
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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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
›2009 · Thriller, Crime, Drama · 105m · David Morrissey, Lisa Howard, Chris Walker
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.

Clearcut
›R1991 · Thriller, Horror, Western · 98m · Ron Lea, Graham Greene, Michael Hogan
A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.

Newlyweds
›2026 · Horror · Piero Miguel Vergara, Melat Morningstar, Kayla Perez Rosit
After murdering his bride on the night of their wedding, a panicked groom races down a desolate backroad to dispose of her body before dawn. But as the miles disappear beneath his tires, unsettling phone calls, impossible visions, and a growing presence in the backseat begin to blur the line between reality and nightmare. Trapped alone with his guilt, he soon discovers that some truths refuse to stay buried.

Brooklyn 45
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, History · 93m · Anne Ramsay, Ezra Buzzington, Jeremy Holm
Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together in a Brooklyn brownstone several months after the end of World War II, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal.

Southbound
›NR2015 · Fantasy, Thriller, Horror · 89m · Fabianne Therese, Larry Fessenden, Kate Beahan
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.

Coming Home in the Dark
›2021 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Daniel Gillies, Erik Thomson, Miriama McDowell
A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.

The Damned
›R2025 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 89m · Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Siobhan Finneran
A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village.

Eye for an Eye
›2025 · Horror · 101m · Whitney Peak, Golda Rosheuvel, Finn Bennett
Anna, grieving the sudden death of her parents, relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother she has never met. Isolated, vulnerable, and in need of friends, she finds brief solace in the company of two local teens. But when she becomes complicit to their unforgivable act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr. Sandman – the twisted soul of a tormented child who haunts bullies’ dreams before feasting on their eyeballs when they finally wake - Anna must right her wrong before becoming a victim of this gruesome curse.

Chop
›2011 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 98m · Will Keenan, Timothy Muskatell, Ricardo Gray
Lance Reed is forced by a psychotic stranger to confront his duplicitous past. Seeking retribution for a crime, the man forces Lance to reveal his inner most secrets by systematically removing his limbs.

Farm House
›2008 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 92m · Jamie Anne Allman, William Lee Scott, Steven Weber
Stranded in the remote countryside after wrecking their car, a couple seeking to start over discovers that there's no escape from the sins of their past.

House of Purgatory
›2016 · Thriller, Horror · 75m · Torey Adkins, Brian Krause, Anne Leighton
Four teenagers go looking for a legendary haunted house that gives you money back for every floor you can complete. Once finding it, they realize the house is much more terrifying than a normal Halloween attraction - the house knows each of their secrets and one by one uses them against the teens.

Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End
›2013 · Action, Drama, Thriller · 88m · David A.R. White, Ray Wise, Brian Bosworth
Josh McManus, a traveling salesman with a cloudy past, finds himself in a dusty West Texas town at the wrong time. After a crippling series of earthquakes throws the entire world into chaos, a traveling salesman will have to fight his way through a vicious outlaw biker gang known as the Barbarians to get home to his family.

Saw 3D
›R2010 · Horror, Crime · 90m · Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell
As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.

Kingdom Come
›2014 · Horror, Mystery · 99m · Ry Barrett, Camille Hollett-French, Jason Martorino
A group of strangers wake up in an abandoned hospital to find themselves stalked by a supernatural force with sinister intentions.






















