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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Dark Night of the Scarecrow
›NR1981 · Horror, TV Movie · 97m · Charles Durning, Larry Drake, Robert F. Lyons
Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked one by one.
Race with the Devil
›PG1975 · Action, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Lowlifes
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · Amanda Fix, Matthew MacCaull, Brenna Llewellyn
The survival instincts of a road-tripping family are put to the test when they have no other choice but to stay the night at a remote homestead.
Wolf Creek
›R2005 · Horror, Thriller · 99m · John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
Trapped
›R1982 · Crime, Adventure, Thriller · 95m · Henry Silva, Nicholas Campbell, Barbara Gordon
A group of college students accidentally see a local redneck kill his wife's lover. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues, with the students trying to escape the area while the killer sets out to eliminate the witnesses who can tie him to the murder.
Just Before Dawn
›R1981 · Horror, Thriller · 90m · George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Chris Lemmon
In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.
Happy Hunting
›NR2017 · Horror, Thriller · 91m · Martin Dingle Wall, Ken Lally, Kenny Wormald
An alcoholic drifter must battle withdrawal and psychotic rednecks after he becomes the target of a deranged sporting event.
The Shuttered Room
›1967 · Drama, Mystery, Horror · 99m · Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed
In a small island off the American coast, the Whateleys live in an old mill where a mysterious bloody being creates an atmosphere of horror. After her parents get killed by lightning, young Susannah is sent to New York by her aunt Agatha, who wants her to avoid the family curse. Years later Susannah, now married, persuades her husband to spend a holiday in the abandoned mill. Once on the island, Susannah and Mike soon find themselves exposed to the hostility of a gang of thugs led by Ethan, Susannah's brutal cousin.
Night of Fear
›1973 · Horror, Thriller · 54m · Norman Yemm, Carla Hoogeveen, Mike Dorsey
A young girl who has just spent an afternoon playing tennis and making love with a man, gets accidentally run off the road by a truck. Ending up on a dead-end dirt road, her car gets stuck in a ditch, where she starts getting terrorized by a drooling, gibbering psycho, who also has a colony of rats.
The Devil Comes at Night
›2023 · Horror · 80m · Jason Martorino, Elias Zarou, Jeremiah Sparks
A washed up boxer searching for his inheritance must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father's farmhouse by a local cannibal cult.
Beaten to Death
›NR2023 · Horror · 92m · Thomas Roach, David Tracy, Nicole Tudor
A desperate choice leads Jack down a path that leaves him beaten and bruised as he struggles against man, nature and his own insanity. Stranded in the middle of nowhere after barely surviving a horrific assault, Jack encounters one local after another and quickly learns that a sick game of cat and mouse is about to begin. Battling the deranged country psychos and the harsh landscape, Jack must go to extreme lengths to survive.
Ravage
›2020 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Robert Longstreet, Bruce Dern
When a nature photographer explains to the Police how she fought her way out of the Watchatoomy Valley, they dismiss her crazed and violent story as a meth-induced nightmare. But when they discover that she's telling the truth, it's too late.
Monster Man
›2003 · Horror, Comedy · 95m · Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich, Aimee Brooks
Two guys and a female hitchhiker are terrorized by a monstrous looking man driving a giant monster truck.
Eaten Alive
›1976 · Horror · 91m · Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones
A psychotic redneck owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, where he murders those who upset him or his business, and then feeds their remains to his pet crocodile in the swamp beside his hotel.
The Child
›R1977 · Horror, Mystery · 82m · Laurel Barnett, Rosalie Cole, Frank Janson
In early 20th century California, a young woman takes a job as a nanny to a young girl whose mother has recently died. On her way to the rural, secluded home, she meets a neighbor who warns her of the family's reputation. She soon meets the crabby, morbid Mr. Nordon, his awkward son Len, and the aloof Rosalie; who can seemingly animate objects when she is angry.
Brute 1976
›2024 · Horror · 105m · Adriane McLean, Sarah French, Gigi Gustin
In 1976 a group of people in the desert for a photo shoot, stumble upon an abandoned town called Savage. But they are not alone. A family of masked psychopaths have claimed Savage as their own and are hell bent on living up to its name.
Resurrection County
›R2008 · Horror, Thriller · 95m · Adam Huss, Kathryn Michelle, Cassie Self
When four campers' weekend trip turns deadly, in the remote town of Enoch, they find the locals are all too happy to serve up their own brand of an eye for an eye justice.
Timber Falls
›2007 · Horror, Thriller · 97m · Josh Randall, Brianna Brown, Nick Searcy
A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.
Mountaintop Motel Massacre
›R1983 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Anna Chappell, Bill Thurman, Will Mitchel
After several years in an insane asylum, Evelyn, the keeper of the Mountaintop Motel, is released and resumes doing business. She kills her young charge out of anger, but convinces the police it was an accident - and pushed into insanity, she then proceeds to target her guests, first by releasing vermin into their rooms, but then by using her trusty sickle.
Mother's Day
›NR1980 · Action, Horror, Comedy · 91m · Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce
Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?
Inbred
›R2011 · Comedy, Horror · 90m · Jo Hartley, Seamus O'Neill, James Doherty
Four young offenders and their workers spend a weekend in the remote Yorkshire village of Mortlake, which prides on keeping itself to itself. A minor incident with locals rapidly escalates into a blood-soaked, deliriously warped nightmare.
Bunnyman Vengeance
›2017 · Horror · 108m · Olivia Stiefel, Debby Gerber, Toby Marks
The man known as Bunnyman returns home to find his family running a haunted house attraction. The family welcomes him home, but soon realizes you cannot domesticate a wild animal. Death and mayhem ensue as the family turn on one another to fulfill their bloodlust.
Backwoods
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 85m · Haylie Duff, Ryan Merriman, Mark Rolston
A group of friends embark on a camping trip for a ten-year high school reunion. Their celebration soon turns into a battle for survival when they realize that the locals, who are not what they seem, are hunting them down.
Scarce
›2008 · Horror · 93m · Steve Warren, Gary Fischer, Chris Warrilow
SCARCE depicts the gruesome fate of three lost snowboarders trapped at an isolated forest cabin owned by two menacing locals who harvest human flesh. As the day of the slaughter nears, they attempt to escape barefoot through the frozen wilderness.