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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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
›2009 · Thriller, Mystery, Crime · 106m · Andrew Garfield, Warren Clarke, Sean Bean
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
Mute Witness
›R1995 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 95m · Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards
When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dilapidated Moscow movie studio late one night, she thinks she witnesses the making of a snuff film. Thus begins a night of terror.
Saw X
›R2023 · Horror, Mystery · 118m · Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund
Between the events of 'Saw' and 'Saw II', a sick and desperate John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer, only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through devious, deranged, and ingenious traps.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
›1932 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 61m · Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi, Leon Ames
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
Corridors of Blood
›1958 · Drama, Horror, Crime · 86m · Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Christopher Lee
In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton [Boris Karloff] dares to dream the unthinkable: experimenting with anesthesia gases to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to his own chemical experiments and gets involved with a criminal gang led by Black Ben [Francis de Wolff], and a ruthless killer Resurrection Joe [Christopher Lee]. Unfortunately, this shady partnership leads Dr. Bolton to further ruin, culminating in his unwitting participation in murder — for which he becomes the first victim of a blackmail scheme.
Lost Girls
›R2020 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 95m · Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Lola Kirke
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.
Most Beautiful Island
›R2017 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 80m · Ana Asensio, Natasha Romanova, David Little
Chronicling one harrowing day in the life of Luciana, a young woman struggling to make ends meet while striving to escape her past. As Luciana’s day unfolds, she is whisked, physically and emotionally, through a series of troublesome, unforeseeable extremes.
K-Shop
›2016 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 115m · Ziad Abaza, Scot Williams, Darren Morfitt
After his father is killed in an altercation with drunken thugs, Salah's world is plunged into darkness. Forced into running the family kebab shop alone, Salah struggles to manage the increasingly rowdy night life and when a fight with an angry customer goes fatally wrong, he finds himself with a dead body on his hands. With no faith in the authorities Salah disposes of the body in the one place he knows best… the kebabs.
The IrregularsSeries
›TV-142021 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Royce Pierreson, McKell David
In Victorian London, a gang of troubled street teens are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
›R1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
The Hunted
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Lily Banda, Alec Newman, Raj Bajaj
After their boat capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea, a group of refugees are rescued by rich Europeans who offer them shelter on an idyllic island. But the miracle soon becomes a nightmare when the saviors turn into ruthless manhunters.
The Black Sleep
›NR1956 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Basil Rathbone, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair
In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...
Wolf Girl
›R2001 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 97m · Victoria Sanchez, Dov Tiefenbach, Tim Curry
Tara Talbot is afflicted with the rare genetic condition hypertrichosis: she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Dune's Travelling Freak Show, on display as the 'Terrifying Wolf Girl', but underneath she is just a teenage girl who longs to be normal.
Undocumented
›2010 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Scott Mechlowicz, Alona Tal, Yancey Arias
A documentary film crew runs afoul of sadistic radicals when they follow illegal immigrants sneaking over the U.S. border.
The Dark Eyes of London
›NR1939 · Horror · 76m · Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
Devoured
›R2012 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 89m · Marta Milans, Kara Jackson, Bruno Gunn
Malevolent forces within the walls of an old restaurant torment a cleaning woman who is trying to earn enough money to pay for her son's operation.
Bowery at Midnight
›NR1942 · Crime, Horror, Action · 62m · Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
The Reading
›2023 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 96m · Mo'Nique, Chasity Sereal, Denisha Hardeman
After a deadly home invasion, Emma (Mo'Nique Hicks) copes by writing a book, but when a young psychic and her team perform a reading in her home, a new terror is unleashed.
The Mutations
›R1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris
A mad scientist crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
Hostel: Part II
›R2007 · Horror · 93m · Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips
Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it.
The Home
›R2025 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Pete Davidson, John Glover, Mugga
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.
Beneath Us
›R2020 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Lynn Collins, Rigo Sanchez, Josue Aguirre
The American Dream becomes a nightmare for a group of undocumented day laborers hired by a wealthy couple. What they expect to be their biggest payday turns into a terrifying fight for survival.
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
›R1987 · Horror · 94m · Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon
The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation by the legal system and the media, the man responsible leads an expedition to the island to free them.
Otto; or, Up with Dead People
›2008 · Drama, Horror, Comedy · 94m · Jey Crisfar, Katharina Klewinghaus, Susanne Sachße
A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who operates the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is still trying to finish Up with Dead People, the epic political-porno-zombie movie that she has been working on for years. She convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom. When Otto discovers that he has a wallet that contains information about his past, before he was dead, he begins to remember details about his ex-boyfriend, Rudolf. He arranges to meet him at the schoolyard where they met, with devastating results.
