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 Tingler
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Vincent Price, Philip Coolidge, Judith Evelyn
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
Overlord
›R2018 · Horror, War, Science Fiction · 110m · Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbæk
On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.
Scanners
›R1981 · Science Fiction, Horror · 103m · Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
›R2014 · Horror, Action, Comedy · 98m · Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill
Barry is a talented mechanic and family man whose life is torn apart on the eve of a zombie apocalypse. His sister, Brooke, is kidnapped by a sinister team of gas-mask wearing soldiers and experimented on by a psychotic doctor. While Brooke plans her escape Barry goes out on the road to find her and teams up with Benny, a fellow survivor – together they must arm themselves and prepare to battle their way through hordes of flesh-eating monsters in a harsh Australian bushland.
The Monster and the Girl
›1941 · Science Fiction, Horror, Crime · 65m · Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Trench 11
›2017 · Horror, Thriller, War · 90m · Rossif Sutherland, Robert Stadlober, Charlie Carrick
In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse
›2022 · Action, Horror · 88m · Luke McKenzie, Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Bianca Bradey
In a zombie-infested Australian wasteland, soldier Rhys has dedicated his life to tracking and capturing survivors for the Surgeon General in hopes of finding a cure.
V/H/S/85
›NR2023 · Horror, Thriller · 111m · Alex Galick, Anna Sundberg, Chelsey Grant
Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey through the grim underbelly of the forgotten 1980s.
Old
›PG-132021 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 108m · Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Scream and Scream Again
›PG1970 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
A serial killer who drains his victims of blood is on the loose and London police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
Head of the Family
›R1996 · Comedy, Horror · 82m · Blake Adams, Jacqueline Lovell, Alexandra Quinn
In the midst of a torrid affair, Lance discovers that Nob Hollow's weirdest residents, the Stackpoole family, have been doing hideous human experiments in the bowels of their basement.
The Mutations
›R1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris
A mad scientist crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
Frankenstein's Army
›R2013 · Action, Horror · 84m · Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym
Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat
Bloodwork
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Travis Van Winkle, Tricia Helfer, John Bregar
A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to save themselves from the grips of the facility.
Doctor Blood's Coffin
›1961 · Horror, Science Fiction · 92m · Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter
After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.
The Home
›R2025 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Pete Davidson, John Glover, Mugga
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.
Nightmare at Noon
›R1988 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 96m · Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, George Kennedy
Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.
Evidence
›R2011 · Horror · 78m · Ryan McCoy, Brett Rosenberg, Abigail Richie
Ryan is making a documentary on his friend, Brett, about camping for the first time. However, once they begin camping, they discover that there is a mysterious figure that is hunting them.
Insanitarium
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Jesse Metcalfe, Kiele Sanchez, Peter Stormare
After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths.
The Facility
›2012 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Aneurin Barnard, Emily Butterfield, Oliver Coleman
A group of volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horribly wrong.
Philosophy of a Knife
›NC-172008 · Drama, Horror, Documentary · 249m · Tomoya Okamoto, Elena Probatova, Anatoly Protasov
The true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and previously unknown evidence is revealed by an eyewitness to these events, former doctor and military translator, Anatoly Protasov.
Fear Chamber
›1968 · Horror · 88m · Boris Karloff, Julissa, Carlos East
The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.
The Twilight People
›PG1972 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · John Ashley, Pat Woodell, Jan Merlin
A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
The Evil in Us
›2016 · Horror · 91m · Tatyana Forrest, Debs Howard, Ian Collins
While on a fourth of July holiday, six best friends fall victim to the insidious plan of a terrorist organization when they unknowingly take a bio-active drug that transforms them into bloodthirsty cannibals.