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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Murder, He Says
›1945 · Comedy, Mystery, Crime · 91m · Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete also believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
Paranoiac
›1963 · Thriller, Horror · 80m · Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell
Eleven years ago, the wealthy Ashby family was shattered when Mr and Mrs Ashby died in an airplane crash and their grieving son Tony committed suicide. All who remains is cruel Simon, an alcoholic in desperate need of funds; his mentally fragile sister Eleanor; and his protective aunt Harriet. Simon is just weeks away from receiving his inheritance, but there's a hitch in his plans when the long-believed dead Tony suddenly arrives.
The Black Cat
›NR1941 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 70m · Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
You'll Find Out
›1940 · Comedy, Horror, Romance · 97m · Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.
The Pale HorseSeries
›TV-142020 · Mystery · 1 season · Rufus Sewell, Kaya Scodelario, Georgina Campbell
After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins investigating and is drawn to the The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumored witches living in a small village. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using dark arts.
Dark Places
›PG1973 · Horror · 91m · Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom
The heir of a mysterious estate must unveil its secrets and discover its treasures before a scheming doctor and his seductive sister can steal what is rightfully his.
Dementia 13
›NR1963 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 75m · William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
A scheming widow hatches a bold plan to acquire her late husband's inheritance, unaware that she is being targeted by an ax murderer who lurks in the family's estate.
Macabre
›1958 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 72m · William Prince, Jacqueline Scott, Jim Backus
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with mere hours to find and rescue her.
Arnold
›PG1973 · Thriller, Horror, Comedy · 94m · Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester
Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.
The Cat and the Canary
›PG1978 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 98m · Honor Blackman, Edward Fox, Michael Callan
A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
Eye of the Cat
›PG1969 · Horror · 102m · Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker
A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the man is deathly afraid of cats.
Dominique
›1980 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
One Body Too Many
›NR1944 · Comedy, Mystery, Thriller · 75m · Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi
An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.
Terror in the Wax Museum
›NR1973 · Horror, Mystery · 93m · Ray Milland, Elsa Lanchester, Maurice Evans
Terrifying wax figures of renowned personalities, such as Attila the Hun and Jack the Ripper, surround the sale of a London museum.
Flowers in the Attic
›R1987 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father.
Thir13en Ghosts
›R2001 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard
Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
Rabid Grannies
›R1988 · Comedy, Horror · 96m · Catherine Aymerie, Caroline Braekman, Richard Cotica
A large family gathers in the country side for their very elderly grannies' birthday. One gift happens to be from their ostracized, black sheep nephew, and upon opening it, the two loveable grannies turn into rabid, flesh-eating monsters.
Devil Doll
›1964 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.
Eloise
›R2016 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · Eliza Dushku, Robert Patrick, Chace Crawford
Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories.
Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation
›2012 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 88m · Andrew Divoff, Sarah Lieving, Jeffrey Combs
After inheriting the family mortuary, a pyrophobic mortician accidentally exposes hundreds of un-cremated bodies to toxic medical waste. As the corpses re-animate, the mortician's inheritance-seeking younger brother unexpectantly shows up, stumbling upon a full zombie outbreak!