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 AlienistSeries
›TV-MA2018 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · 2 seasons · Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning
New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
CardinalSeries
›TV-MA2017 · Crime, Drama · 4 seasons · Billy Campbell, Karine Vanasse
Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation by his new partner, Lise Delorme, a tough investigator in her own right.
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
›2009 · Thriller, Mystery, Crime · 106m · Andrew Garfield, Warren Clarke, Sean Bean
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
›2009 · Thriller, Crime, Drama · 105m · David Morrissey, Lisa Howard, Chris Walker
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
Coma
›PG1978 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 113m · Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley
When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.
Stonehearst Asylum
›PG-132014 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 112m · Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Rushed
›2021 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 101m · Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Robert Patrick, Jake Weary
Barbara O’Brien, an Irish Catholic mother, has her life turned upside-down when her son, a freshman in college, is involved in a tragic hazing incident. Taking justice into her own hands, she travels across the country recording mothers who have lost sons to hazing in an effort to prove the university’s liability. When she is confronted by corruption and cover ups, she seeks revenge on the one person she finds truly responsible, proving that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.
Blitz
›R2011 · Crime, Action, Thriller · 97m · Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillen
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
Saw VI
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.
Nothing But the Night
›PG1973 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 90m · Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors
When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.
Prison
›R1987 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 102m · Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Lane Smith
After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.
Fatal Games
›R1984 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Sally Kirkland, Lynn Banashek, Sean Masterson
The young athletes of Falcon Academy are training hard to earn their place in the nationals. But when these burgeoning sports stars start disappearing one after the other, Dr. Jordine and his team - who’ve started plying their athletes with new and untested performance-enhancing drugs - are baffled.
Gates of Darkness
›2019 · Horror · 91m · Randy Shelly, Tobin Bell, John Savage
A teen endures a terrifying exorcism in the hopes of unlocking shocking secrets about the church and his family.
The Banishing
›NR2021 · Horror · 97m · Jessica Brown Findlay, John Heffernan, John Lynch
In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they discover their new home holds a horrifying secret.
5ive Girls
›NR2007 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Ron Perlman, Amy Lalonde, Terra Vnesa
Five wayward teenage girls are sent to a reformatory and discover they possess unique powers to battle the ancient demon, Legion, which holds thrall over the sinister institution.
The Demolitionist
›R1995 · Action, Science Fiction, Horror · 100m · Nicole Eggert, Bruce Abbott, Susan Tyrrell
A murdered police officer is brought back to life by a cold-hearted scientist to serve as "The Demolitionist", the ultimate crime-fighting weapon in a city overrun by criminals and internal corruption