
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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Freaks
›NR1932 · Drama, Horror · 64m · Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova, Daisy Earles
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

You're Next
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 94m · Sharni Vinson, Nicholas Tucci, Wendy Glenn
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

The Ghoul
›NR1933 · Horror, Mystery · 77m · Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger
British Egyptologist Professor Morlant seeks immortality through a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to Earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.

Crimewave
›PG-131985 · Comedy, Crime, Horror · 83m · Reed Birney, Louise Lasser, Sheree J. Wilson
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.

Scarecrows
›R1988 · Horror · 83m · Ted Vernon, Michael David Simms, Richard Vidan
Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned farm surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.

Creature from the Haunted Sea
›NR1961 · Horror, Comedy · 61m · Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.






















