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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The Fall of the House of UsherSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell
Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.
Midnight MassSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Hamish Linklater, Zach Gilford, Kate Siegel
The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.
Dracula
›1958 · Horror · 82m · Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
Hammer House of HorrorSeries
›TV-MA1980 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season
Each self-contained episode features a different kind of horror, varying from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also includes non-supernatural themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.
House of Wax
›1953 · Horror, Crime · 88m · Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
Saint Maud
›R2020 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 85m · Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Frazer
Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.
Spring
›2014 · Horror, Romance, Science Fiction · 110m · Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Nick Nevern
A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
Mother of Flies
›2025 · Horror · 92m · Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, John Adams
When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods... but every cure has costs.
Spontaneous
›R2020 · Comedy, Horror · 102m · Katherine Langford, Charlie Plummer, Yvonne Orji
When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.
LightfieldsSeries
›2013 · Drama · 1 season · Karla Crome, Dakota Blue Richards, Sam Hazeldine
The story follows three families that each lived in Lightfields farmhouse at different time periods (1944, 1975 and 2012) but who are linked by a spine-chilling presence: the ghost of a teenage girl who died in mysterious and tragic circumstances.
A Ghost Story for ChristmasSeries
›1971 · Drama · 2 seasons
A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.
The Mortuary Collection
›NR2020 · Fantasy, Horror · 108m · Clancy Brown, Caitlin Custer, Sarah Hay
In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.
Happy Death Day
›PG-132017 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Charles Aitken
Caught in a bizarre and terrifying time warp, college student Tree finds herself repeatedly reliving the day of her murder, ultimately realizing that she must identify the killer and the reason for her death before her chances of survival run out.
Birth/Rebirth
›R2023 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 99m · Marin Ireland, Judy Reyes, A.J. Lister
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
Excision
›NR2012 · Drama, Horror, Comedy · 81m · AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, Ariel Winter
Pauline, a disturbed, outcast teenager, has a fascination with surgery and experiences violent, psychosexual fantasies, all while aspiring to a career in medicine.
Shadows and Fog
›PG-131991 · Comedy, Mystery, Crime · 85m · Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
The Midnight ClubSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd
Inside a hospice for terminally ill teens, members of an exclusive club make a chilling pact: The first to die must send a sign from beyond the grave.
Flatliners
›R1990 · Drama, Science Fiction, Horror · 115m · Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.
Good Boy
›PG-132025 · Horror · 73m · Indy, Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman
A loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup must fight to protect the one he loves most.
Scrooge
›NR1935 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 78m · Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Robert Cochran
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
The Premature Burial
›NR1962 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 81m · Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.
The HungerSeries
›1997 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons · David Bowie
The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV channel The Movie Network. Though it shares a title with the feature film The Hunger the series has no direct plot or character connection to the film, and was created by Jeff Fazio. Originally shown on the Sci Fi Channel in the UK, The Movie Network in Canada and Showtime in the US, the series was broadcast from 1997 to 2000, and is internally organized into two seasons. Each episode was based around an independent story introduced by the host; Terence Stamp hosted each episode for the first season, and was replaced in the second season by David Bowie. Stories tended to focus on themes of self-destructive desire and obsession, with a strong component of soft-core erotica; popular tropes for the stories included cannibalism, vampires, sex, and poison.
Dolls
›R1987 · Fantasy, Horror · 77m · Ian Patrick Williams, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Carrie Lorraine
A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens in their dark, haunted mansion.
The Black Cat
›NR1941 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 70m · Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.