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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Freaks
›NR1932 · Drama, Horror · 64m · Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova, Daisy Earles
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
ThrillerSeries
›TV-PG1960 · Crime · 2 seasons · Boris Karloff
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
›R2007 · Drama, Horror · 116m · Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Masters of HorrorSeries
›TV-MA2005 · Drama, Mystery, Crime · 2 seasons
An anthology series written and directed by the most famous names in horror.
Son of Frankenstein
›1939 · Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
Dead Ringer
›1964 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 116m · Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
Phantom of the Paradise
›PG1974 · Comedy, Horror, Music · 92m · William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper
Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of Swan's new rock palace, the Paradise.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
›PG1971 · Horror, Comedy · 95m · Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
Theatre of Blood
›1973 · Comedy, Horror · 104m · Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
The Black Cat
›1934 · Horror, Thriller · 65m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
›R2017 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · 121m · Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
Tales from the Crypt
›PG1972 · Horror · 93m · Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice
When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.
Brand New Cherry FlavorSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Rosa Salazar, Catherine Keener, Eric Lange
A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.
The Devil-Doll
›1936 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton
Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
›1970 · TV Movie, Horror, Mystery · 54m · Vincent Price
Renowned horror actor Vincent Price narrates four tales of terror by renowned horror author Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.
Oddity
›R2024 · Horror, Mystery · 98m · Carolyn Bracken, Gwilym Lee, Steve Wall
After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.
CreepshowSeries
›TV-MA2019 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 4 seasons
A young boy's horror comic book comes to life in this anthology series of terrifying tales.
Pretty Little Liars: Original SinSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery · 2 seasons · Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Maia Reficco
Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a group of disparate teen girls finds themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin their parents committed two decades ago, as well as their own.
Multiple Maniacs
›1970 · Comedy, Crime, Horror · 97m · Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
Death Proof
›R2007 · Action, Thriller · 113m · Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson
Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
The Loved Ones
›R2010 · Horror · 84m · Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, John Brumpton
When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.
Blade
›R1998 · Horror, Action · 121m · Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson
The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.
Tales of Terror
›1962 · Horror, Comedy, Mystery · 89m · Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
›PG-131969 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.