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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15 titles
The Black Castle
›1952 · Mystery, Horror · 82m · Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally
A man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
Spellbinder
›R1988 · Horror, Drama, Romance · 99m · Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich
After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.
The Return of Dracula
›NR1958 · Horror · 77m · Francis Lederer, Norma Eberhardt, Ray Stricklyn
After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.
Stephanie
›R2017 · Horror, Mystery · 86m · Shree Crooks, Frank Grillo, Anna Torv
After a mysterious global crisis, a young girl is left alone to hide from a malevolent power that stalks her home. Her parents eventually return and the struggle begins to save their daughter.
The Black Room
›R1982 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Stephen Knight, Cassandra Gava, Jimmy Stathis
An unfaithful businessman rents a spare room from two siblings to use for his sexual conquests, unaware that they're serial killers who murder every woman he brings there.
Dead Sea
›2024 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Isabel Gravitt, Alexander Wraith, Dean Cameron
Stranded in the open sea after a fatal accident, a young woman and her two friends are rescued by a fishing vessel's captain, unaware that the ship harbors a chilling secret.
Cries in the Night
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Kay Hawtrey, Lesleh Donaldson, Barry Morse
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
Grandmother's House
›1988 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Eric Foster, Kim Valentine, Len Lesser
Recently orphaned teenagers David and Lynn are sent to California to live with their grandparents who they discover are harboring a terrifying secret.
Devil Times Five
›R1974 · Horror · 88m · Sorrell Booke, Gene Evans, Taylor Lacher
Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.
Within
›R2016 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Michael Vartan, Erin Moriarty, Nadine Velazquez
A widower, his daughter, and his new wife move into a peaceful neighborhood. At first it appears to be a perfect neighborhood but the family quickly realize that something is not right about their new home.
City of Dead Men
›2014 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Diego Boneta, Jackson Rathbone, María Pachón Mesa
An American traveling in South America ends up living with a group of misfits at an abandoned hospital with a troubling past.
Exploited
›NR2022 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 82m · Jordan Ver Hoeve, Andrew Matthew Welch, Makenzie Vega
A college freshman becomes obsessed with the previous owner of his school issued laptop, a webcam model whose last session may have ended in murder.
From a House on Willow Street
›2017 · Horror · 90m · Sharni Vinson, Carlyn Burchell, Steven John Ward
After a young woman is kidnapped, her captors soon come to realize that in fact they may be the ones in danger and this young woman has a dark secret inside her.
Hell Trip
›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.
Unhinged
›2017 · Horror · 93m · Kate Lister, Becca Hirani, Lucy-Jane Quinlan
Four American best friends decide to take the back roads travelling to a wedding in England, on their way a deadly secret forces the girls to be stranded in the woods, where they discover a house occupied by Miss Perkins.