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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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
›PG-131990 · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy · 106m · Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
Black Sheep
›R2006 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Nathan Meister, Peter Feeney, Danielle Mason
After a childhood prank by his brother Angus causes Henry to develop a phobia of sheep, he must step up to the onslaught of a genetically-mutated man-eating flock with the help of his friend and a young environmentalist.
Isolation
›R2005 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · John Lynch, Essie Davis, Sean Harris
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
The Kindred
›R1987 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · David Allen Brooks, Rod Steiger, Amanda Pays
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
Leviathan
›R1989 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 98m · Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one.
Watchers II
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Marc Singer, Tracy Scoggins, Mary Woronov
A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.
The Return of Swamp Thing
›PG-131989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Sarah Douglas
The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection.
Proteus
›R1995 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 97m · Craig Fairbrass, Toni Barry, William Marsh
Group of heroin smugglers finds shelter on abandoned oil rig after their ship had exploded. Soon they find that the oil rig was just cover for biological experiment. One of the results is Charlie - shape-shifting monster with ability to absorb the memory of its victims. However, even such creatures have their own bad habits.
Deep Evil
›2004 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 90m · Lorenzo Lamas, Ona Grauer, Adam J. Harrington
An alien microbe lands in remote Siberia in the 1950's. In the year 2004, US scientist working at a top secret underground lab in Alaska clone the microbe. A garbled distress signal is heard from the lab just before a complete lock down of the facility. This is the last word sent out from the scientists. A team of scientists and military personnel are in charge of finding out what went wrong.
Food of the Gods II
›R1989 · Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Paul Coufos, Lisa Schrage, Réal Andrews
A growth hormone experiment gets out of hand, when the the resulting giant man-eating rats escape, reaking havoc on the unsuspecting campus. Much blood-letting follows.
The Lair
›2022 · Horror, Action · 93m · Charlotte Kirk, Jonathan Howard, Jamie Bamber
Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.
Unnatural
›2015 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 89m · James Remar, Sherilyn Fenn, Ron Carlson
Global climate change prompts a scientific corporation to genetically modify Alaskan polar bears with horrific and deadly results.
Alien Terminator
›R1996 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · Maria Ford, Rodger Halston, Lisa Boyle
Five miles below the Earth's surface, a group of scientists is working in self-imposed isolation, perfecting a series of DNA experiments that could literally change the world. But when one of those experiments goes awry, it unleashes a nearly immortal organism--one capable of instant regeneration, and with an insatiable appetite for living flesh. Soon, nothing can contain the creature, and with the lab's life support systems quickly shutting down, the scientists grimly prepare for their final battle... A small group of scientists are working in self-imposed isolation below the Earth's surface. They are all working to create DNA which could change the world, but one of the scientists have been given an secret assignment, and when the assignment goes wrong, all hell breaks lose. The new creation is now aboard the ship and will destroy anyone who gets in its way, as it moves towards the surface.
Supergator
›2007 · Horror · 91m · Brad Johnson, Kelly McGillis, Josh Kelly
Geologists encounter a giant alligator while investigating an active volcano in Hawaii.
Resident EvilSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Ella Balinska, Tamara Smart, Siena Agudong
Nearly three decades after the discovery of the T-virus, an outbreak reveals the Umbrella Corporation's dark secrets. Based on the horror franchise.
Carnosaur 2
›R1995 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · John Savage, Cliff DeYoung, Don Stroud
A team of scientists go to a nuclear mining facility to investigate a possible meltdown and instead find a large amount of cloned dinosaurs.
Vipers
›2008 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Tara Reid, Jonathan Scarfe, Corbin Bernsen
A set of vipers has been taken by scientists to mutate them to make a cure for cancer. As their experiment goes awry, the vipers escape into the woods - they're not only biting people, they're actually killing people, in a little town.
Spiders
›2000 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 94m · Lana Parrilla, Josh Green, Oliver Macready
A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.
DNA
›1997 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 97m · Mark Dacascos, Jürgen Prochnow, Robin McKee
A mad scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life, and only his former assistant Ash Mattley and CIA operative Claire Sommers can stop it.
Spiders II: Breeding Ground
›2001 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Stephanie Niznik, Greg Cromer, Daniel Quinn
Happy couple Jason and Alexandra lose their sail yacht in a storm and are grateful to get picked up by Captain Jim Bigelow's commercial carrier. Suspicious about the ship's doctor and realizing the ship is improbably empty and the radio not broken as the crew claims, Jason starts snooping around. Bodies on meat-hooks, genetic experimentation and giant spiders are what he finds.
Python 2
›PG-132002 · Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · William Zabka, Dana Ashbrook, Alex Jolig
A man, his business partner, and his wife are enlisted to transport an unknown object from a Russian military base, only to discover that the object is a giant, genetically-altered python.
Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf
›2015 · Science Fiction, Horror, TV Movie · 83m · Casper Van Dien, Catherine Oxenberg, Jennifer Wenger
When a mad scientist mixes the genes of a killer whale and a wolf, it creates the Whalewolf, and it's up to Sharktopus to stop it.
Hammerhead
›R2005 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · William Forsythe, Hunter Tylo, Lydie Denier
When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and they aren't laughing anymore.
Anacondas: Trail of Blood
›R2009 · Adventure, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Crystal Allen, Linden Ashby, Danny Midwinter
A genetically created Anaconda, cut in half, regenerates itself into two new aggressive giant snakes, due to the Blood Orchid.