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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17 titles
Midsommar
›R2019 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 147m · Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
The Enfield HauntingSeries
›2015 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Timothy Spall, Matthew Macfadyen, Juliet Stevenson
A three part dramatization of the terrifying and bizarre real events that took place at an ordinary house in Enfield during the autumn of 1977. Adapted from Guy Lyon Playfair's book This House is Haunted.
The Look-SeeSeries
›TV-MA2017 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 2 seasons · Sean Brison, Johnny Berchtold
A tragic event draws a group of troubled people together, bonded by their shared pasts and dirty secrets. However, one by one they are visited by a demonic entity known as the Look-See, which forces them to confront their grief and trauma, or suffer a gruesome fate...
Men
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller, Fantasy · 100m · Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.
Alone
›R2020 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca, Anthony Heald
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Retreat
›R2011 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 89m · Cillian Murphy, Jamie Bell, Thandiwe Newton
Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.
Citadel
›R2012 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 85m · James Cosmo, Aneurin Barnard, Amy Shiels
Chronically agoraphobic since the day his wife was murdered, Tommy Cowley finds himself terrorized by a gang of syringe-wielding feral children, who are intent on taking his baby daughter. Upon discovering the nightmarish truth surrounding these hooded children, he learns that to be free of his fears, he must finally face the demons of his past and enter the one place he fears the most - the abandoned tower block, known as the Citadel.
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
›PG-131986 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke
The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition as the Reverend Kane, a religious zealot responsible for the deaths of his many followers. His goal is simple - he wants the angelic Carol Anne.
Mirrors 2
›R2010 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 86m · Nick Stahl, William Katt, Emmanuelle Vaugier
When Max, who is recovering from a traumatic accident, takes a job as a nighttime security guard, he begins to see visions of a young mysterious woman in the store's mirror.
The Corridor
›NR2012 · Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller · 99m · Matthew Amyotte, Nigel Bennett, Stephen Chambers
Friends on a weekend excursion take a path into a forest that leads to death and destruction.
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp
›R2003 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Katy Woodruff, Tyler Sedustine, Kelly Gunning
Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are murdered. Someone is hunting them through the pitch-black Forest and is determined to kill them all. Could Trevor Moorhouse be back?!
The Grudge 3
›R2009 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 90m · Johanna Braddy, Emi Ikehata, Jadie-Rose Hobson
Jake Kimble, the sole survivor of the Chicago massacre, is killed while in solitary confinement. His doctor begins investigating the claims he made about a long-haired woman in white, as a mysterious Japanese woman arrives at his old apartment building to help them get rid of the curse.
The Reef: Stalked
›NR2022 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Teressa Liane, Ann Truong, Saskia Archer
After her sister's murder, Nic, her younger sister and two friends seek solace through a Pacific island kayaking adventure. Hours into the trip the women are stalked by a shark and must band together, face their fears and save each other.
Apartment 143
›R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Kai Lennox, Rick Gonzalez, Fiona Glascott
A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light bulbs are some of the events they will face while recording their every step with state-of-the-art technology. Using infrared filming, digital photography, psychophonic recordings, movement detectors, and magnetic field alteration meters, the group’s attempts to contact the “other side” will grow increasingly dangerous as they near a point of no return.
Something in the Water
›R2024 · Thriller, Horror · 86m · Hiftu Quasem, Natalie Mitson, Lauren Lyle
After lesbian couple Meg and Kayla split following a traumatic homophobic incident, their three friends are intent on mending the rift during the wedding of Lizzie at a paradise resort. But a pre-wedding boat excursion turns to disaster and the wedding breakfast is likely to be the five girls!
Stranger in the Woods
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Holly Kenney, Brendin Brown, Paris Nicole
Olivia and her friends go on a vacation. After Olivia nearly drowns with a slit wrist in her bathtub after her fiancé's funeral, her friends suspect that she tried to kill herself, but she believes someone attacked her.
Jaws: The Revenge
›PG-131987 · Adventure, Thriller, Horror · 89m · Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
