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 Faculty
›R1998 · Horror, Science Fiction · 104m · Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Jordana Brewster
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
School Spirit
›NR2019 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 84m · Annie Q. Riegel, Corey Fogelmanis, Jessi Case
A group of social outcasts, stuck in weekend detention, find themselves stalked by their school’s urban legend who is set on killing bad students.
The Initiation of Sarah
›1978 · Horror, TV Movie · 96m · Kay Lenz, Shelley Winters, Tony Bill
Shy misfit Sarah Goodwin has a secret gift: the ability to control — and destroy — with her mind. When Sarah goes off to college with her more outgoing and popular sister, Patty, their plans to join the most prestigious sorority on campus are scuttled by snobby president, Jennifer Lawrence. Separated from her sister, Sarah is taken in by a rival, less popular sorority, whose mysterious house mother, Mrs. Hunter, is harboring a secret of her own: a scheme to harness Sarah's terrifying power for revenge. Betrayed by Patty, humiliated by Jennifer, it can only be a matter of time before Sorority Hell Week erupts in flame!
The Pit
›R1981 · Horror, Comedy · 92m · Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits
Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a solitary misunderstood boy in his preteens. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he's weird and his parents ignore him. But now Jamie has a secret weapon: deep in the woods he has discovered a deep pit full of man-eating creatures he calls Trogs... and it isn't long before he gets an idea for getting revenge and feeding the Trogs in the process!
Discopath
›2013 · Crime, Horror · 81m · Jérémie Earp, Sandrine Bisson, Ingrid Falaise
The mid-70's: A timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music....disco. Unable to control his murderous impulses that stem from a traumatic childhood experience, Duane Lewis transforms into a dangerous serial killer exiled to Montreal.
Tamara
›2005 · Horror, Thriller · 98m · Jenna Dewan, Matthew Marsden, Marc Devigne
Tamara, an unattractive girl who is picked on by her peers, returns after her death as a sexy seductress to enact revenge.
The Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks
›2001 · Horror · 81m · Sean Faris, Forrest Cochran, Stacey Scowley
John, a new student at an exclusive private school, is having trouble with a group of bullying jocks who are jealous of his friendship with beautiful classmate Mary. He's intrigued, then, when enigmatic misfit Luc offers him a chance to get back at them using witchcraft - but doesn't realise that the price of his new-found power may be his life.
The Rage: Carrie 2
›R1999 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 105m · Emily Bergl, Jason London, Amy Irving
A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her cutthroat telekinetic powers.
The Final
›R2010 · Thriller, Horror · 93m · Marc Donato, Jascha Washington, Whitney Hoy
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
976-EVIL
›R1988 · Horror · 92m · Stephen Geoffreys, Patrick O'Bryan, Sandy Dennis
A bullied unpopular high school student named Hoax finds an ad for 976-EVIL, a number that provides daily 'horrorscopes'. But when he calls the number he gains demonic powers, which he uses to seek vengeance against those who bullied him.
Scarecrow
›2002 · Horror, Comedy · 86m · Todd Rex, Tim Young, Tiffany Shepis
A high school outcast who lives in a trailer with his mother finally meets a friend. He wants to ask her if they can go the next step, but then sees her kissing another boy at a party. He runs home only to find his mother having sex with a drunk. He starts yelling, but is countered by the drunk when he suffocates him and makes him look like he hung himself. The scarecrow comes in when the boy's soul is pushed into it. He goes out for revenge.
Knock Knock
›2008 · Horror · 92m · Nicole Abisinio, Chris Bashinelli, Kat Castaneda
Knock Knock is a horror film that combines fear with revenge, hate with justice and responsibility with sacrifice. The bible says an "Eye for an Eye." Rico was just a big fun loving son of a hard working neighborhood business man. The problem is his dad is an undertaker. Some popular high school Students thought he was weird because of it. Rico kept to himself...
She Freak
›1967 · Horror · 83m · Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond, Lynn Courtney
Jade is a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival. She quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.
Condemned
›2015 · Horror · 83m · Johnny Messner, Michael DeMello, Lydia Hearst
Fed up with her parents' bickering, poor-little-rich-girl Maya (Dylan Penn) moves in with her boyfriend who is squatting in an old, condemned building on Manhattan's Lower East Side. With neighbors that are meth heads, junkies and degenerates, this depraved hell hole is even more toxic than it appears: After a virus born from their combined noxious waste and garbage infects the building's residents, one by one, they succumb to a terrifying pathogen that turns them into bloodthirsty, rampaging killers and transforms their building into a savage slaughterhouse.