Cinema of the Damned

R1976 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

IMDb 7.4MC 86🍅 94%TMDB 7.3☠ 7.6

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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

R2002 · Drama, Thriller, Crime · 100m · Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

IMDb 7.2MC 64🍅 76%TMDB 6.9☠ 7.2

NR1968 · Drama, History, Horror · 87m · Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Robert Russell

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.

IMDb 6.7🍅 94%TMDB 6.5☠ 7.1

R2007 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 126m · Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

IMDb 7.1MC 58🍅 74%TMDB 6.9☠ 7.0

R1971 · Horror · 87m · Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Madeleine Collinson

While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.

IMDb 6.6MC 62🍅 79%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.7

R2010 · Drama, History, Horror · 102m · Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Carice van Houten

As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.

IMDb 6.4MC 71🍅 72%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.5

R1976 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 108m · Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard

Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?

IMDb 6.4MC 67🍅 71%TMDB 6.4☠ 6.5

2021 · Horror, Thriller · 120m · Robert Patrick, Nick Stahl, Scott Haze

A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.

IMDb 6.2MC 70🍅 91%TMDB 5.8☠ 6.5

R2018 · Horror, Mystery · 129m · Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton

In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.

IMDb 6.3MC 62🍅 79%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.4

NR1959 · Thriller, Crime, Horror · 80m · Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank

In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.

R2013 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 105m · Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner

The Parkers, reclusive people who cling to ancient customs, find their secret lives threatened when a torrential downpour and the death of the family matriarch forces daughters Iris and Rose to assume special responsibilities.

IMDb 5.9MC 71🍅 85%TMDB 5.8☠ 6.2

1966 · Horror · 91m · Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco

Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar's palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left... to destroy him before he destroys them all.

IMDb 6.2🍅 57%TMDB 5.8☠ 6.1

2010 · Horror · 85m · Aaron Ashmore, Cindy Sampson, Meghan Heffern

A group of young journalists investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, but their ambitious ways may lead them to becoming the cult's next victims.

IMDb 5.5🍅 83%TMDB 5.5☠ 5.9

R1991 · Horror, Romance · 97m · Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William Norris

Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, determines to punish Maria with torture for the desire she inflames in him. Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story.

IMDb 6.0🍅 50%TMDB 5.7☠ 5.9

R2007 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Ilona Elkin, Nicolas Wright, Neil Napier

Karen, a young psychiatric nurse, boards the last subway train of the night only to have it stop in the middle of the tunnel. Suddenly, her nightmare begins: a mysterious cult has decided that it's the end of the world and the only way to save the souls of the living is to kill them in cold blood. As those around her are brutally murdered, Karen and a handful of survivors must face the homicidal cult, supernatural forces, and their own fears of Armageddon in order to survive.

IMDb 5.8TMDB 5.9☠ 5.9

R2016 · Comedy, Drama, Horror · 91m · Adrian Grenier, Angela Trimbur, Fionnula Flanagan

Owen and Isabel's love story simmers with spiteful rage and unfortunately for everyone, Isabel is pregnant with Owen's child. To prove to her that he can become a stable father, Owen agrees to reconnect with his only living relatives at Isabel's request. The couple take a trip to visit his perversely devoted grandmother and his sister Pearl, who was severely burned in a fire, to finally bury the hatchet. But sometimes the ties that bind can cut off all circulation.

IMDb 5.8MC 42🍅 68%TMDB 5.8☠ 5.8

R2013 · Drama, Horror · 101m · Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

IMDb 5.8MC 53🍅 51%TMDB 6.1☠ 5.7

R2006 · Horror, Thriller · 88m · Jeremy Sisto, Charlotte Sullivan, Fred Durst

A census-taker is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.

IMDb 5.7TMDB 5.8☠ 5.7

2023 · Horror, Thriller · 93m · Eden Brolin, Olivia Luccardi, William Baldwin

Remy, a seemingly naive and devout young woman, finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself into the underground world of truck stop sex workers. Under the watchful eye of their matriarch and an enigmatic local lawman, Remy navigates between her strained belief system and the code to find her true calling in life.

IMDb 5.3MC 70🍅 75%TMDB 6.2☠ 5.7

2023 · Horror · 92m · Georgia Eyers, Dan Ewing, Tim Pocock

Lara is a woman tormented, torn between science and faith. Pushed by her husband to seek treatment from a congregation of zealots, a ruthless exorcist will try to save her soul by putting an innocent woman through hell.

2006 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 57m · Ron Perlman, Caitlin Wachs, Emmanuelle Vaugier

Angelique, a traumatized fifteen year old, is taken to an abortion clinic to end her pregnancy. However, her deeply religious father and three brothers are out to make sure the baby lives.

IMDb 5.6TMDB 5.5☠ 5.7

1978 · Horror · 84m · Damien Knight, Jeannetta Arnette, Nick Carter

Six people are trapped within the confines of their old high school during their 10th high school reunion with a psychotic, masked preacher who kills them off for their sinful lives they have made for themselves.

IMDb 5.1TMDB 4.4☠ 5.5

PG-131988 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara

Pennsylvania, 1928. Billy Kelly, a sixteen-year old boy, meets a mysterious traveler claiming he's the messenger of God. Falling under under the spell of this "doctor" Reese, he will soon discover Reese has murderous plans for his future. Based on a true story.

IMDb 4.9TMDB 5.0☠ 5.5