
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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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.

Dead Ringers
›R1988 · Thriller, Horror · 115m · Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.

Backrooms
›R2026 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 111m · Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

1408
›PG-132007 · Horror, Mystery · 104m · John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

Dementia
›1955 · Horror, Drama · 58m · Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman
In a shadowy world stitched from nightmares, a young woman's harrowing journey in a seedy hotel unveils her traumatic past. Haunted by violence and stalked through desolate streets, her psyche unravels as she confronts an abusive husband and unsettling memories.

A Cold Night's Death
›1973 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 74m · Robert Culp, Eli Wallach, Michael C. Gwynne
Two scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.

Berberian Sound Studio
›2012 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 92m · Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Cosimo Fusco
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

Symptoms
›1974 · Horror · 91m · Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, Lorna Heilbron
A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.

Jeffrey Dahmer: Killer CannibalSeries
›2019 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season
Jeffrey Dahmer's childhood, combative parents, obsession with dead animals, strange behavior in high school, and first sexual yearnings collide and turn a once-happy boy into a cannibalistic serial killer.

The Stylist
›2020 · Horror, Drama · 105m · Najarra Townsend, Brea Grant, Laura Kirk
Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style her hair for her wedding, she becomes dangerously obsessed, and her sanity starts to slip away with bloody consequences.

Bug
›R2007 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 98m · Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr.
In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.

The Barber
›2002 · Horror, Crime, Mystery · 94m · Malcolm McDowell, Jeremy Ratchford, Garwin Sanford
In the small town of Revelstoke, Alaska, local barber Dexter is surprised to learn that the body of Lucy Waters has been discovered. Having killed this woman, days ago, he hoped her body wouldn't be found until spring. Through the eyes of a serial killer, we discover the chilling layer of a weary town whose only concern is another long, dark winter.

Site
›2025 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 110m · Arielle Kebbel, Theo Rossi, Jake McLaughlin
After a terrifying encounter at an abandoned government test site, a small town family man begins seeing haunting visions of a past that threatens to destroy his present.

Nanny
›R2022 · Horror, Drama · 98m · Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.

The Amityville Horror
›R1979 · Horror · 118m · James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

Dark Water
›PG-132005 · Horror, Mystery · 105m · Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth
Dahlia and her five-year-old daughter are ready to begin a new life together. But their new apartment — dilapidated and worn — suddenly seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water and other strange happenings send Dahlia on a haunting and mystifying pursuit — one that unleashes a torrent of living nightmares.

Outpost
›2023 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 84m · Beth Dover, Ato Essandoh, Dylan Baker
After a violent attack, a woman searches for strength in the solitude of a lookout job, but is overwhelmed by something darker.

Caged
›NR2021 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 81m · Edi Gathegi, Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan
An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.

7 Days to Live
›2000 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Nick Brimble, Renee Ackermann, Zdeněk Maryška
A grieving woman suffers terrifying visions of her own demise after she and her husband move into a country mansion.

Observance
›PG-132016 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 90m · Brendan Cowell, John Jarratt, Louisa Mignone
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.

2:13
›NR2009 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 96m · Mark Thompson, Mark Pellegrino, Teri Polo
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer leaves on the faces of his victims. He must face his own demons along with the killer to save his small eroding existence.

Ed Gein
›2000 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 89m · Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Carol Mansell
The true story of Edward Gein, the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first film to Gein's tormented upbringing, his adored but domineering mother, and the 1957 arrest uncovered the most bizarre series of murders America has ever seen

Mara
›R2018 · Horror, Thriller · 100m · Olga Kurylenko, Javier Botet, Mitch Eakins
Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.

Memory
›R2006 · Horror · 98m · Billy Zane, Tricia Helfer, Dennis Hopper
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.






















