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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18 titles
The Return of the Living Dead
›R1985 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 91m · Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
SurfaceSeries
›TV-PG2005 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Lake Bell, Jay R. Ferguson, Carter Jenkins
A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teenage boy find their lives changed when a new and often dangerous sea life species emerges, while the government tries to keep the affair under wraps.
The Blob
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 95m · Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
The Crazies
›R2010 · Mystery, Horror, Action · 101m · Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
The Tunnel
›NR2011 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 90m · Bel Deliá, Luke Arnold, Andy Rodoreda
An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.
The Phoenix Tapes '97
›2016 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 67m · Turner Clay, Peter Miller
In 1997, four campers went missing during the Phoenix Lights incident and their bodies were never found. The Phoenix Tapes 97 is comprised of their final footage. This film is dedicated to the lives lost during the events displayed. To their families and friends and to the authorities who continue to search for answers. The tapes were found by Dustin Miller's father two years after Dustin was mysteriously shot and killed at a traffic stop in Texas. Peter Miller believes his son was acting as a whistleblower and had smuggled the tapes from his classified government agency in an effort to expose the truth as to what really happened to the four missing campers seen in the tapes. After searching every newspaper and media publication around Phoenix during that time period, we only found one initial announcement that four campers were reported missing, as well as a formal police report folder with local PD but the folder had no files inside.
The Bay
›R2012 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 85m · Kristen Connolly, Will Rogers, Michael Beasley
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been told—until now. The authorities believed they had buried the truth about the tragedy that claimed over 700 human lives. Now, three years later, a reporter has emerged with footage revealing the cover-up and an unimaginable killer: a mysterious parasitic outbreak. Told from the perspective of those who were there and saw what happened, The Bay unfolds over 24 hours through people's iPhones, Androids, 911 calls, webcams, and whatever else could be used to document the nightmare in Claridge. What follows is a nerve-shredding tale of a small town plunged into absolute terror.
C.H.U.D.
›R1984 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
The Phoenix Incident
›NR2015 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 81m · Yuri Lowenthal, Travis Willingham, Troy Baker
A number of 'missing person' cases are reported in Phoenix, Arizona when an unexplained light appears in the sky one night in 1997.
Living Hell
›R2008 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Johnathon Schaech, Erica Leerhsen, James McDaniel
In a top secret Cold War military project an unstoppable, malignant organism who feeds on light and energy is unleashed threatening to destroy everything in its path.
Star Runners
›2009 · TV Movie, Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Connor Trinneer, James Kyson, Toni Trucks
Two space smugglers are caught by the government and told if they deliver a crate to a certain location the charges will be forgotten. Turns out the crate is the key to a cover up and other parties want it to.
Entity
›2012 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Dervla Kirwan, Charlotte Riley, Branko Tomović
In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths.
The Terror Experiment
›R2010 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 83m · C. Thomas Howell, Judd Nelson, Jason London
When terrorist action releases a secret government virus in the Houston Federal building, the employees become aggressive and homicidal. Federal officials quarantine the building to wipe out the infected and control the story, but a small group of uninfected are fighting to get out.
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.
Hangar 10
›2014 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Danny Shayler, Abbie Salt, Robert Curtis
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their navigation equipment failing, they find themselves facing a terrifying encounter with an unforgiving alien presence.
Bats
›PG-131999 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 91m · Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
Raptor
›R2001 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Eric Roberts, Corbin Bernsen, Melissa Brasselle
When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut. When the Pentagon discovers Hyde obtained foreign backing to continue his experiments, they send in a strike team to save Tanner and Barbara and stop Hyde.
Spiders
›PG-132013 · Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Patrick Muldoon, Christa Campbell, William Hope
After a Soviet space station crashes into a New York City subway tunnel, a species of venomous spiders is discovered, and soon they mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the city.