
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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Frequency
›PG-132000 · Science Fiction, Crime, Thriller · 118m · Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Shawn Doyle
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.

Z NationSeries
›TV-142014 · Mystery, Action & Adventure, Drama · 5 seasons · Keith Allan, Kellita Smith, Anastasia Baranova
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.

The Mask of Fu Manchu
›1932 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 68m · Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

Curse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween
›2022 · Fantasy, Horror · 92m · Chelsea Jurkiewicz, Tanner Gillman, Colin Cunningham
High school teenagers accidentally unleash an ancient Irish entity on their hometown and must stop it before midnight on Halloween.

Macabre
›1958 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 72m · William Prince, Jacqueline Scott, Jim Backus
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with mere hours to find and rescue her.

The Magnetic Monster
›NR1953 · Science Fiction, Horror · 76m · Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Leo Britt
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.

47 Meters Down
›PG-132017 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Mandy Moore, Claire Holt, Matthew Modine
Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.

Alien: Rubicon
›PG-132024 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 90m · Michael Paré, Preston Geer, Paul Logan
An alien spacecraft lands near New York and destroys everything as it heads toward Washington D.C. If it reaches the capital, it will trigger an invasion. Scientists and the military must stop it before it's too late.

All-American Murder
›1991 · Horror, Mystery, Romance · 94m · Christopher Walken, Charlie Schlatter, Josie Bissett
Artie Logan is the new guy on Campus. Suddenly, he meets Tally Fuller: the most popular and beautiful girl at Fairfield college and she finally agrees to go on a date with him. But that night she is brutally killed by a blowtorch-wielding maniac and Artie is wrongfully arrested. Despite protests from other Police officers, detective P.J. Decker believes Artie's story and gives him 24 hours to track down the real killer.

Dead Heat
›R1988 · Horror, Science Fiction, Action · 86m · Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost
Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.

Calendar Girl Murders
›NR1984 · Crime, Mystery, TV Movie · 95m · Tom Skerritt, Sharon Stone, Barbara Bosson
During the launch party of a nude calendar, one of the models is thrown to her death by a black gloved killer. When the killer begins to strike again, going in the order of the calendar itself, a hard nosed cop realizes that he needs to solve the mystery, or risk all of the models ending up in the morgue!

Driven
›2019 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 89m · Richard Speight Jr., Andy Field, Casey Dillard
Emerson Graham's nights as a cab driver are filled with annoyances and inconveniences, but until tonight, never attacks and disappearances. After picking up a mysterious passenger her evening goes from working a job to performing a quest as they must race against the clock to defeat a force of evil. The meter is running.

88 Minutes
›R2007 · Thriller, Mystery · 108m · Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski
Famed forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm enjoys a reputation as one of the most sought-after profilers around. His expert testimony has resulted in the conviction of many criminals, including serial killer Jon Forster. On the eve of Forster's execution, one of Gramm's students is murdered in a vicious copycat crime, and Gramm himself receives an ominous message informing him that he has less than 90 minutes to live.

Countdown
›PG-132019 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Elizabeth Lail, Jordan Calloway, Talitha Eliana Bateman
A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

Infini
›R2015 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 110m · Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang, Luke Hemsworth
A search and rescue team are transported through deep space to a distant mining colony to save the sole survivor of a biological outbreak. During their mission, they find a lethal weapon which is set to arrive on Earth within the hour.

Contracted: Phase II
›2015 · Horror, Thriller · 78m · Matt Mercer, Marianna Palka, Morgan Peter Brown
Picking up directly where the previous film left off, the story follows Riley, one of the last people to come in contact with Samantha, as he scrambles to track down those responsible for the outbreak before the highly contagious disease not only consumes his body, but the world as we know it.

The Forsaken
›R2001 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko
A young man is in a race against time as he searches for a cure after becoming infected with a virus that will eventually turn him into a blood-sucking vampire.

Ice Storm
›2023 · Science Fiction, Action, Horror · 82m · McKenzie Westmore, Grant Bowler, Tyler Christopher
When a devastating winter storm freezes over the whole of North Carolina, climatologists and disaster relief experts are called in before the entire East Coast is destroyed.

Vampire Bats
›NR2005 · Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie · 90m · Lucy Lawless, Timothy Bottoms, Brett Butler
A biology professor discovers a deadly species of vampire bats are responsible for a series of bizarre murders and now she must find a way to stop them before they are completely out of control.

The Music Box
›2018 · Thriller · 83m · Rachel Daigh, Antonio Lujak, Antonella Salvucci
When six-year-old Sophie is tragically orphaned guardianship is assigned to her estranged aunt Annabelle. The two move into a large, eerie, Victorian house where Sophie unearths a locked wooden box with a strange symbol drawn on it. Desperate to connect with her niece Annabelle pries the lock open revealing a beautiful music box. Each time the music box is wound and replayed it's surprisingly chilling melody plays slightly longer, captivating Sophie even more. When the music box begins affecting Sophie's behavior and health Annabelle seeks the aid of a child psychologist and clairvoyant who soon discover the music box is possessed by an evil spirit who seeks to haunt Sophie and destroy Annabelle. As the haunting intensifies time begins to run out and Annabelle finds herself racing against the music box's melody to defeat the spirit before the last note plays.

4 Horsemen: Apocalypse
›2022 · Science Fiction, Horror, TV Movie · 86m · Dominique Swain, Arie Thompson, Eric St. John
A small team of scientists must race against time to stop what seems to be a cascade of global disasters signaling the possible apocalypse and end of days.

Antibody
›2002 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 90m · Lance Henriksen, Robin Givens, William Zabka
After a terrorist with an implanted nuclear detonator gets shot, a team of scientists must defuse the bomb by miniaturizing themselves and going into his bloodstream. His organism's antibodies start to mass against them.

Piranha
›R1995 · Horror, TV Movie · 89m · William Katt, Alexandra Paul, Monte Markham
Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in their path. Can they prevent the flesh-eating piranhas from escaping into the ocean and spawning?

Basilisk: The Serpent King
›NR2006 · Action, Horror, TV Movie · 88m · Jeremy London, Wendy Carter, Cleavant Derricks
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by modern archaeologist Harrison 'Harry' McColl's expedition. Despite a cryptic warning from tribal locals, everything goes to his Colorado university's museum. It's all exhibited during another eclipse, which leads to the monster reviving. Harry and some of his friends must try to petrify the monster again.






















