
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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Repulsion
›NR1965 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 105m · Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

The Innocents
›NR1961 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 100m · Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

The Avenging Conscience
›NR1914 · Drama, Horror · 83m · Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.

I Saw the TV Glow
›PG-132024 · Horror, Drama · 100m · Justice Smith, Jack Haven, Ian Foreman
In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.

The Killing Kind
›R1974 · Thriller, Horror · 95m · Ann Sothern, John Savage, Luana Anders
A twisted ex-convict moves into his mother's boardinghouse.

Silent Scream
›1979 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Rebecca Balding, Barbara Steele, Yvonne De Carlo
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered

Angelica
›NR2017 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard
A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
›R1985 · Horror · 87m · Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.

Manodrome
›R2023 · Mystery, Thriller, Drama · 96m · Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, Odessa Young
Ralphie is an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.

The Beast in the Cellar
›1971 · Thriller, Horror · 89m · Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, John Hamill
Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two nearby sisters realise they might understand what's happening.






















