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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Tales from the Crypt
›PG1972 · Horror · 93m · Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice
When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.
Oddity
›R2024 · Horror, Mystery · 98m · Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Steve Wall
After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.
Pretty Little Liars: Original SinSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery · 2 seasons · Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Maia Reficco
Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a group of disparate teen girls finds themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin their parents committed two decades ago, as well as their own.
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...
A Haunting in Venice
›PG-132023 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 104m · Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Don't Go to Sleep
›NR1982 · Horror, TV Movie · 93m · Dennis Weaver, Valerie Harper, Robin Ignico
One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings.
The Plastic Men
›2026 · War, Drama, Horror · William Fichtner, James Preston, Aaron Dalla Villa
Vietnam veteran Jonathan Teller suffers from guilt and paranoid delusions. He decides to take his own life, but as he struggles to come to terms with his choice and reality, a chance encounter changes everything.
What Lies Beneath
›PG-132000 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 130m · Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Diana Scarwid
Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
The Star Chamber
›R1983 · Drama, Thriller · 105m · Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto
As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
The Shadow of the Cat
›1961 · Horror, Thriller · 79m · André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
Prevenge
›2017 · Horror, Comedy, Drama · 89m · Alice Lowe, Jo Hartley, Kayvan Novak
A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.
Night Monster
›1942 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 72m · Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
The Little Things
›R2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · 128m · Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto
Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.
The Lodge
›R2020 · Horror, Mystery · 108m · Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh
When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.
Let Us Prey
›R2014 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Liam Cunningham, Niall Greig Fulton, Pollyanna McIntosh
Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the bitter-and-twisted who all think that, really, they deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they're there by accident and that, with a little luck, life is going to get better. Wrong, on both counts. Six is about to arrive - and All Hell Will Break Loose!
BeforeSeries
›TV-MA2024 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Billy Crystal, Judith Light, Rosie Perez
After tragically losing his wife, child psychiatrist Dr. Eli Adler encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli's past.
Retribution
›R1987 · Horror · 107m · Dennis Lipscomb, Leslie Wing, Suzanne Snyder
After a depressed artist miraculously survives a suicide attempt, a series of horrific murders leads him to realize he may have been possessed by the vengeful spirit of a murdered gangster.
The Disappeared
›2008 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Alex Jennings
Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
House
›R1985 · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy · 92m · William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll
A divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatural residents.
The Canal
›NR2014 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 93m · Rupert Evans, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Hannah Hoekstra
A man who suspects his wife is cheating on him begins having nightmarish visions of an evil presence that he believes inhabits his house.
Nightwatch
›R1997 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 102m · Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.
Venus in Furs
›1969 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm
After a jazz musician finds a woman's corpse washed up on the beach and remembers that he witnessed her murder at a party the previous night, a woman who bears a strong resemblance to her begins to exact revenge on the murderers.
Jane
›R2022 · Mystery, Thriller, Drama · 84m · Madelaine Petsch, Chlöe Bailey, Chloe Yu
When Olivia gets deferred from her dream college, she begins to spiral. In an attempt to regain control, she embarks on a social media-fueled rampage against those that stand in the way of her success. But as things escalate, she is forced to confront her darkest impulses in order to get ahead.
Creepshow 2
›R1987 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 92m · Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour
Three macabre tales from the latest issue of a boy's favorite comic book, dealing with a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and an undying hitchhiker.