
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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A Nightmare on Elm Street
›R1984 · Horror · 91m · Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

The Fog
›R1980 · Horror · 90m · Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Jamie Lee Curtis
Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

Creepshow
›R1982 · Horror, Comedy · 120m · Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver
Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.

GoosebumpsSeries
›TV-142023 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Mystery · 1 season · Zack Morris, Isa Briones, Miles McKenna
A group of five high schoolers embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle – while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents' past.

Don't Go to Sleep
›NR1982 · Horror, TV Movie · 93m · Dennis Weaver, Valerie Harper, Robin Ignico
One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings.

The Woman in Black
›PG-132012 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 95m · Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

We All Scream for Ice Cream
›2007 · Horror, TV Movie · 57m · William Forsythe, Lee Tergesen, Brent Sheppard
Years ago, they pulled a disastrous childhood prank on the neighborhood ice cream delivery man that got him killed, but now as they've become adults with families of their own, the last thing anyone expected was for that man to come back in the form of a vengeful, bloodthirsty spirit.

When Good Ghouls Go Bad
›PG2001 · Family, TV Movie, Horror · 93m · Christopher Lloyd, Joe Pichler, Tom Amandes
In October of 1981, Curtis Danko, the creepy kid from the small town of Walker Falls, was killed in a mysterious accident. He left behind a warning to the town: "If you ever have another Halloween again, I will return and destroy you all!" Curtis was buried in a locked crypt, along with a sculpture so evil, that unearthly fates were said to await anyone who looked at it. Now, 20 years later, the Walker men have returned to Walker Falls. They start a chain of events that unleashes an army of zombies on the town. Has Curtis Danko risen from the grave to exact his revenge? And will the people of Walker Falls make it through the night?

Supernatural
›1933 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 64m · Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne
After her brother's death, Roma Courtney becomes the heiress to his fortune. When a fake psychic claims to have a message from her dead brother, he coaxes her into participating in a séance. While her fiancé first believes the séance is nothing more than a scam, he eventually realizes that the vengeful spirit of an executed murderer has possessed Roma's body.

J.D.'s Revenge
›R1976 · Horror, Thriller, Action · 95m · Glynn Turman, Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle
After notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is murdered in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who had him killed.

Venus in Furs
›1969 · Horror, Thriller · 86m · James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm
After a jazz musician finds a woman's corpse washed up on the beach and remembers that he witnessed her murder at a party the previous night, a woman who bears a strong resemblance to her begins to exact revenge on the murderers.

Unfriended
›R2014 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Shelley Hennig, Heather Sossaman, Renee Olstead
While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead.

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
›R1987 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 97m · Michael Ironside, Wendy Lyon, Louis Ferreira
When Hamilton High’s Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney, is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge thirty years later.

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
›NR1964 · Horror · 80m · Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark
Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.

The Curse of the Living Corpse
›NR1964 · Horror · 84m · Roy Scheider, Helen Warren, Robert Milli
The wealthy patriarch of the Sinclair family lives in mortal fear of being buried alive due to a rare condition that causes him to sometimes appear lifeless. After his death, relatives learn that his will stipulates a strict series of orders that must be followed in order to receive their inheritance. The family refuses to comply and the patriarch returns from the grave to exact revenge by killing each of them in the way they fear most.

Prison
›R1987 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 102m · Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Lane Smith
After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.

Stitches
›R2012 · Horror · 86m · Ross Noble, Tommy Knight, Gemma-Leah Devereux
The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle entertains at the 10th birthday party of little Tom, but the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home, but Stitches revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.

Nightmare Beach
›R1989 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Nicolas De Toth, Sarah Buxton, Rawley Valverde
In Miami, Florida, biker gang leader Edward "Diablo" Santer is about to be executed for murder when he proclaims his innocence and vows revenge from the grave. When a mysterious biker comes to town during Spring Break festivities, leaving several teenagers electrocuted to death, some begin to suspect that Santer has made good on his promise.

Mark of the Witch
›NR1970 · Horror · 84m · Robert Elston, Barbara Brownell, Gary Brockette
A 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.

Tormented
›R2009 · Horror, Comedy · 91m · Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Dimitri Leonidas
Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, is driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at school. He returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors a final visit.

Pledge Night
›1990 · Comedy, Horror · 86m · Todd Eastland, Shannon McMahon Lichte, Dennis Sullivan
A fraternity pledge returns from the grave to even the score with the members who caused his death 20 years ago.

Ruby
›R1977 · Horror · 85m · Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman, Janit Baldwin
Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.

Rocktober Blood
›1984 · Horror, Music · 88m · Tray Loren, Donna Scoggins, Cana Cockrell
A crazed rock singer returns from the dead to murder members of his former band.

Dead Men Walk
›1943 · Horror, Mystery · 64m · George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young
When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.






















