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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Devil in Disguise: John Wayne GacySeries
›TV-MA2025 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Michael Chernus, Gabriel Luna, James Badge Dale
When a teenager goes missing, it becomes clear that many young men and boys have disappeared at the hands of John Wayne Gacy, the prime suspect.
Durham CountySeries
›TV-MA2007 · Drama · 3 seasons · Hugh Dillon, Louis Ferreira, Helene Joy
Detective Mike Sweeney has just moved with his wife and daughters from Toronto to his hometown of Durham County after the death of his partner. Hoping to escape the violent world of big city police work, Mike falls into a suburban world besieged by crime, abuse and murder.
Super Dark Times
›NR2017 · Drama, Thriller · 103m · Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino
Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.
An American Crime
›R2007 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 97m · Elliot Page, Catherine Keener, Hayley McFarland
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
ReckoningSeries
›2019 · Drama · 1 season · Simone Kessell, Laura Gordon, Aden Young
The murder of a teenager and the hunt for a serial killer in a suburban Northern California town sets two fathers on a course of mutual destruction that will reverberate through their quiet community.
The Killing Kind
›R1974 · Thriller, Horror · 95m · Ann Sothern, John Savage, Luana Anders
A twisted ex-convict moves into his mother's boardinghouse.
The Spell
›NR1977 · Horror, TV Movie · 86m · Lee Grant, Susan Myers, Lelia Goldoni
A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.
V/H/S/85
›NR2023 · Horror, Thriller · 111m · Alex Galick, Anna Sundberg, Chelsey Grant
Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey through the grim underbelly of the forgotten 1980s.
Gacy
›R2003 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 88m · Mark Holton, Adam Baldwin, Charlie Weber
Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.
The Curse of Downers Grove
›2015 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 89m · Bella Heathcote, Lucas Till, Helen Slater
The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?
