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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29 titles
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.
Altered States
›R1980 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 103m · William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.
The Tingler
›NR1959 · Horror, Science Fiction · 82m · Vincent Price, Philip Coolidge, Judith Evelyn
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
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.
Werewolf of London
›1935 · Horror, Fantasy · 75m · Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
The Man Who Changed His Mind
›1936 · Horror, Science Fiction · 66m · Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.
The Invisible Ray
›1936 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 79m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frank Lawton
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.
The Arrival
›PG-131996 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 115m · Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
›R1974 · Horror, Science Fiction · 95m · Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
The Evil of Frankenstein
›1964 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Peter Cushing, Peter Woodthorpe, Duncan Lamont
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?
The BeastSeries
›TV-PG1996 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · William L. Petersen, Karen Sillas, Charles Martin Smith
Mysterious deaths and unexplained disappearances begin to occur in the small seaport village of Graves Point. When a large, strange claw is discovered on an empty raft washing up on the shore, marine biologist Dr. Herbert Talley identifies it as belonging to a rare giant squid.
Beyond the Black Rainbow
›R2010 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 110m · Michael J Rogers, Eva Bourne, Scott Hylands
In 1983, a young mute woman with psychic abilities is held captive within the Arboria Institute, a secluded futuristic facility overseen by a sinister doctor with an unraveling mind and a growing obsession with her.
Scanner Cop
›R1994 · Science Fiction, Horror, Action · 94m · Daniel Quinn, Darlanne Fluegel, Richard Grove
Rookie cop Sam Staziak has a unique gift: he is a Scanner, which gives him the power to read the thoughts of others, and also to inflict great bodily harm. When a mad scientist begins using mind control to murder police officers, Sam realizes that only he and his unique gift can put an end to the mayhem.
Subject Two
›2006 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 93m · Christian Oliver, Dean Stapleton, Courtney Mace
A doctor invents a resurrection formula and tests it by killing his assistant over and over and over again.
Sssssss
›PG1973 · Horror, Science Fiction · 99m · Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies
David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly brewed up a serum that can transform any man into a King Cobra snake-and he plans to use it on David.
Darkman II: The Return of Durant
›R1995 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Larry Drake, Arnold Vosloo, Kim Delaney
Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.
Bug
›PG1975 · Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery · 99m · Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
›PG2008 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 89m · Dougray Scott, Krista Bridges, Tom Skerritt
Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-regarded physician whose evenings are spent researching a rare and sacred Amazonian flower so potent it's said to literally separate the soul, giving life to man's Dark Self. The obsessive experiments to isolate its psychotropic properties happen to coincide with a series of brutal murders gripping the city with fear. Jekyll knows it's no coincidence. While his nights are lost to him, he awakens with bloody mementos and violent memories of the screams of his victims.
Blood of Dracula
›1957 · Horror · 69m · Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis, Gail Ganley
A crazed teacher at a respectable girls' school draws power from a medallion she has obtained from the Carpathian Mountains, and uses it to experiment telepathically on the school's newest young pupil.
Frankenstein
›R2004 · TV Movie, Drama, Horror · 88m · Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Thomas Kretschmann
An investigation into a serial killer leads two detectives to discover that Dr. Frankenstein and his creature are still alive after two centuries of genetic experiments.
Sleep No More
›2018 · Horror · 91m · Keli Price, Brea Grant, Stephen Ellis
It's 1986 and a group of grad students are close to discovering what happens to the human brain after staying awake for 200 hours, but something goes terribly wrong with a test subject. After their department is shut down, the team moves forward in secret - only this time on themselves.
Discarnate
›2019 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Thomas Kretschmann, Nadine Velazquez, Josh Stewart
A neuroscientist's obsession with a drug that expands the human mind inadvertently unleashes a deadly supernatural force on his team.
The Invisible Maniac
›R1990 · Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror · 86m · Peter Noel Duhamel, Melissa Moore, Savannah
An invisible scientist escapes from an asylum and teaches high-school physics to nubile teens.
The She-Creature
›NR1956 · Science Fiction, Horror · 77m · Chester Morris, Marla English, Tom Conway
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
