
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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Friday the 13th: The SeriesSeries
›TV-MA1987 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 3 seasons · Louise Robey, Chris Wiggins, John D. LeMay
Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

Darker PassagesSeries
›2023 · Mystery, Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Steve Kasan, William Conrad, Darrin Drugan
A follow-up series to the popular Dark Passages program - continuing the exploration of lesser-known supernatural events, unsolved mysteries, cults, and urban legends.

In Fabric
›R2018 · Horror, Fantasy, Comedy · 118m · Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Julian Barratt
A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.

The Curse of Robert the Doll
›2022 · Documentary, Horror · 81m · Quinn Aune, Jenna Sue Berry, Shaun Boylan
Considered the most haunted doll in the world, Robert the Doll lives behind glass in a museum in Key West, Florida, where every year thousands of visitors who fail to follow his rules find themselves cursed. Victims have experienced illness, injury, accidents and even death. But what makes Robert curse his victims? What evil entity lives inside this doll? This latest Shock Docs installment explores the true origin of Robert the Doll, uncovers the story of Robert's first owners in 1905, and seeks to find out why this doll is so nefarious.

The Skull
›1965 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark
Esoterica collector Dr Maitland buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source; the artifact is what remains of the Marquis De Sade. Much too soon, Maitland discovers that the skull is turning him into a frenzied killer.

The Monkey
›R2025 · Horror, Comedy · 97m · Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery
When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.

The Haunted MuseumSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Mystery · 2 seasons
Follow the frightening and hellish tales behind the spooky relics on display in Zak Bagans' Las Vegas museum, by way of scripted shorts produced by Eli Roth and his accredited team, and with featured commentary from Bagans himself.

The Mask
›1961 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins, Anne Collings
A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.

Deadly PossessionsSeries
›TV-PG2016 · Reality · 1 season · Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin
Zak Bagans is fulfilling a lifelong dream of opening a museum in downtown Las Vegas, full of the haunted, cursed objects he has been collecting through the years. Each episode features haunted, iconic items and their owners. They share stories of how these objects have terrorized them and, in some cases, even killed people. Bagans interviews the owners and works with them to get to the root of their “attachment,” so they can free themselves…or at least escape harm from these “deadly possessions.”

Bed of the Dead
›2016 · Horror · 88m · Colin Price, Alysa King, Gwenlyn Cumyn
Four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where leaving means suffering a gruesome death. Plagued with frightening hallucinations, they must figure out the bed's secrets before they are ultimately picked off one by one.

Crash!
›PG1976 · Horror · 89m · José Ferrer, Sue Lyon, John Ericson
After a professor is crippled in a car accident, he blames his wife for the ordeal and attempts to have her killed using the same means. Now hospitalized with amnesia, she appears to be protected by a tiny voodoo trinket that she still clutches in her hand, which possesses her car and other objects, causing mayhem throughout the city.

Clown
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · Andy Powers, Laura Allen, Peter Stormare
A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer.

Heidi
›NR2014 · Horror · 93m · Samuel Brian, Joei Fulco, Joey Bell
After discovering a mysterious doll in an attic, two high school friends are increasingly plagued by a series of disturbing and unexplained events.

I'm Dangerous Tonight
›R1990 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 88m · Mädchen Amick, Corey Parker, Daisy Hall
An ancient Aztec cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way into the possession of a young woman. She decides to make a dress from the cloth. Whoever wears this cloth/dress comes under its spell; all inhibitions and moral responsibilities are lost.

Whistle
›R2026 · Horror, Mystery · 100m · Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, Sky Yang
A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down.

Witchboard
›R2025 · Horror · 113m · Madison Iseman, Aaron Dominguez, Mel Jarnson
A cursed Witchboard awakens dark forces, dragging a young couple into a deadly game of possession, deception, and supernatural terror in New Orleans.

Polaroid
›PG-132019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 88m · Kathryn Prescott, Tyler Young, Keenan Tracey
High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a tragic end. Bird and her friends must survive one more night as they race to solve the mystery of the haunted Polaroid before it kills them all.

Vicious
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Dakota Fanning, Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.

The Curse of the Necklace
›R2024 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · Violet McGraw, Madeleine McGraw, Henry Thomas
After separating due to his unpredictable alcohol infused temper, Frank try to win his wife Laura back by giving her a beautiful antique necklace he finds in an old 1938 evidence bag at the station. Unfortunately, the necklace is a conduit for the tormented soul of an evil boy from long ago, and Laura and her daughters find themselves in terrible danger from a little boy who no longer exists.

Daughters of Satan
›R1972 · Horror · 90m · Tom Selleck, Barra Grant, Tani Guthrie
A man buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife.

Dolly Dearest
›R1991 · Horror · 93m · Denise Crosby, Sam Bottoms, Rip Torn
An American family moves to Mexico to fabricate dolls, but their toy factory happens to be next to a Sanzian grave and the toys come into possession of an old, malicious spirit.

The Mirror
›2014 · Horror · 88m · Jemma Dallender, Joshua Dickinson, Nate Fallows
There is a long-held belief that mirrors act as gateways to another dimension. ·Some also believe the looking glass plays host to a world filled with evil spirits. Such superstition has been the basis for ancient folklore legends about haunting and possession. And one tale about a supposedly haunted mirror was picked up by the media in 2012. Both the Daily Mail and Huffington Post reported on how the owners of a recently purchased antique mirror left them dogged by bad luck, financial misery, strange sightings and death-defying illness. Now writer/director Edward Boase brings that horrifying story to the screen starring Jemma Dallender (I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE 2), Joshua Dickinson and Nate Fallows (‘Whitechapel’) as flatmates who buy the same eerie antique on ebay and set up round the clock cameras in the hopes of capturing evidence of bumps in the night. You have been warned!

Wish Upon
›PG-132017 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 91m · Joey King, Ki Hong Lee, Sydney Park
A teenage girl discovers a box with magical powers, but those powers comes with a deadly price.

Amityville 1992: It's About Time
›R1992 · Horror · 94m · Stephen Macht, Shawn Weatherly, Megan Ward
A hot-shot architect returns home from his latest business trip with a surprise: an ornate old clock rescued out of a soon-to-be-demolished mansion in Amityville, New York, that brings about a seemingly unstoppable demonic force.






















