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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7 titles
It Came from Beneath the Sea
›1955 · Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror · 79m · Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis
A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.
The Children
›R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers, Gale Garnett
A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.
Attack of the Crab Monsters
›1957 · Science Fiction, Horror · 63m · Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson
A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.
The Giant Behemoth
›NR1959 · Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · Gene Evans, André Morell, Leigh Madison
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
Class of Nuke 'Em High
›R1986 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 86m · Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton, Robert Prichard
The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.
The Horror of Party Beach
›NR1964 · Horror, Music, Science Fiction · 78m · John Scott, Alice Lyon, Allan Laurel
Radioactive waste dumped off the coastline creates mutant monsters. The beasts attack slumber parties, beaches, tourists, and terrorize a waterfront community as a scientist, his daughter, her boyfriend and the local police try to find a way to stop them.
The Beast of Yucca Flats
›NR1961 · Horror, Science Fiction · 54m · Tor Johnson, Douglas Mellor, Barbara Francis
A refugee Soviet scientist arrives at a desert airport carrying secret documents, but is attacked by a pair of KGB assassins and escapes into the desert, where he comes in range of an American nuclear test and is transformed into a mindless killing beast.
