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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The Unknown
›NR1927 · Drama, Thriller, Romance · 68m · Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder—a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
Lost GirlSeries
›TV-142010 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 5 seasons · Anna Silk, Zoie Palmer, Kristen Holden-Ried
The gorgeous and charismatic Bo is a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.
Mad Love
›1935 · Horror, Romance · 68m · Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.
Behind Her EyesSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Simona Brown, Eve Hewson, Tom Bateman
A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.
I Walked with a Zombie
›NR1943 · Mystery, Horror, Drama · 69m · James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
SalemSeries
›TV-MA2014 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 3 seasons · Janet Montgomery, Shane West, Seth Gabel
Set in the volatile world of 17th century Massachusetts, 'Salem' explores what really fueled the town's infamous witch trials and dares to uncover the dark, supernatural truth hiding behind the veil of this infamous period in American history. In Salem, witches are real, but they are not who or what they seem.
BittenSeries
›TV-MA2014 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons · Laura Vandervoort, Greyston Holt, Greg Bryk
Elena Micheals thought she left the world of supernatural behind when she left Stonehaven behind 'for good this time' she thought. Until the night she got the mysterious call from her pack leader asking her to come back. So now she is heading back, leaving her life as a normal photographer in Toronto for the moment to re-enter the world of werewolves, rules about protect the pack and a man she has spent years trying to get out of her system. Oh and did she mention she was the only living female werewolf in existence?
The Black Room
›NR1935 · Horror, Crime · 70m · Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...
The Little Shop of Horrors
›NR1960 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 73m · Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
›R1981 · Thriller, Horror · 96m · Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, Bo Svenson
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.
Mudhoney!
›NC-171965 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Hal Hopper, Antoinette Cristiani, John Furlong
In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney, traveling from Michigan to California, stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she's married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.
Puzzlehead
›NR2006 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama · 81m · Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro, Chuck Ardezzone
In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, "Puzzlehead". Jealously erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter has longed for. The resulting sci-fi love triangle is a Frankensteinian fable that traps all three in a web of deception and the ultimate betrayal.
Cat People
›R1982 · Fantasy, Horror · 118m · Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.
Son of Dracula
›1943 · Horror · 77m · Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
Love Me Deadly
›R1973 · Horror, Drama · 95m · Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Lyle Waggoner, Christopher Stone
A young socialite struggling to control her necrophiliac urges is torn between her affection for a kind businessman and the mortician who supplies her with bodies.
Kiss of the Damned
›R2012 · Thriller, Horror, Romance · 95m · Joséphine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida
Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new relationship, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.
The Nude Vampire
›1970 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Caroline Cartier, Olivier Rollin, Maurice Lemaître
A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being held captive by his father and colleagues who believe she's a vampire.
Porno
›R2019 · Comedy, Horror · 98m · Evan Daves, Larry Saperstein, Jillian Mueller
When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.
Mary Reilly
›R1996 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 108m · Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Siren
›2016 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Chase Williamson, Justin Welborn, Hannah Fierman
A bachelor party becomes a savage fight for survival when the groomsmen unwittingly unleash a fabled predator upon the festivities.
Head of the Family
›R1996 · Comedy, Horror · 82m · Blake Adams, Jacqueline Lovell, Alexandra Quinn
In the midst of a torrid affair, Lance discovers that Nob Hollow's weirdest residents, the Stackpoole family, have been doing hideous human experiments in the bowels of their basement.
Demons of the Mind
›R1972 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Robert Hardy, Shane Briant, Gillian Hills
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
They're Playing with Fire
›R1984 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Sybil Danning, Eric Brown, Andrew Prine
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.
Blood Bath
›NR1966 · Horror · 62m · William Campbell, Sandra Knight, Karl Schanzer
A painter of morbid art, who becomes a murderous vampire by night and kills young women, attempts a daytime relationship with a woman who resembles a former love and is also the sister of one of his victims.