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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19 titles
Ripper StreetSeries
›TV-MA2012 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 5 seasons · Matthew Macfadyen, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.
American GothicSeries
›TV-142016 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Juliet Rylance, Antony Starr, Virginia Madsen
A prominent Boston family attempts to redefine itself in the wake of a chilling discovery that links their recently deceased patriarch to a string of murders spanning decades — amid the mounting suspicion that one of them may have been his accomplice.
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.
Scream VI
›R2023 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 123m · Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
October FactionSeries
›TV-MA2020 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Aurora Burghart, Gabriel Darku, Tamara Taylor
Monster hunters Fred and Deloris Allen tangle with evil ... and family drama with their teenage twins. From the comics by Steve Niles and Damien Worm.
Slumber Party Massacre
›2021 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Hannah Gonera, Frances Sholto-Douglas, Alex McGregor
Dana, daughter of the only survivor of a massacre in 1993, is going on a weekend trip with her friends. After their car breaks down in the very same town where her mother once fought the Driller Killer, Dana and her friends must come face-to-face with the man who has haunted her mother’s life for the past 30 years.
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
›R2014 · Thriller, Horror · 85m · Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright, Travis Tope
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
›R1988 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris
Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece.
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula
›2000 · TV Movie, Horror · 92m · Rudolf Martin, Jane March, Christopher Brand
Meet the man behind the legend in this true story of Vlad the Impaler, whose vicious and cruel reputation as a bloodthirsty warlord became the basis for the myth of Dracula.
Hatchet III
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 81m · Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Zach Galligan
A search and recovery team heads into Victor Crowley’s haunted swamp to pick up the pieces, and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.
Winchester
›PG-132018 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook
San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
›R1995 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O'Leary
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.
Dollface
›NR2014 · Horror · 95m · Kirsten Ray, Debbie Rochon, John Kap
A group of college students researching Dorchester Stewart, better known as the infamous killer Crinoline Head, return to the scene of the horrific murders that happened in 1996.
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
›R2013 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 101m · Chad Michael Murray, Katee Sackhoff, Abigail Spencer
A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.
Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story
›R2025 · Horror · 89m · Titus Welliver, Jocelin Donahue, Brady Hepner
Max and Rudy Van Helsing have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham. Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior. But when they begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father’s history with Dracula, their world unravels, forcing them to confront the terrifying legacy they were never meant to inherit.
Return to Sleepaway Camp
›R2008 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Vincent Pastore, Jackie Tohn, Jonathan Tiersten
When campers and staff at Camp Manabe mysteriously begin disappearing and turning into gruesome corpses, paranoid Ronnie can't shake the memory of a series of grisly murders that took place at Camp Arawak two decades earlier.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller · 83m · Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham
After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic influencers who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
›R1993 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Kane Hodder, John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan
Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches.
The Amityville Haunting
›2011 · Horror · 86m · Nadine Crocker, Piper Kennedy, Mary LeGault
This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever lives there. This is the footage retrieved from the camera.
