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 SerpentSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Crime · 1 season · Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle
The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.
Dead Ringer
›1964 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 116m · Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
They Live
›R1988 · Science Fiction, Action, Thriller · 93m · Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
Scream: The TV SeriesSeries
›TV-MA2015 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · 3 seasons · RJ Cyler, Jessica Sula, Keke Palmer
What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.
Apartment Zero
›R1989 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 124m · Colin Firth, Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan
In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.
The Hillside StranglerSeries
›2021 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Anthony Meoli, Bob Grogan, Jane King
A serial killer stalks Los Angeles in the 1970s, leaving bodies on display throughout the Hollywood Hillside. After a man named Kenneth Bianchi is arrested in 1979 on the suspicion of a double homicide in Bellingham, Washington, it doesn’t take long for Los Angeles investigators to connect the dots back to the serial killer they dubbed “The Hillside Strangler.” But there’s a catch — through a series of explosive recorded interviews with various psychologists and psychiatrists, Bianchi claims that the perpetrator is NOT him; it’s actually his multiple personality, ‘Steve‘ — and that’s not all he has to say on the matter.
Unearthly Stranger
›1963 · Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror · 78m · John Neville, Philip Stone, Gabriella Licudi
A series of scientists working on a new techology to facilitate man's conquest of space are killed in mysterious circumstances. Suspicion falls on the wife of another scientist on the project, who may not be what she seems.
Asylum
›PG1972 · Horror · 88m · Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, Herbert Lom
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
The Night Walker
›NR1964 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 86m · Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Judi Meredith
A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
Stalked by My Doctor: The Return
›2016 · Thriller, TV Movie, Horror · 97m · Eric Roberts, Claire Blackwelder, Hilary Greer
Dr. Beck, who has changed his name, saves a young teenage girl drowning in Mexico, whom he falls in love with. As always, there are some complications in his way, but he has plans to possibly get past them and get the girl of his dreams.
Maniac
›NR1963 · Crime, Mystery, Horror · 86m · Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
Drawn Into the Night
›2022 · Horror, Thriller · 67m · Jessica Sonneborn, Michael McLafferty, Paulie Redding
While investigating the disappearance of several high school girls, an undercover cop posing as a student finds herself fighting for her life.
Mindhunters
›R2004 · Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 106m · Kathryn Morris, Jonny Lee Miller, LL Cool J
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very loosely on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
The Greasy Strangler
›2016 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo
Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets at night.
The Night Listener
›R2006 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 91m · Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Rory Culkin
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan—a young boy—via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
Scream 3
›R2000 · Horror, Mystery · 116m · Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox
As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
›R1988 · Comedy, Horror · 80m · Pamela Springsteen, Renée Estevez, Tony Higgins
Angela Baker escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a sex-obsessed girl to the boys who are peeping Toms -- are murdered by the impostor in various gruesome ways. As more campers go missing, intrepid counselor Molly begins to piece together the truth.
Crash and Burn
›R1990 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Action · 85m · Paul Ganus, Megan Ward, Ralph Waite
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm".
Succubus
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Brendan Bradley, Rachel Cook, Olivia Grace Applegate
A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he could have ever imagined.
Black Dragons
›NR1942 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 64m · Bela Lugosi, Clayton Moore, Joan Barclay
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
What Lurks Beneath
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · Dela Reilley, Ryan Giesen, Simon Phillips
The crew of USS Titan find themselves on the brink of World War 3 with Russia, when a naked stowaway appears in one of their torpedo tubes. The captain banks fears she may be Russian, but she's something far more dangerous.
Jill Rips
›R2000 · Thriller · 94m · Dolph Lundgren, Danielle Brett, Sandi Ross
A tough guy goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance into the hardcore world of S&M, to find out who's responsible for the death of his brother.