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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Lovecraft CountrySeries
›TV-MA2020 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Wunmi Mosaku
The anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Freeman, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
The Atlanta Child MurdersSeries
›1985 · Drama · 1 season · Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn
The Atlanta Child Murders is a TV miniseries that aired on February 10 and 12, 1985 on CBS. Inspired by true events, the miniseries examines the so-called "Atlanta child murders" of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Tales from the Hood
›R1995 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 98m · Clarence Williams III, Joe Torry, De'Aundre Bonds
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in a local funeral parlor.
Sugar Hill
›PG1974 · Crime, Action, Horror · 91m · Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley
When a nightclub owner is murdered by gangsters after refusing to sell his business to the mob boss, his grieving fiancé enlists the help of a voodoo priestess to avenge his death.
Just Cause
›R1995 · Action, Drama, Mystery · 102m · Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Blair Underwood
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
Master
›R2022 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 98m · Regina Hall, Zoë Renee, Amber Gray
At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, two black women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school's haunted past… and present.
Tales from the Hood 3
›R2020 · Horror · 103m · Tony Todd, London Brown, Cooper Huckabee
Following the franchise's cult classic roots, this new anthology featuring Tony Todd and Lynn Whitfield will scare and thrill with its horrifying twists and social commentary.
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.
