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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WandaVisionSeries
›TV-142021 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn
Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
Lost GirlSeries
›TV-142010 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 5 seasons · Anna Silk, Zoie Palmer, Kristen Holden-Ried
The gorgeous and charismatic Bo is a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.
The Devils
›R1971 · Drama, History, Horror · 112m · Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton
A charismatic 17th-century French priest becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state officials are all too happy to exploit.
The Bastard Son & the Devil HimselfSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Mystery · 1 season · Jay Lycurgo, Nadia Parkes, Paul Ready
Caught between two warring clans, the son of a notorious witch responsible for a deadly massacre tries to find his place in the world — and his powers.
Dark City
›R1998 · Mystery, Science Fiction · 101m · Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Kindred: The EmbracedSeries
›1996 · Drama · 1 season · C. Thomas Howell, Mark Frankel, Kelly Rutherford
Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television. Loosely based on the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the series premiered on Fox on April 2, 1996, and ran for eight episodes before it was canceled on May 9, 1996. The series focused on San Francisco Police Detective Frank Kohanek who discovers his city is home to numerous vampires while investigating alleged mobster, Julian Luna. Julian is the "prince" of the city, ruler of five groups of vampires in the city, collectively called "The Kindred". The vampires survive through the "masquerade", disguising themselves as humans, and Julian strictly enforces the laws that govern them to protect their anonymity. Julian and Frank form an uneasy bond as they work together to try to prevent a vampire war and Julian struggles with his romantic feelings for human reporter Caitlin Byrne. The eight episodes of the series have been released on VHS and DVD.
Split
›PG-132017 · Horror, Thriller · 117m · James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
The Menu
›R2022 · Comedy, Horror · 107m · Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, Nicholas Hoult
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
666 Park AvenueSeries
›TV-142012 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Terry O'Quinn
What would you do to have everything you desire? Step inside 666 Park Avenue, New York's most seductive address. We all have some burning needs, desires and ambitions. For the residents of The Drake, the premier apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side, these will all be met – for a price – courtesy of the building's mysterious owner, Gavin Doran. But be careful what you wish for, because the price you have to pay is your soul.
The Sorcerers
›1967 · Horror · 86m · Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Elizabeth Ercy
An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts.
Better Watch Out
›R2017 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 89m · Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Ed Oxenbould
On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.
Scanners
›R1981 · Science Fiction, Horror · 103m · Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
Daughters of Darkness
›R1971 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 100m · Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet
Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.
The Raven
›1935 · Horror, Crime · 61m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.
Stonehearst Asylum
›PG-132014 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 112m · Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Dr. Cyclops
›1940 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 76m · Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
The Magician
›1926 · Drama, Horror, Fantasy · 79m · Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Firmin Gémier
A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.
Underworld
›R2003 · Fantasy, Action, Thriller · 122m · Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen
Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
Berlin Syndrome
›R2017 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 116m · Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt, Matthias Habich
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
PG: Psycho Goreman
›R2020 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 95m · Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Matthew Ninaber
Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims, and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.
White Zombie
›NR1932 · Horror · 67m · Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, John Harron
A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.
Funny Games
›R2008 · Thriller, Horror · 111m · Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
The BabySeries
›TV-MA2022 · Comedy, Mystery · 1 season · Michelle de Swarte, Amira Ghazalla, Amber Grappy
When 38 year-old Natasha is unexpectedly landed with a baby, her life of doing what she wants, when she wants, dramatically implodes. Controlling, manipulative and with violent powers, the baby twists Natasha's life into a horror show. Where does it come from? What does it want? And what lengths will Natasha have to go to in order to get her life back?
Bad Samaritan
›R2018 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 111m · David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Kerry Condon
A thief makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are no longer how he expected.
