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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17 titles
Nope
›R2022 · Horror, Science Fiction · 130m · Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
mother!
›R2017 · Horror, Drama · 121m · Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Wer
›R2013 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 89m · A.J. Cook, Sebastian Roché, Simon Quarterman
A defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye.
The Deadly Spawn
›R1983 · Horror, Science Fiction · 81m · Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter
When a meteorite touches down in the New Jersey woods carrying a monstrous alien slug, it’s up to four teens to stop it before it’s terrifying brood consumes all life on Earth!
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
›1986 · Horror · 97m · John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Bottoms, Irene Miracle
There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive. Some people find themselves being hunted by the starving monkeys and must do whatever they can to stay alive.
Wolf Man
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth
With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.
Dying Breed
›R2008 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Nathan Phillips, Leigh Whannell, Bille Brown
An extinct species, the Tasmanian tiger. A long-forgotten legend, “The Pieman” aka Alexander Pearce, who was hanged for cannibalism in 1824. Both had a desperate need to survive; both could have living descendants within the Tasmanian bush. Four hikers venture deep into isolated territory to find one of these legends, but which one will they come upon first?
Bite
›2015 · Horror · 90m · Elma Begovic, Jordan Gray, Annette Wozniak
While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect. After returning home with cold feet, Casey tries to call off her wedding but before she's able to, she starts exhibiting insect like traits. Between her physical transformation and her wedding anxiety, Casey succumbs to her new instincts and begins creating a hive that not only houses her translucent eggs, but feeds on the flesh of others. As her transformation becomes complete, Casey discovers that everything can change with a single bite.
Blind Waters
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Meghan Carrasquillo, Noam Sigler, Francisco Angelini
An unrelenting shark turns a couple's dream vacation into a nightmare when they are stranded at sea and forced to fight for their lives.
Quicksand
›2023 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 86m · Carolina Gaitán, Allan Hawco, Sebastián Eslava
A married couple on the brink of divorce becomes trapped in quicksand while hiking through a Colombian rainforest. It’s a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and must work together in order to escape.
What Lies Below
›2020 · Horror, Science Fiction · 88m · Ema Horvath, Mena Suvari, Trey Tucker
A socially awkward teenager is blindsided when her mother introduces her to her new fiancée. At first, his charm, intelligence, and beauty seem too good to be true, and after a series of strange occurrences, the teenage daughter realizes that this new member of their family is not exactly who he seems.
The Beast Within
›R2024 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 97m · Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings, Caoilinn Springall
Ten-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of an ancient forest. After witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret that they've so desperately tried to conceal.
Cruel Jaws
›PG-131995 · Horror, Thriller, Adventure · 94m · David Luther, George Barnes Jr., Scott Silveria
A tiger shark bred by the Navy as a killing machine is wreaking havoc in the sleepy tourist town of Hampton Bay.
Cemetery Gates
›2006 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 92m · Reggie Bannister, Peter Stickles, Nicole DuPort
When two ecologists break-in the laboratory of Dr. Belmont, they find a box with a subject and they decide to set the experiment free in the woods. During the transportation, the box opens and releases the mutant Tasmanian Devil that devours the two activists and escapes to the woods. Meanwhile, Dr. Belmont's son Hunter travels in a van with four friends to film a horror movie in the cemetery in the woods, while Belmont and his associate Dr. Christine Kollar seek their deadly experiment called Precious.
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.
Bats
›PG-131999 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 91m · Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
Spiders
›PG-132013 · Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Patrick Muldoon, Christa Campbell, William Hope
After a Soviet space station crashes into a New York City subway tunnel, a species of venomous spiders is discovered, and soon they mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the city.