
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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Rocky Horror Show Live
›2015 · Comedy, Science Fiction, Fantasy · 129m · Richard O'Brien, David Bedella, Ben Forster
After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr. Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
›R1975 · Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror · 100m · Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick
After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
›1948 · Horror, Comedy · 83m · Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr.
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

The Devil-Doll
›1936 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton
Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

Black Friday
›1940 · Science Fiction, Crime, Horror · 70m · Stanley Ridges, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.

Doctor X
›1932 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 76m · Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

The Lost Skeleton Returns Again
›PG2010 · Comedy, Horror · 93m · H.M. Wynant, Frank Dietz, Christine Romeo
Jerranium 90, a "little rock" that made all the papers, is buried deep within the Amazon. And everybody wants it, including crooked importer Handscomb Draile, slimy Gondreau Slykes, cheap crook Carl Traeger and evil scientist Dr. Ellamy Royne.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
›1932 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 61m · Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi, Leon Ames
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›1953 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 77m · Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
As American policemen in London, Bud and Lou meet up with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

The Ghost of Frankenstein
›1942 · Horror, Science Fiction · 68m · Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.

Frankenhooker
›R1990 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · James Lorinz, Patty Mullen, Joseph Gonzalez
A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can collect body parts to reassemble her.

House of Frankenstein
›1944 · Horror, Science Fiction · 71m · Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.

The Mad Ghoul
›1943 · Science Fiction, Horror · 65m · George Zucco, David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.

Beyond Re-Animator
›R2003 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 95m · Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Elsa Pataky
Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a new prison doctor and the brother of the girl who suffered from West's experiments 13 years earlier.

Creature with the Atom Brain
›NR1955 · Science Fiction, Horror · 69m · Richard Denning, S. John Launer, Michael Granger
Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.

Blood of the Vampire
›1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Donald Wolfit, Vincent Ball, Barbara Shelley
A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crippled assistant Carl, the 'anemic' Mad Scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life.

The Devil Bat
›NR1940 · Horror, Science Fiction, Crime · 68m · Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.

Voodoo Man
›1944 · Horror, Mystery · 62m · Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Tod Andrews
After several female motorists begin disappearing en route to Twin Falls, a Hollywood screenwriter and the cousin of his bride-to-be discover that they've all been abducted by the mysterious Dr. Marlowe, who is attempting to resurrect his dead wife.

Beast of Blood
›PG1970 · Adventure, Horror · 92m · John Ashley, Celeste Yarnall, Eddie Garcia
A mad scientist creates a monster, but after its head is cut off, he keeps it alive in a serum he has invented.

The Invisible Man's Revenge
›1944 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Jon Hall, Evelyn Ankers, Alan Curtis
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.

Captive Wild Woman
›1943 · Horror, Science Fiction · 61m · John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

The Frozen Dead
›NR1966 · Science Fiction, Horror · 95m · Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.

Frankenstein's Army
›R2013 · Action, Horror · 84m · Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym
Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades -- a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat

The Blood Beast Terror
›G1968 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham
A scientist working with genetics creates a horrifying flying creature that feeds on human blood. Following a gruesome trail of dead bodies, Scotland Yard investigators must scramble to halt its ravenous rampage.






















