Cinema of the Damned

2000 · Drama, Reality · 2 seasons

Fear is an American paranormal reality television series that originally aired from 2000 to 2002 on MTV. The program follows a group of five or more contestants being left at an allegedly haunted location and led them on a series of dares over two nights to explore and confirm whether or not the place is haunted. The show was created by Martin Kunert and Eric Manes. The pilot episode was Co-Executive Produced and directed by George Verschoor. The series aired the first two episodes in a pilot run, which received outstanding reviews and a full season was ordered. After eight more episodes, another season was ordered. The second season ended after 6 episodes aired. The series was not cancelled due to a lack of interest, but due to the high cost of producing each episode. A DVD, MTV's Inside Fear, was released on November 6, 2001. Fear was named #6 on Entertainment Weekly's "15 Taboo-Breaking TV Moments." The show brought several innovations to the reality show genre, including having contestants film their own experience as no video crew followed them into the 'haunted' locations, use of night vision cameras, and use of body mounted cameras to have contestants film their own close-ups.

R1981 · Thriller, War · 106m · Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

IMDb 7.1MC 63🍅 80%TMDB 6.9☠ 7.1

R2010 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Damian Walshe-Howling, Zoe Naylor, Adrienne Pickering

A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.

IMDb 5.8🍅 78%TMDB 5.6☠ 6.1

2011 · Horror, Comedy, Thriller · 90m · Ry Barrett, Jennifer de Lucia, Pete Soltesz

Six strangers awake to find themselves the new tenants of a mysterious old house. Terrorized by insane Tiki-men in masks and taunted by their deranged captors,it soon becomes clear that only one singular action will save them: Kill.

IMDb 4.4TMDB 5.9☠ 6.1

2025 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 91m · Rae Olivier, Daniel Annone, Jarrod Beck

A group of friends attempt to escape the city after an outbreak of demon-possessions. The friends seek shelter in an abandoned church, but their plans for escape are ruined when one of them becomes possessed.

IMDb 3.0TMDB 5.8☠ 5.8

2019 · Drama, TV Movie, Thriller · 83m · Josh Duhamel, Tyler Blackburn, Rebekah Graf

Based on the harrowing true story of an October 1982 shark encounter. After a yacht bound for Florida capsizes during an unexpected storm, its crew is left to drift for days in the chilling waters of the Atlantic where they become prey to a group of tiger sharks. With the hope of rescue dwindling, the crew must do everything in their power to survive as the sharks continue to hunt them.

IMDb 5.3TMDB 5.0☠ 5.7

2015 · Horror · 89m · Ed Speleers, Shauna Macdonald, Elliot Cowan

When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.

IMDb 5.5🍅 63%TMDB 5.6☠ 5.6

2012 · Thriller, Horror · 88m · Alex Meraz, Briana Evigan, Julianna Guill

A group of young friends make an incomprehensible discovery in an abandoned mine, but the more they try to change the future, the more they seal their fate.

NR2017 · Thriller, Horror · 73m · Sam Earle, Victoria Diamond, Emelia Hellman

Kill or be killed is the golden rule of the Game of Death. Sucks for seven millennials who ignored that rule. Now each one's head will explode unless they kill someone. Will they turn on each other to survive, or will this sunny day be the last for the innocent people of their middle-of-nowhere town?

IMDb 5.0🍅 58%TMDB 4.9☠ 5.3

2011 · Horror · 86m · Sabrina Reiter, Melanie Winiger, Herbert Leiser

Eight young people drive to the Swiss Jura region, food and tents in the trunk. It's autumn and high season for a magic mushroom that grows there - the reason for their trip. After a few problems they arrive at the desired location deep in the woods, the tents are set up, the mushrooms are collected and when it gets dark the party starts. Everything is fine until one of the youths wants to get beer and comes back with a blood-covered and smashed face. They don't know what happened but need to find help. As they discover that their car has a flat tire and their phones don't work, they seek shelter in a nearby farmhouse. But that's just where they were supposed to go. In a nerve racking countdown one after another gets killed by their dangerous haunters

2017 · Horror, Mystery · 85m · Cooper Hopkins, Leah Pfenning, Rachel Brun

Nine high school kids celebrate graduation at a secluded home in the wilderness. They fight, philander, and feel nostalgic as they embark on a life away from home, in college. Once the party dies down they play a game: Dead Body. But when one party-goer takes the game too far, actually murdering the other guests one by one, it's up to the group to set aside their tensions, and ferret out the murderer before it's too late.

IMDb 4.7TMDB 5.1☠ 5.2

R2017 · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery · 90m · Heather Langenkamp, Alexxis Lemire, Cassie Scerbo

Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

IMDb 5.0TMDB 5.4☠ 5.1

R2011 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Jennifer Pudavick, Tenika Davis, Terra Vnesa

A group of friends take refuge in a deserted sanatorium after they are left stranded in a snowstorm. Later, the place becomes a death trap when man-eating cannibals surround them.

IMDb 4.6🍅 67%TMDB 5.7☠ 5.0

R1983 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · John Friedrich, Adrian Zmed, Daryl Hannah

A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.

IMDb 5.2🍅 33%TMDB 5.1☠ 5.0

R2022 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Kayla Adams, Matthew Holcomb, Bryan David Roberts

Following a mysterious disappearance on a jump, a group of skydivers experiences paranormal occurrences that leave them fighting for their lives.

IMDb 3.4TMDB 5.6☠ 4.9

NR2018 · Horror, Action · 91m · William Baldwin, Richard Grieco, Bill Moseley

On the cusp of New Year's Eve, seven friends and a mysterious backpacker converge at a desolate ski lodge in the mountains when they are systematically hunted down by ruthless masked men with a cryptic agenda.

IMDb 3.6TMDB 4.2☠ 4.9

NR2014 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Brittany Allen, Melanie Papalia, Jesse Moss

Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they investigate, the friends stumble across an alien spacecraft, and its inhabitants have not arrived in peace.

IMDb 5.0MC 38🍅 28%TMDB 5.6☠ 4.8

R2006 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Michelle Rodriguez, Taryn Manning, Eric Lively

Brothers John and Matt have inherited an island cabin from their recently deceased uncle. Along with Matt's girlfriend, Nicki, and other mutual friends, the siblings travel to the cabin for a relaxing weekend getaway. But, not long after arriving, the group is besieged by ravenous dogs. They watch in horror as another vacationer, Luke, is eaten alive. Soon, they discover a training facility where the dogs have been bred to kill.

IMDb 5.1🍅 29%TMDB 5.5☠ 4.8

NR2014 · Thriller, Horror · 82m · Joey Lauren Adams, Elizabeth Gillies, Paul Iacono

When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing predator. Holed up in an isolated cabin, tensions mount as long-buried secrets are revealed. As the body count rises, the group must put their differences aside and fight for survival.

IMDb 4.7🍅 50%TMDB 5.1☠ 4.8

2023 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Victoria Konefal, Connor Weil, Reese Mishler

A group of friends seal themselves inside a secluded Cape Cod vacation home after a mysterious orange fog leaks from an old nearby factory. Once trapped, they quickly learn there is no escape.

IMDb 3.3TMDB 5.5☠ 4.8

2025 · Thriller, Horror, Action · 87m · Athena Strates, Madalena Aragão, Elisha Applebaum

Vacation turns disaster when Houston grad Kyle and her friends survive a plane crash in the desolate Louisiana everglades, only to discover there's something way more dangerous lurking in the shallows.

IMDb 4.2TMDB 5.5☠ 4.6

2018 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · Clayton Boyd, Jay Anstey, Jonathan Boynton-Lee

A group of young tourists arrive at an abandoned lodge in Africa that holds an ominous and deadly secret.

IMDb 4.3TMDB 3.5☠ 4.6

R2010 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Shalaina Castle, Brandon Sean Pearson, Clare Niederpruem

Five friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night and decide to play a harmless game of tag. Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along. As they wander aimlessly through the maze the murderer follows closely behind, taunting them and watching their every move. The game turns deadly when the kids decide to separate and weaken their chances of survival. When the mutilated body of the maze owner is found they realize that something is terribly wrong. As they race to find the entrance of the maze, the murderer cleverly forces them to follow the path that he wants. Manipulating everyone to his vicious will, the killer taunts his victims and leads them further into the depths of the maze. After succumbing to hours of torture will anyone make it out of the maze...alive?

IMDb 3.8TMDB 4.6☠ 4.6

1995 · Horror · 102m · Eddie Bowz, Heather Medway, Ann Turkel

Richard, a college student who has decided to focus his attention on the study of fear, invites a group of friends up to his family's secluded mountain cabin for the weekend. Soon, a lifelike, wooden carving of a man begins stalking and killing them.