
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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Aliens
›R1986 · Action, Thriller, Science Fiction · 137m · Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.

Southern Comfort
›R1981 · Thriller, War · 106m · Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

Piranha
›R1978 · Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy · 94m · Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

We Bury the Dead
›R2026 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Smith
After a catastrophic military disaster reanimates the dead, Ava searches for her missing husband amidst an increasingly hostile world.

Bullets of Justice
›R2020 · Action, Horror, Comedy · 79m · Timur Turisbekov, Doroteya Toleva, Danny Trejo
During World War III, the American government initiates a secret project codenamed ‘Army Bacon’ in order to create super soldiers by inbreeding humans with pigs. 25 years later the hybrid Muzzles have occupied the top of the food chain, eating and farming humanity. Ex-bounty hunter Rob Justice works for the last line of human resistance - a group of survivors hiding in a nuclear bunker deep underground - and his mission is to search and destroy Muzzle Central.

Varan the Unbelievable
›1962 · Horror, Science Fiction · 70m · Myron Healey, Tsuruko Kobayashi, Clifford Kawada
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

The Objective
›2008 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Jonas Ball, Matthew R. Anderson, Jon Huertas
A team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched to a remote mountain region of Afghanistan with orders to locate an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern 'Bermuda Triangle' of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could have imagined.

Red Sands
›R2009 · Action, Horror, War · 89m · Shane West, Leonard Roberts, Aldis Hodge
A group of U.S. soldiers on a mission in the Middle East find themselves with nothing to do in their free time. Out of sheer boredom they end up destroying an old statue in the desert, only to unleash a horrific entity.

War of the Colossal Beast
›NR1958 · Horror, Science Fiction · 69m · Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Duncan 'Dean' Parkin
Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colossal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very angry.

The Swarm
›PG1978 · Science Fiction, Horror · 116m · Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.

Osombie
›2012 · Horror, Action · 92m · Eve Mauro, Corey Sevier, Walter A. Carmona
Following the 9/11 attacks, the war on terror against Afghanistan continues. With the Taliban insurgents hiding out in the mountains however, they become increasingly difficult for the US military to engage. The solution is to try and flush them out by adding low level chemicals to the water supply. Little do the USA know however that enemy scientists have adapted the chemicals to make their own formula, one that can bring the dead back to life.





















