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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21 titles
The Boat
›2019 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 89m · Joe Azzopardi
A lone fisherman on his daily run finds himself lost in a thick fog which proves impossible to navigate. The worst is yet to come when his encounter with a seemingly abandoned sailboat becomes a fight for survival against an enemy unknown.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
›R2023 · Horror, Fantasy · 119m · Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, David Dastmalchian
The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.
Sea Fever
›2020 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 95m · Hermione Corfield, Ardalan Esmaili, Olwen Fouéré
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
Capsized: Blood in the Water
›2019 · Drama, TV Movie, Thriller · 83m · Josh Duhamel, Tyler Blackburn, Rebekah Graf
Based on the harrowing true story of an October 1982 shark encounter. After a yacht bound for Florida capsizes during an unexpected storm, its crew is left to drift for days in the chilling waters of the Atlantic where they become prey to a group of tiger sharks. With the hope of rescue dwindling, the crew must do everything in their power to survive as the sharks continue to hunt them.
Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature
›R2001 · Horror, Fantasy, TV Movie · 91m · Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Jim Piddock
Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads towards the mythical Forbidden Islands, the mermaid begins to display its deadly side.
Ghost Ship
›R2002 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 91m · Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Desmond Harrington
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
Blind Waters
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Meghan Carrasquillo, Noam Sigler, Francisco Angelini
An unrelenting shark turns a couple's dream vacation into a nightmare when they are stranded at sea and forced to fight for their lives.
Shark Waters
›2022 · Thriller, Horror, Action · 85m · Jim Fitzpatrick, Meghan Carrasquillo, Mike Rae Anderson
Great white sharks attack a fishing charter, ramming a hole in the ship’s hull. With the shoreline miles away, those aboard are forced to fight for their lives before they are either drowned or eaten alive.
Virus
›R1999 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 100m · Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
Haunting of the Mary Celeste
›2020 · Horror · 74m · Emily Swallow, Ava Acres, Richard Roundtree
Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for reasons having to do with the supernatural. Her theory that those on the Mary Celeste vanished into a "rift" between dimensions proves true as the boat breaks down and her crew begins to vanish one by one.
Dark Waters
›2003 · Horror, Action, Adventure · 93m · Lorenzo Lamas, Simmone Mackinnon, Jeffrey Gorman
Unusually vicious and aggressive sharks attack an oil rig in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. Dane Quatrell and a team are sent to investigate, but the sharks are still on the prowl and now they have developed a taste for blood.
Death Ship
›R1980 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 91m · George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.
Shark Bait
›2022 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 87m · Holly Earl, Jack Trueman, Catherine Hannay
A group of friends enjoying a weekend steal a couple of jetskis racing them out to sea, ending up in a horrific head-on collision. They struggle to find a way home with a badly injured friend while from the waters below predators lurk.
The Ninth Passenger
›2018 · Horror · 93m · Jesse Metcalfe, Alexia Fast, Sabina Gadecki
A group of salacious students party aboard a luxury yacht only to turn on each other as a 9th PASSENGER picks them off one by one.
Immanence
›2022 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 93m · Michael Beach, Jamie McShane, Eugene Byrd
Radio astronomers discover a mysterious signal in the deep sea that could be contact with extraterrestrials. After several terrifying manifestations threaten their beliefs, the team must fight to survive the ultimate evil.
Amphibious Creature of the Deep
›2010 · Horror · 83m · Michael Paré, Verdi Solaiman, Janna Fassaert
Marine biologist Skylar Shane hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman, to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jack's 'friends', a gang of smugglers headquartered on a fishing platform in the middle of the sea. Tamal, an orphan sold into servitude on the fishing platform by his uncle, a 'Dukun' (sorcerer and master of black magic) shaman, begs Skylar to take him away. She empathizes with the boy, who reminds her of her lost daughter, Rebecca, and is determined to help him, not knowing what lurks beneath the dark inky water, waiting to surface. Ever since Tamal arrived, mysterious things begin to happen, until one by one the smugglers will be killed by the terrifying creature from the deep. In the middle of an eerie, violent storm, the animus inside Tamal grows stronger, calling for the ancient creature of his nightmares...
Mary
›R2019 · Horror, Mystery · 84m · Gary Oldman, Emily Mortimer, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
A struggling family buys an old ship at auction with high hopes of starting a charter business, only to discover her horrifying secrets on the isolated open waters.
Deep Fear
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 84m · Mădălina Ghenea, Ed Westwick, Macarena Gómez
A solo trip aboard a yacht takes a terrifying turn when a woman encounters three drug traffickers clinging to the shattered remains of a boat. They soon force her to dive into shark-infested waters to retrieve kilos of cocaine from the sunken wreck.
Spiders II: Breeding Ground
›2001 · Horror, Science Fiction · 96m · Stephanie Niznik, Greg Cromer, Daniel Quinn
Happy couple Jason and Alexandra lose their sail yacht in a storm and are grateful to get picked up by Captain Jim Bigelow's commercial carrier. Suspicious about the ship's doctor and realizing the ship is improbably empty and the radio not broken as the crew claims, Jason starts snooping around. Bodies on meat-hooks, genetic experimentation and giant spiders are what he finds.
The Rig
›2010 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · William Forsythe, Stacey Hinnen, Serah D'Laine
In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.
Shark Frenzy
›NR2026 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · David Chokachi, Sophia Sabol, Sarafina King
A family vacation goes wrong when their daughter and her friends get lost at sea on a fishing boat. When that boat is destroyed, they survive in a row boat, then the open ocean. Her parents race to find her as sharks circle ever closer in a deadly fight for survival.