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 Damned
›NR1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors
An American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.
Project: S.E.R.A.Series
›2013 · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Julia Voth, Derek Theler, Victor Webster
Follows Gillian Eames and Lieutenant Riggins as they race against the clock to stop the black market sale of a highly volatile biological agent that was originally designed by the military to expedite the recovery of soldiers wounded on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Secret of Skinwalker RanchSeries
›TV-PG2020 · Reality, Documentary · 7 seasons · Travis Taylor, Brandon Fugal, Bryant “Dragon” Arnold
There is a ranch in northern Utah. It is considered the epicenter of the strangest, and most disturbing occurrences on Earth: For two decades, the federal government investigated the property. Their findings have never been made public. Now a new team of independent scientists and researchers are taking over. They are uncovering evidence that the countless stories, of unidentified aerial phenomena, Bizarre energies, and portals that lead to other dimensions Might actually be true. They will stop at nothing to reveal The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
Unsealed: Conspiracy FilesSeries
›2012 · Documentary · 1 season · Dave Burchell, John Greenewald Jr., Jason Martell
We've all heard them ... the Mafia killed JFK, the government had a hand in 9/11 and the existence of aliens is the world's best-kept secret. Conspiracy theories are as old as mankind itself, and for just as long people have been taking sides. The advent of the internet provides a unique opportunity to level the playing field and give all men equal access to the facts. In April 2011, the FBI finally relented and established an online repository of files, documents and reports called "The Vault". Unsealed: Conspiracy Files is a ground breaking new show that shines a light on many of these archived case files.
Piranha
›R1978 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 94m · Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
The Puppet Masters
›R1994 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 109m · Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner
The Midwest USA is invaded by stingray-shaped alien slugs that ride on people's backs and control their minds in order to spread their dominion. Government agency reps Sam Givens, Andrew Nivens, and Mary Sefton must stop the aliens.
Warning Sign
›R1985 · Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller · 99m · Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
Caught
›NR2018 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Mickey Sumner, Ruben Crow, Cian Barry
While on an afternoon walk with their children, two small town reporters notice the military camped on a hilltop. Debating the possible significance of this activity, they answer their door when two unusual strangers come knocking and find themselves held hostage in their own home.
Dogs
›R1976 · Horror · 91m · David McCallum, Sandra McCabe, George Wyner
On the quiet campus of the remotely-located SouthWestern University, something strange is happening. All of the dogs in the area, once loyal, gentle pets, are now banding together in wild packs and hunting down their former masters. Could the strange transformation have anything to do with the secret government experiments being conducted in the school's physics laboratory? More importantly, can the dogs be stopped before it's too late?
Deep Space
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Charles Napier, Ann Turkel, Bo Svenson
Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore bravely steps forward to crush the scary creature.
Project: Metalbeast
›R1995 · Horror · 92m · Kim Delaney, Barry Bostwick, Kane Hodder
With the medical breakthrough of a metal-based synthetic skin called "bio-ferron" the prospect for pioneering surgeries for burn victims and cancer patients seems set to occur but for the warped head scientist in charge...it's a opportunist chance to reactivate a long forgotten classified project...that has been left frozen in a set of cryogenic chambers deep beneath the bowels of government laboratory. Convincing the other in the research team to start work on putting this living 'metal' skin on corpses, he now has the perfect test patients waiting on ice for them to work on. But there was a reason three of these stiffs in particular where left to chill. Due to an experiment gone bad these three only look human on the outside and none of them are as dead as everyone believes they are.
It Came from the Desert
›2018 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 90m · Mark Arnold, Harry Lister Smith, Vanessa Grasse
New Mexico, present day. Brian and Lukas are off to the desert to join a kegger party and to celebrate Lukas’ victory in a motocross competition. His winning prize includes meeting The Deathinator, the biggest action star in the world. The party gets started under the hot desert sun, but Brian isn’t in the mood, so he wanders off and is soon joined by his friend, Lukas. They discover something strange in the desert which leads them into a secret military laboratory, where they discover the disturbing truth of what the government has been doing. Secret experiments on ants and spiders using DNA found in a meteorite which fell to Earth in 1951 has given birth to mutated giant ants which have overrun the facility. Now, it's up to Brian and Lukas to save the world from a giant ant invasion!
Night Skies
›2007 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 85m · Jason Connery, A.J. Cook, George Stults
On March 13th, 1997 one of the largest UFO sightings ever recorded took place across the southwestern United States...
Watchers
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 91m · Corey Haim, Michael Ironside, Barbara Williams
A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that it's an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unbeknownst to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature that's not quite so friendly.
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud
›R1989 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 85m · Brian Robbins, Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher
A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous zombies are unleashed upon a suburban neighborhood.
Locusts: The 8th Plague
›R2005 · Drama, Horror · 88m · Dan Cortese, Julie Benz, David Keith
A group of scientists try to stop a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that escape from a top secret government lab in the USA Midwest.
Monster Hunters
›2020 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 87m · Tom Sizemore, Connie Jo Sechrist, Anthony Jensen
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a secret branch of the government specializing in alien weaponry. But with the team untested in actual combat, the battle for Earth will be brutal.
The Gracefield Incident
›PG-132017 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 95m · Alexandre Nachi, Mathieu Ratthe, Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon
On August 16, 2013, the Supreme Court mandated the CIA to declassify files that had been kept secret for the past 75 years. Visual records of documented paranormal events were released to the public. The following incident took place in Gracefield, Quebec.
Zone of the Dead
›R2011 · Horror, Action · 101m · Ken Foree, Kristina Klebe, Emilio Roso
A police-escorted prisoner transport supervised by Interpol sets off to Belgrade. The route leads the transport through Pančevo, where they encounter an ecological disaster and infected people who are trying to kill them. Interpol agents Mortimer Reyes and Mina Milius soon realize that their only chance for escape from the zombie hordes lies in allying with the dangerous, mysterious prisoner.
Xtro 2: The Second Encounter
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Jan-Michael Vincent, Paul Koslo, Tara Buckman
An underground government facility is locked down by its A.I.-controlled computer when an alien entity travels through a dimensional portal and threatens the lives of everybody inside.
51
›R2011 · Science Fiction, Horror · 87m · Rachel Miner, Jason London, Bruce Boxleitner
Due to political pressure from the American public, the Air Force has decided to allow two well-known reporters limited access to the most secretive base on the planet. But when one of the base’s “long-term visitors” exploits this unprecedented visit as a chance to liberate himself and his fellow alien captives, Area 51 turns from a secure government base to a horrifying destination of terror.
Tape 407
›PG-132012 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 90m · Abigail Schrader, Samantha Lester, James Lyons
Survivors of an airplane crash find themselves within the borders of a government testing area and pursued by predators.
The Thing Below
›R2004 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 94m · Billy Warlock, Kurt Max Runte, Catherine Lough Haggquist
A top secret drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico raises a dormant alien creature from the depths. Once loose, the creature goes on a murderous rampage.
Jurassic City
›2015 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 88m · Ray Wise, Kevin Gage, Vernon Wells
When a top-secret laboratory is unexpectedly breached, thousands of rampaging raptors are unleashed on Los Angeles! A black-ops unit is mobilized to contain the creatures before they cause city-wide chaos. Simultaneously, a truckload of raptors is rerouted to a nearby prison. Upon their escape, these ferocious flesh-eaters are beyond containment. This is Jurassic judgment night for smoking hot sorority girls, sinister scientists, muscle-bound military and doomed death-row inmates! It's about to get bloody in Jurassic City!