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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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
›R1974 · Horror · 83m · Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
›PG1978 · Science Fiction, Horror · 116m · Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
Body Snatchers
›R1993 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
›R2003 · Horror · 98m · Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Andrew Bryniarski
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Dahmer
›R2002 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 101m · Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison, Artel Great
On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his life.
The Cured
›R2017 · Horror, Drama, Science Fiction · 95m · Elliot Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins.
The Mill
›R2023 · Science Fiction, Horror · 106m · Lil Rel Howery, Pat Healy, Karen Obilom
A businessman wakes up beside an ancient grist mill situated in the center of an open-air prison cell with no idea how he got there. Forced to work as a beast of burden to stay alive, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child.
Taeter City
›2012 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 72m · Monica Muñoz, Riccardo Valentini, Santiago Ortaez
In Taeter City, there is no crime. Using Zeed radio waves, the city’s dictatorship cause criminals to commit suicide. Their corpses are processed and sold as fast-food by conglomerates who nourish the ravenous populace. It was a perfect system…until Zeed started making the criminals stronger…
Deadgirl
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 101m · Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen
When high school misfits Rickie and JT decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face with a gruesome discovery: a body of a woman stripped naked, chained to a table and covered in plastic and soon realize she is anything but dead. Quickly the boys find themselves embarking on a twisted yet poignant journey testing the limits of their friendship, and forces both to decide just how far they're willing to stretch their understanding of right and wrong.
Territories
›2010 · Thriller, Horror · 95m · Cristina Rosato, Michael Mando, Roc LaFortune
Five friends return home from a wedding in Canada to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity.
31
›R2016 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · Sheri Moon Zombie, Richard Brake, Meg Foster
Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.
Scarecrows
›2017 · Horror · 80m · Hannah Gordon, Mike Taylor, Umed Amin
Teenagers are kidnapped and made into scarecrows, that are left to die in the crop fields.
Animalistic
›2015 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 74m · Hanna Oldenburg, Torbjörn Andersson, Ralf Beck
Emma is kidnapped and imprisoned by a trio of psychopaths.
American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore
›2015 · Horror · 73m · Ashley Lynn Caputo, Lilly Dickenson, Scott Gabbey
A couple of young women are abducted and become the unwilling stars of a snuff film, wherein they are brutally tortured.
Like Dogs
›NR2021 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Annabel Barrett, Ignacyo Matynia, Ryan Q. Tran
A behavioral experiment treating humans like animals goes awry when a University Student manipulates the research with deadly results.
Blood Sucking Freaks
›NR1976 · Horror, Comedy · 88m · Seamus O'Brien, Viju Krem, Niles McMaster
Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real.
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
›R2009 · Horror · 92m · Dieter Laser, Winter Williams (Formerly Ashley C. Williams), Ashlynn Yennie
During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon, who has a very disturbed vision.
The Farm
›NC-172019 · Horror · 80m · Nora Yessayan, Alec Gaylord, Ken Volok
The young couple Nora and Alec are on their way back from a long road trip. In a desert town they want to take a break, but when they wake up the next morning, they are no longer in the motel where they had actually checked in. Overnight, the by a group of crazed killers wearing animal masks, have been abducted. What would happen if people were treated like cattle for slaughter? On the farm, this horrific idea comes true. As Nora and Alec soon find out, they are not the only ones locked in cages, fattened up and fed only to be slaughtered, disemboweled and eaten as a delicacy by their torturers. For the young couple begins a fight for bare survival.
Girl Next
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · Rachel Alig, Larry Wade Carrell, Paula Marcenaro Solinger
A young woman is abducted by a strange group of human traffickers who use drug and trauma based mind control to turn women into "Sofia" dolls. Trapped in a waking nightmare she fights for a way to escape, to avoid becoming Girl Next.
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
›R2015 · Horror · 103m · Dieter Laser, Bree Olson, Eric Roberts
Taking inspiration from The Human Centipede films, the warden of a notorious and troubled prison looks to create a 500-person human centipede as a solution to his problems.