
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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Shining GirlsSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 1 season · Elisabeth Moss, Wagner Moura, Phillipa Soo
Years after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns that a recent murder is linked to her assault. She teams with veteran reporter Dan Velazquez to understand her ever-changing present—and confront her past.

Split
›PG-132017 · Horror, Thriller · 117m · James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

Images
›R1972 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 101m · Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi
While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming increasingly unstable, resulting in paranoia, hallucinations, and visions of a doppelgänger.

Inland Empire
›R2006 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 180m · Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

Twisted Nerve
›PG1968 · Thriller, Horror · 112m · Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.

Magic
›R1978 · Drama, Horror · 107m · Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.

The Dead Girl
›R2006 · Mystery, Drama, Crime · 94m · Brittany Murphy, Rose Byrne, Toni Collette
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.

Pin : A Plastic Nightmare
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Jonathan Banks, David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston
Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with him and his sister Ursula, much to her reluctance. Soon, however, Leon's fixation on Pin spirals out of control, and Ursula must face the devastating consequences.

Daniel Isn't Real
›NR2019 · Horror, Mystery · 101m · Miles Robbins, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sasha Lane
A troubled college freshman resurrects his imaginary friend to help him cope with a violent trauma.

Stopmotion
›R2024 · Horror · 94m · Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet, Tom York
Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her project take on a life of their own.

Maniac
›NR2012 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Elijah Wood, Nora Arnezeder, America Olivo
As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.

Somewhere Quiet
›NR2024 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 98m · Jennifer Kim, Kentucker Audley, Micheál Richardson
Meg is trying to readjust to normalcy after surviving a traumatic kidnapping — but her grounded sense of reality soon starts to deteriorate when she travels with her husband to his wealthy family’s isolated compound.

Piercing
›R2019 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, Laia Costa
After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he’s always dreamed of: the perfect murder. As his sinister plans unfold, he soon realizes he might be in over his head with a mysteriously unhinged call girl named Jackie.

Silent Night, Deadly Night
›R1984 · Thriller, Horror · 79m · Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick
After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

Let Her Out
›2016 · Horror · 89m · Alanna LeVierge, Nina Kiri, Adam Christie
Twenty-three years after her hooker mother tried to kill her in the womb Helen remains damaged psychological goods. A mindset that gets worse when she suffers a traumatic head injury in an accident. Awakening in hospital, it’s discovered Helen has a tumour growth in her brain causing her to experience dark visions, disembodied voices and the omnipresence of a strange young woman. Soon, lost in a walking nightmare, in which nothing is what it seems, and her vicious actions barely remembered, it becomes crystal clear that whatever is inside her cracked psyche will stop at nothing to get out.

Olivia
›1983 · Crime, Horror, Drama · 85m · Suzanna Love, Robert Walker Jr., Bibbe Hansen
Nightmares of the past haunt the beautiful, mysterious Olivia, a London resident who begins a passionate affair with American businessman Mike. Trapped in a loveless marriage and traumatized by memories of her mother's brutal murder, Olivia hopes her lover will offer a chance at a new life. However, ghostly voices and brutal murders ignite a fiendish, twist-filled story of double identities, deception, and erotic terror.

My Little Sister
›2016 · Horror · 80m · Saverio Percudani, Sofia Pauly, Lucía Castellano
When Igor was young, he lost his father because of his little sister. He will grow up trying to find his own way of giving a new face to his past.

Headless
›2015 · Horror · 86m · Shane Beasley, Kaden Miller, Kelsey Carlisle
In this "lost slasher film from 1978," a masked killer wages an unrelenting spree of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia. But when his tortured past comes back to haunt him, he plunges to even greater depths of madness and depravity, consuming the lives of a young woman and those she holds dear.

Private Number
›R2015 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Hal Ozsan, Nicholle Tom, Tom Sizemore
A series of cryptic phone messages and visions haunt a writer while he struggles to finish a novel. As they increase in intensity, he loses his grip on reality, eventually obsessing over an old mystery that will lead to horrific revelations about both him and his loyal wife.

Camera Obscura
›2017 · Thriller, Horror · 95m · Christopher Denham, Nadja Bobyleva, Catherine Curtin
A photojournalist suffering from PTSD returns home from Iraq and finds himself struggling to keep his sanity and family intact.

Psychopaths
›2017 · Horror · 85m · Jeff Daniel Phillips, Ashley Bell, Angela Trimbur
An executed serial killer, an escaped mental patient, a beautiful seductress, a crazed strangler, and a masked murderer unleash blood-soaked mayhem over the course of one night.

Halloween II
›R2009 · Horror · 105m · Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.

Trauma
›2004 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 94m · Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Naomie Harris
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.






















