
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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The Wicker Man
›R1973 · Horror · 93m · Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

Bring Her Back
›R2025 · Horror · 104m · Billy Barratt, Sally Hawkins, Mischa Heywood
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.

The Devil Rides Out
›G1968 · Horror · 96m · Christopher Lee, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.

The Cabin in the Woods
›R2012 · Horror, Mystery, Comedy · 95m · Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz, Chris Hemsworth
Five friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun and relaxation. As night falls, they discover that something far more unsettling is at work and that nothing about their getaway is what it seems.

Midsommar
›R2019 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 147m · Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

The House of the Devil
›R2009 · Horror, Mystery · 95m · Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov
A young college student who’s struggling financially takes a strange babysitting job which coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.

Q
›R1982 · Crime, Horror, Mystery · 93m · Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine
A fleeing gangland flunky discovers the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent.

Black Moon
›NR1934 · Horror, Drama · 68m · Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Dorothy Burgess
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.

Tales That Witness Madness
›R1973 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 90m · Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Georgia Brown
Enigmatic asylum owner Dr Tremayne houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each patient went mad, be they a ritualistic 'luau', a time-travelling bicycle, a toy tiger, and a tree stump.

Satanic Panic
›2019 · Horror, Comedy · 89m · Hayley Griffith, Rebecca Romijn, Arden Myrin
A pizza delivery girl is suddenly in for the fight of her young life when encountering a group of Satanists in need of a virgin to ritually sacrifice.

Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
›R2002 · Horror, Comedy · 99m · John McConnell, Mark McLachlan, Melissa Morgan
A cannibal caterer kills various young women in preparation for a ritual feast for a long-dormant Egyptian goddess that has him under its control.

Dark Harvest
›R2023 · Horror, Fantasy, Thriller · 96m · Casey Likes, Luke Kirby, West Mulholland
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.

Jug Face
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 81m · Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Young
When a supernatural pit worshipped by a remote community in the woods demands a new blood sacrifice, a young woman struggles to find a way to survive as the pit lashes out in anger.

Blood Diner
›NR1987 · Horror, Comedy · 88m · Rick Burks, Carl Crew, Roger Dauer
Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of a new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.

Soul to Keep
›2018 · Horror, Thriller · 94m · Aurora Heimbach, Sandra Mae Frank, Jordan Theodore
Siblings invite their friends to their inherited yet abandoned farmhouse only to become victims of a demonic ritual.

Darkness
›PG-132002 · Horror · 88m · Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen
A teenage girl moves into a remote country home with her family, only to discover that the gloomy old house has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy them.

Blood Feast
›1963 · Horror · 67m · William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.

Goblin
›2010 · Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction · 92m · Gil Bellows, Tracy Spiridakos, Camille Sullivan
Every Halloween, a small hamlet in the deep woods is visited by a fierce goblin, intent on capturing infants and brutally murdering anyone in its path.

Mardi Gras Massacre
›NR1978 · Horror · 97m · Curt Dawson, Gwen Arment, William Metzo
Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Don't Go Near the Park
›R1979 · Horror · 83m · Aldo Ray, Meeno Peluce, Tammy Taylor
In the prehistory of man, 12,000 years ago, two members of a superhuman tribe abuse the treasured secret of eternal youth. They use the methods of ritual cannibalism on the children of their own tribe and when discovered by the 'Queen' of the tribe, they are cursed to an eternity of old age with no chance to ever die. Now, in present day Los Angeles, their only hope to recapture eternal youth is the ritualistic sacrifice of a 16-year-old female virgin. Their existence is discovered by an investigative reporter and a young runaway child and this leads to an unexplained and terrifying confrontation

Rites of Spring
›2012 · Horror, Thriller, Drama · 81m · Katherine Randolph, Anessa Ramsey, AJ Bowen
A ransom scheme turns into a nightmare for a group of kidnappers who become victims of a horrifying secret that must be paid every spring.

Tonight She Comes
›NR2018 · Horror · 84m · Nathan Eswine, Larissa White, Jenna McDonald
After a girl goes missing, two of her friends and a mysterious set of strangers find themselves drawn to the cabin in the woods where she disappeared. They will laugh, they will drink, they will kiss, they will make love, and THEY MUST ALL DIE.

The Taking
›2013 · Horror, Thriller · 77m · John Halas, Alana Jackler, Lynnette Gaza
Two strangers must discover a way to escape a sinister family who wishes to sacrifice their souls to an evil presence.






















