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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9 titles
Wait Until Dark
›NR1967 · Thriller, Horror · 108m · Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
Nightmare Alley
›R2021 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 151m · Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
Dark AngelSeries
›TV-142016 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Joanne Froggatt, Mark Underwood, Alun Armstrong
The story of Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, a poisoner whose methods leave no visible scars, allowing her tally of victims to mount, unsuspected by a Victorian society unable to conceive of a woman capable of such terrible crimes. Traveling around the North East, she insinuates herself into unsuspecting families, marrying and creating new families of her own - before killing them, taking their money and moving on.
The Amazing Mr. X
›1948 · Thriller, Horror · 78m · Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
The Documentary
›2017 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Aaron Bowden, Jake B. Miller, Tristin Rupp
D. stalks Sandra but she doesn't know it. She does think that D. is a documentary filmmaker having her be in film about conquering fear. Little does she know that D. is not who he claims to be, and far worse.
Bone Lake
›R2025 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 94m · Alex Roe, Maddie Hasson, Marco Pigossi
A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, bringing terrifying secrets to light and triggering a bloody battle for survival.
No Good Deed
›PG-132014 · Crime, Thriller · 84m · Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb
Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.
Amnesiac
›R2015 · Thriller, Mystery, Drama · 90m · Kate Bosworth, Wes Bentley, Shashawnee Hall
The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his real wife and that a web of lies and deceit deepen inside the house where he soon finds himself a prisoner.
Capps Crossing: Wrong Side of Dead
›R2026 · Horror, Thriller · Beverly D'Angelo, Sabina Gadecki, Sarah Elizabeth Withers
When a behavioral science major investigates murders at Capps Crossing, she finds herself trapped in a twisted web of lies surrounding the local ranger and his son.