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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Clearcut
›R1991 · Thriller, Horror, Western · 98m · Ron Lea, Graham Greene, Michael Hogan
A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
Don't Say Its Name
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Julian Black Antelope, Samuel Marty, Sera-Lys McArthur
After environmental activist Kharis Redwater is called back to the living world by her mother Mary Lynn after a questionable “accident” that cost Kharis her life, an ancient spirit is reborn outside of a small northern town out of revenge for the loss of her daughter’s life. Kharis returns as a Wheetago, a ferocious creature that only gets hungrier the more it eats. Can an ex-military Park Ranger, Stacy Cole, and Police Officer, Betty Stonechild, call back their traditional teachings to stop Kharis before she continues to feed on all who get in her way?
The RigSeries
›TV-142023 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons · Emily Hampshire, Iain Glen, Martin Compston
When the crew of the Kinloch Bravo find themselves cut off from all communication with the Scottish mainland by a mysterious fog, they must fight to find a way home whilst managing environmental pressures, mounting paranoia and rising tensions. But as the threat facing them reveals itself to be something beyond their wildest imagination, the divided crew must form an alliance to ensure survival.
Doomwatch
›1972 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, John Paul
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Prophecy
›PG1979 · Horror, Science Fiction · 102m · Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante
When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to mediate. Chief John Hawks insists the loggers are poisoning the water supply, and, though company man Isley denies it, the Vernes can't ignore the strangely mutated wildlife roaming the woods. Robert captures a bear cub for testing and soon finds himself the target of an angry mutant grizzly.
Slaughterhouse Rulez
›R2018 · Comedy, Horror, Action · 104m · Finn Cole, Asa Butterfield, Hermione Corfield
An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.
Killer Crocodile
›1989 · Horror · 92m · Richard Anthony Crenna, Pietro Genuardi, John Harper
A group of environmentalists arrives at a faraway tropical delta where toxic waste is being dumped. However the water also hides a giant crocodile. The corrupt local officials don't help much either.
Unearth
›2020 · Horror · 94m · Adrienne Barbeau, Marc Blucas, PJ Marshall
The relationship between two neighboring farm families are strained when one of them chooses to lease their land to an oil and gas company. In the midst of growing tension, the land is drilled, and something long dormant and terrifying, deep beneath the earth's surface is released. "Unearth" is about the horrifying repercussions sown by short-sighted decisions, and what our children reap from our actions.
Meet the Applegates
›R1990 · Comedy, Fantasy, Horror · 90m · Ed Begley Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman
Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
Meg 2: The Trench
›PG-132023 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 116m · Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Shuya Sophia Cai
An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.
Something Beneath
›2007 · TV Movie, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Kevin Sorbo, Peter MacNeill, Natalie Brown
When a mysterious black slime oozes up from the plumbing to infiltrate a new conference center, it causes attendees at an environmental convention who come in contact with it to have horrific hallucinations and nightmarish visions of past tragedies. Environmentalist priest Father Douglas Middleton must team up with conference coordinator Khali Spence to stop the slime -- or die trying.
Shark Swarm
›2008 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 158m · Daryl Hannah, John Schneider, Armand Assante
A fisherman and his family fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has released toxins into the ocean, turning the area's sharks into bloodthirsty hunters.
Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre
›2015 · TV Movie, Science Fiction, Action · 84m · Dominique Swain, Traci Lords, Christine Nguyen
When a fracking mishap accidentally rips apart the earth’s crust, the resulting hole opens up a gaping underground water way to a vast and mysterious ocean somewhere deep below. Instantly, giant prehistoric sharks begin wending their way upward toward a murky bog in the heart of the Arkansas Bayou. Unfortunately, for a group of female prisoners on a work detail in the swamp, the deadly sharks attack without warning – pinning a hapless group of intended victims in a small deserted cabin in the heart of the wetlands. Death may be the only means of escape!
Man-Thing
›R2005 · Action, Horror, Adventure · 97m · Matthew Le Nevez, Rachael Taylor, Jack Thompson
Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.
