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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156 titles
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
›R1974 · Horror · 83m · Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
The Living and the DeadSeries
›TV-142016 · Drama · 1 season · Colin Morgan, Charlotte Spencer, David Oakes
Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live on his family's estate, he is confronted by one disturbing case after another. Are these strange events linked merely by coincidence, or is there something more sinister - more supernatural - going on at Shepzoy?
The Pembrokeshire MurdersSeries
›TV-142021 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Luke Evans, Keith Allen, Caroline Berry
Detective superintendent reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.
The Devil All the Time
›R2020 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · 138m · Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
The Reflecting Skin
›R1990 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 95m · Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper
In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.
The Other
›PG1972 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 108m · Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
In Vitro
›R2025 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 88m · Talia Zucker, Ashley Zukerman, Daniel Ciurte
On an isolated cattle farm, a couple experimenting with biotechnology have their lives upended when they discover a disturbing presence on their property.
Monster: The Ed Gein StorySeries
›TV-MA2025 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Charlie Hunnam, Suzanna Son, Vicky Krieps
The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood's most iconic on-screen killers.
Murder, He Says
›1945 · Comedy, Mystery, Crime · 91m · Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie Fleagle, Pete begins to suspect that she and her two sons have murdered the surveyor. Pete also believes that Mamie is slowly poisoning wealthy Grandma Fleagle, who has put a vital clue to her fortune in a nonsensical embroidered sampler.
The Beldham
›2025 · Horror · 85m · Patricia Heaton, Corbin Bernsen, Katie Parker
At the edge of postpartum psychosis, new mother Harper moves in with her own mother at their family's rural farmhouse. Soon she finds herself hunted by a threatening monster who has designs on her child.
1922
›2017 · Horror, Crime, Drama · 102m · Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
The Blood on Satan's Claw
›R1971 · Horror · 96m · Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews
After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal behavior.
Murder in the HeartlandSeries
›TV-141993 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Kate Reid, Brian Dennehy, Randy Quaid
Murder in the Heartland tells the grotesque true story of Charlie Starkweather, 19, who killed 11 people in Nebraska in 1957-58, and his 14-year-old girlfriend,
RequiemSeries
›TV-MA2018 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Lydia Wilson, Joel Fry, Joanna Scanlan
In 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small Welsh village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of rising cello star Matilda Gray commits suicide, without apparent reason. Among her possessions, Matilda discovers tantalising evidence, linking her mother to the Welsh girl's disappearance all those years ago.
Crowhaven Farm
›1970 · Horror, TV Movie · 74m · Hope Lange, Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner
A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage. When they learn the home was occupied long ago by a woman who was executed for practicing witchcraft, Maggie begins to have nightmares about her.
The Cottage
›2008 · Horror, Comedy, Crime · 92m · Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith, Jennifer Ellison
In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.
The Demon of the Andes
›2014 · Horror · 87m · Nelba Acuña, Alessandra Denegri, Irvin Gonzáles
El Demonio de los Andes, directed by Palito Ortega Matute, is based on the Andean myth of the Jarjacha, a demonic character set on destroying everyone it comes across. The legend of the Jajacha has been passed down from generation to generation. Ortega Matute spoke to people who were told about it by their parents, who had been told the tale by their parents. He also listened to accounts from people who say they’ve seen the demon with their own eyes.
Pet Sematary
›R1989 · Horror · 103m · Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.
The Borderlands
›R2014 · Horror · 89m · Gordon Kennedy, Aidan McArdle, Robin Hill
Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.
100 Bloody Acres
›R2012 · Comedy, Horror · 91m · Damon Herriman, Angus Sampson, Anna McGahan
Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.
Deranged
›R1974 · Crime, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson
A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based loosely on the true story of Ed Gein.
The Deeper You Dig
›NR2019 · Horror, Drama · 95m · John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams
14-year old Echo and her mother Ivy, a tarot card reader, live a quiet life in a rural area. When reclusive Kurt moves down the road to restore an abandoned farmhouse, an accident leads to Echo’s murder, and suddenly three lives collide in mysterious and wicked ways. Kurt assumes he can hide his secret under the ground. But Echo burrows into his head until he can feel her in his bones. As she haunts his every move, trying to reach her mother from beyond, Ivy must dig deep to see the signs and prove that love won’t stay buried.
Rabbit Trap
›2025 · Thriller, Horror, Mystery · 88m · Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, Jade Croot
When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door who is intent on infiltrating their lives.
Motel Hell
›R1980 · Comedy, Horror · 102m · Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons
Farmer Vincent Smith and his sister Ida run a motel attached to a farm where they capture unsuspecting travelers, bury them alive, fatten them up and then harvest their bodies as ingredients for his famous brand of "smoked meats."