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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32 titles
The Invisible Man
›NR1933 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
Evil Dead II
›R1987 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 84m · Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.
Messiah of Evil
›R1975 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Joy Bang
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
Mandy
›NR2018 · Fantasy, Action, Horror · 122m · Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
The Invisible Man Returns
›1940 · Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Color Out of Space
›R2020 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 111m · Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur
The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.
Grip of the Strangler
›NR1958 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 78m · Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Combat Shock
›R1986 · War, Drama, Horror · 97m · Rick Giovinazzo, Veronica Stork, Mitch Maglio
A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.
Event Horizon
›R1997 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 96m · Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
A Wounded Fawn
›NR2022 · Horror · 91m · Josh Ruben, Sarah Lind, Malin Barr
A local museum curator who is dipping her toe back into the dating pool is targeted by a charming serial killer. When a fateful romantic getaway between the two becomes a tense game of cat and mouse, both must confront the madness within him.
The Mafu Cage
›R1978 · Thriller, Horror · 102m · Lee Grant, Carol Kane, Will Geer
Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on straight, as it were, the other appears to be sinking further and further into barbarism and insanity.
The Mask
›1961 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins, Anne Collings
A young archaeologist believes he is cursed by a mask that causes him to have weird nightmares and possibly to murder. Before committing suicide, he mails the mask to his psychiatrist, Dr. Barnes, who is soon plunged into the nightmare world of the mask.
Beaten to Death
›NR2023 · Horror · 92m · Thomas Roach, David Tracy, Nicole Tudor
A desperate choice leads Jack down a path that leaves him beaten and bruised as he struggles against man, nature and his own insanity. Stranded in the middle of nowhere after barely surviving a horrific assault, Jack encounters one local after another and quickly learns that a sick game of cat and mouse is about to begin. Battling the deranged country psychos and the harsh landscape, Jack must go to extreme lengths to survive.
The Descent: Part 2
›R2009 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Gavan O'Herlihy
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
Black Mountain Side
›NR2016 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 99m · Shane Twerdun, Michael Dickson, Carl Toftfelt
A group of archaeologists working in Northern Canada uncover a strange structure dating over ten thousand years before the present. The team soon finds themselves isolated when their communication systems fail and they begin to feel the effects of solitude.
Evil Ed
›1995 · Horror, Comedy · 93m · Johan Rudebeck, Per Löfberg, Olof Rhodin
Edward is a friendly, harmless film editor in the splatter and gore department of a horror film company. Ed is assigned to work on the new Loose Limbs series of horror films after the previous editor killed himself with a hand grenade. Later his reality begins to twist and distort into a horrifying world where nothing is as it seems. Soon enough this turns Ed into Evil Ed!
Goddess of Love
›2015 · Mystery, Drama, Thriller · 96m · Alexis Kendra, Elizabeth Sandy, Monda Scott
Enter into a baroque vortex of madness when an emotionally unstable woman is shattered after tremendous heartbreak. Brian was the love of Venus’ life and the thought of him having an affair with another woman begins her volatile descent into the dark side of psychosexual insanity.
Ghost Game
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Kia Dorsey, Zaen Haidar, Sam Lukowski
As part of an internet challenge to live undetected in a stranger’s home, a daring couple target an infamous haunted house and endure a series of chilling incidents as they witness a family descending into madness.
Living Dark: The Story of Ted the Caver
›2013 · Horror · 97m · Chris Cleveland, Matthew Alan, Mark Hayter
Two brothers, reunited for their father's funeral, stumble upon the entrance to a nearby cave. Here, they are slowly forced to confront the true, nightmarish cause of their father's death. Based on the popular Ted the Caver internet legend.
Vinyan
›R2008 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell, Petch Osathanugrah
Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.
Lord of Tears
›2013 · Drama, Horror · 100m · David Schofield, Alexandra Nicole Hulme, Euan Douglas
Lord of Tears tells the story of James Findlay, a school teacher plagued by recurring nightmares of a mysterious and unsettling entity. Suspecting that his visions are linked to a dark incident in his past, James returns to his childhood home, a notorious mansion in the Scottish Highlands, where he uncovers the disturbing truth behind his dreams, and must fight to survive the brutal consequences of his curiosity.
Beneath
›NR2013 · Horror · 89m · Brent Briscoe, Kurt Caceres, Eric Etebari
A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events.
The Devil's Chair
›2007 · Horror · 91m · Andrew Howard, Pollyanna Rose, Olivia Hill
With a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a shag and a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device - a cross between an electric chair and sadistic fetish machine - transforms drugged-out bliss into agony and despair
11th Hour Cleaning
›2022 · Horror · 72m · Chloe Brooks, Edward Finlay, Ed Morrone
A group of crime scene cleaners struggle to escape a murder house after becoming trapped by an ancient Nordic demon that is hell-bent on driving them insane.