
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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An American Werewolf in London
›R1981 · Comedy, Horror, Fantasy · 97m · David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne
American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.

WerewolfSeries
›1987 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Lance LeGault, John J. York
Eric Cord, a college student transformed into a werewolf undergoes a quest to rid himself of his curse by killing the apparent originator of his 'bloodline'.

Ginger Snaps
›2000 · Fantasy, Horror, Drama · 108m · Katharine Isabelle, Emily Perkins, Kris Lemche
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.

Happy FaceSeries
›TV-MA2025 · Drama, Crime · 1 season · Annaleigh Ashford, Dennis Quaid, James Wolk
The story of Melissa Reed, daughter of Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. After decades of no contact, Keith forces his way back into his daughter’s life, and Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed. In the process, she must face a reckoning of her own identity.

The Sender
›R1982 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 91m · Kathryn Harrold, Željko Ivanek, Shirley Knight
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.

Chocolate
›2006 · Horror, TV Movie · 60m · Henry Thomas, Lucie Laurier, Matt Frewer
After eating a chocolate, a lonely, newly divorced young man who creates artificial flavorings for a living begins having turbulent psychic visions of a beautiful woman that he has never met.

Cruising
›R1980 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · 102m · Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

Candy Land
›2023 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Eden Brolin, Olivia Luccardi, William Baldwin
Remy, a seemingly naive and devout young woman, finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself into the underground world of truck stop sex workers. Under the watchful eye of their matriarch and an enigmatic local lawman, Remy navigates between her strained belief system and the code to find her true calling in life.

Replace
›2017 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Rebecca Forsythe, Lucie Aron, Barbara Crampton
Kira's skin starts to age rapidly, dry out and crumble away. But then she discovers that she can replace her own skin with somebody else's.

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
›2010 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 71m · Eric Bossick, Akiko Monou, Yuko Nakamura
When the son of an American man and a Japanese women is killed in a car crash, the man transforms into a rageful metallic being thirsty of blood and vengance.

Hands of a Stranger
›NR1962 · Horror, Thriller · 85m · Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey, James Noah
A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.

A Little Bit Zombie
›R2012 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 87m · Stephen McHattie, Kristopher Turner, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe
Infected by a virus, a mild mannered HR manager attempts to fulfill his overwhelming desire for brains, all while trying to keep it together so as not to incur the wrath of his bridezilla-to-be.

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
›R1985 · Horror · 87m · Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.

Eat
›2014 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 92m · Meggie Maddock, Ali Francis, Jeremy Make
Novella McClure is like most struggling actresses in Los Angeles: she's in her early 30s, her fake name sounded cooler ten years ago, and she hasn't landed a role in three years. To top it all off, she's developed a disturbing habit of eating her own flesh. Novella desperately tries to hide her strange condition from her motherly landlord, Eesha, and somewhat psychopathic best friend, Candice, but her body and mind continue to deteriorate in the depressing world of failed auditions and sketchy night clubs. Can a romantic relationship with her psychiatrist prevent her from self destruction? Or will her fatal habit continue to eat away at her?

The Inhabitant
›NR2022 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Odessa A'zion, Leslie Bibb, Dermot Mulroney
Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.

Man with the Screaming Brain
›NR2005 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Bruce Campbell, Tamara Gorski, Ted Raimi
The brains of a Russian taxi driver and a wealthy businessman are brought together in one body by a mad scientist.

Full Moon High
›PG1981 · Horror, Comedy, Fantasy · 95m · Adam Arkin, Ed McMahon, Joanne Nail
After a trip to Romania, popular high school quarterback Tony Walker becomes a werewolf, and struggles to come to terms with his hirsute situation.

Sam Was Here
›2016 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 75m · Rusty Joiner, Sigrid La Chapelle, Rhoda Pell
California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients.

Sublime
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 113m · Tom Cavanagh, Kathleen York, Kat Coiro
Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die.

Baby Ruby
›2023 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 93m · Noémie Merlant, Kit Harington, Camila Canó-Flaviá
After welcoming her baby, Ruby, home, the tightly scripted world of lifestyle influencer Jo starts to unravel. As increasingly sinister happenings mount, Jo is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems.

Spontaneous Combustion
›R1990 · Horror, Science Fiction · 97m · Brad Dourif, Cynthia Bain, Jon Cypher
A young man learns that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before his birth, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

Jack Goes Home
›2016 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 100m · Rory Culkin, Lin Shaye, Daveigh Chase
After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family, his friends, and his very identity.

The Free Fall
›2022 · Horror, Mystery · 82m · Andrea Londo, Shawn Ashmore, Jane Badler
Sara wakes from a coma to a life she doesn't remember; a fragile, slippery reality that spirals into a nightmare where nothing is as it seems.

Riding the Bullet
›R2004 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 98m · Jonathan Jackson, Barbara Hershey, David Arquette
In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. Believing he is losing his girlfriend, he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him. He receives news that his mother has had a stroke and decides to hitchhike to visit her at the hospital.






















