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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The OutsiderSeries
›TV-MA2020 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 1 season · Ben Mendelsohn, Bill Camp, Jeremy Bobb
When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
›NR1927 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · 91m · Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
The Dark Mirror
›1946 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 85m · Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
Beast
›R2018 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 107m · Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Trystan Gravelle
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
Under Suspicion
›R2000 · Thriller, Crime, Drama · 110m · Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer.
Like Minds
›PG-132006 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 110m · Eddie Redmayne, Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette
A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.
Wer
›R2013 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · A.J. Cook, Sebastian Roché, Simon Quarterman
A defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
›PG-131971 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 87m · Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Knight Moves
›R1992 · Mystery, Thriller · 116m · Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt
A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.
A Murder of Crows
›R1999 · Thriller, Action, Crime · 102m · Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Berenger, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. After letting Russell borrow his latest manuscript, Marlowe dies of a heart attack. When Russell publishes the dead man's manuscript under his own name, he makes the best-seller list—and unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in the investigation of a grisly multiple homicide.
Stickman
›2017 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Hayley Law, Sara Alicia Garcia, Zoé De Grand Maison
The thing that waits under your bed, hides in the closet, stalks your dreams… is waiting for you. At least Emma Wright knew that at the age of 7 when she was wrongly accused of murdering her sister. Emma knew it was the Stickman. After years of isolation she finally has her demons under control and is released.
Gothika
›R2003 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 98m · Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton
After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
The Puppetman
›2023 · Horror · 96m · Alyson Gorske, Angel Prater, Kio Cyr
The Puppetman, a convicted killer on death row, always maintained his innocence saying that it was an evil force controlling his body as he slaughtered his victims. Now Michal, the killer's daughter, begins to suspect that there may be some truth to her father's claim when those around her begin to die in brutal ways. She must try and break the curse of The Puppetman before all her loved ones are killed.
Cell 213
›R2011 · Horror · 109m · Bruce Greenwood, Eric Balfour, Michael Rooker
Cocky young attorney Michael Gray finds himself framed for murder when an inmate he is defending violently kills himself during their interview at South River State Penitentiary. Now locked in the same nightmarish Cell 213 where his client died, he soon realizes that unnatural forces are behind a string of inmate suicides, making matters of guilt and innocence not as cut and dry as they seem.
The Black Dahlia Haunting
›2012 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 80m · Devanny Pinn, Britt Griffith, Noah Dahl
While investigating the murder of her father by her blind younger brother, a young woman disturbs the vengeful spirit of Elizabeth Short, known in legend as "The Black Dahlia".
Cutting Class
›R1989 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 91m · Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt
High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he was committed following the suspicious death of his father. Soon after being released, more murders start happening. Is Brian back to his old tricks, or is Dwight just trying to eliminate the competition?
