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 BondsmanSeries
›TV-MA2025 · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy · 1 season · Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Nettles, Beth Grant
Backwoods bounty hunter Hub Halloran comes back from the dead with an unexpected second chance at life, love, and a nearly-forgotten musical career — only to find that his old job now has a demonic new twist.
Nightmare CafeSeries
›1992 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Jack Coleman, Lindsay Frost, Robert Englund
Nightmare Cafe is a short-lived American telefantasy program which aired on NBC for an abridged first season from January to April 1992. While the overall tone of the program was that of a mystical fantasy, it frequently incorporated elements of dark humor, horror, and even outright comedy. A total of six episodes were produced before low ratings led to its cancellation. The series has subsequently been shown on the Sci Fi Channel as part of their Series Collection. The series began showing on NBC Universal's horror and suspense-themed cable channel, Chiller in March 2009.
Happy Death Day
›PG-132017 · Comedy, Horror, Mystery · 97m · Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Charles Aitken
Caught in a bizarre and terrifying time warp, college student Tree finds herself repeatedly reliving the day of her murder, ultimately realizing that she must identify the killer and the reason for her death before her chances of survival run out.
The Halfway House
›1944 · Mystery, Drama, Fantasy · 95m · Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Sally Ann Howes
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
Under Wraps
›G1997 · Comedy, Family, Horror · 91m · Mario Yedidia, Adam Wylie, Clara Bryant
A comedy-adventure in which three twelve-year-olds have a close encounter with a 3,000-year-old mummy. Marshall, Gilbert and Amy accidentally set the mummy free, but if they don't get him back to his resting place by midnight on Halloween, he'll turn into dust and lose his only chance of being reunited with his long-lost love.
Ick
›R2025 · Horror, Science Fiction · 93m · Brandon Routh, Malina Weissman, Harrison Cone
Science teacher Hank’s life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects that a new student may be his daughter—all while facing an alien threat in their town.
Blood Work
›R2002 · Thriller, Crime, Action · 110m · Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston
Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
The Keeping Hours
›PG-132017 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 91m · Lee Pace, Carrie Coon, Sander Thomas
A supernatural love story that centers on two parents whose life together falls apart after their son dies. The man, now a successful lawyer, and the woman, now married and an author, get a chance at reconciliation ten years later.
Somewhere BetweenSeries
›TV-142017 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Paula Patton, Devon Sawa, JR Bourne
Laura Price, a local news producer in San Francisco, is helping the police to hunt down a serial killer. After the killer strikes close to home, a twist of fate allows a “Groundhog Day”-type reset, and Laura relives the week prior to the string of murders. Can she change fate and stop the killer?
Happy Death Day 2U
›PG-132019 · Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction · 100m · Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Charles Aitken
Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely different versions of themselves. When Tree discovers that Carter's roommate has been altering time, she finds herself once again the target of a masked killer. When the psychopath starts to go after her inner circle, Tree soon realizes that she must die over and over again to save everyone.
Escape from Marwin
›2018 · Horror · 102m · Camilla Mathias, John De Luca, David Chevers
In life, we all deserve second chances. It doesn't matter what we have done. What if we were given a second opportunity in the form of an "escape room"? Annually, prisoners sentenced to the death penalty have the option to play this game and be able to get the great prize that they desire, their freedom.
AfterDeath
›2015 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 88m · Miranda Raison, Sam Keeley, Daniella Kertesz
Five young people wake up dead. Washed up by the tide they scramble to an abandoned beach house, soon realizing that the perpetual night and blasts of pain suggest this is some version of hell. Between in-fighting and attacks by a demonic shadow creature, they recall the collapse of the nightclub that brought them here - and begin seeing hope of a second chance in the cabin's two mysterious paintings...
Bates Motel
›1987 · Horror, Drama · 95m · Bud Cort, Lori Petty, Moses Gunn
A mentally disturbed man who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility inherits the infamous Bates Motel after his death and attempts to fix it up as a respectable business.