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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IT: Welcome to DerrySeries
›TV-MA2025 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Matilda Lawler
In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.
Scream: The TV SeriesSeries
›TV-MA2015 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · 3 seasons · RJ Cyler, Jessica Sula, Keke Palmer
What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.
The Devil All the Time
›R2020 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 138m · Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
Fear Street: 1666
›R2021 · Mystery, Horror · 115m · Kiana Madeira, Benjamin Flores Jr., Olivia Scott Welch
In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.
SlasherSeries
›TV-MA2016 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 3 seasons · Baraka Rahmani, Lisa Berry, Dean McDermott
Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying murders centered around the seven deadly sins.
Redux Redux
›R2025 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 109m · Michaela McManus, Stella Marcus, Jeremy Holm
In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer again and again. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity begins to slip away—until the cycle is disrupted when she rescues Mia, a sharp-witted teenager already marked by the killer.
Cremaster 2
›1999 · Fantasy, Horror, Western · 79m · Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, Lauren Pine
CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1.
Massacre at Central High
›R1976 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Derrel Maury, Andrew Stevens, Robert Carradine
Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student engineers acts of revenge.
Frightmare
›R1974 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Rupert Davies, Sheila Keith, Deborah Fairfax
In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for society and released. However, in Dorothy's case the doctors may have jumped the gun a bit. Edmund and eldest daughter, Jackie, try to discover just how far Mother's bloodlust has taken her. Meanwhile, youngest daughter Debbie begins to explore the crazy roots of her family tree as fully as possible.
All That We Destroy
›NR2019 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 85m · Israel Broussard, Samantha Mathis, Aurora Perrineau
A geneticist who fears that her son may be becoming a serial killer creates a group of clones in an attempt to cure him of his psychopathic tendencies by allowing him to relive the murder of his first victim.
The Prowler
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 89m · Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Lawrence Tierney
Thirty years after a murder on the night of Avalon Bay's graduation dance, the sleepy town's teens meet grisly ends at the hands of a prowler once thought to be a jilted soldier home from war.
Acolytes
›2009 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Sebastian Gregory
Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.
Artik
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 76m · Chase Williamson, Jerry G. Angelo, Lauren Ashley Carter
In rural farm country, a comic book obsessed serial killer clashes with a straight edge purist over a young boy's fate.
Lucky
›2020 · Fantasy, Horror, Mystery · 83m · Brea Grant, Leith M. Burke, Dhruv Uday Singh
May, a self help author with all the answers, suddenly finds herself stalked by a masked man who mysteriously reappears every night. Even when she kills him. May struggles to get help from the people around her as she fights to stay alive. Is this paranoia, or is she doomed to accept her new reality?
Sometimes They Come Back
›R1991 · Horror, TV Movie · 98m · Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, Robert Rusler
Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens who committed the crime are long dead, but now the kids in Jim's new class keep dying and being replaced by new students who look like the deceased hoodlums.
Hell High
›R1989 · Horror · 84m · Maureen Mooney, Christopher Stryker, Christopher Cousins
A teacher still haunted by the death of two teens that she accidentally caused as a young girl goes berserk when four teens start harassing her and then attack her in her home.
1 Buck
›2017 · Drama, Thriller · 89m · John Freeman, Katie Ryan, Cassi Colvin
Shifting from one pocket to another, from one man's drama to another, a lowly dollar bill, 'one buck' takes us on an odyssey through the heart of a forgotten town in Louisiana.
Happy Hell Night
›1991 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 87m · Nick Gregory, Laura Carney, Sam Rockwell
25 years ago at Winfield College, psycho-priest Zachary Malius murdered seven frat boys and was put away in the local asylum. Now, however, the same fraternity stages a prank from which Malius is inadvertently set free and returns to the house to repeat his crime...
Scream 7
›R2026 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 114m · Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Isabel May
When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.
The Seeding
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Scott Haze, Kate Lyn Sheil, Charlie Avink
When a hiker gets lost in the desert, a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.
6:45
›R2021 · Thriller, Horror · 93m · Michael Reed, Augie Duke, Thomas G. Waites
A couple embarks on a weekend getaway only to find the island curiously deserted. After stumbling upon the town’s dark secret, they trigger a time loop, forcing them to relive a demented cycle of terror with seemingly no means of escape.
The House Where Evil Dwells
›R1982 · Horror · 88m · Edward Albert, Susan George, Doug McClure
At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.
The Afflicted
›NR2011 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Leslie Easterbrook, Kane Hodder, J.D. Hart
A story of incomprehensible abuse delivered by an explosively violent mother of four. Journey through the mind of a child that experiences a living hell, defined and defended by the twisted religious beliefs of her mother.
Warhouse
›2013 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Joseph Morgan, Matt Ryan, William Troughton
Royal Marine A.J Budd awakes in a mysterious house and is forced to fight for his life everyday against grotesque inhuman opponents. Trapped alone in an unchanging prison of unbreakable routines, he must kill every day or die himself. As days stretch into years, the isolation and unceasing violence threaten his very soul.
