Cinema of the Damned

NR2016 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 80m · Ethan Embry, Shiri Appleby, Pruitt Taylor Vince

A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.

IMDb 6.3MC 72🍅 93%TMDB 6.3☠ 6.6

2012 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 92m · Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Cosimo Fusco

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

IMDb 6.2MC 80🍅 85%TMDB 6.0☠ 6.5

2025 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 88m · Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, Jade Croot

When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door who is intent on infiltrating their lives.

🍅 48%TMDB 5.6☠ 6.2

R1993 · Mystery, Horror · 122m · Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker

Following the public's realization that Thad Beaumont and George Stark are one and the same, the former stages a mock funeral, only for a series of gruesome murders to begin occurring as in his books.

IMDb 6.0MC 53🍅 55%TMDB 6.0☠ 5.9

1980 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 90m · Stephen Young, Sharon Masters, Marvin Goldhar

A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.1☠ 5.9

2006 · Horror, TV Movie · 60m · Christopher Lloyd, Tony Todd, Tyron Leitso

Taken from a Clive Barker original screen story, tells the tale of a novelist who discovers there are fates worse than literary anonymity in this sexually-charged tale of terror.

IMDb 5.7TMDB 5.2☠ 5.8

2024 · Horror, Comedy, Music · 86m · Jonah Ray Rodrigues, Randee Heller, Pete Ploszek

William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad. Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, William inadvertently decapitates him. But, while attempting to cover up one murder, William’s accidental reign of terror causes victims to pile up and become undead corpses who torment and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla.

IMDb 5.3🍅 71%TMDB 6.1☠ 5.8

R2022 · Horror, Comedy, Music · 106m · Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel

Legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album. Once in the house, Dave Grohl finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the band.

IMDb 5.6MC 50🍅 56%TMDB 5.9☠ 5.6

R2012 · Comedy, Thriller, Horror · 100m · Simon Pegg, Paul Freeman, Clare Higgins

Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.

IMDb 5.8MC 31🍅 34%TMDB 5.7☠ 5.4

R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.

IMDb 5.5MC 59🍅 29%TMDB 5.9☠ 5.4

1986 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Meg Foster, Wings Hauser, David McCallum

Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient, deserted, walled-in fortress, she is met by Elias Appleby, the round eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive after dark.

IMDb 5.1TMDB 5.2☠ 5.4

R2026 · Music, Drama, Thriller · 112m · Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer

Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm on the eve of her comeback performance.

IMDb 4.0MC 60TMDB 5.7☠ 5.3

R1988 · Fantasy, Horror · 77m · Debrah Farentino, Yvonne De Carlo, Jeffrey Combs

A comic book artist Whitney Taylor is doomed to repeat history in a most grotesque way when she unleashes a demon after drawing it.

IMDb 5.1TMDB 5.0☠ 5.3

R1981 · Horror, Mystery · 104m · Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, Michael David Lally

A New York writer of gothic fiction finds her mansion full of ghosts from a brothel massacre.

IMDb 4.9TMDB 5.3☠ 5.3

PG1974 · Horror · 94m · Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Joseph Sirola

A disturbed author's house party becomes a scene of carnage when three of his homicidal creations appear.

IMDb 4.7TMDB 5.1☠ 5.2

R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Edward Furlong, Michael Berryman, Kristin Booth

When Jack (Edward Furlong) is in danger of missing a deadline, his manager orders him to take whatever measures are needed to complete his screenplay. Jack locks himself in a slaughterhouse freezer but discovers that his inner demons are keeping him company. Despite the cold, Jack's imagination is red-hot as he concocts the story of Frank (Furlong), a tow truck driver who's locked in a fridge with the dying victim of a serial killer.

IMDb 4.4TMDB 5.1☠ 5.1

R2009 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Brittany Murphy, Thora Birch, Tammy Blanchard

A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.

IMDb 4.6TMDB 4.9☠ 4.8

2014 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Steven Brand, Kevin Brewerton, Ivory Dortch

A young writer experiences visions during episodes of sleep paralysis, and she retreats with her boyfriend to an isolated house in the desert. As the visions worsen, she teeters on the edge of insanity as she uncovers a life-threatening secret.

IMDb 4.3TMDB 4.2☠ 4.8

2016 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 90m · Katie Findlay, Stephen McHattie, Enrico Colantoni

Haunted by a terrifying spirit out of her graphic novel, a young artist struggles to overcome her psychosis before it destroys her.

IMDb 4.5🍅 20%TMDB 4.9☠ 4.8

R2011 · Mystery, Fantasy, Horror · 88m · Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Bruce Dern

A washed-up horror novelist arrives in a sleepy town on a book tour, only to stumble into a string of eerie murders. Haunted by dreams of a ghostly girl named V and guided by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, he’s drawn into a nightmarish world where fiction and reality blur—and the story he’s chasing leads back to his own buried guilt.

IMDb 4.8MC 40🍅 39%TMDB 5.1☠ 4.7

2020 · Horror · 103m · James Morris, Stevie Dust, Emily Broschinsky

Seeking inspiration for a new writing project, a man spends Halloween night in a notoriously haunted house. He soon realizes he is living in his own horror story.

IMDb 3.5TMDB 5.6☠ 4.3

NR2019 · Horror · 83m · Karli Hall, Amanda Kathleen Ward, Sascha Ghafoor

When two sisters go to an isolated cabin in the woods to film a passion project, family secrets start to get in the way, as do masked strangers filming a passion project of their own.

IMDb 3.6🍅 29%TMDB 4.5☠ 4.3

2010 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Charisma Carpenter, Paul Sculfor, Ricci Harnett

A serial killer unleashes his blood lust at a remote environmental-camp. Years later a horror novelist relocates to rural England and is plagued to the point of madness by horrific hauntings of a massacre.

IMDb 3.6TMDB 3.6☠ 4.1