
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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Deliver Us from Evil
›R2014 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 118m · Eric Bana, Olivia Munn, Edgar Ramírez
When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest Mendoza convinces him that demonic possession may be to blame for the gruesome murders. Together, they wage a valiant supernatural struggle to rid the city of an otherworldly evil.

Gates of Flesh
›2025 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 91m · Rae Olivier, Daniel Annone, Jarrod Beck
A group of friends attempt to escape the city after an outbreak of demon-possessions. The friends seek shelter in an abandoned church, but their plans for escape are ruined when one of them becomes possessed.

A Night of Horror Volume 1
›2015 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Bianca Bradey, Emily Wheaton, Jessica Gower
Whether you’re a fan of Sydney's iconic genre film festival A Night of Horror, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema, you can’t afford to miss this fright-filled anthology. Zombies, demonic entities, self-surgery, cannibalism and more await in the dark corners of this terrifying offering from some of the most talented filmmakers working in the genre today.

Headhunter
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Wayne Crawford, Kay Lenz, Steve Kanaly
A Miami cop finds out his wife has a female lover, so he starts crashing on the couch of his female partner. Meanwhile, a voodoo demon from Africa arrives among Miami's Nigerian community and begins decapitating some people and possessing others.

The Dark Side of the Moon
›R1990 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 91m · Will Bledsoe, Robert Sampson, Joe Turkel
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the crew is possessed and killed, and it is up to Paxton Warner to find the links between the dark side of the moon, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Devil himself.

Bornless Ones
›2016 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 81m · Michael Johnston, Mark Furze, David Banks
With the help of her friends, Emily moves to a remote home to take better care of her brother, Zack who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. But what they don't know is that the house is keeping a terrifying secret that will haunt them one by one.

Demon Wind
›R1990 · Horror · 96m · Eric Larson, Francine Lapensée, Rufus Norris
The strange and brutal deaths of Cory’s grandparents has haunted him for years. Determined to discover the truth, he has returned to the desolate region where they lived, along with a group of friends, to try and uncover the mystery. Ignoring warnings from the locals that the area is cursed, Cory and his friends soon realize that the legend is true, as the Demon Wind, possesses and destroys them, one by one, turning them into monsters from hell.

Soul to Keep
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Aurora Heimbach, Sandra Mae Frank, Jordan Theodore
Siblings invite their friends to their inherited yet abandoned farmhouse only to become victims of a demonic ritual.

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!

I Don't Want to Be Born
›1976 · Thriller, Horror · 95m · Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Ralph Bates
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the Devil.

From a House on Willow Street
›2017 · Horror · 90m · Sharni Vinson, Carlyn Burchell, Steven John Ward
After a young woman is kidnapped, her captors soon come to realize that in fact they may be the ones in danger and this young woman has a dark secret inside her.

The Exorcist: Believer
›R2023 · Horror · 111m · Leslie Odom Jr., Lidya Jewett, Olivia O'Neill
Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior reminiscent of the MacNeil possession fifty years prior.

Nightmare Man
›R2006 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Tiffany Shepis, Blythe Metz, Luciano Szafir
Ellen receives an exotic mask by mistake and begins to have waking nightmares and hallucinations. Her husband and doctors believe she is a paranoid schizophrenic and take her to a psychiatric ward. On the way to the hospital the car breaks down, her husband rushes off to get gas, and the Nightmare Man appears. Ellen escapes and stumbles upon a country house where two young couples are spending the weekend. They do not know if the killer is real or just a figment of Ellen's tortured mind nor if the killer is outside or already inside the house.

Escape Room
›2017 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 86m · Skeet Ulrich, Sean Young, Christine Donlon
Four friends who partake in a popular Los Angeles escape room find themselves stuck with a demonically possessed killer. They have less than an hour to solve the puzzles needed to escape the room alive.

The Covenant
›2017 · Horror · 90m · Monica Engesser, Clint James, Maria Olsen
After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It's not long before Sarah begins to experience supernatural phenomena of a violent and hostile nature.

The Appearing
›R2013 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 92m · Will Wallace, Don Swayze, Dean Cain
A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.






















