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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27 titles
Breathing In
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 105m · Michele Burgers, Sven Ruygrok, Jamie-Lee Money
1901, South Africa. As the Second Anglo-Boer War rages on, a wounded General seeks refuge in the small home of a woman and her young daughter. As the hurt man settles in, he begins noticing that something is off about the two women, particularly the daughter, and before long, he’ll learn the real reason for why they’ve invited him and for how they’ve survived on their own for so long.
Exorcism in Utero
›2023 · Horror · 88m · Allegra Sweeney, Calvin Morie McCarthy, Neil Green
Herma finds a powerful ring that possesses her when she tries it on; as her body transforms and mind begins to deteriorate, she must find a way out to save herself and her unborn baby.
The Hole in the Ground
›R2019 · Horror · 90m · Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, James Cosmo
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
Fright
›PG1971 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Susan George, Honor Blackman, Ian Bannen
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child's biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.
Motherly
›2022 · Thriller, Horror · 90m · Lora Burke, Tessa Kozma, Kristen MacCulloch
Kate and her daughter Beth live alone in an isolated farmhouse in the woods, but when Kate slowly begins to suspect that something sinister is happening, her motherly instincts are put to the test.
The Dark Red
›2020 · Horror, Mystery · 101m · April Billingsley, Kelsey Scott, Conal Byrne
A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital and claims her newborn was stolen by a dark cult.
Delivery: The Beast Within
›NR2013 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Laurel Vail, Danny Barclay, Rob Cobuzio
Delivery tells the story of Kyle and Rachel Massy, a young couple who agree to document their first pregnancy for a family-oriented reality show. The production spirals out-of-control after the cameras capture a series of unexplained events, leading Rachel to believe that a malevolent spirit has possessed their unborn child.
Son
›NR2021 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Andi Matichak, Emile Hirsch, Luke David Blumm
When a young boy contracts a mysterious illness, his mother must decide how far she will go to protect him from terrifying forces in her past.
Child's Play
›R2019 · Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Mark Hamill, Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman
Karen, a single mother, gifts her son Andy a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic.
The Tall Man
›R2012 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 106m · Jessica Biel, Jodelle Ferland, Stephen McHattie
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
Still/Born
›2018 · Horror · 87m · Christie Burke, Jesse Moss, Rebecca Olson
Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child – a supernatural entity that has chosen her child and will stop at nothing to take it from her.
Case 39
›R2009 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 109m · Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane
In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.
Blood
›2023 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 108m · Michelle Monaghan, Skeet Ulrich, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong
Jess, a newly separated mother and nurse, moves into her old family farmhouse with Tyler, her teenage daughter, and Owen, her eight-year-old son. One night, the family dog senses something in the woods and runs off to find it. He returns a couple of days later and attacks Owen, savagely biting him before Jess is able to intervene. Owen is rushed to the hospital. His condition worsens, and no one can figure out why... until Jess discovers a disturbing cure...
The Kindred
›2021 · Horror · 94m · April Pearson, Blake Harrison, James Cosmo
After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child.
The Godsend
›R1980 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence
An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she appears.
The Invasion
›PG-132007 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 99m · Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jackson Bond
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
Never Let Go
›R2024 · Horror · 101m · Halle Berry, Anthony B. Jenkins, William Catlett
As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.
The Clinic
›R2010 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 94m · Andy Whitfield, Tabrett Bethell, Freya Stafford
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?
Kindred
›NR2020 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 101m · Tamara Lawrance, Jack Lowden, Edward Holcroft
When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother and his controlling stepbrother who are determined to care for her. Grief-stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte begins to doubt the family's intentions and her suspicions grow that they may be trying to control her and her unborn baby.
The Cellar
›2022 · Horror, Mystery · 94m · Elisha Cuthbert, Eoin Macken, Dylan Fitzmaurice-Brady
When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.
The Unborn
›R1991 · Horror, Science Fiction · 85m · Brooke Adams, Jeff Hayenga, James Karen
Joy turns to horror when a pregnant mother discovers the nightmarish truth behind her doctor's unexpected success in helping her conceive.
The Twin
›2022 · Horror, Mystery · 109m · Teresa Palmer, Steven Cree, Barbara Marten
Every parent's worst nightmare is just the beginning for Rachel's ordeal as in the aftermath of a tragic accident, she and her husband Anthony decide to move to the other side of the world to focus on their surviving twin son Elliot. What begins as a time of healing and isolation in the Finnish countryside turns into a desperate battle for the very soul of their son as an entity claiming to be his dead twin brother takes over Elliot — setting Rachel on a diabolical journey to unravel the horrible truth about her twin son.
Dead Night
›2018 · Horror · 82m · Brea Grant, AJ Bowen, Barbara Crampton
A caring mother loses her sanity, setting off a chain of events resulting in tragedy and murder. The story of Casey Pollack unfolds from two very different perspectives when one night in the woods culminates in absolute terror.
The Nest
›2021 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Dee Wallace, Sarah Navratil, Kevin Patrick Murphy
As a mother becomes suspicious that her daughter may be infected by a parasitic creature, she is thrust into a nightmare as the people she trusts most push her into a chasm of drug addiction, self-destruction, and devastating sacrifice.