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.
The Crypt Charts
See all charts →
20 titles
Seconds
›R1966 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 107m · Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.
Tower PrepSeries
›2010 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Drew Van Acker, Ryan Pinkston, Dyana Liu
Ian Archer wakes up one morning to find himself at a mysterious academy for teens with special abilities. Unable to find answers to his questions from the school’s faculty and cut off from any kind of outside contact or means of escape, Ian forms a secret group with fellow suspicious students.
Svengali
›NR1931 · Drama, Horror, Romance · 81m · John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
Unsane
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
Monkey Shines
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Drama · 113m · Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
The Rule of Jenny Pen
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 104m · John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, Nathaniel Lees
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.
One Point O
›R2004 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 95m · Jeremy Sisto, Udo Kier, Deborah Kara Unger
Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.
The Mill
›R2023 · Science Fiction, Horror · 106m · Lil Rel Howery, Pat Healy, Karen Obilom
A businessman wakes up beside an ancient grist mill situated in the center of an open-air prison cell with no idea how he got there. Forced to work as a beast of burden to stay alive, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child.
Attack of the Puppet People
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · John Hoyt, John Agar, June Kenney
A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.
Village of the Damned
›R1995 · Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.
The Atticus Institute
›NR2015 · Horror · 92m · William Mapother, Rya Kihlstedt, Sharon Maughan
In the early 1970s, Dr. Henry West creates an institute to find people with supernatural abilities. When Judith Winstead comes to the facility, she exhibits amazing abilities that the military wants to turn into a weapon.
Afraid
›PG-132024 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 84m · John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Keith Carradine
Curtis Pike and his family are selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA observes the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can – and will – make sure nothing – and no one – gets in her family's way.
Harvest Lake
›NR2016 · Horror · 75m · Jason Crowe, Ellie Church, Tristan Risk
Five friends fall under the seductive influence of a libidinous, otherworldly presence that threatens to change their lives forever in this strange and erotic new film from director Scott Schirmer and producer Brian K. Williams.
Headgame
›R2018 · Horror · 92m · Jamie Hill, Chris Hayes, Carly Steel
A group of young people awake, locked inside a warehouse with cameras screwed into their heads. It becomes apparent that they are unwilling competitors in a deadly game, and they will need to murder each other if they hope to survive.
Like Dogs
›NR2021 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Annabel Barrett, Ignacyo Matynia, Ryan Q. Tran
A behavioral experiment treating humans like animals goes awry when a University Student manipulates the research with deadly results.
Latency
›PG-132024 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 94m · Sasha Luss, Alexis Ren, Ava Caryofyllis
When professional gamer Hana, who suffers from acute agoraphobia, receives new equipment that enhances her game, she begins to wonder if it is reading her mind – or controlling it.
Nightmare Weekend
›1986 · Horror, Science Fiction · 86m · Debbie Laster, Dale Midkiff, Debra Hunter
A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.
Breeders
›R1986 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 77m · Teresa Farley, Lance Lewman, Frances Sherman
An otherwordly perpetrator has been attacking female virgins in Manhattan. As Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti work together to identify the strange organic materials found on the women, the victims begin arising in a trance and leaving the hospital.
The Recall
›R2017 · Science Fiction, Horror · 91m · Wesley Snipes, RJ Mitte, Jedidiah Goodacre
When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.
Alien Abduction
›2005 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 96m · Megan Lee Ethridge, Griff Furst, Marissa Morse
After being abducted by extraterrestrials, Jean and her friends are committed to a top secret government-run mental institution to undergo tests and be brainwashed.
