
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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Poltergeist
›PG1982 · Horror · 114m · JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

ThemSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 2 seasons · Deborah Ayorinde, Pam Grier, Luke James
A limited anthology series that explores terror in America.

The Conjuring 2
›R2016 · Horror · 134m · Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Madison Wolfe
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer
›R2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · 121m · Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.

The Enfield HauntingSeries
›2015 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Timothy Spall, Matthew Macfadyen, Juliet Stevenson
A three part dramatization of the terrifying and bizarre real events that took place at an ordinary house in Enfield during the autumn of 1977. Adapted from Guy Lyon Playfair's book This House is Haunted.

Hidden
›R2015 · Thriller, Horror · 83m · Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Emily Alyn Lind
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.

Funny Games
›R2008 · Thriller, Horror · 111m · Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.

Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County
›1998 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 93m · Benz Antoine, Kristian Ayre, Gillian Barber
After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.

The Hills Have Eyes
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 107m · Aaron Stanford, Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

Burnt Offerings
›PG1976 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 116m · Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith
A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.

Dark Skies
›PG-132013 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 97m · Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after their family.

Critters
›PG-131986 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush
Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.

It's Alive
›PG1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan
The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever scared. And it's easily scared.

The Amityville Horror
›R1979 · Horror · 118m · James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

Arcadian
›R2024 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins
In the near future, on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons face terror at night when ferocious creatures awaken. When Paul is nearly killed, the boys come up with a plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive.

Baphomet
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 72m · Colin Ward, Rebecca Weaver, Matthan Harris
An American family celebrates their 28-year-old daughter's pregnancy. The celebration is interrupted when a Satanic cult leader, Henrik Brandr, unexpectedly visits their ranch. Henrik offers to pay the family a large sum for ownership of their land. Jacob Richardson, the father, rejects the offer due to the priceless sentimental value of the ranch. Henrik, displeased, begins to put devastating curses on the Richardsons, trying to force them off their land - even if it means murdering them. After suffering unexplainable tragedies, the Richardsons seek help from Marybeth, a white witch high priestess. They soon discover a terrible secret about their house, revealing why their land is so valuable to the cult. They realize they must protect their house from the cult at all costs, and a violent battle between good and evil ensues.

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
›1978 · Horror, TV Movie · 95m · Richard Crenna, Yvette Mimieux, Kim Richards
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.

The Godsend
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence
An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she appears.

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
›R1984 · Horror · 91m · Judie Aronson, Kimberly Beck, Joan Freeman
After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers.

The Amityville Horror
›R2005 · Horror · 90m · Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

Poltergeist II: The Other Side
›PG-131986 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke
The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition as the Reverend Kane, a religious zealot responsible for the deaths of his many followers. His goal is simple - he wants the angelic Carol Anne.

Hosts
›NR2020 · Horror · 89m · Neal Ward, Samantha Loxley, Frank Jakeman
On Christmas Eve, an innocent couple become hosts to a malicious entity. Throughout the night they terrorise a family of five in unimaginably violent and disturbing ways.

The Haunting in Connecticut
›PG-132009 · Thriller, Horror · 102m · Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Martin Donovan
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover.

The Pack
›2015 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Anna Lise Phillips, Jack Campbell, Katie Moore
Man’s best friend becomes his worst nightmare when a horde of bloodthirsty wild dogs descends upon a family’s farmhouse in a fang-bearing fight for survival.






















