are sent to investigate, but the sharks are still on the prowl and now they have developed a taste for blood.
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
›R2009 · Horror · 87m · Rider Strong, Noah Segan, Alexi Wasser
A high school prom faces a deadly threat: a flesh-eating virus that spreads via a popular brand of bottled water.
Alligator 2: The Mutation
›1991 · Horror, Action · 92m · Joseph Bologna, Dee Wallace, Richard Lynch
A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake.
The Black Demon
›R2023 · Thriller, Horror · 101m · Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Julio Cesar Cedillo
Oilman Paul Sturges' idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Stranded and under constant attack, Paul and his family must somehow find a way to get his family back to shore alive before it strikes again in this epic battle between humans and nature.