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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Dead & Buried
›R1981 · Horror, Mystery · 94m · James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
The Norliss Tapes
›1973 · Horror, TV Movie, Thriller · 72m · Roy Thinnes, Don Porter, Angie Dickinson
A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio. As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead.
The Dead Center
›2019 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 93m · Shane Carruth, Poorna Jagannathan, Jeremy Childs
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.
Phantasm II
›R1988 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 97m · James Le Gros, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm
Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.
In a Violent Nature
›NR2024 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 94m · Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Cameron Love
The enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness unleashes an iconic new killer after a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower that entombed its rotting corpse.
Lord of Illusions
›R1995 · Horror, Fantasy, Drama · 109m · Scott Bakula, Kevin J. O'Connor, Famke Janssen
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Patchwork
›2015 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Tory Stolper, Tracey Fairaway, Maria Blasucci
A delightfully dark, Frankenstein-themed horror comedy about a re-animated corpse, made from the stitched together body parts of three murdered young women, that decides to go on a bloody quest to find their killer and avenge their deaths!
Bowery at Midnight
›NR1942 · Crime, Horror, Action · 62m · Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
Shocker
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 111m · Michael Murphy, Mitch Pileggi, Peter Berg
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon.
Sleepstalker
›R1995 · Horror · 105m · Michael Harris, Jay Underwood, Kathryn Morris
Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer
Burying the Ex
›R2014 · Comedy, Horror · 89m · Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, Alexandra Daddario
Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accident. In time, Max meets another woman only to have Evelyn resurface as a zombie ready to resume their relationship.
All Cheerleaders Die
›NR2013 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 89m · Caitlin Stasey, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Brooke Serene Butler
When tragedy rocks Blackfoot High, rebellious outsider Mäddy Killian shocks the student body by joining the cheerleading squad. After a confrontation with the football team, Mäddy and her new cheerleader friends are sent on a supernatural roller coaster ride which leaves a path of destruction none of them may be able to escape.
See No Evil 2
›R2014 · Horror · 90m · Danielle Harris, Glenn Jacobs, Kaj-Erik Eriksen
A group of friends pays a late-night visit to the city morgue to surprise Amy on her birthday. But the surprise is on them when the one-eyed corpse of brutal psychopath Jacob Goodnight unexpectedly rises from a cold sub-basement slab, turning their wild party into a terrifying slay-fest.
Tamara
›2005 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Jenna Dewan, Matthew Marsden, Marc Devigne
Tamara, an unattractive girl who is picked on by her peers, returns after her death as a sexy seductress to enact revenge.
The Necro Files
›NR1997 · Horror, Comedy · 73m · Isaac Cooper, Steve Sheppard, Gary Browning
A cannibalistic rapist rises from the grave as a flesh-eating zombie sex maniac! Two Seattle cops, a satanic cult and a flying demon fetus try to stop the lust-crazed ghoul before he can kill again!
The Chilling
›1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Linda Blair, Dan Haggerty, Troy Donahue
The bodies at a cryogenic centre are defrosted by accident and turn into cannibalistic zombies.
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
›1967 · Horror · 83m · Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Rochelle Hudson
John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In the first, "The Witches Clock," the Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts and are warned by the town doctor of the history of witches in the community. The second story, "King of the Vampires," deals with a slight-figured killer called the King of the Vampires by Scotland Yard. The third, "Monster Raid," is about a man turned zombie when he ODs on his experimental drug. "Spark of Life" deals with a doctor Mendell obsessed with the experiments of a thrown-out professor named Erich von Frankenstein. "Count Alucard" is a variation on the Dracula story, with the Count acquiring the deed to Carfax Abbey from Harker as vampiresses and dead bodies start turning up.
Little Dead Rotting Hood
›NR2016 · Horror · 90m · Eric Balfour, Bianca A. Santos, Patrick Muldoon
The residents of a small town discover that something more sinister than killer wolves is lurking in the backwoods: first the wolves start turning up dead...then people.
Scary or Die
›2012 · Horror · 94m · Bill Oberst Jr., Corbin Bleu, Shawn-Caulin Young
The creation of filmmaker Michael Emanuel, SCARY OR DIE tells five interwoven horror stories that take place in and around the “City of Angles”. A flesh-eating clown desperately trying to protect the person he craves the most; a dirty cop and a hit gone wrong with a vengeful Necromancer; a beautiful but mysterious woman and a lonely man looking for love in all the wrong places; a gruesome, blood-splattered uprising of illegal Mexican zombies; and a Cajun conjurer grandfather whose gift of never-ending love goes terribly awry…SCARY OR DIE is a unique experience in horror filmmaking certain to fulfill all your twisted horror film experience needs.
The Tomb
›R2009 · Horror · 89m · Wes Bentley, Kaitlin Doubleday, Sofya Skya
Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy.
Hellgate
›R1989 · Comedy, Horror · 91m · Ron Palillo, Abigail Wolcott, Carel Trichardt
A motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the life back to dead objects. He uses it to re-animate his daughter. He lets her seduce any young man that comes to visit the small town and then kills them. Four young students, two boys and two girls spend a vacation near the town, Hellgate. They hear about the story and get involved.
Hellraiser: Deader
›R2005 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Kari Wührer, Paul Rhys, Simon Kunz
When a tough-as-nails reporter is lead to a mysterious cult and the evil Pinhead, any moment could be her last.
Russell Mulcahy’s Tale of the Mummy
›R1998 · Horror, Adventure, Fantasy · 88m · Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Sean Pertwee
Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the cursed seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book, and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthirsty Talos.