
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 Silence of the Lambs
›R1991 · Crime, Thriller, Drama · 119m · Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

HannibalSeries
›TV-MA2013 · Drama, Crime · 3 seasons · Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

CarmillaSeries
›TV-PG2014 · Drama, Comedy · 4 seasons · Elise Bauman, Natasha Negovanlis, Annie Briggs
Laura Hollis, a newly enrolled college student at Silas University, shares a room with Betty, who mysteriously disappears all of a sudden. Little does Laura know that after this fateful night, nothing will be the same in her life, starting with meeting her new roommate from hell, Carmilla Karnstein. "Carmilla" is a single-camera, scripted transmedia series that puts a modern spin on the cult classic Gothic vampire novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. It's a story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire.

Wait Until Dark
›NR1967 · Thriller, Horror · 108m · Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

The SerpentSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Crime · 1 season · Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle
The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.

Manhunter
›R1986 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 120m · William L. Petersen, Tom Noonan, Dennis Farina
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.

Lured
›NR1947 · Mystery, Crime, Thriller · 102m · George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.

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.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
›2014 · Horror, Romance · 101m · Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

While the City Sleeps
›NR1956 · Thriller, Drama · 100m · Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

Red Dragon
›R2002 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 124m · Edward Norton, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

The Sadist
›NR1963 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Arch Hall Jr., Richard Alden, Marilyn Manning
Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.

Count Dracula
›1977 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 150m · Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon
Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle.

Near Dark
›R1987 · Horror · 94m · Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.

The Leopard Man
›NR1943 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 66m · Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

Breathing In
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 105m · Michele Burgers, Sven Ruygrok, Jamie-Lee Money
1901, South Africa. As the Second Anglo-Boer War rages on, a wounded General seeks refuge in the small home of a woman and her young daughter. As the hurt man settles in, he begins noticing that something is off about the two women, particularly the daughter, and before long, he’ll learn the real reason for why they’ve invited him and for how they’ve survived on their own for so long.

Jurassic World
›PG-132015 · Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller · 124m · Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.

Pitch Black
›R2000 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Action · 108m · Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.

The Hitcher
›R1986 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 98m · Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh
On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking that a good conversation will help him not to fall asleep. He will have enough time to deeply regret such an unmeditated decision.

Creep 2
›R2017 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Mark Duplass, Desiree Akhavan, Karan Soni
After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming to be a serial killer. Unable to resist the chance to create a truly shocking piece of art, she agrees to spend the day with him. However, as the day goes on, she discovers she may have dug herself into a hole from which she can’t escape.

DraculaSeries
›TV-142020 · Drama, Action & Adventure · 1 season · Claes Bang, John Heffernan, Dolly Wells
Transylvania, 1897. The blood-drinking Count Dracula is drawing his plans against Victorian London. And be warned: the dead travel fast.

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
›R2006 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Robert Englund
The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.

From Dusk Till Dawn: The SeriesSeries
›TV-142014 · Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 3 seasons · D.J. Cotrona, Zane Holtz, Eiza González
The horror and crime thriller genres collide in this new original series from Robert Rodriguez, based on his cult grindhouse classic about bank-robbing brothers on the run, a lawman bent on bringing them to justice, the devout family caught in the cross-fire, and an ancient evil eager to feast on them all.

Dracula: Prince of Darkness
›1966 · Horror · 90m · Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.





















