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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16 titles
Whistle and I'll Come to You
›1968 · TV Movie, Horror · 42m · Michael Hordern, Ambrose Coghill, George Woodbridge
A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
The Blair Witch Project
›R1999 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Deadstream
›NR2022 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 88m · Joseph Winter, Melanie Stone, Jason K. Wixom
A disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally unleashes a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life.
The Man Who Changed His Mind
›1936 · Horror, Science Fiction · 66m · Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.
In the Heart of the Sea
›PG-132015 · Thriller, Drama, Adventure · 122m · Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
Velvet Buzzsaw
›R2019 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 112m · Rene Russo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zawe Ashton
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.
It!
›1967 · Horror · 96m · Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth, Paul Maxwell
After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.
The Sound
›R2025 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 99m · William Fichtner, Jocelyn Hudon, David Clennon
A group of climbers embarks on a dangerous climb that has been off-limits for years. What initially begins as an audacious expedition transforms into a battle for survival against a force that toys with them.
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
›PG1972 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Alan Ormsby, Valerie Mamches, Jeff Gillen
Six actors go to a graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ceremony works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.
The Strangeness
›1985 · Horror, Mystery · 93m · Dan Lunham, Terri Berland, Mark Sawicki
A group of young miners venture into the Gold Spike Mine in search of gold, even after being warned by old-time prospectors to stay away. The miners proceed into the caverns anyway and soon realize that there’s no gold in these mines, but also that they’re not alone.
Doctor Faustus
›1967 · Mystery, Drama, Horror · 93m · Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Durden
Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.
Konga
›1961 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad
Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!
One-Eyed Monster
›2008 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 84m · Jason Graham, Charles Napier, Jeff Denton
In February 2007, ten people went to the remote mountains of Northern California to shoot an adult movie. What happened next was something no one expected, but everyone saw coming.
Caved In: Prehistoric Terror
›R2006 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 93m · Christopher Atkins, Colm Meaney, Angela Featherstone
An extreme adventure tour group headed by deep caving expert John Palmer descends into a 2000 Ft abandoned salt mine , that was mysteriously closed down years ago after an unexplained disaster trapped all of the miners . They prepare for rock slides , blackouts , cave-ins - whatever might threaten their journey and commence their descent into the depths.
Chupacabra Terror
›2005 · Horror · 89m · John Rhys-Davies, Dylan Neal, Chelan Simmons
Cryptozoologist Doctor Peña traps the legendary Chupacabra on a remote Caribbean Island to make his name in the scientific community. When he smuggles it aboard the cruise ship Regent Queen, commanded by Captain Randolph, the monster breaks out of the cargo hold and makes a smorgasbord out of the passengers and crew.
Cage Dive
›R2017 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Joel Hogan, Josh Potthoff, Megan Peta Hill
Three friends from California are filming an audition tape for an extreme reality game show. They document their journey to Australia where they will be doing their most dangerous activity: Shark Cage Diving. A catastrophic turn of events leaves them in baited water full of Great White Sharks, turning their recording into a blood chilling diary of survival...And death.